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It is breathtaking to see the masses of men in the infantry formations and cavalry formations.
#Scourge of war waterloo calvary not attacking movie#
It's truly ashame that we will never see its like again… The movie was really only made possible with the invaluable contribution of the Russian Army of 10,000 troops as extras which added a sense of scale that none of today's CGI can ever hope to truly emulate. Halloween came early for the French that year… I just spent Halloween night watching the classic Waterloo on the 60" Plasma (I HAD to see in on a wide screen to give my respect to the epic quality of the film) with several glasses of champagne, while consuming half a round of gouda cheese and 1/3 of a loaf of French bread dipped periodically in garlic butter…
#Scourge of war waterloo calvary not attacking full#
Will you find Private Friedrich Lindau, from the 2nd Light Battalion of the Kings' German Legion, with his pockets full of peas taken from the farmhouse at La Haie Sainte being carried away as a prisoner?īut I can tell you that I keep looking for him. Sure, if you look close enough the game will show abstractions, like a simulation of a medium-sized city would do. Because the battle below those ranges and hills is an spectacle. This one made me feel a commander in dire straits, sometimes wishing I was just spectating rather than fighting (being a leader demands a lot of your cognitive skills). I like to play games that make me feel something. This is a solid contender for game of the year. A true tactical/grand tactical Napoleonic wargame for grown ups with a solid foothold in the operational level of war. As I wrote before, NorbSoftDev has created a new genre and keeps improving its original grand vision. Some mods are already available but were not tested for this review.Ī(+).
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The release of development/modding tools some weeks back may help those with an inclination and will to mod almost anything in SoWW. Lots of thinking, very little clicking is the key to play this game. The sooner you realize about this, the better the player you will be. You are commanding, not throwing away waypoints.
A battle in Scourge of War is pure suspension in disbelief. It has created a self-modifying battlefield from rather simple principles of command-modeling and general's traits. No, NorSoftDev has not developed a self aware computer opponent. The unique thing about this: the battlefield is not a dry rehearsal of waypoints for non-playable units but rather a live struggle of boldness and timidity, aggressiveness and passivity, generalship and amateurism.
SoWW has 20 stand alone scenarios in which the player commands brigades, corps and even armies from both sides. But what makes a leader and the decisions that he makes from his position in battle is far more engrossing than anything else. Sure, many other wargames had made incursions into the human factors in warfare, mainly by modelling troop's morale. I would summarize this vision as one that goes beyond the usual automaton-like interpretation of battle and expands towards the human-decision making dimensions of it. NorbSoftDev still holds a unique vision in wargaming that dates back to the old "Take Command" series. It is difficult to not be taken away by the sheer beauty of the armies during the Napoleonic times, so before I get.