Hi,
I have had an insatiable appetite for all things military, all of my life. I started off reinacting a multitude of battles throughout history with armies of Airfix 1/72 scale soldiers, guns, and vehicles. Napoleonic has always been my favourite era. When computers came on the scene, I saw them as a way of doing the same thing, in real time, without taking up as much space around the house. I started by playing 'Dune 2', then 'Command & Conquer'. Then I realised that resource gathering and tank rush were definitely not my bag. This is when I started to look for real computer wargames.
I am fifty-six years of age, and my computer wargaming has stretched over quite a few years. I was never into board wargames, and only ever had a brief look at them. I started off with real time tactical games, and didn't much like turn based games, even though this helped with the management side of things. The other thing I didn't like about board games was the lack of graphics, and action.
If I remember correctly, my first computer wargame was 'Walls of Rome' (even though it was to some extent turn based), followed by 'Fields of Glory'. I loved 'Fields of Glory', the way it duplicated regiments in brigade groups etc. But I didn't much like the micro management. I moved on to Sid Mier's 'Gettysburg', but I longed for subordinate AI commanders who I could issue broad orders to, and they would use reasonable intelligence to carry them out. I am convinced that Histwar will give me this. One of the features that I found quite good in 'Fields of Glory' was to be able to command your troops to occupy buildings, and see the musket barrels (with bayonets attached) sticking out of the windows, and see them firing.
I also played the Microprose game 'Civil War', which was a game based on the American Civil War. I loved to be able to organise my brigades, divisions, corps, and armies. And then conduct a tactical game, and at the same time recruit the types of regiments that I felt I needed.
As soon as the Total War series of 3D games came on the market, I played them extensively, and have played the Napoleonic Total War conversion for 'Medieval: Total War' (produced by 'The Lordz'). I am currently waiting for the release of Napoleonic Total War 2, which will give 'Rome: Total War' the same treatment. Although I am firmly convinced that Histwar is the one that will give me all that I dare to hope for.
I have also played the Close Combat series quite a lot (loved the Vietnam mod for CC3), and 'Sudden Strike'. I have played 'Blitzkrieg' much more than any other game. The mods for it have added many new lives to Blitzkrieg.
As you can see I like realtime wargaming of all eras, with a definite preference for Napoleonic. Your game looks like just what I have been seeking for some years now. I wish you the best of luck with it, and hope it is released in the near future. I have been eagerly following its progress for some time, and am very excited about it. I hope it will be a tremendous success. So much so, that you use the same engine to make games of several other eras.
By the way, I was wrapped in the movie of gameplay you released recently. I loved seeing the lines of skirmishers pushed out well ahead of their regiments (like in real life), and seeing the cannonballs scream across the battlefield and air burst above the heads of the infantry. This level of realism is fantastic to see.
kindest regards
sunray
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