Scourge of War Boards

As the game has expanded, higher levels of command have become available. The previous "General of the Armies" system (http://www.norbsoftdev.net/forum/40-dis ... old-system) has been amended to reflect the increase in the number of map and battle packs and the popularity of HITS. Generals who want the highest rank in the land cannot rest on their laurels but must continue to prove themselves worthy of high command.

A new system and set of insignia for the Forum has been designed whereby a gold star is awarded for successful completion of a Battle Pack and a gold bar is awarded for successful completion of a smaller Map Pack. Successful completion is defined as winning each scenario at the Major Victory level. The braid can only be gained by those Generals who can successfully complete any gold star pack on Historical difficulty. Games must be played at Normal or any higher difficulty, and unfortunately, as it is too hard to ensure a level playing field, Custom difficulty is ineligible.


Any of our current Generals can stay with their current avatars or transfer to the new system. At this time stars can be earned for Gettysburg (including ECF) and Antietam. The third Battle Pack that will be officially announced soon will also rate a star. A bar can be earned for completion of Pipe Creek and any future Map Packs that may be released.

Submit your zipped, victory laden scores file to stars (at) scourgeofwar (dot) com. For Gettysburg, the scores file is highscore.dat and for other packs it is custhighscore.dat.

Good Luck!

Can any1 win a whole game on historical? Wud be impossible...

Not impossible... But darn close to it...

The biggest obstacle I have found to winning a MV on historical is not winning the battles (because after all you can try as many times as you want) but is getting an un-TC'd general not to leave the OBJ radius, causing you to lose points..

I think 'hold to the last' orders, combined with occasional TC on/off orders to the general, plus some timely placements of your own general should get you through.

con20or wrote:

I think 'hold to the last' orders, combined with occasional TC on/off orders to the general, plus some timely placements of your own general should get you through.

TCing an AI commander is the only way. As soon as the player starts moving his troops into harms way, he will ride to them to try to help out.

Can I transfer to the new system? I beat Gettysburg scoring MV in all the scenarios. I also scored MV in all the Pipe Creek scenarios.

Hi privatewilley, yes we have your scores still on file. I'll transfer you over asap - you get a star and a bar.

Edit - got your AN score email too - we'll set you up ASAP.

Just making sure. Does the gettysburg campaing star requaire the completion of cavalry field battles as well?

stars can be earned for Gettysburg (including ECF)

Yep.

Congrats to Don who is now the Highest Ranking General on the forum!