Historical campaign

[Saddletank]

Reading all the posts so far I am assuming there isn't a version of the camapign where the two sides start in their historical positions and the French objectives are to capture Brussels and/or Ghent and/or defeat the Anglo-Allied and Prussian armies?

Do NS plan to build one in a patch?

Or would this require too much work on CAI (campaign AI)?

Thanks.

[con20or]

There is already a capture Brussels campaign.

[mitra76]

Yes the plan aims to a historical campaign, Larry did already a very good work of design on it, we need only the time to implement the ideas.

[Saddletank]

Thanks, I'll wait impatiently!

[lecrop]

What is the size of the map? is possible a Waterloo complete campaign? Wavre, Ligny, etc...

[mitra76]

The sandbox campaign map cover already the historical areas (the central areal of Belgium from the french border to south, to Antwerp to nord, Liege to east, Ghent to west). So the historical campaign will use nothing less.

[Saddletank]

The Matrix video shows the map. It covers the whole 100 days theatre from the French-Belgian border below Charleroi up past Brussels and across to the coast at Ghent. I didn't notice if Antwerp is included. I didn't see how far east it extended but probably far enough to include the historical Prussian starting positions.

I don't think its a true topographical map a bit like the Total War ones, more like a nodal map with the towns connected by roads down which armies must move. The campaign seems to generate battlefields using a pre-set choice of different maps (the Matrix video briefly shows a pretty huge choice), so the same battlemap could be used in different locations. I'm guessing if two opposing forces meet in the Ligny, QB, Wavre and Waterloo areas, the battle is fought on the historical maps.

[lecrop]

My idea is the possibility of a Kriegsspiel type campaign using the rules Le Vol de L'Aigle II, solving the tactical battles in SoW:Waterloo, hence the need of historic maps covering the entire area.

[con20or]

Here is a soon to be released screenshot that shows the campaign extents

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[lecrop]

Pretty nice extension, thanks