Peninsular War Battles places you at the forefront of Napoleon’s campaign to conquer Portugal and Spain. Play is possible as the British, French or Spanish across 5 campaigns with a total of 40 missions.
This can best be described as Napoleonics lite. The designers paid very little attention to building the behavior of different kinds of units and formations into the game, but lavished attention on glitzy graphics and animated sprites. Being a graphics modder I have nothing against glitzy graphics, but the core functions of the game shouldn't suffer...
Single-player tactical Napoleonic Wars game using a turn-based hexgrid system with a scale of about 150 yards per hex and about 15-20 minutes per turn, though we aren't told the actual scale. Units are battalion/regiment sized, with about 100 men per unit of strength for infantry/cavalry and one cannon per unit strength for artillery. You command leaders,...
Another user that suffered a CTD after about turn 2 on all the games I played. Thankfully I bought this on Steam and not the developers website so I could get a refund.
If the devs can fix the CTD isssue then I may re-purchae, as the game looks good, has a nice range of scenarios,and the AI (from what little I saw of it) may not be too dumb. But game...
Great Game! Difficult enough to be challenging , simple enough to be enjoyable. If you are interested in the Napoleonic Wars , are familiar with strategy and tactics , you will probably wish for Hexwar Games to cover this period as well as their excellent Civil War and Tank Battle series. The soundtracks are riveting , promoting just one more battle,...
Tried to play a couple of scenarios but CTD every time. How can they release something in this untested condition? May come back to it later if they ever get round to fixing it and testing it properly.
