Players can zoom out to great heights to get the best overview of the battle, or zoom in and get right into the action. Scourge of War: Waterloo has 2D sprites drawn on a 3D terrain and in doing so, is capable of showing far larger armies than most games out there. I frequently can't get a brigade to do anything close to what I'm ordering, even if I've TC'd the brigade CO. This concept stands at the very heart of the Scourge of War Gameplay. I'm all in favor of the idea of the AI commanders having their own personalities, and love that in SOWGB, but this seems a lot less controllable. Quote from: panzerde on June 18, 2015, 07:48:58 PM Ok, it's not just me, then. Napoleonic combat is not sufficiently different from ACW combat that the skills I learned playing SOWGB for years should be as lacking as they seem to be when playing SOWWL. Watching the Matrix guy play today during the Twitch stream I see him doing exactly that. Smithers : Im sorry sir, I must have taped over that. All units have historical uniforms and carry historical flags. I do like the game, but the longer I play the more I'm convinced that it requires a lot of micromanagement at the battalion level in its current state. He turns on Ride of the Valkries, only for it to abruptly change to Abbas Waterloo. Scourge of War: Waterloo has 2D sprites drawn on a 3D terrain and in doing so, is capable of showing far larger armies than most games out there. I'm confident that NorbDevSoft and Matrix will clean this up, but like 'To End All Wars' this was pushed to hit the anniversary date and the warts are showing a bit. Meanwhile, the other brigade simply refused - even with the brigade CO TC'd - to break off combat with Hougoumont despite repeated 'Retreat your Unit' orders. We're talking Peach Orchard levels of out of position. I just played a divisional scenario where despite having a brigade on 'Hold at all costs' the commander insisted on aggressively attacking the enemy in front of him, getting his brigade wildly out of position. For the MP in our group, HITS is the only mode to be performed. For the settings in 1 vs 1 battles I am rather felxible, but still prefer HITS mode. Sometimes it works, but 2/3 of the time, it doesn't. At the risk of sounding traitorous, are any of you old Grognards up for Scourge of War Waterloo online battles. You can't get VPs for it then, which are absolutely crucial in the D'Erlon scenario. Im reading more about the courier system in Gettysburg (didnt play it a lot) and realized that the new right click context menu where you can chain commands in Waterloo is a graphical interface of the said courier system. Then there's the issue where you frequently simply can not put French troops in La Haie Sainte after you drive off the Allies. I frequently can't get a brigade to do anything close to what I'm ordering, even if I've TC'd the brigade CO.

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