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by Smitzer52
Wed May 06, 2015 5:46 pm
Forum: Wars of Napoleon
Topic: Napoleonic military tactics
Replies: 12
Views: 12955

Updated, up next probably Cavalry or Artillery tactics and usage.
by Smitzer52
Wed May 06, 2015 5:44 pm
Forum: Wars of Napoleon
Topic: Napoleonic military tactics
Replies: 12
Views: 12955

Skirmishers and Skirmish order tactic.

Skirmish tactics in Napoleonic wars Skirmishing in linear combat saw it´s debut in 18th century and then in Napoleonic era. To simply define "skirmisher" you could say it´s an infantryman deployed ahead of a main force in a loose order (skirmish chain) and harrases enemy regulars or their own skirm...
by Smitzer52
Sat May 02, 2015 1:08 pm
Forum: Wars of Napoleon
Topic: Immortality and Death of Leaders
Replies: 9
Views: 6009

Totally up for this. Generals dying (especially brigadiers) was not uncommon. If a high ranking general got captured and thus possibly returned, he should not be able to command anymore. Important characters should be handled with extra care here, mostly because of game balance. In reality French wo...
by Smitzer52
Fri May 01, 2015 11:08 pm
Forum: Wars of Napoleon
Topic: What if we were making a customized Grand Campaign?
Replies: 74
Views: 31791

I am totally up for a serious Baltic schemes, afterall Brits, French and Russians took Baltic politics very seriously in reality. So many alliances were created and wars fought between nations and Baltic was no exception. Also, all that struggle to weaken or gain a strong naval force just to project...
by Smitzer52
Fri May 01, 2015 10:47 pm
Forum: Wars of Napoleon
Topic: Napoleonic military tactics
Replies: 12
Views: 12955

Thanks guys, also updated. :)

Technical question: why can´t I put more then 5 pictures in a post?
by Smitzer52
Fri May 01, 2015 1:46 pm
Forum: Wars of Napoleon
Topic: What if we were making a customized Grand Campaign?
Replies: 74
Views: 31791

True, Spain changed sides kinda quick here didn´t they. :) Although their involvement in first coalition was kinda "meeh" let´s not risk much (well entire first coalition was kinda "meeh"). This kind of behavior was typical for Napoleonic wars and pre-wars so yeah flexibility here could really be fu...
by Smitzer52
Fri May 01, 2015 12:25 pm
Forum: Wars of Napoleon
Topic: What if we were making a customized Grand Campaign?
Replies: 74
Views: 31791

Such a scenario in not pure fantasy, lets imagine that Napoleon was successful in his colonial policy prior to 1805 and Luisiana, Haiti and Cape Town are in french hands... Spain is uncertain about its holdings in Cuba while is having an hungry eye on New Orleans,,, Lets imagine Ferdinand being a k...
by Smitzer52
Fri May 01, 2015 10:07 am
Forum: Wars of Napoleon
Topic: What if we were making a customized Grand Campaign?
Replies: 74
Views: 31791

Well, Spanish aligment to Britain is proportional to a French "bad" behavior in Spanish peninsula...without that there is not much chance for an alliance. Since Spain dislike for Britain and Portugal is strong (alliance of those two should be a cornerstone here) and this dislike was present even dur...
by Smitzer52
Thu Apr 30, 2015 9:44 pm
Forum: Wars of Napoleon
Topic: Napoleonic military tactics
Replies: 12
Views: 12955

Reserved for: Light infantry, Skirmish order.
by Smitzer52
Thu Apr 30, 2015 9:42 pm
Forum: Wars of Napoleon
Topic: Napoleonic military tactics
Replies: 12
Views: 12955

Squares vs. Cavalry

Squares and their place in linear combat: Square formation was an important tactic and infrantryman only hope against cavalry in the field. It´s use was not limited only in Napoleonic wars (used before and after as well), but Napoleonic wars saw a heavy use of this formation, mostly because of stro...
by Smitzer52
Thu Apr 30, 2015 9:35 pm
Forum: Wars of Napoleon
Topic: Napoleonic military tactics
Replies: 12
Views: 12955

Mixed order tactics

Why use mixed order? Well, because Napoleon thought of it as a good idea. "Columns don't break through lines unless with superior artillery." - Napoleon This advice was not always listened to, and colums took heavy losses if not under cover or if under prolonged artillery fire. Napoleon therefore ad...
by Smitzer52
Thu Apr 30, 2015 8:43 pm
Forum: Wars of Napoleon
Topic: Napoleonic military tactics
Replies: 12
Views: 12955

Column and Line tactics, what´s that about?

Traditional line: -horizontal progress -hard to maneuver/turn -easier to brake on movement (loss of cohesion) +higher firepower [ATTACH]33438[/ATTACH] = Traditional formation from 18th century, in napoleonic era it lost it´s popularity to columns which were better for maneuver combat. Yet very effi...
by Smitzer52
Thu Apr 30, 2015 7:37 pm
Forum: Wars of Napoleon
Topic: Napoleonic military tactics
Replies: 12
Views: 12955

Napoleonic military tactics

I decided to start out a thread about military tactics from Napoleonic era, since although there is number of quality pages on the topic, I haven´t found one in this forum. I realize that Ageod games are above single unit tactical control, but some basic understanding of tactics and units used could...
by Smitzer52
Thu Apr 30, 2015 5:43 pm
Forum: Wars of Napoleon
Topic: Diplomatic AI: Insightful comments
Replies: 10
Views: 5646

Day-to-day diplomatic chat: "The Batavian republic is satisfied with your conduct within our borders" "We offer goods for trade and supplies to feed your armies, we only demand a fair payment" "May your republic live forever Emperor, we wish to speak with you about our payments" "This alliance betwe...
by Smitzer52
Thu Apr 30, 2015 5:26 pm
Forum: Wars of Napoleon
Topic: What if we were making a customized Grand Campaign?
Replies: 74
Views: 31791

Getting Spain without having to fight a costly war with them(well Spanish people) should be a priority for France. That option and also having an influence over more important decisions of the time could be very interesting. For example, if Napoleon defeats Austria he will get to choose what course ...
by Smitzer52
Thu Apr 30, 2015 8:57 am
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: Razing Cities - No Loyalty or Development Penalty or Other Effects?
Replies: 22
Views: 11404

Other effect that "razing" a city should have is raizing a harbor with it. Mostly because it looks weird to have lvl.1 harbors on map without cities.
by Smitzer52
Wed Apr 29, 2015 8:04 pm
Forum: CW2 Technical support / Aide technique
Topic: CTD 1.05 turn processing
Replies: 12
Views: 5944

More input from my side: Error first appeared when I used exe. from forum and applied it in steam folder. But when steam was updated yesterday and I did a complete reinstall + installed the game to HDD not an SSD drive the CTD stopped. Then I played 5 turns with no crash (same save). So for anyone h...
by Smitzer52
Wed Apr 29, 2015 9:32 am
Forum: CW2 Technical support / Aide technique
Topic: CTD 1.05 turn processing
Replies: 12
Views: 5944

Yeah keeps happening to me since fixed exe.
Two more crash files from yesterday, same thing happened.
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by Smitzer52
Tue Apr 28, 2015 9:30 am
Forum: CW2 Technical support / Aide technique
Topic: CTD 1.05 turn processing
Replies: 12
Views: 5944

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Not sure if this is a same bug but happened to me today. Using the new exe. file. Before it did not happen.
by Smitzer52
Tue Apr 28, 2015 9:20 am
Forum: Wars of Napoleon
Topic: Diplomatic AI: Insightful comments
Replies: 10
Views: 5646

Thanks Durk, but really I am only using ideas from Stronghold, Civ series, Total War series (before it went to shit) and some other classic games. I´ll try to put in some less agressive lines next.
by Smitzer52
Mon Apr 27, 2015 10:53 pm
Forum: Wars of Napoleon
Topic: Diversity or one-size fits all?
Replies: 3
Views: 3163

I hope diversity will be an option here. Although military models used were similar armies and their tactics were not. To put some points to your list (although I agree with most). -French armies should be modeled differently thanks to conscription which added a lot of possible recruits and size + t...
by Smitzer52
Mon Apr 27, 2015 10:27 pm
Forum: Wars of Napoleon
Topic: Diplomatic AI: Insightful comments
Replies: 10
Views: 5646

How about something like this: "The British crown is not willing to tolerate your incursions in Portugal any longer! War it is!" "Czar commends you on your genaralship emperor, we wish to sign a peace treaty at once" "Our empire did not agreed to this, stop at once!" "British fleet is indominable, d...
by Smitzer52
Thu Apr 23, 2015 11:31 am
Forum: Wars of Napoleon
Topic: What if we were making a customized Grand Campaign?
Replies: 74
Views: 31791

In my opinion there must be a chance for: GBR vs. RUS hostility (be it India, Paul II etc.) FRA and USA friendship or hostility ( 1812, french expedition, french Mexico) German states + Italy should play a factor in deciding if they be pro French or pro Coalition and have a chance to unite or atleas...
by Smitzer52
Thu Apr 23, 2015 11:23 am
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: Surrounded washington
Replies: 4
Views: 2599

I used the same tactics as you and they weakened, took many turns though. But it depends on settings too (easy supply, attrition for AI).
by Smitzer52
Wed Apr 22, 2015 12:11 pm
Forum: Wars of Napoleon
Topic: What if we were making a customized Grand Campaign?
Replies: 74
Views: 31791

Yes! More scripts the merrier, so basically these will be universal for any Faction? Or they will be different for GBR/FRA/RUS etc.?
by Smitzer52
Tue Apr 14, 2015 2:52 pm
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: CW2 and 1.05 ?
Replies: 39
Views: 16055

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Some screens, I had public beta selected in Steam so who knows what happenes. Anyway Patch is stable for me and game seems faster too.
by Smitzer52
Tue Apr 14, 2015 10:42 am
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: CW2 and 1.05 ?
Replies: 39
Views: 16055

It downloaded extremely slowly (bytes speed) but exe reads 13.4.2015, and loading screen reads 23rd of March release. I wanted to take screenshot of loading screen, but only got black picture. Either way game runs great for me. And yes I can raze those lvl. 1 cities. Amazing thing.
by Smitzer52
Mon Apr 13, 2015 7:08 pm
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: CW2 and 1.05 ?
Replies: 39
Views: 16055

Did the CW2 got updated just now? Because I had steam running and it started downloading 1.05 patch (23rd march release). Just wondering if it´s a steam loophole or whatnot. Downloaded around 10 mb.
by Smitzer52
Tue Apr 07, 2015 12:54 pm
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: CW2 and 1.05 ?
Replies: 39
Views: 16055

All is well then.
by Smitzer52
Tue Apr 07, 2015 10:00 am
Forum: Wars of Napoleon
Topic: Welcome to Wars of Napoleon forums!
Replies: 209
Views: 99508

So there will be some sort of "leader of the nation" mechanic in the game? Or it will be abstracted? (like in CW2,TEAW).

Just taking this from those Bourbon/Bony throne switching.

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