Recent Slitherine Tea Time mentioned that the Field of Glory 2 team is toying around with Napoleonic gameplay. What other similar wars would you like to see? American civil war and War of 1812 would be neat.
Recent Slitherine Tea Time mentioned that the Field of Glory 2 team is toying around with Napoleonic gameplay.
>American Civil War
wouldn't be a lot of unit variety would it
>American Civil War
Holy shit when will you amerimutts realize that nobody else gives a frick about your cringe civil war
What field of glory games do you play?
Good point anon, I hope the cringe English and Spanish Civil Wars are also included.
ACW would just end up being DLC for a napoleonic game
I think even in america there is not market enough to justify a game like that.
They've made several already
>Civil War 2
>This time it's personnel
>So nice, they did it twice
Don't give the libs any ideas, anon.
You severely underrate civil war autism.
Bro there are german based ACW reenactment groups. Face it, musket wars are kino, it doesn't matter if its one involving the international boogeyman of America. It's still kino
>Bro there are german based ACW reenactment groups
Well germans also like to LARP as indians so its not really a high bar
The country is fricked up
That is a bit odd, since they've got the Franco-Prussian War as a local period-equivalent. Or do the pickelhauben remind everyone too much of verboten later wars?
There were shitloads of German volunteers in the Union army and from some quick research they do enjoy being able to either be the good guys for a change or they want to be the bad guys without indulging in the nazi stuff.
>implying the left doesn't treat the Confederates like Nazis anyways
Yeah but they give less of a shit about that in Europe. They're disconnected from the scar of slavery
>Napoleonic gameplay
finally
I remember shilling the frick out of Field of Glory 2 on Ganker way back in 2017 and being completely ignored. It's pretty interesting to see that the series has grown so much.
It helps that their only somewhat competition in Total War has fully abandoned historical settings. I know they're very different games, but a lot of people who FoG appeals to more just weren't trying it because TW history games used to suck all the oxygen out of the room
they also hit the sweet spot of an easy to read UI/click and point for movement and good visuals which goes a long way in wargames market
The sweet spot for me is that they give me what I actually want with TW, controlling massive armies, but at a more relaxed pace. Someone described the games as dynamic chess and I think that's a pretty good description.
Could be cool, but one of my favorite things about Field of Glory 2 is how many radically different armies can be fielded. Pike and shot was an era of lots of experimentation too, but once you get to the Napoleonic era I think there's been a large amount of homogenizing military evolution. You'd have to go beyond Europe to find factions that diverge from the mold, but this is a time period where most non-European armies have fallen too far behind to be competitive.
'Historical' total war games are barely historical. Stick to real games like Scourge of War or Ultimate General while we wait for real Napoleonic wargames.
Russo-Turkish wars could be cool, especially later ones.
Or any conflicts centering around Central/ Eastern/ Southeastern Europe.
3 big empires, fairly different in kit and tactics/ army composition, local ethnic groups vying for independence and organizing into either standing armies, revolutionary militias or primitive guerilla groups depending on how successful they are.
Fairly diverse geography to base maps on, from mountain passes to steppes, marshes and hills, woods, field/ river forts or urban environments.
Technology changed quickly and there were technology gaps in some of the conflicts too, so that would be cool if they manage to implement it well.
Crimean War would probably be the main "setting" since it also includes western armies and represents the "dawn" of more modern warfare.
I want fantasy 'not europe' gunpowder era strategy
You and me brother
yesterday there was released steamnpunk game where you fight rats
its quite good
It's something, but we need MORE
My hunged is not even CLOSE to sated.
*hunger
Frick, so hungry I can't even think straight
Dear God this, something like Battle Brothers but napoleonic or franco-prussian war era
>tfw can't unload my Mitrailleuse onto hordes of greenskins and undead
Why the frick is there so little vidya of this? It eats at my very soul
>tfw no Silver Bayonet game
>$15 a dlc
>basically nothing but additional army lists
>literally an excel table that could fit on a single A4 page
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFf
They're like 6 bucks every other month.
Welcome to actual wargames.
>$15
that's pocket change
Maybe for you 1st worlders
For us 3rd worlders its almost a daily wage
>For us 3rd worlders
Good, stay away from this series.
Command - devs dropped the support for the first 2 versions, not only that, they removed the scenario packs from the store for the legacy users. the base alone was $60
Conflict of Heroes: Storm of Steel, crashes on every scenario with air units due to path planning bug. not only it somehow got through testing, hasn't been patched since 2013, despite it being a few lines of code. they still sell this shit for $30 + $30
Second Front, a hefty sum of $40 for a single developer game, but with the multiplayer coming, Pacific and North Africa theaters, not a bad value. guess what, new theaters are going to be DLCs, and there hasn't been a word about multi since the release.
i bring the bread, and still get shat on. good god.