Napoleon: Total War
Napoleon: Total War was released on the 23rd of February, 2010. The Peninsular Campaign DLC was released on the 22nd of June, 2010. Both were developed by the Creative Assembly and published by SEGA.
Aside from the Peninsular Campaign, two more DLC packs were released: Coalition Battle Pack and the Imperial Guard Pack
Overview
Napoleon: Total War is set during the extremely turbulent and violent Napoleonic Era, from 1805 - 1815. Set at a time when revolutionary France is turning the old dynasties of europe upside down, old rivalries and mistrusts will be put aside to halt the amibitions of one man and the rise of a european superpower: France.
Napoleons Italian campaign highlights his struggles against the mighty Austrian empire and her friends in Italy, where management and efficiency is vital. The Egyptian campaign brings a different challenge all together, Napoleon must fight his way up through the Mamelukes and deal with constant nuisance raids from the British in order to achieve his goal. And then the Russian Bear presents a new challenge with her climate, even the best general will struggle to avoid the cold and push through. Patience and cunning will be needed here.
Napoleon: Total War also gives the player a chance to play as one of four Coalition powers: Great Britain, Austria, Prussia or Russia. The effort to stop Napoleon and his new regieme will require all the tactical and strategic genius the Allied powers can muster.
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This game also brings some revolutionary new features to the Total War series. Creative Assembly has introduced a new system called Attrition. Attrition areas are scattered through the various campaign maps and will drastically effect your campaign if not considered when planning. Troops entering these 'attrition areas' will be effected by the weather and will quickly lose troop numbers during the Winter or Summer months depending on the type. As well as new systems CA has improved systems from Empire: Total War such as diplomacy. The player now has a greater range of diplomatic actions, such as asking a Faction to issue a trade embargo against another faction, or to join you in a war against another faction.
General Information
- Napoleon: Total War could be considered the easiest Total War game to pick up so far, as it's well oiled and tested systems are easy to use by a new player.
- Napoleon: Total War took an already revolutionary system and made it better, with a far superior campaign and battle AI, plus a wider range of available options
- The game is set during the Napoleonic Era, allowing more advanced weaponry to be researched
Campaigns
The Napoleon Campaigns differ greatly from the Grand campaigns of [[[Empire: total War]]], being much smaller maps, yet much more graphically appealing. Napoleon: total War offers several differentcampaigns that let you take command and lead your armies on land and sea over Italy, Egypt and gain the Mastery of Europe as Napoleon. Alternatively, you can play as an enemy of the Empire in one of the Campaigns of the Coalition and establish your own dominance over Europe.
The trade nodes feature from Empire: Total War is still existant, however they lie on the outer edges of the map, rather than different theatres. The Trade nodes included go to several different american ports, such as Boston, New York, and Savannah, as well as Indian ports like Calcutta, and various ports along the Barbary coast where your nation can recieve a variety of extra goods such as tobacco, spices, tea, and cotton which are all necessary should you wish to expand as an industrial power and field an army large enough to conquer Europe.
The Napoleon map is also now divided into 74 regions all in Europe. For example, France is no longer two provinces, but is not divided into the central French province, and Brittany, Normandy, Champagne, Alsace, Aquitaine, and Pays D'Oc. This, coupled with the two week turn time, allows for better campaigns, without the "Blitzkrieg" of Empire: Total War
Overall, the Napoleon: Total War campaign map is well suited for the focus of the game and is a beautiful representation of Europe.
There are also Two other maps, one of italy and one of Egypt, which can be played in the Napoleon Campaign as you follow Yound Napoleon through his early days as a general fighting Austrians in "The shade of Olive trees", and Ottomans in the "Land of Pharoahs and Kings".
- -See main article: NTW_Campaign
Factions
There are more than 35 Factions in NTW, but only a small amount are actually playable in the vanilla game. 18 factions are available to play with easy modding, or by using an already released mod.
Playable Factions
- Austria - Catholic Absolute Monarchy
- France - Catholic Empire
- Great Britain - Protestant Constitutional Monarchy
- Prussia -Protestant Absolute Monarchy
- Russia - Orthodox Absolute Monarchy
Unplayable Factions
- Spain
- Portugal
- Kingdom of Sicily
- Kingdom of Naples
- Papal States
- Kingdom of Italy
- Kingdom of Sardinia
- The Ottoman Empire
- Swiss confederation
- Bavaria
- Baden-Würtenberg
- Hessen - Kassel
- Batavian Republic
- Saxony
- Mecklenburg
- Denmark
- Sweden
- Oldenburg
Emergent Factions
- Scotland
- Ireland
- Hannover
- Belgium
- Brittany
- Catalonia
- Italy
- Hungary
- Greater Poland
- Normandy
- Courland
- Norway
- Greece
- Westfalen-Cleves
- Romania
- Crimean Khanate
- United Netherlands
Guides and strategy tips
Peninsular Campaign
The game takes place in the beginning of the 19th century, in the Iberian Peninsula. It's focused on the conflict between the British Army lead by Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington and the French forces lead by Joseph Bonaparte. You can also embrace the crown of Spain in its struggle to preserve independence.
Gameplay features
- The main feature of the Campaign is guerrilla warfare: when you liberate a city, you get a few guerrilla units from the Spanish Resistance.
- There are three types of non-combat strategic units: propagandists, priests and rakes. The latter serve as assassins, spies and saboteurs.
- You can boost your economy and enlarge your income by sending a trade ship to one of your colonies.
- Technological researches also play an important role in the Peninsular Campaign.
Factions
Playable factions
- British Empire
- French Empire
- Spain
Non-playable factions
- Portugal
