Napoleon: Total War
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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: Napoleon: Total War Campaigns
Technology
The way you research and steal technologies is unaltered, but the research screen is completely altered from E:TW. There is now only one tab with three different trees in it; one with civil techs, one with military techs and one with industrial techs. In other words, you no longer have to choose if you want to focus on naval, land or artillery technology as much as you had to in E:TW, they are all in the same tree.
One note to be made about research in N:TW is that it generally takes longer than it did in E:TW. Therefore it is recommended you have several colleges, preferably one for each tree. Construction times are also longer this time around due to the shorter time of turns, so except a longer wait before you can advance to the next tier of technology in a given tree.
Some fun new technologies include proper steam ships with propeller propulsion and ironclads, as well as percussion caps.
Factions
- -See main article: Napoleon: Total War 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
Downloadable Content
- -See main article: Napoleon: Total War Downloadable Content
Napoleon: Total War has a total of five Downloadable content packs released over Steam.
Elite Regiments
A collection of 5 of the most elite military Forces of the Napoleonic Wars, from all the major European factions. They proved their bravery, discipline and excellence in key battles and will dramatically expand the player's strategic options on the battlefield.
Heroes of the Napoleonic Wars
The "Heroes of the Napoleonic Wars" pack gathers the most superb infantry and cavalrymen who fought during the great Napoleonic battles: 10 exclusive units, which will all make a difference during key engagements, whether using formidable weapons or exceptional tactical skills.
Imperial Guard Pack
The Imperial Guard Pack features 6 brand new units and contains an alternative version of the Battle of Waterloo, fought from the British perspective.
Coalition Battle Pack
The Coalition Battle Pack features 6 brand new units and contain the Battle of Friedland fought between France and Russia not available in Napoleon: Total War
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.
System Requirements
Minimal Requirements: Supported OS: Windows® XP Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista™ or Windows 7™ Processor: 2.4 GHz Intel® Pentium® or greater or AMD® Athlon® equivalent CPU, with SSE2 instruction Memory: 1 GB RAM (XP,) 2 GB RAM (Vista™) Graphics: 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible hardware accelerated video card with shader version 2.0 support, 256 MB video memory Display: Minimum screen resolution of 1280 x 1024 pixels Sound: Directx9.0c compatible sound card Hard Drive: 15 GB free hard disk space formatted as NTFS Peripherals: Windows compatible mouse and keyboard
Recommended Requirements: Supported OS: Windows® XP Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista™ or Windows 7™ Processor: 2.4 GHz Intel® Core 2 Duo® or greater or AMD® Athlon64® equivalent CPU, with SSE2 instruction Memory: 3 GB RAM (XP,) 4 GB RAM (Vista™) Graphics: 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible hardware accelerated video card with shader version 3.0 support, 512 MB video memory Display: Minimum screen resolution of 1280 x 1024 pixels Sound: Directx9.0c compatible sound card Hard Drive: 15 GB free hard disk space formatted as NTFS Peripherals: Windows compatible mouse and keyboard
