Support me on https://www.patreon.com/smartwargames. Scourge of War: Chancellorsville is a stand-alone game that also works as an add-on to Scourge of War: Gettysburg. Historical Background In May 1963, after the battle of Antietam in September 1862, the Army of the Potomac, reorganised under the command of General Joseph Hooker, started their offensive and crossed the Rappahannock fords in order. Scourge of War Antietam Review Featured Gameplay Scenario: None but Heroes are Left A month ago I picked up Scourge of War Gettysburg, and I played it so often that I decided lets see what other titles are in the series. The next one I had in mind was Antietam. Medal of honor allied assault mac free. Gettysburg was the bloodiest battle in American history. Antietam was the bloodiest day. Night Mode Love this. The environment.
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Developed by NorbSoftDev
Published by Matrix/Slitherine Games
29.99 US Dollars (Download)
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IntroductionThe Battle of Chancellorsville (May 1–5, 1863) was a Union's Army of the Potomac attack on the Confederate's Army of Northern Virginia. Unusual for an Army commanded by the offensive-driven character of Confederate General Lee, the opening moves of the battle find the rebels in the defensive along the Rappahannock River. The supply situation was not good for either side. The Union Army of the Potomac was now under the orders of the no less aggressive General Hooker, who devised a plan for a single envelopment aimed at cutting off the supply and retreat routes of the Confederates. General Hooker's relative success during the opening moves was wasted when he retreated towards the village of Chancellorsville and assumed a defensive posture. It was all for grabs from there for the Confederates. Not unlike a mini/tactical version of the operations of Frederick the Great or Napoleon during his last campaign, General Lee managed to split his army and fight simultaneously the Union fixing forces at the Rappahannock and the Union main maneuver force on his left flank. Furthermore, if one looks closely the march of Confederate General Jackson's Corps against the Union flank has nothing to envy at Frederick's march at Leuthen. A battle of maneuvers and counter-maneuvers is always a great war gaming topic.
Scourge of War Chancellorsville is both an expansion (if you already own Scourge of War Gettysburg) and a standalone 3D (grand) tactical war game where the player assumes the role of a brigade, division or corps commander. The scope is entirely at the level of the tactical/grand-tactical decision making of both sides during the Battle of Chancellorsville. The virtual battlefield is entirely 3D and seemingly a good representation of the real one. Units are regiments (infantry and cavalry), batteries (artillery) and supply trains. The representation of time is continuous and although the game engine can be paused, it is not possible to issue orders while the virtual clock is not ticking. There is also the possibility to accelerate the pace of the game engine, very useful for some extended movement-to-contact periods. Regiments and batteries are grouped in historical orders of battle not only in name but also within a hierarchical artificial intelligence system that assists the player in commanding the many subordinate units at his disposal. The designer's aim for the Scourge of War series is the comprehensive and realistic representation of American Civil War battlefields at the (grand) tactical level. The Chancellorsville war game is an arrangement of well-chosen, hand-picked actions mostly at the corps level and below.
The Scourge of War Engine
Scourge of War Chancellorsville goes to great pains to simulate terrain, movement, troops morale, ordnance exchange and its effects. Keeping in mind the limitations of today computers and the axiom that there is no substitute for the real thing, there are barely any obtrusive abstractions where I can point my finger at the designer. One of these abstractions is infantry regiments deploying in line formation and clipping into each other, making too frequent and too fast facing changes when brigades engage in narrow spaces. It looks like the position of a regiment is computed as a single point (instead of a line) for some artificial intelligence routines. The same applies to regiments in line formation not 'snapping' completely into a linear cover like a fence or stonewall. But that's pretty much it. It barely suspends disbelief when the player has bigger fish to fry (like the frequent happening of an entire enemy Corps looming in the player's flank).
As if the treat of an immersive 3D battlefield with the full spectacle of war right before the player's eyes was not enough, the Scourge of War engine also includes a command and control simulation in which you can literally compose your orders and get them delivered by couriers to the subordinate unit. This results in orders delays that depend on the distance from your tactical command post and your subordinate and also in careful thinking about how your orders will be executed by the subordinate commander. These subordinate commanders, mostly controlled by the computer (unless you choose differently in the difficulty settings), have different command styles that will affect how fast and how well they will accomplish their mission. Fear not, the depth of this hardcore command feature is fully scalable and you can play at any level of complexity, from 'select any unit, click on destination' to the more complex command mode explained above. Furthermore, the game engine is so well designed that at any level of complexity the gaming experience is both fulfilling and engrossing.
A reservation that frequently arises from war gaming enthusiasts that feel more at ease with turn based games is that computer gaming engines with continuous time lead to a so-called 'clickfests'. In the case of the Scourge of War series, the amount of clicks needed to win an scenario is low if you are a good tactician. Off course, if you are compelled to micromanage every regiment in your corps, your mouse hand will suffer. But I would say that even with a moderately high degree of micromanagement, the only 'strain' I had was in my head . Figuring out a good tactical plan, executing it, adapting it and maintaining it. This is a war game about tactics and command, and if you go into it with a 'RTS' mentality, your forces and your mouse hand will be crushed.
Chancellorsville can be played solo against a the computer or multiplayer against a human opponent. The computer opponent in the game is very capable and fond of ruining your most clever plans. It maneuvers towards your flanks with intimidating tenacity, it uses combined arms whenever the resources are available and most importantly, it appears to have a hierarchical tactical plan against you. Some moves of the computer opponent are scripted in the single player scenarios and these are intended to preserve the historical feeling of the scenario. But after those moves are executed, the computer opponent is fully unleashed to dynamically react against the player's actions. It is in those conditions where the player can see, for example, an enemy division suddenly forced into an area defense allocating different sectors to each brigade. The multiplayer sessions can be either through a lobby system or by direct IP connection with the opponent's computer. Unfortunately, due to time constrains, I could not explore the multiplayer aspects of the game.
The Scourge of War series it's a bold, off-the-beaten-path design with ambitious goals, all of them achieved. The fact that the United States Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) had chosen Scourge of War for teaching command and control in the Missions Command class speaks volumes of the quality of this game.
Gameplay
Chancellorsville includes 4 tutorial scenarios (infantry, artillery, brigade and division command) and 20 scenarios starting at different places and times during the battle. The majority of these scenarios are playable from one side only. Most of them are at the division level (11 total), followed by the ones at the corps level (5 total) and a few more at the brigade level (3 total). There is one scenario where the player commands the whole Army of Northern Virginia. I wished for more scenarios at the army level, but alas the real battle sprawled over so much terrain that porting the entire battlefield into the computer would have been likely too demanding on hardware.
The pace of the gameplay, even when there are no turns and time is continuous, allows the player ample time to make decisions. What type of decisions (i.e. at which level of command) are the player's choice. I usually actively command all my subordinate formations (if I am a Corps commander I give orders to all my divisions) and around 1/3 of subordinate units two levels below (brigades). The latter are orders for formations located where something decisive is happening (point of main effort, commitment of reserves).
Chancellorsville scenarios play like an interactive lesson in history. At the start of the scenario, the player experiences exactly the type of decision-making process the real commanders had. Should I commit this Corps at that hill? Will that extensive flanking march I am planning take way too long to actually have an effect? How much of my cavalry should I detach for security? As the scenario progresses, the player gets the full blown reality of (grand) tactical combat during the American Civil War: its indecisiveness. A byproduct of what and to which extent each is an academic issue. But let’s say that less than optimal command and control, poor use of combined arms and not enough reserves to exploit success , do not help for a decisive victory. The Scourge of War series offers you a chance to both experience the shortcomings mentioned above and to try to make a difference.
Another interesting aspect of the Scourge of War series is that single player scenarios include neighboring friendly units not under the player's command. For the player, this means he has to keep a good eye for supporting and providing support to whoever friendly formation is in his flanks. Many times I had to postpone taking my objective, just waiting for that General to bring his troops up to the line of battle.
Overall Evaluation
I have been always mesmerized by movie scenes or literature paragraphs depicting generals looking at the distance with their binoculars, just to all of the sudden come out with something like 'the enemy's main attack is not in front of us'. How much tactical acumen does it take to grasp a battlefield from the tactical command post? I don't know the answer to that, but I can assure you that your appreciation for battlefield leadership will change after doing so, tethered to your virtual horse mount in Chancellorsville at the hardest difficulty levels.
Score: A. One of the finest computer war games ever published. Looks great, plays great and one of the few war games that succeeded to tackle command and control in a playable and scalable manner. Makes you wish the design talent used for this war game could be extended to other wars and warfare periods.
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Released 06 Apr 2017
In the next day or so Scourge of War’s (SOW) Napoleonic quadriga will be complete as the fourth and final horse of the Napoleonic chariot is hitched – the battle for Wavre, 18 thru 19 June 1815. It was here that newly appointed French Marshal Emmanuel Marquis de Grouchy and 33,000 men faced off against 17,000 Prussians under the able command of General der Kavallerie Johann Freiherr von Thielmann. Grouchy’s mission from the Emperor was simple. He was to be the knife in the Prussian army’s back to insure they did not rejoin Lord Wellington’s Anglo-Allied Army of the Low Country. Thielmann’s job was equally simple, to delay Grouchy long enough to allow the 72,000 men of the main Prussian army to do exactly that. While Grouchy won the actual battle, he ultimately failed in his mission and thus allowed Thielmann to succeed in his. The rest, as the cliché goes, is history.
Over the weekend I’ve had a chance to play the final beta of SOW Wavre, a DLC package (you do need SOW Waterloo to play it) that completes the Waterloo campaign or at least close to it. I won’t mention any software bugs and the like, as this is a beta, but overall I had a great time and have to label the product a very worthy edition to the SOW line. Here is what I found.
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Hopmon. Although a beta, the game installed without a hitch and worked pretty smoothly overall. Nevertheless, please note the hardware requirements needed to carry the game. While they may not be of the same intensity as requirements for, say, Titan Fall, they are a bit more than if you are running a John Tiller inspired game such as his Panzer Battles series. Right now my rig runs an AMD Quad 3.5 Mhz Turbo (if not used, two of four cores shut down and speed is bumped to 4.2 Mhz) with 32 gigs of RAM, 4 TB hard drive, a BenQ gaming monitor, Radeon HD8750D video card, supported by a Logitech G910 gaming keyboard and Madcatz MMO gaming mouse. Adobe premiere pro cs4 download. This is way overkill even if old, but if you’ve got anything in this arena, you should be fine. Also, while game specs mandate against a mother board integrated video card, an APU (Advanced Processing Unit) where the CPU and GPU reside on the same die, works without a hitch. Finally, if you are not a speed bump to progress and run Windows 10, check to make sure if you need to run the software in Compatibility Mode.
Avancez les Tambours, a la Bayonette – En Avant!
So far as I can determine, the biggest change to game play is that there are no changes to game play. Outside any updates to the main software package installed previously, the game works about the same. This, in many respects is a good thing. It means that folks who’ve been tackling the other three battles of Waterloo have nothing new to learn when trying to storm the bridges at Wavre.
And the series is deceptively easy to play to begin with, with most of the complexity being the generalship related mental gymnastics players have to deal with to achieve victory. Pretty much all one needs to do is click on the flag of a unit (or of a commander, which activates all the units under his command), then click on a piece of terrain where you want said unit(s) to move to, and then launch. Whether standing, moving, fighting or checking the status of a commander, you can right click on the flag to bring up a mini, square shaped tool bar that allows you to make a variety of adjustments such as change formation, speed up to double time and a whole bunch more. You can also click several of these options at once, then hit execute and the unit(s) will perform all the actions in order. Moving through an enemy unit will result in a charge or if halting and the enemy is in range, friendly forces will auto fire at the most appropriate target.
This, of course, is a simplified retelling of the process, so don’t think there isn’t a bit of detail or chrome here because there most certainly is. One of my favorites is the HITS (Headquarters in the Saddle) switch. Use this option and you will find you can’t really use a 19th Century prop driven drone to micro scan the entire five mile by five mile battlefield the game provides. Instead you can only see what the real commander could have seen from atop his horse standing exactly on that piece of real estate at 0800 hours, 19 June 1815. Good stuff and indicative of the realism first perspective that graces all SOW products.
III Korps Fashion Statement (or why too historical is not always a good thing)
SOW Wavre continues to use graphics based on 3D terrain and 2D military sprites for the armies. For the former the result is probably the most accurate presentation of the Wavre battlefield outside a German General Staff map, and a damned site more attractive. The ground, shrubbery, trees, bridges, roads and structures are properly sized and placed to look distinctly 19th Century European with soft, muted tones for the actual landscape and sharp, detailed buildings otherwise. I can’t swear to it, but the building images seem to have a better, higher resolution than previous, particularly up close. I’ve actually been to the site and from what I see; it’s likely the designers modelled their graphics after the actual buildings standing in the town, or other actual buildings somewhere else. Suffice it to say I actually use this game as templates for painting my own tabletop buildings, so color me impressed.
The 2D infantry, cavalry, artillery and command sprites are not going to be as detailed or move as smoothly as something out of Total War Whatever, though like the buildings, there does seem to be some sort of improvement, with greater depth and a bit of animation in the ranks as well. However, looking at these forces from a bit away is where this game really shines. Accurate formations that maneuver, turn, march and change from line to column historically is all here. How do I know this – reenactors, perhaps the most detailed historians on the planet. I’ve spent many a day on a hilltop watching a recreation of Gettysburg – its near where I live – and I swear those ranks of serried bayonets moving, bobbing and fighting is a dead ringer for SOW. And like history, and unlike Total War, someone quickly breaks and retreats, rather than fights to the last man. If the reenactment crowd has it right, then so does SOW.
Flags and uniforms have always been a big deal for me, and with Wavre the SOW gang really had a grand opportunity to turn up the graphics and glitter. Fortunately they declined to do so. SOW continues its tradition of getting both attire and standards correct down to the individual unit level, or even individual sprite level. Flags are accurate for the most part, for example. Sure many Prussian units did not carry flags as they were dispersed light formations (flag capture too risky) or Landwehr (militia). In the latter case all flags were taken from the Landwehr as they had been locally produced and not approved or officially presented by the king. Personally, if someone wants to risk continued breathing to keep me on my throne, he can fly a bath towel for all I care, but not back then. Regardless, the game does award such units flags (as do all tabletoppers) as a convenience for gameplay using one of the few surviving locally produced designs as a generic.
And speaking of Landwehr, the game shows them smartly and uniformly dressed, something confirmed by several historians such as Philip Haythornthwaite, whereas the French show up in a mixture of regulation tunics and shakos in addition to greatcoats and oilskin headgear covers of various colors. No lie, the Landwehr were better equipped and dressed than French regulars so SOW got it right.
Then we have Thielmann’s III Korps, an organization I refer to as the “ash and trash” of the realm, because a lot of its formations were not Prussian. Kinda. In 1815 many Prussian formations were units cobbled together from former Freikorps (volunteer, privately funded units) and depot units, not to mention former units of independent states annexed by Prussia in 1814. Thielmann’s gaggle seemed to have an inordinate share of these lads and this means multiple uniforms in the same battalion. Thus the Prussian 7th Uhlans (lancers) included members from the old red uniformed Saxon Prinz Clemens Chevauleger and Hellwig’s irregular Freikorps cavalry. The 5th included depot units and the former Berg Hussars still in their old garb, while the 8th Uhlans (and the 30th and 31st Infantry plus two artillery batteries) wore their previous dark green, tsarist Russo-Prussian Legion uniforms and did NOT carry lances to boot.
On the French side we do have the single battalions of Swiss, which actually showed up in their traditional red uniforms, and I really wish the game had displayed them as such. Nevertheless, there does come a point where good, accurate history translates into confusion for typical gamers, so IMHO, the SOW designers made the right call by not accurately dressing out “das dritte Korps.”
Future Campaigns and Conclusion
SOW Wavre comes with five scenarios (plus one user generated offering) to include French army command, Prussian army command, Prussian division command, French brigade command and for the second day of the battle on the 19th, French corps command. There is also one sandbox scenario for the Prussians. Personally I found the brigade scenario to be a far better tutorial that the single battalion example the base game contains, as it allows for dealing with multiple units and their interactions. Regardless, Wavre was a small engagement and short in terms of time as well. This means an entire battle can be played and every single battalion, squadron and battery micromanaged without too much trouble. Yes, you can have the AI perform some tasks for you, but most gamers like to do it themselves and with Wavre you can. Indeed, there are only 17,000 Prussians and the battle didn’t actually commence until after 1800 hours late in the day. I was able to knock out several complete games over the weekend, so in this regard I judge Wavre somewhat superior to the primary game covering Waterloo.
Yet there is room for expansion. I would have loved an option for Wavre not to happen at all, but allow Grouchy to swing west to ambush the strung out Prussian army as it marched to Waterloo, or even Grouchy’s masterful fighting retreat towards Namur after he realized Napoleon’s collapse. And there is my ultimate dream of linking all four games together as a single, oversized tactical slugfest (a good cognac recommended, though not required).
No matter. When you consider the series’ continued high quality as regards accuracy and playability, the familiarity of its rules, then combine all that with the actual subject matter of this latest installment, I think you are looking at the best of the four individual games. Steel design software free download. Very well done and highly recommended.
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