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PC Game Review: Napoleon’s Campaigns
Posted on: 2008-05-09 16:05:51 By Jim Cobb @ The Wargamer Napoleon wasn’t all that great of a tactician; many of his battlefield successes were a function of luck. Neither were his strategies great; he tended to overreach and often couldn’t put his opponents down permanently. Where he excelled as no other was in the area of operations. He took the corps system he inherited from the Old Regime and the Revolution and used it to a dazzling extent. Therefore, AGEOD’s decision to limit its Napoleon’s Campaigns to the operational level was to highlight those aspects that made “Boney” great. For the most part, the game has done well by l’Empereur. Read on... |