Wellington's Victory Reviews

+ Enjoyable. I keep playing even after seeing the "how to win" strategies. Good , old fashioned hex battles. This time on a mammoth scale. More of this type please (Austerlitz, Borodino, Leipzig, etc). Lines squares columns. No real complexity. Charge enemy units from each side - they often turn and defeat one charge, but the other gets them from behind. Remember to get all your Light units in extended order. Pack up to 20 elite light troops with an officer in order to hold the chateau. Replay value. I like not being limited in strategy. Going round the sides always seemed the right things to try. If you like combining units into giant ones, it is up to you. Like the real battle, units are packed in and get in each others way. I keep all the Old Guard Grenadier regiments in a pretty square around Napoleon. The game however allows you to toss them into battle without caring. - Developers may want to get a more defensive Wellington. Or at least defend la Haye Saint and Hougoumont as two separate zones for the AI, as Wellington has most English run forwards dementedly everywhere. Hougoumont a bit too easy to take. Use a mass of extended order troops. Once fallen, Wellyboots Guards try to retake it. AI - Wellyboots attacks about turn 5 except for a few "hold units". They will happily rush out of defences all the way to the Grande battery... Then form square against a lone cavalry unit. In front of the Grande battery.... duh! Prussians arrive and rarely matter. They trudge for miles and don't really get involved. Zillions of Prussians to move, so maybe combine them asap to save clicks.

Fun game. Great visuals. The AI is a little weak. Morale seems underplayed. A lot of fun! Thanks.

Very fun game, I highly recommend it for a quick Napoleonic fix.

Covers the Waterloo campaign. Gameplay is as most HexWars games. Decent array of scenarios. If you are comfortable with HexWars style, recommended.

The distances over which units move are too great for me to project. I never got past 3 moves, and put the game away.

Reminiscent of the hexagon based board games played in the olden days. In solo play against the computer Nappy wins every time because of the unrealistic Allied assaults from higher ground instead of remaining on the defensive and pounding the French advance with cannon fire. Blucher arrives from the W on turn 20. I do better than computer as Allied commander but who doesn't want to command Le Armee Du Nord, filled with desperate veterans. Other scenarios included, great art work, lots of fun.

Great game that combines a Hex Based board game and a miniatures war game. Lots of scenarios and 3 levels of AI difficulty ensures long time playability.

Look, this is a fun game with a couple of release glitches that are to be fixed soon apparently. Unit classification is a bit unhistorical but this could easily be addressed. AI is not the greatest challenge but there is always the hard setting, I suppose. The big drawback is that it does not centre the screen on what the AI is doing to you so you miss a lot. Also the game engine could do with some fine tuning to improve the tactics available to the player. And I say player because there is no scope to play another gamer in this release. This is a big disappointment but for the price you can easily and enjoyable while away a few hours playing the scenarios.

As previously stated the screen does not center on enemy units when they are moving so you can miss a lot. It would be helpful if I can scroll the map using the mouse. I bought it because it brings me back in time when all my wargames were the the hex and counter boardgame kind. But if you want a more immersive experience then I suggest Scourge of War: Waterloo.

Well I bought the game on sale and played a couple battles. It's really simple stuff, all the math going on behind the scenes is pretty clearly laid out for you (that is modifiers based on terrain, unit type, etc.). None of the mechanics are particularly confusing and it ends up playing like your run of the mill tabletop wargame, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but if you prefer a lot of detail and controlling things on the smallest level possible then this should be a pass for you. Battles pass quickly That said, though I generally prefer wargames with more depth it's still a fun little game and at its current 9 bucks I can't really complain. I'll almost certainly play through all the battles once from both sides then probably forget about it. Worth it for the price. ---------------------------- UPDATE: Game has begun crashing unexpectedly. I want to rule out any possibility that the problem is on my end before changing my review to negative but be warned