Read it at the general Battlefront Forum and found the dedicated forum there is closed.

That's too bad. I had high hopes for a napoleonic game which really cares about the period tactics and held tight for many years. Now its just a single sentence cancelation...

Does any of our french brothers know more?

I will cry myserlf into sleep this night.

O.O

gaaah I was really looking forward to this.

Seems it's only cancelled by Battlefront.

http://www.histwar.com/forum/index.php/topic,3135.0.html

Negotiations broke down and now he's going to self-publish - the
planning :

1) The manual will be released on 11/11
2) A demo will be available at the end of the month
3) Pre-orders will start in early December
4) Game will be available for download before X-Mas

A boxed version is not planned right now

Thanks for letting me know MadDog.

Now I will sleep well. And the histwar.com forum has a new velite

I'm not surprised Battlefront ended their relations, no offense to the dev but I've understood that he failed time and time again to deliver on his agreements with Battlefront, so I can see why they finally felt "F*ck it, let's not waste any more money on this guy".

yeah, that is my take. BF canceled HWLG and MNB on the same day. I believe they were cleaning house a bit and throwing out some of the non-productive titles.

I believe i read at wargamer that the HWLG dev said the game manual is coming out next week and we should see a demo in Dec? sounds crazy...but it may be true.

The manuals are out.

http://www.histwar.com/downloads.html?relPath=manuels

I believe JMM more than BF

I never said I don't believe him, I'm just saying that BF probably had a good cause to terminate their contract with him.

Regardless the case, I'm still looking forward to HWLG, mainly because of the fact it attempts to accurately simulate the command structure of the time, with AI subordinates etc.

I've been dreaming of such a game for a long time, especially in this era.

I recall a semi-real time game from the early 90s with a focus on the Napoleon era of war, which partially attempted the same thing, simulating both the command structure and order delays etc, it was very good, since then I've been hoping for someone to make such a game with modern tech.

I just hope the AI lives up to the hype he's built up for it.

The demo should arrive this weekend. Woohoo.

This guy (JMM) is really testing the patience of his fanbase.
Yesterday he announced the demo for today now everything seems kind of "open".
I get a wiff why BF kicked his a** out!