Is it going to a 'looking at a boring map for the entire game' game or a proper game?
What is the international definition of a proper game map? This is a simulation site and this is as close as it gets apart from histwar to a simulation rather than a hex based ugo\igo affair. I am afraid I do not understand what you mean sar!
I am half way through the interview. But they mention a sandbox mode that lets you zoom out to a campaign map that IS NOT abstracted like total war. They have something in mind along the lines of NATO style symbols for this. They are hoping if they succeed with this zoom out style map that you will be able to play all of the battles surrounding waterloo and waterloo on your own terms with whatever forces you actually manage to get there.
The game is due on the anniversary of waterloo in 2015 so whatever they have finished by then will be in game.
They have a dedicated employee from the mod community making MOD tools so that people will be able to make there own maps with a map tool and modify the AI. They apparently after waterloo do not want to have to program the AI again themselves for whatever expansions they do. They are aware that from the start of the napoleonic wars to the end tactics changed markedly and thus the AI and formations must do so as well... meaning great changes to the AI.
Apparently they have had to think of a whole new way of getting sprite uniforms in game because of the shere variety of uniforms napoleonic warfare has in comparison to the ACW.
Considering the well established napoleonic mod for scourge of war gettysburg imho this waterloo game is a no brainer.
You take the reasonable graphics of the scourge of war engine and hopefully the continuation of COOP multiplay with the combined arms tactics necessary for napoleonic warfare and this is a no brainer for me.
However for people who are fans of the scourge of war games and it's (american) civil war content this could be a deal breaker for them. Even the devs themselves seem to only just be learning the basics of napoleonic warfare. Thus they have apparently brought on some experts with the similar passion to their civil war fans. To the extent of saying that some napoleonic experts are even more crazy than civil war experts. One guy they have used to or currently goes past the waterloo battlefield every morning!!
What will be interesting is how this shapes up against histwar 2. When is histwar 2 out?
The pics from the video that norbsoft showed...
the scourge of war games are 3d RTS, check out the others in the series 
