battle shots

[zakblood]

evening all, thought i'd just post some pre battle shots of the battle of Waterloo, windows 10, 64bit pc in use.

just playing with settings to get everything to look right, so over the next couple of shots, some may get better as i post them, sorry for that as i'm playing with the settings as i take them.




this is your right my left of my line, just softening up the enemy lines before i march to combat

[zakblood]

centre



with cannon in front and infantry in line behind, with my cav units behind them, the order is to wait

[zakblood]

right



with some cav units just going out of view, the right flank my left is well protected

[zakblood]

centre low



i pan the camera down for a closer view

[zakblood]

centre lower



i again pan down lower, seeing the sky in all it's glory with the clouds moving across the sky, not a clear sunny day by all accounts...

[zakblood]

centre to enemy low



with the tree's and shrubs covering full sight, i fire at what i can see, and hope there's nothing approaching from where i can't

[zakblood]

right flank ground



now i'm at ground level i only see what my gunners see, and when there fire for any length of time, that isn't much tbh

[zakblood]

air burst enemy



i zoom in on the enemy and see there troops lying in the distance taking cover from my guns, with there guns retuning fire, with the smoke covering and masking there presents as air burst shells explode overhead

[zakblood]

in line waiting for the command to go into battle



me troops wait in line as the guns fire and softening the enemy force before i give the command to advance to contact and into history and glory[&o]

[zakblood]

elsewhere along the front, we bombard a set of houses / before we storm Château d'Hougoumont

[e_barkmann]

Here's one from a multiplayer game last night - Waterloo scenario, army scale. Time for the Old Guard to punch through..

http://imageshack.com/i/pa4SZzOAp

[Enigma6584]

Nice screenshots there. Very dramatic.

[Mr Digby]

Don't like that Old Guard shot, the columns are far too close together. How could any of those battalions make a single manoeuvre?

[zakblood]

as soon as you go to the largest battles, 300k on the field can look a mess at times and yes they are rather close, but as soon as they start to move they make better spacing anyway, it's just i've taken it at the start of battle as they are moving from there starting positions, where it's more about formations and looks than being ready for battle, more like a dress parade that battle ready shots, the AI is much better than i at doing distances tbh regarding formation moving

[e_barkmann]

densely packed French infantry columns in a Napoleonics battle, who would have thought! Quelle horreur!

[Mr Digby]

They were not densely packed in the manner shown. If a brigade has its columns that close in reality you tell me how each one would form a column of divisions or a line?

Columns of march like that were used only on roads on one behind another as a formation snaked its way to a forming up point before a battle. You'd never see a formation like that on a battlefield.

[zakblood]

Scourge of War: Ligny battle shots

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3, ground to die for, or not depending on how you play[;)]

[zakblood]

if there's any place anyone would like to see shown, please ask[;)]