Overview
Step back to the age of Napoleon and follow in the earliest footsteps of this military genius! Napoleon in Italy is a hex based strategy game that includes both the strategic level of movement and logistics combined with playable tactical battles. Lead the young Napoleon's French Army on his first campaign against the Austrians and Piedmontese in Northern Italy or try to stop Napoleon’s dedicated army and tactical brilliance with the mighty allied army of Austria.
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Features
- More than 700 named historical regiments with 7 different unit types complimented by 240 historical leaders
- Beautiful historical map based on satellite height-map data with both strategic and tactical level of play
- Fight as the French, Austrian and Piedmontese armies
- 8 historical campaigns (1 full and 7 short) plus an extensive tutorial and highly accurate and detailed campaign setups
- Random events to maintain replayability and fresh gameplay even after playing through each campaign
- 7 stances on the strategic map and 5 formations on the tactical map to give players a wide range of historical options to battle the enemy and command how they see fit
- Something for everyone: 3 gameplay modes (simple, advanced and realistic) and 3 difficulty levels with changing rules
- An advanced initiative system for leaders and a cohesion system for armies
- Leaders, units and armies are all rated with realistic stats and abilities that take into account their strategic, tactical and logistical capabilities
- Authentic uniforms to make the uniform history buff happy
- Multiplayer capability: Hot-Seat, PBEM and TCP/IP
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PC4War Review
8.5/10 - [Magazine is print only]
Cyberstratege Review (French - Print Only - Issue 13)
"Napoleon in Italy" is a complete and solid game.
Gamesquad Review
Unexplored topic, fine details of units and leaders; impeccable AI; good strategic map and system.
Armchair General Review
Hussar has given us a game that is certain to provide many hours of great gaming, and a history lesson as an added bonus.
Product Data
- Complexity: Medium
- Field of Play: Strategic / Tactical
- Historical Period: Napoleonic
- Theater: Northern Italy
- Unit Scale: Regiments
- Turn Play: Half weeks / 15 mins
- Players: 1-2
- AI: Yes, either side
- TCP/IP: Yes
- PBEM: Yes
- Game Editor: Yes, Army and Scenario
- Resolution: 1024x768
- Manual: PDF(Download) & B&W Printed(Physical), 44 pages
System Requirements
- OS: Windows 98/XP/Vista (XP Recommended)
- CPU: 500 MHz (1 GHz Recommended)
- RAM: 512 MB (1024MB Recommended)
- Video/Graphics: 32 MB (64 MB Recommended)
- Sound: Any sound card
- Hard disk space: 400 MB Free
- CD-Rom: Required for boxed version install
- DirectX version: 7.0 or above
