Crown of Glory: Emperor’s Edition
Год выпуска: 2009
Жанр: Strategy (Turn-based / Grand strategy)
Разработчик:
http://www.west-civ.com/
Издательство: Matrix Games
Системные требования: Windows 2000, XP, Vista
Pentium or Athlon 1GHz+
512 MB RAM
32Mb DirectX 7+ Video Card
DirectX 7+ Sound Card
DirectX 9.0C
2 GB of Free Hard Drive space
DirectX 7 or later
Windows Media Player (for Video Tutorials)
Тип издания: лицензия
Язык интерфейса: только английский
Таблэтка: Присутствует
Описание: Доработанная версия
Crown of Glory: Europe in the Age of Napoleon. Среди улучшений - возможность включения "простой экономики", для концентрации на войне и дипломатии, более 100 исторических ивентов, новые сценарии, улучшенный стратегический AI, ведущий себя более "исторически", улучшенные детализированные битвы, в том числе и морские! И многое другое.
Достоинства сохравнившиеся с первой игры(eng)
Crown of Glory Features
Europe and North Africa, 1792 – 1820
More than 200 provinces, 8 Major Nations, 90 Minor Powers
Monthly Strategic Turns, 20 Minute Tactical Turns
Military, Diplomatic, Economic and Social Decisions
Quick Resolution of Battles or Detailed Resolution of Battles
Detailed Combat supports Historical Leaders, Unit Morale, Diverse Unit Types, Command and Control, Weather, Smoke, Reinforcements, and more!
Economics include Resource Types, Economic Parameters, Banks and Loans, Food and Population Growth, Reinforcement Pool, Trade Routes, Merchant and Colonial Income
Naval and Land Combat, including Sieges, Interceptions, Fleet Combat, Port Attacks and Blockades
National Morale
Computer Opponent for Major and Minor Nations
Diplomacy includes Treaties, Secret Treaties, Declarations of War, Cease Fires, Limited Surrender, Total War, and Historical Great Diplomats with special abilities
Weather, Logistics, Fog of War, Special Events
Hot-seat and PBEM
Standard Campaign from 1805 – 1815 as well as a variety of starting scenarios to expand or contract the timeline and allow more options over technology and upgrades
Краткий список нововведений(eng)
Emperor's Edition Improvements:
New strategic map including a network of roads connecting provinces
70 new movement areas on the strategic map
New “Simple Economy” mode for players who want to concentrate on military / diplomacy
6 new minor powers
101 new historical events such as “Reign of Terror,” “Janissary Revolt,” and “Assassination of Paul I”
Map zooms in and out smoothly on strategic and detailed combat levels
Nations gain Experience and Naval Experience and use these to purchase national upgrades, advanced units, and special training for units
Improved orders of battle in all scenarios with historical names for hundreds of divisions and ships
New scenarios for 1803 and 1812
New scenarios that allow Portugal, Bavaria, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Poland to be player-controlled
Changes to strategic A.I. to create more historical decisions for certain nations
New “Path of Napoleon” victory condition in which player must try to accomplish all of Napoleon’s goals
New rules for inflation and mobilization limits to better model wartime effects on the economy and to limit army sizes to historical levels
New rules for march attrition
New interface screens for strategic overview, unit and province lists
Ability to fight detailed battles at division or brigade level
New system of in-game help
New music and sound effects
Improvements to Detailed Land Battles:
Cavalry units can deploy cavalry screens in detailed battle
Units can set a reaction radius in detailed battle that allows units to fire at enemy units, to move to intercept them, or to change rotation to face moving enemy units
New system for handling threat zones and formation changes
New “Pursuit Phase” at end of combat
Completely new A.I. for detailed battle
Can now give long-range movement orders to units and to entire military groups
New Detailed Naval Battles at the Ship Level!
Wind speed and direction affects movement and combat
Ships have five different sail states
Damage to hull, guns, carronades, rigging, crew, leaders
Fire round shot, chain shot, or canister shot
20 different critical hit types to ships, such as “fire” and “rudder shot away”
Grappling and boarding
В раздаче есть последний на данный момент патч 1.0.9, а также немного дополнения к игровому мануалу и 2 альтернативные карты мира от разработчиков(хотя, разница небольшая)
Для установки карты, нужно переименовать файл в EuropeMap.pcx и кинуть в C:\Matrix Games\Crown of Glory Emperor's Edition\Gfx\ (по умолчанию)
Почти половину инсталлятора занимают видеофайлы с обучением игровой механики. После установки, они находятся в папке C:\Matrix Games\Crown of Glory Emperor's Edition\Videos\
