Waterloo

If you know this game from nearly 30 years ago and want to get your hit of nostalgia, go for it. I had no technical troubles whatsoever. Keep in mind though that you need some form of map, the manual etc. to fully experience to game (just google it. If you never played this game, only go for it if you a die hard grognard. You will need offline material for planning, you don't know how your generals interpret orders or if they received them and when, you never get detailed reports. It is a simulation of army command as far as it was possible to program with the technology around 1990.

I first played Waterloo on my trusty Amiga 500 in 1989 not long after its initial release, so was delighted when I heard it was finally being revived on STEAM. Part of the "Battlescapes" series of military games by Dr Peter Turcan - the others being Napoleonic encounters Borodino and Austerlitz, plus American Civil War clash Gettysburg - Waterloo features the smallest map of the lot. The idea of the series, which made the games highly original and innovative at the time, is that we play only a single person (the Commander In Chief) and have no knowledge of how the battle is unfolding around us except by either moving the Headquarters or relying on information supplied by messenger riders. Of course, due to time delays this intelligence may be incorrect and most likely out of date with the ever changing situation - exactly the same problems faced by the real-life commanders in the days before radio communication. Such an approach made the games equally thrilling and frustrating to ...

no manual unplayable

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Crashed my CPU 10/10