Looks very promising. Cool interface. The wood and gold trim reminds me a bit of the Old Vic DLC (though I sadly couldn't get that to work quite right with the patch that was out when I bought it... haven't checked to see if that was fixed...)
Well, since we've seen a day-night counter (aka: clock) I guess battles would indeed be mostly fought by daylight with an exceptional surprise attack/skirmish in the dark.I like the idea about having territories without cities. I believe that is a first for PDS games? (even Sengoku had castles in every province).
I really hope PDS catches the feeling of moving corps units around for the french and divisions/armies for the allies.
It was the corps' among other things that gave the french an edge.
A couple of other things off the top of my head would be the ability to encircle (Battle of Ulm) and using cavalry for skirmishing.
Also the winner of the battlefield takes the guns, should be in the game.
Finally I hope battles will be swift, since they seldom lasted longer than daylight allowed.
I had the same problem; had no trouble accessing the DD directly from the forum, though.Just figured I should mention I get a weird permission error for the newspost for this thread, blocks me out. Had to find it through the forums.
Very interesting I like the map look, but not a big fan of the "wooden-y" interface look. Th einterface itself does look neat and clean though.
You've got my interest piqued with coalitions!
Attrition should be horrendous. Armies would lose up to 10% manpower just by marching. Of course it doesn't represent dead soldiers but rather a variety of circumstances such as illness, desertion, garrisoning supply lines etc.Looks fantastic!
BTW someone else has mentioned they were getting a permissions problem on the front page. I am getting that too so you might want to check that.
One question I have is will battles be spread across many provinces or will their be major pitched battled in mega stacks and how bad is attrition? Does the winters in Russia affect Russian troops as well as French for example?
And what I hope for, is some savegame convertor from CK2 -> EU4 -> MotE -> V2 -> HoI3.