The Seven Years War (1756-1763)
LEAD YOUR NATION THROUGH THE TRIALS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR IN HISTORY AND LAY THE FOUNDATION FOR A NEW WORLD ORDER!
In the mid 18th century the mighty armies of the great European empires are led into the first global world war, the Seven Years War. While Prussia struggles for existence against a superior alliance in Europe the fight for the colonies between Great Britain and France arises to gather dominance over the North American continent.
Features:
• Play 20 realtime campaigns ranging from the year 1750 to 1762, each with individual goals
• Coverage of the complete European and North american theatre with more than 110 cities and provinces including 13 nations
• Build up a huge economy with complex product chains to supply your people, armies and fleets
• Develop your cities and provinces to gain wealth and recruits and manage economic factors like jobless rates and people’s wealth
• Establish trade on more than 20 goods with local markets, foreign nations and fight for control of narrow map resources
• Use a wide range of diplomatic measures like prisoner exchanges or joint military actions
• Build up your armies from a single named regiment to a complex division hierarchy and allocate a huge set of weapons
• Trade with natives like Huron or Irokese nations and take influence to gain valuable allies or native units
• Manage your officer corps with individual expertise depending on the type of arms and battle experience
• Set 10 different politics to change the direction of your economy ranging from trade liberalisation to food rations
• Research more than 90 technologies to increase your production efficiency or gain access to new buildings and units
• Take control of naval routes to gain access to luxory goods or cut supply to your enemy’s colonies
• Play city or fort sieges by digging trenches and artillery fortifications
• Issue war loans or order coin debasements to improve your financials
• Lead your armies to epic real time battles with thousands of soldiers and more than 100 individual unit types
• Use the advantages of terrains like increased fire range on hills or reduced cavalry charge in woods
• Conquer strategic goals like hills, bridges, cities and buildings to gain victory points
• Take the place of the famous generals in huge historic battles like the Battle of Kolin or Leuthen
Game Discussion
Steam User 105
Feel compelled to write a positive review after seeing the 'mixed' rating this game gets. There's no justice.
This is the kind of game I've been wanting to play for years...a historical strategy game with an excellent campaign system that beats anything I've played by the big developers.
As a total package, that melds all of it's disparate elements together in an engaging and innovative way, it can't be beaten. No tedious single sprite fights, numbers, stats and sound FX to represent battles (Paradox and Ageod), no Benny Hill arcade battles and uninspiring strategic layer (Total War), no strung together bunches of battles with some occasional core units promoted masquerading as a campaign (Panzer Corps and 100s of others). Pike & Shot (and Sengoku Jidai) impressed me with great battles but the campaigns were bare bones.
This game nails what a historical campaign should be, perfectly. A fascinating strategic layer that creates a meaningful context for the realistically paced battles.
The game is not perfect, the graphics are dated but functional, the learning curve is steep (especially for the economic simulation) and the English localisation has quite a few errors, but the developer of this game has shown some real ambition and talent to put this together.
Fantastic.
Steam User 57
This is a game made by a one-man team that attempts to out Total War the Total War series, and the results are surprisingly impressive given the herculaean nature of such a task.
If you enjoyed the Take Command series of civil war battle simulators or even the more recent Ultimate General: Gettysburg but wished you could have it a grand strategy form this game will probably be to your liking. For someone like me who would actually name the regiments in his Empire Total War armies, and make brigades out of the regiments within those armies, the order of battle and divisional heirarchy system will be immensely fun. Every regiment has a commander that can be replaced if ineffective, as well as its own equipment and level of experience.
The Seven Years War (1756-1763) is definitely not going to be for everyone though. The learning curve is somewhat steep but I found the initial gameplay to be more intuitive than games like Europa Universalis or Crusader Kings. The graphics aren't very good, but in a sprite-based battle map I can overlook this, though improvements are always welcome. Chances are though that if you're even considering buying a game like this, you're the type of person that would enjoy it.
I do agree with the people that suggest some tutorial scenarios would be nice, and it would be helpful to be able to zoom in just a little closer on the battlemap for times when you want to order individual regiments around instead of brigades or divisions.
All in all, I'm very impressed and excited for the future of this game.
Steam User 43
The best strategic game I have ever played!
This game is what the total war games never achived: grand strategy with a balanced economy model that matters.
No raising armies over night and steam rolling your enemies, or accumulating wast amount of wealth in a sec.
Now you will have to plan ahead!
Great 18th century athmosphere with historical events, combat balance, challenging AI, weapons and production. The map and the historiacal major powers are well balanced aswell, but without hurting replayability.
Most important is the constant patching and bugfixing that the developer is providing, combined with a forum where you can find answers, ask questions and catch good advice for game strategy.
This game will get you hooked!
Steam User 47
Great Concept.
Graphics are a bit low, but accetable.
Very complex initially, with little instructions what to do.
Combat seems timed, and the time is not enough, needs to improve.
I think this game has great potential, but needs some more work, specially in instructing peope what to do, and making the combat either not time based, or do not start the timer untill units engage.
Will wait and see how it develops, seems the developer is commited, so I do expect improvements soon. Will for now recommend to buy it, if you a grognard and are willing to see it bloom.
Steam User 20
This game incorporates many of the good features of the few other games (Empire:Total War, Imperial Glory, the AGEOD games like Pride of Nations etc.) trying to cover the same or close periods. It achieves so much of its ambition that it surpasses Empire:Total War which failed to come close to its.
Of course graphics and even UI are not up to the standard of a AAA game but unlike many AAA games this one has heart and shows it in many small aspects. I like how sieges are handled, the division/brigade groupings, the historical events, unit types etc.
Nevertheless, even though this game achieves way more of its ambition than for instance Empire:Total War and the early AGEOD titles did it still has room to grow. But with this active and responsive developer I am confident it will.
If CA ever tries an Empire:Total War2 they should hire this developer as their creative director.
Steam User 14
This is one of the few games if not the only (viable) that lets you have control on a strategic/economical level and also gives you tactical control over the battles.
it is outdated graphically,but with a little imagination this doesnt bother me.
The game has its flaws like every other game, and this one requires you to really put some efforts into understanding the mechanics but is tons of fun when you do.
I would recommend every armchair general to buy this, both for the fun of the game, but also supporting the next project the dev and his team are working on.
This has the potential to become, a merge between an EU4 with indepth economics on the strategic level, and a more realistic ultimate general on the tactical level.
Steam User 32
Fantastic game. A must have for any strategy enthusisast, very much so if you are intrested in 18th century history.
The developer is always engaging with any problems, discusions or anything you would like to see in the game, and regularly updates the game.