Histwar news
Christmas discount event
Published on 09/12/2011
HistWarGames offers a Christmas discount event.
The Grognards version will be 10 euros cheaper at 49.89 euros (all included)
The Chappe version will 10% cheaper at 35.89 euros (all included)
Relive all the battles of the First Empire with Histwar: Les Grognards
The game comes with three editors that allows you to build and customize your armies, battle maps and military doctrines.
The constantly growing community around Histwar offers many Mods:
- Waterloo and the Peninsular War expanding the theaters of operations (*)
- Hundreds of orders of battle
- A variety of maps to fight on
- New textures for uniforms, ground, trees and structures
The patch 03b offers two different user interfaces to pick from for better control.
While awaiting the version 04a which will introduce a 1:1 scale (1 model for each soldier), version 03b will allow you to test a beta version(**) of this unprecedented scale.
Watching a 1500 infantry square, a charge of 1000 sabers, or an attack on a line of 2000 men will radically change your perception of a Napoleonic battlefield.
Histwar: Les Grognards is the first and only tactical engine allowing such gameplay depth:
- Putting you in charge of more than a hundred thousand men, represented by more than a hundred thousand models, on a battlefield expanding tens to hundreds of square kilometers.
- The software offers 3 viewing modes to get a better understanding of the overall picture as well as diving into the tactical detail (3D, Symbolic 3D and 2D views).
- The multiplayer battles can include up to 8 players on LAN and can also be played by email.
If you are looking for a fun historical simulation, look no more.
JMM
(*) Completely compatible with Histwar: Les Grognards
(**)More improvements coming with version 04a (free update)
HistWar: Les Grognard Version 3a
Published on 20/05/2011
HistWar: Les Grognards Version 3a is now available.
New GUI, some improvements and fixing several issues.
Two patches:
- full patch for getting the last version 3a whatever the version used
- limited patch to update from version 02F or later (03a RC)
The list of changes is here.
However, the activity continues:
- Improvement of Great Tactical AI
- better control of orders managed by the regimental AI
- scale 1/1, ( one 3D model = one man)
Enjoy
JMM
New GUI
Published on 08/03/2011
A new GUI is available in open beta test to each Grognard.
This interface takes into account the HistWar features . It offers the same functionalities as the previous GUI but offering some new functions
- mixed 2D/3D display to have a simultaneous view of the battlefield and the 2D map
- displaying a hierarchical table with filter system to access the overall condition of your army
The system of icons allows for better control of the game itself.
The final version of the GUI will be more
- manual save of a battle
- display of curves showing the evolution of strengths during the battle
This version is available here:
http://www.histwar.org/mods/file.php?id=137
It is necessary to launch LGdN2 to play with this new version.
in the game, G allows to choose between old and new version
JMM
CyberStratege Laurel 2010: Special Prize
Published on 24/01/2011
Like every year, the site Cyberstratège, after the eponymous magazine now sadly gone, organizes a survey whose purpose is to identify the best strategic game of the preceding year.
For the year 2010, HistWar : Les Grognards wins a confrontation especially difficult
when he meets major titles carried by wordlwide publishers... You can
tell : Napoleonic Total War, Civilization V, Blood Bowl...
Thus, the HistWar community has deploy and win a tactical victory without gets the Golden Laurel.
With more than 30 votes ahead of the second, with nearly 25% of voters, HistWar : Les Grognards won the CyberStratege Special Prize 2010.
Believe that the small team HistWar is more than proud of this result that seemed unreachable.
We dedicate this first place to each Grognard
through which HistWar will start over again in this year to continue to
improve and satisfy all those who believe in this simulator battles.
HistWar is surely not the only game offering a real tactical complexity
but it also helps to perpetuate this spirit of games where reflection is more important than immediacy... recalling Leonardo da Vinci 'Do not foresee is already groaning "
Wonderful year for all... and feel free to forward this new.
JMM
Orhez 1814
Published on 10/01/2011
The Peninsular War Group Mod continues its activity.
After designing 11 battles during the Peninsular War, the team presents the first battle in France.
By 1814, be with Wellington and Soult at Orthez for a furious battle.
Download from the dépot.
This patch needs the installation of full Mod du PWGM within a copy of HistWar folder.
Enjoy
JMM
Waterloo Campaign
Published on 09/01/2011
Aigles production presents : Waterloo Campaign
This mod contains the 8 nations which have participated at the Belgium campaign in 1815.
These nations are: France, United Kingdom, Prussia, Netherlands, Hannover, KGL, Brunswick, Belgium and Nassau.
8 scenarii are provided with this mod:
- Ligny historical position whit 3 other alternative scenarii,
- Quatre Bras,
- Waterloo,
- Wavre with the historical positions at 8h30 and 15h30 (Wavre it's a 2 days battle).
Team Aigles Production : Bibouba, Bussy, EricJ.
JMM
Happy New Year
Published on 09/01/2011
Happy New Year to you and yours
Wish the New Year brings joy, warmth, good tidings and all is beautifull :-)
HistWar Team
Support HistWar !
Published on 03/12/2010
HistWar has been nominated for the Best Strategy Games of 2010, and we need your votes to win ;)
The Website Cyberstratege is holding the votes : www.cyberstratege.com (right side, under Sondage)
Thank you for your support!
Dispatch from Austerlitz : the 2th of December
Published on 02/12/2010
To celebrate the December 2th, HistWar adds a Chat to the forum.
An intense development activity continues in order to always improve «HistWar : Les Grognards» :
- A new interface is being developed
- The gameplay evolves in order to increase the player immersion
- The developments regarding Artificial Intelligence are underway
- The Modders continue their work ... the last one, Madrussian mod, improves the landscape. Another team is working on a project to see here.
To recap, the PWGM team has built a complete package on the Peninsular War and dozens of scenarios are also proposing to replay many Napoleonic battles.
Interview with EricJ, "modder" on "HistWar : Les Grognards"
Published on 10/11/2010
Why "modding"?
"HistWar : Les Grognards" is not a classic game ; in addition to its historical accuracy on uniforms, orders of battle, tactics and behavior of units, this game provides gamers with interesting tools to create their own scenarios of Napoleonic battles : with its three editors (maps, orders of battle and doctrine) this game gives players the freedom and ease of "modding" incomparable. The interfaces are user friendly and allow gamers to create their first scenarios quickly. Under these conditions, "modding" becomes almost inevitable, so this has nothing to stress, but is instead part of the game.
More personally, the reasons that pushed me to "modding" are my interest in history (ie military). "Modding" actually fits in my historical research: the scenarios allow to restore the historic commitments, and to confront my sources and my understanding of these events with the "reality" of the game. So my approach of "modding" is limited to create historical scenarios. However, even if my primary motivation is to study history, gameplay is not forgotten! Of all my scripts, I publish only those that seem interesting from a fun perspective.
Finally, for a simple guy like me, expand the choices historical scenarios seems to be the most obvious way but also most necessary to help promote "HistWar : Les Grognards".
What are the difficulties of "modding"?
Unquestionably, the first problem and by far the largest, for "modding", is looking for historical information. The level of detail required for the scenarios of the game, is rarely achieved by the historical sources available to me. When the different sources do not overlap or contradict each other! This is truly a job for an historian in order to disentangle the fact from fiction...
This requirement in historical accuracy may seem unnecessary, but it is especially important for me : in order to make a scenario with "HistWar : Les Grognards", an order of battle and a map are sufficient. But to make a historical scenario, other elements are needed, I think. In principle, it seems to me a historical scenario must be designed to reproduce as faithfully as possible, the context and conditions of the battle, to immerse the player into the role that had played at the time the commander in chief of each army involved. The principle of the FPC, as I understood it...
That's why my scripts always include, in addition to orders of battle of each army involved and the map, historical information: in order to understand and immerse themselves in the scenario, players have, in my opinion, need an introduction to the historical context overall (political and strategic), but also to the immediate tactic context that causes the clash in these conditions. Similarly, I attach great importance to the initial historical placement of the units and of the entry point of the reinforcements on the historical map. I realize that this may appear to reduce the player's strategic options, but it is essential to realize the strategic and historical dynamics that led to this confrontation as I want to replay. The issue is not to make a historical and rigid scenario but to play : players will be free to apply their own orders and their own strategy, but only from the moment they take the hand, after the moment when we move from "HistWar : Les Grognards"!
But "modding" is not limited only to make scenario of battles. Thanks to the support of JMM, it is also possible to engage in "modding" more elaborate and introduce new units or new nations. Continuing the scenario that I have already published, I work out to a "modd" in order to dispose of the Prussians in 1814, and thus to be able to make the scenarios of Montmirail, Chateau-Thierry, Vauchamps, Craonne and Laon. I compiled all the explanations and diagrams of JMM. This manual that I got already includes no less than 18 full pages, is to say if JMM is not stingy with explanations! The construction of the modd is using a methodology proposed by JMM, which is highly structured: it is" sufficient "to create the files and to place the necessary information: the general file, the file units, etc...
And finally, it always falls to the same (and only?) Challenge: to have adequate historical informations…
What Battles?
After some trials and errors, my first scenario was the battle of Arcis-sur-Aube. I actually chose this battle because I had a fairly detailed map of this battle and it seemed to me easy to do ... A big mistake, since the order of battle was particularly difficult to make: The year 1814 is complicated for the French armies, and orders of battle are hard to reconstruct because the historical sources are found to be incomplete and contradictory.
My next publication was a series of historical scenarios focused on maneuver Brienne. The idea is to provide a consistent set of scenarios to replay all the fighting from the same maneuver, fighting historic but also uchronies (alternative scenarios unhistorical): here 9 scenarios on 6 different historical maps for replay the battles of Bar-sur-Aube, Saint-Dizier, Brienne, La Rothiere and Rosnay. The reason which prompted me to adopt this format, is always my approach historic : "HistWar : Les Grognards" simulates a battle, and so I multiply scenarios around a campaign or maneuver in order to have many different points of views and approaches to these historical events related to each other.
Summer newsletter
Published on 03/08/2010
Summer newsletter has been sent on sunday.
It deals with, among other subjects, the new version 2c (see here for patch notes), the incoming of new MODs for the game, our painter Laurent Abadie galery (available in french)... and many other things.
Don't miss next newsletters, subscribe to it ! ;)
Launching of files depot
Published on 24/04/2010
We just launched an online space to centralize files available for download: manuals, patches, MODs, guides, etc.
This space is available at: http://www.histwar.org/mods
You can browse freely the various directories but registration will be required to download the files.
If you have developed a MOD, created a scenario, a map, an order of battle or even written a strategy guide, you can contact us and we will give you access to the private area to showcase and host your creations.
First Patch for the game
Published on 04/03/2010
In order to correct some bugs and add some evolutions to the game, JMM publishes the first patch for «HistWar : Les Grognards».
If you want to read the patch notes, please visit this page. You will be available to download the patch.
If you prefer to download the patch directly, please use this link.
Bon jeu ! ;)
New version for the website
Published on 27/12/2009
While we were announcing «HistWar : Les Grognards» release and pre-orders launching, we also were working on the new design for our websites.
We thank Naya O'Connell, and her webdesign agency studio Poids Plume, for the relooking of HistWar : online store, websites and soon, forums. For paintings, I'm sure your recognized our painter : Laurent Abadie, who works with JMM for the game and also creates the Merveilleuses !
We hope you'll like new designs and we wait for you on forums (which are waiting for new design too ! ;) )
Happy Christmas !
Published on 24/12/2009
JMM and HistWarGames team wish you a great and happy Christmas !
For all «Grenadiers d'HistWar» who pre-ordered the game, you will find a voucher in the private forum to put at the bottom of your christmas tree ;)
And to finish, let's thank Laurent for his new Merveilleuse :
Launch of pre-orders
Published on 19/12/2009
After several years of development, it is time to fully unveil «HistWar : Les Grognards». It is not without emotion that we move on to the first step of the final phase: the beginning of pre-sale!
All information is available at our online store here: http://www.histwargames.com/
The title of «Grenadier d'HistWar» will be assigned to those who will buy the game during the pre sale period (you have to be a registered user on our dedicated forum to get the title). This title will give you access to a restricted forum.
The duration of this phase is without doubt limited, since we plan to make «HistWar : Les Grognards» available around Christmas.
The boxed versions (the collector edition «Napoleon» and the «Grognard» edition) will be delivered in January 2010.
However, the 3 versions (1 online + 2 boxes) will be downloadable at the date of release of the Game; an email will be sent specifying a serial number.
The LAN game requires one license for 2 computers.
That’s all for the essential stuff.
Let me wish you a Happy Holiday season… And as much happiness with the Grognards.
I hope you will have as much fun playing as I had developing it
Delay for pre-order
Published on 02/12/2009
As we are waiting some news about the printed manuals, pre-orders are delayed.
More info next week !
«HistWar - Les Grognards» demo is available
Published on 29/11/2009
«HistWar - Les Grognards» demo is available !
You can download it here (no password required, press ok to start the download)
Enjoy ! ;)
Edit : You can now use torrent to download the demo : .torrent / .md5
User Guide is available !
Published on 12/11/2009
User guide is made of 4 books :
- Book I: General presentation, GUI and concepts
- Book II: Three editors: order of battle, map, doctrine
- Book III: Summarized on the organizations of the armies
- Book IV: The stories about the 10 battles of the game
It was told that Book I and Book II would be available in download. It's done !
See User guide section to download them.
Hop you like !
Join our Facebook fan page!
Published on 08/11/2009
We have finally created our fan page on Facebook.
Feel free to join us ;)
Deadlines for HistWar !
Published on 07/11/2009
Some news about the progress of HistWar: Les Grognards. More than a long speech, some dates :
In November 11th, 2009 : the books
The game is released with 4 books
- Book I: General presentation, GUI and concepts
- Book II: Three editors: order of battle, map, doctrine ·
- Book III: Summarized on the organizations of the armies ·
- Book IV: The stories about the 10 battles of the game
Book I
and Book II will be
available in download.
End of November : the demo of HistWar
Démo of HW:LG with its complete tutorial and a battle.
- Tutorial 1: First view on HW:LG and order to the regiments
- Tutorial 2: Learning to command a Corps
- Tutorial 3: You take the command of an Army
At the end
of this tutorial, you will know the control of the system.
You will
become the Commander-in-Chief for your first Battle (7 Corps vs 7 Corps)
The version of HistWar will be released in «Solo» mode and almost totality of the options will be on :
- Different Fog of war
- Both choices of the season and weather.
Certainly a few hours for playing.
Beginning of December : pre-orders.
The game will be released in version Digital Download (39.89€).
We are thinking about a Physical Edition with CD and Printed Manuals. More information when we’ll have a precise idea about the timing.
Before Christmas
HW:LG will be downloadable on the HistWar website ...
Incertitude about the Physical Edition. Anyway, we shall inform you about the date of availability during the pre-orders.
It’s the near future.
Don’t forget the Manuals on Wednesday, November 11th 2009 !
August 15th 2009 : Grand Army bulletin
Published on 15/08/2009
The anniversary of the birth date of Napoleon Bonaparte, 15th of August, was chosen as the announcement date of the release of HistWar as Les Grognards aims at putting the player in the major role of an army chief. More...
Take a look at the new screenshots...