Thursday, April 10th, 2008
13 New Screenshots and 1 New Video Posted
We are happy to release a new assortment of screenshots along with a gameplay video today. The highlights of the video show off various units engaging in hand-to-hand combat as well as coming under fierce musketry and artillery fire. For the first time you will also witness units routing as well as taking casualties.
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
19 New Screenshots Posted
Check out all graphics improvements in this weeks newest batch of screenshots!
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
New Battle Video Posted
It's been a while since we had a new gameplay video but we are happy to report that Jean-Michel Mathé has just finished making a new video showing off his latest work on the game. The video shows extensive large scale infantry, artillery and cavalry combat as well some great views of the 3D Strategic Overview map mode. Check out the 7 minute long video and all the previous offerings below.
Gameplay
Videos
Monday, July 23rd, 2007
New Battle Video Posted
Jean-Michel Mathé has recently prepared a video showing off all new combat animations and effects. Witness cavalry charges, artillery duels, bayonet charges and close range volley fire in this video that weighs in at over 9 minutes in length!
Gameplay
Videos
June 2007
Developer Interview with Jean-Michel Mathé posted on Armchair General
Armchair General has posted an interesting interview with Les Grognards developer and designer Jean-Michel Mathé recently.
Read the full interview here
Tuesday, February 20th, 2006
HistWar: Les Grognards Bibliography Added
Obviously there is no shortage of excellent books discussing the Napoleonic era but we decided to help you wade through the thousands of offerings by asking some our forum regulars, beta testers and even HistWar: Les Grognards developer Jean-Michele Mathé for some of personal favorites and comments.
View
the HistWar: Les Grognard Bibliography here
Wednesday,December 27th, 2006
10 New Screenshots Posted
To help celebrate this holiday season, we are
happy to release 10 new hi-res Histwar Les Grognards screenshots.
Friday,November 24th, 2006
176 New Screenshots Posted
Jean-Michel Mathé and his team have been hard
at work and to show you some of the progress made recently we
have just posted 176 all new in-game screenshots. Check them
all out below.
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006
34 New Screenshots and New Gameplay Video Posted
Time for a new batch of screenshots and this time
they are quite simply stunning. Gallery #3 has just been added
and I think you will agree that the graphics are coming along
very nicely indeed.
Friday, June 23rd, 2006
30 New Screenshots Posted
We thought you might like to get another
sneak peak at how developments with Histwar™:
Les Grognards are coming along, so we are posting 30
all new screenshots today. These screenshots not only show some
of huge variety in unit types (as well as their authentic uniforms!)
that await you in the game, but they also give you a real sense
of the massive scope and scale of Napoleonic era battles.
Wednesday, January 11th, 2006
15 New Screenshots Posted
Today we have posted a collection of
15 new screenshots from Histwar™: Les Grognards.
These new shots detail some of the brutality and utter
savagery of Napoleonic era combat. Among the collection
are pictures
depicting battlefield casualties, cavalry locked
in
hand
to hand
combat and
a few 'over the
shoulder' eye views as infantry advances into
a maelstrom of volley fire.
Tuesday, December 20th, 2005
New Developer Interview Posted
The Hungarian online Magazine PC-Dome has
just posted an interview with Histwar™: Les Grognards
developer and designer Jean-Michel Mathé.
Excerpt from the Interview...
Exactly what category
will the game be? Turn-based, real-time, or similarly to CM
a mixture of them?
HistWar is a real time wargame but cannot
be considered as a pure RTS. Indeed, it is possible to simulate
battles on a real time scale (1 minute in the game means
1 minute in real time) but it is also possible to increase
the speed of the time scale (6 seconds in the game then
meaning 1 minute in real time). This can be achieved because
the player has no need to be everywhere or control everything
in the game. The AI engine will simply do the job for him.
For example, if the player assigns one flank of his army
to the AI and if the situation deteriorates on this flank,
the AI will contact the player to report him its difficulties.
The player will then be able to react and give new orders
unless the messages are intercepted by the enemy….
Saturday,
December 3rd, 2005
New Gameplay Beta Movie Posted
As promised, a new in-game video has
been released. Witness exciting cavalry charges, bloody
hand to
hand melee and the awesome scope and scale of the battles
depicted as well as the first look at the innovative "Symbolic
Map Mode".
Gameplay
Videos
Friday, December 2nd, 2005
Over
80 New Screenshots Posted
In
honor of today marking the 200th anniversary of the battle of
Austerlitz, we have just posted 86 all new Histwar™:
Les Grognards screenshots. Some of these screenshots
show for the first time, battlefield casualties, cavalry overruns
and units locked in vicious hand to hand combat. A new in-game
video should be ready shortly as well!
Friday, October 21st, 2005
New Beta Gameplay Video
Posted
We have just added another new beta gameplay
videos from Histwar™: Les Grognards.
This video features the first views of infantry in hand to hand
combat among many other features.
Thursday, September 29th, 2005
New Beta Gameplay Videos
Posted
We have just added two new beta gameplay
videos from Histwar™: Les Grognards.
Check out the progress being made in this exciting upcoming
Napoleonic warfare simulation.
Thursday, September 15th, 2005
Developer Interview posted
at The Wargamer
The Wargamer website has just posted a very
informative interview with Histwar™: Les Grognards developer and designer Jean Michel Mathé. The interview
covers everything from the basic philosophy behind the games
design to fundamental gameplay examples. Also included with
the interview are more than 20 all new exclusive screenshots!
Tuesday, August 9th, 2005
Histwar™: Les Grognards
website opens shop
Battlefront.com is thrilled to unveil Histwar™:
Les Grognards! A revolutionary Napoleonic era strategic
and tactical war game both, it thrusts you into the thrilling
and challenging role of the Commander In Chief of one of the
many powerful armies that fought in Europe between the years
1805 -1814 including the mighty French, Austrian and Russians.
Played in Real Time with numerous view modes including full
3D with over 50,000 animated soldiers on the battlefield, Les
Grognards makes the epic, sweeping battles of the early
19th century truly come to life.
Les Grognards is entering beta stage currently
and is expected to be ready for release sometime towards the
end of the year.
The new Histwar™: Les Grognards website
is now open and packed with info, features, screenshots, videos
and more! Check out all we have to offer from the links to the
left!
This game offers an amazing amount of detail
so be sure to check out the Screenshots
and in game Video as well as the impressive
Features List. Don't forget to read
about the three separate game editors (Map,
Doctrine and Order
of Battle and for those new to the Napoleonic era, we have
provided a Glossary of Terms as
well as an informative Battle History
of the battle of Haslach Jungingen, where a beleaguered French
force battled an Austrian army over 4 times its' size.
