Pike and Shot: Campaigns
In Pike and Shot, you’ll follow in the footsteps of great leaders during one of the most incredible periods of European history, taking command in the great struggles of the Fifth Austro-Turkish War, the 30 Years’ War, and the English Civil War.
History can be rewritten as you use your genius to lead your army from victory to victory in Pike and Shot’s uniquely designed tactical battles. Previous victories and defeats determine the readiness of your forces, and each unit will matter to win the final battle. As you progress through the campaign, you’ll have to make tough decisions on an all-new strategic map, where terrain, reserves, resources, destruction, sieges, and economic losses will affect your choices and make the difference between victory and defeat.
Hundreds of hours of gameplay await you in 4 campaigns, with different armies and tactics:
- Gustavus Adolphus’ campaign, during the Swedish period of the 30 Years’ War, will allow you to play as either the Swedes or the imperial troops.
- The English Civil War campaign will allow you to play as either royalists or parliamentarians.
- The campaign of the Fifth Austro-Turkish War during the famous Siege and Battle of Vienna in 1683 will allow you to play as Austria and Poland or as the Ottoman Empire.
- The Pike and Shot skirmish campaign will allow you to choose any two armies from the period 1494-1698 in a struggle for supremacy.
21 new lists of armies to skirmish with the rest of Europe during the Italian Wars period (1494-1559) – with the armies of England, Scotland, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Transylvania, the Ottoman Empire, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia.
2 new skirmish lists with the Cornish and Scottish Royalist armies in the English Civil War.
37 new lists of armies for skirmishes during the reign of Louis XIV – with the armies of England, the Republic of the United Provinces (and the Anglo-Dutch “union”), Jacobite Scotland, Jacobite Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, the German states, Austria, the Hungarian Kuruc Uprising, the Ottoman Empire, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia of the period 1649-1698.
40 full-scale historical battles – 10 each for the period of the 30 Years’ War, the English Civil War, the early 16th-century Italian Wars, and the late 16th-century Italian Wars (Tercio do Salvo).
154 varied historically confirmed army lists, 20 playable nations and factions.
Single Battles and Scenarios
The Single Battles system allows you to play through countless “What If” scenarios, using army history from carefully vetted army lists on realistic computer-generated terrain maps, making every battle a different experience.
Single scenarios are randomly generated and include variants such as open battles, attacks on defensive positions, defending specific positions, waiting for reinforcements, opponents waiting for reinforcements, flanking march.
In single-player games, players can choose their armies from lists or let the computer create armies automatically.
Moreover:
- Strong Artificial Intelligence means tactical decisions. Artificial intelligence of historical battles adapted to the historical tactical situation.
- 5 difficulty levels allow you to increase the challenge with the development of your strategic skills and knowledge of the battlefield.
- 20 unit types, 25 abilities, and numerous unit formations allow you to fully showcase tactical differences and developments in different periods of history.
- Detailed models that faithfully represent every significant battle of the 16th and 17th centuries.
- A modding-friendly game with a built-in map editor.
- The multiplayer mode allows you to play historical and “What if” scenarios through two players using Slitherine’s PBEM server.
- A huge library of player-created single and multiplayer historical scenarios that can be downloaded directly in-game.
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