{"id":1375,"date":"2009-04-15T15:24:25","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T20:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2009-04-15T16:53:05","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T21:53:05","slug":"hps-renaissance-no-sales-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/15\/hps-renaissance-no-sales-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"HPS Renaissance &#8211; No Sales Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpssims.com\/Pages\/products\/MuskPike\/Ren\/ren.html\">It was the Turks that got me<\/a>. I mean, how many wargames let you play 16th century Ottomans?<\/p>\n<p>Plus, HPS Studios promised over 100 scenarios, which is strictly true, I suppose, but many of those are variants on battles. Hypothetical scenarios based on relief columns showing up or just different orders of battle.<\/p>\n<p>The battles stretch from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Seminara\">Seminara<\/a> in 1495 to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Nieuwpoort\">Kokenhausen<\/a> in 1601. All the major battles of the period are here &#8211; Flodden, Mohacs, Gravelines &#8211; and a bunch of others that only specialists have heard of.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m a sucker and will probably spend most of my upcoming birthday mired in the mud of Reformation Europe.<\/p>\n<p>But, for the love of God, HPS needs to adapt its UI. You don&#8217;t even get little miniatures here like in their Napoleonic games to amuse yourself while you drag units and open orders menus strewn across the top bar. In a world devoid of pike and culverin wargames, this is all we&#8217;ve got, but there&#8217;s no excuse for making do by simply adding new scenarios and unit strengths to an engine that is showing its age.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, hiring a proper UI guy takes money, and there&#8217;s not a lot of money in wargames. But you aren&#8217;t going to make any more money by not even trying. I want more games like this, but people like me are dying or moving on to Social Security. Fast.<\/p>\n<p>Try to meet the 21st century halfway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was the Turks that got me. I mean, how many wargames let you play 16th century Ottomans? Plus, HPS Studios promised over 100 scenarios, which is strictly true, I suppose, but many of those are variants on battles. Hypothetical scenarios based on relief columns showing up or just different orders of battle. The battles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-mb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1377,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions\/1377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}