{"id":641,"date":"2007-05-02T14:32:25","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T18:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/05\/02\/great-moments-in-wargame-reviews\/"},"modified":"2008-02-18T03:32:44","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T07:32:44","slug":"great-moments-in-wargame-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/05\/02\/great-moments-in-wargame-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Moments in Wargame Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Steve Butts&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/pc.ign.com\/articles\/780\/780500p1.html\">IGN review<\/a> of <em>For Liberty!<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While it&#8217;s historically accurate that few Revolutionary battles achieved a clear decision, we found it a bit anti-climactic to have a 20,000 man battle decided with only a few hundred casualties on each side. Trying to actually eliminate an enemy unit is next to impossible. Instead, you&#8217;ll find yourself attacking them again and again in successive turns until their morale is completely shattered. Accurate it may be, but fun it ain&#8217;t.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sorry all the history got in the way of your slaughter. The fact that Washington&#8217;s army couldn&#8217;t be pinned down and destroyed in a battle was one of the reasons we have an America today. Though only a few decades away from Napoleon&#8217;s ability to turn decisive battles into a forced peace, 18th century wars were full of inconclusive sparring until someone went broke or got penned in. Remember that the deciding battle of the war was a siege, not field combat.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side, Butts&#8217; does call for wargamers to stop apologizing for poor graphics.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The individual unit and tile assets are serviceable but leave a lot to be desired. Effects are very sparse. The smoke effect from bombarding a fortified town is particularly bad. Beyond that the interface displays the information you need but feels far too cluttered as a result.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note, grognards. He&#8217;s not calling for photorealism. He&#8217;s looking for clarity. And who can argue against that?<\/p>\n<p>The fact that IGN reviewed this game at all is a big step, in my opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Steve Butts&#8217; IGN review of For Liberty!: While it&#8217;s historically accurate that few Revolutionary battles achieved a clear decision, we found it a bit anti-climactic to have a 20,000 man battle decided with only a few hundred casualties on each side. Trying to actually eliminate an enemy unit is next to impossible. Instead, you&#8217;ll [&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":[99],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-al","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641"}],"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=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}