Napoleon's Campaigns

8th April 2008

Napoleon’s Campaigns is an engaging battle strategy game from Ascaron that is available to buy now. Take on the role of the infamous leader Napoleon Bonaparte to experience renowned battles of the 19th century in complete historical accuracy. Play either as Napoleon or one of his enemies such as Tsar Alexander during Austerlitz (1805) or Bennigsen during Friedland (1807).

Objectives

Each scenario in Napoleon’s Campaigns involves a primary objective, such as defeating an army in a specific area, or capturing a city within a certain timescale.

Tactics

Tactical decision making is very important in Napoleon’s Campaigns. As the game is turn based, the player can take as much time as needed to make these decisions. Once the player’s turn ends, the enemy then moves. A large element of uncertainty and suspense is held in preparing for the opposition’s tactics, as the player anticipates and reacts to an attack, retreat or counter defence.

The player will need to assign officers to troops, organise divisions and establish supply lines, all crucial to completing objectives. Assigning troops an officer with poor leadership qualities and low morale means winning a battle is highly unlikely.

Battles

Terrain, routes, weather, distance, morale, leadership and supplies will all affect the outcome of a battle. If an army is ordered to march to another city, it may take a day if the land is flat with roads in calm weather, but it could take 5 days over mountains in stormy conditions. After a battle occurs, a screen will appear afterwards to show a casualty report, giving a clear indication of how many troops are now unable to fight.

Change history

Napoleon’s Campaigns features an exciting bonus level with the chance to change history as Napoleon wins at Waterloo and achieves his biggest dream; invading England.

To play the demo of Napoleon’s Campaigns visit www.napoleons-campaigns.com

Fast facts:

Publisher: Ascaron Entertainment / Nobilis

Web: www.ascaron.com

Developer: AGEOD

Release date: Available now

PEGI: 3+

Format: PC

Genre: Battle Strategy

About Ascaron Entertainment

From Day One in 1989 Ascaron Entertainment has become one of the leading European “boutique” developers and Publishers of games for the PC, with many successful titles including Patrician, Port Royale, DarkStar One and SACRED.

Ascaron maintains development studios in Berlin, Gutersloh and Aachen (Germany), as well as an international department in Birmingham (UK). Ascaron currently markets its products in more than 40 countries and over 15 languages.

Ascaron Entertainment (UK) is an independent office and is highly regarded on a domestic and global scale. With a professional reputation, full-service product management, and a wealth of experience in the games industry, the UK operation manages the international releases of Ascaron's entire catalogue, whilst also providing a bespoke publishing, sales, PR and marketing function to selected affiliate label partners.

Ascaron Entertainment (UK) continues to be responsible for successfully launching titles into the UK market from developers and publishers worldwide. Titles include the popular UFO, Panzers, Cossacks and Blitzkrieg series of games, as well as critically acclaimed hits such as Call of Juarez, Runaway: The Dream of the Turtle and TrackMania United.

About Nobilis

Nobilis Group, founded in Lyon in 2001, is specialized in the publication and distribution of video games and video game accessories. Nobilis produces multi-platform games for PC, XboxTM, Xbox360TM PlayStation®2, PlayStation®3, PSPTM, Nintendo Wii™, Nintendo DSTM, and Interactive DVD.

Nobilis has distribution subsidiaries in France (Nobilis France in Lyon), Spain and Portugal (Nobilis Iberica in Madrid), Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg (Nobilis Benelux) and Italy (Rome). Some of the most prominent partners that feature in Nobilis’ catalogue feature 1C Company, Akella, Capcom, Cenega, City Interactive, Enlight Software, Focus, JoWooD, Lago, Lighthouse, RTL Enterprises GmbH, ZUXXEZ Entertainment AG…

Nobilis’ own games include “Destination Treasure Island™”(PC), “The Secrets of Da Vinci, the forbidden manuscript™”(PC), ” Mountain Bike Adrenaline featuring Salomon”(PlayStation®2), “Moto Racer 3 Gold Edition”(PC), “Coffee Break™” (PC), “Destination: Treasure Island™”, “Cleopatra: a Queen’s Destiny™” (PC), “Emma® at the farm” (Nintendo DS™) ...

Nobilis France is also a manufacturer/distributor of accessories thanks to his own brand: Subsonic ™. Nobilis produces multi-platform accessories for Xbox360TM, PSPTM, PSPTM Slim & Lite, PlayStation®2, PlayStation®3, Nintendo DSTM & Nintendo DSTM Lite and Nintendo Wii™.

About AGEOD

AGEOD is an established independent French publishing company, founded in 2005 by a few French games industry veterans (including Philippe THIBAUT, designer of historical strategy award-winning games Europa Universalis™, Pax Romana™ , Great Invasions™, Birth of America™ and American Civil War™), based in Meylan, France (in the French Alps). Voted Developer of the Year by players on the Wargamer website in 2006 for our Birth of America game. Several new projects are under preparation for the coming months, and we expect most to be as successful as our last two titles, Birth of America™ and American Civil War™. AGEOD also offers an outlet for small independent studios and producers that are less fortunate in the marketing of their own games. AGEOD's first emphasis is placed on historical strategy games with original and innovative features. For more information, visit the AGEOD website at www.ageod.com.

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