Hi All,
I recently started a single player campaign in HPS Waterloo, and I'm having a blast! Being new to the club, I thought running through a single player campaign would be a good way to get some practice under my belt, further familiarize myself with the rules, and otherwise have a good time. I set the AI to "reckless" assuming this was the easier setting. I must say, it's been interesting to see Wellington behave like General John Bell Hood (if your a ACW fan, you'll get the reference).
Anyways,
I am currently conducting the campaign, concentrating on the English first. I beat the English avant-garde pretty decisively at Mons (no shock, I had them outnumbered 2:1) and now I'm fighting what appears to be an expedited Version of Waterloo, with the English at my front and the Prussians beginning to appear on my right.
Having not separated Wellington and Blucher, but instead facing them both in the same way Napoleon did at Waterloo (just a bit earlier in the campaign the N. did), I feel like I may have blundered a bit on the actual Campaign Dialog element of the game. We'll see how the battle turns out... but it was never my intention (nor Napoleon's) to face the two allies together.
So how do you make your campaign decisions? Just going off of basic instinct with some historical knowledge thrown in there?
Wellington Said something to the affect of: "The trick to all this business of War, and indeed life, is guessing at what is on the other side of the hill."
I'm just asking for some creative input on how you guys, in single and multiplayer campaigns, "guess at what is on the other side of the hill"
Best!