The 9 BEST NAPOLEON Games To Play in 2024
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- čas přidán 28. 05. 2024
- It is not often at all that we get to experience a brand new blockbuster Napoleon movie, but that's exactly what happens when Ridley Scott's NAPOLEON released. And even though I haven't seen it yet, more history on the big screen is always good, and on this historic occasion, I'm giving away one Steam game code for Napoleon: Total War! In order to partake in the giveaway, make sure to subscribe to the channel, like the video, and leave a comment letting me know which is your favorite Napoleonic video game and movie/TV show! Do you own Napoleon Total War already? Well why not participate anyway, and give it to a friend so you can play multiplayer together? :D
PS: The game code is purchased by yours truly, and this video is not in any way, shape, or form sponsored.
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In this video, I detail the Napoleonic era video games I find to the best ones out there, showcasing both games that literally feature Napoleon, and those in the surrounding or similar time periods and themes, because if there's other things that define the Napoleonic Wars than just the man himself, it has to be gunfire, line infantry, and capital warships sailing on the high seas.
Do you agree with my choices, and are there other titles I've missed? Let me know in the comments, and make sure to participate in the giveaway for Napoleon Total War by subscribing to the channel, liking the video and leaving a comment :)
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Sure wish they would release more Napoleonic era video games like Napoleon total war even after years it still holds up and its even better with NTW3
what does NTW3 stands for?
@@helghast_7203 Napoleonic Total War 3
@@helghast_7203 Napoleonic Total War 3, it's a mod for Napoleon TW.
@@helghast_7203 Napoleon total war 3, it's a mod for the base game
@@helghast_7203 Napoleon Total War 3, its a mod.
Mount & Blade: Napoleonic Wars for the old guards among us ;)
I remember back when it was the Mount & Musket mod even.
Yes
Man, I remember when I first played M&B Napoleon. I think I played for nearly 15 hours straight overnight into mid-morning.
I went to bed a shell of my former self, leaving a piece of my sanity behind.
Good times!
God shits on the kaiser!
That time period is so rich in stories and military gestures it truly bring history enthusiasts together, my favorite Napoleonic game is Cossacks II Anthology it such a great game with great tactics and artstyle, been intrigued lately by the Napoleon Total war game never had the chance to try it the most similar entry on that time period and style i played is Imperial Glory a classic but underrated game, thanks for pointing out the mod for Victoria 3 the community surely is amazing
Very underrated series indeed as I cannot forget that.
Scourge of War: Waterloo is a great game. It used flat sprites, however that allows for there to be really big battles that run fairly smoothly.
Imperial Glory and Cossacks 2 Napoleonic Wars
🙂
Waterloo is flat out my favorite historical movie of all time
Cossacks II :- Napoleonic Wars and Battle For Europe which is very underrated and was my childhood.
Assassin's Creed Unity was my favorite game featuring Napoleon, it actually still is one of my favorite games. I'm also a big fan of Total War series and sunk a lot of hours into it, particularly into Rome 2 and Warhammer series, but I still didn't get my hands on Napoleon Total War and it definitely would be a fresh experience I think. Would love to see a new Total War title in this time period on the new engine and mechanics and I think it would bring CA back on track once again after recent flops. Great suggestions on the games BTW, keep making a quality content as you always do! ✌
One gane similar game to one that you talked about is Mount & Blade Napoleonic Wars... Man i loved playing with my friends that game (M&B vanilla also) when we were in highschool because we had to transport all our PCs physically to one house so you had like 6/7/8 PCs outside the house all connected through LAN. Amazing times i told you, maybe is the nostalgia but was so funny talking in person giving ourselves orders, screaming when one was shoot and feeling like a reak unit not only because we were together in the game but in real life we were one side of the other.
Total War Napoleon is probably the Napoleonic era game that interests me the most. I don’t have it, but have been interested in getting it for a while.
Its a great game, and if you can find some people to play Multiplayer with its even better.
Seemingly little known fun fact - you can play with historical generals and admirals in Empire Total War by recruiting the "Generals Bodyguard" or "Admirals 1st / 3rd Rate" units instead of insta-promoting commanders. Great Britain has loads throughout the campaign, and most other countries have a few, even The Maratha Confederacy has Baji Rao I! They pop up fairly randomly but at times suited to their real world life times, so you can play as Napoleon Bonaparte as a French general, but he obviously appears very late in the 1700 to 1800 main campaign. Napoleon TW though is a gem, March of Eagles is also a fun game - and unlike most paradox titles you can bash out a decent campaign in an evening, so it is fairly fast paced and easy to get through! Did play Cossacks back in the day, but was a bit scratchy. Vanilla EU4 does Napoleon more than Vic 2/3, as it ends in 1821, but I wouldn't call it a Napoleon game in any particular way!
Imperial Glory by Pyro Studios is an excellent Napoleonic era game. Even though it is an older, Risk-style game it is very immersive and addictive. I still play it regularly. it was on GOG platform, and I have since found it on Steam also. It is a great precursor to Total War: Napoleon and may even have some better features.
To bad I don’t know to many Napoleonic war games, I always wanted to try Napoleon😅. Though I am gonna be a bit bot here, but I really enjoined Pixelated Apollos Roblox napoleon game(the field battle one, don’t remember the name). I have always loved napoleonic history, and one of my all time favorite series is “Hornblower” about the Royal navy during the Napoleonic war’s. I also would say that Master and commander is one of the greatest pictures of all time. It inspired me to learn violin.👍
There you go, favorite game and cinematography
Completely missed all the Napoleonic Battles titles from Wargame Design Studio. These are carefully researched for historical realism and very playable and fun. There are 14 games plus a demo game including Austerlitz, Leipzig, Russian Campaign, Waterloo, etc. Scenarios range from small and quick to huge.
Agree with this. WDS is awesome. Best Napoleonic battle games on the market.
I actually did get a general named Napoleon Bonaparte in Empire Total War once, playing as France. I think I promoted him from an artillery unit somewhere around 1790-1795 so you CAN get Napoleon in Empire Total War :D
He had 6 command rank from the get-go.
I like march of the eagles from paradox. While that period of time is also included in eu4, it is nice to have a game dedicated to it.
I used to watch a lot of videos about it ( in Napoleon) , the ship battles were always good to watch, which is probably why I play them in shogun 2 as well.
I’ve been a big fan of the Total War Franchise since I was 13 (15 years total). Napoleon is one of the last classics that I have not gotten my hands on; but I’m looking forward to getting it sometime soon so I can play through the grand campaign
I love Assassin’s Creed Unity due to the co-op missions! It was always so fun to be able to play a game like that with friends
I have to admit Napoleon TW does it for me. Creative assembly still was innovative back then in making Totalwar
Appreciate the competition. Cheers
Haven’t played a game set in napoleonic era…yet. Thanks for the video.
Back when Koei used to make historical games outside of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Nobunaga's Ambition series they did Napoleonic game L'Empereur. It was cool game for its time and pretty interesting as an example of Japanese developed game about European history.
Great video, I had no idea paradox made a napoleonic game. My favorite napoleon game just has to be napoleon total war, but I think they cut some corners and the map should have been larger, I would gladly have given away the two other campaigns. The thing that I mostly dislike though is that you can’t play against ai alone in multiplayer campaign, or co op mode. It just removes so much content. (I am already subscribed and I liked the video :> )
i used to play napoleon in my older brothers laptop, so yea i would love to revive the experience
Currently 80% off on steam if you want
I have Holdfast, but haven’t played it for a while. Those graphics look great.
Empire is my favorite Total War game. I’ve played Napoleon Italian and Egypt campaigns, but very little of the Grand Campaign. I’m overwhelmed. It seems great.
I played in a regiment group, but there were really very few line type battles. There are possible but that is not how most of these groups play the game. Instead of marching in formation and using volley fire, most of the leaders expected their men to run around in circles from one cover location to another. With all that running it was easy to lose site of your group or find them again after getting killed and respawned. Total broke the immersion so I quit attending the battles after a while as they were two boring. Sad because it could be a great game.
@@roberthoadley5285 Sounds like my experience.
I saw a video a while ago about a U.S. Civil War game where teams did fire in formation. I just never followed up with it.
@@OhhJim that game is called war of rights brother! Although I never played it, I think pixelated Apollo have tons of upload with him in the regiment
Great vid cheers, really looking forward to watching the film in cinemas
Ultimate Admiral Age of Sail is one of my favourite games on the 18th and early 19th century, since it shows the maritime side of the time in much detail and definition. Line battles would be my favourite. I havn't played the game for over a year now. I really have to try it again some time. Definitly reccomend it to Age of Sail enthusiasts.
I really like Holdfast Nations at war. I love literally love nailing kossaks as an italian soldier in Crimea or even better play whitout even thinking efficiently as i call it "Differently intelligent warfare"
There was a game called Field of Glory that replayed the battle of Waterloo. It was a lot of fun and very difficult. I spent hours as both the British and the French.
That Napoleonic Mod is a BRILLIANT find. Thanks a bunch Andy!
Master and Commander is my favorite Napoleonoc Era movie. What a true gem.
we sure do need a March of the Eagles 2, it could be a lot of fun if it was improved upon and modern
I only have napoleon total war because of family sharing, but i still kind of want to own it myself (also will the game come with dlcs or not?)
Favorite napoleon media is Waterloo- the movie, I wish CA made a more recent TW game, like gunpowder era
There is no better Napoleonic game than Napoleon TW of course.
And for movies, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, occurred on that era, and its an awesome movie.
Avalon Digital's recent release of the "War and Peace" based on the venerable old board game of the same name is quite fun and challenging.
Without a doupt, my favourite is Holdfast: Nations at War. I have more than 1.5k hours on it. Joined a regiment back in Mount and Blade: Warband - Napoleonic Wars and never stopped! QRR💂
If you ask me for a movie, no movie comes close to "Waterloo" (1970), bringing 18,000 real actors as soldiers.
Even though I don't own Napoleon: Total War, I dare to claim that NTW 3 is the greatest historical mod ever made for a game.
I just wish that I get to play it in the future.
Empire: Total War has a 1805 mod.
You could've also mentioned Europa Universalis IV with it's Revolutionary France campaign that is dedicated to that period. But overall good list!
Honorable mention: "Banner of the Maid". A fire emblem style game where you control loli napoleon going trough his major historical battles and events.
Also, favorite napoleon movie: the 2002 french mini serie of 4, 90 minutes long episodes.
Wow the game looks fun thanks for the info the design sure its something 😅
Is hodfast nations at war still active on the multiplayer scene (does it still have food amount of players? )
Enjoyed playing Napoleon TW whilst reading War & Peace last year. When will CA sort themselves out!?
my favorite napoleonic game is Banner of the Maid, it is a alternate history where women are allowed to serve in the military. it is similar to fire emblem game and the main character is pauline bonaparte(napoleon's sister if im not mistaken).
There is the movie Waterloo, you can feel the pressure mounting on napoleon as his cavalry gets shredded by british squares and most soldiers in the movie are actually from the red army
My personal Napoleon Movie is Waterloo because of its Historicly akkurat and looks great.
My favorit game in his time is probaly Assassins Creed Unity mostly because i am a AC fan and i like how Parkour is handelt in Unity
Total War series is one of my favorites of all time, been waiting to sink my teeth into something other than the swords and shields, Napoleon is a game I’ve wanted since I got into TW games
Mount & Blade: Napoleonic Wars would be my favorite
Only Napoleonic games i've played are March of eagles from Paradox and Empire earth which had a 8 mission campaign playing as the British.
A napoleonic game in low poly art will release soon it's called field of honour, the creator will really improve the game but he need money, it's located on steam if you will test it one day.
Napoleon Total War, I would love to see all those improvements in new CA games
boy oh boy do i love napoleon total war
My favorite Napoleonic era game is Imperial Glory. Yeah, it's old, and the combat wasn't nearly as good as Total War's but it's the one that introduce me to the time period.
I like "Waterloo"(1970) movie but there is anotcher napoleonic movie that I wery like caled "Battle of Austerlic"(1960)
From games one of the best napoleonic games is "Cosacks II battle of europe". But in my heart and hildchood memories
always will be "Napoleon total war". When I was kid my uncle has a "NapoleonTW" and "Empire total war". Now
it woud be nice to win this game and come back to this old days.
My hype level for TW Empire 2 is starting to grow.
I'd have to say Shougun 2's Fall of the Samurai, I know it's not really the same style but it's the closest thing I've played 😅
Huh... I have never played an Assassin's Creed game, but you make Unity seem quite appealing. I may just check that one out. 👍
Could you make a france napoleon total war narrative campaign? Those narrative campaign videos were really good.
I'm currently working on similarly styled videos, I'll see if I'll managed to do it for Napoleon as well ;)
@@AndysTake Hey do you know what command i need to write to play mods on steam for Medieval 2?
Have empire, I never figured out the exact difference between empire&napoleon. Can you do a vid about that?
They both work the same. However, Empire was a bit too ambitious for its time. So its a buggy game with an AI dumber than ever, and that feels a bit unfinished in some areas.
Napoleon is an Empire with a smaller scope, but that fixes most of its predecesor's issues.
Here is a quick list of what Napoleon improved from Empire :
- Mostly bug fixing
- Improving / fleshing out features. For exemple square formation will break cavalry charges in Napoleon while just being infantry in square in Empire. Cannonballs in Napoleon can shatter infantry formations, while in Empire they just triggered the regular death animation like models were killed by muskets.
- First game to have a multiplayer campaign, which is a must have for a franchise with an AI this terrible.
- Way better graphismes and battle effects, more animations to bring life to the battlefield : horses can rear, horsemen can fall from their mount, soldiers have animation for being pushed by infantry charges or thrown on the ground by cannonballs, etc. Napoleon is a magnificent game, way better visualy than Empire.
Here is a quick list of what is lost in Napoleon due to the smaller scope :
- Multiple theatre. Napoleon only plays in Europe.
- The evolution of units throught technologies. Since it's only the Napoleonic wars, units already have the techs of the time and there is no room for decisive technological improvment.
- The sandboxe feeling. The campaign is splited between 2 sides already determined by history.
- Agressive AI. Ai is extremely passive in Napoleon I've found, while in Empire it is really active on the campaign map (there where just too many exploits)
i love the napoleonic total war game well made to be honest one of those games that last forever (not to mention the mods ) unfrotunatley i dont personally have it
To tell you the truth, I haven't played many Napoleonic games. I can only think of one, to be honest, and that's Assassins creed Unity, which isn't about him and his military campaigns, but it's there nonetheless. As for movies, I loved the episode about Napoleon from the documentary series "Heroes and Villains" when I was a kid. It was a 6-part series, and in addition to Napoleon, there was an episode on Spartacus, Attila, Cortés, Richard the Lionhearted, and Shogun.
Hi Andy, could you please upload you reshade preset for Medieval 2, your discord link under your vid is not working :( thanks! :)
Napoleonic total war is a game that I’ve been wanting for a long time and it’s been my favorite
now we need the 9 best napoleonic games to play in 2024
Ah, the naval battles in Napoleon: Total War were glorious
Napoleon: Total War is was favorite game regarding Napoleon Bonaparte. i remember when it first came out i didn't had good pc back then but i own several total war games it would be nice if i win.
Hi, can you help me to find the Ultimate general, can not find it anywhere
I haven’t played any game set during the Napoleonic War, sadly (with the exception of AC Unity, but I didn’t consider it a napoleonic era game), but I will make sure to check out the games you recommended, especially the VIC3 Mod!
(Also, I’ve heard March of the Eagles is awful, and the ISP videos don’t seem to counter that statement.)
You should check 'Imperial Glory' it was really an amazing game
Hey, you missed a couple of excellent games from that era. A recent title released about a 1.5 years ago is Ultimate Admiral: Age of Sail from the same developer as the Ultimate General games. Another excellent but older game is Scourge of War Waterloo. I love both of the total war games for that era, but if you want a real challenge, Scourge of War Waterloo is the great game for what is was really like to command from a brigade, regiment, core and entire armies. It has a feature called command from saddle where the only view of a battle is what can be seen from horseback with status updates as well as all orders being done through dispatches using couriers on horseback. While one does not have to use this feature and can command using a Birds Eye view in a more total war style, it does a wonderful job showing what Wellington, Napoleon, General Lee and General Grant had to deal with in commanding a large scale battle. While the graphics are dated, the tactics and overall game play are great. If you haven’t tried the Scourge of War games give them a try, you may not be able to go back to the total War games after playing Waterloo. As an added note there are a couple of similar games in the Scourge of War series for the American Civil War that have similar graphics and command style. These are not easy games, they are quite complex and the learning curve is steep for the command from saddle features but totally worth the time invested. Oh, almost forgot there was also Age of Empires III as well as Cossacks III and Cossacks II Napoleonic Wars.
Waterloo is one of the best historical movies, they used actual soldiers to act out the battle, no CGI.
I have never played Total War: Napoleon before, I only tried it's free demo, in which I was able to defeat the Prussians at the Battle of Ligny on easy difficulty! I tried to defeat them on Very Hard, but instead I got defeated lol.
Gaming owes a lot to this time period. Before modern RPGs- Japanese or Otherwise- there was Wizardry and Ultimate, before that, early simulators of D&D, which of course were based on D&D, which came from Chainmail's Man on Man rules and Brownstien (a collaborative game about a war with many players playing a single character of one of many roles) which of course rose out of War Gaming.
War Games themselves began in Prussia around the late 18th Century- when Napoleon began his military career.
One of the most, if not *The Most Popular* forms of these games were the Napoleonic War Games.
Even Centuries later, in countries where these battles did not happen, a third of the way around the world, these games were being played.
Without them there'd be no D&D, no RPGs, the fate of gaming would be highly unpredictable, and we certainly wouldn't be enjoying all of these RPG mechanics or grand strategy, 4X, or war simulation games.
This is just one tiny aspect of the legacy of a great man who profoundly changed the world and who captures the image like a modern day Caesar or Alexander, like Ozymandias or George Washington.
Oh yeah, and I saw the new Napoleon movie starring Joaquin Phoenix as the titular star and it was awesome.
I kept hearing the Joker in his performance, it's not a complaint, I wanted to shout "LITERALLY ME!" for most of the movie because of it.
It's like Napoleon is an overly online Incel type or something.
Obv total war napoleon tw is my fav game. As for the series i think the oversimplified videos is my fav
My favourite Napoleonic adjacent game is definitely total war empire, in wich I am now playing the Prussians!
I actually tried Napoleon total war at a friends house once. It crashed twice and I just couldn’t figure it. Afterwards I watched a tutorial which I should have done first 😅
Always wished to try this game out. The movie is superb.
My favourite Napoleonic era game would have to be assassins creed unity and I'm also a fan of the total war games, currently playing empire
Cossacks 2 was perfect still one of my best games i hope they make something similar with a modern graphics
My fayvorite Napoleonic game is Napoleon total war and the movie is Waterloo and i want to give it to my friend that wants Napoleon total war so much but he hasnt got any money.
It's 80% off on steam currently !
we really need more 18th and 19th century grand strategy game (ahem Empire 2 ahem)
Hmmm, lemme guess: NTW, Cossacks2, Scourge of War, March of the Eagles and... idk, maybe some old hexa based game? Cheers!
My favorite napoleon game has to be napoleon total war. I used to have a physical copy of it but I lost it
The best Napoleonic movie around is for sure Waterloo, though the Napoleon series with Clavier is also great.
If Napoleon TW was the size of Empire TW it would have been epic
Imperial Glory has the best scenarios, each province or city are different. In that NTW fails because we have the same generic map on every battle
trust me when i say holdfast will be anything but the experience you expect
I have NTW so I don't need it 😊 and I'm playing it now. It's the only game from that period that I play so hard to say if it's the best. From the overall perspective imo Shogun 2 FOTS is better game but it's not Europe and Napoleonic era. The film I highly recommend is "Duelist" it has one of the best duel scenes in the cinema history 🙂
Love the time periode we need total war napoleon 2 and empire 2!
Yeah I definitely think the new movie has to be one of my favorite Napoleon era pieces of media I loved it 😂
I can’t get darthmod to run on empire or napoleon anymore, I know empire 2 mod and NTW3 are both amazing mods but after I changed my game files to have 1000 men per unit with 40 units per army in napoleon total war I can’t do anything else anymore. Each 40 stack army was like an irl Napoleonic Corps, I just can’t play any other way now, unless someone knows how to get 40 unit armies in NTW3
My favorite movie is the good old Waterloo from 1970
Napoleon Total War remains my favourite Total War title after trying out Rome 2 and Shogun II, maybe its the nostalgia, it being my first total war game, or the fact that i used it to procrastinate massively during my final exams - i dont know, but ive played through it so many times, yet im still not tired of this game :D
The new Ridley Scott Film however looks pretty disapointing according to many reviews ive seen so far :/
In my opinion, the best game for this era is the shogun 2 fall of the samurai, because the guns and cannons fell so much more powerful than the Napoleon one, the only thing is that it has lots of diferences in the feeling because it is in japan
Hmm, I think I would put EU4 closer to Napoleon than Vicky 3. Victoria 3 is really just a Victorian economy simulator while anything past 1600 in EU4, so pretty much half the game, feels to me like a empire builder.
I thought about EU4 as well, but then I thought that, hm, most of the game takes place way before 1800, and even way before 1700, which are both considered late game. But yeah, I could've definitely added that game in there :)
@@AndysTake The games you named were definitely very good though! I am a bit biased on EU4 because I think I am one of the only people who always plays campaigns till the end date :p
Victory and Glory: Napoleon
damn, i bet joaquin phoenix's face will be consider as napoleon real face in the far future...
Anyone knows what music is playing in the backround? I can tell its a soundtrack from a Paradox game
It's from Napoleon total war I'm pretty sure
We need more napoleonic content!
Surely Napoleon: Total War is the best napoleonic era videogame!
No mention of age of Empires III? The game might use a larger time period, but the Napoleonic era is part of the game. When playing as the French you can even trigger the French revolution and go even further to full Napoleonic France.