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This time, however, we are not dealing with the standard RTS-I and a clone of the Total War series.

The player is at the head of one of the five nineteenth century Empires: Britain, France, Russia, the Prussians or Austria Hungary.

The choice of power is, of course, a key influence on the course of the actual gameplay, the player before a decision must take into account all the pros and cons of the parties to the conflict.

It is important, however, is that you can try to bulldoze the innate flaws under the Empire.

Imperial Glory combines elements of two types of strategy games.

Managing and navigating monarchy throughout the army takes place on the strategic map situational in turn-based system, in turn, the battles are no longer played on traditional boards, in real time.

In addition, in the demo, we can see the economic part of the game and watch the video showing a sea battle.

Outside of the configurable skirmish games and a few of the linear campaign episodes, economic development takes the form of seizing neutral villages (each one is associated with a different resource type) rather than building a thriving base from scratch.

In Cossacks II: Battle for Europe, campaigns and scenarios follow historical and hypothetical storylines in which players will choose one of nine nations including Spain, the Rhine Confederation, and the Great Duchy of Warsaw to relive the battles of Waterloo, Leipzig, and Borodino.

Ten battlefields, four campaigns, six skirmish missions and three historical battles face the war-ravaged basement battalion commander.

Battle for Europe, Battle, and Skirmish modes will all be playable online over LAN or Internet.

Cossacks II was a solid Napoleonic RTS with a distinctive wargame flavor, and one rather big, rather annoying flaw: musket-equipped formations would only fire if you personally gave them the order.

Yes, in what has to be one of the most eccentric game design decisions since EA put Michael Owen on the cover of Medal of Honor: Rising Sun, GSC left-out unit behavior stances altogether, forcing flustered generals to reach for the pause button every few seconds during busy battles.

If C2:BFE had put this one thing right, it would have instantly validated itself.

Because it doesnt - troops still need to be carefully chaperoned through combat - the sizable haul of new campaigns, factions, units, and historical scraps isnt nearly as appealing as it might have been.

Actually, even if GSC had sorted out the military micromanagement issue it would still be difficult to get really excited about much of the new content.

Take the three new playable powers - Spain, the Confederation of the Rhine, and the Great Duchy of Warsaw - for instance.

As these are all European factions and the developers like their history straight and reverential, no particularly exotic or interesting units appear in the debuting armies.

The extra cavalry, cannons, and light and line infantry might have different-colored uniforms and slightly different stats, but they are still cavalry, cannons, and light and line infantry.

Perhaps if the expansion had shifted focus away from the Continent to one of the many asymmetrical conflicts that raged in Asia, Africa, or America during the early years of the Nineteenth Century, then there might have been more room for novelty.

Maybe if the devs had taken inspiration from last years other Napoleonic extravaganza, Imperial Glory, and cultivated their sea skirmishes (Naval combat was virtually non-existent in C2) then this pack would have generated a bit more enthusiasm.

In place of adventurousness, GSC has opted for unimaginative generosity.

Imperial Glory Torrent Plus France Get

Each of the trio of new powers plus France get their own linear campaign of four historically-derived missions.

These lack presentational tinsel like cut-scenes and characters, but are constructed expertly enough to warrant completion.

The added nations also get to participate in the Battle For Europe - a more ambitious campaign mode in which battlefield encounters are triggered by army movements on a compartmentalized Continental map (see screenshot).

While this game style doesnt have quite the geographic scope or the diplomatic subtlety of its equivalent in Imperial Glory, there are many worse ways of wiling away an unseasonably dreary August afternoon.

Once youve got used to the odd bug, the absence of fleets, and the fact you can only move one army around the strat map (a very silly restriction) its dead easy to get sucked-in.

Each dynamically generated battle usually has its own tempting optional sub-objectives that bring rewards of recruits or supplies; the cleverly integrated economics mean youre constantly keeping an eye on your granaries and coal stocks; the core army system encourages thoughtful use of nervous recruits and cucumber-cool veterans.

On the battlefield, even with compulsory babysitting of musket units, C2 and now C2:BFE does offer something quite special.

Morale, fatigue, and formation use - three elements usually associated with hardcore turn-based wargames - are all right at the heart of the combat model giving battles a distinctive credibility thats a world away from the contrived rock-paper-scissors scrimmages you see in many a modern RTS.