"Histwar Demo is out" Topic

Thats right after nearly 9 years in production, histwar les grognads is close to finished, the demo, is JUST out about 3 minutes ago

You can download it here

link

Hi gunfreak, i am trying to play the demo but can't seem to move my troops anyone having the same problem!

Unpause it?

This is a game where taking one's time to slowly go through the manual will be a blessing. Iniatial impressions are that there is so very much to learn about how to manage these troops.

I was just getting my first battlefield successes when it locked up on me :/

Very pretty and promising.

"cannot find LGdN.exe"

So, buggy as a buggy thing

ah well

Connard Sage the LGdN.exe is where you installed the game to. Example for vista: My computer/C: Drive/Program Files/Histwar/Histwar La Demo. there you will find it and then shortcut it back to your desktop.

Hope that was of help to you.

Go to, C: programfiles/histwar then choose the histwar ikon.

Oh, and DON'T chage the settings in options, it will make the game crash.

The tutorial battle takes 3+ hours to play, even when you use the maximum speed generolsy.

Had a few close calls, and the polish corps got a bloody nose, and a regiment of austrians put up heavy resistance, it took 4 attacks to pry them of their possision.

I know where the .exe is supposed to be. I'm not that much of a computer numpty. The start up script can't find it/won't open it.

Oh, and DON'T chage the settings in options, it will make the game crash.

Like I said, buggy

There is no start-up script…that's what the .exe is for…but then I only have 10 years of working with computer programming, sorry it was of no help to you, I also can't seem to find the buggies!

Me too kinsnevatt,
I can`t move them but their little legs are moving though!

Another broken,buggy game.
It's why I stopped playing these things.
Not sure what's worse, when they're broken or when they're great and take up too much painting time. :)

DM

It ran fine for me.. I just unpaused it… The only problem I had was when I got near the edges of the map it got a bit laggy.

I managed to win my game. It was a very close match. The Only issue is once I started pushing the Russians back after their failed attack 20,000 Austrains on the Right flank did nothing. They did not attack or anything. 13,000 French and 9 Guns for 15,000 Allies with 97 guns.

BTW its not a eye candy game by any means, but I felt enough of a Flavor with the battle to ensure I will give it a try if only to see a Large battles outcome on a Campaign scale.

Just came from a 3 hour game, played most of it on max speed but it still took quite some time.

I guess hitler was right, nordic people are über, the sweeds kicked the ass out of the french guard.

The austrians were also hard fought, they didn't move and any attack I did on them was repulsed.

In the end both our armies were batterd, I got victory but not realy sure why, as I got as good as I gave

No problem running it here.

For those who can't get the troops to move, did you play the tutorial and thus read the instructions? I played around with it a bit before doing so and couldn't get them to move either. It wasn't intuitive.

For the guy who got the bad .exe file, try downloading it again. Your .exe file may have been corrupted.

I do love the 150 gun artillery duel I had at the start.

But those Austrians are deadly with muskets.

There is a lot of bugs, but it stil seem to work at a napoleonic simulator.

The need to have a reserve, my first line on my southern flank was over run by the sweeds. they ran right into my second line.

Runs like a dead tortoise on a slow day for me …

I am unable to download the demo. I receive an error message indicating windows can't download from the website and is timed out. Any ideas why this is happening?

Maybe I`m missing it, but is there a way to simply give orders to a whole command; a brigade or a division?

Dowloads in less than 10 minutes but all I get upon running from the .exe file is a splash screen and moveable reconfigured cursor. Nothing to click on to and therefore nothing to activate the game.

Any ideas?

- Allan

Error message when the splash screen appears:

D3DERR_NOTAVAILABLED3D Module:5 Numero:24

I'm going to hazard a guess Allan that you'll get further posting your error messages on the game's forum, rather than here.

I'm looking forward to the concept of this game, but so far the stream of errors and issues people are experiencing is making me wonder just how many more years we'll be waiting for it to work as billed? Downloading the demo tonight to have a looksee myself.

Aperantly some of the tactical AI is missing, making units behave stupid or beeing very inactive, not expoliting gaps ect. or cavalry not attacking the flank of enemy infantry not in square

I'm going to hazard a guess Allan that you'll get further posting your error messages on the game's forum, rather than here.

I'm looking forward to the concept of this game, but so far the stream of errors and issues people are experiencing is making me wonder just how many more years we'll be waiting for it to work as billed? Downloading the demo tonight to have a looksee myself.

I suspect you are right. I do hope this game works: nine years in the making is a long time.

- Allan

One thing I will say is that I love the statistics screen.

This demo requires careful going over of the Tutorial and most of the questions on here would be answered. And reading the manual would be advised. Looking forward to multiplayer coop in the full version.

Los

Having downloaded the demo finally, I can't even get a single unit to move, despite going through the tutorial 3 times. I've experienced several of the bugs described by others though, so not impressed. I'm uninstalling and will continue to watch to see if it ever gets off the ground.

I had a very bloody battle. mabye to bloody.

I was the coaltions side and attacked on both flanks, austrians and russians on the south and sweeds and prussians on the north.

In the end, 13 000 soldiers lay dead, 30 000 wounded.

I had 71% casualty rate, while the french had 51%

But the AI still behave stupid, when I order a corps to attack, instead of the corps actualy attacking, it sends one and one brigade against a line defended by mabye 10 000+ soldiers, it makes it impossible to actualy punch though and take the field

Allan, do you have Direct X installed on your PC and is it a recent version (9 or 10?)

I have DirectX 9.0c. I'll check for updates.

Thanks.

- Allan

Dont forget to press W to pause and unpause the game or else your guys will never move!

The game is ready for pre-orers.

Price varies from €39.00 EUR for download only to almost $80 USD for collectors edition

link

A second demo has been released for those that preorderd the game.

There are major imporvments, the demo gives you the battle of austerliz both the map and OOBs, aswell as to non historic battles.

The AI now works, while in the first demo you had single regimetns moving out trying defeat an enemy corps on their own, now you have massed cordinated assaults.
Cavalry screens, and chase down feeling units.

Just to name a few

Still doesn't work on my system :-(

What exactly happens, how far into the demo do you get?

I get the splash screen of the grenadiers in square with an arrow cursor and nothing else.

Left and right clicking does nothing.

- Allan

Demo worked OK on my Power Mac operating in PC mode through Bootcamp. Tried some marching around so far. I like it.