It was sometime during the early summer of 2000 that we released Campaign Eckmuhl, first of the Napoleonic Battles series by John Tiller Software via HPS Simulations. I had never done one of these games and definitely had a lot to learn.
Mark Adams and I had met online and we got to work on the artwork. Poor Mark ended up doing the small "campaign reference maps" that go with the the campaign file. Later on I would do those ....
We had a great group of playtesters. Paco would remain with me throughout the long journey.
Folks were eager to see a new game from John Tiller on the Napoleonic era. What they got was less graphically than they expected but we offered the customer more battles than what they had previously gotten. It was a tradeoff.
Imagine Campaign Leipzig ... with just Leipzig in the "box." Pretty much tells you how far we have gotten.
While I miss the hand painted maps and the extra zoom level for 3D the ability to make up larger maps was a huge bonus.
Figure that Prelude to Waterloo and Waterloo games by Talonsoft left out Wavre and a lot of area that the JTS Waterloo game includes. And taking the map editor we could easily add in more area to include all the way over to Liege to add in a "what if Napoleon knocks out Wellington and turns on the Prussians" type campaign.
So here we are 15 years later. Glad to have been able to work on the Eckmuhl project and the many others. We have lots of good scenarios to play and of course ... there is always the Scenario Editor to put out our own spin on things.
