Wellington's Victory

I love this game. It is among the best of the whole Hex War Game series. I win consistently with either the French in 10 turns or the English in 30 turns. The ability to use the Old Guard while playing the French is fun and appropriate but not decisive. I win either way. The English have to hold out for 15-25 turns while the Prussians arrive and then they overwhelm what’s left of the French including the Old Guard. The Prussian Cavalry are particularly effective in pinning the Old Guard down while Blucher concentrates his forces for the kill. Playing against the House is fun. The House is aggressive and well programmed although it’s easy to split the French army by sending out Cavalry and Jaeger units to run around the board, forcing the House to commit dozens of units to pursuits that should require only one or two units to resolve. The Developers should include a scenario where the French Old Guard joins battle before Blucher arrives. The English can still win by combining units into stronger units (up to 20 strength) and then concentrating the whole army and artillery to defeat the French pursuit that arrives in battle piecemeal. Unfortunately, the app has lost its most important feature when it lost map zoom. Without this feature the game is unwieldy and too slow. And the new fast setting is way too slow. It should be doubled. Each turn now takes way too long. Lots of work to do.

Very good 'light' wargame. More realistic than the other games that use this game engine. I won (and loss) playing both sides so I am OK with play balance. The grand scale of the battle makes it worth buying. I would like to see other battles on this scale. The game mechanics is evolving and getting better with each iteration. Maybe add an advance mode where move/fire is 'chit pull' base vs Ugo/ Igo based. This may reduce the 'God' like control of the army per turn. 2 player version either one IPad or two via wifi would be a better alternative than vassals.

I have played this game probably 75 times various scenarios. It is a solid system, but just a few things would really enhance the play. #1. Have an after battle report. How many losses of each type, infantry, artillery and cavalry on both sides. List lost generals, number of standards taken, etc. Give us some battle stats! #2. An ongoing battle report. Let us see how we are doing during play including morale. #3. Keep playing after victory or loss. Let us finish off the enemy or die with honor to the last man. #4. Change/improve the map graphics so we can see which areas are higher than others. Slopes and hills are very difficult to tell which side is up or down. #5. Cavalry attacking buildings, woods or squares should be less effective. Only if the square “breaks” should it lose much strength. Also, cavalry charging from longer distances should increase the likelihood of squares being formed. #6. How about adding a Ligny scenario? And then linking the results of Quatre Bras and Ligny to determine strengths at Waterloo? A campaign version. #7. Randomize unit placement so there is more replay value? And, of course, free deployment would be fantastic. Thanks for a great game!

Fun, and more sophisticated than I expected, although the AI is not too bright and the system has some issues (cavalry is GREAT for attacking into woods. Who knew??). Wish it was available for PCs -- its pretty slow on an older iPad.

I have a number of games from this company. If you enjoy historical simulations, these are probably the best out there for iphone. Moving each unit individually gets tedious, especially in the full game. It is also unrealistic, as movement is much to flexible. Command control is very basic. I would like to see units grouped to their parent unit and not be able to run off on their own! This would also speed up play if you could move at the division level for example. Some of the computer moves are questionable, as the Brits seem quite willing to abandon their strong defensive positions. Still, i've spent hours playing the game, it is addicting!