![]() It’s tactically deep stuff, and because scenarios play out based on real conflicts through the era, there’s a real opportunity to prove yourself to be a better general than history’s real leaders. ![]() ![]() Then, in a turn-based fashion, the goal is to carefully manoeuvre units around the battlefield, taking into account flanking, charges, morale, supply, and fortifications, and ultimately achieve victory, typically by either routing enemy forces or holding together through a certain number of terms. In Sengoku Jidai, players are in control of an army, constructed of various units of soldiers that were around at the point of time in which the battle plays out. It comes to use from the same developer that produced the excellent Pike & Shot, and humble as it might look, the game’s strengths manage to outmanoeuvre the others in a couple of places the unit-based strategic play, and the historical accuracy of it all. Paradox Interactive produced Sengoku, SEGA’s Creative Assembly took a crack in applying Total War to the time period, and Koei Tecmo’s aforementioned Nobunaga’s Ambition have all vied to be the most accurate spin on the tumultuous period in Japanese military history. Of course, it’s an era that has been tackled in strategy games in the past. ![]() That’s the same period that Samurai Warriors and Nobunaga’s Ambition plays out in, and from a military strategy point of view, it’s one of the most interesting eras right up there with Napoleon’s campaigns and the two world wars. The name probably gives it away – this game grabbed my attention because it’s based on the Sengoku period of Japanese history. Slitherine’s upcoming strategy game, Sengoku Jidai: Shadow of the Shogun, might just turn out to be my favourite game from the maverick publisher to date… and I do love my Slitherine games. Related reading: Pike & Shot, also from Slitherine, uses much the same engine as we see in Sengoku Jidai. ![]() Slitherine specialises in strategy games, and that’s never an easy audience to play to, because they like very complex games indeed. It has been around for many, many years now, and it has survived by having a very narrow focus, which it executes on to the exacting expectations of a very hardcore fanbase. Slitherine is one of the true niche players in the games industry. ![]()
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