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Pike and Shot: Campaigns is a historical strategy game in which you command armies during the Great Turkish War, the Thirty Years War and the English Civil War. You fight tactical battles and make decisions on a strategic campaign map, where terrain, manpower, supply, attrition, sieges and economic damage shape your choices. The outcomes of earlier battles determine your forces’ readiness, and every unit can matter in the final battle.

Campaigns

The game includes four campaigns, each with its own armies and tactics:

• Gustavus Adolphus: fight as the Swedes or Imperialists during the Swedish phase of the Thirty Years War.
• English Civil War: command the Royalists or Parliamentarians.
• Great Turkish War: fight as Austria and Poland or as the Ottoman Empire during the era of the 1683 Siege and Battle of Vienna.
• Pike and Shot skirmish campaign: match any two armies from 1494 to 1698 in a struggle for dominance.

Historical battles

The campaigns include 40 full-sized historical battles: 10 each for the Thirty Years War, the English Civil War, the Early 16th Century Italian Wars and the Later 16th Century Wars, from Tercio to Salvo. The game features 154 historically researched army lists across 20 playable nations and factions. Its army lists also cover a range of conflicts and forces from 1494 to 1698, including:

• 21 skirmish lists for the rest of Europe during the Italian Wars (1494–1559), covering England, Scotland, Denmark, Sweden, the German States, Austria, Hungary, Transylvania, the Ottoman Empire, Poland-Lithuania and Russia.
• 2 lists for Cornish and Scottish Royalist armies in the English Civil War.
• 37 skirmish lists for the ascendancy of Louis XIV, from 1649 to 1698, covering England, the Dutch Republic and the Anglo-Dutch union, Jacobite Scotland, Jacobite Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, the German States, Austria, the Hungarian Kuruc Rebellion, the Ottoman Empire, Poland-Lithuania and Russia.

Stand-alone battles

You can create unlimited what-if battles using historically realistic armies selected from researched army lists. Computer-generated terrain makes each battle different. Scenarios are randomly generated and can feature open battles, attacks on or defence of a defensive position, either side awaiting reinforcements, or a flank march. You can choose the armies yourself or let the computer select them.

Tactical options

There are 20 troop types, 25 capabilities and numerous unit organisations to represent tactical differences and changes across the period. The AI makes tactical decisions and is customised for the historical circumstances of each battle. Five difficulty levels let you adjust the challenge as your battlefield and strategic skills develop.

Multiplayer and scenarios

Two players can play historical or what-if scenarios through Slitherine’s PBEM server. The game also supports mods, includes a map editor and provides an in-game library of user-created single-player and multiplayer historical scenarios for direct download.