OpenRA marches into the Napoleonic era

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OpenRA's familiar real-time strategy machinery is marching into a different century. The Napoleonic Wars replaces modern-style forces with French, Austrian, Prussian, British and Russian armies, putting infantry formations and artillery ammunition choices at the heart of its downloadable conversion.

Units can hold formation, charge or break ranks to run, while cannons switch between canister for nearby troops, solid shot for distant ships and buildings, and shells for targets in between. Those decisions give the historical setting a tactical identity beyond its uniforms. Creator thegrinningscrin provides control instructions alongside the download and its included executable.