Reviews for Battlefield General

[darkbane110]

Bloody awesome!

This is absolutely fantastic for a flash game, I defiantely consider it worthy to add to favourites and 5 it. Its like Warcraft 2 in it's style and it is equally decent.

freeworldgroup responds:

thanks, much appreciated : - )

[BicPenmaster]

Very nicely done

But I have a few criticisms. As an avid strategy gamer, there are a few features I was missing terribly. For instance, your units do not listen to your commands. Several times, I lost all my men because they would not attack the enemies I told them to, or they wouldn't walk away from the enemy. The AI makes them charge in full on, which makes strategizing impossible. You can't take out their archers when your cavalry always go after the nearest troops and get cut to pieces by arrows. Please, if you revise this or make a sequel, PLEASE make them listen to orders.

My only other complaint is the lack of a fast way to get around the battlefield. You can't hotkey groups of units. (You know, ctrl 1 while they are selected) and this makes things a little awkward. All in all, however, a most enjoyable game. I look forward to future submissions!

freeworldgroup responds:

thanks : - ) all units can be selected using hotkeys - just look at the game controls. The soldiers generally listen to orders unless the enemy is too close, in which case they will fight- though you can order them again and they try to retreat - but like real life, they suffer for it.

[Boot-Head]

excellent

units get stuck on rivers to easily other then that its an excellent game

freeworldgroup responds:

thanks. It's up to you to make sure units are sent around objects including rivers. use ctrl to guide them on the right path.

[Blackpaint]

I like this game...

because you have some good ideas that not even the big game companies have figured out, like making a path for them with cntrl.
But there were some control problems, it was a bit slow, all little things, overall it is a good game. Nice work.

freeworldgroup responds:

thanks - remember speed can be increased 4x by pressing the speed button on the in-game control panel. It's as fast as is reasonable for a strategy war game. Glad you liked it : - )

[Berder]

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3 things need fixing:
1. The cannons are too strong. They are the only unit worth getting since they have great range, hit points, and damage, and attack an area. 4-8 cannons will destroy the entire enemy, no problem.
2. Stuff moves too slow, especially over mountains.
3. Units don't attack what you want them to attack. They attack the first thing they are in range of even if you direct them to attack something else. And after killing that other target they just stop in place instead of continuing to where you want.

freeworldgroup responds:

thanks for your comments.

1. the cannons have one major weakness - they can't shoot anything at close range - so they are actually useless if the enemy gets in close - this becomes more clear when you play harder later levels.

2. movement speed can be increased to 4x by clicking of the speed button - movement over mountains speed etc is on purpose - you have to assume the units do not move as quick as they can in open grassland.

3. Units will respond to whatever is close to them - that is on purpose as well - it's up to you as the general to redirect them after the battle to where you want them to go.