Koei Tecmo has announced that Bladestorm Nightmare will be released on Steam this May. Bladestorm: Nightmare is a strategy game where the player takes the role of a mercenary and chooses to fight either for England or for France in missions inspired by real events and battles of the era dubbed ‘the Hundred Years War’(1337-1453).
In Bladestorm: Nightmare the player is called to create a mercenary and accept missions that will advance the English or the French cause in the course of the Hundred Year War. The successful completion of these missions depends on a variety of elements that put the player’s fighting abilities, strategy, tactical and leadership skills to the test.
The Mercenary does not ride to the field alone, but as the commander of an army unit chosen to fit each individual situation as some missions are better fought with foot soldiers, others with lances, archers, light cavalry, or a combination of melee, ranged and mounted units.
Furthermore, in Bladestorm: Nightmare the battle system has been updated to allow simultaneous control of up to four army units. This gives the game even more strategic edge, as the units can be repositioned at any time and ordered to take certain actions that will help the mission succeed (e.g. attack from a certain angle, hold a position, or group with another unit to name a few).
The player can choose to switch to command any of these units in real time, combine them in a 200 soldier troop for a charged attack, or issue orders to each and any of them using the battle map interface.
Enjoy and kudos to our reader ‘Gianluca Manocchio’ for informing us!
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Awesome! Great to see more PC love from Tecmo.
Did France and England had dragons during the 100 Years War?
They did in fact. It was right before Abraham Lincoln hunted vampires.
Inspired by real events. So what the hell is the dragon doing there, in the screenshot.
I guess that’s why they called it “inspired” instead of historically accurate. The Japanese sure love mixing things up.
Coincidentally, there is a new Japanese anime series currently airing and it is also set during the Hundreds Year War between France and Britain. Yeah, it has witches, succubi, dragons and even angels getting embroiled in that little piece old European history. Go figure.
i think the last remained Dragons were extincted in those battles:)and they knew it:)))
I would like Atelier more on PC.
++++ Hopefully if they can’t get more money from the last gen consoles they will make a port.
Some of the gameplay in that video looked like a clusterf**k.
Tales of Zestiria spotted in SteamDB.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=994883
Nice Tecmo Koei, more love to PC. Now bring also SW4 and DW8 Empires (with PS4 engine, not the bad looking PS3 engine one).