Pike and Shot: Campaigns is out now!

[Surtur]

"The Lord God is my Armour!" - Gustavus Adolphus, refusing the steel body armour offered by his aides, 16th September 1632.

Since the beginning of the Italian Wars in 1494, Europe has been turned into an endless killing ground. Armies are raised one after another, sooner or later involving all the powers and kingdoms of the Old Continent in the conflicts. This is a time of cruelty and great military innovations. This is the era of the birth of Modern States and the definitive death of the Middle Ages.
This is the Iron Century!

Pike and Shot: Campaigns is released! The latest and comprehensive title in the Pike and Shot franchise is finally out!

Challenge yourself with 4 historical campaigns, including the eruption of Gustavus Adolphus’s innovative army into the Thirty Years War, the rise of the famous Roundheads during the English Civil War, and the great 1683 siege of Vienna by the Ottoman Empire, or choose your troops from 21 new skirmish army lists and lead them into furious battles across the Europe!
Your destiny awaits!

Grab the game here!

If you wish to learn more about the game, be sure to join us live on Twitch.tv tonight for a gameplay session of Pike & Shot: Campaigns!

IMPORTANT!
Pike and Shot: Campaigns is a stand-alone release and includes all the content from the Pike and Shot base game and the Tercio to Salvo expansion. Any community scenarios you had installed for the previous Pike & Shot releases will have to be redownloaded for Pike & Shot Campaigns.

Owners of Pike and Shot get a 75% discount when upgrading to Pike and Shot : Campaigns. If you have a version from our site or an affiliated store you’ll have a serial. Your Pike and Shot serial will act as a discount code to give you 75% when applied to your shopping cart on the Slitherine or Matrix sites.

If you bought from Steam, all you need to do is go to the Steam page and your discount will be pre-applied. Please note the Steam discount is only valid until the 27th October so make sure you upgrade before then!

In addition, be aware that Pike & Shot: Campaigns is not multiplayer compatible with the previous Pike & Shot games. So if you have any PBEM++ games running from the previous Pike & Shot releases, then be sure not to uninstall your old game until these have been completed.

[rbodleyscott]

Keeping the previous version of Pike & Shot on your computer alongside Pike & Shot: Campaigns will also allow you to continue to play MP games vs iPad users.

[jack54]

Thank you very much for the discount.....

and the Campaigns TOO!

[fairfax]

Yes very good value for money, but more important many many hours of gameplay to come..........Thanks for the hard work.

[Krakenheim]

Hi

Just a quick question, In basic Pike and Shot you cannot play the Historical Battles with both sides, player and AI always play with the same side (either that or I am doing somthing very wrong)

I was hoping to thrash Gustav Adolph but did not got to to it

Now this campaigns... is this the same thing ? Or can you choose sides ?

Thanks

[Surtur]

Hi Krakenheim,

When playing the campaigns, you can play both sides indeed, but for the historical battles (the ones that come from the original game) it is still the same, as they are always balanced for one specific side.

[batesmotel]

I note that the out of date Pike & Shot and Pike & Shot: Tercio to Salvo versions are still listed for the PC on the Slitherine site with no indication that they are obsolete versions of the game. It seems to me that truth in advertising should require that the old product have a note added that it is obsolete and only appropriate if you want to play it in conjunction with the existing iPad version to avoid possible buyer confusion.

Chris

[VPaulus]

I note that the out of date Pike & Shot and Pike & Shot: Tercio to Salvo versions are still listed for the PC on the Slitherine site with no indication that they are obsolete versions of the game. It seems to me that truth in advertising should require that the old product have a note added that it is obsolete and only appropriate if you want to play it in conjunction with the existing iPad version to avoid possible buyer confusion.

Chris

It's written in the top of each product's page:
Important!
Pike & Shot: Campaigns is now available. This new stand-alone release includes all of the content of Pike & Shot and Tercio to Salvo, as well as a host of new features, and all of that for the same great price!

http://www.slitherine.com/games/pike_shot_pc
http://www.slitherine.com/games/ps_ts
http://www.matrixgames.com/products/537 ... ike.&.Shot
http://www.matrixgames.com/products/563 ... o.to.Salvo.

[skoptic]

Hi,

Are iPad users able to have multiplayer games with campaigns users on other platforms?

Thanks

[rbodleyscott]

Hi,

Are iPad users able to have multiplayer games with campaigns users on other platforms?

Sadly not, only with iPad or PC users of Pike and Shot.

The explanation for this is as follows:

Pike & Shot and Pike & Shot: Campaigns are based on a 32 bit engine. Apple recently brought in rules that require all games to have a 64 bit engine. No further submissions of any kind (including updates) are being accepted for 32-bit games. This sadly means that the Pike & Shot engine cannot be updated on iOS.

Obviously this is very frustrating but we didn’t want it to prevent us from supporting the PC version. The problem we have is that we can’t release any PC updates for the original Pike & Shot game as this would break the cross platform multiplayer between PC and iPad. This means that the only way to continue to support it was to create a new base game – hence Pike & Shot: Campaigns.

Because no submissions are now being accepted for 32-bit games on iOS, we cannot release Pike & Shot: Campaigns on iPad.

This does not mean, however, that new content cannot be released for Pike & Shot on iPad, but any such new content will have to be released as in-game downloads in the same way as user content downloads. This does, however, mean that such content cannot use the new features added to the newer version of the engine used in Pike & Shot: Campaigns. This unfortunately means that the Campaigns feature cannot be added to the iPad game.

PC users can continue to keep Pike & Shot on their computers alongside Pike & Shot: Campaigns, allowing them to continue to play cross-platform MP games vs iPad users using Pike & Shot. The two games have separate MP servers.

[skoptic]

Thanks for the reply - I presume the vast majority of uses on PC will buy the campaigns version, play multiplayer on that and there will be a reduced group who play the old version with which the iPad is compatible.

Essentially iPad multiplayer has become orphaned. Unimpressed face

[RonanTheLibrarian]

Can the owner of the PC version of the "old" game have a one-off battle on-line with someone who has bought the campaign game?

[rbodleyscott]

Can the owner of the PC version of the "old" game have a one-off battle on-line with someone who has bought the campaign game?

Unfortunately not, because the scripts used by both sides in an MP game have to be identical for MP to work correctly. Hence they use different servers. The "old" Pike & Shot script base had to be frozen because we are unable to update the iPad version because Apple no longer accept submissions of any kind for 32-bit programs - not even updates.

[batesmotel]

It is interesting to note that so far there are far more multiplayer games posted for Pike & Shot than for Campaigns. It will be interesting to see if this continues to be the case going forward.

Chris