Peninsular campaign any good?

Is there more to it than the Italian and Egypt campaigns, which I found pretty straightforward? Is it good?

playing peninsular as spain provide some new experience because you have to constantly deploy guerilla tactic againt the french, the british is also interesting.

i like the french tho, desperately try to fight off the british and get rid of guerilla

Peninsular is quite fun and it's a lot less predefined than the Italian and Egyptian campaigns.

Its indeed uite good, and you can play as 3 factions, so it has more replay value than the italian or egyptian campaign

I thought it was the best of the additional campaigns, let down by only one annoying thing - if you're playing as Britain anyway.

After France's foothold has been whittled down to just a couple of provinces near the Pyrenees, it's armies seem to have the formidable ability to ghost unseen through the whole of Spain and pop up in sparsely defended Portugal. Apparently the feared and much vaunted Spanish guerrillas are incapable of spotting 2 or 3 full stacks traversing through 600 miles or so of their own territory. Or if they do see them, they don't seem to want to share their findings with the British.

Hence why i always have an army of 8 cannon battery's 11 line infantry and a general at the river crossing .

I challenge any french army to force a crossing with 32 cannons blasting round shot through there ranks as they try to cross.
Then if they make it to the other side there in cannister range and bang.

Then i have the line infantry form a wall to the left and right of the crossing to keep them in a cross fire and 3 units behind the cannons as a reserve.

My last campaign i had 4 stacks all battle hardened hit that at once.
My men all gained 3 ranks and my cannons got over 500 kills each and i lost a total of 23 men to enemy cannon fire before my own cannons obliterated them.

I only use 2 stacks anyway 1 elite stack to attack using 4 guard 4 german legion 3 unique units 5 cannons 3 light infantry including german legion plus the general.
With that i faced down 3 stacks in the field at once.
British infantry with arthur leading them do not break 2 of the guard units were down to less then 10 men a piece and were still showing as encouraged they simply refused to retreat.

I lost 2/3 of my stack but in the end my cannons and my mens simple pig headed ill die before i give ground attitude saved me and took 13 turns to replace all them men so i had to fall back and leave the spanish to there own devices then i just sent my army up the coast on one of my dozen fleets ( about 6 large frigates each ) and dropped them off on the frontline then sent the fleet back to its french hunting duties.

Fun but lack of torres vedras as an historical battle or in the battle map was a disappointment, since it saved wellington ass from being killed by jean-massena, historically.

(wellington was falling back from massena much bigger and well trained army but was saved by "line of torres vedras" ring of fortresses around lisbon, portugal)

without it the "waterloo general" would have died.

the "unassailiable fortress" was somewhat left out as air with just a small reference about it for when you start the campaign, and some rings of fortresses near lisbon on the campaign map, that are irrelevant when you invade lisbon as france.

But still worth a play. It's fun.

i really like that add-on, but the Guerrilla warfare could be better. The campaign is quite good, as France by the end is really hard to beat.