Hey, can't seem to find the Legion Gold demo anywhere on the site. Is it still available? I was holding out for Legion II, but now that it seems to be a long time coming, I figure I might as well try L:G and see if I like it.

I believe it is factored into difficulty level- at least I get invaded more on Hard than on Normal.

I actually like the battle system. Unlike in modern warfare, ancient commanders had little way to communicate orders to their troops once battle was actuated. The battle plan was laid out the night before, and then it was up to the commander. That said, Spartan's system is better, as at least the de...

An alternate strategy is to start in a corner of the map. I found that Dilmuni (Qatar), though tiny at start, is actually fairly easy: lots of Tribal Independents to munch on and grow bigger. Once you win the first two wars (that country in Yemen and the Nabatu, in that order) you will be the one bi...

Yeah, that's the gaming industry for you today. You either have a ton of money, because you don't take any risks with innovative gaming but go for the well-established sellers (EA, Ubisoft- and sadly, Bethesda and Creative Assembly, too) and can afford to buy a ton of publicity, or you take risks, m...

If you can't beat em, join em. In my Dilmuni game, when I got into a huge war with the enormous Hittites and a bogged down, high-casualty, back-and-forth campaign in egypt, I was using mixed armies of 4 Swordsmen, 2 Gish-giger Battle Carts, and 2 Sabrum Qualatum. These did well against smaller natio...

How about, all nations playable, (like in CoW1) and include just as many nations, no matter how obscure. My suggestion would be to take the map a little further north, so that the steppe nations meet in the north. You could also expand it east to the Indus valley, as the premise of CoW is to cover t...

First of all, thanks to Slitherine for making some really great games- realistic, accessible, detailed, historically accurate, and tons of other great features. CoW in particular has great atmosphere, captures the chaotic, almost-lawless attitude of ancient Mesopotamia very well. It is also one of t...

Exactly. Just don't do it if you don't like it. I do think that the economic side of CoW is on the easy side too (I've never been in a critical situation economically in the 10 full games and dozens of partial games I've played) but the game makes up for it in that, although a small, undiverse count...

I believe navies got the "short end of the stick" in CoW simply because, although at the time they were undoubtedly used, only one or two nations (Poenicians, Minoans, whoever the Sea People were) really lived or died by the sea, and even this would not have been a matter of naval defeat, ...

From Wikipedia The earliest representations of siege warfare is dated to the Protodynastic Period of Egypt, c.3000 BC. These show symbolic destruction of city walls by divine animals using hoes. The first siege equipment is known from Egyptian tomb reliefs of the 24th century BC, showing Egyptian s...

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Very interesting. I will probably make the same modifications that you did once I get the game (which is hopefully today). What did you mean by "nonexistant diplomacy"? I was under the impression that diplomacy was a little better than in Legion. Dithy The diplomacy system in CoW is inten...