SimonLancaster wrote: ↑Wed Sep 18, 2024 3:36 pm Horse & Musket period. 17th/18th century is my educated guess.

That would be great. There are so few games that cover that period.

A generic fantasy FoG, vaguely based on Dungeons and Dragons, wouldn´t be bad at all.

Has anyone, anywhere, in any time/universe, and without using magic, played Typhoon as the Axis vs the AI as Konev (!) and won? Yes. It´s actually not that difficult, but there is a trick to it. You have to exploit the Prepared Offensives and Russian Turn 1/2 movement restrictions to the fullest. I...

Cheating interface didn´t let me enter an empty Moscow!

(At the Gates, beginning of 2nd turn. I won the game in the 3rd turn anyway, but still...)

I did well with the Seleucids, but badly with the Graeco-Bactrians. I think they were the most terrible army in this tourny.
Did anybody find a strategy to use them well? Please share!

Well, I guess you're right. In both of my games, the Lysimachids won, and nobody took any elephants. Honestly, I've never had any success with elephants. I like Elephants too much. :) I tend to always max them out when I get the chance. But I do find a use for them mostly. 20230609131416_1.jpg

We are having a roaring good time with the first battle, and I was moved to look it up, because the Lysimachids seem to be getting the upper hand on both sides. Near as I can figure, it's Corupedium. The wiki article says " Almost nothing is known about the battle itself save that Seleucus won...

Maybe scythe chariots? Kind of a novelty item. I've used them a few times with Persians. Most of the time they didn't do much more than be a distraction, but did really do wonders a time or two rolling up a flank. I think Scythed Chariots in the game are simply bad. No reason to buy them and if you...

And in adidition, the game deserves a price for most ugly map of the decade.

I haven´t played for a while, but as far as I recall, there are very few bonuses, if any, that are category versus specific category. There are not really dedicated tank destroyers, dedicated anti-infantry tanks, dedicated antitank-infantry, artillery is as good against tanks as against infantry and...

no combined arms? tanks, mech infantry, SP artillery, ground attack aircraft, air mobile infantry, bombers, self propelled AA. That guy was a troll. You don´t even understand the concept of combined arms. :roll: Building a most diversified force should give you a big tactical advantage. In this gam...

A DLC that doesn´t add a new faction would/should probably be themed and add a handful units to every faction, not just Necrons.

I couldn´t disagree more. I´d say it´s the worst 4X I ever had the misfortune to buy. My review would read something like this: Gladius is rather stupid in more ways than one. Tactics matter little. I think you don´t even get a flanking bonus for Chrissake. Low tier units simply become obsolete, whi...

Well, make that two wishes, actually.

The second thing would be that you can use keys for zooming, not just the mousewheel.

I thought that goes without saying, but now I am sad I didn´t bring this up in advance.

I loved the original game and had a 50% off coupon so I bought it. Mistake, the UI is terrible (Tab key to investigate a hex instead of right-clicking on it? Please.) I think there's a great game in here but I'm never going to see it because the UI is so unfriendly and atrocious. Good luck to the r...

I don´t have a middle mouse wheel. That´s the point.

I am playing on a notebook with mousepad, that´s why I am so pissed about the missing zoom key.

Yes, thank you! I figured that out in the meantime. I had added 6 + 2 for jump + 1 for charge, but forgot to add the attack itself, so it´s 8, not 7.

I´d encourage somebody connected with development to occasionally visit this here forum to answer questions, acknowledge bug reports et cetera.

Assault Squads of my opponent apparently made an 8-tile-jump. How could they do that? Even with jump packs +2 and charge +1 it should be only 7 tiles?! What do I get wrong?

Another bug: Victory Stats are messed up. I didn´t kill 29 units in this game. There are only 20 slots. :lol: All the kills are doubled, except for the Assault Squads. 5 1/2 kills isn´t possible, either. :lol: :lol: And why are the Baal Predators shown in red? What makes them special? Stats on the l...