I'd like to see something like that, a historical game with exploration. One of the problems that has struck me with Spartan, Rome:TW and the like is that the map is fixed and known to the player, though the people living at the time actually had very poor knowlege of geography beyond their immediat...

I'd love to see something like this. Though I honestly have a hard time picturing Slitherine developing it.

I'd be delighted to see Elves in the game, just as long as I can play against them. I want to pillage their palaces, piss in their wine, burn their lyres and steal their jewelry. Most of all, I want those pretentious overdressed androgenous freaks to DIE. I want to see their dismembered corpses in H...

I am going to assume Kyle meant: the person below me is a history nut.

I am indeed a history nut !

The world needs more history nuts. Lets see if we can find one:

The person below me is familiar with the battle of Lepanto...

I have been watching this thread wih interest. I find the Slitherine guys' description of how their company works just as interesting as their games. I currently work troubleshooting ADSL lines for my local phone company. This is a dead-end job that I thoroughly loathe. I spend three hours dealing w...

We do think that legate XP is a little too rare and tricky to gain, so we may well be making it a little easier to obtain in any future patch I bought a download version of Arena a few days ago, I assume recent downloads have the patch built in. In my first campaign, my Legate advanced to level 53,...

I'm a latecomer to this game, apparently, and just finished my first Roman campaign. I played the entire thing on hard, I didn't realize you could change dificulty between battles until reading this thread. I played one aborted campaign on normal, but after finding it nearly impossible to lose on no...

In my opinion, the best of the various Trek Series was Deep Space 9. DS9 had a much larger cast of continuing characters than the other Trek series, since it wasn't limited to the crew of a single ship. The producers defied the conventional hollywood wisdom of producing one off, self contained episo...

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I have recently read and highly reccomend John Elting's Swords Around a Throne . This is a non-fiction description of Napoleon's Grande Armee. Elting goes into meticulous detail, but is nevertheless very readable. Organization, training, recruitment, weapons, equipment, uniforms, even obscure detail...

"Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres..." Ack ! And I thought I had put my high school Latin firmly behind me. No, no, no, I do not want to read this AGAIN ! I wonder if Caesar realized his words would be used to torture schoolchildren more than 2000 years later. Would he be proud?

Julius Caesar apparently had a reputation for enjoying the fruits of conquest in a fashion that would be considered very politically incorrect today. On the march through Gaul, his soldiers allegedly made up and sang a song that translates as:

Hide your women ! Caesar is coming !

Case study: Colonization Sid Meier has a well deserved reputation as perhaps the greatest computer game designer of all time. I've played the daylights out of several games he has worked on, most notably Railroad Tycoon and Civilization. My all time favorite Sid Meier game, however, is a lesser kno...

Introduction As many readers already know, 4x is game industry jargon for "eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate." It refers to a sort of freeform empire building game where players explore the map, expand population and territory, exploit resources found to produce structures and mil...

Well, apparently I'm not going to sell this notion to you. I suppose its up to me to prove that the exotic flavor of the culture can be made to more than make up for the lack of cavalry. I want to say that I am very impressed with Iain's responsiveness to my posts in this forum. I have been posting ...

I have played the daylights out of Moo2, as well as all the earlier games in the series. It sits on my hard drive to this day; I played several games a month ago after becoming reinterested by introducing a friend to the game. I have to agree with the comments from others here that Moo1 was in some ...

You're making me jealous I'm stuck here in the States. Please let us know when Rome becomes available on DVD. Do you know if BBC is likely to license it for rebroadcast on the History channel?

Panzer General was a gem. I played the daylights out of it and eventually bought 6 different sequels.

I wasn't aware of the alt-tab key combo, thanks for the tip. I'll let you know if it seems to clear things up.

The trade window glitch isn't that simple. Every click flips the sign, even repeated clicks on the same button. If this was a glitch that simply added or subtracted 100 units, repeated clicks on the same button could only flip the sign a maximum of one time. I bought the game from Matrix. The deal w...