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I bought july/august issue of PcOpen an italian computer magazine. In the july/august double issue are enclosed Spartan + Gates of Troy complete games. It is a real bargain at 8.90 euro but there is no sign of manual. I downloaded the Spartan manual on the website but as for GOT is it possible to play that game without manual ? Is really very different from Spartan?

Thank.

Minimal differences, absolutely minimal.

The only thing I can think of offhand is that GoT has a zoom in/out function on the strategic map.

possum wrote:Minimal differences, absolutely minimal.

The only thing I can think of offhand is that GoT has a zoom in/out function on the strategic map.

Thank you very much for your hint, a very good new.

Oh, my pleasure.

Another point worth mentioning is that when you have both games installed, they mesh with one another. This means that you can start up GoT and play all the scenarios from both games. Yes, you can play the Spartan scenarios under GoT, and enjoy the zoom in/out feature.

Note that this is true even though they're installed in totally different directories.

My own PC is an extreme case. I bought GoT via DD from Matrix Games, while my boxed copy of Spartan I purchased direct from Slitherine, via their online store.

This means I have GoT installed in C:\Matrix Games\Gates Of Troy

And Spartan installed in C:\Program Files\Slitherine\Spartan

None the less, they see each other and mesh perfectly.

Here's a question for you. When you run Spartan, does the opening video work for you? This is the video of Leonidas and his homeboys at the Hot Gates, preparing to open a can of whoopass on the Immortals.

possum wrote: Here's a question for you. When you run Spartan, does the opening video work for you? This is the video of Leonidas and his homeboys at the Hot Gates, preparing to open a can of whoopass on the Immortals.

I bought the cover mounted italian version. The game is in italian but the opening sequence is in english (no dialogue, only the translation of the greek writing of the famous phrase to those passing by and the laws of Sparta) The video is the same for both games and is focused from the point of view of greeks' enemies and the charge against the "lambda" shielded warriors. Do not know if other versions have different videos.

p-s- Sorry for my english, it is not very good but enough to play games

costanet wrote:

possum wrote: Here's a question for you. When you run Spartan, does the opening video work for you? This is the video of Leonidas and his homeboys at the Hot Gates, preparing to open a can of whoopass on the Immortals.

I bought the cover mounted italian version. The game is in italian but the opening sequence is in english (no dialogue, only the translation of the greek writing of the famous phrase to those passing by and the laws of Sparta) The video is the same for both games and is focused from the point of view of greeks' enemies and the charge against the "lambda" shielded warriors. Do not know if other versions have different videos.

p-s- Sorry for my english, it is not very good but enough to play games

No, that's the same video I have. The one brief glimpse you get of the Persian troops when they're close to see anything reveals shields and white headdresses that (I think) identify them as The Immortals.

Go and tell the Spartans, stranger passing by,
That obedient to their laws, we here lie

/me shakes head in wonder and admiration

Those guys must have had huevos the size of grapefruit, and made of solid brass.

possum wrote:[ Go and tell the Spartans, stranger passing by,
That obedient to their laws, we here lie

/me shakes head in wonder and admiration

Those guys must have had huevos the size of grapefruit, and made of solid brass.

It is not easy to judge such famous words from our point of view, IMHO, it seems as skating on thin ice. One can wonder if really those ancient spartans laws deserved to be defended until death.

But that's another story, as always in the history of humankind.

costanet wrote:

possum wrote:[ Go and tell the Spartans, stranger passing by,
That obedient to their laws, we here lie

/me shakes head in wonder and admiration

Those guys must have had huevos the size of grapefruit, and made of solid brass.

It is not easy to judge such famous words from our point of view, IMHO, it seems as skating on thin ice. One can wonder if really those ancient spartans laws deserved to be defended until death.

But that's another story, as always in the history of humankind.

I certainly agree that judging the morals, actions or even words of the ancients by modern standards is foolishness of a serious magnitude.

But in this case, I'd say the meaning is very plain. It's a snide, bitter slam at the magistrates who refused to call out the army during a major religious holiday.

See, in ancient Sparta the two kings were only military leaders. The civil powers invested in most kings of the day were, in Sparta, held by the magistrates instead.

When word of the Persian invasion arrived, Sparta was just beginning a major religious holiday of several days duration. Leonidas had no authority to violate custom by calling out the army during this holiday, so he went to the magistrates, who did have that authority. But the magistrates scoffed at the news of an invasion, refusing to believe it, and refused to call out the army.

So Leonidas marched to the Hot Gates with the only troops he could directly command; the 300 men of his bodyguard.

OK, I have been meaning to ask...

What the heck is a cover mount?

It is a magazine with a disk on the front cover