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AGEOD to make American Civil War II

Started by Syt, June 17, 2013, 12:39:56 PM

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Habbaku

The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

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Tamas

Their Russian Civil War game is very cool, for starters. ACW, BOA2...

The Ancient Rome games also worth checking out if you like the period.

Syt

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Valmy

Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Valmy

It annoys me on some level that the Lettowists have 1865 flags in a 1862 scenario.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

garbon

It annoys me on some level that their games look like butt.
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Ed Anger

Quote from: Valmy on August 28, 2013, 09:35:16 AM
It annoys me on some level that the Lettowists have 1865 flags in a 1862 scenario.

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Valmy

Quote from: garbon on August 28, 2013, 09:37:09 AM
It annoys me on some level that their games look like butt.

Yeah.  It basically looks the same as the Napoleon one I bought several years ago from them.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

PDH

All that I will have to do is make 30,000 men Union corps and steamroll the Confederates - it is what the North should have done and it pisses of Tamas.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
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Baron von Schtinkenbutt

Quote from: Habbaku on June 17, 2013, 02:05:41 PM
I have yet to be impressed by an AGEOD-engine game.  I'll wait for the $5 version.

I got my copy of the original for $0.50 from Microcenter.

Tamas

Quote from: PDH on August 28, 2013, 12:08:17 PM
All that I will have to do is make 30,000 men Union corps and steamroll the Confederates - it is what the North should have done and it pisses of Tamas.

divisions. you made divisions the size of armies  :rolleyes:

Valmy

Quote from: Tamas on August 29, 2013, 10:14:08 AM
Quote from: PDH on August 28, 2013, 12:08:17 PM
All that I will have to do is make 30,000 men Union corps and steamroll the Confederates - it is what the North should have done and it pisses of Tamas.

divisions. you made divisions the size of armies  :rolleyes:

What difference does that make exactly?  I mean so what if the Army of the Potomac is split into seven corps or three divisions?  It is still 70,000 yankees.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Tamas

Quote from: Valmy on August 29, 2013, 10:54:37 AM
Quote from: Tamas on August 29, 2013, 10:14:08 AM
Quote from: PDH on August 28, 2013, 12:08:17 PM
All that I will have to do is make 30,000 men Union corps and steamroll the Confederates - it is what the North should have done and it pisses of Tamas.

divisions. you made divisions the size of armies  :rolleyes:

What difference does that make exactly?  I mean so what if the Army of the Potomac is split into seven corps or three divisions?  It is still 70,000 yankees.

Just the kind of difference it makes in real life: it is easier to command 100k men if you have an organization around it. You get penalties in the game when there are too many units under a commander and/or in a too little organization. Think containers. You combine units and a leader into a division, you combine divisions into a corps with a two-star leaders, and corps are assigned to an Army (but not inside the "container" unit of the army. You cannot have Corps without Armies btw).

It is just that as PDH discovered, the penalties didn`t really matter that much if you can have a big enough numerical superiority, at least in ACW1 when we played.

PDH

My 30,000 man units that tromped all over you were Corps.  Each Division was 10,000 men, each Corps had 3 divisions.  I just filled up the units instead of having 10,000 men corps like the Union did.

The North had such great advantages in 1862 that they should have run all over the South.  Properly organized they can.  Still, it does make for a crappy gaming experience.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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"I'm pretty sure my level of depression has nothing to do with how much of a fucking asshole you are."

-CdM