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To get flavor of er, Paraguay, I recommend The Tomb of the Inflatable Pig by John Gimlette:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/413 ... atable_Pig

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Thank you Pocus and all others who helped with these games. They bring history alive, like when this morning when I read: "In January 1815, a last humiliation was suffered by the British Army at the Battle of New Orleans, where General Andrew Jackson imposed a bloody defeat, indeed a massacre, ...

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Leibst, Thanks for your games. I only scratch the surface but they stimulate me to learn more history. Espana - got me to read Beevor's book And ECW - to realise how little I knew of my own country's civil war. (And so nice to see Lyme Regis, near where my house is, in a war game !) Best wishes for ...

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I spent an enjoyable couple of hours playing this - I used patch 1.12a which some say is the last good patch which I got from a place called patches scrolls de - a German site. I imagine for casual play the legacy patch 1.13 from here would be fine for most people - myself too really. Short scenario...

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Well I just spent a couple of hours last night playing this and Birth of America.

They run smoothly on my low spec Win 10 laptop.

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Durk wrote:I find France to be the Goldilocks faction to play, not too hot, not too cold, just right. Lots of colonial action and internal development, but not difficult challenges.

And as Goldilocks was a trespasser and a thief - I suppose it is quite appropriate

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I've never got beyond the short scenarios like the Franco Prussian War because 1600 turns of solving 27 simultaneous equations or whatever to decide on trade goods just overwhelms me. So I fire it up, look at the map, think I must learn to play one day, and move on to something else. Anyway Loki if ...

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Pride of Nations has a scenario on the Boer War doesn't it?

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I agree Temgesic. Numbers of soldiers is how battle reports and campaign reports are written. This, I've just looked up Cannae: Armies: Carthage: 50,000: 32,000 heavy infantry, 8,000 light infantry, 10,000 cavalry Rome: 86,400: 40,000 Roman infantry, 40,000 allied infantry, 2,400 Roman cavalry, 4,00...

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I imagine most of you who are fans of this game and era have come across this - but I have just read the chapter on Sertorius in Plutarch's - "Makers of Rome" - about 25 pages and a cracking read.

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Hooray 1.03 and I finally get a victory as Rome in the Epirus scenario.

OK, it was on easy but I still feel my life has now been worthwhile.

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Well done. I'm really pleased for you that the launch of this seems to have gone so well. I hope it does well and the new engine can be used for more games. ----- Hint if you jumped in to the small Rome v Epirus scenario - and got thrashed in three or four turns several times on Easy setting. :) Sta...

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Well I've still got lots of AJE to play. And I have EU:Rome but have barely touched it. I'll certainly hold out for a while as my recent experience of buying new games has been bad (with the exception of Armored Brigade which been fine for me from the start). It may well be that my ageing body and c...

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Thanks for the tip Leibst.

I was only thinking of playing this game again last week when I drove through Lyme Regis where the Parliamentarians held off a Royalist siege for 8 weeks in 1644.

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Yes I too like the games and the historical feel they give.

Even if I don't have the patience to play the longer scenarios I still look at the maps wistfully.

Good luck and thanks for the games.

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Blimey, when I saw the thread title I thought I started a similar one called that ages ago - and lo - it was mine - and after a long time hibernating Hobbes has arrived with spring. Glad things seem fine. ----------------- I've just remembered, I think, that Yossarian in Catch 22 reflects "Wher...

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Oh yes so it does - playing as royalist, but it seemed ok as Parliament.

Can you tell me in more detail what you changed to what, and the effect if you don't do it?

Thanks

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Can someone explain the arithmetic to me in the calculations shown by the tooltips on the top left? For example mine currently shows: 29 next to the coin symbol Tooltip: 7 (+98) Variations during past turn: Initial amount :2 Changes from cities income: 98 Changes from units replacements: -32 Changes...

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I guess that's another reason to avoid Windows 10 if possible. I generally install new games in a new directory, not whatever the default is, and set compatibility to Windows 7. I'm not technical enough to have a clue really to help you I'm afraid. My local computer shop is selling a re-furbished To...

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I have no problems with any of the Ageod games on my Windows 10 laptop. Your problem with the opt file was that you possibly saved it as a txt file after the change. Notepad did this to me until I noticed it. My issue with Ageod games, and think I have nearly all of them, is that I don't have enough...

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I just got a minor victory after capturing Spartacus in March -70. But on very easy settings.

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You may find some one at TWC interested https://thewargamingclub.com/ecw-game-5 ... -t282.html

Fellow 64 year old !

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I found a reference to Bish Iwaszko who I played modern wargames with - he was something of a guru in London in 1968:

http://vintagewargaming.blogspot.com/se ... %20Iwaszko

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Well done.

The Puritans don't like Christmas so that should make them even more miserable.

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Are command ratings based on post war analysis or what was perceived before the event? For example: Smith might have a bad reputation so I give him a minor job but he turns out to be brilliant; Jones is highly regarded so I put him in charge of an army but he turns out to be useless - e.g. freezes u...

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It works even if you haven't upgraded?

Perhaps I'll change mine to say version 3.1 April 1st 2021

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I have just updated my version of "The Operational Art of War" - there are over 500 user made scenarios so it is no wonder it has become one of the most esteemed war games. I've always felt Ageod missed a trick by making it so hard to alter things or make new scenarios. If a fraction of th...

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As probably the only person who plays this game, and even then only occasionally, I've fired it up for a couple of short scenarios. There is an AAR by someone on the Matrix site which covers the Moltke plan of Russia first which is unusual and which caught my eye. I've also played the Paradox game V...

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By coincidence I have my copy of Paradox's version of Diplomacy to hand wondering whether to re install it just to remind myself what an awful mess they made of such a well known game. It has cartoonish characters with animal names making grunting sounds from which you are supposed to judge whether ...

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I have EU1 - but still haven't read the manual all the way through.

Recently got For The Glory - a sort of EU2 on steroids.

There's so much history in these games - thanks for all that Phil - I wish I could get more people interested in them.

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Re: Leibst newest game project

Re: Rise of Prussia, Revolution under Siege and Civil War nostalgia and engine question

Re: Please.... get HQ involved with the new engine...

Played again using 1.12a

Still a nice game

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Re: See how many soldiers in an army...

Plutarch's chapter on Sertorius

Re: Well done Pocus (and others) And a hint to new players

Well done Pocus (and others) And a hint to new players

Re: FoG:Empires vs Imperator:Rome

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Re: Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan?

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War Supplies and money calculations

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Re: New patch ?

Re: Having trouble with Spartacus

Re: ECW Battles at Pike & Shot Campaigns Battles?

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Re: Royalist victory vs Athena

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Re: Wars of Succession has been updated to version 1.01

Re: How did the game do?

One last push for victory 100 years on.

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Re: Europa Universalis is 25 years old