randomization is made only when the general appears in-game, not in advance. excellent. Thanks! :) About the random&hide abilities thing, this has been discussed and this lead to some problems. In AACW you get many historical events and this complicate things (as many generals appears by event) Yea...

I have a basic question about how the game's engine works: I find that the first couple of turns in AACW are kind of routine, so I save a file at that point with my initial moves. What I want to know is whether generals are "re-randomized" each time I go back to that file. In other words, are genera...

So here's an annoying little problem: When I have to quit playing AACW for more than a few minutes and want to put my computer in standby mode or hibernate it, there appears to be no way to keep the game in memory. Whenever I turn the computer back on and attempt to return to the game, it fails to r...

OK, the link I gave should work; if not let us know :) Your second point makes sense, but I'll have to look into it before I can say anything. In any case, you still only need the lates patch (1.11) to get things fully updated. Yeah, I'm downloading it now! 92 MB! Practically a game in itself. :sif...

No., that wasn't it. When you buy a game directly from AGEod, you get an e-mail confirming the purchase with a little "download" button on it. It takes you to a page that I have p.m.'ed you because I wasn't entirely confident about security. On that page, there are two buttons, one to d-load the gam...

An update --

When I installed the game it did install a pdf manual as well; is that the same as the "player guide" which you can supposedly d-load directly from the site? If so, it might help to clarify this.

Or maybe I'm just unusually dense.

Hey, Rafiki -- Ok, so I bought and d-loaded AACW from the AGEod store and everything installed fine, EXCEPT the player guide. When I try to d-load the pdf, it appears to hang up. Normally what you see in these cases is the entire document d-loading and then it takes a while before the Abode Reader o...