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AACW2 and RUS both play well on this pc, but I was thinking along those lines too thanks I'll give it a try.

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When you click a stack, the stack panel appears in the middle of the screen not the bottom which is where I would like it--that's one issue. The second issue is the message panel that is transparent in my game and not a solid background. As with AACW, it pretty much has to be read over the ocean or ...

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Thanks for that. I just found it odd as most game review screenshots, and the TYW manual itself, show these features I would prefer to have: "A horizontal display window known as the Stack Panel appears along the bottom edge of the screen." (TYW Manual, p.41) Likewise, the message panel on p.29 is d...

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How does one get the unit panel to appear bottom of screen (i.e. not in the middle).

How does one render the message panel with a non-transparent background (i.e. solid and thereby readable).

Fascinating time-period and game coverage I must say.

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I loved it also. But keep in mind that this AAR was done with the Vanilla version, and that many features and options where still not implement with later patches and the Gold version. But this AAR is a good introduction anyway. Yes I noted that, and as I missed the evolution of RUS to the present ...

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I don't say for sure. I was trying to explain. I don't enough know the game. Maybe you have an army of slaves which would turn in another revolution to remove the bolshevik government. You have a nice brand Red toy, but it's rotten inside. The game is not made to simulate this future, VPs are to su...

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Well, well, well. All the problem of this thread is link to the AGE engine version we had to use for the RUS Gold. We couldn't remove this "Victory screen Windows" which pop up and don't give all the time the right text we wanted and which fit to the party. So, to make it simple : ignore this "vict...

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I wasn't talking about a bug I was talking about victory conditions that seem skewed to me in an admittedly new Campaign, game #2. "Politics" you say re the Reds? What politics ? You were either with them or against them, and they fought off all comers with only their internal domestic resources. Th...

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I just suffered a stunning defeat as the Reds vs AI in January 1922, informed that "The Red, Black and Green armies have been almost eradicated and the Revolution is now crushed. The Whites are ready to establish a new regime." VPs: Reds: 1765 (+38) E. Whites: 2354 (+14) W. Whites: 1279 (+6) The Red...

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I have been into the game for a few months now and made the gameplay transition easily enough from years of experience with AACW & AACW2. That said, the events and strategic options in RUS are far more complex, especially for someone who had a sketchy idea of this war to begin with. I found Bornego'...

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Thanks for that. I should have realized it although the tooltip note is rather cryptic, but the RR line to Murmansk has to be cleared (up to the off-map RR link). The two towns I neglected to occupy are Medvezhya Gora + Segezha. While new at the long Campaign game, it seems to me that the Reds shoul...

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Available after late November 1919 if the Reds control Moskva and the NW border towns, specifically Olonets, Petrograd, and Pskov. Playing the Reds against the AI I have been attempting to trigger this since late Nov until the present turn of late April/20, with no success. All the above are control...

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This tiny fonts that couldn't be zoomed are a common AGE engine and graphics works we couldn't afford us to improve. But if you want a document printable version of the events and options, just check in your following game repository : .../Revolution Under Siege Gold/Docs you will find the Game Eve...

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ERISS wrote:Did you try to run the game in a smaller resolution (I do)?
or you can edit the font file (bold or increase) (I did decrease for my big DPI).

I did and got some slight improvements. As I said it's a relatively minor issue, but I gather it's not an easy fix development wise.

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That's interesting to know and my criticism was pretty minor really. As I said, I think the game system inherited from AACW really seems to depict the situation well. A little extra micromanagement in putting your force together is neither here nor there given the scale of this beast. I'm truly enjo...

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Having played AACW & AACW2 extensively I was pretty much able to jump right into RUS right away--albeit with a copy of W. Bruce Lincoln's Red Victory: A History Of The Russian Civil War, 1918-1921 in hand to cram some history while playing in order to throw some light on a subject I was pretty sketc...

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Should I take offense to that, or has something been deleted :mdr: The spam was deleted and my regrets for not responding to your detailed response , which surely deserves the same. A RL move has seen me buried alive in boxes that needed sorting, deleting, given away etc. Will respond soon, althoug...

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I'd advise the moderator to remove that as it's spam for porn sites in Russian.

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I would agree with you if the Union troops had destroyed the food and infrastructure, and then prevented the civilians from leaving the area by rounding them up in camps or otherwise keeping them tied to a man-made wasteland. As it was, they were free to leave and take their chances elsewhere. In b...

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I wrote a long post (so long I've given it a new thread ) about the question of the proportionality of the horrors of the civil war to the horrors of slavery. I'm posting it mostly as a question and not as an answer. I'd love to hear people's comments about my excess mortality argument there. At th...

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Keeler, I'll attempt to clarify a few things that your very thoughtful response requires. I must respectfully disagree with this for two reasons. While the Shenandoah Valley Burning and March to Sea were brutal, spread fear and lawlessness, and resulted in civilian deaths, both indirectly and direct...

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We both know it was a lot more complicated than that. Tariffs were stifling the Southern economy. Control of Congress was slipping away and with it the ability to steer the nation the way some Southerners wanted. Lincoln set about a war to restore the Union by force, not to free blacks from slavery...

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This discussion started in another thread when Yours Truly wandered far off topic. I am restarting it here for those interested. If BattleVonWar would re-post his reactions to my post here I would be grateful. My divergent post (with a few editorial changes): Davis was an outstanding asset for the S...

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Hey, tripax , you're right. I was going to post a ringing endorsement of Stauffenberg 's views, which would probably have been a waste of time. Stauffenberg , I didn't know Lee and Grant ever met after the war. I'd like to hear more about that. lol, and yes I believe Lee and Grant did as stated, bu...

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Stauffenberg, any side is bound to have it's strengths and weaknesses in any conflict, region and given time situation. Remember reading schoolboy level Civil War texts saying that the delay of the Civil War saved the Union. Had it happened before industrializing that things would have run a whole ...

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Excellent point Cardinal Ape. It has been added to Points to Know. When I was trying to learn the game, I remember being confused about this point. The dash in the rules is just a spacing device, but it really does look like a negative number. And being a negative makes sense. Why would anyone do s...

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On the other hand I often play in my head what I call "The Longstreet Strategy"... Let the bluebellies bleed themselves to death and overthrow Lincoln in 1864. Major defensive positions they have to attack... etc... Just get all your 20 lbs and columbiads in place with Porter Alexander part of the s...

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I suspected I had simply not yet had an AI game with those strategies triggered. Good to know.

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So, its just something we have to live with, and why I am on this forum. I don't have the time to find out all the quirks and minutiae of the game myself. A few lunch hours perusing the tips and suggestions on the forum are worth 5 manuals. As well as bashing away with the AI and then bringing ques...

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I've recently gotten back into ACW2 and played out a number of games against the AI and have experienced what you note; however, I've also had some challenging games with the AI sniffing out weak points over the Appalachians and launching large offensives from WV into NC and from Knoxville into Geor...

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