Advice please

[Nathaniel]

I have ordered BoA on the CD rom but after reading the forums and reviews I was impatient and now have downloaded the demo.

Before I load up the full game from the CD do I have to uninstall the demo version?
Sorry if this has been answered somewhere else.

[PhilThib]

It is not necessary to remove the demo, but it is advisable to do so, for cleaner setup. After you have installed the game fully, then you patch it (patch forum here, if need be).

Nb: if you played the 1st campaign year with the demo and wish to continue your game, do not forget to keep a copy of your saves before uninstalling the demo

[Nathaniel]

Thanks very much.
The game system seems like it would be ideal for the Thirty Years War, have you any plans for other games apart from the ACW.
I think I might be asking for more help with technical tasks like where to install the patch etc.

[Nathaniel]

My CD arrived and even apy: I was able to install the game, and the up to date patch. So far it all works including the interesting 1813 scenario, any chance of a southern War of 1812 scenario in the future.
Thanks.

[LMUBill]

My CD arrived and even apy: I was able to install the game, and the up to date patch. So far it all works including the interesting 1813 scenario, any chance of a southern War of 1812 scenario in the future.
Thanks.

I'd like to see one too but wouldn't they have to make a new map to include Alabama and Gulf Coast?

I'd like to see an Anglo-Cherokee War (1578-61) scenario but to be accurate you would need to add a few forts, like Fort Loudoun (which was built for the F&I war to keep the French out of Cherokee country) in Tennessee and Fort Prince George in South Carolina. You would also need some more Cherokee towns.

[PhilThib]

I'd like to add all this in my next BOA add-on, I just need help on OOB's and event leure:

[Nathaniel]

Fort Loudon is pretty isolated today so it must have real wilderness in 1750. But they have done a superb job with the restoration, and it has a beautiful setting on the lake.
You are a lucky man LMUBill living in that region.

[LMUBill]

Fort Loudon is pretty isolated today so it must have real wilderness in 1750. But they have done a superb job with the restoration, and it has a beautiful setting on the lake.
You are a lucky man LMUBill living in that region.

Actually you had 10-12 Cherokee towns within 20 miles or so of the fort so it wasn't that isolated.

It is pretty cool to go to one of the reenactments there.

Plus they have a HUGE collection of colonial/F&I war books for sale there.

I'm not a big fan of the lake but they did do a good job of raising the site up the 17 feet or so to keep it above the water. Plus there are some Cherokee sites nearby that TVA has given back to the Cherokees (including the are around the Sequoyah Birthpace Museum and the old "capitol" of Chota).

If you are ever in this area you ought to check out the Wilderness Road state Park in Virginia. They have a recreation of Martin's Fort there that was built entirely with period tools and materials. (http://www.martinsstation.com) It's more of a Rev War fort but they have a weekend of reenactments in cooperation with the Cumberland Gap NHP every spring that is pretty cool. If I really want to get in the mood to play BoA I go to the park (with the laptop) and play it there sitting at the fort. The bisons in the fields around the park are pretty cool too.

[Nathaniel]

Yes, we went to the Sequoyah Birthplace Museum, and also Red Clay State Historic Park on the way up from Atlanta.
I missed Martin's Fort leure: but did see some bison up near the Red River Gorge in Kentucky.

[LMUBill]

Yes, we went to the Sequoyah Birthplace Museum, and also Red Clay State Historic Park on the way up from Atlanta.
I missed Martin's Fort leure: but did see some bison up near the Red River Gorge in Kentucky.

Martin's Fort has only been complete for 2-3 years. And there are bison all over the place up here, especially in Lee County, VA. There is a field with 3-4 of them right next to the Cumberland Gap NHP and the Wilderness Road state park has a couple in a field as well. You go on up the road towards Jonesville and there are some fields with 20-30 in each field.

To get this kind of back on topic it would be cool to see a scenario/campaign that features settlers/pioneers in western VA, east TN and KY vs. the various native tribes. It would basically be militia vs. natives but there were several instances of militia groups (and some regular troops) undertaking punitive expeditions against various native towns in retalition for native attacks in support of the British (and French in the F&I war). My 7th great-grandfather (if I count right) had to abandon his farm site near what is now Radford, VA, for five years due to Shawnee and Cherokee "incidents" in the 1760's and 1770's.

[Nathaniel]

Martin's Fort has only been complete for 2-3 years.

It was in 2003 so it probably was not complete then.
Your settler/pioneers scenario sounds interesting.
People have forgotten about all the Indian Wars east of the Mississippi, and the F&I War is only remembered for Wolfe's death at Quebec.

[Pocus]

if you want to fiddle with some excel files, you can create such scenario. Check the Tory&Indians one for a starter, it can gives you some ideas.