Great Game, really

[philsublime]

I read on Wargamer about this game, read a little on this forum and downloaded it. It's really great. I love the graphical style: simple yet pleasing for the eye. The game mechanics seem to be great, although I can't really tell yet, because I just played the tutorial. I will play a bit this weekend and then write down my experiences here.

One thing I noticed: the mouse seems to be a little slow. Also the map scrolling is kind of a litte sluggish... Not really a catastrophe, but I hate it, when it scrolls so strange...

Great work

Well, I just tried out the carolina scenario, but to tell you the truth, I fought more against the controlls than against my enemy. Please, do something about the strange mouse behaviour. Or is there some way I can make it work better?

[Tamas]

I believe it is a system performance thing? I had anti-virus and firewall working in the background when I played, and it was sluggish sometimes, will have to try it without them. But for me, its not even a real annoyance, just an occasional occurance.

[Dtry]

The firewall and antivirus programs do seem to interfere with the program a little bit. You just have to disconnect from the net and then disable them while you play. JUST remember to activate them before connecting to the net.

[Korrigan]

I'm using Bit Defender and I remarked no lags (AMD 3200, 1 Go, 6600 GT)

What AV+Firewall are u using?

[philsublime]

I turned everything off. It didn't change anything. In the closer zoom levels, it works pretty good, but when I zoom out, it gets worse... Well, but I love the game. I played the carolinas scenario a few time, but I always loose. Great fun. Next time I will win...

[Robear]

I'm playing with tons of stuff in the background, including Eve, anti-virus, etc. I have a gig of RAM, so I used the "territory pre-load" option. Perhaps that helps?

I got occasional very slight hesitations with the mouse, but nothing to worry about.

BTW, I find the strategy in the tutorial to be a bit...misleading? :-) I varied it in a way the computer didn't use, and won handily. Well...in the last month, but still, I won!

This is a FUN game. I'm really looking forward to getting into a longer scenario. It's definitely approachable and easy to get into, but nicely detailled. I find I spend time mulling over the situation before setting moves, and I have plenty to think about, but it's not overwhelming. I hope that makes sense.

[kev9000]

I thought there was a memory leak as uage was going up to 200MB+ RAM, about 5MBs extra a turn and I was using a program to keep flushing the memory but then I turned off the Cacheing and it stabilized at about 90MB RAM.

Kev

[Tamas]

This is a fun game indeed!
I fired up the french-indian war campaign as Brits, and after having my arse served on a plate by the initial French attacks, after 3 years, I am actually giving the AI a fight.
I even briefly recaptured Albany with my main army for a short period of time, just to be driven out again by the winter offensive of the French forces originally sieging fort William Henry. Now I am waiting for the end of winter to strike back at them again.
Oh boy.

[Patriotes1837]

This game looks very good indeed. It was sluggish one or twice but nothing really annoying. I also noticed it happened only when I was zoomed out completely.

[Pocus]

it has to do with the big flood of textures that arrives in your video card when you zoom out. Once it is done, and if you have enough RAM, you can scroll and zoom crazily without problem...

[Dtry]

I have to say this game is good.

I played the long campaign for the French and Indian war as France and won by victory points. Really the British should have won, but I got lucky and caught a group of five regiments with my main army of about 12 near in 1761. That is what saved me.

I started the American Revolution long campaign as the Americans and by 1777 was losing bad. I am not very good at this game. I think I am going to have to put my name on the "stink at this game list...."