AGEOD English Civil War

[Boggit]

Another renaissance title.  Was Thirty Year War any good?   Does it suit the engine?

http://www.matrixgames.com/products/683/details/EnglishCivilWar

I don't know if any engine can deal with the english civil war! I played a board game; Unhappy King Charles which did a really good job of the strategic feel, albeit without capturing The Rupertine twattery on the battlefield.

Wars In America was really good at tying units to areas and evaporating them at the end of every year, having leaders who are unable to move, hopefully they will put the same effort into this title.

I'm a bit disappointed it ends in '46, most of my favourite bits happen during the second phase of the war.

I hadn't realised they were doing only the first part of the war. The war in Scotland and Ireland is really interesting. Why did they only do part of the war?

[Jarhead0331]

Why did they only do part of the war?

DLC

[Philippe]

There were three wars.  Ageod's ECW game currently covers the first one.  I'm sure if the game's a commercial success there will be DLC covering the rest of them.

[Nefaro]

I remember a board game about the Peloponnesian war where you played solitaire against a system which dictated your general strategy and all of your opponent's actions. Whenever you would start beating your opponent badly, the game would make you switch sides.

That was Mark Herman's Peloponnesian War From Victory Games. *Sigh* I missed that one. However there is a remake of sorts called Pericles.

I've seen praise of the old Peloponnesian War game, as a solitaire experience.  Not familiar with it, myself.

Not sure how much Pericles shares with it.  Isn't Pericles directly based on the much more recent Churchill's system?

[Boggit]

There were three wars.  Ageod's ECW game currently covers the first one.  I'm sure if the game's a commercial success there will be DLC covering the rest of them.

That's what I was thinking.

[jomni]

There were three wars.  Ageod's ECW game currently covers the first one.  I'm sure if the game's a commercial success there will be DLC covering the rest of them.

That's what I was thinking.

And this title has been priced quite low compared to TYW and the others.

[Ian C]

There were three wars.  Ageod's ECW game currently covers the first one. 

Well hell. They could have put a 'Part One' on the title...I wondered why it was relatively inexpensive compared to their typical releases. I thought they'd restructured their price strategy and I was impressed as it seemed a perfect quality-to-price ratio. I thought I'd bought the whole deal. Sneaky bastards.

[rwenstrup]

Fun game at a very reasonable price ...

[smittyohio]

I remember a board game about the Peloponnesian war where you played solitaire against a system which dictated your general strategy and all of your opponent's actions. Whenever you would start beating your opponent badly, the game would make you switch sides.

That was Mark Herman's Peloponnesian War From Victory Games. *Sigh* I missed that one. However there is a remake of sorts called Pericles.

I've seen praise of the old Peloponnesian War game, as a solitaire experience.  Not familiar with it, myself.

Not sure how much Pericles shares with it.  Isn't Pericles directly based on the much more recent Churchill's system?

Pericles is based on Churchill, for sure.  I've got both, but haven't played Pericles yet.   I started reading the rules a few weeks ago, and it seemed much more complicated than Churchill to me.  I'll get back to it before long, but I'm still working my way through Falling Sky at the moment.   Silly work keeps getting in the way.

[besilarius]

Work is the curse of the gaming class.  - George Bernard Shaw.