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In article <433gpl$r...@hyperion.mfltd.co.uk> n...@mfltd.co.uk (Ash) writes:
>cr...@realm.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (Chris Rose) wrote:
>>  I also LOVE Colonial Conquest for the Atari ST.  No wargame for my PENTIUM
>>(yes, a computer 10 years superior) has come close.  Check it out if you
>>haven't yet seen it, it would be a great grand-daddy type way the game could
>>be presented.  (scrolling map etc, all 6 major world powers etc etc)

Yepper! Like Sundog and DungeonMaster, years CC was YEARS ahead of its time.
What really amazes me in retrospect was the smooth & fast scrolling. Better
than alot of current games.

>>  Please PLEASE let me know if this ever gets out of the planning stage.  (I
>>am assumign that you are just researching the idea right now. )  but I know
>>that any TRUE A&A-like fan (grin) would definately respond with their 3 cents.

And there's got to be alot of us out here. Civilization-like, it's one game
that has maintained its playability over the years.

>Man, Colonial Conquest was incredible.   I remember playing that with
>a horde of friends on an ST about 6-7 years ago.  If Axis and Allies
>comes out, make sure it is truly multiplayer.
>
>BTW, was it just me, or did the player who went first (England, I
>think) have a huge advantage?  The English player always used to
>subvert everything on the second turn.  Or maybe I'm just bitter and
>twisted....

Actually, The English player DID have a huge advantage, although the Russian
player could buy giant troopstacks, that although of low quality, could
overwhelm the other players by shear numbers. 

The toughest country to play was Prussia: 
my sneaking suspicion is that the designers were a bit
Teutonophobic. No matter what you did, the other (computer) players would
seemingly ALWAYS gang up on poor little Prussia. After a couple of years of
playing CC, I could consistently win as any country EXCEPT Prussia, who
would often as not get the stuffings knocked out of it by everyone 
else (including the Japanese!). 

But hey, maybe I'M just bitter and twisted :)


Marl Somers