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On 19/11/2012 6:55 AM, Peter Huebner wrote:
> Is anybody else playing this new Stardock offering?

I've inherited it from having played their earlier Elemental: War of 
Magic game, which was an interesting idea with abysmal execution. 
Haven't played it yet -- been very busy with other things -- but home to 
try it out over Christmas. Your positive comments remove some of my 
trepidation.

> My biggest gripe so far is that the documentation is terribly inadequate
> -the pdf manual is well nigh useless, and the 'civilopedia' is hardly
> better (because you can't search keywords and it's badly organized).

Hmm. Is there a decent tutorial at this point? Don't think the beta had 
one however many months ago I looked at it.

> Apart from that - not a single glitch/bug/crash so far that I've seen.

Yay! as you note, that used to be a big problem. I needed lots of save 
files. I think there may have been a correlation with times I alt-tabbed 
out or left the game and had my screensaver kick in.

> The tactical battles are _much_ better than MoM,

That's really great, since it was apparently one of the things they 
indented to work very, very hard at achieving. Do you play the battles 
out or do you use auto-resolution? I seem to recall that back in the day 
one rarely dared to use auto because human tactics from a 
modestly-experienced player were so much better. OTOH if the AI is now 
very good at tactics, tactical battles might be too hard for a tactical 
novice like me.

It used to be that stacks of multiple champions ruled. Have they 
restricted it to one champion per stack now?

> Overall I'd say this is one of the better strategy game releases I have
> seen for a good long time - considering that I'm a tbs & 4x fan.

I'll try it out again, but probably not until too late to provide 
feedback to your post.

Are the forums still dominated by haters?