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In article <k8difg$n6a$1@dont-email.me>, dalamb@cs.queensu.ca says...
> 
> 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.

There is a tutorial but they hardly need have bothered. It's only brief 
and only explains the very basic elements of how to play.


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

There is no limitation. I ended up, in the one game I won, with a stack 
of 7 champions. Mostly that was because I was too busy building up my 
cities rather than creating troups. I will focus more on building troups 
in some future game(s).

> > 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?

I've spent about 1/2 an hour on the forums last night, there's a very 
nice stickied noob guide that I looked into; it has a lot more info in 
it than what's been offered up by Stardock. I looked through a few 
threads but didn't see any detractors, never mind haters.

I need to spend a lot more time with this before I decide if it's a 
keeper or not. It certainly seems to be a slow moving game. In an easy 
mode large map with fast tech advancement I spent 13-14 hours (99 in-
game years) before victory. Was nowhere near the end of the tech tree. 
Comparable maybe to Civ IV or V on a huge map? 

-P.