In particular, Scythians?

Reading Herodotus, as one does, he couldn't see a way to defeat them:

"The crucial thing they have discovered is how to prevent anyone who attacks them from escaping, and how to avoid being caught unless they want to be detected. Since they have no towns or strongholds ...

I'm glad I've got boxes and CDs for about half my games.

It seemed eccentric paying an extra 5 or 10 £ but I'm glad I did it.

I'm a dinosaur now and will soon be extinct.

Anyway, thanks to those games designers over the years.

I have an open tab on my PC browser - an as yet unread AAR on how to play Ageod's Alea Jacta Est game of Roman civil wars:

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/the-hero-the-traitor-and-the-barbarian-an-aje-pbem-beginner-aar.632034/

Only from 2012. AJE - another game I regularly load up ...

"I concur"
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Isn't that a line from one of the wacky advisors in Civilization 2 ?

Anyway, I concur.

I fired up several games today and just realised.. I am never going to get round to playing this properly.

Did the videos and music play before it crashed?

I think I had to install a thing called Div X on one PC to get it to run. Oh, and let the video thing run all the way.

I re ran WW1G just to see if it still works - every windows 11 update adds a chance of messing things up. On one of my pcs it ...

It works on my Windows 11 home and pro Pcs. But only by copying a complete installation from another pc and putting that in a new folder on the Windows 11 pc.
I have no idea why that works but that hours spent trying to do a new install be it from disc or downloaded from Matrix wouldn't work. I got ...

Wars in America by Ageod.

Just finished Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson - a highly regarded book on the American Civil War.

Now onto "Cromwell - our chief of men" by Antonia Fraser.

I should have read those tutorials years ago - so many pixel troops have died un-necessarily.
Thanks for the link

I've had it for years and never really tried it even though I find the era of Marlborough interesting.

I just looked at some of the tutorial videos and if the figures are right barely 500 people viewed them. It must be disheartening to put so much effort into making a game with so much historical ...

Was this like Popski's Private Army - a mini LRDG?

https://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/W ... rivateArmy

A shorter link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popski%27s_Private_Army

A bit late but it seems to be the 1.01 patch on Steam even though it says 1.0 - at least the patch notes seem to show 1.01 is the current steam version.

Hmm...

Something odd at the Ageod site today - some missing links and a dodgy post.

I got 1.03 Beta working.

On one PC I have a Borodino scenario, but not on another. Oh well.

Well six years on and I am installing these games on my new windows 11 PCs.

They are excellent for those who like history and maps.

Update 2026 - 6 years on - same problem on a new Windows 11 Pro PC - all the menu items were blank.

Same solution worked - I copied all the font from the fonts sub directory of windows on an old PC - about 300 in total.

I then posted all the font into the fonts sub directory of the windows ...

I agree with gamer78 - WITP-AE font was always too fuzzy for me. Ageod fonts are small too.

I've started using Windows Magnifier on some games with small text. Press:

Windows button + Num lock + Plus key
You can vary the magnification rate and move the panel around.
Not ideal but sometimes ...

Allied victory in turn one because of two staff blunders by the Axis - me.

Eager, too eager, to start I loaded the new scenario.

Error 1.
Forgot to set Allies to AI and realised this blunder as the scenario started.

Error 2.
Pressed Surrender instead of Quit - so Allies got a victory before I had ...

There are some recent AARs for the two big WW1 games that Ageod produced if you want an idea of what they do.

To End All Wars
World War 1 Gold

I'll post links later as I am piddling around on a phone at the moment.

Edit:
WW1G AAR https://forums.matrixgames.com/viewtopic.php?t=413235

Try them

And I am glad to report that your purple squares have disappeared.

Have you tried Rise of Prussia or Thirty Years War - both by Ageod.

Both seem to be geographically on your patch.