Many thanks for the compliment!

I have revised the last option in the "City Options Menu" that was posted earlier. The "final" version now looks like this:


Revised City Options.jpg


The last option brings up the usual "selection area" to choose a city. But the enactment menu itself has ...

At least I am not drooling. Yet. :lol:

:D

Regarding the previous mention of "complexity" and such, here is the enactment area for converting a fortress to a town with the option of resettling the garrison:


Resettle-Convert Area.png


If the player proceeds, the enactment is confirmed in ...

Hey Orm, thanks for your kind words!

Yes, I have tried to make The Fall of Rome a deeper game than Hannibal and it is more complex. I haven't played War in the Pacific, so I cannot compare. I mostly stopped playing "other" strategy games with Rome: Total War. I have never played Europa Universalis ...

The "Sponsor Colonia" enactment is inspired somewhat by Gibbon's chapter on Septimius Septimus, and the need for the player to have a mechanism to strengthen a city's landowning class. There are indirect ways to do this, such as reductions in taxes for a particular city, and those methods will be ...

Thanks for the kind words! And I am sorry about the delay in responding. :oops:

I got a little bored with the particular Ops Command that I was demonstrating earlier, and I decided to finish the last remaining enactment from the "Urbes" choice in the Civitas Department. You have seen this before ...

I haven't forgotten about all of you! I hope that those of you who live here in the U.S. had a nice 4th of July holiday. :D

I have been working on refining the Admin Interface a little and finishing any remaining Ops Commands.

Here is the Ops Command for "Communicate with Cities" from the menu ...

Very good points! In particular, there should be a check for "interference" and I will add that at some point (hopefully very soon). Obviously, any attempt to court a leader or interfere with forces belonging to another faction or nation must produce some kind of response.

I am not sure how the AI ...

So, I finished, and then revised, the front end of the "Secret Negotiations" and have mostly worked out the factors for success. Here is what the revised version looks like, with the same target as before:


Remote Negotiations.jpg


Now that is the chances for a "remote" negotiation. The other ...

I don't think that Hannibal adds a specific bonus for his presence. The total Carthaginian strength is an important factor in determining the effects of the card. Same thing for Roman strength in field units. On top of all that, you seem to have gotten a very good roll. :D

I don't normally play ...

Well, I haven't forgotten about you or what I posted last. I went on vacation for a family thing (which was good) and took my laptop. But I didn't get a lot done. :oops:

If also occurred to me that there are two things which haven't been finished which are actually needed before the acclamation ...

Mercenarius, Watching with baited breath for many years! Is it possible we may see our legions spring forth this year?


I will do everything in my power to make that happen. But...we'll see how it goes.

In the meantime, here is a screenshot of something new. This is the dialog for the "Acclaim ...

Some good ideas there, although I have a few qualms which don't need to be hashed out here.

I don't know when/if Glenn is going to want to fund a revised version of the game. But I will make it a point to ask him if there is any news that I can share with you on this subject.

Hello Orm!

As always, thanks for your kind words!

Unfortunately, lately I have focused on interface issues, and still have a little cleanup to do concerning supply and finance. But I will try to post some news on the AI as soon as I can. I do plan to get more work done in that area this month ...

I haven't forgotten about all of you! I got - somewhat - derailed a little with some typesetting issues that I encountered after purchasing a new laptop. The admin dialog needed to be bigger at its maximum size for a large, high DPI display. I didn't have the hardware to test this until I got the ...

I have coded the "Cancel Recruiting" enactments for both the Exercitus and the Naves Departments. I will probably tweak these a little in the next month or so, but the basic structure is set.

If you use this button from the menu posted above a couple of weeks ago:


Cancel Recruiting.png


You ...

I quite recently played a fame of Hannibal and had the best experience yet...

Many, many thanks for such kind words, Orm!

I am wondering if there is anything to report about a possible AI opponent?

The short answer is that the game initially will ONLY have AI players/opponents, except for the ...

As usual, thanks for the kind words, everyone!

I realized that I hadn't put into the game an easy to cancel existing recruiting orders and it is (currently) not possible to cancel an order for replacement troops or weapons upgrades. So, I have modified the menu which is launched by this button in ...

The things that I worked on this last week for the most part don't lend themselves to screen shots. I noticed some problems with the order of battle for the Palmyrene forces in the 270 A.D. scenario and I reworked the default unit sizes for some of the types (Eastern Horse Archers and Eastern Levy ...

OK, I have added some detail to the Theater Report dialogs. I also made them available from the control maps used in the first department of the Administrative Interface. To help the players realize this, I also added underlining/link highlighting as well as an ellipsis after the area's name. Here ...

Thanks for your kind words, Orm!

I don't have that much to show this week, but I have created the "Detailed Instructions" menu which would be referenced from the "Replacements" enactment itself. As a reminder, this is what that particular enactment menu would look like:


Replacements Enactment ...