<t> Even units sitting in my capital are a mess, meanwhile I am under a lot of pressure from minor regimes who are <br/>
gobbling up my territory and threatening my cities (I have two because I took out one minor and have their former <br/>
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I built two MG brigades but ...

<t> I kinda got that much, although how to manage the details isn't intuitively obvious.<br/>
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So I am kinda at an impass where either I cheat my way out of the hole that I rapidly fell into just the last couple turns, or throw away that game and start over.<br/>
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Honestly I'd rather ...

<t> I second this...<br/>
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To be honest, I am finding the game overwhelming as a new player. I invested a fair amount of time (over 20 turns) into an initial game, but suffered a sudden logistical collapse and really didn't have time to sort out why all my units were suddenly "dying". If ...

<r> My first mention of "parking" a fleet was in reference to the mechanics of Paradox games (which had been invoked as a model to be reapplied). In the Paradox games, there is neither a rules barrier or a diplomatic down-side to parking a fleet in a sea province next to somebody else's land ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: rk0123msp@mindspring<br/>
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I agree with much of what barnacle bill says in the post above. I still have Steller conquest (both versions) on my collector's shelf. Although it seems to me B Bill is fundamentally a macromanager (from the post), I'm in the ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Registered55<br/>
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still waiting for a game that incorporates territory in space,<br/>

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I agree. In my ideal game, you'd get a claim on a system by exploring it before anybody else with whom you are in contact, you can't ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: the1sean<br/>
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Twilight Imperium is the modern successor to Stellar Conquest: <URL url="http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/12493/twilight-imperium-third-edition"><LINK_TEXT text="http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/ ... rd-edition">http://www ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: the1sean<br/>
Yeah, and it is interesting to see how the PC games influence the board game market as well. for instance, Twilight imperium seems very PC game influnced, and yet it then influenced games like GalCiv...
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I'm not ...

ORIGINAL: the1sean
Its nice to see another board gamer on the scene, by th way

Kind of gives you the looooong view[;)]

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Bozz<br/>
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I learnt english by playing 4x games [:D]<br/>
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And I'm not joking, these games are always in english, I remembre when I was younger (I'm 21 now) I spent hours playing SE III, MOO2, Ascendancy and understanding nothing [:@]<br/>
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<t> I'm relatively new to the game myself, but here is what seems to work for me...<br/>
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As with any realtime game, sit with your finger on the space bar and by default your eye on the message screen - pause if anything happens in which you need to intervene.<br/>
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Enable ...

<t> I've been playing interstellar 4X games since the pre-computer board game era, and have been a fan of the genre all along - so I"ve owned and played most everything.&nbsp; BTW, a lot of the early computer games in the genre lifted major portions of the mechanics of previous board games wholesale ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Brainsucker<br/>
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Maybe limit it to Europa Universalis 3 combat engine is more than enough for everyone here.<br/>

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An interstellar 4X game based on the Paradox RTS games (EU series, HOI series) is something I've been ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Hertston<br/>
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Just balance, really. I'm a huge SotS fan, but have always thought of it more as a sci-fi wargame than a 4X as such because of the emphasis both on tactical combat and fleet movement. There's an awful lot of the usual 4X stuff SotS doesn't ...