<r> Since one of the recurring themes from defenders of Matrix's pricing structure in this thread has been that the complaints about it are all coming from the same people over and over again, I decided to re-activate my long dormant forum account to add my two cents:<br/>
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<t> So here's a question that springs to mind -- to date, all my amphibious moves have been aimed at seizing coastal islands to improve the strength of the blockade. Should I be aiming amphibious invasions at population centers instead? Ideally one would do both, of course, but resources/troops are ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>I tend to make up those PPs by grabbing territory in the central and western states, as well as along the coastal regions with amphibious ops.<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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Interesting. In the games I've played I've tended to concentrate my Western offensive along two axes ...

<t> I've been playing through this game for a couple weeks now and I am slowly but surely getting to the point where I think I understand most facets of it. But one thing that eludes me is how to keep the Union player's PP total up.<br/>
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Building an army that can simultaneously threaten the ...

<r> Wow, great responses! Thanks!<br/>
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If it helps, btw, the last grand-strategic ACW game I played that I really liked was (and here I show my age) Interactive Magic's "<LINK link="http://reviews.cnet.com/pc-games/american-civil-war-from/4505-9696_7-30977441.html"><s>[link=http://reviews ...

<t> I've been itching to play a good American Civil War grand-strategic game for a while now. But I can't tell from reviews, etc. which of Matrix's array of offerings is the best place to start.<br/>
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It looks like they have three well-regarded games of this type: Forge of Freedom, AGEOD's ...

<r> Have you ancients fans checked out this little gem yet?<br/>
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<B><s>[b]</s>Hoplites<e>[/b]</e></B>: <LINK link="http://digilander.libero.it/zak965/hoplites.htm"><s>[link=http://digilander.libero.it/zak965/hoplites.htm]</s>http://digilander.libero.it/zak965/hoplites.htm<e>[/link]</e></LINK ...

If it's gonna be a full download... may I humbly suggest giving us a .torrent of the file as well as the standard download package? So that at least when we're all downloading at once, we're doing some good rather than crushing someone's server? [:)]