Must have!

[sullafelix]

PON was an aberration for PF. The AGE engine was thrown together with a Europa Universalis engine and they had a child who a lot of parents wouldn't love.

However the team has worked on it and plans to work further on it. I believe the newest patch is 1.3 which does take care of more than a few issues.

But if you are going to judge PF do it by looking at Rise of Prussia, Revolution Under Siege, BOA I and II, Napoleons Campaigns, Ageod's American Civil war and not the Paradox/Ageod PON.

To be perfectly honest I have always been surprised at my liking of all Ageod/PF games. I am a hex gamer plain and simple. If they did the AGE engine on a hex map I would be in heaven. I used to just look at games and if it didn't have a hex map I would go no further.

[wodin]

Sulla I thought Ageod now had totally broken away from Paradox so are no longer Paradox France but just AGEOD again.

[sullafelix]

They are totally separate again but the last I saw there name was PF.

[Kipper]

Seems to be a little criticism of the AI splitting armies up into small raiding parties, polluting the map with small units which the AI does not recombine into field armies again, leading to an ahistorical and unsatisfactory situation... what I can't get from the other forums is how big a deal this is and it is keeping me on the fence. How are you folk finding this issue? Is it a serious issue in your opinion?

[Blind Sniper]

Blind Sniper, let me know how you like it and I may try it out. $25 isn't that much money.

Sure, give me the time to play a bit.

[wodin]

ORIGINAL: Kipper

Seems to be a little criticism of the AI splitting armies up into small raiding parties, polluting the map with small units which the AI does not recombine into field armies again, leading to an ahistorical and unsatisfactory situation... what I can't get from the other forums is how big a deal this is and it is keeping me on the fence. How are you folk finding this issue? Is it a serious issue in your opinion?

yeah I mentioned this here somewhere. It's not a massive deal and apparently it's being worked on and can be curbed.

personally it hasn't been a big deal for me. A pain in the backside at times especially say in the Marius vs Sulla scenario if you take marius the constant small units attacking in to Spain was a real pain..to the point where it's very hard to keep hold of Spain as Marius which then means the Scenario is uber tough. Again though I believe they can reduce that in a path.

[BohémondAJE]

In next patch, AI should make less small stacks.
This will be true for ''major'' factions. Raiders and Pirates will still use these small stacks.

Regards

Bohémond from AJE Team.

[stormbringer3]

This is an excellent game and one of the best releases I've seen in a long time. The news about cutting down the small stacks will be a definite improvement.

[Grotius]

Glad to hear processing time is not an issue. That may persuade me to buy this title. It looks fun!

[Rtwfreak]

The only thing about this game is after having played minatures of the period in my youth it's very hard to just play a game like this with just generic counters and not much glitz and glamor. This is why I'm excited about Rome 2 Total War as it will have the glitz and glamor and hopefully a better ai than last time.

[wodin]

Rtwfreak....hmmm....this is more of a wargame than the total war series...which really is an rts for the masses rather than a wargame as such. A great game series yes..but not really a wargame.

Matrix\Slitherine specialise in wargames thats why graphics aren't the no1 thing here as I saw you wanted 3D units similiar to Panzer Corps in Command Ops which just wouldn't work at all.

You mention the graphics here...yet I dare say many here will say the graphics are very very good in this game. Finally this is an operational level wargame so thats why you don't see lots of little romans running around fighting each other.

Finally the immersion comes in through gameplay not visuals with this game...some games just don't need visuals to immerse the player. If you carry on buying Slitherine\Matrix games then you have to get into the wargame mindset and see graphics in a totally different light. This game does have great graphics...your just not looking at it from the right perspective. Think of a novel and a graphic novel...both have there place...a novel is no less immersive because it has no visual stimulas..just like a graphic novel can still tell a good story.

[Rtwfreak]

Didn't Matrixgames publish Tin Soldiers: Caesar & Alexander? Aren't those wargames? I could go for that type of graphics as well in a game like this. I think Slitherine did a minatures version as well and I guess I'm jaded towards those types of graphics. I spent plenty of years playing with cardboard counters an imagining little armies of men on the maps but once I got into minatures there was no turning back.

[Magpius]

Just got it...like it.
(would've said love it, but it runs a little slow with the bigger scenarios on my 'puter)

[wodin]

ORIGINAL: Rtwfreak

Didn't Matrixgames publish Tin Soldiers: Caesar & Alexander? Aren't those wargames? I could go for that type of graphics as well in a game like this. I think Slitherine did a minatures version as well and I guess I'm jaded towards those types of graphics. I spent plenty of years playing with cardboard counters an imagining little armies of men on the maps but once I got into minatures there was no turning back.

OK cool. Funny enough I've been looking at Tin Soldiers recently but the restricted Res puts me off.

[JiminyJickers]

Edit: Oops, wrong forum.

[Gizuria]

Very, VERY interested in picking this one up. The Late Republic/Roman Civil wars are a fantastic era for wargaming and it looks like this game really does the period justice.

[Blind Sniper]

Blind Sniper, let me know how you like it and I may try it out. $25 isn't that much money.

Ok, now I have played it a bit.

MAP
The map is very nice but I have problem to scroll the map with some zoom levels, moreover it is slow to load the menu, every menu.
I don't have the last top-notch computer but is a good one (see attach).

GAMEPLAY
Almost every scenario has a bug that can ruin a PBEM game, surely will be patched soon (Ageod support is great) but at the moment I'm waiting before to play my first PBEM.
Still don't know if movement and combat system are good or not because I don't like to play against AI, I just made some turns but nothing more.

I believe AJE can be a very good game and with this price is a bargain but at the moment is still better ACW (IMHO).

[BohémondAJE]

ORIGINAL: Blind Sniper

Blind Sniper, let me know how you like it and I may try it out. $25 isn't that much money.

Ok, now I have played it a bit.

MAP
The map is very nice but I have problem to scroll the map with some zoom levels, moreover it is slow to load the menu, every menu.
I don't have the last top-notch computer but is a good one (see attach).

GAMEPLAY
Almost every scenario has a bug that can ruin a PBEM game, surely will be patched soon (Ageod support is great) but at the moment I'm waiting before to play my first PBEM.
Still don't know if movement and combat system are good or not because I don't like to play against AI, I just made some turns but nothing more.

I believe AJE can be a very good game and with this price is a bargain but at the moment is still better ACW (IMHO).

For Scrolling issue at minimum zoom level, try to uncheck BordersOnMap option in MainMenu/Options ingame.

Regards

Bohémond (AJE Team).

[wodin]

Your CPU speed is very slow. The again notebooks and laptops just aren't really built for gaming..

[n01487477]

ORIGINAL: wodin

Your CPU speed is very slow. The again notebooks and laptops just aren't really built for gaming..

Wodin - you are talking about a quad i7 being slow ?? HP is excretment but ...

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Core ... 035.0.html

This is more likely graphics requirement (unoptimised code) & capability rather than cpu.

[edit]And given AEGOD haven't optimised it yet ... but isn't it based on engines which have similar issues ?