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Is there such a word as replayability?

Anyway, can you replay senarios over and over and still get a lot of fun and different game experience each time, or is it that once you've played a scenario its over and done with?

How long on average does each scenario take to play?


And on another topic, while I think of it. Will this game appear on shop shelves as a boxed game or will it be available on-line only?

If it's not a word, I would still prefer it to "replayableness".

I've played some of the scenarios three times so far. Changing the fog of war options really does make this a completely different game on replay. Full fog of war is a beast that I haven't seen in other games and it's a treat -- a hair-pulling treat, but a treat nonetheless. The scenarios are fairly short - you could play the extended ones in an afternoon if you wanted to.

Word has it that this will not appear at retail. It and its follow-ups will be for digital download only supposedly.

In all honestly I don't think CotD has the lasting appeal that a game like Medieval Totalwar has.

One thing that might keep it going is its ability to be played against human opponents.

I certainly hope to have a few challenge games once I've mastered the FOW scenario a bit better.

But at the end of the day this is a very focussed game limted to refighting a limited part of the Napoleonic Wars. once you've played all the scenario's a few times there's not much else to do.

Like most games, it must be most replayable if played against human opposition. If you played every scenario several times by e-mail, I suppose it would keep you occupied for quite a long time.

I agree that playing a whole war is more involving than playing a small part of a war. But it wouldn't really be feasible to replay the Napoleonic wars in full at this scale, unless perhaps you have nothing else to do with your life.

ORIGINAL: Jonathan Palfrey
I agree that playing a whole war is more involving than playing a small part of a war. But it wouldn't really be feasible to replay the Napoleonic wars in full at this scale, unless perhaps you have nothing else to do with your life.

You mean there's something more important than doing that?[X(]

ORIGINAL: Didz

You mean there's something more important than doing that?[X(]

Not exactly. If you're a multimillionaire and decide that what's important to you is to spend the rest of your life refighting the Napoleonic wars, why not?

Unfortunately I'm not in that position and I have to hold down a full-time job, otherwise my family goes out of supply. I was writing from my own point of view -- though it's a point of view that must be shared by many other people.

I d/l this game over the weekend to help hold me over until Witp is available. I chose the extended campaign (which I assumed was the longest scenario to play). I played ALLIES and within 10 days the AI surrendered. So I pretty much feel that with 2-3 hours I had beaten the AI on the longest scenario. Game over for me. I have no interest in playing this game any more. What am I missing?

JP

I think that with this game you play against the program only for practice and to get familiar with the game mechanics. When you're ready to play seriously, you play against a human opponent by e-mail.

If you don't want to do that for some reason, this may not be the right game for you.

I agree that the program makes a weak opponent.

ORIGINAL: Jonathan Palfrey

ORIGINAL: Didz

You mean there's something more important than doing that?[X(]

Not exactly. If you're a multimillionaire and decide that what's important to you is to spend the rest of your life refighting the Napoleonic wars, why not?

Damn, you've given away my secret, now I'll have to become a tax exile. Hope they have broadband on the Isle of Mann.

ORIGINAL: Jonathan Palfrey
Unfortunately I'm not in that position and I have to hold down a full-time job, otherwise my family goes out of supply. I was writing from my own point of view -- though it's a point of view that must be shared by many other people.

My priorities changed when I realised the only people getting rich from my efforts were my employers. Now I work for myself and can decide my own priorities subject of course to the great dictator Comrade Blair and his KGB agents.[&o]

Sounds good. I left the UK in 1986 and ceased to be an employee in 1989, but as I work every day for the same company I'm self-employed only in a technical sense. And having wife and child to support constrains my theoretical freedom to take unpaid holidays playing wargames.

I do have a bank account in the Isle of Man, now you mention it...

ORIGINAL: Jonathan Palfrey

Sounds good. I left the UK in 1986 and ceased to be an employee in 1989, but as I work every day for the same company I'm self-employed only in a technical sense. And having wife and child to support constrains my theoretical freedom to take unpaid holidays playing wargames.

I do have a bank account in the Isle of Man, now you mention it...

Ahh! Your an IR35 tax exile[:D]

Yes. So far (touch wood) I've managed to dodge that piece of Blairite stealth tax legislation. Thats one of the reasons I try never to work for one client at a time, always work from my own home office and rarely work 9 to 5 Mon-Fri. I have to be able to prove to the Blairite KGB that I am in control of my own business and nto being controlled by the client. Otherwise BLair will stamp me with the dreaded 'disguided employee' stamp and charge me an extra 30% tax until I am forced to close down my business.

Not allowed to work for the same client for longer than two years either, so much for repeat business. Lol[:D]

I haven't been liable to UK tax since 1986, so this IR35 is a strange foreign object as far as I'm concerned. I have heard it said that it could be a wise precaution even in Spain to do work for more than one company in order to retain self-employed status, so a while ago I did a little translation work on the side. But so far I've been here for seven years working on contract for primarily one client and there's been no complaint from the Spanish tax people.

Um, we are getting a little off-topic here, apologies to any lurkers...

Guys,

Surely someone will come up with an editor for this game if not matrix themselves. Wouldn't that be of interest?

ORIGINAL: Nego
Surely someone will come up with an editor for this game if not matrix themselves. Wouldn't that be of interest?

Certainly, would.

The game could then be viewed as a Napoleonic Campaign utility and ought to sell to anyone interested in Napoleonic wargaming.