Finished my first game

[mgarnett]

I have had COG for a few months noew but have only just had the time recently to sit down and have a full game. I felt a bit daunted after having read the manual, but realised when I started playing that most things just seem to 'make sense'. I took the time to read Ralegh's guide, which I must recommend to all new players, and this helped quite a bit.

I think it's one of those games that lets you play well without having to mess too much with every little option.

Anyway, I played as Sweeden and I ended up finishing third behind France (the winner) and then Britain. I was only about 30 glory behind France at the end but I felt quite pleased with my standing. I found playing Sweeden quite challenging as you don't have a large enough army to go storming around the map so diplomacy became quite important.

I just wanted to say thanks for a great game, it's been quite a long time since I have sat down and played a game in one sitting for that long.

Cheers

Mark

[ericbabe]

Thank you for the kind words. Including Sweden as a major nation was sort of a controversial decision, but I'm very glad we decided to, as Sweden is fun to play.