Old World from Soren Johnson

[steve58]

I bought it on Epic last year, but am also seeing the DLC for $10.  Hopefully this is just a release day bump/delay, otherwise...not happy.

[Gusington]

Hmm...thanks Steve and 'Geek...holding now to see if it clears up. 10.00 is 10.00.

[Pete Dero]

https://www.gog.com/en/game/old_world

Old World - Heroes of the Aegean is available for free for the first two weeks of release! :  $36


https://store.steampowered.com/app/597180/Old_World/

Old World + Free Heroes of the Aegean DLC Upgrade : $36

[Gusington]

^Nice! Thanks Pete.

All cleared up and I got my 10.00 back :)

Little shady how the upgrade was not so easy to find on Steam but whatever :/

[Sigwolf]

... never mind

[steve58]

OK my bad, apparently I do have the new DLC.  I can see "Heroes of the Aegean" under Scenarios.   O0

[Gusington]

Fire it up!!

[bobarossa]

Downloading game and DLC from Gog right now!  Have about 50 turns left in my Civ5 game.  Doubt I can finish that before the download completes!

[Gusington]

I have faith in you. Nothing happens in the last 50 turns anyway!

[W8taminute]

If you want that last 50 turns to go by faster use nukes!   ;D

[devoncop]

Working my way through the tutorials and it runs like a dream . Very happy so far and I do like the UI with the tooltips that you can drill down into.

How is everyone else finding it ? Anyone just jumped straight in and have a proper game underway yet ?

[Gusington]

Are the tutorials well done? Old World doesn't seem particularly complex to me but what do I know.

Are skirmish games possible to set up? If I want to play as the Hittites vs. Persia can I do that?

And is there Steam workshop support?

Of course I am now not home, had to leave for a while with work getting done in my house, so I will have to purchase later :/

[steve58]

fyi:  Epicgames is having a sale that includes a 25% off coupon that may work on Old World.  I can't verify this since I already bought Old World on Epic.  Also, as far as I can tell from the coupon description, it sounds like it will work on all eligible items ($14.99 or more) in your cart, not just one item.

[devoncop]

Are the tutorials well done? Old World doesn't seem particularly complex to me but what do I know.

Are skirmish games possible to set up? If I want to play as the Hittites vs. Persia can I do that?

And is there Steam workshop support?

Of course I am now not home, had to leave for a while with work getting done in my house, so I will have to purchase later :/

There is a LOT more going on under the apoarently simple surface.

Random example. If you build a worker in a city and then decide it needs to move to another city to help out with some urgent building project that worker will take an extra year (turn) to build anything than if you use a worker native to that city. Apparently workers dont like being forcibly  sent to far flung parts of your empire away from their favourite bars and women and so moodily work slower :)

Second example....having Generals leading your armies makes a huge difference to their combat effectiveness but Generals can only lead troops of the same race so capturing tribal lands and their forces means only characters from that race can lead them....similar mechanics exist with city Governors where they have to be characters from the same family that founded the city. There are lots more involving the nuances of combat.

Skirmish games are definitely posdible. Smallish random map with your Hittites v the Persians is a breeze to set up. Though the AI does not receive extra bonuses on the lower difficulty levels they typically start with a couple of extra city sites settled so if you want to start on a totally level playing field you need to adjust that in the options settings (there are A LOT).

Re Steam Workshop it shows up in the store page for the game so it seems to be integrated.

[Geezer]

@devoncoop.  Is any of that detail explained anywhere or do you have to figure it out by trail and error?  Thanks.