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Title: Fantasy General Free at GOG
Post by: Shelldrake on April 21, 2017, 08:50:29 AM
If you have a GOG account, you have 48 hours to claim your copy of Fantasy General, which is a challenging turn based game using the Panzer General engine.

Title: Re: Fantasy General Free at GOG
Post by: mirth on April 21, 2017, 08:59:27 AM
sweet!
Title: Re: Fantasy General Free at GOG
Post by: bbmike on April 21, 2017, 10:16:16 AM
Thanks!!!

[edit] It is showing $5.99 for me.  :(
Title: Re: Fantasy General Free at GOG
Post by: acctingman on April 21, 2017, 10:30:54 AM
Same
Title: Re: Fantasy General Free at GOG
Post by: DoctorQuest on April 21, 2017, 10:31:39 AM
Me, too. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Was there a link sent in an email?
Title: Re: Fantasy General Free at GOG
Post by: airboy on April 21, 2017, 10:38:23 AM
I purchased this a while back and played it again.

It does not hold up well over time.  There are a lot better games out there of this type.

But you cannot beat the price point.
Title: Re: Fantasy General Free at GOG
Post by: bobarossa on April 21, 2017, 03:18:45 PM
I only see Saints Row as being free. No sign of Fantasy General special deal.
Title: Re: Fantasy General Free at GOG
Post by: steve58 on April 21, 2017, 03:29:42 PM
Just saw this as well.  Had to switch to IE to get the captcha thingy to work.  Here is what I saw on Slickdeals:

Fantasy General - FREE @ GOG.com
Sharing if anyone is interested.

Fantasy General is available for FREE at GOG.com

https://www.gog.com/game/fantasy_general

Download URL: https://www.gog.com/redeem/FB200KGIVEAWAY

I used ^^the above^^ link.  Worked fine after the captcha.
Title: Re: Fantasy General Free at GOG
Post by: DoctorQuest on April 21, 2017, 03:59:05 PM
Thanks, Steve!!
Title: Re: Fantasy General Free at GOG
Post by: Wolfe1759 on April 21, 2017, 04:51:43 PM
steve58 - thanks that 2nd link worked
Title: Re: Fantasy General Free at GOG
Post by: mirth on April 21, 2017, 04:55:25 PM
Quote from: Wolfe1759 on April 21, 2017, 04:51:43 PM
steve58 - thanks that 2nd link worked

+1 Thanks!
Title: Re: Fantasy General Free at GOG
Post by: bbmike on April 21, 2017, 05:02:04 PM
Quote from: mirth on April 21, 2017, 04:55:25 PM
Quote from: Wolfe1759 on April 21, 2017, 04:51:43 PM
steve58 - thanks that 2nd link worked

+1 Thanks!

+2!  O0
Title: Re: Fantasy General Free at GOG
Post by: FlickJax on April 22, 2017, 07:51:23 AM
+3 ;D
Title: Re: Fantasy General Free at GOG
Post by: MC on April 22, 2017, 10:06:49 AM
Quote from: FlickJax on April 22, 2017, 07:51:23 AM
+3 ;D

-3  :-[  Worked for me until I realized I already had it. Wouldn't give me a second copy. :P  So I moved it up on my "to play" list from #121 to #58. Hoping to get to it in my next lifetime. O0
Title: Re: Fantasy General Free at GOG
Post by: Nefaro on April 22, 2017, 12:46:15 PM
Quote from: steve58 on April 21, 2017, 03:29:42 PM


Download URL: https://www.gog.com/redeem/FB200KGIVEAWAY

I used ^^the above^^ link.  Worked fine after the captcha.

:bd:
Title: Re: Fantasy General Free at GOG
Post by: CJReich46 on April 23, 2017, 03:38:52 PM
+4  :)

While it is old, there are some interesting aspects of it.
Title: Re: Fantasy General Free at GOG
Post by: JasonPratt on April 26, 2017, 10:55:39 AM
While the Fantasy War / Elven Legacy engine is indisputably superior, the campaign structure is far more epic and the archer units all have built-in counter-fire support (a special ability possible level-up for archers in FW/EL). This makes archers somewhat more useful despite their range being less in FG (only one hex) due to the larger scale.

The choice on how to spend xp teching up unit-types is interesting in theory for FG, but broken in practice since the game is designed to punish you by severely ramping up the difficulty if you don't spend your xp pretty evenly.  ::) The tech-up choice structure in FW/EL is thus superior here, too.

On the other hand, the FG soundtrack is much better.  O0