Grand Ages Medieval

[Gusington]

Ok with me if city building is deep. If I want better combat I can go to TW.

[JasonPratt]

Knights will have France??!?

O0

[AchillesLastStand]

Yes,
If you follow the link and look down on the right side of the page you can dl the manual which will tell you the units, etc.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/310470/

[Toonces]

Game looks great but I'm all about the knifey knifey.  Economy and building is the first thing I automate in Medieval Total War.

Sadly I don't think this is my kind of game.  I sure wish it was, though.

[undercovergeek]

My purchase finger twitcheth

[tgb]

Unfortunately I have to go out of town for work this weekend and won't be back until late Sunday.  Fortunately that will give me an excuse to hold off and see what people think once the dust settles.

[bobarossa]

I just got it at GOG with the 15% off pricing.  Was afraid that would end when the game is released.

[DennisS]

I have this pre-ordered on steam, and will fire it up as soon as it is released.

I will try to post my first impressions on this, directly..but after watching perhaps 80 videos (even the ones in German and French!!!), I don't anticipate any surprises.

To this point, my only beef would appear that the AI turtles, and builds a gi-normous defensive army...while at the same time, very large armies are prohibitively expensive to maintain. I see wars being fought for one or two cities, then a period of expansion and rebuilding, to go after another couple of cities. This game has the look and feel of a huge, marathon-length Civ V game.

[Gusington]

What video, if I were to watch only one, would be the most all-encompassing and show me the most?

And I love turtles!

And that happens to be my play style in well, everything.

Grand Ages and I may get along just swell.

[tgb]

So who is taking the plunge?  The game is getting slammed in the Steam forums for being "slow" and "boring" but people who post there tend to be little more than konsole kiddies.

I would hope the reaction here is somewhat better.

[sandman2575]

I'm curious to hear informed reactions as well. I always take Steam forum posts with a huge helping of salt, but the initial response doesn't look very positive, like tgb says.

I'm surprised by the lack of a siege mechanic in this game. I'd be happy to play a game with pared down military that focuses on trade, economics, and city development -- but the melee/archer/cavalry military units seem a little too oversimplified and rock-paper-scissors-y to me...  I loves me some trebuchets and fortifications.

[bobarossa]

GOG version is out.  Downloading now (4 GB).

[Greybriar]

I pre-ordered the GOG version, installed it, and played it for a short time. The first thing that irritated me was not being able to rebind the keys the way I wanted, especially not to be able to set the space bar to pause the game (the space bar can only be used to speed up the game 10x). I got a merchant and set him out to hawk his wares. I sent a scout out to reveal the other towns on the map as well as to uncover hidden riches and places of interest. After discovering a couple more towns, I tried to get another merchant started on another route, but the game wouldn't let me do so. By then I was broke and tired of fooling with the game, so I quit.

Perhaps the PS4 version is the way to go and the PC version is just a poor console port. Or maybe it's just me. But so far I haven't gotten much gameplay out of the $33.99 I paid for the game.

[DennisS]

I pre-ordered the GOG version, installed it, and played it for a short time. The first thing that irritated me was not being able to rebind the keys the way I wanted, especially not to be able to set the space bar to pause the game (the space bar can only be used to speed up the game 10x). I got a merchant and set him out to hawk his wares. I sent a scout out to reveal the other towns on the map as well as to uncover hidden riches and places of interest. After discovering a couple more towns, I tried to get another merchant started on another route, but the game wouldn't let me do so. By then I was broke and tired of fooling with the game, so I quit.

Perhaps the PS4 version is the way to go and the PC version is just a poor console port. Or maybe it's just me. But so far I haven't gotten much gameplay out of the $33.99 I paid for the game.

One merchant per town that you own. Thems the rules. In practice, this works fine..as soon as one merchant serves three towns, you now have an extra.

[tgb]

Can scouts be automated?