Oriental Empires -- 4x historical strategy

[tgb]

Any release date yet?

[Nefaro]

Players don't directly control their units in battle, but can set formations and battle plans beforehand. Battles generally only last a minute or two, so the game moves along faster than games where you have to fight each battle on a separate tactical map, and you never have to choose between fighting a dull battle and taking your chances with the auto-resolve.

I don't mind the battles being out of your hands with some games, if the rest of it is good and you have some input as to tactics to be used, as mentioned for this one in the interview.  I thought it worked well to keep the game moving along in Spartan (best of that series - when will there be a sequel, again?). 

Dunno about you guys, but I end up just auto-resolving about half of my Total War battles; when too lop-sided or I don't feel like doing one of the naval battles which usually aren't that fun IMO.

Hopefully this title doesn't end up being too much like Civ, other than being a grand strategy covering a long period of history.

[Nefaro]

Any release date yet?

Oriental Empires is due for an Early Access release in summer 2015.

[jomni]

Some elements sound like Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Nobunagas Ambition to me. That is if they put in generals and personalities.

[Martok]

Any release date yet?

Nothing as far as a final release date, no.  For now, they're just going with the "it'll be ready when it's ready" spiel. 

Some elements sound like Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Nobunagas Ambition to me. That is if they put in generals and personalities.

It sounds like there will be.  8) 

[Gusington]

Early access release date is supposed to be right now (summer 2015)...but I haven't read anything lately.

[JasonPratt]

Re: sequel to Spartan (aside from Gates of Troy, presumably ;) ) -- the History Channel licensed game Egypt: Engineering an Empire is essentially Chariots of War (a predecessor to Spart/GoT) brought up to standard. So it kind of counts.

After Spart/Got, there was going to be a Legion 2, but work on polishing the rt combat led to a series of sequels with practically no strategic layer, the most recent of which was another History Channel licensed game (with FMV from various series) Great Battles Medieval -- which helped lead Matrixlitherine's charge onto mobile devices eventually. But they developed the real-time engine to a point where you were expected to give commands in a sort of Total-War-ish way. The predecessor, Great Battles Rome, was a semi-reskin of their Legions: Arena (minus the fantasy expansion), where battles are mostly hands-off as in Spart/GoT, CharWar, and the original Legion game.

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Which you may have known already, but just in case. :) I haven't heard or seen anything indicating they're going to update any of the original games in that series, beyond what Engineering an Empire did (which wasn't much).  :-\

[Martok]

Early access release date is supposed to be right now (summer 2015)...but I haven't read anything lately.

From what Smith said in the podcast interview, it sounded like they were getting pretty close.  He didn't want to commit to a specific date yet, but I suspect we'll see an announcement fairly soon. 

[tgb]

I'm on this like stink on a baboon.

[Grim.Reaper]

Not sure about the baboon, but I am in as well....

[Nefaro]

Which you may have known already, but just in case. :)

Yep, I knew.  ;)

Actually picked up Egypt: EaE quite awhile back.  Interesting little game, but it was just that: little.  Obviously made for tablet, the scale wasn't all that large/expansive.

I haven't heard or seen anything indicating they're going to update any of the original games in that series, beyond what Engineering an Empire did (which wasn't much).  :-\

Me neither.  That's why I keep bringing it up on occasion.  A Legion 2 or Spartan 2, with an updated system, would make me happy.  Not enough modern turn-based grand strategy for pre-20th century historical periods out there. 

[AchillesLastStand]

Well lookie what popped up on Steam. Oriental Empires is going early access.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/357310

If I had my druthers id rather this had been Medieval Europe instead of Ancient China but o well.
Anyone else interested?

[Grim.Reaper]

Very interested....although I thought the post would indicate available now versus first quarter next year:(  will keep on radar and thanks for heads up.

[JasonPratt]

Going to pass by their Early Access Alpha next quarter.  :P

But the screenies sure look nice. 

[FlickJax]

looks super, that and whtw next year is looking good already