Free-key Monday for Making History: The Great War

[MuzzyDev]

Free-key, Free-key!

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[OJsDad]

I really like the research.  I've always felt that one of the low points of most strategy games is that research costs are always the same, so you break the secret of the order that you need to research, it's pretty much the same from game to game.  But with TGW, you don't get research points, you get chances to earn them.  You know how many points you need, you just don't know how long it will take to get them.  Very good indeed. 

More developers need to implement ways to make the research trees more dynamic. 

[GDS_Starfury]

the very first thing I do with a city to build up its research value.  piss off the world and take Canada, Central America and the top of South America are your researching quite quickly.   ;D

[smithcorp]

Bother - both keys taken already. Appreciate the offers though - better luck next week!

[Rayfer]

Got one of the free keys last week and finally got around to playing today. Not enough to draw any conclusions but enough to get the same feel I get with CK2, EUIV and HOI3......lots going on and a steep learning curve. And that's not a criticism, just an observation. All of these games are challenging at first because it's hard to figure out what to do, how much of it to do, and the pacing as you move forward.  I look forward to figuring it out. I see on the Steam forums there are some youtube getting started videos.  Will have to check them out.

[GDS_Starfury]

you will definitely get to the point about 270 turns in that you need to start over.
and you will.
and then you'll get to the point 350 turns in that you need to start over.
and you will.

[TheCommandTent]

Got one of the free keys last week and finally got around to playing today. Not enough to draw any conclusions but enough to get the same feel I get with CK2, EUIV and HOI3......lots going on and a steep learning curve. And that's not a criticism, just an observation. All of these games are challenging at first because it's hard to figure out what to do, how much of it to do, and the pacing as you move forward.  I look forward to figuring it out. I see on the Steam forums there are some youtube getting started videos.  Will have to check them out.

Please post the links to any helpful videos you find.

[Nefaro]

you will definitely get to the point about 270 turns in that you need to start over.
and you will.
and then you'll get to the point 350 turns in that you need to start over.
and you will.

I'm like that with all grand strategy games.  Even if I'm doing okay.

Gotta test out different strategies.   ^-^

[Rayfer]

Got one of the free keys last week and finally got around to playing today. Not enough to draw any conclusions but enough to get the same feel I get with CK2, EUIV and HOI3......lots going on and a steep learning curve. And that's not a criticism, just an observation. All of these games are challenging at first because it's hard to figure out what to do, how much of it to do, and the pacing as you move forward.  I look forward to figuring it out. I see on the Steam forums there are some youtube getting started videos.  Will have to check them out.

Please post the links to any helpful videos you find.

Still looking. The 4 I went through last night were not at all helpful.

[GDS_Starfury]

so after building up what I can in the Philippines Ive been mostly ignoring it as it seems to revolt later in the game no matter what you do.  what I was surprised by was seeing all these new territories popping up under my control.  it seems they got bored and decided to take Hong Kong, Malaysia and Borneo!  now even though theyre a protectorate Im still not at war with the Dutch or Chinese.   O0

[GDS_Starfury]

and a crash to desktop for being out of memory.
which is odd because Ive got 16 gigs of the good stuff on a pc that isnt 2 months old.

[GDS_Starfury]

according to Steam Ive got 93 hours under my belt so far.   8)
the 3th campaign has been interesting.  by 1915 Europe was still very quite and peaceful.  rebels on the Mexican border forced me to act and invade.  this caused the UK to declare war on me dragging its whole alliance along with it.  well....  its now mid 1918 and Central America, Northern South America, France, Ireland, UK, Germany, Italy, Russia and bits of Africa are now conquered.  Im all set to finish of South America, steamroll the Low Countries and take out Persia. 
Im still running into 'out of memory' crashes.  having superstacks of units seems to be the cause.  Ive got 4 stacks with over 200 units in each on the Persian border and the game hangs when I mouse over one.  done to often and it CTD.  stacks with a max or 50 to 60 units causes no problems.

[Rayfer]

GDS....I'm 50+ turns into a campaign as the USA.  I'm considering an excursion into Mexico. Appears there will be serious consequences! Seems you can't put artillery into an army stack...I wonder why not?

[GDS_Starfury]

one of the things I like very much is that the overall dynamic of the game changes each time.  in my first game it was Germany that DOWed me not the UK.  just look at the country's diplomacy screen to see who theyre allied to before attacking.  also keep in mind that the Philippines are a hot mess with no resolution.

[Rayfer]

one of the things I like very much is that the overall dynamic of the game changes each time.  in my first game it was Germany that DOWed me not the UK.  just look at the country's diplomacy screen to see who theyre allied to before attacking.  also keep in mind that the Philippines are a hot mess with no resolution.

Not sure what to do with the Phillippines...out of sight, out of mind. Probably a mistake.