Free-key Monday for Making History: The Great War

GDS_Starfury · August 16, 2014, 03:50:50 PM

I didnt pay much atttention to them this round and the little fuckers invaded most of Indochina by themselves. O0

Rayfer · August 16, 2014, 05:52:38 PM

Now you got me looking forward to playing again tomorrow!

GDS_Starfury · August 16, 2014, 06:45:49 PM

and the South seceded again.... ACW part 2. >:(

Ian C · August 17, 2014, 10:54:43 AM

It's really worth checking out the new manual (scroll down to 'view manual': http://store.steampowered.com/app/279140/) particularly for, amongst other things, this:

Page 20

Friendly Fire
When firing artillery from an adjacent region into a region where a battle is ongoing, there is a 50% chance that the artillery will damage your own units. This can be modified in your favor by deploying observation balloons in the region with the artillery, and aircraft in the region where the battle is taking place. Each air unit deployed in this fashion reduces the chance of friendly fire by 1%. So, as an example, if you have 10 Observation Balloons with your artillery and 10 fighters in the battle, the chance for friendly fire drops from 50% to 30%. This makes it vital to deploy as many of these air units as possible when using artillery support, and also to shoot down enemy aircraft that support your enemy's artillery barrage.

Rayfer · August 17, 2014, 12:12:45 PM

Thanks...I was unable to find a manual. I need one! Will have to look again.

GDS_Starfury · August 17, 2014, 12:41:24 PM

there needs to be more manual in the manual.

son_of_montfort · August 18, 2014, 06:52:18 PM

So... I've been looking at this one for a while now. Is it worth jumping into the Early Access at this point?

OJsDad · August 18, 2014, 07:58:04 PM

Great question SOM.

First, if you can get a free access key, then yes, grab it.

If you're paying for it then maybe.

I think the biggest thing that needs to be resolved is how the world powers respond to naked aggressiveness. I'm playing as Mexico. I've annexed everything from the Panama Canal to the Mexican boarder, except for Belize. The US never seemed to care. It wasn't until I invaded Cuba that someone decided to declare war on me. It was the Netherlands. I was able to quickly take all of their Carribean islands unopposed. While I was taking them, the French then declared war on me, this while France was nearly totally overrun by the Germans and Italians. I was then able to take the French lands in the Carribean and South America with no French opposition.

There are quite a few of little things that need fixed. For example, I have no idea who's at war with who, as it seems that the screen that shows it never clears a war off unless the losing country was annexed.

I sure these will get ironed out, just not sure how you'll feel about them.

Rayfer · August 19, 2014, 06:54:51 AM

Well....as happened to GDS, when I invaded Mexico playing as the USA, Britain immediately declared war on me but has yet to take any aggressive moves against me. I still can't find any manual, it really needs one. Field artillery can't be stacked with infantry armies, they are stand alone units. They get wiped out very quickly in battles. All in all, I am enjoying this game. Making me think I might want to check out their WW2 game.

Gusington · August 19, 2014, 07:32:59 AM

I agree, I would really like a manual here to get a better idea of what I'm doing.

OJsDad · August 19, 2014, 10:05:31 AM

There is a manual on steam. Just posted last week. I haven't had a chance to read it though.

Gusington · August 19, 2014, 11:03:26 AM

Yeah but people above commented that more info is needed for the posted manual.

Rayfer · August 19, 2014, 12:08:35 PM

Quote from: OJsDad on August 19, 2014, 10:05:31 AM
There is a manual on steam. Just posted last week. I haven't had a chance to read it though.

But where? I went looking for it but couldn't find it anywhere. Help!

steve58 · August 19, 2014, 12:27:52 PM

If you go to the Steam store page for MH:TGW, and scroll down....look on the right side of the store page under where it says Single-Player, Multi-player, etc....a little further down there is a link that says View the manual.

~~It actually doesn't seem to be working at the moment (at least for me) and I can't seem to attach it since its larger than 3MB...~~

Link above appears to be working now...

Rayfer · August 19, 2014, 01:20:04 PM

Quote from: steve58 on August 19, 2014, 12:27:52 PM
If you go to the Steam store page for MH:TGW, and scroll down....look on the right side of the store page under where it says Single-Player, Multi-player, etc....a little further down there is a link that says View the manual.

~~It actually doesn't seem to be working at the moment (at least for me) and I can't seem to attach it since its larger than 3MB...~~

Link above appears to be working now...
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I found the link but it just times out to a blank page. But at least I know where it is and can check it later. Thanks.