Grand Ages Medieval

[Greybriar]

With or without the DRM launcher, one wonders.

Since it's GOG.com it should be "DRM-Free" but I'm not sure how it would handle muliplayer. The new Galaxy feature? Or use the Kalypso launcher?

[Grim.Reaper]

Well, I caved of course, decided worth a shot at $26....can get at greenmangaming for steam version, use coupon code SAVE23-WITHGM-GSEP15

http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/us/en/pc/games/simulation/grand-ages-medieval/

[Gusington]

^You filthy FILTHY bastard.

[Grim.Reaper]

^You filthy FILTHY bastard.

Glad I could help feed your addiction:)

[Gusington]

My reservation will expire in 10 minutes. I will play some drunken Dragon Age to try to forget about it.

The problem here is that the game may be great, but I am afraid I am going to suck at it.

[Grim.Reaper]

No doubt I will suck at it as well, never do well....but just the fact it is about Medieval times, sucks me in..

[Gusington]

It's like your the voice inside my head.

[Anguille]

I'll suck too....i think i'll automate most of the trading anyway.....

[Greybriar]

I pre-ordered Grand Ages Medieval from GOG.com for $33.99 (15% off). I considered the physical copy with the Tech-Tree-Poster but then I would have had to use the Kalypso launcher. I also thought about buying the Steam version. But the GOG version won out because I wanted to support their DRM-Free business model.

[Grim.Reaper]

I pre-ordered Grand Ages Medieval from GOG.com for $33.99 (15% off). I considered the physical copy with the Tech-Tree-Poster but then I would have had to use the Kalypso launcher. I also thought about buying the Steam version. But the GOG version won out because I wanted to support their DRM-Free business model.

Do we know if the launcher is required with gog version?

[Grim.Reaper]

Found my answer...

From the developers...

The Steam-version only requires Steam, Kalypso-Launcher is optional.
- The boxed version needs the Kalypso-Launcher and no other launcher/platform.
- Last but not least the GOG-version, which needs none of the above mentioned.

[undercovergeek]

launcher paranoia - itll get you in the end  :P

[DennisS]

Only three more days.

Looks like a slew of improvements, including:

1) Setting a range for the drawing in of all military units. For example. You could click on Paris, and pull out a circle representing 100 miles, or 200, or 500 miles, and set a location for all units in that radius to go do. This would make it VERY useful to have theater, or tactical troops.

2) In the city improvement screen, you can now arrow over to the next city in turn. Civ has this, and this will make it much easier to evaluate your cities' needs for improvement.

3) You can now build (upgrade) your resources more than one resource at a time. This saves you from having to select a resource, select a level of improvement, back out, and select the next resource, etc. Now..you can select all five of your resources in a city, and upgrade them all at once.

4) Each empire now has a capital. If you capture the capital, you defeat that empire. Not sure what happens to all of their other cities...they may well devolve into neutral cities, to be gobbled up by adjacent empires. This will facilitate the end game..now, even on the lowest AI, the AI massively out settles and produces the human opponents. Well...all those with let's plays on Youtube!

A couple of thoughts on this game. This is the grand strategy/tactical/economic/building game I have been waiting for. Kailvan's youtube videos, for one campaign, are now up to #40, and he can't be more than a fourth of the way to total victory. One hundred hours? Two hundred? Not sure how long this will take, as each mature, heavily defended city is a campaign..taking months to collect up the military, and use a targeted attack.

[tgb]

I wasn't that interested in this initially, but the more I hear/see/read about it the more excited I become.

[Gusington]

Yes...YES!!! Love #4.

Are sieges represented at all? I don't remember reading about them above.