Grand Ages Medieval

[undercovergeek]

im disregarding the steam hate - those fkrs would hate on santa

im going to watch maybe an hours worth of video and see if it grabs me - some guys done 40 episodes, he must have at least enjoyed it!!

[Anguille]

No one likes it?? Should I even bother installing it on my when it arrives? Dammit all to hell.  :'(

I am still in the learning process (played about 2 hours). I am playing the campaign. So far i like it even though the game doesn't look as good as i wished on my system (don't know if my computer isn't powerfull enough or if something have to be tweeked).

I am very surprised by all the negative reviews on steam and think that most of them are there because didn't know what they were buying (the title may be misleading). It's not a Total War game and it's not a city-builder. It's something between a Civ game and economic game.

[Gusington]

^OK. That calms me down. I am going into it thinking of it as you described.

[bbmike]

I'm gonna wait for a sale. In the meantime I've noticed I have Grand Ages Rome in my Steam library. I wonder if that's any good?

[Gusington]

Ask Anguille.

[Sir Slash]

Do we still have to stay off your lawn?

[JudgeDredd]

im disregarding the steam hate - those fkrs would hate on santa

lmao! 

[Anguille]

I'm gonna wait for a sale. In the meantime I've noticed I have Grand Ages Rome in my Steam library. I wonder if that's any good?

Grand Ages Rome is imhao the best looking city-builder with Roman theme. I really recommend it. Beware however that it has a very unique system of gameplay. If i remember well it's called the "flow". In other games, maybe you need 3 woods to build something but only once. In Grand Ages Rome you have to keep the wood production above the need of your buildings at all times otherwise buildings can start to burn. If you don't forget that, it's a very enjoyable and beautiful game (i think it has very good ratings on steam). I have a small preference for their previous game (Imperium Romanum). Both are great and play differentely.

Cheers

[DennisS]

I have played this perhaps ten hours. Here's my initial impressions:

Don't eff around when settling. You have to make this a priority, or you will be steamrolled by the relentless building of the AI.

Don't spend a DIME upgrading your production without carefully considering the consequences. In my first game, I upgraded the crap out of my wood and brick, thinking that I would build a nice supply up, to service my soon-to-be newly settled cities. All this accomplished was to dramatically increase my labor costs, and drive my only city into strong deficit spending.

There is only so much money when you start, and you need to be very sure of what your expenditures plan is. Tight as hell...but in a good way.

You can spend money to purchase sympathy from the neutral cities around the map, with the goal toward annexation. Cool concept, but hella expensive. Jury is still out on whether this is a viable early game strategy...it MAY be.

More to come.

[Gusington]

^Are you having fun playing?

[DennisS]

^Are you having fun playing?

Absolutely. I liked Rise of Venice, and the trade mechanics are about the same.

My biggest concern at this point is micro-managing sufficiently well as to not destroy my chances late game.

To be sure, the end game will take a vast army to take over individual cities...not for faint of heart.

[bbmike]

I'm gonna wait for a sale. In the meantime I've noticed I have Grand Ages Rome in my Steam library. I wonder if that's any good?

Grand Ages Rome is imhao the best looking city-builder with Roman theme. I really recommend it. Beware however that it has a very unique system of gameplay. If i remember well it's called the "flow". In other games, maybe you need 3 woods to build something but only once. In Grand Ages Rome you have to keep the wood production above the need of your buildings at all times otherwise buildings can start to burn. If you don't forget that, it's a very enjoyable and beautiful game (i think it has very good ratings on steam). I have a small preference for their previous game (Imperium Romanum). Both are great and play differentely.

Cheers

Thanks! I'll have to try it.

[undercovergeek]

^Are you having fun playing?

Absolutely. I liked Rise of Venice, and the trade mechanics are about the same.

My biggest concern at this point is micro-managing sufficiently well as to not destroy my chances late game.

To be sure, the end game will take a vast army to take over individual cities...not for faint of heart.

having watched the first 5 of the 40 youtube episodes and skimming the other 35 im not convinced this is for me

[Gusington]

Thanks Dennis

[JasonPratt]

I think anyone playing the game needs to be thinking along two lines, in a mixture.

1.) There's a strong Civ/MasterofMagic vibe: you start with a small city in a giant fog, and you send out a scout to find cities and to find small resource nodes which you can raid with some small armies, and you're building up your city (except without walls, which is inane, but whatever), and so forth...

...mixed with...

2.) Sid Meir's Pirates. This game is a DIRECT DESCENDANT to Pirates, via Kalypso's ambitions to constantly remake and update that game to include city management. Your trader == the initial fleet of a small ship, sailing around from port to port buying and selling things. Kalypso married that with city building; and have now married that with more Civvie mechanics (except in real time).

Also, I suspect the campaign is mandatory for learning how to play effectively.