First Day
Posted: May 27 2005
Finally got the game today, eagerly been awaiting it for about a month...
The first scenario I played was the America scenario thing, and I was Western United States...
I read the first five pages or so of the manual and eagerly (too eagerly) jumped right in.
After about ten minutes of being totally confused even though I am a veteran of Civilization, Superpower, Total War, Age of Empires, Stronghold, etc... This game is definitely unique.
It startled me greatly when Northeast USA invaded me about one minute into the game. Strangely I was having great success on the Southeast border alongside the Southeast United States who was declared on by the Northeast (dang Yankees in the northeast are so militant)
I sold my ships on the west coast because there was no real threat there, and this gave me a positive income (I believe about twenty million) and I started training a lot of infantry.
I had so great success in the southeast front that I was very close to Detroit within about twenty minutes.
I did not want to leave Michigan unchecked, so I mobilized all my units from Washington state and sent them all the way over to the Dakotas and skimmed the Canadian border and took Michigan easily.
With two large armies, I sent one army group to northern New York and took control of the most northeastern areas and then began marching those units down the coast towards New York and Washington DC.
With the other group I marched south and took their southernmost areas.
Now both army groups closed in on New York and I took it. All that remained of Northeast USA was an area southwest of New York.
But then Southeast USA declared war against me.
Luckily, I had a great army ready for them mobilized by their border... I believe it was near Louisiana.
I kicked them back to about Kentucky and Alabama when Mexico declared war on me.... Apparently, they DID NOT forget the Alamo and were confident.
I still had the remains of Northeast USA to clear up, as well as Southeast USA to beat, and now Mexico.
Mexico crossed my weak borders (hey even in 2010 Mexicans are still freely crossing the border!) and I got panicky and gave up.
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Afterwards, about an hour after mourning, I wanted to try out the world scenario.
Well I played as United United States and conquered South America within two months but then I just had problems balancing the budget and I did not want to waste the night away trying to figure out how to launch an attack across an ocean so I saved (not quit) and exited the game.
Oh, and it was really funny too because I had South America nearly fully conquered except for Argentina and Chilie, but I ran out of petroleum so my tanks slowed way way down... I mounted one last attack and surrounded Buenos Aires and before I even began to siege it, South America surrendered.
All in all, great game and the learning curve is about 2 days I would assume, lol
The first scenario I played was the America scenario thing, and I was Western United States...
I read the first five pages or so of the manual and eagerly (too eagerly) jumped right in.
After about ten minutes of being totally confused even though I am a veteran of Civilization, Superpower, Total War, Age of Empires, Stronghold, etc... This game is definitely unique.
It startled me greatly when Northeast USA invaded me about one minute into the game. Strangely I was having great success on the Southeast border alongside the Southeast United States who was declared on by the Northeast (dang Yankees in the northeast are so militant)
I sold my ships on the west coast because there was no real threat there, and this gave me a positive income (I believe about twenty million) and I started training a lot of infantry.
I had so great success in the southeast front that I was very close to Detroit within about twenty minutes.
I did not want to leave Michigan unchecked, so I mobilized all my units from Washington state and sent them all the way over to the Dakotas and skimmed the Canadian border and took Michigan easily.
With two large armies, I sent one army group to northern New York and took control of the most northeastern areas and then began marching those units down the coast towards New York and Washington DC.
With the other group I marched south and took their southernmost areas.
Now both army groups closed in on New York and I took it. All that remained of Northeast USA was an area southwest of New York.
But then Southeast USA declared war against me.
Luckily, I had a great army ready for them mobilized by their border... I believe it was near Louisiana.
I kicked them back to about Kentucky and Alabama when Mexico declared war on me.... Apparently, they DID NOT forget the Alamo and were confident.
I still had the remains of Northeast USA to clear up, as well as Southeast USA to beat, and now Mexico.
Mexico crossed my weak borders (hey even in 2010 Mexicans are still freely crossing the border!) and I got panicky and gave up.
---
Afterwards, about an hour after mourning, I wanted to try out the world scenario.
Well I played as United United States and conquered South America within two months but then I just had problems balancing the budget and I did not want to waste the night away trying to figure out how to launch an attack across an ocean so I saved (not quit) and exited the game.
Oh, and it was really funny too because I had South America nearly fully conquered except for Argentina and Chilie, but I ran out of petroleum so my tanks slowed way way down... I mounted one last attack and surrounded Buenos Aires and before I even began to siege it, South America surrendered.
All in all, great game and the learning curve is about 2 days I would assume, lol