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Philippe

I just realized that WIA wasn't installed on my new computer. After a moment of panic when I couldn't find the disk (who uses them anymore ?), I managed to get the game installed, then patched, and then quickfixed (I notice that the quick fix is still in beta after all these years). Reflecting on my...

Philippe

Do all of the scenarios have several different nations that can be played, or is diplomacy restricted to a Grand Campaign? It would be pretty difficult to wargame Napoleon's different campaigns if Allies were dropping in and out of alliances. That said, part of the angst of the 1813 campaign was the...

Philippe

Much to my surprise my copy of the OCD re-appeared over the weekend. Since the wiki on Claudius is rather sparse, here is the entry from the OCD: quote Praetor in 89 or 88 B.c., enrolled some newly enfranchised allies. As an enemy of Cinna, he left Rome in 87, was outlawed and struck off the Senate ...

Philippe

I've just tried running the Steam and non-Steam versions, and was able to reproduce the crash both times. Not the end of the world, but this seems like it is something to bring to Pocus' attention when he gets back from vacation in August. (I have both versions installed because one uses the 17th ce...

Philippe

Not sure what to do about the syntax in the different cells. The text in the first cell is pretty straight-forward. It should read quote ldr_txt_ROM_PulcherAC1;Born 139 BC. Praetor 88 BC., supporter of Sulla exiled by Marius, returned after death of Cinna. Consul (79 BC), Proconsul Macedonia 78-76 B...

Philippe

[ATTACH]39424[/ATTACH] Since the scenario starts in 87 BC, that would make this general ten years old. Here is a quote from the Wiki on what is more probably the correct character: quote Appius Claudius Pulcher (c. 139 BC – 76 BC) was a Roman politician of the 1st century BC. There is uncertainty ab...

Philippe

Excerpt from Wikipedia on the Macedonian Wars: quote Second Macedonian war (200 to 196 BC) The past century had seen the Greek world dominated by the three primary successor kingdoms of Alexander the Great's empire: Ptolemaic Egypt, Macedonia and the Seleucid Empire. The imperial ambitions of the Se...

Philippe

A bit late to be asking this since I haven't tried playing in a couple of years, but how does music work in PON? Is there a limit to the number of music clips that can be played? I'm guessing that the engine looks for each country and general category (e.g. Italy, Peace) and rotates through all of t...

Philippe

Video clip from upcoming Spanish TV program about the Civil War.

https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/guerracivilencolor?source=feed_text&story_id=1220776344619650

If you've ever seen To Die In Madrid you'll remember that all of the footage should be in black and white.

Philippe

Year of the three emperors, four emperors, five emperors. What's an emperor or two among friends?

Philippe

I think the year of the four emperors scenario is about a hundred years too early for that particular plague. It's been a while since I read Tacitus, but I don't recall any naval operations during that particular civil war that made much of an impression on me. I would have thought that the fleets w...

Philippe

Roman fleets were more like Hellenistic fleets than early Greek ones, but shouldn't be confused with modern iron and steel navies that can stay at sea for protracted periods of time. There were a lot of oarsmen on an ancient ship and not much space beyond the rowing benches. Sanitation was probably ...

Philippe

No two computers are ever quite the same, but on my computer the relevant path is C:\Program Files (x86)\ Steam\ Steam Apps\ Common. Once you're inside Common you'll see all of the games that you have installed on Steam. Another way to do it is to launch Steam, go to your Library of games, right-cli...

Philippe

This kind of what-if is the reason for playing wargames, and for it to be meaningful it's crucial that the game system can reproduce the historical result. It's easy to say with hindsight that Antony's fleet and army fell apart because they spent the winter of 32-31 BC too close to the front line. A...

Philippe

The Actium campaign was competitive. Antony thought he was about to invade Italy, and got suckered into leaving his army and fleet in an impossible logistical position on the southern side of the Ambracian gulf. Agrippa's fleet had a lot of light Liburnian galleys, and he proceeded to wage a guerill...

Philippe

Lots of little scenarios would be the way to go, with each scenario covering a campaign/battle/incident. That makes the player comfortable that he's experiencing the historical flow of events. And it's probably easier on the AI. And the Vercingetorix rebellion scenario is not exactly small. The Cleo...

Philippe

Belisarius and Justinian's reconquest are a wonderful subject, but probably don't have the name recognition of the Gallic Wars. Most people have heard of Caesar in Gaul. Rome II Total War had a DLC that covered it, and it was the subject of Hegemony Rome the Rise of Caesar. The imagery is pretty str...

Philippe

I wonder if you're dealing with a bug or a corrupted file. If a file gets corrupted and you save it, sooner or later the corruption will rear it's ugly head to bite you in the ankle. If a game crashes a couple of times you might be better off starting over (and that might include a re-install of the...

Philippe

Took me a while to get around to finding this, but it's a great mod. The Main Theme music that came with the game is just wrong. I've taken stabs at replacing it with different pieces (including the introductory music from HBO's Rome), but nothing I tried worked as an introduction AND fit in well wi...

Philippe

And I don't know if this will really have any effect, but you should probably go into your Steam library, access Properties for the game, and make sure the VR headset (and possibly even the Steam Overlay) is turned off. I do know that in another game from the Steam Overlay triggers the debug program...

Philippe

Belisarius scenarios would be a great addition to AJE. The subject is slightly obscure, but thanks to Total War Rome 2 people have actually heard of the reconquest. But there are still quite a few things missing from the base game (e.g. provinces with mangled names or names in the wrong place on the...

Philippe

EIN FESTE BURG version 1.2 http://i.imgur.com/rTJfgCq.jpg (Gabrielle d'Estrées and her sister) The non-Steam version of the mod can be downloaded here (installation instructions inside and at end of this post): https://app.box.com/s/ip3b3agbywyvdu9huhpcuozokha60pxd The Steam version of the mod can b...

Philippe

And the Eighty Years War scenario still shows up in the current iteration of Europa Universalis IV (though I lost my enthusiasm for playing that game when the powers that be at Paradox decided to make it impossible to replicate Columbus' voyage of discovery). A game that I'm very interested in is Be...

Philippe

I guess I wasn't thinking of representing the entire Eighty Years War, as interesting as it would be, as much as making the post-1618 Netherlands a potential theatre of war. The idea being to present the Spanish Habsburg player (who probably can't exist under the current game engine) with explicit s...

Philippe

That's great. Is the tail end of the Eighty Years War on the radar? Or the Swedish-Polish wars that preceded Swedish intervention in Germany ? The game has a wonderfully tempting map when it comes to thinking about exapansions. (I suspect that the English Civil War would need a much bigger map and a...

Philippe

Are there any plans to come up with a campaign scenario that might include this battle?

Philippe

I think it's great that you finally got the game onto Steam, but someone needs to take a moment to put the Steam version through its paces. So far I've noticed two things. If you take a screenshot, the act of using the Steam overlay kicks you into decision mode. Or at least I think that's what happe...

Philippe

It is apparently possible to play the game in several different languages.

But how about the manual?

Is there a German version of the manual?

This is, after all, a game about Germany...

Philippe

A major determinant in whether Steam members who happen to wander onto the Thirty Years War page actually buy the game or not is the presence of positive reviews. These are especially important to drown out the few internet trolls who will inevitably write reviews before they claim their refunds. I'...

Philippe

Now that TYW is going to be released on Steam, this mod will need a Steam version. In my own personal copy I have edited out (with much regret) almost all of the music that does not belong in the period. Taking out the Cantemir was especially painful because I fell in love with Turkish music many ye...

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