--- Ageod announces its second game ---

[Ageod]

Some added infos:

AACW features fully integrated rail and riverine transports which allows troops to smoothly combine the various movements types in the same turn. Improve your network by laying new rails and buying new locomotives. Lay waste to the enemy network by destroying rails. Use Riverine movement to surprise your opponent and block waterways or estuaries with forts, ironclads, gunboats and emplaced batteries.

[rasnell]

I will buy whatever your company produces, but I'm glad the next game is the Civil War.

Why?

1. Best customer service and response time from the developer himself of any game that I've ever purchased.

2. Fewest bugs of any new release that I've ever purchased.

3. Most dramatic improvement of features, interface requests of users in each "patch" which never should have been called "patches" because they kept making the game better and had no bugs to squash.

4. The simplest, most elegant interface of any game, yet surprising depth behind it all.

5. Independent companies fighting in the shark pool of retail and world of software deserve our money and loyalty when they deliver this kind of quality.

ONE SUGGESTION AT RELEASE TIME: Find a way to split the download game file into stages of less than 200 mb if the game is a huge download. I had enormous difficulties because of the 200 meg cap on my satellite internet. Pocus provided outstanding personal service, but this might make it easier for all buyers if the files are huge and download is our key means of purchase.

[Pocus]

wow, thanks for the words Rasnell ! The whole team like to have this kind of fuel, it help us work as fast (and good) as possible on AACW. Motivation is the key to a good game.

As for your suggestion, this will depends of telechargement.fr, the company which handles the actuel e-commerce for us. But as before, just send me a mail and we will find a solution (its a very rare occurence in fact).

[kgsan]

Just wondering whether the time scale per turn will be one month, as in BOA, or perhaps shorter (i.e. 1-2 weeks)?

[Pocus]

2 weeks a turn.

[kgsan]

2 weeks a turn.

Glad to hear it. While month long turns worked well in BOA's depiction of 18th Centruy warfare, it seemed a bit long for a Civil War game, even one at the operational level.

After the great job y'all did on the American Revolutionary War I'm certainly looking forward to this title.

[saintsup]

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4. The simplest, most elegant interface of any game, yet surprising depth behind it all.

Fully agree and I follow closely (reading, beta testing, buying and playing) the wargame's PC market since Panzer General

[veji1]

Hi,

Just wanted to say that I am reading avidly all the threads about AACW and can't wait to get a hold on the game... I am salivating... I will buy it as soon as it's out there... Keep it up !!!

[Jayavarman]

2007 is almost here!

[beowulf]

I am as excited as someone very excitable who has something very exciting to be excited about.
ACW is an interesting conflict well worth making into decent games, but so far most of the games I've tried have disappointed me. I like BOA but miss the greater strategic scope that AACW promises.

[Hohenlohe]

I´m still waiting for your ACW game and I hope it will be released very soon.
Dear Pocus can you tell me something about the release date...

Michael , one of your fans...

[Pocus]

it should be released between february and march. I can't be more precise, it depends on many things, like how the AI code progress and how the remaining bugs are hunted down, etc.