AACW/ACW2 compared to PON Civil War

[keithrose5]

Can anyone highlight the main differences/advantages of ACW or ACW2 (Age Engine) compared to Pride of Nations Civil War DLC?

Regards
Keith

[loki100]

The PoN DLC is perfectly ok but its pretty abstract. In effect the PoN engine is simpler as it is coping with 70 years of military technology (as well as the difference between organised European style armies and tribal irregulars etc). Its a good scenario to use to learn the combat and unit movement side of PoN (so is the Franco-Prussian war dlc). If you are basically looking for a game that reflects the complexity of the Civil War you'd be far better off with Civil War 2.

[Durk]

I agree thoroughly with loki100. Good DLC, challenging and balanced, but at an abstract level. If your goal is a great study of the American Civil War, then CW2 for certain. If you are a PON devotee, then it works perfectly fine in that world, but I am an American Civil War devotee, thus CW2 for me.

[keithrose5]

Thanks for the info guys - sort of what I'd expected to hear. PON will do for now but will prob. end up trying ACW2 if I read Shelby Foote again!

[Durk]

If your are reading Shelby Foote, step up to the game he would endorse.

[Pocus]

That was a good sum up of the DLC indeed!

[Prussia]

Matrix Games via Bundle Stars in a Grand Master Bundle has ACWII along with the DLC on sale in tiered packages (so ACWII would net you 11 games/DLC's in all, inc PoN, AAE, Rop and RuS gold) at prices that can't be beat:

http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=4127603

[Pocus]

Hope some of you took profit of it as it was a limited time offer and now it is gone

[vaalen]

Hope some of you took profit of it as it was a limited time offer and now it is gone

That would not help me, I buy every Ageod game as soon as it is released.

[shindigero]

I just started playing PoN this week and it made me really excited to get Thirty Years War and To End All Wars. You can imagine how happy I was when I saw that BundleStars link.....and how terribly I screamed as I saw the deal had ended What makes things worse is that I used to get alerts from Bundlestars when they had new deals but I noticed a couple of days ago that my email had started filtering them out as spam.

[Prussia]

That's a shame. Check them manually as they tend to do re-capitulations of offers, more so since summer is wrapping up.