Better strategy sounds good. I hate that Russia's first move almost always has to be "buy 8 troops" otherwise their demise is inevitable.
Although it's also fun to have Russia be neutral, or joined with the Axis at the beginning, too.
We played that in high school. We had a practice room in the band room set up with the game and we played an extended game over a month period over our lunch-band hour, since we were seniors and had nothing left to do in band because it was near the end of the year and they were already learning the music for the next years marching show. 2-3 hours daily of it, working out strategy in between games, that was fun. :)
I wish the computer game wasn't such crap, though. It crashed my computer after playing it all the time, and if you altered the rules in odd ways it screwed up the game (making some production costs 1, then getting the "lowered production cost" development, the game bombed at about 11,118 or so troops bought ;) ).
The Iron Cross edition was a bit better but still not totally solid.
I always wanted to get the Pacific edition, as our battles almost always ended with the US/Japan battles in the Pacific.
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Date: 2003-12-08 10:20 am (UTC)Better strategy sounds good. I hate that Russia's first move almost always has to be "buy 8 troops" otherwise their demise is inevitable.
Although it's also fun to have Russia be neutral, or joined with the Axis at the beginning, too.
We played that in high school. We had a practice room in the band room set up with the game and we played an extended game over a month period over our lunch-band hour, since we were seniors and had nothing left to do in band because it was near the end of the year and they were already learning the music for the next years marching show. 2-3 hours daily of it, working out strategy in between games, that was fun. :)
I wish the computer game wasn't such crap, though. It crashed my computer after playing it all the time, and if you altered the rules in odd ways it screwed up the game (making some production costs 1, then getting the "lowered production cost" development, the game bombed at about 11,118 or so troops bought ;) ).
The Iron Cross edition was a bit better but still not totally solid.
I always wanted to get the Pacific edition, as our battles almost always ended with the US/Japan battles in the Pacific.
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Date: 2003-12-08 10:28 am (UTC)As for a computer version, have you seen http://www.freeverse.com/solace.mgi ?
If you've got a Windows partition, or access to
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Date: 2003-12-08 11:15 am (UTC)I should ask her about setting up a separate account on it for me, so I don't screw up her settings...