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Origins 2025 will be held in Columbus OH from 18-22 June, and the Wargame HQ will be back with over 150 events across all 5 days, and publishers like GMT, Decision, Fort Circle, Catastrophe, Ares, and the Dietz Foundation all supporting us.

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Intel Dump / Re: Consolidated Games-on-Sale Thread
« Last post by bbmike on Today at 03:16:35 PM »
 :2funny:
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Intel Dump / Re: Consolidated Games-on-Sale Thread
« Last post by JudgeDredd on Today at 02:51:07 PM »
 ;D
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Intel Dump / Re: Consolidated Games-on-Sale Thread
« Last post by Barthheart on Today at 02:32:39 PM »
Humankind is the free game of the week at Epic Games Store:

https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/humankind

Still too expensive.
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4X Gaming / Re: Civ-series games
« Last post by Barthheart on Today at 02:28:36 PM »
I'm assuming that when you go through one of the Age transitions and you are in the middle of a war that continues on along with everything else into the next Age? If it's a hard restart every time that's going to really, really suck.

Good question, I have not seen anybody talk about that. I'll try that and see what happens.
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4X Gaming / Re: Civ-series games
« Last post by bbmike on Today at 02:23:15 PM »
I'm assuming that when you go through one of the Age transitions and you are in the middle of a war that continues on along with everything else into the next Age? If it's a hard restart every time that's going to really, really suck.
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I'm curious about this war because of the different armies.  The Prussian infantry was outstanding, but by Fredericks own admission, the cavalry was very poor. 
By the Seven Years War, the Prussian cavalry had been train up to also be excellent.
This early war could have some challenging battles.  Does good infantry and poor cavalry work better than poor infantry with good cavalry?

Well, if the Battle of Mollwitz is any indication, then in this era... yes. That's exactly what happened.  The Prussian Cav was driven from the field, but the infantry stood firm and won the day.

That said, do realize that even during the war, the Prussian cavalry improved greatly.  Frederick instituted reforms almost immediately after Mollwitz.  They wouldn't reach their full dominance until the SYW, but even by the later WAS (2nd Silesian War era especially), they were pretty good.
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4X Gaming / Re: Civ-series games
« Last post by JudgeDredd on Today at 01:50:48 PM »
Welcome  :notworthy:
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I'm curious about this war because of the different armies.  The Prussian infantry was outstanding, but by Fredericks own admission, the cavalry was very poor. 
By the Seven Years War, the Prussian cavalry had been train up to also be excellent.
This early war could have some challenging battles.  Does good infantry and poor cavalry work better than poor infantry with good cavalry?
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4X Gaming / Re: Civ-series games
« Last post by Gusington on Today at 12:11:01 PM »
^I'm very heavily leaning towards getting it in the next few days. Being able to play in one age only is what I have always wanted and it sounds like ages are really fleshed out.

Thank you for not trying to stop me JD  ;D
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4X Gaming / Re: Civ-series games
« Last post by Barthheart on Today at 12:02:54 PM »
I stumbled upon McWhiskey's reviews yesterday as well. Never heard of him before. His video parts were unwatchable to me as they moved way too fast and showed basically nothing of gameplay. He was also a little too confrontational for my taste, like calling me a moron because I did not like the Civ VI art style. So, in the end, 'hey whateva'...I watched both his videos and still am excited to get this. Somebody stop me.

Get it. It's fun and it's Civ. Mind you I only have 4.6 hours in and have not come to an Age transition yet. But the game play is all Civ.

Tip: No more cheap swiping someone's unescorted settlers!  :censored: You just end up killing them now instead of taking them and using for your own settlements.