Originally Posted By Mikeck
            Are you playing WEGO or Activation rules?  If the latter, how is it now?  Had problems with the AI previously.    

Originally Posted By Mikeck
        I hated EUIII as I had tried to get into it about 3 diferent times (original, IN and HTTR).  I finally made myself play 50 years to finally decide whether to uninstall.  I loved it. After a certain time, so much opened up. I think AGEODs WWI is like that. At first, its just a basic boardgame with lots of rules.  As you play and learn it, the depth opens up.  You have to put the time in and those types of games arent for everyone.        

Originally Posted By sandman2575
       

Originally Posted By Mikeck
        I hated EUIII as I had tried to get into it about 3 diferent times (original, IN and HTTR).  I finally made myself play 50 years to finally decide whether to uninstall.  I loved it. After a certain time, so much opened up. I think AGEODs WWI is like that. At first, its just a basic boardgame with lots of rules.  As you play and learn it, the depth opens up.  You have to put the time in and those types of games arent for everyone.        

        This is a great description -- and good encouragment!  Ironically enough, I bought HTTT in addition to WWIGOld during the sale, in the hope that it would get me back into EUIII, which I've never been able to get into!           Exactly right that there are not many "You *have* to read the manual carefully first" games out there, but WitP, EU3, and WWI Gold are definitely in that category.  I spent many days reading, highlighting, underlining the WitP: AE manual.  I actually enjoyed it!  Lots of "Wow, you can do that? Amazing" moments in there.            I just hope WWI is less exhausting than WitP.  I'm still in awe of what WitP lets you do, but it is the Mt. Everest of wargames ... you can't just turn it on and fiddle with it for a few turns and hope to get much out of it.  You need to have a 'Grand Strategy' in view, and always thinking many moves ahead.  One of the intriguing things about WWI Gold is how the game incorporates adopting a 'grand strategy' to begin with... Von Schlieffen plan, etc.  Very clever, those AGEOD blokes.    

An official update was released last week for WWI Gold.

Adds PBEM, along with numerous fixes.  I certainly look forward to the improved AI in army-by-army activation mode as opposed to the default WEGO. 

Get it here :

http://www.ageod-forum.com/showthread.php?t=22861

Not to go way off topic here but I wish someone would make Paths of Glory the boardgame into a WW I computer game that would be fun

I own WW1 Gold.  A very great game indeed. Updates are still being made for it. Haven't played for awhile but I think I will get onto it again. As you can guess by my name WW1 is th War I have the most interest in.

I'm planning on trying another WWI Gold campaign myself now that the new patch is out (and while I wait for the official patch for PON).  

Question:  I've only played the 2-player campaign before, but I'm thinking about trying a 4-player Entente campaign with the AI controlling Russia.  The starting Entente options are France or Russia.  

Yes, the French player also controls Britain.  It is interesting to play single-player games in the 4-player mode so that you're far less coordinated.. although coordination (and mostly cries for help) between allied nations was the norm in WWI.

One thing I found annoying about playing in 4-player was having to watch my allied AI go through every one of it's battles anyway.  So at that point I figured that I may as well run the thing and enjoy ALL the battles instead of watching & waiting for the AI to fight itself so often.

I think 4-player mode is also less stable and prone to crashing.

I am a big fan of the boardgame original, and as a consequence I become a bit irritated at people single-playering the 4 players campaign

The whole system was tailored for close cooperation, with everything that hindered that included in the game (most notably initiative penalties at given fronts, and political events to get rid of them via unified command).

Yes, it certainly wasn't made to run the 4-player campaign as 1 + 3 AI.  Probably part of the aforementioned stability problem, too. 

Does anyone know of a good video tutorial or walk-through to help get into WW1 Gold?  I was chagrined to see what I had written on this thread a year ago and realize that I still have not made any progress getting into this game.

If anyone has a 'this is what made this game click for me' suggestion (beyond reading the manual, which i've done), i'd love to hear it.

Originally Posted By sandman2575

Does anyone know of a good video tutorial or walk-through to help get into WW1 Gold?  I was chagrined to see what I had written on this thread a year ago and realize that I still have not made any progress getting into this game.

 

If anyone has a 'this is what made this game click for me' suggestion (beyond reading the manual, which i've done), i'd love to hear it.

I know there were some Youtube vids that showed what/why of the game.  I haven't watched them.  I really don't have any trick.  For me the game clicked when I took it at face value - move/fight, diplomacy, game events, reinforcements/munitions, repeat.  I learned that on each 'turn' you did a specific job and then moved on to the next phase. 

Post #64 in this thread gives some pretty good info:

http://www.ageod-forum.com/showthread.php?t=11524&page=3

By the way, I just finished a game as Russia (1 vs. 3 ai) and had no crashes the whole game.  Made it all the way until early 1918 until my citizens said enough and I was forced to sue for peace.

^ Many thanks -- I'll be bookmarking that link for sure.

BTW, hat-tip to Nefaro for his sounds mod, which in addition to other helpful things eliminates the awful "CHARGE!" during the battles, which sounded like an asthmatic octagenarian having a particularly effortful bowel movement.

Originally Posted By sandman2575

 

BTW, hat-tip to Nefaro for his sounds mod, which in addition to other helpful things eliminates the awful "CHARGE!" during the battles, which sounded like an asthmatic octagenarian having a particularly effortful bowel movement.

 

 

Late to the party, as usual.  I hate that sound.  Where do I go to get Nefaro's mod?

No prob.  Somewhere over there are mods for the map to lighten it up.  I haven't done that as I am now used to this map and finally get all the color codes.

Oh, found the thread with the vids for you:

Post #24 has the link

http://www.wargamer.com/forums/posts.asp?t=537713&p=2

Originally Posted By Philippe

Originally Posted By sandman2575

 

BTW, hat-tip to Nefaro for his sounds mod, which in addition to other helpful things eliminates the awful "CHARGE!" during the battles, which sounded like an asthmatic octagenarian having a particularly effortful bowel movement.

 

 

 

Late to the party, as usual.  I hate that sound.  Where do I go to get Nefaro's mod?

 

 

Over at Ageod's forum page there is a section for mods.

Thanks!  I'm only replacing the sound files with the constipated English octogenarian for now, but that makes a great difference. Up there with the moment when it struck me that the reason I couldn't grasp what was going on in the tutorials was because I was distracted by the music playing in the background.  Once I turned the music off the combat system started to make sense to me.  I love the music, but until I'm sure I understand the system I'm leaving it off.