Forum Overview :: Endless Space

hmmm by fabio 04/18/2015, 2:11am PDT It's better than the other Master of Magic clones I've tried, but they've all been terrible bores so I'm not sure that's saying much. It's basically the combat of Fallen Enchantress/Age of Wonders, but a little better, meets the strategic portion of Beyond Earth (an almost exact match), but a little better, with the custom unit construction of Fallen Enchantress, but...exactly the same. 2 things I like about the combat more than Age of Wonders: 1. Battle takes place on the actual map terrain tiles as the one tile army automatically spreads out into individual units. No sudden surprises of being fucked chokepoints or special battlefield effects of AoW. You can even issue strategic orders during battle. 2. Streamlined turns. You give each unit a target along with "advance" or "don't advance", then click "GO" and it automatically and quickly plays out 6 rounds before asking for orders again. It's a nice balance between the one unit at a time approach which got tedious in anything but the most decisive battles, and the autobattle approach where you took unacceptable casualties to the AIs idiocy. Reminds me of how Suikoden's traditional jRPG combat just had everyone go at once. Can't really comment on how the strategic portion or balance plays out long term yet.

Endless Legend free weekend NT by fabio 04/16/2015, 4:30pm PDT     hmmm by fabio 04/18/2015, 2:11am PDT         Yeah what the other guy said by fabio 04/18/2015, 7:42am PDT             Oh, one city per district by fabio 04/18/2015, 1:33pm PDT                 Fuck! Even the manual doesn't explain traits! Jesus christ NT by fabio 04/18/2015, 2:14pm PDT     aaaaaand I've already broken it by fabio 04/19/2015, 3:42pm PDT