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The Master of Magic one got lost in who owns what rights to the idea and the game unfortunately. That's a great find for Cornwall btw, that, Jine the Cavalry and Hornpipe were my favourites.

If Rome starts in the late Republic, how about shifting it earlier, to Marius and Sulla and the Punic Wars, and the Mithridatic Wars towards the end. Or on the Greek theme, Alexander has been done but how about the Greek city states - there were several factions, you could get the...

In Col 1, Washington promoted all victorious soldiers up a grade, so petty criminals to indentured servants, servants to free colonists, free colonists to veterans, but I don't think it was veterans to continentals in the War of Independence, you had to have your veterans promoted in your cities...

What about Sumer/Akkad/Assyria/Babylon Total War? Admittedly, I don't personally know a lot about the order of history in the region, or what sort of soldiers they were fighting with, but I know there was an awful lot of nations in the region constantly overthrowing one another (relatively...

Thanks Dale!

84) When you wonder how the first colonist can completely build a town hall, blacksmith's house, rum distiller's house etc. out of nothing when subsequent buildings need lots of wood and tools. 85) When you believe the skill of a gunsmith is to turn a tool into a gun. 86) When you question...

I downloaded Dale's patch 1.03 as I wanted the bugs to be fixed without altering the gameplay so much, based on my idea of what the mechanics were like in the original Colonization. Should I download the new 'official patch' or stick with this one?

Fantastic! When I looked for the music (a while back now) this is what I had in mind! I have Colonization on a Dos computer and my XP, and I still prefer the Soundblaster on the Dos. One thing - were you unable to find a Fountain of Youth? Guaranteed musical happiness for just longer than...

I'd like it to be like in Col 1 where they tell me when I'm out of material, it gets annoying to have to check my bases for when my manufacturers aren't making anything because they've run out. I also think that it should be a one-time warning, if things keep getting thrown away after that then...

How about the colonisation of Africa? There would be all the different competing European states and some of the African empires too. It's a bit later in time than the setting for Empire, but I think it would still work. It could even be considered as an expansion for it if the two timescales...

Do you reckon it was intentional to only half the guns required for soldiers and not dragoons? It took me a little while to realise that the dragoons (in normal mode) still needed 50 guns and horses.

I preferred Imp 1... Imp 2 was too dependent on being able to find the diamonds before the other countries did. And I also liked Fantasy General too... I think Colonization 2 should have been made as a separate sequel in its own right. The way I see it, Col 2 is a hybrid of Col 1 and Civ 4...

I think it is because of the comparison with the old game, which despite the buggy AI was just wonderfully plain, simple, and with kitsch, cheery background music to boot. I used to run the outpost strategy because there was a cap on the colonies you could build, though this time it seems...

Oh, thank you so much for the music! I don't have Col2 yet, but gutted to hear that they don't seem to have kept the old tunes in some shape or form! Interesting to hear about the midi file definition. All the midi music from games sounded best on my Dos/Windows 3.1 computer with a Sound...

I think they will still be part of the game, because they work like the goody huts in Civ and the supply pods in Alpha Centauri - can you imagine one of these games without those? It's true that the effects can be a little overpowering, but these are rare items found once or twice in a game...

He held his arm too stiffly, and so was thrown back repeatedly, until at last I seized his forearm and snapped it back against itself. His training suffered while the arm healed, of course, but I felt this was a lesson he must learn early, and well. Spartan Kel, "Honing the Ki" He held...

But if there's no "Lost City Rumors" (I'll grudgingly take that spelling, I know the designers are American) then there's no Fountain of Youth, then there's no brilliant Fountain of Youth jingle! That always made my day!

The misquoting of Recon Rover Rick got me thinking... I reckon that if we were doing a 21st century parody of the plotlines, Range Rover Rick would work! Just imagine that: "Richard Baxton piloted his Range Rover into a Taliban hideout and held off four waves of guerilla militiamen, saving...

You forget that they made Alien Crossfire for Alpha Centauri.

122. You laugh at the French for not learning from the Chinese and building Versailles in the same city as their palace. 123. You think the Eiffel Tower is a giant broadcast tower. 124. You wonder why nobody has started work on a Space Elevator even though Robotics has been discovered...