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Even Stonewall Jackson?
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Even Stonewall Jackson?
I don't think there's any exception to that rule.
Arachnofiend
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Are you allowed to tell the unique abilities of Union and Confederates?
Confederates have "Rebel yell". All units have a +10% automatic combat strength promotion. Pretty banal.
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This scenario just sounds so bad. It's like an RTS simulation; a simulation of a simulation.
Accurate, though. As much as I hate to admit it, the rebs had troops that knew how to fight.
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Ugh, I feel like so much more could have been done with this idea. They could have at least thrown in diplomacy with European powers, petitioning for aid as the Confederacy or non-interventionism as the Union. This sounds like a vanilla-grade scenario. Hopefully the Scramble for Africa is more interesting.
It's actually a lot more fun than I expected. It doesn't rely as much on building and researching, so it's much harder to get a big lead over the enemy, which means it relies a lot more on not wasting your limited resources and outmaneuvering the enemy.
I found it a really nice diversion, and I really don't care much for RTS games
It's more akin to the classic turn-based hex wargames like Panzer General and similar.
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It's actually a lot more fun than I expected. It doesn't rely as much on building and researching, so it's much harder to get a big lead over the enemy, which means it relies a lot more on not wasting your limited resources and outmaneuvering the enemy.
I found it a really nice diversion, and I really don't care much for RTS games
It's more akin to the classic turn-based hex wargames like Panzer General and similar.
I'm glad someone likes it then! I hope i find i'm wrong when i get to try it!
Guess that shows me how diverse the fan base is here too, that's something i'm always surprised at with this game.
TheMarshmallowBear
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I know but I can't tellWe've been very explicitly forbidden to utter a word about it... And yes, Arioch is right. They didn't allow us to post any screenies besides the provided ones (thing that made me very sad, as I love to go wild with screenshots).
Do you actually know what the 8th and 9th civ are? (via Civilopedia)?
I know but I can't tell
We had that happen with another reporter in the lead-up to Vanilla back in 2010 - several hundred screenshots including stuff that didn't make the final cut, for which he was severely reprimanded IIRC. Wise move to stay on the right side of 2K
Oh yeah, I can definitely see the reasons why they'd embargo screenshots. In a perfect world it'd be enough to just tell people "don't show the following elements", but we ain't in a perfect world and quite a lot of journos aren't exactly too careful on the details.
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@Abriel, You can't say what the last two civs are, but you will surely do another article about them. Can you say when that article will be published/uploaded to the web?
Oh yeah, I can definitely see the reasons why they'd embargo screenshots. In a perfect world it'd be enough to just tell people "don't show the following elements", but we ain't in a perfect world and quite a lot of journos aren't exactly too careful on the details.
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Yeah, there was an incident in the lead-up to G&K (which may actually be what Pouakai is thinking of), the upshot being that I don't believe we've seen a BNW preview from that source.
I honestly have no idea on when 2K intends to announce them (and even if I did, I couldn't tell, for obvious reasons, but I really don't).
I didn't realise there was one with G&K too - there was one before Vanilla with Azazell, which had stuff like Mt. Everest and lots of unannounced details. I remember making a thread (back when I was new to the forums) protesting 2K's censorship of him.
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I remember that! The G&K slip was a couple preview vids that were released early "just for CFC" iirc. I remember being bummed because I was out of town with just my phone and couldn't DL them!
TheMarshmallowBear
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I don't recall them.. I do remember however that even mods/admins joined in when Theodora's screen pic leaked out, who proceeded to remove them.
Were those the Theodora pics that were leaked a few days early? Was it CFC staff who leaked it? That would explain why the mods here went totally mental... trying to cover their own asses.
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