Vedder
Head Headcase
I got the last one at the EB in Scarborough Town Centre in Toronto.
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I got the last one at the EB in Scarborough Town Centre in Toronto.
TRpwau
Chieftain
RE: WWII Pacific Ocean Scenario
here are a few thoughts after playing about 15 turns:
right after the first turn, Japan attacks Pearl Harbor. However, my fleet (american) in honolulu was NOT decimated at all. i was expecting catostrophic results from the japanese sneak attack. As a matter of fact, i sunk a japanese carrier and a few destroyers with the USS Arizona! go figure...
AI naval manuevering tactics are a little suspect. By this I mean that i was able to do 'hit and run' tactics w/ American naval vessles and sink a good portion of the japanese vessles located around Midway and Wake Island (about 7 or 8, including 2 aircraft carriers)....
Japanese air attacks are able to do 'lethal' precision strikes on units inside of an American city (manilla). ie I lost a transport that i hurried production on the previous turn.
all in all, though, this scenario is splendid (at least through 15 turns) and it offers a wide array of new and authentic units
here are a few thoughts after playing about 15 turns:
right after the first turn, Japan attacks Pearl Harbor. However, my fleet (american) in honolulu was NOT decimated at all. i was expecting catostrophic results from the japanese sneak attack. As a matter of fact, i sunk a japanese carrier and a few destroyers with the USS Arizona! go figure...
AI naval manuevering tactics are a little suspect. By this I mean that i was able to do 'hit and run' tactics w/ American naval vessles and sink a good portion of the japanese vessles located around Midway and Wake Island (about 7 or 8, including 2 aircraft carriers)....
Japanese air attacks are able to do 'lethal' precision strikes on units inside of an American city (manilla). ie I lost a transport that i hurried production on the previous turn.
all in all, though, this scenario is splendid (at least through 15 turns) and it offers a wide array of new and authentic units
shirleyrocks
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Woo hoo! My FedEx shipment arrived from EB Games while I was reading this thread! 
I guess I can clean up all of the drool on my desk now.
I guess I can clean up all of the drool on my desk now.Poonchance
Chieftain
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Yesterday...GameStop in NYC. No bonus CD. Ack!
I played the first tutorial and saw the tech screen, and was like "Can't wait to get to these techs!!". Then the game timer ran out and I lost! Maybe it's time to try the real game...
I played the first tutorial and saw the tech screen, and was like "Can't wait to get to these techs!!". Then the game timer ran out and I lost! Maybe it's time to try the real game...
Mojotronica
Expect Irony.
EBX in Northgate Mall, Seattle, WA, USA.
$29.99
$29.99
denyd
Emperor
Waited for the guy to open the UPS delivery at EB in Puente Hills Mall (Los Angeles). $29.99 +tax
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Shepherdboy
Chieftain
North Atlanta--
After trying Best Buy, Circuit City, Compusa, and Wal-Mart, I finally went to an EB at Northpoint and found the game there.
I've read a few posts in this thread about the blank look by retail employees when asked about C3C. I experienced that today at Best Buy.
How is it that these technology retailers have people working in their computer departments that are so clueless. I realize that not even computer enthusiasts know all titles that are due out, but this is a pretty mainstream one. Also, the problem worsens when the employees don't seem to understand what Civilization III is.
These people, and indeed the one I encountered today, would seem (due to my application of stereotypes, I'm sure) to be the type of people who would know something about computer gaming.
I wouldn't think that these stores are paying such good wages that they are drawing lots of employees with no computer experience. In my experience, most people working in retail work in a job related to something they like or a hobby.
Anyway, sorry for the vent...
Tonight I'll start C3C!
Shepherdboy
After trying Best Buy, Circuit City, Compusa, and Wal-Mart, I finally went to an EB at Northpoint and found the game there.
I've read a few posts in this thread about the blank look by retail employees when asked about C3C. I experienced that today at Best Buy.
How is it that these technology retailers have people working in their computer departments that are so clueless. I realize that not even computer enthusiasts know all titles that are due out, but this is a pretty mainstream one. Also, the problem worsens when the employees don't seem to understand what Civilization III is.
These people, and indeed the one I encountered today, would seem (due to my application of stereotypes, I'm sure) to be the type of people who would know something about computer gaming.
I wouldn't think that these stores are paying such good wages that they are drawing lots of employees with no computer experience. In my experience, most people working in retail work in a job related to something they like or a hobby.
Anyway, sorry for the vent...
Tonight I'll start C3C!
Shepherdboy
downwithgravity
Zen Rocker
they're STILL completely out of conquests here in lawrence(thursday)...now i have to wait again.
grrrrrr i should have preordered it.
grrrrrr i should have preordered it.
barron of ideas
Barron
Also at Electronics Boutique in Northgate Mall, Seattle. About 6pm. There was only one clerk on duty and he was swamped. They never had any bonus discs to hand out, he told me several times as I had preordered. Still have receipt to prove it.
Game doesn't seem that different. I picked random everything, standard map, wound up as Carthage on continents with Romans, Biaantines and Greeks. Curack is pretty slick, explored a lot, other continent has germans, celts. Fought off a lot of barb galleys, probably more than a dozen before sinking. There may be anouther country or two somewhere on the map. The Byzantines attacked me, with unending horders of horsemen, not much good against my numidians behind walls (got the great wall as consolation prize for missing temple of artiemis. Saw the droman in action, bombarding one of my cities, the flame is worth seeing. Didn't do much, though. Volcanos erupting are pretty not spectacular, like pollution, and didn't seem to have any effect on the greek city nearby. Kind of interesting to be the only one who knows where players on the other continent are. AIs try to extort money, but they don't ask for maps, even though I have mapmaking.
The extra wonders will take some getting used to, the AI does prioritize them. I got a lot of the standard ones, but none of the new ones. Slow reflexes, I guess. I know why I want the great library, the Collosus, the Lighthouse. I'm sure I'll learn new reflexes as time goes by.
Game doesn't seem that different. I picked random everything, standard map, wound up as Carthage on continents with Romans, Biaantines and Greeks. Curack is pretty slick, explored a lot, other continent has germans, celts. Fought off a lot of barb galleys, probably more than a dozen before sinking. There may be anouther country or two somewhere on the map. The Byzantines attacked me, with unending horders of horsemen, not much good against my numidians behind walls (got the great wall as consolation prize for missing temple of artiemis. Saw the droman in action, bombarding one of my cities, the flame is worth seeing. Didn't do much, though. Volcanos erupting are pretty not spectacular, like pollution, and didn't seem to have any effect on the greek city nearby. Kind of interesting to be the only one who knows where players on the other continent are. AIs try to extort money, but they don't ask for maps, even though I have mapmaking.
The extra wonders will take some getting used to, the AI does prioritize them. I got a lot of the standard ones, but none of the new ones. Slow reflexes, I guess. I know why I want the great library, the Collosus, the Lighthouse. I'm sure I'll learn new reflexes as time goes by.
Gogf
Indescribable
I'm sorry if this has already been said, but I don't have the time right now to look over all of the posts here:
Does anyone have it from Connecticut, if so, from where?
Thanks in advance.
Does anyone have it from Connecticut, if so, from where?
Thanks in advance.
thestonesfan
A Client of Ron Kuby
It still hasn't gotten to any stores around here. That just plain sucks. I was planning on getting it the 4th. 
It'll probably get to Europe before I get it!
Feel sorry for me.
It'll probably get to Europe before I get it!
Feel sorry for me.
thestonesfan
A Client of Ron Kuby
I should have just ordered it. Oh well. The crappy thing is, Stapel wanted me to buy him one and send it over to the Netherlands, cause he's laid up and stuck at home for a while.
Tacit_Exit
King
No sympathy from this Aussie (grumble, grumble, next week, grumble).
Dr. Yoshi
Emperor of the Universe
Got it at my front door at 12:59 PM PST. I haven't opened it yet and will not be able to until I finish all my homework this weekend.
Penguin-Camel
Camel-Penguin
I got it!
I went to a Frys in Sacramento and I bought it!
I went to a Frys in Sacramento and I bought it!
JonathanValjean
Porschephile
Today makes the 3rd day in a row that I've driven the road circuit between Gamestop, Walmart, and Best Buy. I hope that this habit ends soon... I still haven't sighted Conquests, however, I'm happy to report that Civ 3 Gold seems to be going quickly at Walmart.
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