Rerelease When?

[phil.montegordo]

I enjoyed American Conquest and its expansion, Fight Back, a long time ago. I still do. Despite its terrible AI, I could manage to enjoy my time. There are patches that fix the AI to some degree and the graphics compatibility. Even there was a mod that enhanced the game a lot. However, I still long for a new release of American Conquest, with a better AI, graphic card compatibility, customization of your civ/faction if possible, larger maps...

These are the original features I loved from American Conquest:

You need gold to maintain your troops and navy, otherwise they will revolt.
You need food to keep your units alive
You need iron and coal for your troop and navy keep firing at the enemy
The beautiful fortresses of the Spanish, Dutch, Russian, American and Portuguese factions
You can only have a civic center/meeting hall per area. This invalidates encrouching, typical of games like 0.A.D. and the like.
More expensive cannons and keeping their numbers tied to the fortresses.
Fortresses become exponentially more expensive as you build more.
The beautiful, and very slow, frigates
Unit formations. Nothing makes my heart beat with joy by seeing a company of fussiliers marching under a drummers beat.
The campaigns
Historic

What I didn't like from American Conquest was:

The AI.
Machine gun buildings

The AI worked very weird. AI factions never invested in superior units, fussiliers, preferring musketeers and halberdiers. It also built a great number of drummers and flag bearers. And at certain point, AI stopped gathering food. Only in campaigns, AI performed better. In the case of the Maya, the AI built a gigantic number of warrior and stormed any other faction in just a blink of an eye. The Conquest of Mexico Campaign was so difficult due to this in hard mode. The other infamous feature was that any building, especially homes and churches, fired a lot of ammo with just a few units garrisoned. It was hilarious. I managed to survive my first battle when I discovered this.

What I would like from a new release:

A Better AI

I don't care if the meshes and texture are the original ones, they're still fine for me. Thanks for your attention. I needed to say this.

[FLeSH]

This game was very good though, it's very unlikely that a new release will be made, you can play cossacks 3, it's a similar and more recent game

[Alkun]

we need a remaster of this game

[phil.montegordo]

Originally posted by Alkun:

we need a remaster of this game

Yes, we do. they did it for the Cossacks franchise. I believe the developers ignore what a jewel they have. With the right AI and balancing, this game can beat Age of Empires.

[Armor Baron]

This is a community made "Gold Edition" of the game featuring the campaigns and missions from both the vanilla game, Fight Back and a new community expansion that adds some Asian cultures as well.

The site is in Chinese but you can use a translator and then click on the bottom download to get the English version however: http://www.americanconquest.info/gold.html

Edit: Apparently there are also some people that have obtained the source code to the game and are trying to remaster the game or at least that's what I heard last, not sure what has happened with that.

[phil.montegordo]

Originally posted by 503 A. Soldier:

This is a community made "Gold Edition" of the game featuring the campaigns and missions from both the vanilla game, Fight Back and a new community expansion that adds some Asian cultures as well.

The site is in Chinese but you can use a translator and then click on the bottom download to get the English version however: http://www.americanconquest.info/gold.html

Edit: Apparently there are also some people that have obtained the source code to the game and are trying to remaster the game or at least that's what I heard last, not sure what has happened with that.

Thanks a lot. I didn't know about this. A long time ago, there was a site, Masters of the Filed, who modded the game, were shy on improving the AI in sandbox mode. They were more concerned on multiplayer gaming.

[Americassa]

I totally agree with you.
Starving to death due to stupid AI is the largest drawback.
I strongly want the AI of random maps to be improved.
Hoping its fixed files to be released even now.

[feenix55555]

I have looked in ai files i know how to order ai to build some type of unit or buildings and how much of them .unfortunately i dont 't know how to create ai dll. File i have tried follow guide what i have but it gives me following erorr :https://prnt.sc/pLaMAxzIBqLY
(when i want build dll file)
If someone help me with it i would like improve ai