Which Ageod title would you pick?

[HistoryPlayer]

Hi,

I have been watching videos of Thirty Years War, Wars of Napoleon and To End All Wars, however, I am unable to make a decision. I would be happy with all three periods of time, but I am concerned about performance issues. Which one is more stable as for performance?

[Taiwan Number One]

I have never played Wars of Napoleon, but I have played Thirty Years War and To End All Wars, and between those two, TEAW is far more stable. While I don't have an exact count of the number of crashes, I'd wager TEAW crashed 15 times in a 100 hours, and TYW crashed 12 times in four hours.

[HistoryPlayer]

Originally posted by Simon Bonesteel:

I have never played Wars of Napoleon, but I have played Thirty Years War and To End All Wars, and between those two, TEAW is far more stable. While I don't have an exact count of the number of crashes, I'd wager TEAW crashed 15 times in a 100 hours, and TYW crashed 12 times in four hours.

12 times in 4 hours is too much...

[Nukkxx]

My AGEOD favorites:
1- Pride of Nations
2- Revolution Under Siege

But all AGEOD titles are good. Some however won't work smoothly on my old laptop.
for example : civil war 2, TEAW, WON

If you have a slow PC, TYW will run smoothly but it's of smaller scale/complexity than other AGEOD titles, and I would say less interesting. PON and RUS run perfectly fine on my laptop. PON is different.It's a grand strategy game and includes detailed economics/politics/research etc. Brilliant. Be aware that PON turn resolution are near infinite (20-30minutes) in mid-late game. You press end turn and go for some work.

[GreenGoblin1898]

Pride of Nations is fantastic, but we probably have to wait about 30 years before PCs are powerful enough to run it.

[GuileMike]

CW2 is my favorite followed by this or BOA2. I really wanted to like TYW, but the attrition on the game is unrealistic. The armies you create just melt away, even if they are on towns compared to any other title.

[Polygon]

Agree with GuileMike, Civil War II is my favorite. Very good, challenging and about the right amount of complexity.

[Fiago]

dont buy WON unless you plan on playing a 5 man multiplayer game.....the AI is NOT aible to handle to game

Civil War 2 is a good game to get into the AGEOD mechanics tho for that particular thing i would say Revolution Under Siege is by far the best.....

to end all wars can be very slow at times as the times progresses....when the game goes into late game around 1917 a single turn can easily be up to 10 min waiting

[Nukkxx]

Espana 36 (not on Steam but on Slitherine/Ageod site) Is perfect. I had it for a long time but never played until very recently.
- small map (as compared to WON or CW2 or RUS)
- Great conflict : nationalists vs republicans (Franco rules !! :-) )
- Very lovely art
- Very strategical
- Excellent performance even for a modest PC (which is rare with Ageod titles)
Espana 36 is a pure gem.

[Adam Beckett]

I caught a AGEOD COVID fever the last few weeks and play those games on a throttled down Win10 PC in super-duper-powersave mode.

I don't see any performance issues with any of them, switching between them and playing each for an hour or two.

My preferred 'performance' tweak for all of them is:

1. play it in 1024x768 (or slightly above) in non-scaled fullscreen mode, so my shiny 1440p@144Hz monitor has to switch to 1024x768. Do not use the "Desktop resolution", imho.

2. And choosing cursor in software mode (hardware mode cursor in Windows is 'pinging' the screen constantly, since it is hardware accelerated and can cause frametime spikes every couple seconds ... or even more often = avoid).

3. After each start of the game, zoom out and move deliberately to all corners of the map, so the ALL the textures get loaded into the video framebuffer. This will ideally make moving around the map later much smoother.

In 1024x768, I can also read the fonts more easily.

All the AGEOD games will run on any 20-year old hardware - it's a single-core game running on Delphi via DXWrapper as I understand it.

I have not had a CTD (desktop crash) in any of them in all the years. Some seem to cause the AI to take longer, especially with later turns. But that has nothing to do with the user's hardware.

Theoretically, these games could easily run on Android 6 phones and tablets - hardware wise - or old Apple tablets. Somebody just needs to port them and put them on Google Play/Apple store (*cough, cough*).

[Burning Bridges]

I have played most Ageod games since 2005 and I would personally try to get Ageod American Civil War (the 1st one not the remake). It had the slickest UI, the best graphics by far and was offering limitless replayability.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6a/Ageod%27s_American_Civil_War_Coverart.png

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/it/4/46/Ageodamericancivilwar.jpg

Later they tried out new things but failed and also had lost their talented artist who had made those incredibly beautiful icons. The various guys who came after her were hacks and slapped together something with Photoshop that looked passable at best, and often unbearably ugly.

I also recommend Revolution under Siege which is a lot like ACW1 (it is available on Steam too) and maybe Espana 1936 which is quite interesting too.

Although as I wrote before nothing ever came anywhere close AACW 1

[Burning Bridges]

Ah btw I almost forgot. Alea Jacta Est is also a really fun game.

[Vuyek]

Birth of America - fantastic for beginner, not too many units, many decisions to make each turn, winter supply is terrifying. Asymetrical war between French & Indians and UK/American settlers.

[ZeroTheHero]

Birth of America, Civil War (Ist edition) and Rise Of Prussia (Gold). I haven't played RUS so can't comment on that but seems to be a favourite among players).
p.s: Just bought RUS.

[ZeroTheHero]

Originally posted by RodentDung:

Originally posted by ZeroTheHero:

Birth of America, Civil War (Ist edition) and Rise Of Prussia (Gold). I haven't played RUS so can't comment on that but seems to be a favourite among players).
p.s: Just bought RUS.

RUS means Russian language?

It's also used by AGEOD players for "Revolution Under Siege"

[ZeroTheHero]

Originally posted by RodentDung:

Oh that is a game? What is the setting? American Revolution?

Of course it is, that would make sense wouldn't it?