Right now i would be playing a probably amazing demo of a good game and about to tell you all how good it was.

Except it refuses to work claiming as have all games i sould run whilst on an administrator account. Thing is this is an administrator account and the ONLY account for that matter yet the game installed nothing and now crashes.

I've got it!!!! should be better and less laggy compared to demo ask away for questions.

working? i had that problem with some other games lol. take it your on Vista? worked for me by right clicking and selecting 'run this program as admin'

might get it if you say its any good ^^

well your waiting as am i i posted that before i found out its not relased till tomorrow so it wont let me play it...... or even install.

lol, owned ^^

Hopefully it will unlock tonight if not

but i think release date changed to tomorrow.

Steam officially fails when it won't let you play a released game because it isn't out on steam

I might get this on steam if it turns out to be any good Keep with the positng

If it's anything like Rome, it will be a very good game but quite difficult. Probably worth checking the demo out first of all.

Also, it's ridiculously expensive on Steam, so you might want to get the boxed version (it uses Steam registration anyway).

God dammit, it was a pre-load!!!!!!!! grrr still have to wait

Odd, the Steam webpage doesn't say it's locked.

I've been playing it, strangely either it was the steam restart or disc 1 being entered that allowed me to play it.

I have one pic coming later of me trapping and killing the general like a fish in a barrel, almost literally, except the barrel is a fort, and it's not a fish i'm shooting at.

Ask any early game questions ill try to answer/find out for you.

I'll try to be careful around spoilers :O

So yes it's a success and i don't mean my empire.

The game is very fun AND realistic. I admit early tech is (unbelieviably!) shoddy and near useless. But it's still fun fighting with pieces of rubbish xD.

My pride at the moment is my Polish empire that streches from Lwow to amsterdam, encompasses prussia and austria along the way, Controls England and has a retirement home in the bahamas .

PLUS I'M NOT IN DEBT OR COLLAPSING!!!!

In fact i'm making a profit of 25-30K gold per turn . Which for example is able to buy me two fully equppied fledged army's each consisting of 20 regiments each one containing a hundred and twenty men armed with rifles.

Trade has been re-vamped a little bit, or maybe i just understand it better but with some tables tellign you what exports are popular you can decided which to invest in for high export returns .

I never noticed this im previous games but now you can pirte other nations trade routes to stop their income. Very annoying if your at war with thouse in the Medditeranean seeing as you can kiss your trade goodbye from there.

City build has changed you still has region capitals, but also you have towns that grow over time too which you can specialise into several useful builiding depending on area.

Technology may feel a little slow but it is in fact very useful to get ahead of your opponents early game with a few simple choices.

any more questions?

Sounds really good, I may have to check it out. Just a shame I'll probably fail epically at it

i was amazed i finacially managed it all

lol cool. i'll get this soon xD
Invading poland is top of my to do list

I wont tell my GF for your own health related reasons .

But tbh i'll have to do it if i play as another nation anyway.

I'm probably getting this for my birthday

do it for the lols
had a quick shot and its awesome. sacking Paris, giving it back and repeating is quite awesome xD they slaughter there own pessants everytime hehe

>.< you barbaric scum! lol

I'm downloading the demo and it's almost done, so I'll probably give it a try tomorrow

This game is unplayably buggy for me. The HUD keeps flashing rapidly and any Steam chat appears in the top right and causes the HUD to disappear.

I fixed my problem by disabling all the extra AA stuff in the CCC. I just used ingame settings.

Yeah some games dont like forced AA

Don't even know why it was on, but at any rate, this was a bizzare bug.

Didn't fix the Steam in top right problem, though.