I just picked this up for next to nothing. I didn't even know there was
an expansion - I never really got into the original but I thought I'd
give it another whirl. It doesn't seem all that different, but I didn't
know the original well enough to know.

Hi folks, for anyone in the mood, I am asking for your opinion as a
strategy gamer.
Games in general have a world full of objects and information that need
to be observed by the gamer. The method used to do this in strategy games

When I started a New Game as a single player, I couldn't pick the
number of adversaries. I could only do this under custom game. Is this
right?
Under both New Game and Custom Game, I chose Large, and later Huge,

Go Basics: Concepts and Strategies for New Players
By Peter Shotwell
Tuttle Publishing $16.95
Go Basics introduces a new way to learn to play the game of go.

WTF how in the wrold do you survive in this game. I decided "oh let me
reinstall this and play it" and WTF. In like 50 turns the computer has a
HUGE fleet every planet is perfect and its on normal. Then on top of that
the borg and other events keep slaughtering me . I see why ...

Some old threads were discussing the original Settlers 2
game and musing on a remake of it. Thought this might be
of interest to some.
http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=8659

Sword of the Stars - is a space strategy game in which you can control a
fleet of starships and explore the galaxy.
Orion II, battles at Antares: Also high dense game experience. Most
interesting and obvious race characteristics.

Bastard Strategy, games that cross over - XO strategy
Would be fun to hear if you have played, or seen any good games that have a
major strategy content or component but may usually sort into other
categories as:

Well the summer is here and I am not sure how many strategy games you are
juggling to play.  But for those who like space-based strategy games,
there's Galactic Civilizations II.
Anyway, we're working on a new free update (v1.3) which is largely an AI and

I'm a new player of civ 3. I enjoy the game and I've been trying to
learn how to play it. I've won on warlord a few times. I recently went
to the civfanatics web site to try to learn how to play the game. It
seems like more than I want to learn, its only a game after all, not a

The fourth of the Caesar city building series has a demo out now.
Fileplanet, etc, etc.

I'm trying to get the original Settlers 2 Gold to work on my laptop. It's
not a high-end one, but it's got XP.
For some reason the bottom of the game screen is below the edge of the
bottom of the screen. I've tried to change the resolution, etc in the

I'm really looking forward to Supreme Commander, but need some good
multiplayer real-time strategy between now and then.
Command & Conquer Generals Zero Hour looks like fun. How does the
interface compare to WarCraft 3, Total Annihilation, Age of Empires

Ubisoft certainly makes good games. This game proves
they are also experts in making strategy games. I have
played strategy games for over 10 years and played at least 20 different
games. Yet this is the only one where almost all basic strategies are pretty