Colonial Campaigns Club (CCC)

Does anyone play this game in the club? Frequently, occasionally, not much at all? I am temped to buy it or the second incarnation which embraces many more wars of the bracketed period. Always wanted to play a good computer simulation of the War for Independence. Just don't want to throw more $ away on a game with a draconian learning curve and/or do so and not find opponents once the A.I. becomes boring....thanks. P.S. I would have preferred a Gary Grisby project to an AGEOD but I think the latter is the only choice...or does someone know of other grand strategic REVWAR computer games that are good?

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Ens. Tom Ciampa
Continental Regulars/1sDiv/NY&NJ Brigade/3rd NY Regt

Hi Tom.

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Field Marshal The Marquess of Charlotte, KCB,
Commander Left Wing, British Army, CCC
Ernie Sands

President, Colonial Campaigns Club

Tom--

BoA II covers a great span of Waring in NA, but I find all AGEOD games to be very steep, in terms of a learning curve & to me, there is no real 'fighting' in any of these titles. You simply decide what forces you'd like to send into battle and then the battle occurs, without you actually making tactical decisions. A huge flaw, in my opinion. Then again, I'm a huge HPS/JTS guy and like to be right on the field of battle literally (shooting, meleeing etc...), fighting it out!

Regards.

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Private Michael Violano
Hessian-Hanau Jagers
British Army of North America

Hello Ernie....Thank you Michael...I have the AGEOD Civil War game and I HATED it...I just found it as you said, very difficult and I believe the graphics were much to elaborate just distracting and impeding really appreciating the big picture. At the time I had 500mb of ram and I had to upgrade to 2GIGs just to play that game on an XP computer and them both myself and my couple opponents found more frustrating then fun. I don't know what I could be thinking even considering another AGEOD game. I think what I disliked more than they graphics which seem like too much pazzaz and not much fun playing even when you figured out how to play was their constant...almost daily sometimes, patches and upgrades. I am sorry I wasted your time. I will just pray for a good Grisby-Like production of a Grand Strategic game of the RevWar game that has a good A.I. But thank you very much for responding. I appreciate the frank assessment. There are too many other games to play, so little time, and no game, to my opinion, is worth the AGEOD learning curve...not for what you get after struggling through it.

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Ens. Tom Ciampa
Continental Regulars/1sDiv/NY&NJ Brigade/3rd NY Regt

I always liked these games, but trying to overcome the PBEM system is cumbersome and terrible. I actually wish that the guys who made Forge of Freedom would make a game for this series. FoF is a great game!!

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Field Marshal The Earl of Lexington, OSM
(Scott Ludwig)

Commander-in-Chief of His Most Britannic Majesty's British Armies in America
The British Armies in America

Training Center Commander

Glory in the King's Service! God Save the King!

Greetings Tom!

I played BOA I (the first AGEOD American Revolution quite a bit a few years ago, but I did not ever play their Civil War game. But from those who did, the general feeling is that BOA was not as complex as Civil War! I found it fun, and we had some really good Multi-player games here at the club. I never did get WIA (or BOA II as some call it), so I cannot speak to that.

The game system is very different from HPS/JTS, but I liked how it was a grand strategic/ operational focus. And if you are even somewhat familiar with the AGEOD mechanics from CW, I would imagine you would quickly transition to BOA. I do know that AGEOD stopped supporting BOA several years ago when they released WIA, so worries about lots of updates!

I think you can get BOA very inexpensive right now, so you might well enjoy it! I did.

Steve

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Brigadier General Steve Jones
Lord of Rhode Island
23d Royal Welch Fusiliers

Thanks...I think I have enough to play at the moment but I will hold out hope for another grand strategic game of the RevWar sometime in the future. I think it would be interesting and fun to play the "whole war"....appreciate your reply.

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Ens. Tom Ciampa
Continental Regulars/1sDiv/NY&NJ Brigade/3rd NY Regt