Empire in Arms and EU, so similar?

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Originally posted by Janbalk


Great game though, even with the curse, "no complete game of EU the boardgame have ever been played". Or can someone dipsrove that statment?

While surfing around on webpages concerning EU the board game, half a year or so, I definetly remember visiting at least one page claiming that their constructurs had indeed played a grand campaign to the end.

Regarding Empires In Arms, I held a copy of it in my hands not too long ago, but reading on the backside "playing time: 10-1000 hours", I realised finding people to play with, would be difficult to say the least...

Still considering the number of boardgamers here and that quite a few of us live in Sweden/Scandinavia, perhaps it wouldn't be impossible to get a bunch together at some Swedish gaming convention? I'd definetly want to try one of EIA, WIF, EU the BG, or something similar some day. Any takers?

/Tommy

 

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I knew Philippe Thibaut in the mid-90's (for those who don't know, he's the author of the EU boardgame and helped with the computer version).

I was playing a lot of EIA at that time, and we used to test home rules. Philippe used to drop by, and provided lots of input, including a set of very detailed naval rules.

I played at least one game with him, the first French EIA championship. Well, we were 7 contestants, but still...
Philippe was British, I was Spanish, and for those who know him the infamous Xavier Blanchot was French.

The original idea of EU came from his frustration about the exclusively European focus of EIA. But then, if you were to involve the rest of the world, it made sense to start at a much earlier date.

I was young and had time for such games, then, *sigh*

 

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btw:

Down with the WinF usurpator! Long live A3R!

 

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EIA

Best ever boardgame that i played whit the 1792 starting version that i found on the net. We were playing game session of three month(4hours)once a week. We never pass 5 years.

For the EU multiplayer session, did all players need the CD ?????

 

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Re: EMA?

Originally posted by Clemens August
State Machine,

That Middle Ages game sounds very interesting. As you know I like dynastic twists and the language/culture concept sounds great to me. I hope EU2 has that (plus my favorite addtions constitutional policy and class stratification, but that's covered elsewhere).

Do you have any idea where to get it?

Are there any fan sites? I like these grand strategy games!

I can only think of old/collectable game sites. If there are any fan sites, I would think all of the fans would be on this board, too.

I managed to find my game, but the rules are gone. Game span was 771 to 1467. It did a very good, and totally satisfying job, of not having the historical monarchs. Once a scenario started and monarchs started dying, random ones would come in. In the GC you just weren't bothered that Frederick Barbarossa didn't come in - some great leader would likely come in at some point. Perhaps because monarchs did not control their entire country during that time, the emphasis was on ruling to keeping your existing provinces in your empire while expanding. Each province had its own stability, and you had to take steps to deal with low stability provinces. A cool thing was that if a province revolted that another country had a claim on, the province might join the other country. Religious and linguistic differences were major problems to be delt with. Like EU, crazy things happened - Burgundian Norway for instance. Better, the Mongols (non-player controlled) taking Scandanavia - if they could build fleets, they would have taken the British Isles, too!

To my shame, I have never even seen EIA. Everything I've heard about it makes me think EMA was an influence to it, just like it sounds like influenced EU.

 

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Ah, Music to my ears... I subscribed to "Strategy and Tactics" magazine when a youngster, and have about 100 or so SPI games around the world (I'm an NZer working abroad). That includes "Empires of the Middle Ages", and I'd offer a copy of the rules to State Machine but the game is in storage in NZ.

Wife bought me EIA a while ago. Played it solitaire only. For multiplayers, we tended to go with "Pax Britannica" - a classic. I was in an e-mail "Republic of Rome" a while ago too. I'd love to see the WIF as a PC game. Heard some good things.

 

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Originally posted by Romojo
I'd love to see the WIF as a PC game. Heard some good things.

Assuming there's not two games out there with the same initials, have you downloaded the "open beta" version of WiF?

http://www.marinacci.com/Chris/index.html

 

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Originally posted by Tommy
While surfing around on webpages concerning EU the board game, half a year or so, I definetly remember visiting at least one page claiming that their constructurs had indeed played a grand campaign to the end...

But they have a unfair advantage to all others, they knew the rules all others have to guess the rules from the manual .
IMHO RU the boardgame is a great game, but would be marvelous if the rule booklet had been tested/read by someone not already knowing the rules before the release.