New Strategy guide

[a_bates]

Does anybody know if a new guide is coming out that covers the original game and the expansion pack?

[Scotticus TheGreat]

Most of the stuff out there covers both pretty well, wait a bit, and things will start cropping up

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[a_bates]

I really meant a new Prima official guide.

[Shoko]

Hi, ur best saving ur money m8 and just read the material posted in and around these web sites....Alot better than in prima guide http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/eek.gif
Trust me on this.

[Gothmog]

Trust me --- prima guides ALWYS SUCK.

Those who write official strategy guides don't even know what a game is.

theyre written by newbies


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[Forward Observer]

Quote Originally posted by a_bates:
Does anybody know if a new guide is coming out that covers the original game and the expansion pack?[/QUOTE]

There is a Prima Guide for the original game, but I doubt that they would revise it and reissued for the new game. I saw a couple of copies a my local Software, Etc. store just the other day and they might be marked down by now. I agree with everyone else that most guides are prettly lame

I hate to admit this, but like a sucker, I bought the guide when I bought the original game. The store knocked $10 off the price of the game and manual together, and this was after the original game had been marked down to $20, so I got them both for $30 total.

While I wouldn't particularily recommend most game guides, this one is actually better at helping to understand the game than the crappy US game manual. It does give a lot of troop stats and while it only has a page or two devoted to some very general strategies for each clan, it does have a page of stats and info devoted to each and every province in aphabetical order. I do still refer to that every once in awhile.

Cheers




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[Kocmoc]

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on the forum: Ask a fear

u see some good advices and soon there will be much more.

feel free to ask, if u have a question.

koc

[BSM_Skkzarg]

Forward,

I agree - I also have the Prima guide (got nearly the same deal as you - but the game was 45 bucks! ARGH!) and the province runthru's are bloody nice. Its not nearly as complete as, say - the old Master of Magic strat guide Prima published, but it does add a bit to the play of the game for me.
Qapla!

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[Anssi Hakkinen]

Originally posted by Forward Observer:
Quote While I wouldn't particularily recommend most game guides, this one is actually better at helping to understand the game than the crappy US game manual.[/QUOTE]That's the point, exactly. They are making you pay $10 more just to get a decent manual with the game. That is also the usual reason for the included manual's crappiness - to make people buy the guide.

This is by no means a flaw of STW alone (in STW we have the Way of the Daimyô, which makes up for a lot), or even just EA games. It happens all the time. I just (more than) occasionally get tired of the fact that I get crappy manuals with my games because all the useful stuff has been shifted to the strategy guide, which are never even sold in Finland.

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