Stainless steel?

**pevergreen** · 05-19-2008, 11:17

Played SS 6.1 for a few hours.

It is a lot more fun than Vanilla, a lot harder. A nice selection of mini mods.

Everything takes so long to build and train though. And the end turn is slooow.

**Old Geezer** · 05-20-2008, 18:26

I finally got SS 6.1 downloaded last night. Do you think I'll have time to finish one long campaign, early era before I retire at the end of August? (Who will be the first to explain in 10 pages or less how I can easily win by blitzing in 25 turns without cheating or exploiting or even going to the restroom once?)

**Ferret** · 05-20-2008, 19:02

In SS 6.1 I can confidently say that blitzing in 25 turns is impossible, unless you cheat.

**PBI** · 05-21-2008, 12:46

Am I right in thinking that in 6.1 they've got rid of the New World? Is that why the map is so huge now?

Makes sense I suppose, to use all that space taken up by empty sea to expand the map of Europe instead. After all, the Aztecs are quite fun the first few times, but I rarely keep playing long enough to get there.

**Ferret** · 05-21-2008, 15:03

This is indeed true, there is still a lot of wasted land in the South as well, with some tweaking there the map could be even bigger...

**I of the Storm** · 05-21-2008, 22:11

Hm, well there are a lot of new southern provinces in the east. Haven't played that enough to see whether they are useful or not.

**Henry707** · 05-21-2008, 22:16

Well G2,I've just downloaded it. My initial impression is that it looks good, very good. I wouldn't bother with too much of the detail. If you aer getting a bit bored with the vanilla version then give it a try!

I find with mods that it is best to try then out & see what suits you - same game, different flavour.

I love the look of the map but remember, it is a mod so there will be bugs...

These guys do such a service putting them together...give it ago!

Henri

**Ferret** · 05-22-2008, 10:58

Originally Posted by I of the Storm

Hm, well there are a lot of new southern provinces in the east. Haven't played that enough to see whether they are useful or not.

There are only two at the very bottom, one is a town and the other is the large town Mecca, as this was an important city I guess that is why they went so far South.