The mystery of the missing strategy guide.

[Melvish]

@Karash: sarcasm always brighten my days.

IMHO the best source for a strategy guide would be here :The Org guides

It is written by more than one peoples so you get a larger scope of strategy covered. Plus it is totally free.
If something is not covered feel free to post a question, chance are someone already have the answer and will be happy to help you.

[Forward Observer]

It seems odd that Brady would plan a guide and then cancel it, unless they did so based on a lack of a commit to buy from their various retail outlets like the Gamestop franchises, Amazon, and the various chain book stores.

Still, it amazes me that companies like Brady publish, and people actually buy, strat guides for stupidly simple FPS games like COD and the like. Although I've hardly ever use them, I have always purchased the Total war guides probably for as much as a collectible as anything else, so I have them all---from Shogun on.

Of course, it also always amazes me that CA can produce such complex games as the Total war series and then accompany them with brief, crappy manuals that wouldn't even qualify as good cliff notes. I mean come on; a 32 page manual for a game like Empire is almost an insult to the paying customer.

What they could have done for the $20 more expensive special edition is forget the useless special edition units,a the black and white outline map of the game world, and the single volume DVD of a multi-volume set of a History Channel DVDs, and instead stuck in a decent 150 to 250 page well written game manual complete unit stats as of release.

I do remember downloading a copy of the manual for Shogun that went out with the English/European release of the game and being amazed at how much better and more complete it was than one that came with the US version, so I wonder if they are still different?
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[Didz]

There used to be a time when the quality of a computer wargame was judged by the thickness of its manual. Anyone remember Harpoon?

[Ethelred Unread]

I was going to start a new thread on this but not only is my place of residence in the game, but in early 1720 something the game references Longman publishers my current employers!

This may be more than a co-incidence because Longman is now owned by Pearson, who also own Bradygames.

I'll look up the ISBN at work on Monday and let you know a publishing date.

Incidentally the reason people like Bradygames publish strat guides is because the San Andreas one sold gazillions of copies - I saw the sales figures for this title and it basically gave everyone employed by Pearson about £20 in their paypackets at company profit share time.

[Graphic]

Have you ever smelled a strategy guide? Bury your face deep in the pages of one. It smells wonderful.

I'd buy "new strategy guide" air fresheners. And "new socks" air fresheners while I'm at it.