Quote Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube
What is it with this smear campaign against IG? You don't even sound like you've played the game. I have trouble believing you've beaten it on hard with Prussia and found it "So easy" when most people are having difficulties playing the game on Easy.
I'll try to be brief b/c this probably isn't the place for this-

Its not a smear campaign, in fact I was upset about people dogging this game before it even came out; furthermore I didn't call every store in my city every day last week till I finally found a copy on Friday, then run out and buy it and played it all weekend just so I could come here and smear it. I don't have much of a life but I have a little more of one than this.

Yes I have the game and yes I've won it on hard with Prussia if you really want to get in to a pissing contest I'll gladly post some screen shots.

I don't know who you've talk to that’s having trouble on easy every form I've gone to for IG is full of post saying "I can recommend playing on easy its just too easy" or "I just finished a campaign on medium and I hope hard is more challenging." There maybe some people having trouble on easy but to say most people are having difficulties playing on easy it just flat untrue.

They tried to put in alot of features in but didn't develop any of them. There is no variable tax rate, no such things as differing traits or ability levels for your generals, no governors at all, the campaign map is like risk everyone in a province is considered to be at the same place. After the first few hectic years no one ever attacks you and its way to easy to get way to much money and you can by what ever you want for cheap prices, first and foremost territories. These two things, lack of pressure and over abundance of money, render any potential the management system had irrelevant as there is no need to be efficient or shrewd.

Don't even get me started battles. The map for each province is always the same except for weather, the attacking force always starts in the same place, the defending force always starts in the same place, the attacker always have the same objective, and defenders always have the same objective, you can’t pause and give orders basically turns the battles into autoresolve battles you get to watch.

for heavens shake theres not even a moral system. A unit of basic infantry (militia) can( and does) charge a cannon battery, get blasted the whole time and reach the battery with less than 10% their original strength and the still keep going and take out the battery with out routing. Moral and routing is a critical aspect of any war situation, particularly in this era. It’s laughable that they left this out.

The game is totally simple and boring and totally doesn't live up to the hype the developers created for it. It is obvious to me that they worked hard on some parts of the game (audio visual is outstanding, yes better than RTW) but then they just threw the rest together to meet a deadline. The game needs about another year of development. When developers do this I think it’s far from a smear, in fact quit fair and necessary to call them on it.

So much for being brief.

Finial word, all this is my opinion of the game some one asks for opinions and this is mine (although every thing I listed above is fact) take or leave it. After reading your post and others I've seen you write I have to kind of wonder do you work for or own stock in the company that made IG? If so tell them to put out a finished quality product not something that looks great and has a good concept but is totally underdeveloped.