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    Quote Originally Posted by Charge
    Aren't this game based on RTW engine? I read this sometime somewhere long time ago. Changed perhaps...
    What you may be thinking about was a History Channel series on ancient wars where the Total war engine was used to depict the battles. I remember one was about the 300 Spartans and another about Troy.

    There was also a history related show broadcast in the UK where people actually got to use an early version of the Rome Engine to fight famous historical battles.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Forward Observer
    What you may be thinking about was a History Channel series on ancient wars where the Total war engine was used to depict the battles. I remember one was about the 300 Spartans and another about Troy.

    There was also a history related show broadcast in the UK where people actually got to use an early version of the Rome Engine to fight famous historical battles.
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    Thanks, Kekvit Irae--I knew somebody would remember the names of the show.

    BTW, I have wasted money two History Channel games.

    The first was "The Battle of Britain" ---a combat flight sim game.

    What it turned out to be was a modified version of the single player training for one of the on line monthly fee based combat sims like "Fighter Aces".

    It even had a free trial to the online service. Basically I could have downloaded almost the exact same stuff if I was interested in the free trial period anyway. As a stand alone sim, it was pretty worthless.

    The second was an RTS game they put out about the Alamo.

    It was actually an Activision budget game by a development group named Zono.

    It wasn't terrible and the first couple of missions were kind of fun, but for some reason even on my system which was about 4 times the recommended specs, it would slow down to a crawl for no reason at all.

    The only way to fix it was to exit the game and re-start. This is usually the sign of a memory leak in software, but since it was a budget game and they were never going to issue a patch to fix it, I eventually filed it in my "obscure, unplayable, and never finished" games bin.

    Cheers
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