So how is 1.0?

[Perturabo]

A brilliant game! Still a few recruitment holes (i think, unless they were intentional), however a really, really polished game.
If even any more donations are required I am happy to help again. Have now played this game more than any other game, ever.

Crash to Desktops: Mixed bag.. on the campaign map I have not had a single CTD regardless of how long I play for.

CTD at the end of battles, unfortunately, seems more common. I can't decide if it is my (now) mediocre system or the game though. XT 800 Video card seems a little low end nowadays, 2 Gig ram and a good sized processor however are fine.

Regardless, well worth the occasional frustration of a CTD post battle

P.S. Using Alex.exe rather than BI seems to be resulting in a more satisfying experience, less moronic naval invasions by allies (usually with 1 or 2 units), less equally pointless naval invasions by enemies and the general warfare seems more balanced with larger AI cities being very difficult for other AI factions to take with the AI actually retraining units sometimes.
One real problem only is now the Silver Death (Selucia) is being regularly defeated by the Yellow Death (Ptolies).