Comments on: In Praise Of: Colonization.

By: Kamos

Kamos — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 00:25:12 +0000

Pretty well explained! I just finished another game of colonization. I keep coming back to it (and Civ1 or 2 as well) every 3 years or so and lose like 20 hours finishing a game.

I must admit that the battles being win or loss feels unfair at times… Where sometimes I lose 4 times fighting the same unit (while being equally matched)! But of course you won’t hear me complain when I win 4 times using the same unit

Your tactic of handing guns to colonists is pretty much how I imagine the war being fought back then. And that’s the brilliant thing about Colonization for me, it lets you experience that time. Indians pissing you off or being in the way? clear them out.

My tactic is stocking lots and lots of horses, 300 in every city and then another 200 or so in terrain wagons per city. Everytime I lose a fight, move unit back into city and rehorsify it. And horses basically come for ‘free’: no building required. (well ok… at the expense of reduced population growth).

Anyway, brilliant game even now in 2014!

By: Hentzau

Hentzau — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 10:23:50 +0000

Well, now you can log in using your WordPress.com account! I think. That’s what Jetpack said it would do for me, anyway; it’s entirely likely it’s just freeloading on a sofa at the back of my web hosting instead.

By: innokenti

innokenti — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 10:20:29 +0000

To prevent impostors!

By: Hentzau

Hentzau — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 20:55:59 +0000

REAP THE GLORIOUS BOUNTY OF WORDPRESS.ORG

(Apparently I have to log in to comment on my own blog, which seems a bit weird.)

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 20:49:41 +0000

Ooh, more layers of nested comments!

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 20:49:13 +0000

He’s not wrong though

By: innokenti

innokenti — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 15:20:08 +0000

So you keep telling me.

By: hentzau

hentzau — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:21:34 +0000

You’re a terrible person.

By: hentzau

hentzau — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:11:03 +0000

The random map generator in both of them is terrible, but then I ignore them and spend all my time playing on the America map anyway simply because I get a kick out of doing something so completely ahistorical.

By: Adam Benton

Adam Benton — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:58:49 +0000

Having never played the original I never experiences many of those niggles. My big qualm was just the random map generator. It would always create snaky lines of islands, no matter what my settings were.