Like many players of a certain age, I come looking for something that recaptured the vintage Strategic Conquest, and I wasn’t disappointed. If the makers of this game are looking for ideas on how to make it even better, here’s two: 1) the old Strategic Conquest allowed you to “program” where the output of a city would move - in other words, all the planes or ships made by a given city would automatically head for the front when they were built. This saved a lot of tedium on large maps in the later stages.2) one of the most satisfying features of the original Civ I was the replay at the end - the small world map with the colored areas showing all the civs would play an accelerated recap of how each power had risen and fallen throughout the game. This would make winning even more fun as you watched how you’d grown from a minuscule power to a world-dominating force.

I LOVE playing this game, and will continue to be addicted to it, but I agree that there are a few features from Strategic conquest, that would be great for this. Definitely bring back the city production list, as that only seems realistic that any warring power would want to take inventory and scheduling on what they’re producing. Also the old game used to have a feature where, before you sent a plane flying or ship on a certain course, you could drag the cursor to a place in the map to see how many sections you’d be traveling, or you could also set a ship sailing all the way across the world if you dragged that far. Also, as morbid as it sounds, I think you should bring back the future of being able to attack your own vehicles, as sometimes you need to clear something out of the way to attack an opponent .

The game has many maps, and the addition of the option to end the game when conquering a certain portion of the map is also convenient. It might be an interesting idea to add maps which are almost all land, to enphasize ground type warfare. Perhaps one of those maps could also have a single small river with a few bases along it's route to emphasize geound warfare, but offer a strategic opportunity to supplement an assault with ships and resources. Oh, maybe another option where there's a chance the difficulty could get even harder (or their resources build twice as fast), and different colored teams merge together against the main player as they conquer more of the map. Maybe that could be a randomly generated thing. Still, a fun, addicting game.

This game is, er was about an 80% clone of the old Empire, War Game of the Century. I bought all of the maps ages ago, and definitely recommend that you do to in order to really enjoy the game. However this new revision, I AM NOT a big fan of. Changing the game control locations was a bit confusing but I can adapt. Changing the way the game plays, specifically the fighters, absolutely NERFS out your fighters. No longer can fighters fly over mountains the way they ALWAYS did, even going back to the original release of Empire, and continuing through Empire 2 and the previous releases of Mother of All Battles, going back to when I first downloaded it almost 10 years ago. Yes, folks I have enjoyed this game for about a decade now, but this latest snafu really messes with the game mechanics. I may end up uninstalling it... how sad that a great game has to die like this... :(