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ORIGINAL: wodin

Again all i can say is I'm a WW1 obsessive..have a huge WW1 library. WW1 Gold hits the nail on the head ...

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ORIGINAL: gfyfc

I have the same question  with u

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ORIGINAL: Fascist Dog

I have been keeping track of the new Commander The Great War game and I noticed that there are also two other WW1 wargames available here; The Guns of August and the AEGOD WW1 Gold games. Now, the more detail and complexity a game has the better for me, particularly with respect to combat resolution. Which one offers the best and most authentic WW1 experience for a grog?

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ORIGINAL: parusski

Go with Commander - The Great War. It is a lot fun. I beta tested for over a year, and when I was offered a discount for my time and effort I turned that down and paid full price. The AI is impressive, it is always surprising me and ruining my best laid plans. And I agree with JameyCribbs about the greatness of the tech. system.

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ORIGINAL: Empire101

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ORIGINAL: parusski

Go with Commander - The Great War. It is a lot fun. I beta tested for over a year, and when I was offered a discount for my time and effort I turned that down and paid full price. The AI is impressive, it is always surprising me and ruining my best laid plans. And I agree with JameyCribbs about the greatness of the tech. system.

I am recommending parusski to the Pope for beatification for turning down his discount...Good Man!!!

I had the beta copy for review purposes, and liked the game so much I bought a copy 2 days after release.

Like parusski, I wholeheartedly recommend it. 9/10.

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ORIGINAL: Iain McNeil

We understand the argument and agree these nations played a huge part in the war but its not practical from a gameplay point of view to add Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India etc as nations. They all played their part and each nation would argue their part was vital but by adding a nation you require them to have their own build queue, research tree, man power pool, ammo supply. It just wouldn't work. To satisfy a small minority we'd be completely breaking the game and we're not going to do that and I'm sure you can see why.

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ORIGINAL: Iain McNeil

I think I misunderstood and thought a full separate nation was what was being requested so apologies. Yes those type of things can be done but only with units starting on the map so they are very much lip service. They do add a nice bit of flavour but would be quite a lot of work.

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ORIGINAL: radic202

Listen Gang and especially to the Devs of the game, I totally understand that it may not always be possible to add every "wish" to the game you are making due to the tools available in creating the game but for those who are maybe not as "literate" in Canadian Military History, it is very important to note that WW1 is what defined Canada as a Nation on it's own, completely separating it form it's "colonial hold" Great Britain and the wins and loses at Vimy Ridge, Pashendale, Ypres to name a few is what led to Canada finally removing it's "Dominion`status in the Treaty of New Westminster and formed a Nation of it`s own, no longer under the puppet control of the UK (some still believe we are though to this day!).

Discarding Canadians form WW1 or at least in this case practically making them invisible within the British High Command and Military is an affront to the WW1 Canadian Volunteer Veterans. Hence why it completely saddens me that no where can you see them anywhere or that there regiments are mentioned in the battlefields where they made such an impression. And the same could practically be said about the Aussies at Galipolli. they are listed as Brits as well. The suggestion by a Member here about adding a badge on the icon would be an acceptable alternative to me at least.

Again, please Matrix/Slitherine I am not angry over this just as a historian with 5 degrees and a Masters Degree forthcoming next month, I find this utterly heartbreaking that the Canadian efforts overseas in WW1 to be so unimportant in the game. The Americans are listed separately in the game and they lost much fewer men then the Canadians did. Heck ask the Newfoundland Regiment how many they lost. An entire generation of young volunteer men was lost.

I will eventually buy the game because of my loyalty to you all here but I know my dad and several of his Legion Friends whom I meet weekly for breakfast are definitely boycotting the game, One even said it is like the film Saving Private Ryan" where ONLY and ONLY Americans landed on D-Day and ONLY Americans were gallivanting around the fields of Normandy and ONLY the Americans fought the Germans for towns and bridges. The Brits, Canucks somehow stayed in the UK during the D-Day invasion as you never ever see any one else but Yanks in Normandy during that film no matter how many kilometers and areas they ventured in?

All the best to the Devs for a tremendous Game, just slightly heartbroken from my end.

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ORIGINAL: radic202


Warspite1, I have so much respect for you so please don't take this the wrong way but firstly you are right about it being a personal American story set during the D-Day invasion but the D-Day invasion no matter how you look at it was a 3 country operation (US, Canada and the UK). Fine make it personal about one Yank or a group of Yanks that is fine but in the context of the story and setting us in Normandy, tons of British and Canadians troops were misplaced/miss-dropped or got lost into American zones and vice-versa the fact still remains that Spielberg made this film with a whole Bias pro-Yank attitude! Plain and simple. If he wanted authenticity? Then by all means somewhere, someplace they would surely have bumped into other Allied units or individuals or at least a mention that Canucks just cleared this area or Brits did they area or stay away form that area as the Brits/Canucks haven't even cleared that village form the Germans.

Heck I even heard that a Teacher in a large American city asked his students (15-16 years old) after they had seen the film what countries participated in WW2 as the Allies and especially during D-Day and they said Americans were the ONLY military that was part of the debarkation! I am sure that Canadians and Brit youth would answer the exact same if they were asked right after watching the film!

Sure you have heard this argument before and the reason is because from any military WW2 veteran, this film and as much as it wants to be authentic is by far too focused on being pro-yank that it missed the entire point of the D-Day battle.

I am not knocking the film as I find it to be one of the most powerful WW2 movies ever made, just that the part I am arguing about is the only downside to it for me.

Again, this is all based on differences of opinions and none of us is right nor wrong. Only wanted to share my opinion.

Now on the Monty quote you mention, I must have missed that as I can;t for the heck of me remember it, maybe a good time for me to watch it again next time it is on.

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ORIGINAL: radic202
but here is a small food historical note: In Canada we can purchase Canadian cheddar cheese that is yellow in colour (probably can in other countries as well now) and the main reason for this is that Canadian troops serving overseas during WW1 in the trenches wanted real Canadian cheddar not the British cheddar, so in order to "nationally mark" Canadian cheddar for our troops and for it to be recognizable: it was coloured yellow instead of the traditional white so that Canadian soldiers knew for sure that it was cheese from Canada that they were eating and not British cheddar.