The houses matched the size of the units. The graphics and smooth animations were the nicest of the whole series. I want to win a game with a strategy and not with clicking on upgrad and marketbuttons. I liked that you don't only had to collect a lot of stone and sell it on the market all the time like in Cossacks I. I think the ballancing (europe nations) and the fight/battle system was much better and more realistic than in cossacks I. I would add that a problem was also that there AC had only one kind of canon and no towers and walls. In the AC era, humans ruthlessly hunted wildlife and the wildlife understood at some basic survival level that the whole situation was flee or die.Īmerican Conquest was/is a very good game but it had some silly flaws like Ftoomsh mentioned. Bears don't hand hang about and muse, 'Gee, I think I will take on a formation of human halberds today.'įootnote: Before you bring up the behavior of modern bears don't forget they have become habituated to humans and we don't ruthlessly kill them like we used to (except in a much more controlled and licenced way).

Wild animals flee from major settlements. (5) The wild animal feature was just plain annoying. (4) Buildings were too big compared to landscape features which made siting some buildings difficult. Attackers can also throw torches and grenades from nearby cover and use fire arrows and artillery from further off if need be. They can throw in grenades and burning torches. Attackers can run to corners of buildings and crawl under windows. Those inside only have limited vision and field of fire through loopholes and windows. Shooting out from a building is rather limited in some ways. Superior numbers press forward with crowd pressure after busting doors down and can rapidly crush and kill all inside. Fighting a way in with cold steel should not be all that problematic if you have the numbers. If garrisoning is permitted it must be made more realistic. (3) Garrisoning was a problem as outlined by Nowy. After that, the player should be able to run his economy almost automatically, without thinking much about it, so he can give almost his full attention to battles, tactics and strategy. I believe that an RTS economy should take a certain amount of learning and competence. The whole feel of the artwork is rough and messy. Go back and look at how well the buildings and ships are done. The artwork in C1 was of an excellent quality.

Here are my reasons and some might overlap with reasons given above. No doubt, everyone has their reasons and theories why AC did not do so well.

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