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ORIGINAL: Gil R.

The testers are free to do an AAR any time they want. A complete AAR would be hard to do, since the standard scenario can easily take 100+ turns to play out. At some point I might do a simple AAR for a few turns to show what the game is like.

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The good news is that there will be about 10 tutorial videos, which are already being prepared by us. FOF came out before Camtasia (= software program for "videotaping" one's screen) made it relatively simple to make them. (They're still intensely time-consuming, but at least they're not complicated.)

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The manual's length is probably around 150 pages, though many of the rules only apply to the "Advanced Economy." If you're playing "Standard Economy," which is the new and simplified economic option, then you don't need to worry about trade, most development, feudalism, etc. etc.

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HW graphics have to stay as they are. Due to the number of playable countries and the number of units and thus uniforms, it would have taken at least half a year to get those graphics implemented. We would, of course, like to have our land units look as slick as the naval graphics, but an investment of 6+ months would have delayed multiple other projects and not necessarily led to that many more sales.

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So how does CC or CCEE for that matter compare to FoF in terms of Start-up options, in-game choices and general complexity?

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Having never played CC, I am curious as to how the detailed battles differ from FoF. Map size, terrain etc...

Actually, I am curious about the gameplay difference in general.

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  The testers are free to do an AAR any time they want. A complete AAR would be hard to do, since the standard scenario can easily take 100+ turns to play out. At some point I might do a simple AAR for a few turns to show what the game is like.

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ORIGINAL: Joram

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  The testers are free to do an AAR any time they want. A complete AAR would be hard to do, since the standard scenario can easily take 100+ turns to play out. At some point I might do a simple AAR for a few turns to show what the game is like.

I'm taking that as a partial release Gil so "Hi, I'm a tester!"  Now that I'm past step 1 of the 8 step process, I can try to put together an AAR.  But as Gil said, it will be difficult to do a complete one as there are essentially three distinct games within this one game. 

1) There's the Strategic Layer which there is a lot to cover even on simple economy (which personally I prefer). 

2) There's the Land Battles which of course any veteran of either game will be familiar with though there's new improvements to the rules, new upgrades and the option for doubling the scale. 

3) And finally there's the new Naval Battles which for me is the hardest element of the game because I'm a landlubber.  But if you don't laugh hysterically at my tactics I can still put one together.

Each one of these would take many hours to put together so I guess I'd ask if there was a particular aspect of the game people wanted to see? 

The only thing I'm going to rule out is anything showing the 'advanced' economy (aka the economy of original CoG) because I was always bad at that part.  Thus my love of the new simple economy option.