Grognot -> RE: The Manual (12/15/2007 4:55:22 AM)
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There's a lot for the boardgame version at http://eia.xnetz.com/ and EiH stuff at http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/eih/ . But yes, until you've played for a while from different angles (like playing the Turks with their feudal corps; or defending Russia against a Pr-Au-Tu assault -- seen this happen in EiA, doomed by winter, distances, and a Fr player who wasn't sufficiently distracted by UK or Spain; attempting to invade Russia (good for learning about foraging and supply chains...); or playing Austria and desperately looking for friends) it can take a while. EiANW, while its user interface is frequently non-intuitive, at least simplifies certain things like doing math and bookkeeping for you, and preventing outright rules violations (modulo bugs), so you're unlikely to learn to play incorrectly. I think the 1812 Campaign would have made an interesting tutorial -- mano-a-mano, so a bit simpler, but large enough to teach about supply rules, winter, and the strategic decision of whether and when to actually offer battle.
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