Sean O'Connor's Games

looks crisp

I just noticed that if you order your squad to circle and go of hunting the enemy on your own that they will come and join in when you launch an attack. How do people feel about this?

I left them circling so that they could defend our base so it was a little unwelcome.

Playing the demo for so long earned a special place in my heart for the Heathen which still endures.

It's at the bottom of the conquest order page

http://www.windowsgames.co.uk/conquest.html

In the section marked resources.

(oh and you should be able to do that copy edit thing without the download)

There is a file you can download or you can copy and rename an existing map file and alter it. The art for the map is just a paint file so that is easy and the copied map file is essentially a tutorial as you can work out what you need to change to make it fit with your map quite easily. Or if you j...

Yes I sent an email with a new map attached a fortnight ago and got a reply within the week.

why did you not create a map which would give you a 1,000,000 armies as a continent bonus?

Those are around for a long time, but they, too, would be travelling away from the battle. It's a matter of geometry, not of range. A good point but it assumes a single skirmish rather then a big engagement or just a split up fight between two squadrons. I would rather keep being killed at the end ...

Oriks

if possible I would like to choose my foes

the mission only ends when the last missiles have exhausted their fuel, so it could happen right.

If that happened I would say DRAT!

I really like Sean's Europe map but the Balkans seem to be worth to much and Italy too little, has anyone else altered the balance on this map? What were your solutions?

I just flew a patrol mission where my squad was destroyed and I was forced to eject. But because the I nailed the enemy leader first they hyperspaced before my pod did.

I just held a whole sector with an escape pod.

sounds good though

does the shadow storm double as a lightning rod?