preordered because of Das123's videos..send the man royalties!

So outside of some UI issues, what do you think?  Seems pretty close to enjoyable enough to purchase outright at this point.  Or do you think it still have some big holes to fill before release?  What do you think are the main issues?  Things to be fixed/added?

I've enjoyed many of your Let's Plays of EUIII and others...  keep it up!  Or was it distant stars???

I would preorder if I were you. There is still much flavor to be added, as a tester your influence will help make the game better. It is already alot of fun to play. 

As Sean said this game is already very good. I'm enjoying it a lot. My current game has ended up one-sided but still a lot of fun.

The other videos were mainly Distant Worlds (also a great game). And I just did a Crusader Kings 2 a week or so back.

Nice of you. I love Elemental LP's too. But would be soo cool if you could play on challenging or hard instead.

Das123 has such a great narrating voice. I keep waiting for him to say during a battle, "That's not a knife..."  

Lol.

Here's episode 15...

For now...I only watched your first two vids. But...Very good. Thanks.

Regarding the end of episode 16 Freeze that enemy stack in place with Freeze or Tremor spell till you can get reinforcments to your captial. and if yoy htink it might make a difference rush build to finish that shield bearer in your capital

You mention in the earlier videos that you dont like how your leaders starts without troops or tech to make weapons. There are leader traits that let you start with troops (bandit lord) and empire trait that lets you start with the first lvl of war techs..what you want seems a matter of customization. I also saw a strat where you design your units with the weak attribute and it lowers build and upkeep costs. My home city can build weak milita in 4 turns which seems ample fodder for the early game

I noticed you kept the crown on the queen..did you cast enchants on the queen? Guess I didnt watch far enoguh heh..but you might have an enchantment on the queen casuing you to lose mana when you swtiched over the crown.

Bump so I canfind this to continue watching =D

@GRB1: Yes. You're right. I eventually figure that out but not until Magnar have done some damage. Can't remember which episode that kicks in.

@enoeraew37: As you mention there are traits that go part of the way with starting troops but I think all factions should have a small pool of troops to kick the game off - and possibly start with the first city already built. Interesting point about the weak attribute. As far as the crown in concerned I did hand it over but you may be right about the other enchantment. It could also be the maintenance cost of the Shadow Warg. I don't have an early save-game left so I can't tell now.

Next batch uploading now. Hopefully the next video will be up in a few hours. So slow uploading to YouTube.

I think the first 5 units (or most powerful 5 units) shouldn't cost maintenance.

This would encourage early strong play, on a limited scale, which is both a natural counter and healthy alternative to zombie spam.

Otherwise the only way to stay at 0 taxes and have a decent military is zombie spam.

With the 5 free units, you both encourage a starting party of 5 decent units so that you can start leveling your Champion or Sovereign, but also you allow yourself enough power to counter those that still zombie spam.

For beginning weapons, I'd say Club (2 attack) 10 hammers. Slingshot (1 attack) 15 hammers. and Stone Axe (4 attack +1 crit) 18 hammers.

Then at Standing Armies tech, you can get spear (5 attack) 15 hammers. Staff (3 attack) 10 hammers. and Shield (2 defense) 10 hammers.

-> you should be able to equip spear with shield, at a loss of 1 attack.

I learned from one of Frogboys journals that when you dont like your starting location you can type Cntl-N to quickly reload a new map. Something to consider for your next vid

I like that suggestion a lot Tasunke. Would be worth making a suggestion thread if you haven't already.

As far as starting again, I would have done it if I wasn't making a video but to be honest I was wanting to see what we would need to do to prevail. And if I got creamed at least the series would be a short one.

About the Armies Apearing in Episode 17 Have you Considered Magnar may have the Cloudwalk spell through one of his Heros and May have Basicaly been teleporting armys in

Also in your next game i would sugest puting out posts around your citys to have greater response time basicaly now you only have 2 or 3turns notice to get reniforcments to your citys when you spot the enemy with outposts farther out you would have doudle the time to respond

He seems to be bringing large numbers of units through different avenues. I wasn't really able to extend our forward areas because my production was so far behind.

Anyhow, here is Episode 19.

I had installed patch 0.86 before starting this recording session.

And here, finally, is the last episode. Phew.

Hope you enjoyed them. Was certainly a lot longer than I had anticipated.

Gimme more As Umber would be nice