Afterwind reviewed on gamingirresponsibly.com, my thoughts on it
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Verfasst von Garde, 23.11.2011 - 21:43
GI's final score: 6.6
GI's pro/con's
Pros
Detailed and Impressive In Game Board
Great Player Turn System
Currency Management Brings Nice Challenge
Impressive Online Modes
It's Free
Cons
Uneven Battle System
No Single Player
Weak Tutorial
Difficult Learning Curve
Monthly Charge for Premium Features
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I think this should be a wake-up call for AW. I've heard a lot of people with the same opinion as GI's, pretty much "The battle system is unfair, it's too hard to learn how to play, and the Tutorial didn't teach me much".
I have an idea on how to solve the learning crisis: Make the Tutorial much more advanced. Add in how the battle system work's with actual gameplay screenshots / video's, explain ARB and factors such as turn blocking. Explain how to use Flower's and 3-lines, how to properly make a Dline, and how to Turn block, this sort of stuff. Maybe after you buy a strategy, it unlocks a tutorial on how to use it? Maybe make a tutorial menu with many different lessons in it for different parts of the game, and practice against bots? Something like this should be priority no.1, seeing as if the game were easier and funner to learn, a lot more people would continue playing, and a lot more premium would be bought.
Not too good of an idea, but maybe make a third, more stat based battle system to solve what many people think of as an "unfair battle system"? Or maybe make an option to switch between the third, second, and hypothetical third systems for what kind of player your are?
Just a thought really.
I'd currently give Afterwind a 6/10, the only *major* problem I see is the community, considering whenever iv'e joined a game iv'e had to have Samnang hold my hand (Bros' 4 life, Umirin?), because I simply cannot stand the countless hordes of rank 5-8s' who ally-bang me (why? Iv'e always sucked at awind, it's not like you have a better chance of beating me or anything, youve already won most likely). Strategies are atrocious to me. I hate them. There are too many factors in the game to introduce a level of boosts on them; thats' why I wish be default all games outlawed the use of strats for even field, and that you would have to manually set it to use them. But this will never happen, just countless nerfs' and boosts' that don't work. Some bugs are apparent, the save button; was it ever fixed? Defending your city could be possible in my Tactical TCG idea (see my signature; click on the link for "100 days' ideas''). If what I said was fixed, definite 8/10. The other 2 points are off from too much similarity to Risk; I like /aw/ because it's a lot more in-depth, but I wish the option to make it as in-depth as a Paradox game was added.
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I see your points but IMHO I think the Paradox games takes too much and rewards too little. I definatley like Afterwind better but I do see why alot of people want to play the Paradox games. My brother is a hardcore fan and I definatley understand his passion. 
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I wish people stop comparing the two. A program, as much as a game does, has certain goals. More features does not equal more fun. Strategies are pretty annoying. Especially when you miscalculate the number of units required to capture a city. But they add much depth to the game and make it overall much more fun to play. And you can't claim Paradox (at least its Clausewitz Engine games) does this better, because all the bonuses a country buys are not visible to its enemies most of the time. The sliders in EU3 for instance cannot be seen by the enemies. Paradox Interactive's games are grand strategy games; it can take the better part of two or weeks to finish a game of Victoria II; even more for Hearts of Iron (with the expansions that cover the Cold War) or Europa Universalis. In comparison, the longest game of Afterwind I've ever played was a seriously action-packed 4.5-hour long game. It was genuinely exhausting, unlike the typical Paradox game. And that is intentional, because Paradox games are real-time and not turn-based so you won't be left shitting your pants before the turn ends. I'd say Afterwind is 9/10, mainly due to several technical limitations which prevent the really big things that are proposed from being implemented. And yes, the save button was fixed a very long time ago.
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Yeah, I guess your right. I just want afterwind to be more than Risk on steroids; that's why I made the gametypes thread, to do stupid fun things like their are in other games. Take King of the hill, come on- would that not be the shit? Everyone fighting over Malta? Sounds like good memories. But I get your point. I like the fact that afterwind makes me scared shitless playing, but sometimes I wish I knew that I wouldn't feel like that because it ruins matches' on here a lot for me because I tend to screw up when I feel like that.
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