Ok, thanks for the replies, I'll keep at it. Maybe its time to get a bit more aggressive

Ok so in my first game I am playing as England in the Grand Campaign (on balanced difficulty), and frankly it's not very interesting so far. It is currently 1069 AD. There has been no Norman invasion (or any invasion for that matter), and no other Kingdom has even sent me a message or treaty suggest...

Problem resolved by the support team. For others information, this is what was suggested (and it worked once I had FULLY installed it): "Please download the file "directx_Jun2010_redist.exe": https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109 Run the downloaded file ("...

Yes, installed that, but still steam version does not run.

Is it worth trying the non steam version as well ?

Well, just answered my own question, no it does not run on Steam either. (pressed the play button and nothing happens!)

I did uninstall other version first. I will contact support for answers.

I'm in exactly the same position as angel42052 - ie. I have a new windows 11 pc, couple of weeks old, with the same error message.

Everything else runs fine. I wonder if the steam version would run? Does anybody else know?

Just tried it again, and it worked this time, so thanks to the invisible fixer

The 48 hour special offer induced me to get the game.

However, at checkout, the discount code (which I copy and pasted) refuses to be applied. (When I click on the "apply" discount it remains greyed out) - so anybody else having this trouble?

zakblood - it is the site version.

Thanks for confirming that there is a manual, so I checked and downloaded it separately from my games page.

Hopefully now my casualties will be much reduced

Yes, am enjoying the game a lot. Played the pre-release demo and now on my first mission. It runs quite well on my pc, (after I switched from windowed mode to full screen). Not quite sure how best to use my units (casualties are quite heavy :cry: ), so I tried to find the manual for some guidance, a...

One thing I would like to see is the ability to destroy enemy facilities (eg. Mines, temples, etc), without actually taking control of the area (which could be difficult to hold onto in the medium term). You can destroy temples, stables, defensive walls, forts, blacksmiths, towers...basically all t...

My first impressions are very positive, it has that “one more turn” aspect to it that I find quite addictive. Initially I found the figures representing units too large but then I spotted an option to reduce their size so I thought that is a nice touch. The game is quite deep really (the 250 page ma...

So far I have played 2 battles against the A.I. , Austerlitz (twice), and Jena-Auerstedt. Each time I was victorious (as Napoleon) against the Austrian-Russian Coalition controlled by the A.I. which generally behaved competently i.e. infantry formed squares when threatened by cavalry, forming line t...

This is only happening because of new patches, now the game will save every new turn , so should it crash you can re-load it The game only saves your most recent turn. This is useless if you have to start a scenario from scratch every time there is a new patch. Patches need to be compatible with pr...

The game saves automatically at the beginning of every new turn Yes, but that's not much use if that save crashes every time you try and load it. To clarify what I meant, this game needs more than one save slot. Tried ver. 1.05 - save game still crashes and I'm not prepared to start the scenario ye...

Not so worried about save any time, but this game needs to be saved at least each turn, so that you can go back to your last save when the game crashes. I'm on mission 5, played 33 turns - went back to the game after logging out, and it won't reload. Unless this can be fixed, there is no way I'm goi...

The objectives for the fourth tutorial mission seem to be broken. Command tab says "complete all objectives to win the mission," and the only active objective is "Wait for the first election." But the first election came and went many turns ago--I'm currently waiting for the thi...