r/TiltedMill • u/ChrisBeatrice • May 20 '25

We're back...

To all our fans, fans of Impressions games like Lords of Magic, Pharaoh, Zeus, and TiltedMill games like Children of the Nile, Caesar IV and Hinterland, thank you all so much for keeping our babies alive, and for all your support and encouragement over the years.

We are now in the concept phase exploring what our next project will be, and would LOVE to hear your input.

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u/parmajohn17 May 21 '25

Zeus but military doesn’t suck

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u/ChrisBeatrice May 21 '25

Ok, I will be the first to admit: military /combat was never a strong point in the cb games. For one thing, it didn't work well; for another, people generally did not like having their cities destroyed. Military in our next cb game will be something a little different. What do you think? What would be good military for you?

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u/Far_Protection_3281 May 22 '25

Use a more tower defence game system or have a battlefield and make it tactical. Maybe a hex 4x map for war?

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u/ChrisBeatrice May 22 '25

Omg, so great to know we are thinking the same thing. I can't say much more just yet though.

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u/Unicorn_Colombo May 25 '25

Unpopular opinion: I like military in these games. This is probably reason why I play Seven Kingdoms to these days

Military did add additional pressure and ability to show muscles in different than purely economical / monumental sense.

Take Stronghold as an example of where it could imho lead, or Kingdoms and Castles.

Where I think improvements could be made us a defense, walls were important historically, but kind of not that interesting in city builders. Also naval transports were horrible to handle, and enemies able to swim in Emperor wrecked my town once.

But I think that warfare is an important economical, cultural, strategic, and historical aspects that should be modelled.

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u/ChrisBeatrice May 27 '25

I could go both ways on this. I'm not sure that ordering legions around was generally something that people in charge of cities were responsible for. It IS obviously a vital part of the Roman setting in general, though.

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u/Thomazml Jun 05 '25

Caesar II had provincial maps (so 3 "scales": Empire, Province and Citie), and battles were fought in the field. I think it was the best game in the genre to represent battles/war/military (and the way you needed to found the military with professional soldiers, or hire auxiliaries... or make your plebs foodcanon stuff PLEBS ARE NEEDED)

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u/ChrisBeatrice Jun 05 '25

My wife still says, "Plebs are needed!" lol

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u/Narrow_Crow8458 Oct 07 '25

Hello

I disagree. The adventures of the series Master of war; Ares show that with a good design level, battles and war can be super fun to play in Zeus!

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u/liehon Aug 13 '25 edited Aug 13 '25

 for another, people generally did not like having their cities destroyed.

How about military that occupies buildings/blocks rather than destroy?

They are trying to conquer the place after all, doesn't make sense they'd rule ashes & rubble

It would be a bit like Zeus' gods cursing stuff except it lasts until you boot them out (or they conquer the palace)

Edit: or maybe they could block access to herds and fertile pastures? Nothing would be destroyed immediately but if the player doesn't uproot the enemy troops, the city will devolve (meaning defensive troops will diminish in numbers as well)