r/ColonizationGame

Pick a starting location (Europe, North Africa, Middle East) in 867 AD, starting occupation (from serf to baron) and try to build an entire dynasty of hopefully not peasants over multiple generations (or hell, build generation after generation of serfs I'm not your supervisor).

Fully moddable! Plays surprisingly well on mobile.

Latest build always at https://play.fallowborn.com

Today we've got another retro indie game inspired by Sid Meier's Colonization and Imperialism for our CivFanatics, this time it's Imperial Ambitions. This game is a historic 4X turn-based strategy game where you play a civilization during the age of imperialism, and you try to dominate the old and the new world. As normal for these type of games, you manage resources, build units, and annihilate your enemies. The citizens of your empire have different social classes, and require and produce different resources, and might get unhappy due to different reasons. Religion, trade and the black market, and technology progress also play a role. It's now fully released on Steam, early reviews are very positive and there's a free demo to try as well.

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2219390/Imperial_Ambitions/

Our discussion: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/imperial-ambitions.689072/

Gameplay video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8Dls5wxoPA

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It seems when your unit loses, its best to just end turn and dont attack any further. I had turns where i lost all the battles regardless of what is attacking what.

Is this how we are supposed to do it?

I started this as a nostalgia trip back to playing Colonization on the Amiga, and somehow ended up with a ridiculous 700-turn campaign, 348 colonies, independence, wars across a huge map, and eventually wiping out every other European power.

After all that, this was the ending.

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“You are victorious!”, one picture, then Continue Playing or Quit.

I might be mixing games up here, because I seem to remember one of the old Civilization games having a map replay or time-lapse showing how the world developed over the course of the game. I cannot remember if Colonization on the Amiga did anything similar.

Can anyone remind me what the Amiga version actually gave you at the end? I am sure it felt like there was more of a conclusion than this, even if it was only a score, ranking, Hall of Fame entry, or some kind of summary.

For a game that can run this long, FreeCol really feels like it should give you more of a record of what happened. A proper ending could include a map replay, colony founding and capture dates, independence, wars, final population, biggest colonies, military strength, casualties, score, and how long each nation survived.

Even a simple before-and-after map and a campaign summary would make a huge difference. After investing that much time, the current ending feels more like a notification than the conclusion of an enormous historical campaign. There might be restraints on a full replay due to it being in java or something, but surely there could be something a bit less anticlimaxical?