Rise of Prussia Gold

Probably the best of the AGE Games, Rise of Prussia covers the fascinating European Theatre of War during the Seven Years war, or third silesian war. The Gold Edition also adds the First and Second Silesian Wars, which are smaller and more focused and great for learning the game. Its a period that is ironically, often overlooked by most people. Taking one of histories greatest generals, Frederick the Great, you lead the fledgeling nation of Prussia into war against the monstrosities that are France, Russia, Sweden and most importantly Austria, with only a few hannoverian allied armies supporting you. The game enjoys minimal bugs compared to most AGE Engine Games, and I have only run into one so far and it was minor at worst (A General teleporting). The Performance is good, which is something you can't normally say for an AGE game as well, and whilst it isn't the prettiest game around the graphics are pleasing enough to the eye. Although the UI is a little outdated, its easy to get us...

My first ever Ageod game. Not for the faint of heart! But if you are a hardcore gamer, and willing to put some time on it, you will be rewarded by the best strategic/tactical games out there. If you are a student of military history, you will get totally addicted to Ageod games. I barely play anything else. Also by far the best gamers community out there. Friendly, polite, and very welcoming to new unexperienced players. What can I say? If you want to experience what decisions a commander had to take back then, my suggestion is to give these games a go. Totally addicted to this company's games. I started with Alea Jacta Est, then Rise of prussia, then Revolution under siege and American Civil War II and never looked back. AGEOD in my opinion makes the best military games out there. Can be a bit daunting to start with (first time I got AJE I couln't figure out what the hell was going on) but if you are willing to put some time into it (the AGEOD forums are absolutely amazing for beginne...

All the AGEOD games are very good. This one covers the 7-years war in Europe, and comes with several long and short campaigns. The game works on a WEGO system, and focuses on operational level warfare. Supply is very important, as are weather conditions. You can build units for your armies, give orders to your generals (which they will not always carry out, due to an activation system, simulating the difficulties in co-ordinating actions in this period). There is no 3-d battle function. Strictly old fashioned strategy, played out on a beautiful 2-d map. The units and leaders also have very nice art to represent them. Highly recommended, in-depth simulation of the campaigns of the 7-years war in Europe!

Seriousy I need a manual with this game, the tutorials are too sparse and don't give enough information on how it all interacts. As someone mentioned, I see that this game has a STEEP learning curve, it MAY be a good game but I don't have HOURS to spend learning a game system that neither steam or the developer bothered to provide competent instruction on.

Like all AGEOD games there is a steep learning curve for this game, however once you become used to the system you will find that you will find a deep and engaging game with the ability for the player to actually use strategy and tactics to best achieve your goals. Especially good if you have friends that will join for a game via email, nothing like crushing your opponents army and then letting them know about it. Regarding Steam AGEOD is slowly moving to being more supportive of Steam and with their other games the patches come quickly.

This is a fabulous game and it was worth every cent I spent on it. If you are a fan of Grand Strategy style maps as Commander-in-Chief of all your armies than this a great game for you. As a fan of anything between 1700-1945 this game covers a crucial part in the history of Europe and that makes playing it even more excting!

It's so hardcore, I've never seen such a difficult strategy game before! Absolutely love it. In this game even losing becomes a pleasure.

Deeply complex game where player controls armies and plan for victory. One false move can cost the campaign, be that a bad positioned column, a fool charge into superior enemy force or as simply as forgetting to couple one's force to its supply detachment left behind last turn to speed up the march. As this is my first AGEOD game, I remember all so well the feeling when Saxons invaded mainland Prussia, Berlin almost captured because I put my "Home Front" troops at a wrong place while the main army was still campaigning in Bohemia. Graphic wise, not much to write about. The player gets a 2D map of Central Europe and an option between 2D army stacks or 3D ones. Personally, I prefer the former, as coupling with the map, it is quite charming. The game is truly easy to learn. Orders and movements are pretty simple but to dwell more into it, one will discover the complexity of the game's mechanics. New players are encouraged to read the manual and do more research on AGEOD's forum as there ...

Bought on sale. Starts up and works good on Win 8 SL. Basicaly same genre and idea of Pride of Nations. Must be same developers. Would not buy for more than $7 or get it on sale. Looks like it could be a good game. Need to spend more time on it though. Do work through the tutorials. It helps.

Rise of Prussia it could have been fun, but sadly it lacks support, I remember playing the game a bit in the past while it worked, but it has changed so that i cant run the game without recieving a ctd everytime i start a battle which is simply unacceptable. Patching the game to the most recent version 1.11 does not alleviate this issue and it seems like the game is not recieving much support either, i have seen that the patch to version 1.1 came 1 and a half years later than when the patch was released, not a good sign. Therefore i suggest staying away from this game which could have been possibly also quite a fun mp experience and show more intresting facts about the seven years war.