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For one reason or another, 2025 has started off as the year where I get back into that most nostalgic of genres - good o' real-time strategy. First came the replaying of classics like Age of Empires, then trying out some new promising indie titles (Eyes of War being my most interesting find - just classic skirmish with a gimmick that lets you play in 3rd person and fight with your army, very cool during sieges), and then it just continued... Age of Darkness was another find, but the latest is 0 AD. Since most of my game consumption is a direct funnel from Steam (or GOG for all my DRM-free purchases), I guess gems like this are even harder to discover unless you hear from it by word of mouth - same as we did back in the day. That's what makes it even more endearing and kind of bitter-sweet because of how nostalgic this whole gaming period feels for me. Where do I start and end with 0 AD? It's absolutely astounding that someone released a free game of this scale and caliber. It's perhaps the closest to being a spiritual successor to the original Age of Empires while also having its own personality. And this was being developed all the way back from 2010? Needless to say, I've dipped just a bit into it and already have to shout praise in its direction. Just so glad whenever I see love being shown (and in such quantities too!) to this overshadowed genre. Consider this my love letter if nothing else <3

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The nanny bot. I thought it just scrambled the words (like "§$%&/!"), didn't know about the substitution.

... and he is darned right!

My bad. Should be good now.

Amélie Kuhrt's book is very useful but if you want something focusing on the society, I would suggest "The World of Achaemenid Persia", "A History of Zoroastrianism (Zoroastrianism under the Achaemenians)" and "Women in Ancient Persia, 559-331 BC". Check the table of contents of "The World of Achaemenid Persia" and see if it could interest you.

It's number of houses, barracks, fields and civilizations and has nothing to do with the second line. In the second line are only the gather rates (incl. way) lined under and attached debugging info for me. The last % is the gather rate in relation to the maximum of 5.8. The replay file is written instantly. When spectating a live game I regularly use it to check out the replay to see which player uses quickstart, which some players use in even in rated 1v1s. I think it would be a great analysis tool, like a chess engine (although this wouldn't cover all strategies). But chess engines are also used for cheating. So I'd rather have no analysis and no more added cheating than more analysis incl. more cheats.