{"id":2497,"date":"2010-06-25T10:17:29","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T15:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=2497"},"modified":"2010-06-25T10:17:29","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T15:17:29","slug":"hegemony-philip-of-macedon-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/25\/hegemony-philip-of-macedon-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Hegemony: Philip of Macedon Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gameshark.com\/reviews\/3560\/Hegemony-Philip-of-Macedon-Review.htm\">You can read my full thoughts on <em>Hegemony<\/em> at Gameshark.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Hegemony<\/em> is one of those games that makes me hate the fact we are expected to score reviews. How do I weigh the charm and intuitiveness of the design against the constant interruptions of rebellions and unexpected attacks? Am I expected to know how readers feel about the lack of good diplomatic options in spite of the supply line mechanic? These are major strengths and major weaknesses. I came down on the positive side.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign pacing is, as I say in the review, excellent. Yes, there are brush fires you need to put out all over the Peloponnese, but your objectives are set for you in such a natural way that you can set your priorities. Unit construction is easy, the RTS tactics make sense, sieges are well represented&#8230;there is so much cool and interesting stuff here that the B is as much as a &#8220;glad you tried something new and it mostly worked out&#8221; as anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can read my full thoughts on Hegemony at Gameshark. Hegemony is one of those games that makes me hate the fact we are expected to score reviews. How do I weigh the charm and intuitiveness of the design against the constant interruptions of rebellions and unexpected attacks? Am I expected to know how readers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12,108,6,41],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-Eh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2498,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions\/2498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}