{"id":772,"date":"2007-10-01T10:59:18","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T14:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/01\/october-strategy-preview-2\/"},"modified":"2007-12-06T14:55:30","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T18:55:30","slug":"october-strategy-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/01\/october-strategy-preview-2\/","title":{"rendered":"October Strategy Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The leaves are turning and the shelves are filling.<\/p>\n<p><strong>October 1<\/strong> &#8211; <em>Seven Kingdoms: Conquest<\/em> (Enlight)<\/p>\n<p><strong>October 2<\/strong> &#8211; <em>Democracy<\/em> (TriSynergy\/Positech)<\/p>\n<p><strong>October 5<\/strong> &#8211; <em>Strategic Command 2: Weapons and Warfare<\/em> (Battlefront\/Fury), <em>Crusader Kings: Deus Vult<\/em> (Paradox)<\/p>\n<p><strong>October 15<\/strong> &#8211; <em>History Channel: Great Battles of Rome<\/em> (CDV\/Slitherine), <em>Left Behind: Eternal Forces Expansion Pack<\/em> (Left Behind Games)<\/p>\n<p><strong>October 16<\/strong> &#8211; <em>Thrillville: Off the Rails<\/em> (LucasArts\/Frontier), <em>Heroes of Might and Magic V: Tribes of the East<\/em> (Ubisoft\/Nival)<\/p>\n<p><strong>October 22<\/strong> &#8211; <em>Escape from Paradise City<\/em> (Take Two\/Sirius)<\/p>\n<p><strong>October 23<\/strong> &#8211; <em>Zoo Vet 2: Endangered Animals<\/em> (VU Games\/Legacy), <em>Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties<\/em> (Microsoft\/Big Huge Games)<\/p>\n<p><strong>October 30<\/strong> &#8211; <em>Universe at War: Earth Assault<\/em> (VU Games\/Petroglyph)<\/p>\n<p>A couple of titles here have slipped from earlier months. <em>Seven Kingdoms<\/em> has been missed lots of announced dates, which is never a good sign. <em>Strategic Command 2<\/em> and <em>Deus Vult<\/em> have also missed published estimated targets.<\/p>\n<p><em>Democracy<\/em> is the US release of a Positech game that was released online and in the UK a couple of years ago. The developer is the guy behind <em>Kudos<\/em> and <em>Rock Legend<\/em>. So it&#8217;s not a new game so much as another change for it. I still think it&#8217;s worth putting on the list.<\/p>\n<p>The two most anticipated games on this list are towards the end of the month. The <em>Asian Dynasties<\/em> expansion for Age of Empires III will be a lot of fun. It will have elephants, samurais and banner armies. What could be better? <em>Universe at War<\/em> is an odd little game that has been described to me as a sci-fi <em>Rise of Legends<\/em> &#8211; three very distinct alien races doing what RTS races do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leaves are turning and the shelves are filling. October 1 &#8211; Seven Kingdoms: Conquest (Enlight) October 2 &#8211; Democracy (TriSynergy\/Positech) October 5 &#8211; Strategic Command 2: Weapons and Warfare (Battlefront\/Fury), Crusader Kings: Deus Vult (Paradox) October 15 &#8211; History Channel: Great Battles of Rome (CDV\/Slitherine), Left Behind: Eternal Forces Expansion Pack (Left Behind Games) [&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":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-cs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772"}],"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=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}