A few very newbish questions

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Thanks to everyone for the detailed replies. They help a lot.

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
Kristoffer Osterman , Johan Karlsson. Both are here in this group. Also Johan Osterman which is a brother will often field questions. Southern Sweden near Lund I believe.

Age of Wonders is also from Sweden, is it not? Is there something in the Scandanavian air that lends itself to the creation of turn-based strategy games?

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
Understanding the PBEM structure tends to exaplain alot. Such as why combat cant be managed.

Not to get into a game-to-game comparison, but AoW2 gives you the option to manage combat for SP (though not, of course, PBEM). Why not here? My guess -- the devs would face a huge amount of additional work to allow player-managed tactical combat for SP.

Originally posted by PvK:
I generally wouldn't recommend "returning to a saved game" in cases when later play goes wrong, because in my opinion that's just cheating yourself. This game is rich enough not to need that kind of cop out,

Over the years I've ended up in many a debate over whether multiple save games are "cheating." I understand where you're coming from and don't care to debate it here. But I need multiple save games because my love of strategy gaming far outstrips my meager abilities. In many other games I have found going back to earlier saves allows the opportunity to try new things, to examine closely where I went wrong. The lack of this feature for Dom II is, IMHO, a drawback.

In fairness, though, I will add that the inclusion of multiple save games in AoW2 made PBEM a real *****. In the few I played it seemed that players were not always certain they were receiving the right file from the Last to post.