This review is dedicated to my friend Gary who died of cancer.

He introduced me to this game and I have a big soft spot for its simple mechanics. Its easy to pick up and difficult to put down.

This game only came on Steam a year or so ago. We played the retail release. This new version adds Twitch support and is a lot more friendly to modern systems and resolutions. I've not clocked long on it mainly due to the bitter sweet memories. I like the units in this game. My only complaint with this has been that there could have been more nations to choose from. But that is minor. Its right up there with Age of Empires et al.

Goodnight Gary. I'll keep winning for you.

P.S. For those unable to comprehend this is a Steam review for an 18 year old game that only came to Steam in 2014. This is a review of the retail version as well as a few notes of my experiences with the new extended features.

The majority of my playtime pre-dates Steam itself as a platform. I suspect my playtime on this to be in the thousands of hours but alas I have no way of checking.

Some of you are very young but before Steam we used to go to stores and buy video games on CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs and install them from them and use a unique CD key in the box to veryfy it's authenticity. Crazy, right?!