First off, this will work on Windows 10. It took me a little while but I discovered that there are a bunch of different possible solutions. For me, Windows 10 defaulted to opening the game in compatibility mode. When I forced the game to start without compatibility mode, it worked and ran smoothly. The GOG forums have a bunch of others solutions is that doesn't work. Tweaking settings may seem like a pain, but it is well worth it! It is a playground of an RTS game. You can play games strictly in the stone age, strictly in the middle ages, strictly in the modern era, or start a game in the stone age and allow everyone to upgrade to the point where battles will be decided with robots (if you allow the enemy to flourish that long ;) ). Personally I love the freedom the game offers, finding a choke point and holding off an army with a sniper, finding a small pond/lake in a corner of the map, building a nuclear sub there and pelting your unsuspecting neighbor with missiles from it. The possibilities are endless! However, there are drawbacks, and that is that games playing against many computer players on a large map will almost always end up being about territory control. Once you wipe out an enemy outpost or capital, you must build some buildings to claim the land or else the computer will come right back. No matter how outgunned the enemy is, the computer will spread around the map like weeds forcing and prolonged hunt before the game can end. Kind of like a zerg player who just keeps throwing up hatcheries in hidden locations just to annoying you. This tends to make the end game a bit of a drag, where my war economy goes into artillery and defensive tower spamming just to end the game. Nevertheless, it was a great experience to get there. Pro: Most freedom ever in an RTS game for tactics to shine. Lots to micromanage Cons End game can drag Lots to micromange TL/DR. 100% worth it. I cannot recommended it enough despite the few shortcomings.
