East India Company manages to position itself between the whimsical trade-or-die clickfest that is the Anno series, and the militaristic strategy of the rather excellent Total War franchise. And yet, it's vastly different to both, preferring to concentrate on the concept of an autonomous trader out to fleece the wealth of entire nations, primarily through clever hoarding of resources and beneficial barter between budding economies.
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Commander Conquest of the Americas is the follow up game from Nitro Games' East India Company. Greg Wild previews the game taking a look at the naval combat and the grand strategy element of the game.
I tried to like East India Company, but I just couldn't get into it, I found the ship battles a pain to play through and the grand strategy wasn't my cup of tea really. Sounds like they may have made some improvements though!
