Starting in 2001 NASA began releasing public, detailed imagery allowing modelers to recreate the Earth in high resolution. The project was dubbed Blue Marble in reference to Earth’s appearance from space. This set represents an attempt to bring that imagery to Empire Deluxe through a full enhancement of the original terrain graphics. It is available…
You may have noticed many of my screenshots over the past year feature a darker tile set than the original EDCE graphics. I completed about 80% of this set early last year before I stopped working on it to focus on MUD. With the alpha release out of the way, I’m picking up right where…
It only took a couple of days to find an issue with the recently updated Modern Unit Database. I’ve posted an updated version to EDIBLE. If you downloaded v0.0.1a and already played a few games with it, this version is fully backward compatible and should not affect what you are doing. As a side note,…
This Random Map Generator is tailored for use with the Modern Units Database (MUD) available on EDIBLE. This will generate a map that utilizes the intended features of this set such as diverse efficiency levels, distance, and terrain diversity.
After Nine Months and 600+ hours of research, planning, development, and graphic design I give you the Modern Units Database, or MUD. It’s available on EDIBLE or by the link at the bottom of the full post. Have you ever wanted to replay a modern version of D-Day or wanted to play out World War…
It has been a year since I laid the foundation for a new UDB in EDCE. I dabbled a bit with the Falklands map set to get a feel for if this would work and I got positive feedback from that experience. It was this time last year I truly committed to starting this set…
This is the final and conclusive game of our 2019 tournament. This was the longest and hardest fought of the three, requiring a solid three days to complete. It was the only one to result in no capitals being taken by another player. It may not go down as one of our most indecisive or…
Week Two saw an equally competitive game with all six players opting to participate in the follow up. There are some minor changes to the starting locations. This game would see air power become the deciding factor in victory as well as the return of infantry slogs. In the end it didn’t matter who chose…
Our opening session saw six players attempting to take control on the Meer Sea. This is the first time in several years we will have every playable slot filled with a human opponent. We all expected turns to be longer as more players means more time per round. Moreover, we learned during the preliminaries that…
It’s that time of the year again when we play the annual Empire Deluxe tournament. For those unaware, this is a tradition started 11 years ago by a few of us tech geeks that were scheduled to work in a data-center with no access to an outside network. To pass time we played a game…
