Recorded games... you've all heard people talking about them, right? But some of you may just be wondering... "what IS the point of recorded games??", "How do you view a recorded game" or even "How do you save a recorded game?". Well, this thread is here to teach you how to use them. Many of you may already know, but there are a lot of new people to the game who come in and ask many of these questions, and this thread is designed to address those questions.
Point #1 and #3 are probably the most important and widespread uses of recorded games. Even i was a rookie one day, and i got better by downloading recorded games off mrfixitonline - heck that even gave me my first strategy (trooper-turret rush heh). They are used widely in all games to help people get better - warcraft 3, age of mythology, rise of nations even age of empires. A common misconception is that to watch a recorded game you go into this file and open it - this is Theres also a few games you can download right here at
Well, while you are playing SWGB(Star wars Galactic Battlegrounds), the game records everything done in the game (if you have the recorded game option selected, lets assume you do). After your game is finished, you can go back to your game and view it whenever you like.
There are a few key uses for recorded games, namely
Recording a game is simple, in the game setup screen (where you choose your civilisation, map, resources etc) in the botton right hand-corner of the screen there is 4 options, one of them being Record game - Check this box and the game will record, even if you don't finish it!
All your recorded games are stored in one directory, which depends on where you originally installed the game. Most commonly it should be in
Go Into Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds, click single player then select Save Game. Find your recorded game and double click it - it's a simple as that!
The Undisputed Recorded games champion website is
This is where you'll find the most, best-quality games. Theres probably around one hundred which you can download and they are
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This means you can watch that expert which thrashed you and see how he plays! It is in this way that recorded games are most commonly used. It's in this way that rookies make the quantum leap to inters and inters make the leap to experts.
That's about all for recorded games now. If you have any comments or anything to add post in this thread and i'll see what i can do.