<r> Why are the <B><s>[b]</s>Small General<e>[/b]</e></B> and <B><s>[b]</s>Small General Eastern Front<e>[/b]</e></B> games listed on <LINK link="http://www.matrixgames.com/products/?a=1"><s>[link=http://www.matrixgames.com/products/?a=1]</s>Matrix' Coming Soon page<e>[/link]</e></LINK>?<br/>
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<t> Mike, you are a good sport. I fear I have become a disillusioned troll on this forum. I gave up on this game back in 2008 because of Mark Walker’s continued lying about how close the game was to being released. At the time, someone recommended HPS/JTS’ Squad Battles to me as an alternative and I ...

... it should be "only about a month" or "so away"

My money is on the "so away". [;)]

<t> Richie61, I love your enthusiasm! <br/>
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My post was intended as tough love, rather than meant as negativity towards the forum members. For over six years, LnL and Matrix have been intentionally misleading people into thinking this game’s release wasn’t far off. If you browse through this ...

<t> Do you fanboys ever bother to look through this forum at all???<br/>
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"With luck it'll be out this year, but I'm not promising a release date." - Mark Walker (February 2, 2006), as per the second post in the thread entitled "PC version" within this forum.<br/>
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<t> Add an "auto quick-save" feature. Essentially, the functionality I'm looking for is a way to have my turn automatically saved in the background every XX minutes (say every 15 or 30 minutes) or even just have a prompt asking me if I'd like to do a quick save at that time. It is extremely ...

<r> Yesterday marked the five year anniversary of Mark's post (the second post of this thread) on 2/2/2006 when he said "with luck it'll be out this year".<br/>
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Yep, we have a team in place and programming is well ...

<t> If you haven't played any titles that use John Tiller's general gaming system, then you will likely need to read the manual from cover to cover. Once you have played one of his games, many of the functions tend to carry over and then it is the ideosyncrasies that you need to learn. However the ...

<r> Two weeks later and still no further info. Lock 'N Load webpage for HOS still says "<I><s>[i]</s>Heroes of Stalingrad for Windows PC will soon be available for pre-order. Keep checking back for the demo. Out soon!<e>[/i]</e></I>" Their webpage has been saying that for how many months now, or ...

<r> It is unfortunate that Matrix and Lock 'n Load are bungling the PR of this project as badly as they are. Lock 'n Load locked out their forum once again to non-members and isn't allowing any new subscribers (another wonderful PR move!), so I cannot trace when this game was first announced and ...

I'll check that site out, thanks.

Bill

<t> Just a follow-up. Based upon your advice, my copy of SB: AotR arrived a couple of weeks ago; I am now addicted and haven't been getting much sleep since. [:)] <br/>
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I'm still eagerly anticipating the release of HoS, but Squad Battles is definitely filling the void nicely during the ...

I had been holding my breath, hoping for an HoS demo to be released at Origins. However, it looks like the next big date on the horizon is the GenCon conference scheduled for August 14-17. Any hints, rumors, or otherwise to further whet our appetites? [:)]

<t> Punisher, good job noticing that. It's very reassuring to know that will be included. On the downside, it has only greatened my anticipation for this game. Alas.<br/>
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To give further support towards that, I just noticed an exchange on one of LnL's forums from ...

<r> Any word on what the head-to-head/PBEM capabilities of HoS will be like? <br/>
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Thanks for the recommendations everyone! Sounds like I'll have to give HPS' Squad Battles: Advance of the Reich a try while I join the queue for HOS.

Much appreciated,
Bill

<t> I have been long-awaiting a PC version of Squad Leader. I have an old buddy of mine against whom I used to play Squad Leader a lot and we’d like to resume that via email. We looked into playing Squad Leader with the VASSAL engine, but we would prefer to have a game engine handle the rules and ...

<t> I will offer up a slightly different perspective. I have purchased both WaW and AWD and I am still playing WaW as opposed to AWD for two reasons: 1.) my friends are still trying to learn WaW and aren't ready to tackle AWD, and 2.) I wasn't enticed by some of the additional rules such as spying ...

Very creative solution, well done.

<t> Great points! [&o] And thanks for the clarification with a prime example, as that rule hadn't made much sense to me until now.<br/>
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Capping the total number of op fires would certainly help the problem WanderingHead had presented. Taking that a little further, I was wondering if there ...