Also, any scenario with an immobile FARP setup in one hex only is highly exploitable.


This ! :lol:


These scenarios weren't designed with 'competitive' balanced gameplay in mind from the start, but I'm working on a strategy that we can rapidly generate symmetrical maps and create balanced ...

Yes, he moved at least 1x Abrams and 3-4 of the Bradleys to the hills overlooking the spawning area of the arty, it was ready for a butchery. I was lucky that I had sent a group of Tanks that way, and used a couple of my recon with HEAT weapons to present enough of a battle soon enough. At least I ...

I usually drag one SAM units under Arty command HQ and drag one Tank Co. under HHQ's control. This tank Co is kept as high level reserve for exploit detected weakness, charge through breakthrough point, as well as dealing with crisis like couple Abrams plt running amok in your rear

This is good ...

Thanks for the summer tournament. My feedback on this tournament:
-I loved the first scenario. Perfect for a tournament. Reinforces cannot be ambushed (or it would take a very fast and risky approach), artillery cannot have free shooting at the start of the scenario.
-Second scenario was fun, but as ...

I think it would be interesting tweaking some of the behaviors to incentive "realistic" approaches.

I had situations when a unit on Rest & Resupply spots an enemy and just stands-by till it gets shot.
I think ideally there would be Orders for only Resupply and Regroup, where units keep mostly ...

The reminder emails haven't started working till like 3 days ago for me. I had to check status every night/morning.

There are SOP settings and stand-off hexes to have units react to fire and keep a distance from enemies; but none to what to do when spotting a unit while
Moving (unless it violates the stand-off range).

I think it would help immensely to implement small tweaks in their SOP and behaviors to allow ...

Totally agree.

There should be a SOP setting for Withdrawal preferences:
-Closer concealed position (further away or equal to the attacker)
-Towards direction of Commander.
-Towards last travelled path (return the same way it came).

I almost got a whole unit killed that was receiving fire ...

Just realized round duration says 21 days; but it also says next round on 3rd of August. Not sure if that's a typo or a bug?

Hi, unfortunately that is an element that is still supposed to be hidden right now and is non-functional. I guess the cat is out of the bag that we are planning a summer tournament.

We will be putting out announcements on the Matrix website and social media when we go live.


Cool, looking ...

I get an error when trying to join the new Summer Tournament for Cold War. However the error code and?message fields are both empty.

I setup a challenge, public, open to anyone.

Also interested in challenges involving air assaults/transports, as I've never played one online, in case someone wants to play different scenarios. Feel free to DM me.

I screenshot the heck out of every replay to avoid forgetting spotted units.

I was actually thinking of this the other day when I mistakenly (and gratefully surprised at the moment) thought the "encountering mines" settings at SOP were new settings referred to what to do when encountering enemies. That's something I've been wanting for a while!!

I believe something like ...

Makes sense. Ideally a wide area where the player can select reinforcement areas would be great, as mentioned earlier. Looking forward to it.


2). If you are not spotting the units getting intot he reinforcment area, having all the arty in the world won't matter as there are no targets to shoot at ...

I think the best thing we can do is either use non-reinforcement scenarios or create tournament scenarios on larger maps that offer more placement options to players. Down the road, we might be able to implement a more dynamic reinforcement system to deter spawn camping, a common issue in many ...

Thanks again for an amazing tournament. It was overall very enjoyable, and the mix of scenarios was well balanced. I believe extending the timeline to 3weeks each round really helped, especially for the last scenario.

One thing that came up again and again, more importantly in the last scenario ...

The VCRUNTIME140.dll and MSVCP140.dll are part of Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 redistributables. They might be used by the Matrix installer or by libraries that our game (indirectly) depends on.

Please find, download and install the Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Redistributables by following this ...

CapnDarwin wrote: Wed Feb 11, 2026 5:24 pm Our game does not use any of those codices, but that may be an issue with the Steam or Matrix Launcher. I would start with Matrix Support and note those files. Then check with Steam.

Thanks for the quick reply. Will try with Matrix. All seems fine at the Steam side.

Hi, so I had to take a trip out of the country and I'm trying to make the game work in an old laptop.

The laptop is an old i5 from 2014, but it's using Windows10. I was able to install the game from Steam, but as soon as I click Play from the Launcher (that comes out after I hit Play from Steam) it ...