Bill, Does it matter how you get Indochina (by conquest or event)?

<t> I couldn't find any topic on this in a search of this forum, but can anyone confirm the current rules for Thailand's entry? The manual says 50% chance per turn to join Axis once the Axis player occupies both Hong Kong and Indochina. I did both of those requirements against the AI and waited turn ...

<r> Has beta testers having to pay (albeit discounted) for the game always been part of Matrix's MO?<br/>

<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: FirstPappy<br/>
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I received an email from Slitherine this morning thanking me for being a beta tester for Warplan Pacific and giving me a code for a ...

Yes! ...but will never happen.

ORIGINAL: Aurelian

Computer Der Weltkrieg series

<t> Deep, WEGO (or even turn-based), hex-and-counter strategic level Civil War and Napoleonic Wars. Frank Hunter's game came closest for the ACW but still far off. Almost flabbergasted that no Nappy game like this has ever existed (no, the Commander series game I refuse to count). Seems to be highly ...

<r> This continually astounds me that no one has ever tried to do this for commercial release. Ever.<br/>

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[*]Likewise, a series of games individually covering the major ACW land campaigns at the deeply operational level. Think the Valley Campaign ...

<r> For guys like you and me that is a slam dunk but apparently the PC wargame publishing world has passed us by. For the life of me I'll never understand how the majority of today's wargamers have entirely bought into the notion that newer is better and the classic hex and counters systems are ...

<r>
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The biggest problem with game balance is that most players (not me) want the Axis to stand an equal chance of winning the War. Or at least they want the Axis to have good odds of pulling off a successful Sealion and conquering the Middle ...

Ah, Links. Thanks for the link. Sometimes classics are just better.

I've been looking for a good PC golf game for a long time. You'd think it would be simple! This one has mixed reviews, with the negative ones complaining about putting mechanics. I loved the PGA Tour games on the Sega Genesis..LOL

which golf game?

Just wondering...

Nice map, Panzer Mike. The eastern front looks so much closer to what you always see in military history books. Moscow is actually a rail nexus now! and with a direct connection with Smolensk.

<t> Alvaro,<br/>
The player vs. AI playthroughs I've perused online all still seem to be showing the Red Army melt away in the face of German early and mid war attrition. With the current state of the scenario "balanced" for PBEM play, would you consider adding a separate Play vs. AI full war ...

I was just reading a book by David Stahel, a major East Front historian, and he documented Soviet/British/American talks regarding deploying western armed forces to fight on Soviet soil in the Caucasus in 1942. Of course, it never happened, but it seems Stalin wasn't opposed to it.

Jim,
What changes with the latest patch had the biggest negative effects on Allied airpower?

what does this mean: "spending 2's and 3's instead of 1's and 4's"? and what's the rationale behind it?

By sneezing?

I was looking forward to seeing a contested D-Day! Oh well. BTW, was Atlantic Wall construction added to any of the patches so far?

Jim,
I find the impotence of the Red Army disturbing. If the so-called "balanced" nature of the game means a cautious/judicious Axis player like your opponent can just grind the Red Army down with impunity, then that's not good.