Only had time to play the tutorial so far, as well as a nibble of Road to Minsk, but so far it "feels" like a really solid effort.

<t> I trust that Matrix know what they are doing here (I.e. charging a niche market a premium price). 20 bucks is not a major issue to me, so I don´t really care on a substantial level, but as reactions to price are to some degree determined by rules of thumb ("X should cost about Y dollars", etc ...

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- Tactical battles. The player should be able to play out all battles either as tactical engagements in the Close Combat engine, alternatively as a single soldier in the Call of Duty World at War ...

<r> <URL url="http://www.matrixgames.com/store/372/Gary.Grigsby%27s.War.in.the.East:.The.German-Soviet.War.1941-1945"><LINK_TEXT text="http://www.matrixgames.com/store/372/Ga ... .1941-1945">http://www.matrixgames.com/store/372/Gary.Grigsby's.War.in.the.East:.The.German-Soviet.War.1941-1945</LINK ...

<r> Sounds fantastic!<br/>

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Fair enough, dispensing with the cheating aspect of the PBEM system.<br/>
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The challenge system (assuming that they carried that over from FoG) is the real beauty of the thing.<br/>
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I have played as Russian against German AI in the 1941 many times during Alpha/Beta.<br/>
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Also, pleas enote that the AI uses some scripted elements for scenario start (for example Barbarossa 1-2 turns) but after that it flexibly ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>The player should be able to play out all battles either as tactical engagements in the Close Combat engine, alternatively as a single soldier in the Call of Duty World at War engine.<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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I will await comments.....don't think I saw some one play the Russians against the German AI in an AAR...
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They (the developers) have said that the German 41 AI is the weakest one, due to the complexity of completing ...

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And the "trust but verify"...? The verify statement kind of negates the trust element.

Nah, it just weakens it. Very few instances of trust are total, after all.

As soon as they release it, it´s mine!

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Maybe so - but it saddens me that people put such an emphasis on winning that they cheat [:(]
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I don´t think it´s that common. But remember, "trust but verify" - this will make PBEM more satisfying even if we ...

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I think what you will get in this game is a "light" version of this, with single squads and weapons platforms being modeled engaging each other in every engagement, modified by factors like morale, supply, terrain. <br/>
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<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>There's must have been a whole lot of suspected cheatin' going on in the past. That no one wanted to talk about. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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More like "a small sense of unease". After all, we all know how pissed off we ourselves can get when we fall just a *little* short ...

<r> It´s great to see that PG is being reborn in a format "true to the original". So, to get the forum going, what parts of PG1 does everyone think will stand the test of time? What parts of PG2+ should be allowed to influence Panzer Corps? Here is my take:<br/>
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Hooray!

Nice walkthrough. The mod scene for GGWaW was great - hopefully we can see some interesting mods here for balance / alt history purposes.

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I cannot play PBEM. The mechanism disjoints the flow of the game and doesn't really keep my focus - one reason why I don't play multiplayer.<br/>
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Of course, I don't play multiplayer with the likes of HoI because I simply can't ...

<t> Just getting server based PBEM warrants a purchase, imho.<br/>
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Of course, the game is also completely different in every way from WIR:<br/>
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- New graphics<br/>
- New OOB / unit stats<br/>
- New game system (IGo-UGo vs. WeGo) <br/>
- New AI<br/>
- New server-based PBEM system ...

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Yes, it is in fact the same system as on Field of Glory and Battlefield Academy. We also included "traditional" PBEM as an option for those who prefer that, but I think the Server-based is much easier to use.
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<t> "There's a good reason why developers don't release on Mondays - because the company (regardless of who they are) generally have enough work from the weekend to contend with without releasing new software."<br/>
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Also, there is usually something last minute that pops up during the day ...