Rename Matrix Games to The Wargamer's Borg :)

[Les_the_Sarge_9_1]

Hehe, I have seen sooooooo many games come over to Matrix Games in just 5 years, that I can't help thinking of the Borg when I think of Matrix Games

This is of course all just light hearted humour guys, I see no negative, stated or implied, in my comment, and none is wished.

I once tried to do a small survey form for the forum as a whole, to gauge how much interest each sub forum was being given. I quite frankly wouldn't want to try that notion again

[Marc von Martial]

The Borgs are the coolest anyway [:'(]

[Zap]

Let me be Borged by Matrix[:D] then. Just call me Zap Borg. where do I sign my life over to you Matrix.

[Terminus]

You mean you haven't already?[:D]

[Kuokkanen]

You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile

I just couldn't help it [:D]

[sabre100]

I am glad Matrix is taking over all these games, I hope they take on more.  They have the best customer service, excellent policy you can install the game on your laptop and desktop.  Their online purchase system rocks no weird activation schemes or non of that stuff.  I hope they continue to grow and make lots of money so they can show these other game companies how a true business is run "ie: Take care of your customers and people who support you by buying your games"
 
Way to go Matrix!

[SlapBone]

Get to work on Illwinter! You guys need a fantasy game anyway.

[pad152]

Get to work on Illwinter! You guys need a fantasy game anyway.

Does Shrapnel have anything left besides Dominions? After waiting 5 years for 82nd Airbone I gave up!

[Hertston]

ORIGINAL: pad152

Does Shrapnel have anything left besides Dominions? After waiting 5 years for 82nd Airbone I gave up!

There's the Prosim stuff (Armored Task Force, Falklands and Star & Crescent), of which I'm a pretty big fan, actually. Not a lot else, as far as wargames go, anyway. There's a Napoleonic naval game I keep intend to get around to trying, and the SP:WW2 and SP:MBT enhanced versions.

If there's anything I'd like to see Matrix pick up and give a bit more exposure too it is the ATF games (and a new one is one the way). They play pretty much like HttR/CotA only at a more tactical level.

[old man of the sea]

close combat now, next the world...
 
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[Kuokkanen]

ORIGINAL: SlapBone

You guys need a fantasy game anyway.

Heroes of Might & Magic VI by Matrix would rock!

[Hanal]

If anyone out there decides to make a  turn based strategic campaign Lord of the Rings game (perhaps fashioned after the SPI board game War for Middle Earth) then they need to sign up here.......

[Zakhal]

ORIGINAL: Matti Kuokkanen

ORIGINAL: SlapBone

You guys need a fantasy game anyway.

Heroes of Might & Magic VI by Matrix would rock!

Fantasy general. One of the best fantasy wargames ever made.

[Les_the_Sarge_9_1]

I have HOMM 2,3,4 and 5.

I don't think over all the current owners need any assistance actually. The 5th game looks like a return to 3 in some aspects, but the graphics sure are impressive.

Matrix Games is doing a lot of gamers a favour by giving some old classics a venue to return to circulation (something that people that already own the game seem to forget, is that if you don't already own it, you need a decent way to get it).

The current owners of Heroes have already released compilation options when they released 5 though.

[Les_the_Sarge_9_1]

Man it sure takes a lot of scrolling to get to the bottom of the opening page of the forum these days.

I wonder how many games Matrix Games can actually absorb hehe.

Just thinking right now, I guess Wargamer's Borg was fun sounding, but this morning, I wonder if Son of Avalon Hill would have been better hehe. Nah, copywrite would ruin that likely hehe.

Or SPI Round 2

Hey! did you guys know wargaming is dying?

[Zakhal]

ORIGINAL: Les_the_Sarge_9_1

I have HOMM 2,3,4 and 5.

I have all homms&expansions&patches plus the original Kings bounty. Amazon was nice to offer a collectors edition with all of them bundled together. Cost somthing like 50 bucks. Not a bad deal. I started with kings bounty and am currently playing through HoMM1 in scenario 4 of the campaign. The AI is offering tough resistance.

I even read the manuals. HoMM had a neat background story to the game.

[ravinhood]

ORIGINAL: J P Falcon

If anyone out there decides to make a  turn based strategic campaign Lord of the Rings game (perhaps fashioned after the SPI board game War for Middle Earth) then they need to sign up here.......

Yeah, where's Matrixgames FANTASY wargames???? They got WWII out the ying yang and Sci-Fi crap. No Fantasy wargames. Guess Slitherine will have to fill that gap when they finish that one they are working on now. The Tin Soldiers series was great. Too bad Koios ran off into WWII land I was impressed with them before that.

A great hex based Fantasy wargame of old was "Swords & Scorery" by SPI, I'd like to see something like that come to the computer. We spent 100's of hours playing that one back in the late 70's. It was two games in one. A regular board wargame type of game and then a role playing game as well using the character leader cards. Fantasy General was merely OK it wasn't Swords & Sorcery though. And HOMM is nothing more than a power building fantasy game. The only strategy is building up your one hero into a demi-god and rolling up the maps with him/her.

[Les_the_Sarge_9_1]

Can't effectively disagree with Ravinhood's assesment of HOMM.

If your main hero dies in the mid game, your screwed. You lost all the early game experience, you likely lost all your best treasures to the opposition. You will lose all the time required to generate a new force of troops.

Usually, if my main hero dies, I just throw in the towel.
With HOMM IV a main hero was ok in dragging around an underling Hero that benefited from just being in the battle. That aspect was nice, much better than trying to find opportunites for underlings with them out solo.

But to expect Matrix Games to sponsor a fantasy game is going to be a tricky manuever, as there are so many games to "do it better". I also would not expect say Ubisoft to have a lot of ease trying to outSteel Panthers either Matrix Games or SP Camo. No one would likely be in a hurry to think they were in any position to be experienced enough.

[Dog robber]

What the heck does a washed up Swedish tennis player have to do with Matrix?

[Les_the_Sarge_9_1]

ORIGINAL: Dog robber

What the heck does a washed up Swedish tennis player have to do with Matrix?

Hmm more importantly, am I the only other person that remembers that tennis player reference