So What Do You Think of the Upcoming Features in SPWaW v5.0 & Mega Campaign

[David Heath]

Level Bombers can not be attack by any Anti-Aircraft guns.

David

P.S. Hi Patrick... well send these LBM's along we got about a week or so left before the release.

[murx]

Uhm, I guess that what they told the B-26 - or whatever number it had - crews. "Hey calm down, they never can get you with their infamous 88" , lol, I have to wonder why the AA department of the German army was on of the biggest parts late in the war if they couldn't hit those damn LBMs.
Heavy AA can fire at them.
murx

(this is meant funny not in a flaing ay )

[Kharan]

Originally posted by Patrick Siebelink:
To all things David mentioned on the website, I can add that there will be around 700 new LBM's in the game, both new units and corrected/improved pictures and that list is still growing...

700?!

There's only ~330 units with missing pictures in v4.5!

[Yogi Yohan]

Originally posted by Patrick Siebelink:
I have the feeling that some tanks tend to be to weak (like the T34, against which you do stand a change with your pzIII nowadays, but same for Tiger I etc.) could be wrong though...

Actually, I think you SHOULD at least stand a chance against a T-34 with a PzKpfw-III with a 50mm main gun, especially the Kwk 39 L60. Even when armed with a Kwk 38 L42 PzKpfw III's had a fighing chance at point blank range.

In fact, I think very few tanks were as invulnerable as their fans would have them, not even the famed Tiger. The Brits killed Tigers with 6-pounders (a 57mm AT-gun, if i'm not mistaken). At point blank range, almost any tank can knock out almost any other, or at least disable it.

[Rhodan]

by the sound of it this new version will be well worth heating up the old cable modem.

Would it be possible (or desirable?) to add a to-hit percentage in the OP fire text bar?
I think it would be great in deciding whether or not the Op shot is worth giving up cover for.

Rho

[Wild Bill]

Just so you know, the Mega Campaign North Africa Team, composed of 31 talented gamers, is now approaching the end of phase one.

The team captains, Rick "Tankhead" Cloutier and Louie "Gung Ho" Marsh have done a great job in working with me and the team members on this project.

Nearly 100 scenarios are being finalized as I write this. You won't necessarily play all 100 of them, but you will get sand in your shoes and in your hair and get to know Oberst Dietsl and General Rommel quite well.

What is next? Now comes the putting together of pictures, articles, anecdotes, battles, variants, etc., etc, all of which is a part of the Mega Campaign - THE DESERT FOX.

Break out that sunblock and shades! And bring a blanket. It gets cold in the desert at night.

Be prepared for scorpions, thirst, disorientation, mirages, and a relentless enemy who will fight you every step of the way.

This is going to be an experience you will long remember!

Wild Bill


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In Arduis Fidelis
Wild Bill Wilder
Coordinator, Scenario Design
Matrix Games

[Gallo Rojo]

Originally posted by Wild Bill:
Just so you know, the Mega Campaign North Africa Team, composed of 31 talented gamers, is now approaching the end of phase one.

The team captains, Rick "Tankhead" Cloutier and Louie "Gung Ho" Marsh have done a great job in working with me and the team members on this project.

Nearly 100 scenarios are being finalized as I write this. You won't necessarily play all 100 of them, but you will get sand in your shoes and in your hair and get to know Oberst Dietsl and General Rommel quite well.

What is next? Now comes the putting together of pictures, articles, anecdotes, battles, variants, etc., etc, all of which is a part of the Mega Campaign - THE DESERT FOX.

Break out that sunblock and shades! And bring a blanket. It gets cold in the desert at night.

Be prepared for scorpions, thirst, disorientation, mirages, and a relentless enemy who will fight you every step of the way.

This is going to be an experience you will long remember!

Wild Bill

I can’t wait to play this one!!

[Gallo Rojo]

I heard about a new very long designed campaign that will come whit version 5.0: “from Africa to Germany”.
Is this a new one or one made by linking “Preparing the Way” and “U2R”?

[Mike Rothery]

Originally posted by Yogi Yohan:
In fact, I think very few tanks were as invulnerable as their fans would have them, not even the famed Tiger. The Brits killed Tigers with 6-pounders (a 57mm AT-gun, if i'm not mistaken). At point blank range, almost any tank can knock out almost any other, or at least disable it.

Don't underestimate the psychlogical effect of hitting a tank with any sort of shell when the crew cannot see what it is that's firing. It would be a very brave and confident crew that would disregard the heavy clanging on the hull if they knew neither what was hitting them nor where the firing was coming from.

Tank crews also knew all too well that getting immobilised on the battlefield was a dangerous affair, even if the enemy couldn't penetrate your armour.



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MikeR
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General MacArthur: "If you were an American I'd have you shot"

Field Marshal Blamey: "General, if I was an American I'd shoot myself"

Scene from the film, The Last Bastion

[mr172]

Hi guys, I'm one of the testers of Mega Campaign so I've the updated stuff when it came out from the programmers.
They say that for us the final version will be for free ( forgotten that we are busy to hears ONLY in PLAYING a game BEFORE others can do)
But by sure I'll order and pay my 20$ for the final product, coz I know the amount of love, passion, wisdom that the Matrix bunch put in every code line.

Massimo

[Reg]

Originally posted by Kharan:
700?!

There's only ~330 units with missing pictures in v4.5!

Some LBMs were in dire need of upgrade!!!

Patrick , did you manage to source a distributable picture of the real Matilda Hedgehog??

(You gotta love a tank that uses an anti-submarine weapon against bunkers).

Reg.