buy on release?

[G.Boggon]

Buy ASAP or before

[hgilmer3]

Yes, I'm buying on release.  I trust Matrix and I trust Gary Grigsby to produce an excellent game. I like the material and I have read a lot of the AARs to know that this game will probably be special.

[OldSarge]

This is a buy on release for me. I've been following this game with interest since it was first announced and like how it has shaped out. The AARs look good and the game seems to have that polish to it that says it is going to be a classic.

Like many others here, I have been wargaming for a long time and the games that I still enjoy playing can trace their roots back to the old SSI days and have Gary's name all over them. [8D] This one will be a nice replacement for WiR!

Regards...

[JudgeDredd]

Buy on release. Hearing the game will be priced in the region of WitP:AE, and seeing the dedication that's gone into it, there's no reason not to buy on release for me.

Just the price + tax + physical + postage - these determine whether I get the physical or digital only (and do for every other game from Matrix I buy actually)

[kfmiller41]

buy for sure, been an eastern front fan for years and this game fits right into a void of strategic games on this front.

[Manstein63]

I intend to get this game asap then challenge PyleDriver to a PBEM & watch in horror as his Panzers Drive towards Stalingrad in the winter of 1941 [X(]
(well maybe not until I have played the AI on hard a few times)
Manstein63

[Schmart]

I already have my planning staff working on the details for a German south front strategy, so for me it's buy on release! (or as soon as I get home from work, whichever occurs first on that day). I feel like I'm 8 years old on christmas eve again [:)]

[Tokugawa]

Buy on release here. Been waiting for a game like this for years now.

[abulbulian]

ORIGINAL: Lützow

The East Front fascinated me from when I was a 14-years-old boy and my grand uncle (grandpa got KIA 1945 near Danziger Bucht) told me about his reminiscences from Russia, the ice cold nights, heavy fights and how they made fire under their tanks to unfreeze the motor. We had no Cosims here back then, but I devoured the books from Carell, Manstein, Guderian and 'reenacted' by drawing maps and utilizing toy soldiers. [:D]

I also never got to play WiR, so cannot draw comparisons, but my expectations are set very high in regard to a worthy 'successor' of the never released Road to Moscow and what Grigsby delivered in the heyday of his monster games (the era from BoB until WitP). That said, now the WitE release is imminent, I still worry a bit about the level of detail and micro management is deep enough and not sacrificed for greater 'accessibility', like we saw in later 2by3 productions. The price is only a minor concern for me, however, everything else but the mother of all East Front games, solely to be topped from a Fieldmarshall's Edition, would be a let-down.

On the other hand I have faith into the beta tester verdicts and of course Mr. Grigsby's extraordinary design skills. So I'm going to buy WitE immediately after release.

Wow, lucky you to be able to chat with somebody that fought on the eastern front. Is he still alive? I'd pay for a call to chat with him if he was willing. My Deutsch is a bit rusty if he doesn't speak English. My grandfather trained fighter pilots for the USAF during WWII. Later in life he opened his own flight school and actually hired a Luftwaffe Ace that had flown some of the special later war rocket fighters. He said the guy wasn't afraid to fly in any weather. Guess after years on the Russian front, weather condition might hardly phase those hardened vets. Also had a great Uncle that died in ranger battalion assaulting Point-Du-Hoc early on D-Day. Sad he didn't make it and wasn't able to share his stories. [:(]

I've read Mainstein's memoirs too and was fascinated by what was going on with the war in the east. I know it was a nightmare in reality for those that had to live through it. The brutality was on an epic scale, but the battles that were fought and the men and equipment involved is just incredible to imagine. If all future wars could just be played out on a computer simulation, how wonderful a world would it be.

Buying ASAP and can't wait just like all the others!

[hgilmer3]

I want to take off work tomorrow, but I don't want to and then it not be available.

[Dr. Foo]

This is a first day buy for me. [:)]

[Tzar007]

Buying on release here.

[Ola Berli]

Yes, I will buy, buy, buy [:D]

[Captain B]

No brainer. First Day Buy...next day call off work....cough cough

Having read Hitler Moves East, 1941-1943 and 900 days as a young teenager, the Russian Front has always held a certain fascination for me. I look forward to playing this simulation again and again and again.

[parusski]

Captain B, I too am feeling ill. Not sure if I will be able to work after I buy the game.

[Michael T]

I have been waiting for this game since the mid 1990's when I suggested to GRD that they should create a PC version of FITE/SE. They politely informed me they didn't do PC games. 15 years later something akin to a Europa scale Eastern Front game is here. I will be lined up with the rest of you....

[Shupov]

Ready to buy! My first wargame was AH Stalingrad (German Korps and Soviet Army level units). Anyone remember that one? Also the original PanzerBlitz then years of War in Russia enjoyment!

IMO the Russian front was WWII and WWII was the Russian front. No one does it better than the great Grigsby and I'm looking forward to a great game!

[Captain B]

Tomorrow at 1400 Eastern Time (1900 in London) should be the time (according to Erik in another post). Drooling, drooling, drooling. Credit card leaping out of the wallet.

[Captain B]

Remember AH Stalingrad...of course. And the SPI classics "Destruction of Army Group Centre, Drive on Stalingrad, Army Group South, etc.".

Remember playing a game against my 14 year older brother (at that time a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army while I was a mere 2nd looey and whooping his butt in Kursk...as the Germans. He counterattacked way too early and often.

Wonder if he is still into wargaming???

[Shupov]

Luckily I had a big brother to play with! We grew up on D-Day, Midway, Afrika Korps, Battle of the Bulge, Bismarck and Waterloo. Good times!