What would you like to see from Matrix next?

[stuman]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Fallschirmjager

ORIGINAL: warspite1

I want World In Flames (although may have mentioned that before [;)]).

Failing that, I would like a detailed game of the Mediterranean theatre in World War II - June 1940 to May 1943 - involving the best of WITPAE and WITE rules.

Or if they really wanted to get ambitious open up the entire north and South Atlantic and have the submarine war played on in full.
Couple this with production options and and some sort of quick and easy ship designer (something along the lines of Koei's PTO II) and you would have a wargame that I would go into convulsions over.

Warspite1

Now your talking!! I'll have some of that.

+1

[stuman]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

I'd like to see a grand strategic game of the Seven-Years War. All theatres, all participants. Movement, combat (land and sea), production, espionage, diplomacy. With card play.

Also a +1. This would be a very fun game on that scale.

[Anthropoid]

Games based on the Western Civilization Software FOF/COGEE engine:
Vietnam: The Indochina Conflicts
The Hundred Years War

Games based on the Hired Guns: The Jagged Edge Engine
SEAL Team 6: Commando Warfare
The War on Terror: Special Ops

Games based on the WITP:AE engine + substantial additions to cover non-military social dimensions
The Cold War: 50 years of Proxy War
2015 The Coming Sino-Western Conflicts

That should keep them busy for a few months [:D]

ADDIT:

ORIGINAL: stuman

ORIGINAL: Terminus

I'd like to see a grand strategic game of the Seven-Years War. All theatres, all participants. Movement, combat (land and sea), production, espionage, diplomacy. With card play.

Also a +1. This would be a very fun game on that scale.

Yep +1

[boatrigm]

I would like to see an updated WW1 Naval game. Maybe even using the new WITE engine. I really like this new engine. I seem to struggle with the WITP engine for some reason. Even after playing WITP for a ton of hours.

-Mike

[Terminus]

You HAVE noticed that there's no naval combat in WitE, right?

[boatrigm]

Yes....I know there is no naval combat in WITE. I think adding naval combat to the WITE game engine for a new game would be cool. I just love the interface and everything.

-Mike

[yoshino]

Something like a Medieval Europe turn based strategic level game.
Maybe made by AGE engine or COG:EE engine would be awesome.

[hgilmer3]

Hundred Years War with multiplayer options - a detailed in depth game with thousands of real people who participated modeled. 

Barring that, WiTE engine adopted for a WITW with Africa, Mediterranean, Italy, then Normandy to Berlin.

The last is something they have said they are looking at.

[Terminus]

ORIGINAL: boatrigm

Yes....I know there is no naval combat in WITE. I think adding naval combat to the WITE game engine for a new game would be cool. I just love the interface and everything.

-Mike

Start by figuring out to simulate naval gunfire over three or more hexes.

[Fred98]

ORIGINAL: Terminus
Start by figuring out to simulate naval gunfire over three or more hexes.

SSG's land based game "Battlefront!" figured it out!

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[Les_the_Sarge_9_1]

ORIGINAL: Joe Black


SPWAW upgraded to modern PCs (higher resolutions etc.)

Never going to happen. For one thing is it old software that is not owned by anyone that gives a damn.

I want the best solution. Let it die, and start from scratch and make a NEW game. Make it look the same as Steel Panthers, and seem like it is Steel Panthers and as complete as Steel Panthers and refuse to screw it up in any fashion ie leave it 2d look down turn based squad level WW2.

I am fully aware that Combat Leader hung around too long and died a miserable death. But not before making Matrix Games look bad for never showing up

Clearly Steel Panthers required some damned fine skills to make. And clearly it's successor will require the same level of skill, or you ain't getting a good game.

What boggles my mind, is it's just a 2d look down squad level turn based wargame.
It merely needs to be written again, as if computers really were running on Windows 7 and hard drives were measured on Terabytes and processors had incredible speeds with RAM measured in multiples of gigs.

I mean, no disrespect for the original creators of Steel Panthers, but the game was not that shockingly difficult. Or, is it that the people in charge of Combat Leader were that removed from the level of skill of the original creators of Steel Panthers?

All I want, is a 2d squad level WW2 turn based game that just happens to 'look' like Steel Panthers. I don't give a damn what they call it. I just want people to accept, no one is ever going to miraculously transform Steel Panthers any version into modern software. They'd have done it by now if they could. It's been a decade eh.

I'd also like them to kill off the spastic delusion any of us 'need' the AI in computer World in Flames which will fight like a moron, and we all know it will be a moron.
I don't care if you have to play the game alone. Get a grip, play both sides hotseat and shut up.
I'd just like them to finally stick the game on sale, so I can finally put my board game out to pasture as it is too big for even my 4'x 6' table.
As I see it, the constant wait on this game, has made it look like a Road to Moscow Duke Nukem tragedy. We don't need any more progress updates, we all know hell will freeze over first. Saying 'it's coming along' only encourages us to laugh at you man.

[TheGrayMouser]

What ever happned to that game Matrix itself was developing (cant recall the game now) that appeared to be the spiritual succesor of Steel Panthers? It was top down and featured a new complexity of FOW, the ability to lay supressive fire at unk targets etc They got as far as some early screen shots and the game then faded away.....

[junk2drive]

That was the Combat Leader that Les is talking about.

[Deathtreader]

Hi,

It's been on the list for so long it might as well be not be on it.............you guessed it!

COMBINED ARMS!!

Rob.

[Fallschirmjager]

ORIGINAL: Lützow

Every future, large scale strategic surface naval warfare game is bound to feel lacking, as it will be inevitably measured against WitP AE. Aside of this, nobody had stand a chance against the Home Fleet and hence the Mediterranean theatre isn't good for PBEM. Myself I'd like a strategic U-Boat game, or a simulation with state-of-the-art-visuals, portraying Bismarck or Tirpitz. However, I guess we won't see that either.

Japan had no chance in the Pacific war. Yet it has made three fantastic games. The game is about the journey, not where it ends up.
A game focusing on the Med and the submarine war in the Atlantic could provide a lot of opportunity. Both sides could also use the political point system to request ships from the Atlantic fleets.

[redcoat]

ORIGINAL: Slick Wilhelm

I would like to see a small unit tactical game in the vein of Age of Rifles, covering the obscure (and not so obscure) wars and battles fought during the period 1850-1923. Crimean War, Anglo-Zulu wars, American Civil War, Spanish American War, Boer War, Russo-Japanese War, Balkan Wars, WWI, Russian Civil War.

Me too.

Also a computer version of Field of Glory: Renaissance. Including battles from the Italian Wars, French War of Religion, Thirty Years War and English Civil War.

[Zakhal]

Its about time to have new steel panthers. 

[ilovestrategy]

I would like a game covering the entire Pacific War but with a lot less micromanagement than WiTP. 

[goodwoodrw]

ORIGINAL: Fallschirmjager

ORIGINAL: Lützow

Every future, large scale strategic surface naval warfare game is bound to feel lacking, as it will be inevitably measured against WitP AE. Aside of this, nobody had stand a chance against the Home Fleet and hence the Mediterranean theatre isn't good for PBEM. Myself I'd like a strategic U-Boat game, or a simulation with state-of-the-art-visuals, portraying Bismarck or Tirpitz. However, I guess we won't see that either.

Japan had no chance in the Pacific war. Yet it has made three fantastic games. The game is about the journey, not where it ends up.
A game focusing on the Med and the submarine war in the Atlantic could provide a lot of opportunity. Both sides could also use the political point system to request ships from the Atlantic fleets.

Yer great Idea, what ever happened to Norm Kroger, he created some good games?

[junk2drive]

ORIGINAL: ilovestrategy

I would like a game covering the entire Pacific War but with a lot less micromanagement than WiTP. 

Ever look at the game at Shrapnel?