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I purchased this game because it had Grigsby's name attached to it. As purchased, the game is unplayable, and a historical joke. It may be playable after this next patch; we will see.
I note there is an entire screen of the names of all the playtesters in the credits. Where were they? Most of the flaws in this game should have been caught long before the game reached the market. How could they have "tested" this game and not seen all the defects that the threads have shown were there!
I will wait for the next patch; it that doesn't make the game work, I'm gone. I didn't pay 50 bucks to spend my time patching and repatching a wargame every week.

Originally posted by arkansasbob
I purchased this game because it had Grigsby's name attached to it. As purchased, the game is unplayable, and a historical joke. It may be playable after this next patch; we will see.
I note there is an entire screen of the names of all the playtesters in the credits. Where were they? Most of the flaws in this game should have been caught long before the game reached the market. How could they have "tested" this game and not seen all the defects that the threads have shown were there!
I will wait for the next patch; it that doesn't make the game work, I'm gone. I didn't pay 50 bucks to spend my time patching and repatching a wargame every week.

CHILL OUT! What game are you playing???? "unplayable"? "Historical Joke"? Your statements are a joke.

Originally posted by arkansasbob
I purchased this game because it had Grigsby's name attached to it. As purchased, the game is unplayable, and a historical joke. It may be playable after this next patch; we will see.
I note there is an entire screen of the names of all the playtesters in the credits. Where were they? Most of the flaws in this game should have been caught long before the game reached the market. How could they have "tested" this game and not seen all the defects that the threads have shown were there!
I will wait for the next patch; it that doesn't make the game work, I'm gone. I didn't pay 50 bucks to spend my time patching and repatching a wargame every week.

unplayable? huh? Oh wait...he's from arkansas that explains everything.

I'm not sure what game you are playing, but before you make a statement like "historical joke", you might actually want to play a few hundred turns of it. The only thing it doesn't get right is the skip bombing issue, and that is about to be solved. Everything else is **** close. Unplayable

The answer is easy : don't buy this game if you're married

'nuff said

Regards.

Make sure you have a long attention span. To play the 600 trn scenario could take decades.

Originally posted by arkansasbob
I purchased this game because it had Grigsby's name attached to it. As purchased, the game is unplayable, and a historical joke. It may be playable after this next patch; we will see.
I note there is an entire screen of the names of all the playtesters in the credits. Where were they? Most of the flaws in this game should have been caught long before the game reached the market. How could they have "tested" this game and not seen all the defects that the threads have shown were there!
I will wait for the next patch; it that doesn't make the game work, I'm gone. I didn't pay 50 bucks to spend my time patching and repatching a wargame every week.

Has there ever been any wargame that didn't have flaws in it that needed addressing after the fact? either in historical data or in the code itself?

I seem to recall a certain very popular game.....one "The operational Art of war" that was revealed to have a **serious** flaw in it along with others that led to cries among the Internet community. This led to a series of patches that later fixed the problem and made it even more playable(by all accounts....i've yet to aquire a copy....to much time playing Steel Panthers and now UV ) But OaoW was and remains one of the most popular wargames of recent times, and won many an award.

So i think your being very harsh in your judgement. Designing and researching a wargame is a tough job, not just because of the myriad of "facts" available to be picked up but in all the differing ways those facts can be interpreted as well.

The true blessing here is that this and these wargames produced here are published by a company that truely listens, and listens well to the feedback of the players and promptly patches up the product which only leads to a good game getting even better.

Give it a chance.

For all the other fence sitters.....BUY A COPY

no , buy Two copies

do it now.