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Best wishes for your retirement! I haven't been around long enough to get to know you, but I have enjoyed the scenarios you have designed very much! I'm glad that you will still be dropping by the forums and assisting Matrix as a consultant. I hope that your retirement is everything you could want it to be.

Eric Maietta

now--no more excuse`s---what about that game you have been promising me for over a year now---you can fish anytime--- <img src="wink.gif" border="0"> <img src="wink.gif" border="0"> <img src="wink.gif" border="0">

Good Luck Mister Will Bill!

Thanks for all the things you have done!

Marder

...sad news for us but I hope it is very happy news for you.....thank you so much for all you have done for all of us...noone has done more in all the gaming world......
SALUTE!!

Bill thanks for all your help. Wouldnt have been in steel panthers if not for you. I turned 70 in august and spent some time in hospital. Dont you do that. Have fun playing more. Relax is the name of the game.

Well Bill, I must say that we will absolutely miss your devotion to the game and the input into all those scenarios you have made and undoubtedly contributed to. I still remember your comments when I was reporting on the "from Uthah to the Rhine" Campaign here (finished it btw with all DV's except for one draw - drad!).

You undoubtedly have deserved your retirement based on your work for Matrix, bringing the game of Steel Panthers back to the top in my view and keeping it there, But as I said above we WILL MISS YOU! Thanks.

Btw What's the most difficult campaign for SPWAW 5.2?

The best of luck and again thanks for your relentless involvement, go enjoy your free-time.

Your sincerely,

Joost Nieuwenhuijs Alias Pantherblaster

Well...what to say...thank you...it has been great being in the forums and chats with you...we will miss your handy work and input...it goes deeper than that....
Take care...and relax...my friend.
Huffy

Thank you-thank you-thank you-happy,happy,joy,joy retirement...
<---man of few words <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0">

Mein Oberst!!!

I hope you still share with all of us all your knowledge and advices about this fantastic game!!
I'm honored to served over your orders Herr Oberst!! <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0">
I wish you enjoy your free time now.. for fishing and more SPWAW of course!! <img src="smile.gif" border="0">
Many thanks for all!!!

Alessandro

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Senta à Pua!!!

Thanks for all Wild bill!!!
The SPWAW world will never be the same without you, sir. Take care, be happy and have the best of lucks.
¡¡¡Siempre a sus órdenes!!! <img src="smile.gif" border="0">

Thank you Wild Bill! And happy retirement!

Good to know we'll still see you around!

-Sasa

Wild Bill:

I wish you the best of the luck in your... retirement. More time for wargaming? More time to teach wargaming to the grandkids? <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0">

Always has been an honour to be in the same forums as you, Wild Bill.

Please, Wild Bill, show up in the forums everyone in a while. You can get an internet connection almost anywhere.

And if you come to the Tar Heel state, send a line: a cold beer [1] is yours.


To Matrix Games:

Can SP:WaW get a leader named "Wild Bill" ?

It would be great having him on your side... or when being with the enemy, it will send shivers of fear down our spine <img src="tongue.gif" border="0">

Salut,
Sinner

[1]: or whatever you would like to have.

Ah, gentlemen! You bring tears to an old man's eyes. How could one ask for better friends than all of you!

I swear, every bit of the work has been worth it. Your sentiments mean much, much more than I know how to express.

Tar Heel State. My youngest daughter teaches school there, Sinner! She just had her first child, a man child, Nathan Christopher Small.

Give her a hug for me if you run across here. She teaches 4th grade.

My sincerest wish is to reach out face to face and shake the hand of each one of you, maybe even a good old brotherly hug wouldn't hurt either!

I'll send it via this e-mail and hope one day to meet you all.

Wild Bill

Wild Bill,

Wow this news is a shock! The forum is going to miss your insights to the game. But more importantly, we will all miss the kindred spirit that you display in your responses. You have a knack for "listening" to our concerns and responding in such a way to answer our questions and make us feel that our comments are important, however trivial they may be. I have been reading your comments over the past year and a half (there's only about 4,600 of them!) and feel that I know you even though we have never met or personally communicated. I'm sure others must feel the same way. You are a true gentleman in every sense of the word.

Take care and best wishes for your retirement.

John Baier

Hi!

I would like to thank Wild Bill for all the other great scenarios/campaigns he created.....

My favorite scenario in toaw is "Desert Storm" (also I sat with a big open mouth in front of my computer when the 82nd stormed towards Bagdad while the Syrians were just in front of the real expensive victory hexes in Kuwait and suddenly, there was a litte change in my order of Battle <img src="redface.gif" border="0">
(grumble, lost that game, but this was my fault, flame me if you want to do so, in this case I would deseve it <img src="smile.gif" border="0"> ) ).

The "Desert Storm"-scenario was written by.... WBW.

And several campaigns for SP3, including one airborne campaign in Vietnam, are written by.... WBW.

Wild Bill, I really hope that you will still find the time to write campaigns for Combat Leader....

Otherwise, there may be less incentive to buy CL (why buying CL if there are no WBW-Campaigns while SPWAW is free and includes WBW-Campaigns?).

I hope that you just retired from Matrixgames but that you will still remain active on this forum and that you still find some time to create some more campaigns... At least one for each module of CL (please <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0"> )....

with all available regards, respect and salutations,

with a big thank you for all your excellent scenarios and campaigns I enjoyed,

live long and prosper,

Roland

Wow, do I ever remember that one Roland! It took almost 2 months to do it. It is one of my favorites still. I learned so much in doing it.

4,600! Wow! What a chatterbox <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0"> ! I've enjoyed them all, John.

Guys, please know I'm retiring from Matrix but not from gaming. I'm hanging with you all for the long haul or I'm inducted above.

All of your comments are the greatest encouragement imaginable. We'll keep on keeping on. Never really know just where I'll turn up <img src="wink.gif" border="0">

Wild Bill

How WB did all that he did for as long as he did has always amazed me. The name is a legion among many channels and always will be, so it will be an honor to see you pop in for visits from time to time. Now what&#8217;s this about MC3?

You'll need those sunglasses and the mosquito repellent as you did in NA, Blitz. But bring a poncho, extra ammo, even some extra C-rations (unless you like rice and fish-heads) and try to trade in that old Springfield for a Garand M-1 soon as you can. You're gonna be here for a while!

It gets hot here, but it sure ain't dry <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0">

Thanks to all of you.

Wild Bill

Comrade Bill, enjoy your retirement!

I would not be a part of this community if you hadn't started the "Wild Bill's Raiders" site at The Gamers Net some time ago.

Thanks for your magnificent work and your support during all this time.

Un abrazo, amigo.

Lo mismo, mi distinguido colega y a todos mis companeros del mundo hispano. Que gozo es tenerlos involucrados en este pasatiempo que nos provee tantas horas de gozo.

Estare' siempre a la orden para todos Ustedes in cualquier asunto!

A la carga!

Guillermo el Salvaje