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Hello all,

My name is Marcos, no military background, but an history fanatic since I was a kid. I "specialized" myself in WWII history and I had the chance to visit, some years ago, various battlefields or sites in France. (The normandy landings areas, Pegasus bridge, the St Laurent American Cemetary, the La Cambe German Cemetary, la pointe du Hoc . I went down south through the Pontaulbault Bridge and ended up in the Uboat base at Lorient, very nice and impressive trip and places).

I used to play a lot of board wargames, back in the 80's, mostly AH and VG games like Panzer leader, Pacific War, Hell's Highway, Vietnam etc....
For me, having such games (or their concepts) in a PC is a dream come true (although I still have my old boardgames boxed somewhere...).

I'm living in Spain now, another interesting place for Military History lovers...

So that's, basically, it.

regards

Marcos

ORIGINAL: marcos1965

Hello all,

My name is Marcos, no military background, but an history fanatic since I was a kid. I "specialized" myself in WWII history and I had the chance to visit, some years ago, various battlefields or sites in France. (The normandy landings areas, Pegasus bridge, the St Laurent American Cemetary, the La Cambe German Cemetary, la pointe du Hoc . I went down south through the Pontaulbault Bridge and ended up in the Uboat base at Lorient, very nice and impressive trip and places).

I used to play a lot of board wargames, back in the 80's, mostly AH and VG games like Panzer leader, Pacific War, Hell's Highway, Vietnam etc....
For me, having such games (or their concepts) in a PC is a dream come true (although I still have my old boardgames boxed somewhere...).

I'm living in Spain now, another interesting place for Military History lovers...

So that's, basically, it.

regards

Marcos

welcome Marcos

Welcome Marcos!

Welcome aboard, Marcos. [8D]




Goblin

This is really a great game Marcos. Hope you have as much fun as I am!!

Welcome aboard, Marcos.

Hi, everyone.
 
My name's Jonathan, 14 years of age and from Australia.
Well, I never really had any past wargame experiences but I use to play all these strategy games like C&C, StarCraft and the such. Anyways, back in '06, I was looking at a bunch of CDs my Dad had stacked around and that's when I found a PowerPlay DVD with case. Along with a bunch of other demos and trailers, a full game came with it, that game being SPWAWGE
I was really excited to try it out, after all the name was very appealing and the little tiny icon preview looked very interesting to play.
When I started my first tutorial, I was stunned, to think that there was actually a game like this, it's the first I'd seen in my life.
 
Sadly, I wasn't that sort of kid that wanted to know how to work things fast and SPWAW was hard for me to understand, with all it's menus, words etc. (Which is good and what I like about this game). I merely just moved my units and tried to find the enemy, didn't even bother with objectives. So, I left the game and just continued doing my other stuff.
During that year, on and off I actually wanted to play the game again but knowing me, I'd lost the copied CD and could never play it. And I didn't want to risk getting capped or something downloading the version of MatrixGames.com
 
During last year, I'd found the DVD but I could never bring myself up to install it,I don't really know why. Now this year, yesterday, I installed it again. Being again amazed by the game, was excited to get back into it.
 
That's about it [:)]

Welcome Madow.....keep playing and soon you wont be able to stop..
[:)]

Welcome Marcos [:)] and welcome Madow [:)]

Madow: what version is/was on that CD ? Isuspect you want to update ? Let us know, it's a free game.

Welcome Jonathan [:)]

Welcome Madow!
 

This game is a good way to lose weight (and sleep, and a job...)

Hi all.
Ive been playing SPWaW for a couple years now and enjoy every single game.
I specially like to pbem.
I am new to the forum and i have downloaded - scenario, campiagn and maplist January 2008, however i dont know where to extract too in the SPWaW directory.
 
Please advise.
 
I have SPWaW v8.403 .

ORIGINAL: Adsi

Hi all.
Ive been playing SPWaW for a couple years now and enjoy every single game.
I specially like to pbem.
I am new to the forum and i have downloaded - scenario, campiagn and maplist January 2008, however i dont know where to extract too in the SPWaW directory.

Please advise.

I have SPWaW v8.403 .

you can extract this file anywhere, it is an excel sheet that in alot of cases has links to download the scenarios/campaigns/maps.

Welcome Adsi [:)]

ORIGINAL: Adsi

Hi all.
Ive been playing SPWaW for a couple years now and enjoy every single game.
I specially like to pbem.
I am new to the forum and i have downloaded - scenario, campiagn and maplist January 2008, however i dont know where to extract too in the SPWaW directory.

Please advise.

I have SPWaW v8.403 .

Welcome Adsi!
You will want to download and install the Enhanced mod, Pretty much everyone plays it now, I believe.

Hi guys.
 
Yep your correct re 337.
I very much indeed am looking forward to installing the enhanced mod.
Will do so.
Thanks.
 
O.K.
 
I have a question to ask:
 
Is installing SPMBT safe to do with my current SPWaW 8.403 installation?
I would like to keep my current SPWaW seperate.
 
 
 
 
 
 

The default install location for WinSPWW2 and WinSPMBT is
 
C:\Program Files\Shrapnel Games\The Camo Workshop\WinSP...
 
SPWAW goes into
 
C:\Matrix Games\...
 
so there is no worry of a conflict.

Howdy, all. My name's Emmett (if you couldnt have guessed), and Ive been out of the Wargame loop for a while now. I started off back in '94, and quickly fell in love with the SP games and with Allied/Panzer General. Wasnt such a huge fan of East/West front, and fell out of the wargame circuit until Hearts of Iron came out. Got bored of that one quickly, and again fell out of sync. Just recently remembered how much I always loved good strategy games, and how much I have lamented their demise, and decided to indulge myself, and somehow found SP:WaW. I downloaded it, and have been following my two Brigades of Germans for a few days now, but have come to miss pbem games. Thus, after much ado about nothing, I return to the present. Im looking for some pbem games, and am not averse at all to having my fourth point of contact handed to me by a pro. [:D]