Commander - Europe at War Storms Into Matrix Games

[freeboy]

I think some said the players have access to mod the files?

I would like to see a pre war build game, or early war etc

ok I found it at the Slith site.. looks good

[LitFuel]

ORIGINAL: lancerunolfsson

Are there paratroopers? Didn't see that one answered ,can you have drops?

I certainly hope not. Paratroops are an operational level item this is clearly a Strategic game. I'm guessing the Whole Market Garden Operation would fit in one hex.

Anyway I have been looking forward to this game for a long time. Watching it progress over at Slitherine, as the screen shots came out I was thinking at least it looks like what I was Hoping sc2 would look like. SC2 was killed for me the minute I saw the squares and the super bogus Nato symbols. It always amazes me when people mange to make NATO symbols look bad. Its like no one has figured out that the guys that want Nato symbols, want their game to look like a board game. Little men are OK and can be fun if they do not make the map look cluttered and are easey to tell apart. The CWE graphics look fine on both accounts.

I like the idea that you have to upgrade individual units vs all units getting an auto upgrade when you reach a tech level.

I just don't get this sort of game then, pushing around units in such a broad scope that paratroopers makes no sense seems silly since it was such a intregal part of many large scale battles. It seems to me it's like playing war without many of the pieces of the puzzle. It makes unit upgrades seem more like a gimmick at this scale then. I've seen other games of this scale use paratoopers so I really don't see the logic, they are a large scale mass unit as any other. In fact Strategic Command 2 which everyone is trying to comapre with has them...so tell me how it doesn't work again?

[freeboy]

I was sure I was going to see a gold announcment

[Ursa MAior]

Sounds really interesting. Kinda War in Russia scaled up. Cant wait to see an AAR.

[cdbeck]

Ummm... not to get a bit ahead of myself... but the Wargamer.com already has a header that says - Commander: Europe at War, available now to download and play (from Matrix games). Did advertising jump the gun?

SoM

[freeboy]

Well son, who is Montfort? U certainly are correct, advertising has it posteed there at Wargamer as available but alas we are still waiting , I am sure it is another dr deal.. oh well... tic toc tic toc....

[Erik Rutins]

It's simply that the ad was posted too early rather than the ad being on time and the rest being late, sorry.

[freeboy]

Are we geting this out today?

[TheHellPatrol]

I NEED it now[&o][:D].

[freeboy]

anyone,
hello, knock knock ?
who is there?
player ..
players who?
players who are in need of a CEAW fix!

[Syagrius]

I need my dose of CEaW right away or I will kill somebody!![:@]
 
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