Just Purchased

[sabre1]

Finally going to give this game a try in anticipation of BFTB. I have been lurking here for AGES.

I noticed that Judge liked this game, and so far he is a pretty good judge of things IMHO.

I will start the tutorial as soon as the download finishes.

I hope you guys do a printed manual for the next one, preferably you could offer a special edition manual for those who are willing to shell out for one. A manual like the old spiral bound ones of yesterday, or better yet, a three ring binder for updates and inserts. I know, just dreaming of the good old days.

BTW, I had been debating between this game and Kharkov, but I will wait for JD's final opinon on that one too. I almost purchased Road to Victory, but noticed that JD was offering that one for sale, and like him I already have CEAW.

[Arjuna]

Welcome and enjoy the game. Please let us know how you find it?

[sabre1]

BTW, there is mention of a printed manual that you can purchase in the PDF manual, is that no longer available?
 
"You can order a printed and bound version of the PDF Reference Manual here:[font="times new roman,times new roman ps"][font="times new roman,times new roman ps"]
http://www.matrixgames.com/services/DocCenter.asp."
 
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[MarkShot]

Good game choice!

I don't recall updating the docs on past games with patches (other than they were made available for HTTR via PDF due the miniscule hard to read original hardcopy manual). The closest thing related to doc on previous patches was redoing the tutorial check point files to be in sync with the new EXE released. So, you probably don't need to worry much about inserts updates beyond the release notice for patches.

I think COTA stood at around 500 pages. It will be interesting to see where BFTB tips the scale. I wonder if Dave will finally out do Sonalysts 700 pages of documentation for Dangerous Waters (although I think this series documentation is more information dense). It certainly is refreshing to get some real documentation with a game as opposed to a 20 page design sketch written by the programmer two years before the project was completed (that's only current with short cut keys) ... then the rest is left as an exercise to the players to figure out. I don't even know why developers do that ... work hard on the code ... and totally ignore documentation and user aids. Oh, well ... That's not Dave; he's very "old school" when it comes to documentation.

[sterckxe]

ORIGINAL: MarkShot
I think COTA stood at around 500 pages.

Only if you include the 130 pages of your Mini-Guide ... [;)]

ftp://ftp.matrixgames.com/pub/conquesto ... 2-2005.zip

ORIGINAL: MarkShot
I don't even know why developers do that ... work hard on the code ... and totally ignore documentation and user aids.

As a (non-wargame) developer I can tell you exactly why : because that's the "unfun" part of programming. Some developers are just more professional about it than others.

Greetz,

Eddy Sterckx