New and Good Things from Matrix Games - Here We Come!

Wild Bill · Post by **Wild Bill** » Fri Sep 15, 2000 5:30 am

Big Happenings at Matrix...Take a Look

David Heath, Frank Donati, Joe Osborne and others have been busy little beavers of late. Have you looked over the entire Matrix site lately?

NEW SECTIONS

There are three main sections now that are going to give you every type of gaming experience you want with the games that are here and are coming from Matrix.
http://www.matrixgames.com/news.asp

Go to Matrix Main Page and then click on -

The News...All the latest updates from Matrix on plans and development of the many new upcoming projects and games are here for you to be kept up to date on what is happening with us.

The Journal...A whole new section of written material that is all geared to the Matrix Games. It includes hints and tips for the games, After Action Reports, Historical background on many of the battles depicted in the campaigns and scenarios and more.

The Command Center...Into immediate on-line connections to play online and E-Mail. Leagues are being set up for play. Command Net is also a part of this section.

NEW TECH SUPPORT

And, oh yes, our new tech support service (also in the main menu) is up and running. You can get help with various problems you may be having with the products forthcoming from Matrix.

What we are aiming for is a complete support system for your gaming needs in relation to what we do. Its worth a visit.

NEW CONTEST

Finally, check out the new contest from Matrix!
http://www.matrixgames.com/Contests.asp

There will be 15 winners. It's not that hard to do. To read the details on the rules and requirements, scroll down and click on contest rules. Here is your chance to perhaps make a little money and get some freebies, courtesy of Matrix.

And we are just getting started. The motor is revved up and we're getting on the highway. Make way for Matrix Games! Here we come!

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In Arduis Fidelis
Wild Bill Wilder
Coordinator, Scenario Design
Matrix Games

Bonzo · Post by **Bonzo** » Fri Sep 15, 2000 7:21 am

Are there some typos on the current contest page Or do I just not get it? No flame, just confused & looking for guidance.

Quote from contest web page "Select who you feel is one of the commanders in the Pacific Theater during World War Two from 1932-1945. Write a brief biography and report on his commander. Please include a bibliography in your essay. The essay may be no less than 700 words, but no more than 1500 words, in English."

Are we to write about persons we feel were commanders or were the BEST commanders and are we to write about this commander or his commander?

Bonzo

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Robert (Bonzo) Lindsay, Coordinator
28th (North-west) Battalion Headquarters
http://dreadnaught.home.icq.com
nwbattalion@icqmail.com

Wild Bill · Post by **Wild Bill** » Fri Sep 15, 2000 7:38 am

I think the idea here is that you are to write an article on a commander that excelled at his task in the Pacific in WW2.

MacArthur, Nimitz, Yamamoto, Merrill, Halsey or lesser known ones, General Sir Thomas Blamey (Anzac), General Stillwell, Genral Slim (UK)Colonel Red Edson, Kawaguchi, Kuribayashi, Colonel Shoup on Tarawa, etc, etc.

It is not the commander or the leader that is so important but how you present him.

You are pleading his case as one of the great leaders in the Pacific during the war, not neccessarily the scope of his leadership but the quality of it.

Perhaps this will clarify it for you Bonzo...WB
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In Arduis Fidelis
Wild Bill Wilder
Coordinator, Scenario Design
Matrix Games

Tankhead · Post by **Tankhead** » Fri Sep 15, 2000 8:05 am

Hi Wild Bill!

"Big wheels a keep on turning down the highway".

All the new stuff going on with Matrix.
YAHOOOO

Tankhead

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Rick Cloutier rcclout@telusplanet.net
Coordinator: Tankhead's SPWAW Resources
http://tankhead.home.icq.com

Wild Bill · Post by **Wild Bill** » Fri Sep 15, 2000 8:13 am

I know, (pant, gasp, wheeze!)

. Hard for an old timer like me to keep up with you youngbloods!

WB

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In Arduis Fidelis
Wild Bill Wilder
Coordinator, Scenario Design
Matrix Games

Bonzo · Post by **Bonzo** » Fri Sep 15, 2000 8:22 am

Thanks WB. I just found the text a little confusing. From my experience with my own "hunt & peck" typing, I know all about dropped letters & words

If I had known the author of the page I would direct my query there. Given that this page is for a contest, clarity is of the essence

The phrase "...you feel is one of the commanders..." should probably read something like "...you feel is one of the great commanders..." or underappreciated, loony, sexiest

At work, I get my coworkers to edit my work. (No, No. BILL the customer, not kill) Tankhead checks my web site. (Thank you very much) Just offering my (totally unrequested) editorial obsevations. I know everyone is doing that high speed, scramble thing.

Bonzo

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Robert (Bonzo) Lindsay, Coordinator
28th (North-west) Battalion Headquarters
http://dreadnaught.home.icq.com
nwbattalion@icqmail.com

Desert Fox · Post by **Desert Fox** » Fri Sep 15, 2000 8:27 am

Originally posted by Wild Bill:
NEW CONTEST

Finally, check out the new contest from Matrix!
http://www.matrixgames.com/Contests.asp

There will be 15 winners. It's not that hard to do. To read the details on the rules and requirements, scroll down and click on contest rules. Here is your chance to perhaps make a little money and get some freebies, courtesy of Matrix.

LOL!
First you guys are not making money with SPWAW by not being able to sell it. Now you guys are simply giving money away.
I think its getting obvious that the Matrix staff is composed of history majors, computer science majors, public relations gurus, maybe even some law students, but not one single business course was taken by the lot of you.
Well, as apprehensive as I would be if I held stock, it seems to be working so far, so keep up the good work.

Wild Bill · Post by **Wild Bill** » Fri Sep 15, 2000 9:24 am

Does kind of sound like a death wish, doesn't it, Fox?

Well we're still having fun...I think

Of course we are. When we make a little change, we'll be having more fun

Wild Bill

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In Arduis Fidelis
Wild Bill Wilder
Coordinator, Scenario Design
Matrix Games

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David Heath · Post by **David Heath** » Fri Sep 15, 2000 9:27 am

Either way we got your attention LOL!

David

Wild Bill · Post by **Wild Bill** » Fri Sep 15, 2000 9:27 am

Point well taken, Bonzo. And no offense taken, especially since I did not write it

Seriously, that kind of thing is a big help. It was a little confusing. I think the author meant to say "this" instead of "his."

But it should be fixed shortly if not already. Thanks. Good observation...WB

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In Arduis Fidelis
Wild Bill Wilder
Coordinator, Scenario Design
Matrix Games

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Randy · Post by **Randy** » Fri Sep 15, 2000 9:45 am

Wild Bill, This is great. Not only do we get free games, we get homework also! With this
contest, you guys at Matrix are really going to make us learn our WWII history.
Thanks
SEmpewr Fi.
Randy

Wild Bill · Post by **Wild Bill** » Fri Sep 15, 2000 10:02 am

Better get to it, Randy. We're "burning daylight" ...well, not right now, I guess burning moonlight

Go for it, guys!...Wild Bill

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In Arduis Fidelis
Wild Bill Wilder
Coordinator, Scenario Design
Matrix Games

jlaurila · Post by **jlaurila** » Fri Sep 15, 2000 1:59 pm

Every day i read this forum, and every single day you get me knocked down from the chair laughing my b*tt off. and every single day there is atleast one post, that gets me touched emotionally and makes me believe in mankind for just another day. *SOB* oh man.
i've seen quite many forums, but this one is just different, with a very, very pleasant way. guys, you got me addicted (and pretty soon thrown out of my home, too

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just keep it going on

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JLaurila

Wild Bill · Post by **Wild Bill** » Fri Sep 15, 2000 7:45 pm

I think the key to the amiable atmosphere of the forum is due to the fact that like seeks like. Flamers go where the flames are.

The kindler, gentler folks seem a like spirit. Here on this forum we try to leave the fighting in the games, not on the forum.

I have found the participants here to be kind, good people, with the best interest of the game at heart. No pretensions or arrogance that I have seen at all.

Troublemakers don't hang around too long because they don't have a cheering section.

And I am very glad it is like that. We disagree of course, but even that can be done with a good attitude and a constructive goal.

I enjoy this forum and conversing with all of you ....The rest of the Matrix staff feels the same way.

And a little humor now and then does not hurt a thing, JL! I agree with you

Wild Bill

Wild Bill · Post by **Wild Bill** » Fri Sep 15, 2000 11:59 pm

We'll be looking forward to these writings on those great commanders. Convince us!

Wild Bill

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In Arduis Fidelis
Wild Bill Wilder
Coordinator, Scenario Design
Matrix Games

KG Erwin · Post by **KG Erwin** » Sat Sep 16, 2000 2:40 am

I must say, the essay contest makes for some tough choices. I wish you guys had chosen "the most overrated commander of the SPWaW period". I could give you the hands-down winner of that, BUT, I guess that's for another topic in a different forum subject. Hmmm...BUT, for those guys looking for a best commander subject, here's a freebie...check out Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring. A VERY worthy candidate for best commander of that period award. Just give me credit for the inspiration. Glenn. Hint: you couldn't find a better guy to transplant to the US Army forty years later as far as grasping the AirLand concept as it was intended to work-----------------
"Klotzen, nicht Kleckern (roughly translated, 'Boot em, don't spatter em')"--Heinz Guderian

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Wild Bill · Post by **Wild Bill** » Sat Sep 16, 2000 4:19 am

He would be a most likely candidate but we are focusing on the Pacific. Now you really will have to do your homework

There were a few "overrated" commanders there too, of course

Wild Bill

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In Arduis Fidelis
Wild Bill Wilder
Coordinator, Scenario Design
Matrix Games

KG Erwin · Post by **KG Erwin** » Sat Sep 16, 2000 7:11 am

OK, Wild Bill, I'm not entering the contest, but the best and worst in the Pacific (IMHO)both belong to the US--Best:Adm.Chester Nimitz. Worst:Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Note that the US Navy had its finest moments during this war, so a US Navy commander HAD to be the best choice. My choice of MacArthur as worst may seem heretical to some, but the facts weigh strongly in his disfavor. IF I have to defend one of these points, then I will consider the challenge. But, $50 and a CD of SPWaW ? Come on. How about $100 and a free copy of the next for-pay Matrix project on CD?

Wild Bill · Post by **Wild Bill** » Sat Sep 16, 2000 7:23 am

Hey, Bro! Lighten up. We ain't made no money yet.

That $50 is coming out of our grocery money. That is pretty good for a gaming company that has not had any income as yet!

I wish we had $100 to give away. I just wish I had $100 period!

So "Dugout Doug" (that is what the GIs called him in WW2) does not appeal to you.

I wonder why

He and Nimitz had some real knock-down dragouts about allocation of resources in the Pacific.

Nimitz wanted to bypass the Philippines. Doug had made a promise. Thank God for the liberation of the valiant Filipino people, of course, but the battle for the Philippines was very long and costly. Perhaps Formosa would have been the same (Nimitz' choice).

Write one anyway, just for the good mental exercise and the research learning you'll be doing. Good medicine anytime. I would certainly enter if I could!

Wild Bill

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In Arduis Fidelis
Wild Bill Wilder
Coordinator, Scenario Design
Matrix Games

KG Erwin · Post by **KG Erwin** » Sat Sep 16, 2000 8:16 am

Well, I guess I can't bedazzle you with my BS at all. Thanks for your time, Wild Bill. Maybe what I submit will surprise you. Glenn.