Mightily impressed

[jascou]

!!WARNING!! SHAMELESS PLUG TO FOLLOW...

As a beta tester, I guess now that the game is out in the wild I can feel free to wear my heart on the proverbial sleeve with regards to this game.

There is a reason that this game has been so long in development. In a nutshell: the game is awesome and it was a blast to test. Masterpiece. By far the best tactical computer wargame I've ever played. In fact, probably the best tactical *game* I've ever played --- I'd definitely rate it up there with ASL.

The A.I is tough and the pace is relentless; I was sweating bullets in every scenario I played.

IMO, I can't think of a reason why anyone interested in this scale would be disappointed (*knocks on wood*).

Congratulations to the developers for seeing this project through to release, and many thanks for the opportunity to beta-test this fine game.[&o]

To the fence-sitters, I say just go ahead and buy it. It's really THAT good.

Cheers.

[FroBodine]

Wow! Great mini-review. So far, all signs are very positive about this game. It certainly could have been a disaster, after being in development so long, and many folks thought it to be vaporware. It was the wargamers "butt" joke for quite a while, and now it is reality.

This is SO refreshing to hear that it turned out well. And, possibly better than well from reading the early returns.

[comsolut]

I have to agree. Feels realistic, fast paced, and very fun.

The reference guides from BoardGame Geek are excellent in figuring out what factors into all the different checks, and the drm's. Strongly recommend printing a few of them out. Armed with about 8 printed pages of references, I hardly need to refer to the manual. So far I have only looked up indirect fire with on board mortars.

[Tom Proudfoot]

Glad you're enjoying it! Once you get the hang of the rules, I highly recommend turning on Scrolling Results on the options. It makes things move a lot more smoothly I think, but it's probably too confusing at the beginning when you're still trying to get a handle on the various modifiers.

[michaelincol]

Hey jascue I did what you suggested - just went ahead and bought it having no experience with boardgame. Wow. It is great. Very polished. Incredibly immersive board game feel. Counter art, soothing sound of dice rollling... Easy to get feel of mechanics via tutorials and 120 page manual. Learning tactics will take a while I can already tell. Great stuff.

Hats off and thanks to Mr Walker and Erik and co. at Matrix.

Michael

[lparkh]

Especially impressive they kept to quality commitment in the face of so much opportunity fire about their delays

[wesy]

Downloaded today - Love it, Well done island neighbor - live right across the Webster/Posey Tubes near Jack London Square .

[Tom Proudfoot]

Howdy neighbor! I used to go to Endgame a lot but got kinda busy with, uh, this project. Maybe I'll run into at Target instead. [;)]

[FroBodine]

Nice! A bunch of us Bay Area locals here.

[lparkh]

Ha I'm a Bay Area local as well. Palo Alto. Small world.

[markhwalker]

Especially impressive they kept to quality commitment in the face of so much opportunity fire about their delays

We thought we had something going, Tom did amazing work. He' an excellent programmer.

[Richie61]

ORIGINAL: markhwalker

Especially impressive they kept to quality commitment in the face of so much opportunity fire about their delays

We thought we had something going, Tom did amazing work. He' an excellent programmer.

Agree! Tom would address issues during beta testing and have a new beta up in a hurry! I don't think he sleeps [:'(]

[vonRocko]

I'm really liking this game. Well done, thank you. I hope other LnL games can be made for the pc, now that you guys got the program.[:)]

[wesy]

Great to see all the SF Bay Area people - sometimes i think i'm the only guy in Oakland that plays wargames . @Tom - Love End Games - cool guys. Yeah most likely will run into you at the new Target that seems strangely deserted. @lparkh @jglazier - Grew up in Redwood City and work in Mountain View when i absolutely have to go into the office!

[baloo7777]

Downloaded and am starting the tutorials provided. Love it so far! Playing with no problems yet on WIN 8 laptop. Thanks for bringing this to completion!

[markhwalker]

Wesy... yeah he guys at End Games are nice. I used to deal with them directly when they bought our game, ut now I think they go through Alliance (the distributor). Glad you all are enjoying the game. There's some fun stuff in the branches that you won' want to miss.

[Erik Rutins]

Let's hear some more feedback from the silent majority. [8D] How are you all enjoying the game?

[Karrick]

what I like is the pleasing eye candy.....that will punish you harshly if you do some thing stupid.....unless your very lucky. you really have to think twice about putting a squad into the street...I cringe every time I do. I am learning the proper tactics the hard way but I am really enjoying this game...managing your squads movement, when to fire and not to fire is always a dilemma..... I would recommend this game to anyone interested in this time period and scale. This game has really satisfied my ASL itch that has been bugging me for a very long time....My thanks to the developers it was worth the wait!!

[aaatoysandmore]

I'm impressed that there aren't more threads about issues with the game. Maybe they are finally hearing us out there and releasing games with less bugs that are near finished? I might just actually buy it new if it goes for days without too many issue threads. Been a long time since a game was released that worked without a gizallion patches.

[sullafelix]

I was a little hesitant at first because I am an old SPI boardgamer. The newer boardgames with cards etc. I never took a shine to.

I was very impressed also by the game. The scenarios are done extremely well. So you can play a short game anytime but still get your wargaming itch scratched to the fullest.

The game is so well done that I am amazed at the sale price.

I know it is old hat, but run do not walk with your credit card.