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Are we...? - 11/13/2000 9:18:00 AM   
Wild Bill

 

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Status: offline 		So fellow wargamers, through these months of anticipation, frustration, bug searches and fixes, moans and shouts of joy, I gotta ask you... Are we having fun or what? That is what gaming is all about! Wild Bill ------------------ In Arduis Fidelis Wild Bill Wilder Coordinator, Scenario Design Matrix Games

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- 11/13/2000 9:24:00 AM   
Leibstandarte

 

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Joined: 6/19/2000
From: Austin, TX USA
Status: offline 		Hell yes we're having fun. I've gotten half of the NATO units over here searching for copies of SPWaW. Well maybe not half but all the guys I work with who play war games. Hats off to all involved with this fine game. There is nothing that comes close to comparing to this. Keep up the excellent work. Thanks again to all of you at Matrix Games. ------------------ Cavalry Trooper (8th US) and Grandson of a Leibstandarte Tanker.

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- 11/13/2000 9:44:00 AM   
Wild Bill

 

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Status: offline 		We certainly can't ask for better support than that which you have given us Trooper! Thank you! WB ------------------ In Arduis Fidelis Wild Bill Wilder Coordinator, Scenario Design Matrix Games

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- 11/13/2000 10:31:00 AM   
chief


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From: Haines City FL, USA
Status: offline 		WB: I said it b4 & I say it again....well done....Thanks ------------------ Sm:):)th Sailing...chief

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- 11/13/2000 11:11:00 AM   
Randy

 

Posts: 1172
Joined: 8/22/2000
From: Torrance, Calif. USA
Status: offline 		Wild Bill, I don't think we can ask for much more. The game is great, plus this forum makes us (even in a small way) the gamer, feel like we are also part of the proccess. This forum brings us all together as a team, which is an important element in the actual military as we can see in the game. Thanks Semper Fi Randy

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- 11/13/2000 11:36:00 AM   
GrinningDwarf

 

Posts: 92
Joined: 11/3/2000
From: Payne's Creek, CA USA
Status: offline 		This gamer is definitely having fun!!

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- 11/13/2000 2:43:00 PM   
AmmoSgt

 

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Joined: 10/21/2000
From: Redstone Arsenal Al
Status: offline 		Having fun here yep yep yep I Luv this game and the Forum Thankies Raiders

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- 11/13/2000 4:31:00 PM   
Toey

 

Posts: 82
Joined: 4/10/2000
From: Melbounre
Status: offline 		Sh*t Yeah! I'm having a great time!

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- 11/13/2000 6:04:00 PM   
waynef

 

Posts: 128
Joined: 8/25/2000
From: plano, tx,usa
Status: offline 		This is what SP1 should have been to start with! Semper Fi

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- 11/13/2000 6:27:00 PM   
herr1

 

Posts: 34
Joined: 6/8/2000
From: Worcester, Worcestershire, UK
Status: offline 		I am having fun and so are my three wargaming friends, however, I'm not sure about our wives!! How do you keep your wives sweet ( I have to ration my SPWAW time!)

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- 11/13/2000 6:28:00 PM   
Dwayne Stone

 

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From: Bratislava,Slovak republic
Status: offline 		Will, you must be kidding! This is one of the best games ever. I'm happy playing it and belonging to such a great team. ------------------ Dwayne Stone ------------ friends call him paranoik

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- 11/13/2000 6:43:00 PM   
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Joined: 11/2/2000
From: West Palm Beach, FL USA
Status: offline 		"Fun" is an understatement.

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- 11/13/2000 7:10:00 PM   
Drex

 

Posts: 2524
Joined: 9/13/2000
From: Chico,california
Status: offline 		heck, I even have fun when I lose! Never seen a game so addicting, even the forums are fun.

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- 11/13/2000 7:40:00 PM   
ncpanther

 

Posts: 73
Joined: 5/22/2000
From: NC
Status: offline 		DITTO DREX!!! If ya can have too much fun , I'm havin it with SPWaW!!! ------------------ NC Airborne Sappers Lead the way!! SAPPERS ATTACK!!!!

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- 11/13/2000 7:44:00 PM   
pops

 

Posts: 252
Joined: 5/9/2000
From: Ontario Canada
Status: offline 		yeah baby yeah!!!

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- 11/13/2000 8:34:00 PM   
Tortfeasor

 

Posts: 137
Joined: 9/4/2000
From: helsinki. Finland
Status: offline 		I am having fun. My friends are having fun. My NEW friends are enjoying it with me. Thank you Wild bill, you have made history. But my dog don`t like it.

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- 11/13/2000 9:42:00 PM   
Wild Bill

 

Posts: 6821
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From: Smyrna, Ga, 30080
Status: offline 		Well, that is what we wanted. I know this was my primary goal...for the game to be fun to play. These responses are overwhelming and I thank you on behalf of the entire testing team for them. One way to appease the ladies is to let them have a couple of easy shots and get a few kills. I've found Beth (my wife) loves to blow up tanks! She is not as avid as I am, but at least has a better understanding of my devotion to gaming. Tell her she has friends out there, other "war widows" who share her "pain." That probably won't help though . My cat, Mr. Jones, gets upset too, Tortfeasor. He comes and sits beside my chair, watches me intently, then gently pats me on the leg with his paw. That failing, he leaps into my lap, stare into my face questioningly. THAT failing, he proceeeds to crawl from my lap onto the table next to the computer and lay on top of my books I have open. I think there is a message there My wife has other tools, all of which are very effective...the slow stripping one I find irresistible . That one always gets me! Wocka! Wocka! I'm thrilled you guys are having fun. I am too! Wild Bill ------------------ In Arduis Fidelis Wild Bill Wilder Coordinator, Scenario Design Matrix Games [This message has been edited by Wild Bill (edited November 13, 2000).]

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- 11/13/2000 9:52:00 PM   
Charles22

 

Posts: 912
Joined: 5/17/2000
From: Dallas, Texas, USA
Status: offline 		I'm starting to uncrank a little bit here. The game having going through so many patches and OOB changes has certainly held me back quite a bit, for I keep restarting campaigns for every change. I have, however, gone through the Motherland campaign to bide me till the newest OOBs come out, and did pretty well (one marginal and the rest decisive victorys), so it wasn't too different from my WWII campaigning. In the search of playing a campaign I haven't played though, to bide my time, I decided to try and start on a WWII East Front campaign starting in 6/41 (I usually like to start in 9/39 when I play Gerry). In so doing I've noticed one problem, though I suppose I could take less points than I'm offered, and that is, that the Soviet campaign, starting then, starts with like 5000 pts. That's way too many points, even if you select nothing but KV1s, for that narrow a field. I do have one suggestion, however, for the Wild Bills amongst us. Since all campaigns cannot take advantage of the wider battlefield now available (at least they never do), why not make the campaigns like the Motherland one, with nothing but wide fields and then the core points allowed can be heightened as well? Of course I would probably be more content with the entire WWII campaign playable either as a choice between narrow or wide, or a mixture of both, but I'm merely trying to get across the idea that there have been no campaigns to my knowledge which have used the wider fields. Thanks

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- 11/13/2000 10:13:00 PM   
Wild Bill

 

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Status: offline 		I hope you'll try some of the others now that you are up to date on patches and new versions. I hate having so many of those too. I know how confusing it can be and I regret that the project has had to have them. But at least, it makes for a better game. Thanks for trying Heroes. I think if you are an East Front addict you will really enjoy Watchword Freedom when it comes out soon. Those are good suggestions and I hope new designers will take to heart what you have mentioned here. Yes, let's use all the tools we have. I especially like the idea of increasing core value. You can't buy new units but you could upgrade easier with more points, then give the enemy a little extra to compensate for it. Nice suggestions, Charles. I think the next campaign I will work on will be a hypothetical encounter, US vs USSR in 1945. What do you guys think? Wild Bill ------------------ In Arduis Fidelis Wild Bill Wilder Coordinator, Scenario Design Matrix Games

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- 11/13/2000 10:22:00 PM   
David F. Wall

 

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Joined: 5/25/2000
From: Waltham, MA, USA
Status: offline 		Oooh. Patton's Dream Redux! This was probably my favorite campaign from the SP1 expansion disks... DFW

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- 11/13/2000 10:46:00 PM   
Wild Bill

 

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Status: offline 		Yep! Actually this was my own earlier creation in SP3 and I want to use that idea to bring it to birth in SPWAW. It will take a while. Campaigns are a long hard process, but it is in the definite to do list, David. ------------------ In Arduis Fidelis Wild Bill Wilder Coordinator, Scenario Design Matrix Games

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- 11/13/2000 11:36:00 PM   
Don Doom


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From: Lost somewhere in the upper backwoods of Michigan!
Status: offline 		Great new make over for Steel Panthers, It is addictive as H@#$LL, my wife is understanding, but my kids are not, just wait till they are a little older. Then I will get them hook also . he he Keep up the GOOD work Matric and GANG.!!!! Don I only stop when my tracks are well greased!

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- 11/13/2000 11:44:00 PM   
Pave

 

Posts: 35
Joined: 7/11/2000
From: Espoo, Finland
Status: offline 		Hi The game is absolutely great. It is the only game I've been playing (I mean playing, not just testing) for maybe 6 months. A friend of mine thinks I'm weird because I don't play games like DeusEx (or what the heck was it) and just play this kind of game where nothing happens(that's his opinion). I have tried to explain that games like SPWAW makes something to happen in my brains, when I'm trying figure out how to kill a Tiger with a Sherman having a 75mm gun(haven't quite discovered yet ). 3D shooting games usually require just good reactions. If comparing to more traditional games, Quake is poker, but SPWAW is chess (or maybe go). Those who complain that constant upgrades spoil their campaign games, don't worry. I just finished my campaign as a German againt Russians, which was started in SPWAW 1.0 (I think). I upgraded the game always and continued playing the same campaign without having any problems.

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- 11/14/2000 12:54:00 AM   
Don

 

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Joined: 7/12/2000
From: Elk Grove, CA (near Sacramento)
Status: offline 		Well, WB, finding this game has allowed me to: 1) Play the best wargame around! 2) Get involved in map and scenario design - something I've never done before. 3) Get involved in this forum, which is a truly great bunch who always help the other guy. 4) But best of all, it led to talking to you, WB, which led to meeting a bunch of other people. Now instead of sitting at home on disability, bored and unhappy, I'm working on projects that keep me very busy and have never been happier! : Thanks WB, Don

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- 11/14/2000 1:51:00 AM   
Gallo Rojo


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Joined: 10/26/2000
From: Argentina
Status: offline 		I’m getting fun. I think that I’ll become addict to this game. In fact I was addict to the earlier versions of SP... but now they seam so board... Now only SPWAW could calm me... It’s the best I ever saw... If only the VCR bug could be fixed... then my happiness were complete!

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- 11/14/2000 3:30:00 AM   
MECH ENGINEER

 

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Joined: 11/5/2000
From: Canandaigua, NY, USA
Status: offline 		"Wild Bill, this is Mech Engineer, we are officially having fun at this time, out" ------------------ "When do we get our flamethrowers, Top?"

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- 11/14/2000 3:39:00 AM   
Wild Bill

 

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From: Smyrna, Ga, 30080
Status: offline 		Thanks Don. Your becoming involved in the game has been of benefit to all of us, especially your kindness in burning and sending out so many copies of it. And your scenarios are top notch. Testing talents ain't bad either, my friend. You have helped me make so valuable changes (such as WF, Battle one ) Gallo, I fear there will always be something in this game to fix. The VCR, I hope we can get it working properly. And you, Mech...as long as you have the fire breather, I know you are all right! Thanks, guys. We are indeed definitely having fun! WB ------------------ In Arduis Fidelis Wild Bill Wilder Coordinator, Scenario Design Matrix Games

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- 11/14/2000 4:03:00 AM   
RUsco

 

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Joined: 8/11/2000
From: Grand Rapids,MI USA
Status: offline 		Love this game. Having fun? all the time. Thanks Matrix for all the hard work on making the BEST wargame out there.

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- 11/14/2000 4:50:00 AM   
Wild Bill

 

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Status: offline 		And thanks for your contributions in testing and in your scenario design. Love that Tulagi campaign. I've played it three times already. Why? Because its FUN! Wild Bill ------------------ In Arduis Fidelis Wild Bill Wilder Coordinator, Scenario Design Matrix Games

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- 11/14/2000 5:22:00 AM   
Grumble

 

Posts: 471
Joined: 5/23/2000
From: Omaha, NE, USA
Status: offline 		You can't b(*h about a free game. What's more, (or worse if you're a S/W company) it's of a quality that a lot of other simulations only wish for. I think it's a pretty good balance of "realism"/detail and "game play". Obviously, I'm not the only one... Support is phenomenal. It's not often you get IMMEDIATE replies from the designer and developers. I think only HPS is the equal of this. I was frankly leerly of the forums. What I've seen in the past were usually game-geeks slamming less experienced players for asking questions. Certainly not the case here. Keep Pressing.

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