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NWS sad news - 12/3/2021 12:07:00 AM   
wodin


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Status: offline 		Christopher Dean from NWS sadly passed on the 1st December. SAI and RTW 2 are a great legacy to leave behind.

RIP Christopher

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RE: NWS sad news - 12/3/2021 2:33:00 AM   
Rosseau

 

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Status: offline 		First John Tiller, and now Christopher. He was always there on the site helping people with issues regarding his games.

Thanks for posting this, but sorry to hear the sad news.

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RE: NWS sad news - 12/3/2021 2:55:24 AM   
Erik Rutins

 

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Status: offline 		Very sad to hear this. Chris was very helpful and always looking out for his customers. Back when we were still working with dealers, he was the best.

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RE: NWS sad news - 12/3/2021 3:30:03 AM   
RangerJoe


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RE: NWS sad news - 12/3/2021 4:09:57 AM   
zakblood


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Status: offline 		RIP

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RE: NWS sad news - 12/3/2021 4:43:39 AM   
Greybriar


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Status: offline 		Rest in peace, Chris. You will be missed.

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RE: NWS sad news - 12/3/2021 5:12:16 AM   
RFalvo69


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quote:

ORIGINAL: wodin

Christopher Dean from NWS sadly passed on the 1st December. SAI and RTW 2 are a great legacy to leave behind.

RIP Christopher


Sad news indeed I can't say that he was a friend, but we had a direct connection. When RTW was published we exchanged a lot of private e-mails (with F.Wallin too) about how to expand the title into the carriers era. He was a great listener and he was always there when you had a problem. I could e-mail him a problem with a serial number and after six hours I had the answer. I often wondered if he slept at all.

I spent hours and hours playing with "Thunder at Sea", the campaign engine for Fighting Steel; then his personal masterpiece "Warship Combat: Navies at war"; then SAI (which I bought when The Wargamer was still a serious site: http://web.archive.org/web/20120623004615/http://wargamer.com/article/3179/pc-game-review-steam-and-iron-a-second-look); and then RTW 1 & 2 - two games which covered a niche previously left empty by the wargame designers.

I hope that his legacy will go on. There is an expansion in the works for RTW 2. I hope that it will not be lost.

< Message edited by RFalvo69 -- 12/3/2021 5:27:30 AM >

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RE: NWS sad news - 12/3/2021 3:15:13 PM   
rommel222

 

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Status: offline 		Greetings wodin,
This is sad news to hear. I owned several of the NWS pc naval games and relished the Fighting Steel project.
May he rest in peace.

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RE: NWS sad news - 12/3/2021 3:28:43 PM   
OnWargaming


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I wrote to him in September for the Pacific War preorder, really a great customer support by him and the best price in the market.

RIP

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RE: NWS sad news - 12/3/2021 3:57:23 PM   
IslandInland


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Status: offline 		He emailed me my serial for RTW 2 and we chatted by email for a bit. I disagreed with his decision not to release RTW 2 on Steam but he seemed passionate about what he did.



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RE: NWS sad news - 12/3/2021 4:45:13 PM   
OldSarge


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From: Albuquerque, NM
Status: offline 		This is really sad news. I've ordered a number of games through NWS, notably the SAI series. He called me once and we had a lengthy and very pleasant chat. Really great with customer relations always responsive via email. He'll be missed!

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RE: NWS sad news - 12/3/2021 4:53:17 PM   
HudsonGame


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Status: offline 		Very sad. Over the years I have dealt with him from time to time, and he was always very helpful.

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RE: NWS sad news - 12/3/2021 6:24:51 PM   
bayonetbrant

 

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Status: offline 		Some details on the future of NWS-Online and the store

https://nws-online.proboards.com/thread/6208/christopher-dean-passed-away-read

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RE: NWS sad news - 12/3/2021 9:13:49 PM   
RangerJoe


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ORIGINAL: bayonetbrant

Some details on the future of NWS-Online and the store

https://nws-online.proboards.com/thread/6208/christopher-dean-passed-away-read


Well, that does explain things.

It also shows something else very important, proper estate planning is also needed.

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RE: NWS sad news - 12/3/2021 10:18:18 PM   
operating


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Status: offline 		Yes, used to do alot of business with NWS, I'm not sure it was Chris for whomever was taking the phone order(s) sounded like a young guy with one or more kids crying, or making noise in the background, but not always the case (years about 2000 to 2010). Used to scope out the HPS Simulation's website then call NWS and get a quote $10 dollars per game cheaper than what HPS had to offer, a good deal, ended up buying dozens of games from NWS. Chris, or whomever it was at NWS was great to deal with and had really good customer care. Sorry to hear the latest news..

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RE: NWS sad news - 12/3/2021 10:42:00 PM   
RFalvo69


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quote:

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe


quote:

ORIGINAL: bayonetbrant

Some details on the future of NWS-Online and the store

https://nws-online.proboards.com/thread/6208/christopher-dean-passed-away-read


Well, that does explain things.

It also shows something else very important, proper estate planning is also needed.


Some people have such unnatural fear of dying (which is different from the normal, healthy fear) that will do not anything related to the idea that they will die. I don't know if this was Chris Dean case, but, for example, you can't ask my father "Where do you want to go? With your father and brothers, or in mom's family chapel?" He consider such a basic question "morbid" and "unsavory". I guess that when time comes we will toss a coin.

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RE: NWS sad news - 12/4/2021 12:51:09 AM   
blond_knight_new

 

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Status: offline 		I didnt know him well either. But I talked to him on the phone about 13 years ago to confirm an order, and ended up having a fun debate about the effectiveness of the Soviet BMP1 in actual combat conditions.

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RE: NWS sad news - 12/6/2021 2:54:54 AM   
CaptBeefheart


Posts: 2301
Joined: 7/4/2003
From: Seoul, Korea
Status: offline 		Very sorry to hear this. He was a good guy who personally attended to a problem years ago. The RTW games are excellent.

Rest In Peace.

Regards,
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RE: NWS sad news - 12/7/2021 6:48:44 PM   
mikkey


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Joined: 2/10/2008
From: Slovakia
Status: offline 		Rest in Peace, Chris.

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RE: NWS sad news - 1/7/2022 2:07:06 AM   
Agathosdaimon


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Status: offline 		Vale Christopher Dead
very saddened to just read this now, have bought a good many titles from the NWS store over the years and always got good no nonsense service from Christopher.

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RE: NWS sad news - 1/10/2022 6:06:19 PM   
wodin


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Status: offline 		Very sad. Till now this. Losing people to fast. SO talented too.

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