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janh -> RE: WitM (9/19/2010 12:07:13 PM)
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Mediterranean alone may perhaps not generate enough interest. But if one could turn this baby into a War in Europe, with the full Atlantic playground and landwarfare to the Ural and North Africa, then at least I would be very enthusiastic. But I am not sure whether the land-warfare model, the air and supply routines, and most of all, AI would be capable of modeling the other half of the world.
There is the new WiR coming up, but it seems really narrowed down to pushing division counters around in Russia, with no naval component, static withdrawal plans that are based on history (and naturally a player will generate its own history, so the static withdrawals take the whole front and actions completely out of the context of the big picture -- quite sure there won't be a D-Day exactly on 6/44 if Germany would control the initiative until spring 44, for example), no possibilities to change R&D or production, and even the old, simple but nice things like shuffling troops to and fro the additional western fronts, or the air battle over Germany gone. But instead, it will hopefully have a very mean AI (but that will remain to be seen). Hopefully they'll add the missing stuff in patches, or addons.
I think WITP is much better in this regard, 100% for the Japanese, since even production is dependent on the big picture. Slightly less so for the allied side, since if things would go wrong big time in early 1942, then likely the US production should be increased, or RN withdrawals shouldn't happen (i.e. the allied side is isolated a bit from the big picture).
I wonder if a team would form that would take up the idea of WiE, whether matrix would also allow them to access and develop the engine further, similar as WITP->WITP:AE. Maybe then one could develop an engine that could run the WITP:AE map and scenarios, as well as the European ones, and one could also introduce some improvements to AI, and the scripting language? Sounds like a very ambitious idea, but obviously any player that catches the interest in this huge game must already be quite ambitious...
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