I still await thee with breathless anticipation.
Jonah Falcon

I have noticed that over the past 6 months or so, my attitues to RTS
games have changed somewhat. Back in the days of Warcraft and Warcraft
2, you would find me taking every expansion point, pumping out units
to the max to attack and harrass the enemy. I remember one game of

I live in a community where once a year we open up the gates and residents
hold one massive Garage Sale that attracts people from all over the area.
It's a fun time; half-social event, half yard sale, and it brings a lot of
neighbors together into some fun and provocative ...

any good strategy war games with tanks preferably, like sudden strike,
closecombat, blitzkrieg. Rise of nations was pretty good but after the
gunpower age it just gets stupid

Didn't see it mentioned here, but PopTop and Gathering released a free
expansion pack for Railroad Tycoon 3 just a few days ago.
http://www.gathering.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=23536
It's a 125 MB download.

Finally -- I hope this is the game I was hoping The Sims would be.
Jonah Falcon

Well it finally came down in price enough for me to buy it, despite
worries about the "real time" elements - but it's gone back. I should
have known when I read in the manual that "your attention is a vital
resource in this game" that it was doomed. Not only is it continuous

The public beta was released yesterday on Fileplanet. I played
a few games today and its not bad. The public lobby interface
of Gamespy needs a lot of tuning and the game can take a
while to launch but its good fun afterwards. More later as I play

Just seen a release date of Sept 10th for Rome Total War, anyone else
heard anything similar?
I didn't think it was due until later in the year.

I never heard of the first one -- it seems interesting -- and coming out in
2 weeks.
Jonah Falcon

I saw a thread started by Michael Vondung asking if there were any fantasy
games coming up. I almosty replied to him, but then thought it best not to
hijack his thread and started a new one.
We've been considering doing a fantasy version of our historic strategy

The German demo of Medieval Lords was released today. The game hits the
shelves tomorrow, but the English version won't be released before
October (strange, I know). The demo is 215 MB large.
http://www.medievallords-game.com/uploads/demo/MedievalLords_Demo_GER.exe

Is anyone playing this? It won this years' Independent Games Festival,
and is free.
http://www.bontago.com/

The "Rome: Total War" demo has been released. Haven't downloaded it
myself yet (ISDN), but figured some of you might be interested. First
impressions would be appreciated. :)
http://www.gamershell.com/download_6784.shtml

Looking through the manuals and google, I cannot seem to find an
answer to the following before I try it in Ironman mode. Since the
beginning of time, Mankind has asked these questions....
1. Does Moral attack bonus only apply within command radius?