In our rematch of the "Soviet Tank Rush" scenario the other evening,
with sides reversed, I was eyeing Bad Bob suspiciously; stinging after
his Waterloo at the hands of a very unlucky turn commanding the Warsaw
Pact, he was clearly looking forward to maneuvering the swiftly ...

Up at the wargamer an interesting article on Alexander the Great's
failure to translate military gains into political success.
http://www.wargamer.com/articles/politics_by_other_means_2/default.asp
While reading it I had the feeling that the word "Iraq" was about to

Don Maddox of WarfareHQ has written a manual/article on how to write
AAR's. Some good tips and surely worth the read
http://www.warfarehq.com/index.php?page=articles/wargame_articles/aar_tips.shtml
Greetz,

It's official : Frank Hunter's American Civil War - from Sumpter to
Appomatox will be released as a freebie to the wargame community.
Matrixgames will put it on their ftp-server shortly.
Three cheers for Frank and for Matrixgames providing the bandwidth :)

[NOTE:  The following is based on limited play of a few scenarios, and I
haven't read the manual; I never read the manual until I've played
enough to have questions to answer.  Interpolate accordingly...]
I was wondering how many years it would be before I said this, but Major

Okay,
Giftzwerg's AAR has me seriously thinking about grabbing FG, have never used
Digital Downlad however, so am wondering if you are issued a code, etc. for
the game in case you have to re-download again at a later date?

I recently purchased Point of Attack 2 from NWS Online Store. It
installed fine. I then updated to the 2.02 patch. This patch corrupts
the standard.gun file. When I run the dataview program it tells me that
the gun data file appears to be corrupted. I believe it because when

Set up a LAN game to try out FG in multiplayer mode.  My opponent is Bad
Bob, aka the "Klingon Attack Wedge Guy," an old-school, PANZERBLITZ-
trained wild man.  He usually gives a pretty good game, but this will a
first effort for both of us with the new FLASHPOINT GERMANY ...

Toaw (Century of Warfare)  Im looking for the shortcut that eliminates the
INTRO?  Anyone remember the "no intro" line?  What do I type and where does
it go?
Thanks

Recently I'm getting a lot of private eMail on my hotmail address
related to threads in this ng - no problem, but 2 remarks :
1) Some mails contain confidential info or questions - but others are
just simple questions or remarks which should have been posted to the

   I just got HPS Sim's Civil War Campaigns: Gettysburg and I am looking
for a PBEM opponent.  I am a complete novice, so be warned.  I can manage
about 1-3 turns a week.  If you are interested, let me know.  First come,
first served.  :-)

Battles of Napoleon - 2D tactical Napoleonic game - tentative release
date 1st quarter 2005
http://www.doubleshotdesign.com/games.htm
Erik Rutins let slip that MatrixGames will be the publisher so keep an

I've been fooling around with FP for two days now, and a disturbing
possible realization is starting to coalesce; does this game simply
assume/pretend that units are composed of vehicles *only*?
For instance, I haven't seen any way to have mechanized infantry fight a

While biting my nails waiting for the "cd in the mail" here's the first
review I found
http://www.wargamer.com/forums/tm.asp?m=111470&go=first
Greetz,

It's official - WaW is beta - this was celebrated by a new entry in the
dev journal
http://www.2by3games.com/devjournal/journal20050123.html
highlights : none really - it's been in unofficial beta for a couple of