Mark has done it again - after the highly appreciated AAR's he did for
HTTR some years ago (time sure flies) he's back with a first AAR for
COTA
http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/m.asp?m=977049&mpage=1&key=

Got an absolute scoop afaik - while checking out the latest demo's on
my favourite mirroring ftp site there was this little file (94 MB)
dated today called Diplomacy_Demo.zip
No mention of it yet on the Paradox site, but it's the demo allright :

Battlefront recently released a computer version of the card game "Down in
Flames."
http://www.battlefront.com/products/dif/index.html
Has anyone played BOTH the computer game and the card game?  I am interested

Any comments on what anyone would regard as the best RTS war game at
the battalian level and below, please? I've played close-combat a lot,
but it is really only a company-level game at most and the maps are
small.

http://www.stormeaglestudios.com/public/home.html

[a thread for my good buddy Ray - lurking in the shadows of this ng]
No, this is not about transparant user interfaces as can be seen in
Minority Report - in fact I've got no idea what he actually meant by
"transparancy in wargames" - but having no clue about something has

Most wargames seem content with providing some period music, some
battle sounds and the occasional "ping" when something important
happens in the game.
Now, I've read several times in here that people turn-off all sounds

As promised, I put a "mysterious handprint" on a door in the first session
of my new D&D 3.5 campaign - let's say as an homage to out Norm (like the
subtile references in the movies you read about in the trivia sections on
the IMDB). This is the report about what happened.

Gary Grigsby's World at War now going retail in Europe.
Read all about it here :
http://www.matrixgames.com/news.asp?nid=271
Greetz,

As I mentioned in another thread, we're kicking off our new Modern
Warfare Data Design Team (DDT) to help design a modern warfare game
based on our Airborne Assault game engine. We will be referring to this
series as Command Ops.

Read all about it here :
http://www.shrapnelgames.com/News/pr_01.htm
Greetz,
Eddy Sterckx

Matrix Games has acquired the publishing rights for the complete
Talonsoft back-catalogue of games.
The Battleground series, Campaign series, all the TOAW flavours, etc.
Legendary stuff - and a very good thing that these titles are now

    It's Norm...
    I need to clear few things up. This is going to be a bit long.
Bear with me.
    Back in my USAF days, I ran a Dungeons & Dragons campaign.

Found the link in another forum but it sure looks good :)
http://www.palmgear.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=software.showsoftware&prodid=112048
Greetz,
Eddy Sterckx

Brian "Siberian Heat" King has been appointed development and beta-test
manager for TOAW.
Want to help or beta-test - check out :
http://www.strategyzoneonline.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=426047