Oct. 14th, this year, was a bright sunny Saturday, Napoleon would have
enjoyed it 200 years ago. During the weekend, Jena comemorated the
Twin Battles of Jena & Auerstedt (1806): a considerable re-enactement,
various events and exhibitions. The Napoleonic Cities held the annual

Matrix is taking over the computer wargaming world!
Press release:  http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=1277722

2 new videos - the first shows a cavalry charge, the second a bit of
everything
http://www.histwar.com/video/HW18.wmv  - 26 MB
http://www.histwar.com/video/HW19.wmv - 54 MB

Is it possible to contact the authors of V4V? I found the company that
took over Atomic Games but I'm unable to get any answer from them.

some good links for those enlightened enough to install this again ;)
http://www.adlerkorps.com/
http://64.82.36.10/5star/Other_DOWNLOADS.asp
http://panzercentral.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=35643

One to watch :)
http://www.ssg.com.au/cawdevelopment/
Greetz,
Eddy Sterckx

The Spiel 2006 game convention in Essen, Germany (October 19th-22nd) is
the biggest game convention in the world. While dedicated mostly to
family games, boardgames and cardgames it's a natural hunting ground
for PC wargame publishers looking for new blood.

The remake of the classic SSG title is now officially announced.
As the name says it focusses on tactical WWII carrier battles
Features (from the press-release) :
- Command carriers in the greatest naval engagements of World War 2,

There are many good historical games, such as Operational Art of War
and Hearts of Iron 2.
Which games, though, actually teach the principles of war, explicitly?
I think a lot of games end up as just being "round 'em all up, and send

"The future of wargames" seen by Crawford in 1981. He nails down 2006 AD so
perfectly that it is scary.
http://static.filefront.com/cgw/1981_1112_issue1.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baader_Meinhoff_Gang
To make a game about this? :))
Anyone old enough to remember this... Ah, crazy seventies, oil crisis,
taking over jets for some reason... (ok, I was a kid back then hehe)

1) The promised War of 1812 scenario will be coming along in the next
few weeks - screenshot and info here :
http://www.wargamer.com/forums/m.asp?m=196847&mpage=1&key=
2) The official announcement of their next game will also be made in

I just posted a new dev update and updated the information about NAW.
See our forums at these 2 links;
http://forums.navalwarfare.org/showthread.php?t=509
http://forums.navalwarfare.org/showthread.php?t=746

So, do you see a trend here?
What it says for state of wargaming "industry" today...Maybe new games are
not selling well, maybe theire innovation or new ideas are not so fresh but
pretty stale. Or maybe is just sheer fun here regarded... I think this last