I guess I must be the only grog on this planet using Vista, but when the
manual for a game explicitly lists "Vista" as one of the preferred
operating systems, I kinda expect it to work outta the box on that
system.

Get to map, click on vehicle, watch the game hang for a weirdly long
time while the unit data is populated.  Then click on any second vehicle
and - whack! - desktop city.
Every time.

Warning : This post fully intended to kick-up some dust.
Whenever a new wargame is released there's usually a brief period of
controversy about it but after a while it seems as if through all the
reviews, AAR's and gamer comments on forums a kind of general

Combat Mission: Shock Force. Guns of August. All these new serious
wargames on my hard drive,and guess which one I'm playing?
Armageddon Empires (http://www.crypticcomet.com/games/AE/
armageddon_empires.html). It's basically a wargame-ized version of

Don't know if this has been posted yet but after reading this review I
am no longer looking forward to the game.
http://www.quartertothree.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om84Zc4-KcQ&mode=related&search=

http://www.infinite-interactive.com/InfiniteForums/viewtopic.php?p=4850#4850
Nobody is interested in publishing Warlotds 5!???

Armchair General is giving away 5 copies to all those who subscribe to
their newsletter
http://www.armchairgeneral.com/surveycenter/survey.php?sid=57
Greetz,

After Guns of August which was 10 years in the making (no kidding,
Frank Hunter mentioned it) another one of those long-in-development
games seems to be nearing completion
Empires in Arms - almost ready to go

WORLD INTELLIGENCE is the only magazine in Japan covering intelligence
topics. Our circulation is around 20,000 copies, and readers are mostly from
Japanese establishment.
We would like to have an interview with you via e-mail, and publish it in

In his book "The History of Warfare" the eminent historian and author
John Keegan goes to great lengths to prove Clausewitz's take on
warfare was a) founded in his own personal worldview / age of
enlightment / blah, blah and b) incomplete, because not addressing

http://www.wargamer.com/news/news.asp?nid=4436
Interestingly there seems to be a different patch for the Matrix
version and for the Slitherine version.
Anyone know if this is purely something tied to the DRM ? and what the

Is there a way to get this game running in a full screen?  It's
ludicrous that it's trying to display a fixed 1024x768 "window" on a
display panel that's ... you guess it, 1024x768 in size.
Why doesn't the "maximize" button work!?!?!?  The scrolling is all

...game ever?  Or just the lamest, dumbest, most clueless combination of
user interface and manual ever recorded?
Folks, I've been playing wargames for 30 years.  And I can't make head
nor tails of SH4.  I have no idea what the game would like me to do,