Steel Rain

Not sure if this is the correct forum, but I am ready to take on human players. Anyone game? email is kkgrahm@ameritech.net or icq 44485637. Is there a web site around for matching pbem players? Take care all.

thomasj, I just reread your post, you should try the hotseat option. I have a lan here at home, but only one copy of the game. The hot seat was passable for now. I was able to play out a 1000 point quick battle in about 2.5 hours. Kind of a pain, but interesting to hear my brother yell when his tanks brew up .....

hehe, not trying to put pressure on. Just wanted some clarification. I bought knowing full well that I would have to wait Take care.

Hehe, Panzer, you just said what I was saying. I know that BTS said network play would not be in the initial release, and I was OK with that. What I am hearing now is that it will be a couple of months from the 1.03 patch at least. I understand stuff slips, and that there are many competeing priorities in the development. My point is, and I dont feel that there is anything wrong with this,is that there are customers out there who will not buy without networking and some who would not have bought if it was going to be a protracted period of time. I am not unhappy that I bought now, it is a fun game and the AI is good. Just putting my opinion out

PBEM is very good if you have limited time to play. I have no problem commiting to a couple of hours to play CM via network. My feeling is, CM will be vastly superior to Steel III in both gameplay and time to complete. The point I was making above is that there are a lot of harcore wargamers outthere who will either continue to play Steel III or stick with CC type games and will not move to CM until network play is available. The only reason I bought CM was because I was under the impression that network play would be coming soon. It does not look like that is the case. I love CM, but against a human, with PBEM as my only option, its back to Steel III. Just my $.02.

Well, I for one completely go for the network play. PBEM is slow, and a pain. I love CM and against the computer, it is a great game. Against humans, it gets tiresome fast. I now play CM against the computer and have had to return to Steel III for human play . I am having a hard time getting my Steel III friends to even look at CM due to lack of network play. And before you say it, none of us are click and twitch types. Many a grognard in my playing ring. Just differnet tastes in gameplay.

I have just read a couple of threads regarding the upcoming 1.03 patch and I was shocked to learn that the not only will network play not be in it, but that it is at least two months away. Can someone who knows confirm this? I was willing to wait a little while for network, but two months is going to make me find something else to play. This is a great game, but lack of network play is fatal. If the patch is soon, then cool. Thanks in advance.

Fist, let me say that this is an awsome game, good job guys. About the only problem I have is that the quick battle is limited to only a 1000 pts. Any plans to fix this in an upcoming patch? Thanks.