Esquire

I must take some offense to the cynicism of the posts on this thread. As a practicing lawyer for the past 19 years, I can assure you that my private and court appointed clients always received zealous representation. I agree, much with any other profession, that there are some good and some bad, but all lawyers can not be lumped together.

What happened?

This reminds me of something I read once. If I recall correctly it goes something like this, "Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones".

This brings me back to that long ago time in the Spring of '02. Those were heady day indeed. In a thread such as this we waited, day after day, week after week, month after month for the release of SC. There were setbacks, new release dates, more setbacks and exuberant anticipation which culminated in a consumer frenzy of epic proportions. Where has the time gone, not to mention the old guard; Bloody Bucket, Straha, Willgamer, John Difool, and Gen.Metaxas to name a few. Will we see days like that again?

nice place you have here

In the time I have been at this forum, this has got to be the third of forth time I have seen this type of "infighting" come around. It causes me to believe that this might be the natural progression of thing. Oh well, just a thought.

Too much time on your hands son.

3R was a good game. In fact it was one of my favorites from the first time I played it back in 1979. In the mid 90's they released a computer version of the game. What a sad little game that turned put to be.

That is why it is only a suggestion. By the way future "jarhead", I hold a current commission in the U.S. Army with the rank of Captain, so say sir.

I was over at wargamer following the development of Russo-German War when I wandered over here. Downloaded the SC demo and got hooked. I began monitoring the board prior to the release of the cd and then when it finally went on sale snatched on up. I remember reports being posted as the cd was delivered around the globe. I seem to recall that for some reason there were delays in delivery to in Europe and Canada. Needless to say there were some angrey posts back then.

My suggestion; since we all believe that the SC Community is not dying let us stop posting on this particular thread and return to or start a more postive thread.

Nature abors a vacuum. Others will fill the void. Speaking for myself, I think there are others of the old guard (lack of a better phrase)out there lurking who will return.

Back in the day, the common posters were Straha, Brian the Wise, Doomsday and Bloody Bucket. They have since left or gone to other forums. Be that as it may, the SC forum is still here and will more then likely remain.

This explanation is as fitting now as it was in Sept. 02. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FWIW, I'll offer an observation. The tug of war between the beer&pretzels crowd demanding fun and the grognards demanding historical accuracy has been going on since April, since before the demo was released. The former group, having beaten the game several times with L5 jets in 1942 and other such fantastic feats, is probably getting bored and either looking for entertainment elsewhere or beginning to reconsider some of those silly "historical accuracy" issues to make the game more interesting. The grognards were obviously frustrated from the beginning and have seen some but not enough changes to make the game more "realistic." And Hubert has been focused exclusively on gameplay fixes and TCP/IP, and hasn't provided any guidance on which way the game will evolve because he doesn't know himself yet. So we must wait and wonder, and that leads to more frustration and sometimes a few bitter debates. Accordingly, some of the grognards have grown weary and either gone into lurker mode or abandoned the forum (to be replaced by new grognards to refight the old battles!) It's almost too funny. I've often put SC in perspective by noting that 3R evolved since 1974 through 4 editions, then morphed into A3R and several updates of that over all these YEARS. SC has now been out less than 2 MONTHS. We need to be patient. It should evolve into a much better game as time goes on, by offering more realism and historical accuracy without compromising the fun and replayability that it offers now. "courtsey of Bill Macon"

just an observation from one who has been around since the game was released. Back in my day (apx. 18 months ago) I remember the anticipation that was genertated with the then upcoming release of the game. The morning it was to be released was further delayed for a few hours. At that time, I was by my own estimation one of the first 15 people to order it. The forum at that time was made up of people who were very excited about what the game offered. Given time, the people on the forum changed to those who wanted mere out of the game. Then after about 4 months the board seemed to die out. It even prompted me to start a new thread asking where everybody went. A few months later (late 02) the board came back to life, and the whole competition thing started. In summary, it appears that this board follows a cycle. It may be in a valley now but more then likely from my vantage point will become active again. Only my two cents worth.

We got nuked.

Who is left?

There is hope for the future.

We don't know if he is dead. He might come back and lead us the the future.

It has been a long day. Got to keep things lively.

Don't you hate it when when one of these old threads is resurrected for no reason what so ever.

What ever happened to this guy? Was he really the first #1 sc player?

You carry the standard my friend.

Life truly is a circle.

I also came here by accident. I was following the reviews and updates of Russo-German war from Schwerpunkt. Iwas reading the latest reviews at the Wargamer page when I saw this notice about SC. I visited Battlefront a few times and decided to join in in June 2002.