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Hhhmm, I imagined a top down kind of game like BTR or a game like Achtun. Still I will try the demo.

I think he has bought the RTS Africa Korps game.

He probably have the RTS game Africa Corps.

It is good to get youngsters into wargaming. Battle Chess looks good for this to. However I hope there is a real challenge against the AI. I also hope the game has real depth with new things to learn with the odd suprise thrown in. Good replay value would be a huge bonus to.

World in Flames also being published by Matrix Games.

Kellyheroes, I agree with you on the very sad state of affairs with regards to new games. If you take matrix and battlefront out the picture there is only Battle of Britian (due next year) by Maddox games that I can get excited about. However the games that Matrix has going and a fair few of them to on a whole look like essential purchases. BAttlefront has SC2 and DiF and maybe Combat Mission when it has a new engine (I didnt buy CMAK as Im really waiting for a new game engine to be developed) on my hit list too. I just will not buy anymore FPS or RTS again as Im sick to death of them. All they offer is fancier graphics but the same old gameplay which gets boring after god knows how many years. The only RTS that has ever worked well in my opinion is the Close Combat series.

Well done Dan!! Will this game feature all the modules from the card game? I hope so.

Just give this game bags and bags of gameplay and you will not go wrong.

This has been running since the advent of the Spectrum. Consoles where here, then came the computer, consoles came back, and since the snes have managed to run side by side. There are to many hardcore PC gamers out there for it to die off. The market may shrink but will never vanish. Consoles and PC's are two really different markets. Consoles for the casual gamer or kid (which is evident to the kind of games released) and PC's for the older more hardcore kind of gamer. Big computer coampnies would not invest all that money i.e. ATI and Nvidia if the PC was going to die out. It just wouldnt happen, games for the consoles will always be ported over and vice versa however the PC maket will have more of a variation.

Frenchy, Ive never played wargames due to having no one around to play against. However Ive always wanted to have a go. Ive even bought them in the past just to read the manual, look at the map and counters, yet never played any:( What Ive just read over at your site stirs the imagination, what a game to be able to play. Im very jealous but will check in to see what happens to various planes and crew:)

A agree a very good feature which should be included. Its little features like this that gives a game its character.

WW1 game would be fantastic even better for me personally than WW2.

For a superb read about a fictional WW1 RFC squadron read this trilogy. War Story Hornets Sting Goshawk Squadron By Derek Robinson. A brilliant read excellent combat description and a dark humour which flows through the dialogue.

Im trying to get hold of Battle of Britian and 12 oclock high. Im in the UK but will not use Ebay. Any ideas? Also is this game similar to any of these games?

Excellent!

I would also like to see more politics included. BUT not so much as to complicate the game just enough to enhance it.

The Italians were so poorly equiped thats why there moral was so low. Apparntly a section of Italian paratroops fought exceptionaly well in the battle of El Alamien.

Thankyou for the prompt reply. Yes I wanted to know whether you could distinguish each plane from its graphic. Will you get a text message outlining where you have hit the plane? I see what your saying by being abstract, but for immersion purposes it would be good to see some kind of damage on the plane and maybe a text message telling you exactly where the plane was hit, even if this means poetic license i.e say you took two points of the airframe a message could descibe in a little detail the damge done. For instance " "Good shot! Bullets have riddled the left handside of the BF109 causeing some serious handling problems, maybe the pilot is wounded" This would add some great excitement to the game.

Are the plane graphics going to be accurately modeled? How many planes will be included in the game? Will the planes have a damage model which can be seen? i.e. Say you hit the and destroy the rudder you will see the damage in the plane. Is the game pure air combat or will their be ground attack missions? If it is maybe it could be included in an expansion.

Souns like my cup of tea! Is it still being published? I unfortunatly have never had anyone to play board games against. Ive always looked longingly at them and at table top minatures wishing I could buy them and play them. Though Ive never found like minded people which is why this game and other wargames are good for me as they have an AI or internet play!

Animated boardgame is exactly what I mean! Please include a campaign game maybe two for Britian (Battle of Britiain,Battle of France maybe). Two for the germans (East Front and defence of the Reich).Two for America (Invasion and PAcific War) and one for Japan (Pacific War). Now that would be fantastic!! Even if you just chose one for each would be damn good. This I feel with some great sound effects some good mood music for each nation and some nice animations would make this game for me a classic. No one elese I feel is going to make a game like this again so Im hoping this will fullfill all my gameing hopes. Thankyou anyway for taking the time and courage (going against market forces) to develop a game like this.

How closely will the PC game resemble the card game? Will this game be like a computer card game so being an almost exact port of the card game or are we talking a realistic graphical interpretation of the card game but underneath this the mechanics of the game are the same? Hmm that didnt come out as it was supposed to. Ok here goes again. Will we as the player see this game on our screens be the same as looking at the real card game. i.e cards shown on the screen, plus exactly the same rules etc. Or is the game having a overhaul to make the most of the power of computers and show instead of cards a realistic air battle unfolding in a turn based manner with realistic plane grahics and maybe a top view zoom in/out map. And maybe more features than the original card game as far as gameplay goes. A campaign game is also I feel a must. Its the second that I would like to see. I still dont know if Ive got my point over!!

Any Idea when a website for this game will go live? Also what is the estimated time of release?

My god this is getting better and better!

How about implementing and RPG element to the game. This would really add to the overall atmosphere. Watching you beloved flight leader trying to out manouver a BF109. Knowing he is you best pilot and on the way to becoming an ace. You could even have a skill increases with experience for shooting as an example. leadership and many other skills could be implemented. Any thoughts?