Matrix 2020 Holiday Sale

[Sir Slash]

The game still looks hard to play and hard to win to me. What say you all?

[Gusington]

^Well worth every penny and second you put into the FoG series, Toonces.

Empires for me is hard to win - it can get daunting.

The stitched together campaigns of regular FoGII I still enjoy, and I can win them on 'normal' difficulty.

[Tripoli]

You know, I might have to give FoG a serious look.  I find myself playing less Total War because I just get overwhelmed with all the clicky-clicky during the battles.  I might groove on the slower turn-based pace of FoG.

If I got Empires, I'd have to get FoG so I could play out the tactical battles.

FoG2 is very good.  It is definitely worth your time and money

[Vintage Dude]

Bought the following with my 50% anniversary coupon:
8 Order of Battle games
Legion Gold
FOGE Persia
Shadow Empire
I probably have 40 games on Steam that I haven't played.
I collect fine games instead of fine wines.

[88mmkwk]

Years ago, I bought my first Matrix game on the last day of a Christmas sale.  Now, I get my anniversary coupon always with like 1 day to go to buy everything.  So I again made my buy this year on the last day of the sale after getting my coupon the day before.  There was really nothing tugging on my wallet this year.  I - like others here - end up buying games and not playing them.  But I take solace in supporting a wargaming hobby/community I love dearly, so I don't consider it money wasted.  Anyway, here was my relatively small haul this year from the last day of the Matrix 2020 Holiday Sale where I was able to also add my 44% anniversary coupon discount to:

Game	Regular Price	Holiday Sale	Final Price
Gary Grigsby's War in the West	$79.99	$24.00	$13.44
Gary Grigsby's War in the West - Operation Torch	$19.99	$9.80	$5.49
Vietnam '65	$9.99	$2.50	$1.40
Shadow Empire	$39.99	$31.99	$17.91
Total:	$149.96		$38.24

I grabbed Gary Grigsby's War in the West as I recently started watching tutorial videos on War in the Pacific : Admiral's Edition and have found myself enjoying the detail more that I thought I would.  I completely attribute this to the quality of the tutorials made by Strategy Gaming Dojo.  With the recent announcement that War in the East was being upgraded, I decided to instead get War in the West as I understand that it has a lot of the changes that will be backfit to War in the East.  So I figure that learning War in the West will help out when I eventually end up buying War in the East 2.  Getting War in the West and the Operation Torch expansion for under $20 was a deal I couldn't pass up.

Vietnam '65 was a buy of something to play when I don't have a lot of time.  At $1.40, if I enjoy it for 5 minutes, I will have gotten my money's worth  ^-^

Lastly, I got Shadow Empire purely as my "support an Indie developer" buy.  I read the forums on Matrix and here regularly about it and have both Advanced Tactics and Advanced Tactics Gold.  I admire Vic's work on Shadow Empire and Decisive Campaigns: Barbarossa and want to support his work.  Who knows - by the time I get around to actually playing Shadow Empire, Naval unit implementation and maybe even Jarhead's dream of a space expansion 4X capability will be ready!  $17.91 is a small price for what I know is a great game from a great developer....