What is the DC: Barbarossa of the Western front?

[pfig]

As the lead designer on Tiller's Panzer Battles of Normandy, thanks for considering our title.

We've been fortunate it's been so well received and recommended by others.

David

Ah, as Boggit said, nothing to do with fortune! Thank you for some really good times so far, I look forward to what's to come.

[Strela]

Damn you Boggit!

I now need to add it to this list that was posted at the Blitz this week;

http://www.theblitz.org/message_boards/showthread.php?tid=69449&page=2


To help you all I will give you an idea of what is being worked on with our small team;

Patch 1.01 for Normandy. We're (slowly) getting programming support from John. Most of this is ready to go, pending John's input.

Patch 1.02 for Kursk - this will port over the latest fixes and changes from Normandy 1.0/1.01 to this title
Updated Game manual and charts - this will be a continuing work in process. An update will come with the above two patches.

Panzer Battles 3. We have given enough hints on this already but the good news it is progressing. We have just scrapped the game maps we had and are completely redoing them by hand (like Normandy). We won't be using the process that was used in Kursk where the Panzer Campaigns map was converted to build the Panzer Battles map. All the orders of battle are in place as are many of the game graphics. The scenario designers are busy reading up on their areas of responsibility and hopefully work on the scenarios will begin soon. We will again need further programming from John as there will be some unique features required for this title. I'm really excited about this title and it really is looking fabulous.

Panzer Battles Demo. We're investigating whether we can do a demo to showcase the game system. This could be really cool with some of the ideas thrown out there but is not yet committed to. I believe if we get going you could see this, this year.

Armor Battles 1. Mentioned above  and not yet committed to. A fair bit of base work is done - you can see some of the prototype graphics in this thread, but things like the map are to be scrapped and redone, not to mention no scenarios have even been thought of yet.

An unnamed project for the US Army using this game scale.

I hope you get the idea, but we're trying to provide both support for our existing titles as well as build new product. We're listening to you, but are a tiny team of volunteers who do this all in our spare time. I'm really impressed with the community here at the Blitz and many of our testers and in some cases team members have come from the ranks of the willing who frequent these forums.


I'll see when we can add something for the Kursk campaign -no promises on timing though. We will include the campaign exe in the next patch so user campaigns can be built...

David

[Cyrano]

Purely selfishly, bugger all the modern stuff.  What you do for WWII is magic and I'll buy any bloody thing you create.

Your commitment to mapping and OOB is rivaled only by the lunatics over at WWI EF and WF and that's saying a great deal.

REMIS VELISQUE!!

[panzerde]

I'm with Jim. My only complaint about Panzer Battles is that I don't have more theaters/periods to play yet. This is an astonishingly good platoon-scale game.

SEMPER UBI SUB UBI!!!

[Strela]

I'm with Jim. My only complaint about Panzer Battles is that I don't have more theaters/periods to play yet. This is an astonishingly good platoon-scale game.

SEMPER UBI SUB UBI!!!

Doug,

We aim to please...!   8)


You just need to be patient...!

David

[pfig]

Hi David,

While I love a good demo (oh CM Final Blitzkrieg!), I have to say that what made me pull the trigger on Normandy were the designer notes and getting started PDFs, they are SO good.

Again, thank you!

[panzerde]

I know you guys are working hard at it David! I'm honestly amazed at how much you've done already. Plus, it isn't like I've actually played every single scenario in Kursk and Normandy, yet.

None of which keeps me from wanting North Africa, Italy, Bulge, Market Garden, Westwall, Lorraine, Sicily....  :)

[Pinetree]

Looks like its going to be battles for Tobruk. Sweet.

[Zulu1966]

Why does no one do the pacific ? Would say this engine is perfect for some large scale island invasion scenarios ...

[Sir Slash]

On a related note, DC Barbarossa will soon be available on Steam. Sometimes this month in fact.

[Strela]

Why does no one do the pacific ? Would say this engine is perfect for some large scale island invasion scenarios ...

Zulu,

It's not forgotten  ;)

We're slowly covering off the various theatres (as per Doug's requests!)

We have now done Eastern Front, Western Front and it's pretty obvious we're off to the Desert next - so guess where would be pretty high in the consideration stakes for the fourth title...

David

[spelk]

RangerX3X posts up DC Blitzkrieg Warsaw to Paris, Netherlands scenario

http://rangerx3x.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/decisive-campaigns-warsaw-to-paris.html

[Zulu1966]

Why does no one do the pacific ? Would say this engine is perfect for some large scale island invasion scenarios ...

Zulu,

It's not forgotten  ;)

We're slowly covering off the various theatres (as per Doug's requests!)

We have now done Eastern Front, Western Front and it's pretty obvious we're off to the Desert next - so guess where would be pretty high in the consideration stakes for the fourth title...

David

Strela that would be fantastic. Please make sure it goes to the top of the list.  O0

[Strela]

Strela that would be fantastic. Please make sure it goes to the top of the list.  O0

There is always work going on, but this should show we do mean it...!











David

[Zulu1966]

Strela that would be fantastic. Please make sure it goes to the top of the list.  O0

There is always work going on, but this should show we do mean it...!











David

Oh yes... thanks for the tease.... now get back to work ...