Beta testing for strategic command

[Grim.Reaper]

Beta test call for upcoming strategic command 3

http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=4091181

[Greybriar]

Thanks for the heads-up, Grim.  O0

But let's save a step. Here's a link to the Matrix Games Beta Test page.

[Ian C]

Any screen shots?

[Hofstadter]

Any screen shots?

http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=3641360

[Rayfer]

Any screen shots?

http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=3641360

Glad to see hexes and a choice of counters or sprites (didn't like the look of the sprites though).

[jomni]

Battlefront dumped the franchise?

[tgb]

Is anyone else as bored with WWII as I am?

[FlickJax]

never, but those screenshots didnt wet my whistle at all.....

[bbmike]

never, but those screenshots didnt wet my whistle at all.....

Then you should go back and look at Strategic Command 2 screenshots.  :P

[Greybriar]

Battlefront dumped the franchise?

Maybe Fury Software dumped Battlefront? :-\

Is anyone else as bored with WWII as I am?

I am not any more bored with World War II than I am with the countless PC games of all other time periods being offered today.

[Wolfe1759]

Is anyone else as bored with WWII as I am?

"No, Sir, when a man is tired of WWII, he is tired of war gaming; for there is in WWII all that gaming can afford." - (not) Samuel Johnson.

[GJK]

Also am glad that it's back to hexes but I just can't help but getting the feeling that it's another flavor of "Panzer General" or maybe too similar to "Commander: Europe at War".  I'll have to read the developers log though to see if this offers enough uniqueness and depth of play for me however.

But I sure wish somebody would remake Computer Third Reich or even better, add an AI to the A World at War pbem tool that is out there.  Computer War in Europe has wonderful boardgame like implementation but that thing is just too much of a monster for my tastes but would love to have an AI with it as otherwise.  Ron Dockal's game is probably closer to something that I'd seek if I were really Jonesing for a computer adaption of "War in Europe" but that thing is even more of a monster than CWIE.  Overall, I'd just stick with TOAW and the many various scales and implementations of ETO that you can get with it - and with the graphical improvements to it, why look elsewhere on the computer side of things?

[sandman2575]

"No, Sir, when a man is tired of WWII, he is tired of war gaming; for there is in WWII all that gaming can afford." - (not) Samuel Johnson.

Well played, sir, well played. 

[PipFromSlitherine]

While it's well out of my wheelhouse, at our recent developer event I got to see it running and a walkthrough of some AI behaviours and it is pretty impressive in that regard.  I think it will be mana from (grog-) heaven for a lot of people :)

Cheers

Pip

[Zonso]

Squares or hexes, this will be a day 1 purchase. The 'Strategic Command series' has had years of refinement from the player base to make arguably the best WWII strategic game period. This looks to expand on an already good thing, and as mentioned it has a very, very good AI.