Interesting news over at Matrix guys.......

[Zemke]

I see the search continues for the Holy Grail of another Combat Mission successor. Recently I have restarted all my old games of CM, after a long hiatus, (sorry guys on the extra long delay, had some things to work through). I bought CMSF with the hope that the WW II edition would be the Holy Grail we seek, but sadly it is not. According to BattleFront, the market is "Real Time" games, and thus CMSF is geared to RT play, which it is, and which I HATE. Also, according to BattleFront MOST people played Combat Mission against their computer or the AI and not Human Opponents, so it is not a friendly H2H game, either for PBEM (files size huge) or TCIP (Real Time only, no WEGO). Where they got that information, I don't know. If others companies can still make great wargames, HPS, 2by3, SSG and the designers of PC Winter Storm, Koios Works, then Battle Front are sell outs to the lowest common denominator, and it is all about the money for them, not making great wargames like they are so proud of saying. I have been so let down by CMSF. They missed the mark for a true successor to the Combat Mission Series, sad to say. I never wanted to be a Company Commander AND a Stryker Driver at the same time. Don't get me wrong on CMSF there are some really cool things about it, great artillery model and the map editor is real good, but it is NOT Combat Mission no matter what they say. SO.....with all that said, this Matrix Panzer Campaigns Winter Storm sounds interesting, I download the Demo as this is written.