Scheldt 44 comments

[phoenix]

'So again, everyone take a deep breath, relax, enjoy, and play. Get some human versus human matches under your belt before rushing to judgement.'

No thanks. As you know, of course, not everyone wants to play PBEM. I love PBEM, but time and work constraints make the commitments difficult, and though everyone I've ever played in here has been super-understanding, I always end up feeling guilty about not getting enough moves in quick enough....

But I did rush to judgement, for sure. (Actually it started with me reading ComradeP's comment about certain defences being 'bullet-proof' in another thread...) And worse than the process (documented above) of discovering that I did that by playing against the AI and against myself and having various people chip in with very helpful info and experience, was the fact that yesterday, lol, I read Mike's really excellent notes document.... And there I found that everything about the Antwerp set-up was very carefully and adequately explained. Sorry, Mike.

But it's nice to get a discussion going, especially about a new title, and, to be fair to myself, I did make clear from the off that I was loving the title. Actually, one of the things I'm really loving about it is the smaller AI scenarios where, for once, I'm finding that the scripts are working very well. So that first Overloon scenario, for example, which I've played quite a few times against the AI, can actually give a good game for either Axis or Allied, I've found. Again, great work on the part of the design team. And thanks!

Look forward to the results of your Antwerp game, Kool Kat.