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If people would like to download the beta version of the North Africa game exe get it from here; NA 1941 Beta build

Is it possible to have a beta exe for Normandy?

Thanks, it would be interesting to try it on that terrain, different from the bare desert plains

I get the impression over the last 12 months (and lack of responses to questions) that the PB series has well and truly been popped on the back burner in favour of PzC.

Hey Chris,

Firstly I know what a big supporter of Panzer Battles you have been - thank you.

I can categorically say that this series is not on the back burner, but we do have multiple teams working on Panzer Campaigns and just me on Panzer Battles. I also have a pretty deep involvement on Panzer Campaigns so that has been a time sink that has distracted. That also explains why you have seen so much more on Panzer Campaigns. Combine that with the addition of high resolution graphics in those titles and it feels like Panzer Battles is very quiet.

As Rick said, we are confident that we can get you all an updated version of the released games exes by the end of the year. We have the bulk of the changes working in the current build of Moscow and we plan for them all to come across into the next updates. In addition to the mentioned 'fix' for artillery, there are changes to weather (it is checked every turn, not once a day), dynamic terrain, so if it snows, features such as forest and roads will look snowy, but if the weather clears it changes etc, loss recovery and replacements (same as Panzer Campaigns), inclusion of Alternative Assault Resolution and a range of other tweaks. There will also be some new and revised scenarios.

This release will probably still be marked Beta and we may leave the current game exes in place as we ultimately will have to tweak a range of things to use/balance with the new code changes. Things like weather needs to toned down so you don't get dramatic changes for example. It is cool to see sudden rain storms/sand storms etc in game though.

These games are actually some of JTS best selling so we are super keen to keep building on them and we have a decent pipeline of projects already. Finally, as indicated above we are not ignoring the previously released games and have some big plans coming to fruition for the first game in the series, Kursk. More on that soon.

David