Smolensk '43 released

[Steel God]

Please don't think I'm speaking ill of the dead as I loved John's work as much as anybody; but honestly, getting him to change anything was akin to howling at the wind.  WDS has changed more in the past couple of years than John did in 2 decades.  Do I like everything they do?  No, of course not, but I won't lose sleep about it.  Insert Teddy Roosevelt's Man in Arena Speech here.

To be fair, John was one guy programming across a large number of separate codebases. While there are close similarities between CWB, NPB and M&P and in turn PzC and PzB, they were and are still maintained separately.

Putting that together with his commercial defence work meant any significant changes were always going to be difficult.

Andy,  I'm all too familiar with why it was the way it was, but it doesn't change the facts as they are (and/or were), and that is that the product line is improving by leaps and bounds since WDS acquired the rights.  I consider it a very thin silver lining in an otherwise very dark cloud.