Smolensk '43 released

[LordDeadwood]

I agree that the modal windows take some getting used to. I am fortunate enough to have two monitors, so I can put the jump map and the new Org dialog on the second monitor and leave them open. But even that has a new wrinkle: Now I have to change the scrolling option, so the map doesn't keep scrolling when I move the mouse to the second monitor. But the functionality of the new Org box alone is enough to make adapting my scrolling habits worth it.

You can't keep adding optional features forever. Doing so creates a nightmare for the coders like Parmenio where you keep the old stuff, but then have to add code to make the new stuff work if the user wants it to... Ugh! At some point you have to leave the old behind and push ahead and make the new stuff standard. I've only been playing these games for about four years, but I think WDS has done an amazing job updating them and adding new features and functionality while preserving the core engine that John Tiller created.

[Mr Grumpy]

 I've only been playing these games for about four years, but I think WDS has done an amazing job updating them and adding new features and functionality while preserving the core engine that John Tiller created.

I agree, they certainly have picked up the baton from JTS and done an impressive job of putting their own mark on the various game series. 

[Steel God]

 I've only been playing these games for about four years, but I think WDS has done an amazing job updating them and adding new features and functionality while preserving the core engine that John Tiller created.

I agree, they certainly have picked up the baton from JTS and done an impressive job of putting their own mark on the various game series. 

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.

[parmenio]

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.

[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.