I think that yesterdays duel with Pak43, illustrates the need for everyone to step back, take a deep breath and calm down (my dear deceased Mom used to make me count to 10 in French, no offense intended, I'm a Brit).
I am a recent member of this board, I discovered it by accident a month ago, so please forgive me for offering my opinion. I believe war gamers are born that way. From my earliest childhood memories, I loved the uniforms of my small lead soldiers. As a small boy, my friends and I would invent our own crude rules for battles with our soldiers, I remember the thrill of seeing them placed in battle formations in the dirt of a garden, we would throw pebbles at them to simulate cannon fire. I would spend hours painting and detailing their uniforms.
In my adulthood I refound my love and began to play the old "Talonsoft" games and more recently "Field of Stratergy" (another labor of love). Then I discovered "Les Gronards", The concept of which, I consider to be the ultimate in Napoleonic era battle simulation.
I guess the reason I am telling you guys my story, is to illustrate the difference between "Us and Them". If you are like me, you don't really care if the project is a commercial success in the general games market, because it probably won't be (hopefully it recoups it's cost at the minimum). We just want to play it and to hell with the naysayers. The other side of the equation is Pak43, I understand him also. There are many out there who will always compare the game with the commercial big house products and the marketing behind them, fancy graphics based on fantasy quests. They will never understand us (our wifes rarely do).
For me, I do need to see a more stable demo2 (more stable, not perfect). Demo1 had terrible bugs, but who here has not had many hours of enjoyment and immersion, even though my units disappear just before I think I'll win. I know that I will buy, but times are tough. I am a displaced British Bricklayer, came to USA in 1987 on vacation, married an American (the love of my life), and never left. I have been layed off from work since November (construction industry dead in USA) so moneys tight, it's just going to be the demo until I get back to work (our country is in a terrible state), so I will never be a pre-order "Grenadier", as I would have wanted in better times.
Maybe we should share stories of our love of war gaming rather than bicker, while we wait with patience for our C in C (JMM) and his devoted Marshals to complete an imperfect "Labor of Love", that can be built upon and improved.
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