What future for Steel Panthers?

[gila]

Well,one the most popular turn based games online and PBEM is one that has stood the test of time is the age old game of "Chess"
I like to think Steel Panthers will also, my son has found a interest in the game and we PBEM.

[Wiking]

The only other series that ever came within an inch of capturing the same feeling for me was the Close Combat series. But that series has always suffered from too many different design visions and an inconsistancy across the board, while WINSPWW2 and WINSPMBT have had a consistant design team ever since the Windows version was launched. We might fret about the OOB's and TOE's and this and that, at this point the game has been functionally complete for years and years. We're just inventing new reasons to annoy Don and Andy by now, like they need it.

But something this series has always done for me that nothing else has allowed is to capture the entire picture of the war, from the individual man to Regimental level and allow you to explore it in any shape, size or dimension you see fit. Whether its a daring airlanding on Crete in 1941 or Japanese tankers desperately trying to break through in Burma in 1944 or even the Spanish Civil War, you can at least make some attempt to model every concievable conflict in the alloted time span. Virtually every other tactical WW2 wargame I've played, including my beloved Close Combat, only allows for a snapshot. Whether its just of one front or even a single month out of a year.

Nothing else comes close to SP, and until Gary Grigsby himself steps up, Don and Andy will keep my attention for the forseeable future.

[Paderborn]

Like gila and his son, my son and I play winSPMBT even though he is now in his twenties and played first Steel Panthers WW2 in it's original format and all of the subsequent versions including winSPMBT and winSPWW2. Steel Panthers with all of the improvements that have been made continues to "have legs," I think-and will be with us evolving for years to come. When winSPMBT and winSPWW2 reach a point where improvements are no longer made I'll have the CD version available to play many, many years going forward. So those of you who download the free versions rather than buy the CD versions I would encourage you to buy the game(s)! Do this to support Steel Panthers overall and do it for your own peace-of-mind should development ever end, as it inevitably will.

[FASTBOAT TOUGH]

Gila,
We've had our "times" out here, but, I agree with everything Wiking, Paderborn and you've said. And besides I'm a sucker for family. The CD point made is a very good one and I would highly recommend it as well. I got them only for the "playable" options you get in the patches, though I've never used any of the editing type functions except maybe twice to change a "battle map", I'm just not that person. But isn't that the beauty of this game in the first place? It's not perfect but, then, no game or platform is, but this game(s) allows more then most, to let it be what you want it to be and use as such. And can you ask for more than that in anything you do or want?

See what happens when you get some sleep!?!

Regards,
Pat