Gold Club

[vince hughes]

If you guys want a WWI game, then you should design something pretty close to complete and turn it in. Then it might speed things up. Personally I am not a WWI fan and bought Infantry Attack more for the maps and to try it out. I might buy the Laurence of Arabia WWI game, as it sounds interesting but I doubt I buy anything else in the WWI line.

WWI games won't just appear unless someone designs them.

Jay, if anybody works the kind of hours I do then designing a WW1 game FOR a wargame company seems a little queer? I can't see APL capturing many robbers in London for example ?

That aside, the way Mike phrased things, I was under the impression western front WW1 was already designed and nearly developed ? You might find Korea 2 falters in sales initially as players will probably want to sample Korea 1 for a while and that takes a while to trickle down before people pull the trigger on another instalment. As a simple example, look how long Saipan was out (and played) before Marianas came along. Even now, Saipan is still what we'd call flowering to the level of an established title rather than having made it just yet. Once folk started enjoying it, they had no hesitation on picking up the next title.

2014 / 1914 is just too obvious a marketing opportunity. Not just because of the dates, but to sell alongside all the new books, dvd's, TV documentaries, parades and memorials being either released or highlighted on the subject of 1914. Those wargamers buying/seeing those products will without doubt want a 1914 game. To have 2 East Front games is good but a bit out of left field. So I think he's missing a biggie forsaking the Belgians, French & BEF of the same year.

When it goes public, I'll give it a run on the CSW forum and MB may well offer up his logic on this issue.