World in Flames - Beta

[Tamas]

This is a good spot explaining why I have doubts about the VASSAL module being comparable to this game (was made on topic of how long a game would take:

During game play all the arguing about the rules will disappear (or be even more pointless than usual). But the fastest increase will be in the calculations and determining which units can move. Odd bits like out-of-supply naval units having 1 less movement point, damaged naval units having their defense factor increased by one, intercepting fighters having only half their range, bombers flying at extended range having half their bombing factors, all the effects of weather and terrain on combat, units having to cooperate in order to participate in an air mission, and on and on. Then the actual calculations for land, naval, and air combats will evaporate, since the program works that all out for you.

But two of the biggest time savers will be having the sequence of play rigidly enforced (and visible for inspection at a mouse click), and finding which air units can move during all the 8 air missions, naval air phase, and air rebase phase. Zero time will be spent examining stacks of units looking for air units that are capable of flying in the current phase/subphase.

There is also a ton of information available that relieves the players of the burden of remembering and/or figuring things out. For example, how many land units have you moved in this Combined action? Is this unit in supply now that the weather is Snow?

[Tamas]

Like the screenshots or not, the game manuals look awesome:



There is an optional map set for the whole thing, which is the map in the computer version printed out on a scale to fit with the boardgame counters. There was no room to put it all up, so there`s only this scale representation:

[CountDeMoney]

I smell a broken game.

[Viking]

Like the screenshots or not, the game manuals look awesome:

I'm gonna have to get a bigger house.

[Agelastus]

I smell a broken game.

Given the frustration I'm "enjoying" at the moment you may well have been right.

The guy who programmed this seems to have spent a lot of time stripping out what worked from the Marrinacci version and failing to make the replacement work without annoying little niggles.

And the production planning screen is a masterpiece of "WTF".

[Ed Anger]

What a shocker. A Matrix game that doesn't work right.

[Agelastus]

Heh, just realised that I'm listed in the credits section of the game as a pre-2006 Beta Tester. After 38 years as a "total nonentity" I've finally advanced one level to "utter nonentity"!

[Syt]

http://www.matrixgames.com/news/1330/World.in.Flames.download.version.now.available

Since the release of World in Flames the single most common request from the community has been for a download only product.

Well, this is another occasion where we have listened and worked to find a solution.
You can now buy World in Flames as a download only title from the product page: none of the shipment charges of the luxury edition with three books and humongous map pack, and the game gets delivered to your mailbox in seconds.
Nothing can stop you getting your hands on the game now, you just have to follow the link.

Price of boxed version: €77.99 + VAT (comes with FREE download)
Price of download version: €77.99 + VAT

[Grey Fox]

The price in Canadian is way more outrageous.


Download Edition
CAD 115.99+tax

[Ed Anger]

You get what you pay for. Shit.

[Berkut]

I picked this up on sale for $20. It is...amazingly deep. Ridiculously so. There is so much there!

[Habbaku]

Yeah, but does it work?

[Berkut]

Yeah, but does it work?

Hell if I know. The amount of content is just crazy though.

[Habbaku]

I'm not saying that you should upload a copy somewhere I can find it or anything.