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Commander - The Great War is the latest release in the popular and playable Commander series of historical strategy games. Gamers will enjoy a huge hex based campaign map that stretches from the USA in the west, Africa and Arabia to the south, Scandinavia to the north and the Urals to the east on a new engine that is more efficient and fully supports widescreen resolutions.
Commander – The Great War features a Grand Campaign covering the whole of World War I from the invasion of Belgium on August 5, 1914 to the Armistice on the 11th of November 1918 in addition to 16 different unit types including Infantry, Cavalry, Armoured Cars and Tanks, Artillery, Railroad Guns and Armoured Trains and more!

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Any idea when this will be released?
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Exact release date still have to be set but, we aim for a Q4 2010 release.

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As I've said before, each game has its own business model and its own development costs. It's not apples to apples even within our catalog and once you go outside this niche market making comparisons is almost impossible

After the BftB pricing controversy, before I get too excited about this game what price range do you see this game in...
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Yeah.....the price..... if it's another $79 game I'm out.
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When you look at Slitherine`s game page

http://www.slitherine.com/games/ctgw_pc

It now is £ 29.00 GBP. So 39.99 USD or so...
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For $40 I will pick it up as soon as it's released!
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It now is £ 29.00 GBP

Sale made.... When your ready my credit is ready....[;)]
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Count me in as well!
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$40 well spent! Consider me sold! [8D]
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40 Sounds fair to me, I could care less about BftB I'm not even going to buy that game if the price goes down there are so many better / cheaper games coming out. This is more like it
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Has a more precise date been set for release? Thanks
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The Slitherine web site has 30/9/2010 listed....we can only hope!
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Thanks, that is great news! I hope it's true.
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Sorry to disappoint you guys, but late Q4 2010 or even Q1 2011 is more realistic. We are not going to rush this game out, it has to be rock solid upon release.

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Doh....
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Actually it's a good thing I think.Recently so many developers rushing release half-baked games.
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Sorry to disappoint you guys, but late Q4 2010 or even Q1 2011 is more realistic. We are not going to rush this game out, it has to be rock solid upon release.

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Next week we start with the first test group of selected pre-Beta testers, from than on we will crank out new builds every two weeks.

Beta recruitment will start end of this months, and we will go into official Beta end of April.

Depending on bugs, balancing, feedback it is one straight line from Beta to Gold, from experience we count on around 8 weeks from the beginning of Beta to get the game into a finished Gold state.

This is our battle plan for CTGW.
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WooHoo!
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Depending on.......balancing.....................

....from experience we count on around 8 weeks from the beginning of Beta to get the game into a finished Gold state.


Each scenario should be played by PBEM from both sides.

Each tester should play it twice from each side for a total of 4 games per scenario. And each of the 4 games should be against a different opponent.

Each tester should play the AI in every scenario. Each scenario should be played twice from both sides.

In 8 weeks you will fuins bugs but its not enough time to get each scenario balanced!

After about 5 turns in any game, each tester should report the score to-date and the score at the finish.

In that way every scenario can be balanced.

The score in a game against the AI should be different to the score in a PBEM game. The AI will never be as good as a human player so you make up for it by amending the score or victory conditions.

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