<font color="yellow">Gentlemen,
Multi-player games are near and dear to my heart. I think MP games really add a lot more enjoyment to these games. Many consumers/gamers (especially the younger ones) won't even buy games unless they can play online and against human opponents.
Several of us have been playing "live MP games, semi-regularly, online on Friday nights as well as the regular email MP game variety. One night we had a 4v4 going. The "live" game is quite fun and you can get several turns in. I think we were able to finish a 16 turn scenario (in-between all the taunting) in about 3 hrs.
I started a post back in April about ways to enhance MP features. See here for additional comments</font id="yellow">
http://www.wargame.ch/board/acw/topic.a ... ms=mp,game <font color="yellow">and suggested an "Extreme FOW" as a way to really make the games more realistic and would cut down on "radio" communication.
Ernie, I'm really glad you brought the idea up to John Tiller at TC II. I hope they look into doing something like that.
<i>"Second...it would be nice to have the Fog of War option enhanced to what I'll call "Extreme Fog of War". Extreme FOW would make it impossible for you to see any friendly units not under your command unless they were in line of sight of a unit under your command. For example, Boyd is commanding Longstreet's corps on the far right flank and trying to capture Little Round Top. Den is commanding Ewell's corps on the far left trying to take Culp's hill... With Extreme FOW, Boyd, since he is only commanding Longstreet's I Corp, could only see those units of Den's (Ewell's) command that are in line of sight of I Corps units... which is probably not many. Not knowing what's going on on the other side of the battlefield with units of your own army would create a more realistic fog of war, more unknowns, and help eliminate some of the "radio" or GPS communication that we have discussed as an unrealistic feature in the games."</i></font id="yellow">
BG Boyd Denner
"Alabama Brigade"
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"God Bless the Alabamians" Gen. Robert E. Lee - The Wilderness 1864