2 x 3 Games News

[KG_Jag]

Many of you know that 2 x 3 games is the home of Gary Grigsby, Joel Billings
and Keith Brors. In the US they distribute their games through Matrix Games.
2 x 3 are working on a Civil War and Russian front games. Here is what they put on their website a few days ago:

"In addition, we do have some other plans for 2006/2007 that involve expanding on the World At War system. We should have more to say about this in early 2006.

American Civil War

Work has been ongoing on our Civil War game. We expect to be making a public announcement regarding this game before the end of this year and should have some screenshots to show at that time. The game has been playable for the past few months and we'd like to get it into outside beta testing before the end of the year. If things go well we're shooting for it to be on sale before next summer. It uses a greatly modified World at War system. The biggest difference is the inclusion of leaders (over 1000 historical leaders are in the database). Units are attached to leaders, and those leaders must gain initiative in order to participate in offensive action. The game has monthly turns and the map consists of over 400 regions. The importance of cavalry for not only reconnaissance but also for disrupting enemy supply lines is addressed as well. Our goal with this game, similar to with World at War, is to create a game that covers the entire war, can be played quickly and without a steep learning curve, yet retains a very large measure of historical realism.

Russian Front

Our Eastern Front game has moved forward, albeit slowly. Mike has continued publishing beta patches for War in the Pacific, and this has taken up most of his time, keeping him from being able to do much on the Russian Front game. There was progress however in that thanks to Matrix and Steve Ford, Mike now has a solid development map that he can use for the game. He expects to pick up steam on this project this month. Our hopes are that this game will come out sometime in 2007."

Here's the link to their site:http://www.2by3games.com/index.html

[KG_Panzerschreck]

The Civil War game seems quite interesting.