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I'll keep this short

1] Yes, we are well aware that the Russian Weapon list is full and that some of the nations are nearly full in regards to unit slots.

2] There will be another patch issued for this game next month. I can promise you there will not be any changes to the weapons slots or anything like this for that patch so don't expect any

3] After the winspmbt v3.5 patch is released Andy and I are taking the rest of the year off. During that time we will review the future for both games.

4] I have said many times that adding a new nation ( or splitting one ) is a very NON trivial exercise. Splitting Russia at some point....say 1991 would create huge problems. Extending the number of weapons slots has been discussed many times in the past and the consensus has been that this would cause huge problems for a number of game systems especially scenarios. Do we want to add weapons slots and cause every scenario made for the game to cease functioning ??? No we do not and that could very well happen. The thing is, to even experiment with expanding the weapons slots requires a great deal of time and effort neither of which we have had to spare after all the back to back upgrades for both games we have been issuing and right now we are both a bit burned out so we WILL be taking time away from this and at some point later in the year will explore various options. People MUST understand that adding more weapons slots is NOT a simple matter of making a couple of minor changes that allows more to be added. If it were they would have been increased by now. The WEAPONS list resides side by side with units and formations but they are integrated into the game in entirely different ways. Humans and dogs are both mammals but they are NOT the same otherwise and the same comparison can be extended to the units/formations list and the weapons list. Andy has told me that it would be easier to design a new game from scratch than it would be to tear out the existing weapons code and expand the number of slots and even if that WERE done it is a near certainty that all sceanrios existing would be junk.

Don