Shrapnel to Take on Wargamer.com?

[Tim Brooks]

Hi Jim:

I am sure Annette will be along with her reply to your post, but I have a couple of questions / concerns from what you said.

First, The Wargamer has never been known to have the fastest turnaround times on reviews. When a title is hot, we do try to get something out on it ASAP.

How do you know a title is hot before it is released? I ask because Raging Tiger had a short pre-order period, yet was one of our top five pre-order successes. I would have considered that hot.

In the case of Gary Grigsby’s World at War we had gold copy several weeks before the game was released commercially. In the case of Raging Tiger, we did not.

So, if we had given you the review copy several weeks earlier it wouldn't have taken 7 months? Confused about how that works?

You seemd to have missed the point from what I can tell. I don't think a comparison with Dominions II is relevant, since this is about the heading of the Raging Tiger manual section in the review. We looked at several of the reviews of Wargames on your site and all the headings we saw said something like Installation, Documentation, and Tutorials or Documentation, etc. The only one that we found that headed the documentation section with a snide comment was Raging Tiger (Nothing like a Wargame with a Big Manual to put the Fear of God into You). This seems to be not so much the fault of the reviewer but the fault of the editors for allowing that kind of comment in a sub-heading. Care to comment?

Best regards,