what is the next step for winspww2?

[Rosollia]

Spledge, you do know that SPWAW has an online play feature?

I used to play that game alot online with a friend. The gameplay in SPWAW is much faster and more "arcade". There is also that op-fire confirm thing in the game. So when the opponent was taking his turn you would be sitting there and watching his moves in real-time. And when his unit got within firing range of your unit it would pop up with a fire back Yes/No dialog.

We used to play those SPWAW online games like a real time strategy. There was very little thinking involved and we just moved our units fast and without much thought. Consequently the matches were quite fast (in Steel Panthers standards) and causualty heavy. Even so it was common for a game to take 6-8 hours. Ofcourse there was a possibility to save that online game anytime and continue later so we did not need to play a large game to the end in one day.

The system that SPWAW game uses was originaly developed for the Steel Panthers 3 Campaign Disk. It was called SP3 Online. There used to be a server on which you could find games and play against strangers too.

That all said these games (WinSPMBT / WinSPWW2) play so different compared to SPWAW that I doubt a similar online game system could be developed for them. A major part in making the online game work on SPWAW was due to it´s manual op-fire confirm system and a streamlined faster more arcade style of game play. Still there were alot of bugs in that SPWAW online game.