All the latest changes to the site's content and look, organized by date. For breaking news, see the main page.

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New Review

• Star Trek BAQ reviewed by Chris Poulos (27/30)

• Terrain2 design tip by Kobayashi

• Exile's The Modern Age is up for review.

• The for review information on Rick Westera's "Rome 280 BC: Conquest of the Classical World" - requires MPGE.

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SDC#3 Jason and the Argonauts entries available for download.

New Review

• Outremer by  (19/30)

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New Design Tip

• Mixing and Matching Land, Sea and Air Unit Abilities by Kobayashi

New Content

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New Design Tip

• Getting the units right from the beginning by Kobayashi

• The Sound Map tip

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Three new reviews;

The Great Game (Test of Time) by Michael Daumen reviewed by Adrian Bates
Star Trek Wormholes by Brrrakkaaaa (!) reviewed by John Valdez
Roman Riots by St. Leo reviewed by Cam Hills

... The quality's out there - all reviews >20 scores!

Further additions and amendments of the listing of files for review.

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Further additions and amendments of the listing of files for review.

Design Tips zipped into a file for download and off-line browsing.

The Arabic Civ II site is a new sponsor for SDC#3.

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Updated the listing of files for review with both scenarios and modpacks put forward for judgment.

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One New Review:

• Outremer [22/30, Historical]

New Content

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New Review:

• The Holy Roman Empire [23/30]

New Design Tip:

• Getting Civilize2 and Leaders2 to work for you! by Darth 'Kevin Chulski' Veda

Two New Reviews:

• The Holy Immortals [16/30, Fantasy]
• Of Celts and Iberians [26/30, Historical/Ancient]

2 new scenarios for review.

New Reviews:

• Civil War in San Lorenzo [10/30, Fictional]
• Civil War in San Lorenzo [13/30, Fictional]
• Arctic: 2045 [20/30, Fictional]

Sorry for the slow updates - I am completing my dissertation and having computer troubles.

Updated our list of Contest Sponsors.

Fixed WarVoid's scenarios being labeled as MGE when they are FW.

Added BBro's Cross and Crescent, English version to the downloads page.

Small addition to the tip on tech advances (thanks to a forum poster).

13 new scenarios for review.

New Review:

• Mysterious Cities of Gold [20/30, Fictional]

Updates to Design Tips:

• William Keenan has divided the tip on the special characteristics of advance slots into a Fantastic Worlds section and a Test of Time section
• Cam Hills has updated his tip on making tech advance icons that look like those from the default game

We've added a bunch of links to other sites with helpful design tips in the design tips section.

Thanks to Stefan, we have updated the links for Australian Civil War (all six download links now work).

Updated the contest page to look pretty and started pushing for other sites to support the SDC #3. See our contests page for more info!

New Review:

• Gustav III [19/30, Historical/19th century]

We have updated the following older review to include screenshots and put it into the new review format:

• Andrew Hoekzema's review of Peloponnesian War

New Review:

• Ice Realms [22/30, Fantasy]

We posted some helpful hints for the Dracula ToT Contest.

New Review:

• Northern Ireland [16/30, Fictional]

We posted some helpful hints including links and some useful art for the Jason and the Argonauts contest.

1) Updated the following reviews to include screenshots, put them in the new format, and fixed the links to the downloads:

• Mark Laanen's review of The New Germany
• Andrew Hoekzema's review of The New Germany

2) Thanks to Stefan H's dedicated partisaning, we fixed download links for the following:

• Red Front
• New Civ Rules
• Final Fantasy

3) Added Cam's new trophy to our Trophy Gallery.

New Reviews:

• Paraguay War [10/30, Historical/19th Century]
• Rising of the Celts [7/30, Fictional]

We started going on a "fix the link problems" attack today.

1) Updated the following reviews to include screenshots, put them in the new format, and fixed the links to the downloads:

• Susumu Korokoto's review of Alba de America
• Fast Eddie's review of Fall of the West Roman Empire
• Mr. Temba's review of Fall of the West Roman Empire
• St. Leo's review of Fall of the West Roman Empire

2) Thanks to Stefan H's dedicated partisaning, we fixed download links for the following:

• Great Northern War
• Ottoman Expansion
• Dungeon: Heroes of Beckhorn
• Day of the Dead
• Sable: Colonial Wars
• Quebec
• Aftergun

3) Fixed some links in all the By Date files.

4) Fixed a bunch of "Join the League" links on older scenario reviews. Actually, somewhere around 90 of them.

5) Cam updated his GangWars scenario review.

6) Sent 1999 what's new news items to the "old news" file.

7) There was a small update to Cam and William's Test of Time tip on using the Civilize2 and Leaders2 function.

8) Fixed some file extensions so that banners work properly.

9) Updated Contests page a little bit (not much) and the "Join Us" page.

New Tip:

• Cam Hills and William Keenan look at Flags and Masks in Test of Time - how to use masks to create great event effects, while understanding binary vs. hexadecimal counting.

New Review:

• Northern Ireland [18½/30, Fictional]

New Utility:

• Angelo Scotto's new program to convert MGE -> FW files is available on our front page. Highly recommended!!

New Review:

• Ice Realms [24/30, Fantasy]

Updated Stefan's link and announced some stuff on the front page.

Fixed alphabetical order problems on Fantasy Reviews page.

New Tips:

• William Keenan and Cam Hills look at Leaders2 and Civilize2 in Test of Time - what do these parts of rules.txt do?
• Cam Hills has covered Tribe Colours for Test of Time also. 

New Reviews:

• Harald Fairhair [19.5/30, Historical/Medieval]
• Magical History [21/30, Fantasy]

On the front page, we announce our 100th review and our search for a Web Partisan.

Added new set of scenarios for download and review.

New Reviews:

• Falklands War [8/30, Historical/20th C.]
• Second Reich [26.5/30, Historical/20th C.]
• Time Threat Paradox [24/30, Fantasy, Test of Time Scenario]

New Design Tips:

• Using Flags in Test of Time [Beginning]
• Special Characteristics of Advance Slots [Beginning/Intermediate]

New Reviews:

• Red Front [29.5/30, Historical/20th C.]
• Hypoboria [5.5/30, Fantasy]

Finally got back on track after a long absence.

Fixed the "Y2K" bug on this page (thanks, Peter the guestbook signer!)

New Design Tip:

• Using Alternate Game Files [Beginning]

New Reviews:

• Second Reich [24/30, Historical/20th C.]
• Firewall [18.5/30, Fantasy]