Slitherine

First off, thanks for letting me beta test and give my feedback.



Setup:
Windows 7 Pro 32 Bit O.S.
Pent. Dual Core E5300@2.60GHz
4 Gb RAM Intel G33/G31 Chipset



Initial Impressions : 30 seconds & 5 minutes

Download & installation were straight forward and simple, as was starting game.
Opening credits and start screen crisp & impressive.

Having played Panzer General, the click and move was natural for me but the original game was
quite a while ago and I'd forgotten lots of it.

Graphics are good, as a wargamer eye candy is not as important to me as functionality, so it's
important to be any to see relevent information easliy and quickly, which I can.

Maps look good but perhaps you could have different tiles/artwork for the same terrian to break
up the repetitive look to large areas of similar features, hills and forest in particular.
Rivers could be a little wider, they look very easy to cross.

Game speed is very fast, too fast regards unit movement but this may change in the larger
scenerios.
A list of the hotkeys should be accessible from within the game/map sreen.

One of things that bothered me about the origanal game was it's lack of a consistant scale,
are the units battalions, regiments or divisions ? Maybe an alternative grapic of say 5 small tanks
to repesent the unit (decreasing to 4 as 2 strength points were lost, decreasing to 3 with lost of 4
points etc.) would convey the idea that it is more than 1 individual tank.

These ideas are based on my first few minutes of play and maybe invalidated as I get to the larger scenerios,
will keep you posted as I get deeper into the game.
First impressions are good.

Hi there,

thank you for letting me into the BETA of Panzer Cops. As a keen PG-Player my expactation were very high, but at least that could be THE game i was waiting for so long.

My computer spec:
AMD X4 955 3,2 GHz
64 Bit OS Win7
4GB ram
AMD 5770 GPU



Here are my first impressions after 30 second and 5 minutes.

30secs
Installation went very smoothly, no problem at all. At starting screen I was like "lets get ready to rumble"... lets view the Intro and listen to some Wagner music ...

5minutes
well okay, no Intro, maybe thats in a later version I thought. Mission or campaign selection was self explanatory. This game might be similiar to PG and term of handling. I started with 1939 campaign on Normal setting.

15 Minutes
hmmm okay. Poland was easy. Movinf troops, buying them, land and air combat is exactly same as PG, except that you can move and shoot your units separately instead of doing both in one action - great change!
At least the scenario felt very easy, Original Poland scenario in PG was more difficult (turn limit wise).

1 Hour
Well Norway has fallen to the German forces like in RL, wasn´t really a fight at all. At least the British Navy gave some good shots but was beaten by Naval bombers finally. I am missing coastal defence forts near Oslo. They will severaly limit your otions/movement in the assault on Oslo and also in RL a heavy German Cruiser was sunk during Operation Weseruebung to these defences. In the scenario as it is its just a run to the north without any obstacles. Please add them again.


More to come....