By Quintin Smith on April 28th, 2011 at 2:56 pm.
You lot got very excited last time I talked about upcoming turn-based World War 2 tactics game Team Assault: Baptism of Fire. And why wouldn’t you? I can’t imagine a better way to spend a Sunday than customising a force, taking it online, fighting other customised forces in the style of a tabletop miniatures game, drinking some tea, getting spanked by some French guy from Calais, pouring the rest of your tea down the sink in a seething rage and tweaking your force again.
On the subject, I have a couple of nice pieces of news to report. One, the devs have just started accepting beta signups. Two, they’ve announced that the game will ship with not only a map editor, but mod tools. That’s what we like to hear. Register away, lads!
28/04/2011 at 15:03 Berzee says:
Mod tools? They should just release the source code.
*run away*
28/04/2011 at 21:59 Tams80 says:
*grabs Berzee* O no you don’t! You’re going to be held here until the mob arrives.
28/04/2011 at 15:14 Inigo says:
You are a horrible person and I hope you contract some sort of genitalia-related disease.
28/04/2011 at 17:27 Kheto says:
Those who let their tea go cold whilst gaming shall be forced to drink the cold brew as punishment!
28/04/2011 at 17:51 Andy_Panthro says:
This is what microwaves are designed for.
28/04/2011 at 17:57 Aedrill says:
This is what microwaves are designed for.
Blasphemy!
28/04/2011 at 22:01 Tams80 says:
My tea goes cold all the time. Yuuummmm, cold tea.
29/04/2011 at 09:10 Harlander says:
That’s what you went for, and not
And in the game.
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28/04/2011 at 15:20 nanophage says:
I wonder if they realize the saying is “Baptism BY Fire,” not “Baptism of Fire” – which makes no sense.
Looks interesting though. If the modtools are powerfull enough I propose a mechcommander mod!
I wonder what ever happened to the Men of War mechwarrior/battletech mod on that note.
28/04/2011 at 15:40 Berzee says:
Baptism of Fire is when you actually take fire and fully immerse it in water.
28/04/2011 at 22:01 Tams80 says:
Is that how Steam was born?
29/04/2011 at 04:10 Berzee says:
Been playing Doodle God?
28/04/2011 at 16:39 Aedrill says:
Why is the beta sign up form asking me about my address? I’m not happy about it, to be honest…
28/04/2011 at 18:12 nanophage says:
So they know where to send the hit squad when you break NDA by posting videos on youtube.
28/04/2011 at 18:39 Legionary says:
Quinns, I really enjoy your writing. I just wanted to say that.
28/04/2011 at 19:46 Teddy Leach says:
Beaten by the French? How dare you.
28/04/2011 at 22:18 pipman3000 says:
i thought this was a company of heroes mod. it just looks like someone took company of heroes and made it brown
28/04/2011 at 23:44 Tetragrammaton says:
Ive always pictured WWII as more of an alizarin crimson myself.
29/04/2011 at 01:29 thebigJ_A says:
Was this the game that one of you guys did a post on in which (crap, I only vaguely remember) you started in the top left of the map, had to take out Germans in the south, and split into two squads. One went down the East, the other West. There was off map support he couldn’t figure out, maybe. There were Germans manning artillery, and you had a scout vehicle wot got destroyed by panzers, and… and…
Dammit I can’t remember! It sounded awesome! The developer was in the comments…
Anybody know what I’m talking about? Anyone?