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Continuing the Tradition:
Enhancing SPWW2 & SPMBT
SPCamo is an uncompensated, voluntary group of hobbyists committed to improving the Steel Panthers game system for the benefit of other hobbyists to enjoy. After SP Camo Workshop ended code development of its two wargames in late 2003, many of the team at SP Camo Workshop chose to continue enhancing the wargames as "SPCamo."
SSI produced the original game in 1996: Steel Panthers 2, Modern Battles (SP2). The first modified version of the game, SP2WW2, was conceived, developed and released in 1998 by Don Goodbrand and Andy Gailey. It was so good that SSI allowed them to use the game code for all future mods. Thus was born the game: SPWW2, Steel Panthers World War 2. From 1998 through 2003 both men oversaw a fluctuating team of dedicated wargamers, SP Camo Workshop, who expanded and modified the original through successive versions until v6.0 Supplement. They even created an expansion of the original modern warfare game, and called it SPMBT, Steel Panthers Modern Battle Tank. That game was brought forward to v2.0 Supplement. In August of 2003 Don & Andy decided that the code had been developed to the limit of practicality, and that they wanted to move on to other projects. After releasing several upgrades and putting in thousands of man-hours into this project and its sister project (SPMBT), the torch was passed to SP Camo. We still have many ideas to implement and will continue to update and enhance the games further.
We hope that you enjoy playing SPWW2 & SPMBT as much as we have enjoyed creating & enhancing them. Both games have always been a free download, and will always remain a free download. Both are whole, self-contained games complete with the utilities necessary to make your own mods. No other program is needed to play either game. You can find more about the games at the SP Camo Workshop site.
Mission Assignment
We are the members of SP Camo Workshop
who wanted to forge ahead from where the Workshop had left off. The plan
is to continue designing scenarios & campaigns, updating & expanding
OOBs, collecting & assigning more LBMs, writing and detailing more encyclopaedia
& descriptive texts, creating & assigning more icons, and basically
continuing in all areas to expand the game system except one: the game code.
The game code remains with Don & Andy. They retain all rights to both games, please see their website for more information.
A first enhancement pack is tentatively scheduled for sometime around the end of 2003. We plan to release one or two enhancement packs a year. That schedule allows the gaming community to play a stable game system that does not change every other week, and for us to develop projects fully and receive well-playtested feedback. Each enhancement pack will be a large update well worth the wait.
This site will be a source of breaking news and a central location for gamers to gravitate to, but the focus of discussions and research will be over at the Yahoo! Email Groups: the SPWW2 List , the SPMBT List and the new SP Camo Player-Mods List.
We will expand this site as we find the time. Hopefully we can add sections for historical information, detailed tables of equipment & orders of battle, after-action reports (real and gameplay), historical pictures, interviews and more. However, our first priority is to work on enhancing SPWW2 & SPMBT.
The new SP
Camo team is made up of a large number of Contributors and Consultants
organized around a core group composed of (in alphabetical order):
Boris Adjukovic, Jake Cornmesser, Tony Engelsen, Fernando Giorlando, Miguel Guasch Aparicio, Doug McBratney,
Ed Mortimer and Bill Wilson.
The new releases of both games are due in Late Spring 2004.
Check out SP Camo Workshop Home Page for more information.
Links
the SPWW2 Group
and SPMBT Group
More links will be posted as time permits.
Under Construction, More Stuff Soon
Dulce bellum inexpertis.
[War is delightful to those who have no experience of it.]
-- Erasmus --
