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| 21/07/2007 - New Raider We are pleased to welcome a PG2 veteran from Germany who is also known for his many articles on WW2 history in the German forum: Gerd. He is the new head of our history dept. as you can see on the updated imprint / staff page. Please make yourself familiar with our staff members' new roles! |
| 11/07/2007 - Nothing happened ;) Did you notice anything new? No? Then it's OK! The Raiders site has been moved to a new server enabling all those fancy new tech features required for the new ladders. These will be up approximately by the end of this month. |
| 01/07/2007 - 12th Season Finished In the championships of the 12th season the die is cast. Congratulations to the following generals: Absolute championship:
At this time, special thanks is to be said to our dear friend Luigi who steadily kept the ladders up to date for 2 1/2 years against all odds of that weird old ladder generator engine!  The start of the new season will take a while, for there is much planning and coding to be done. Please be patient, and please PBEM nevertheless; your results won't be lost! |
| 06/06/2007 - D(ownload)-Day: the RSF 2.60 The RSF 2.60 brings you tons of new icons and some additional units / features. Please go here and enjoy an improved PG2 again! |
| 28/05/2007 - New Scenario, New Kind of Map Over a decade it has often been criticized that night combat is not possible in PG2. Well, it is - at least in the graphic respect! So enjoy a quite new PG 2 ambience with Gerra's map and his 'Operation Chariot'! |
| 21/05/2007 - New Panzer2.dat Thanks to the international developers there is a new Datup, i.e. new icons for our game again! You won't need it and won't detect any changes with the current RSF 2.51 - but it will be required for the RSF 2.60 coming in June. BTW: there will be no compatibility problems with current games. :) Please go on here! |
| 08/05/2007 - Kursk 4ever! Our most-played and most-optimized scenario is now available as version 2.20. This time the Axis has been slightly beefed up. Additionally, this version can now be played by 4 players as well! Some of us remember the legendary North Front teamwork battles? |
| 07/05/2007 - New Raider Roberto has finished the boot camp as our (probably) last recruit. |
| 01/05/2007 - New Mega General Joerg0866 is our latest (and probably last) mega general with more than 300 points. Luigi will award him the medal and the 10 points bonus soon. On the scenario page there is a preview of the upcoming new scenario from now on. |
| 08/04/2007 - Easter Eggs Egg #1 :) Version 4.17 of Luis' Suite PG2 lets you download all missing maps (e.g. for campaigns) by just a few clicks! This is possible due to Gilestiel's help who set up a great Map Finder page. You can find that link at the bottom of our maps page as well. Egg #2 :) The RSF 2.51 is out now! There are no spectacular new units this time; nevertheless this bug fix update is important and required for ... Egg #3 :) Omaha Beach, a sophisticated new scenario for the infantry general. Happy Easter to all of you! |
| 01/04/2007 - New Raider Hacksch has earned his first two points at Salerno and is a regular member now. |
| 17/03/2007 - TGR The very last TGR game has been finished. The winner is Grisha. Thanks to those many players who took part obeying the rules - and explicitely no thanks to those few drags who spoilt our unique play format by grotesque delays. |
| 04/03/2007 - New RSF Version The RSF 2.50 brings you further improvements. Please read this first and then download the files here. |
| 28/02/2007 - End of Tournament Final score in the tournament: FFWC 45 : 41 Raiders Congrats to the FFWC! I hope everybody had fun regardless of the result. :) |
| 26/02/2007 - New Raider With Berserker our currently last recruit has finished the boot camp. New registrations will be appreciated! |
| 25/02/2007 - Tournament Current score in the tournament: FFWC 35 : 41 Raiders There is still one duel going on ... |
| 23/02/2007 - Tournament Current score in the tournament: FFWC 35 : 35 Raiders Well, our earlier advantage is no more that great ... :~) |
| 20/02/2007 - And the winner is ... ... BrigGen Werner who hit the 222,222 mark on Feb. 19. |
| 18/02/2007 - New Suite Release, Another Jubilee Luis' Suite PG2 v4.16p is now available in our download section, providing useful improvements! :) The 222,222th visitor of our site will get a 2 points bonus in all ladders - if he is a member! As usual, please send a screenshot for evidence! |
| 16/02/2007 - New Raider The drill sarge is very delighted: within a few days with Chris123 we can welcome another new member! Current score in the tournament: FFWC 32 : 35 Raiders Hmmm ... this is getting exciting ... |
| 12/02/2007 - Tournament Current score in the tournament: FFWC 22 : 35 Raiders Our drill sarge Fennek got 2 TVs. Good job, Sarge! :) |
| 11/02/2007 - New Raider We got reinforcements: Clu and Yazz. |
| 08/02/2007 - New Raider After a pure Italian battle at the eastern front Gioeli is our newest member. |
| 03/02/2007 - Scenario Update Update Oops! Forgot to include the new map file for Kursk. Please download this file to your scenario folder. Current score in the tournament: FFWC 22 : 30 Raiders |
| 01/02/2007 - Scenario Update, New Raider After the experiences from the tournament, another more balanced version of 'Kursk' is available: v2.11. This is no more a 'walk' for the Germans! Sturmmax is out of the boot camp and new to the ladders. Current score in the tournament: FFWC 7 : 22 Raiders |
| 28/01/2007 - FFWC vs. Raiders Tournament, 'Kursk' We have won the first two matches! The winners are Infernalex and Old Rayy. There will, however, be some defeats in the future; and please remember the FFWC players have a disadvantage due to the unfamiliar e-file. The 'Kursk' scenario is great, but still one-sided. Therefore a much more realistic version will be up soon. |
| 26/01/2007 - New Scenario, New Mega General Tanker converted an Adlerkorps scenario to RSF. Bzura Break-Out is a real challenge to your tactical abilities! Grisha is our latest mega general, having crossed the magic 300 points border. He will receive his deserved 10 bonus points with his next result report. |
16/01/2007 - Miscellaneous  Thanks to Luigi and Tanker the RSF 2.40 user interface (GUI) is now available in Italian and Polish as well. Download here.The legendary General Kessler is back to the league again (approx. for the third time ;) A TGR game has been finished in just 3 days! This is remarkable since previous games lasted for months! Thanks to Shukov and Bschelle! |
| 07/01/2007 - New Ladders The new ladders for the 12th season, including first results, are up. |
| 01/01/2007 - 11th Season Finished In the championships of the 11th season the die is cast. Congratulations to the following generals: Absolute championship:
Good luck for the 12th season - and a happy new year anyway! |
| 30/12/2006 - Another Tournament, Championship Our partners from the Generals Guild (GG) are launching the Open Championship of Poland. More ... |
| 25/12/2006 - The RSF 2.40 is Out Now! Better late than never - now you can download our annual Xmas present right here. Although this is a 'minor' update there are significant improvements - see the README file for details! Installation instruction for newbies is here. And if you don't know at all what it's about please go here. Needless to say that you have finish your current games with the RSF 2.05 and check if your next opponents will already use 2.40? Enjoy the RSF 2.40 - and, if involved, definitely use it in the upcoming tournament! |
| 24/12/2006 - Merry Christmas I wish you a merry, peaceful and enjoyable Christmas! Special thanks to all busy players as well as to our dear friend and laddermaster Luigi for their activity. - Rayy |
| 19/12/2006 - New Raider After a fast game Tom is our latest member. |
| 16/12/2006 - FFWC vs. Raiders Tournament Kursk 2.0 with prestige setting 100:125 will be played. |
| 10/12/2006 - FFWC vs. Raiders Tournament All tournament links now take you to the FFWC page for the upcoming inter-club tourney, starting at Jan. 1. Please make yourself familiar with the rules right now and ask questions in the forum before the tourney starts! The list of players may be subject to changes until Dec. 30. |
| 02/12/2006 - Scenario Page The stats are updated and four new comments (Cherbourg, Eben Emael, Korsun) added. |
| 19/11/2006 - New Raider With Maxhausen the number of our international members increases again. |
| 17/11/2006 - Inter-club mini tournament FFWC - Raiders Please read this! |
| 15/11/2006 - New Raider After a long time being active in the forum 'only', Panzerlurch now joined our league. |
| 14/11/2006 - TGR The first game in raid #17 has now been lasting for half a year! This is quite inacceptable. :(( So this raid has been re-started for a 2nd time. For the future each TGR game has to be finished within one month! Otherwise that play format will not be continued. |
| 22/10/2006 - New Scenario You like sea-air-land combat? Then try 'Battle of Cherbourg' by Gerra - definitely his best up to now! |
| 18/10/2006 - Polish PG2 Thanks to Tanker our Polish friends now can play PG2 in their native language as well. Just download this and replace GUI97.TXT and MISC.TXT in your PG2 main folder. This is Tanker's description: Plik SSI_RSF2_Polski.zip zawiera interfejs oraz
komunikaty po polsku. Z tlumaczenia wylaczono interfejs edytora kampanii.
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| 03/10/2006 - Another Jubilee II Well, the 200,000th visitor was our ex-member and scenario supplier Gerra. Thanks again to all others who were, are and will be interested in our site! :) |
| 28/09/2006 - Another Jubilee We are approaching the 200,000 visits mark. :) As a little acknowledgement of our gratitude, a Raiders' member hitting the round lot will get 5 extra points in the long term ladders. Just send a screenshot for evidence. Of course any visitor is appreciated, member or not! |
| 14/09/2006 - New Scenario Have fun on the roofs of Eben Emael, the mightiest fortress in the world! |
| 09/09/2006 - New Raider Hymr, another German forum activist, has joined our league as well. |
| 06/09/2006 - New Panzer2.dat Thanks to the international developers there is a new datup, i.e. new icons for our game! Please download the latest panzer2.dat here! Probably you won't detect any changes in the game at first. But you will need this file for the upcoming new scenario, some inofficial RSF campaigns - and for the next RSF version anyway! BTW: there will be no compatibility problem with current games. :) |
| 27/08/2006 - New Raider, Updates Nis Randers, having been active in the German forum for quite a while, has completed his first PBEM battle pretty quickly. Welcome aboard! Some pages have been updated: Download mapfiles & mapnames, Maps (377 Liege), Links and Scen. of the Month. |
| 19/08/2006 - New Raider With Yannis another new member is now ready for combat action. |
| 11/08/2006 - New Raider Old Shatterhand fought a good battle and is our latest member - although he seems to be in the wrong century. ;) |
| 01/08/2006 - Contrast TGR raid #15 has eventually been finished after it took the finalists needed nearly 4 months (!) to play one single game. :( The bonus weeks are over, and many players were smart enough to make use of them, particularly our newcomers, and among those the outstanding Bschelle with an incredible amount of 19 games in 1 month! :) |
| 28/07/2006 - Suite Update Luis has released an update of his Suite PG2. Version 4.16 is available at the Raiders' download section. Please note that Luis' site has moved to http://personales.ya.com/lguzman49/. |
| 13/07/2006 - New Raider The battle of El Alamein was the first one for ISA. |
10/07/2006 - New Raider After only 2 days HeWeR has finished his first game. |
| 03/07/2006 - Holidayys :) I am on leave from July 4 to July 27. Emails won't be read. I'm sure Luigi and Fennek will manage everything perfectly meanwhile. For technical questions please ask Scipio. Arrivederci allora e a presto! Rayy |
| 02/07/2006 - 10th Season Finished (updated, see bottom of entry) In the championships of the 10th season the die is cast. Congratulations to the following generals: Absolute championship:
The new current ladders are up as well incl. first results Last, but not least: the Raiders' annual bonus weeks have already started! For details see the result report form. Good luck for the 11th season! |
| 26/06/2006 - New Raider The next new officer has arrived: BrigGen Werner will command his virtual troops from now on. |
| 21/06/2006 - New Raider Despite summer heat and soccer worldcup we have a new member: welcome Bschelle. |
| 18/06/2006 - Scenario Update Red Scorpion's famous Kursk scenario has been slightly RSF*2*ified and better balanced. For details plz see the readme file. |
| 11/06/2006 - Championship Let's not quite forget about our championship about the soccer world cup. The 10th season will finish at June 30, and right now these players are on top: Absolute ladder: 1. Infernalex (156 points out of 30 games), 2. Grisha (138), 3. Fennek (127, 21 games). Relative ladder: 1. Joerg0866 (ratio of 6.75), 2. Wuestenfuchs (6.33), 3. Fennek (6.04). Will these be the final results, or will anyone surprise us? |
| 30/05/2006 - New Raider Right from outer space into our league: Orion. ;) |
| 25/05/2006 - New Raider, New Suite Release We welcome S.M.S. Dresden to our ladder! 'S.M.S.', BTW, is German for 'His Majesty's Ship' - so he may be rather an admiral than a Panzer general? There is also a new release 4.15d of Luis' Suite PG2 available on our PG2 download page. Grab it! |
| 16/05/2006 - New Raider Skylord from Austria reinforces our mountain troops from now on. ;) |
| 03/05/2006 - New Raider The 3rd of May, the 3rd new member this month: Bronson is in the ladders now. |
| 01/05/2006 - New Raiders A new month, two new members: welcome to JJLL and Berni. |
| 23/04/2006 - TGR Since nobody but the usual TGR players seem to be interested in entering raid #17, this raid is now open for everyone. Former registrations are no more valid, though - please register again! |
| 16/04/2006 - Easter Eggs News from the East(er) front: after some rather small and experimental scenarios, there is a new scenario with lots of units again. It is simply called 'The Front'. Players who like Kursk, Citadel North, and Prokhorovka III may find it interesting. And there are some 'Easter eggs' in it - see the readme file! :) There is also a new raid available: #17 'The Wehrmacht's Last Offensives'. But please note the registration restriction in the footnote to that raid! Happy Easter! - Rayy |
| 14/04/2006 - New Raider Our latest regular member is El Ssid (note the 'Ssi' substring in his alias :) New scenario expected on Sunday. |
| 08/04/2006 - New Raider After a few problems Schwarzerfalke has made it into the ladder. |
| 03/04/2006 - New Scenario Siege and conquer the infamous Alps Fortress, the Nazis' last retreat. And, as the Allied commander, be very careful and tricky! ;) |
| 28/03/2006 - Tourney Again, New Raider Another success for our club in the 9th tournament: Tanker has become third (5 extra points). Congrats to him as well as to the runner-up PzLocris (FFWC)! Gresko has acquired his first ladder points at Falaises and is a regular member now. |
| 26/03/2006 - Tourney Victory! For another time our top gun has won great fame and honor for the Raiders and is going beyond the scope of our HoF: after the 8th, Black Tuareg has won the 9th Portal tournament as well! Of course he will get another 15 extra points in the ladders. Two more Raiders, Tanker and Scipio are still fighting for the 3rd place. Please apologize that the announced new scenario will be delayed for a few days due to many administrative tasks. |
| 25/03/2006 - New Raider After a hard battle against the boot camp chief, Der Fred from Germany has made it into the ladders. |
| 23/03/2006 - New Raider Another Desert Fox has joined us: Desert Fox from Germany. |
| 19/03/2006 - Miscellaneous You will find a new link taking you to the Stahlhelm Team under 'PG2 Specials'. And there is a link to a great product by this team on the 'PG2 Download' page. Look for the all-in-one patch at the top of the d/l tables! Furthermore, with Drache we got another Mega-General! :) TGR: in raid #15 Rommel has achieved another victory. The scenario page is updated, and two new scenarios will be published in the near future! |
| 05/03/2006 - New Raider New to our community: King.net from Germany. |
| 03/03/2006 - Tournament The PG Portal tourney finals have started. And 3 out of 4 participants (Black Tuareg, Scipio, Tanker) fight for our club! Great! |
| 26/02/2006 - New Scenario Our ex-member Gerra has created another beautiful map and an interesting scenario: Gustav Line is the most complete one dealing with the battles in the Monte Cassino area and fun to play as well. |
| 23/02/2006 - New Mega-General Infernalex has been the 11th Mega-General in the Raiders' history for quite a while - well, now he has finally got his deserved medal. :) |
| 15/02/2006 - New Raider Babkuki from Austria has started his career with a fast game. |
| 10/02/2006 - New Raider Ready for combat: Roald from Germany. |
| 08/02/2006 - Scenario and Suite Update, Fair Play The Bridge at Remagen II has been modified for the last time, definitely. V2.1 is harder for the Americans; see the readme file and the scenario comment. There is also a new release 4.13f of Luis' Suite PG2 available on our PG2 download page. And for the very last time: It is strictly forbidden to sell given units in any scenario, whether it is stated in the respective readme file or not! Trespassers will be kicked out immediately in the future. Our league is no kindergarten! Please read this again! |
| 28/01/2006 - TGR: New Raid A new raid is open for (nearly) every Raider. This time the battles take place at 'The Rhine - River of Fate'. BTW: those two guys who have slowed down previous raids in an unacceptable way will not be admitted to this one. |
| 22/01/2006 - New Scenario A new challenge for panzer generals: a Convoy Battle in the Mediterranean. Don't rely on your tanks! ;) Concerning the rules please read also this! |
| 09/01/2006 - New Raider Lupo from Germany, having been active for quite a while, is now represented in the ladders as well. |
| 06/01/2006 - New Raider Our first new member this year has had a brilliant start. Zdefiony finished his boot camp game within just 4 days and won by 8:0! |
| 04/01/2006 - Ladders The ladders for the 10th season are up - including first results. |
| 01/01/2006 - 9th Season Finished In the championships of the 9th season the die is cast. Congratulations to the following generals: Absolute championship:
The new current ladders will be up within a few days. Good luck for the 10th (jubilee) season! Last but not least: thanks a lot to all our busy helpers, particularly to Luigi and Fennek without whom the league would no more exist! |
24/12/2005 - Christmas Gifts This year's Christmas gifts come from:Sgt. Pepper aka Pepperoni. He has made a quite excellent scenario on his own new map: Op. Plunder v1.1 - Crossing the Rhine. I bet you will like it! :)) Scipio. He has had a really nice idea and worked it out perfectly - his Panzer Memory game. Have fun with it! And have a merry, peaceful and enjoyable Christmas! - Rayydar |
| 19/12/2005 - Maps, Suite There are two more maps published, among them the most distinguished 'WeselAIR' by Sgt. Pepper with lots of ... guess what ... air-landing zones! Download it now - you will need it soon! :) And the latest release 4.12b of Luis' Suite PG2 is also available on our PG2 download page. |
| 14/12/2005 - Boot camp Because Schongaubesteher has cheated in his bootcamp duel he will not become a Raiders member. |
| 07/12/2005 - Newsletter Everybody is invited to subscribe to our newsletter. |
| 06/12/2005 - New Raider Ready for combat: Knox2k from Germany. |
| 04/12/2005 - New Raider, Scenario Update Hoth from Romania has started his membership with a victory, too - against Chris Filio! Congrats and bine ai venit! The Bridge at Remagen II has been RSF*2*ified and better balanced. The victory conditions which may have been somehow complicated have been simplified enormously. |
| 30/11/2005 - New Raider Heinrichi from the Netherlands has started his membership with a victory. Hartelijk welkom! |
| 20/11/2005 - Members, Scenario Update The long-time mascot of our club, the legendary Oberfeldw. Schultz, also known from Hogan's Heroes, has quit. Bye-bye, Schultzi! But today we have also got 4 (four!) new members: Legolas (.it), Dragdasan (.ro), Codo (.de), and Banane (.de). Welcome to the club! :) Narvik is now available as an RSF*2* version. Well, the only unit change was the Blenheim -> Swordfish. The main purpose of this update was the clarification of victory conditions (-> README!). |
| 12/11/2005 - TGR: New Raid Thanks to Winter you can register for raid #15 'Red Tide Rising' now. Please keep in mind that TGR games are to be played with highest priority! Very slow players who have extremely delayed some raids in the past may be excluded from this format. |
| 05/11/2005 - Portal Tournament Eventually, the 9th tournament has been launched with 17 Raiders participating! Please start playing yesterday!  Info for newcomers: - Tourney results are also valid for our ladders. So please do report them! - In the report form, please make sure to enter your opponent's appropriate club - the one he starts for in the tourney! Have fun and good luck to all of you! May the Force be with you! 
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03/11/2005 - Global Portal Member Map Please Add Yourself!
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| 01/11/2005 - New Mega-General, New Raider Shukov is Player of the Month, has more than 300 points now and is thus the Raiders' ninth Mega-General. Who will be the tenth? TRH (.de) has fought bravely at Kanev and is now a regular member. |
| 30/10/2005 - Scenario Updates Two scenarios have been RSF*2*ified: Crete - Op. Mercury (massive changes incl. Greek units) and D-Day II (minor changes). Details are listed in the respective readme files. BTW: is everyone aware of that every SSI, RSF/SSI, and RSFplus scenario can and should be played with the RSF*2* as well? |
| 12/10/2005 - New Scenario Despite still designed for the RSF1 (and just some units replaced by RSF*2* ones), Operation 'Nordwind' II is a real masterpiece by Anrheiner. Its perfect combination of historical correctness and playability reminds of Amona's classics Citadel North, Stalingrad, and Anzio. Forget about the SSI original! Another valuable contribution by Anrheiner: he sent nearly all required files 'ready for upload' to the overcharged webmaster - who is thinking about a hi-tech RSF*2* scene meanwhile. :) |
09/10/2005 -  Update v2.05Well, there have still been some bugs like missing sounds etc. and some valuable suggestions which have been implemented. So please download v2.05 right here and overwrite any older file! Special thanks to Mad Hungarian and Sgt. Pepper! Changes are listed in the readme file. BTW: this is definitely the last RSF modification for this year! ;) Per i nostri amici italiani Luigi ha modificato l'interfaccia per poter giocare PG2 interamente in italiano!.È contenuta nell'aggiornamento RSF 2.05 |
| 02/10/2005 - New Mega-General Due to his recent series of successful battles Scipio now has by far more than 300 points and is therefore appointed Mega-General! |
| 27/09/2005 - New Scenario, Tournament Result 'Red Tide Rising - The Prequel', the first genuine RSF*2* scenario, may be considered rather a 'low-tech' one regarding the composition of forces and the period of time (1942). On the other hand, it is a good training in the usage of hi-tech RSF*2* features such as [C]ombat support, [G]round combat ability for AD, [R]econ skill for planes and snipers, and [S]upport fire by MG units. You definitely need the RSF*2* (see below) now! The 8th tournament has been finished eventually. Bruno the Brute came out third. Good job, André! :) |
| 25/09/2005 - GUI in English, New Raider And OOPS again! Of course there should be an user interface in English!Here it is. Extract it to the PG2 main folder, and you will understand the game again :) Additionally to the new e-file we got a new regular member: Leo Leone from Germany. |
22/09/2005 -  : The is up!Maybe some of you did no more believe in it due to certain delays - but eventually, the RSF*2* is out now! More ... |
| 21/09/2005 - Tournament Victory! After some confusion about the results of the 8th Portal tourney (see Sept. 4), now our top-gun Black Tuareg has definitely achieved the overall victory in the hardest PG2 competition ever. Phantastic! :)) Congrats go also to runner-up Mad Hungarian (playing for TBG). |
| 18/09/2005 - New Suite Release In his recent update of the Suite PG2, Luis Guzman fixed some bugs and improved e-file editing once more. See our PG2 download page (-> scenario tools). |
| 14/09/2005 - New Raider Everyday a new Raider! Great! Today our friends from bella Italia are reinforced by Panther77. Benvenuto! :) |
| 13/09/2005 - New Raider Another new member is ready for combat now: Major Balu from Germany! |
| 12/09/2005 - New Raider, RSF*2* We seem to have a 'wolfpack' in this club now. After Eiswolf and Wehrwolf, our latest regular member is just called Wolf! Due to merciless testing by RLM hundreds of errors and inconsistencies (partly passed on since old Waffenkammer times) have been revealed in the RSF*2*. Those are of course to be fixed before the final release. Quality rules! So it will take a few days longer than planned until you can enjoy the 'new PG2'. Thanks for your patience! |
| 04/09/2005 - Miscellaneous There has been some confusion about the final results of the 8th tournament. Despite already being listed on the 1st and 2nd place, Black Tuareg and Bruno the Brute, as good sports, have decided to give Mad Hungarian (TBG in this case) a fair chance to finish his games. Actually, according to the rules, he would have been kicked out due to delayed response. The RSF2 will most probably be published in ca. 10 days! The scenario page has been updated. |
| 25/08/2005 - New Raider Jurek has started his membership with a stunning 8:0 victory against one of our top players! Congrats! |
| 24/08/2005 - New Raider Anrheiner has made his way from the Ardennes through the boot camp right into our ladders! ;) |
| 20/08/2005 - New Old Raider We are glad that Winter, after having been inactive for nearly a year, has returned to our league. :) We (central Europeans) are not glad that the winter seems to return in the month of August. :( |
| 17/08/2005 - New Mega-General Our indefatigable friend from Italy, ladder master and probably busiest PG2 player alive, LuigItaliano2, has been awarded the Raiders' Gold Star medal in the long term ladders and in the Hall of Fame for more than 100 matches (played in only 15 months of membership)! That's phantastic! :))) |
| 14/08/2005 - New Scenario Anrheiner, another talented newcomer has entered our scenario page. His Ardennes - Battle of the Bulge II provides historical correctness with all involved units and fun as well. Entirely satisfying! BTW: don't be surprised at the larger than usual download (532 k) - there is a rich documentation included. |
| 07/08/2005 - 9th Tournament, New Suite Release, Scenario Page Registration for the 9th Portal world tournament is open. The tourney will start in October and will be played with the upcoming RSF*2* and the UK210 patch. In the 8th tournament finals 4 Raiders are facing 2 TBG players. Good luck, guys, particularly to Black Tuareg and Bruno the Brute! BTW: all relevant tourney pages are accessible via the 'complete menu' frame. Another great update of the Suite PG2 by Luis Guzman covering all new features of the UK210 patch is now available on our PG2 download page (-> scenario tools). After quite a while the scenario page has been updated again (scen stats, comments, scenario of the month). Coming up next weekend: a new scenario - probably the last built for the RSF1. |
| 27/07/2005 - New Raider Bullwyf from Germany has been successfully drilled by our boot camp chief master drill sarge Fennek himself and is now a regular member! :) |
| 24/07/2005 - RSF*2* Preview, Jubilee Slowly but surely the RSF*2* is getting completed. While still waiting please enjoy the RSF*2* preview page! The 1000th game in the Raiders' history has been played by Rommel. Unfortunately, this was the tourney semi-final game which he lost against MadHungarian who, unfortunately again, played for TBG. So the 3 points jubilee bonus goes to Rommel only. Anyway, thanks a lot to all those busy players, particularly Eiswolf who was involved in 12.1% of those 1000 matches! :) |
| 16/07/2005 - Miscellaneous Our friend Luigi has a new email address: de_lorenzo_vt@tiscali.it ! Due to increased member tolls the 1st divisions of the long term ladders are adjusted to 35 (ex-)players. In the upcoming week there will be a special 'appetizer' for you. :) |
| 12/07/2005 - New Raider We got another regular and very experienced member from the UK. Welcome aboard, Willinski! |
| 11/07/2005 - Tournament, Jubilee In the Portal tourney semi-finals 4 out of 6 participants play for our club! Great! We are more successful than ever! Very soon the 1,000th game in the Raiders' history will be reported. As a little reward, each Raiders player involved in that game will get another 3 points bonus additionally to the 'regular' bonus! |
| 07/07/2005 - New York, Madrid, London ... Please commemorate the innocent civilians in London who fell victim to a mob of terrorists whose name is not worth to be mentioned and whose members are inferior to any bloody pig! We feel with you, our friends in the UK! |
| 05/07/2005 - New Ladders, Schultz The first result of the new season and therefore the new ladders are available now. And our mascot, the scuffproof Oberfeldwebel Schultz, is back to active duty! :) |
| 30/06/2005 - 8th Season Finished, Bonus Weeks In the championships of the 8th season the die is cast. Congratulations to the following generals: Absolute championship:
The new current ladders will probably be up on Sunday. Last, but not least: the Raiders' annual bonus weeks are starting on July 1! For details see the result report form. Good luck for the 9th season! |
| 25/06/2005 - New Raider The Raiders' global village is growing and growing. Thanks to our first regular member from Portugal for joining us! Bemvenido, Val! :) |
| 16/06/2005 - New Raider Our Polish friends have 'deployed' another panzer general on our battleground. Welcome, Tanker! :) To his future opponents: please note Tanker's changed e-mail address! |
| 14/06/2005 - Jubilee The Raiders' club now has been existing for 4 years. Thanks a lot to all who helped! Never ever had I imagined in 2001 what a great crew would join together here over the years. I hope you had fun and you will have fun! - Rayy |
| 12/06/2005 - New Scenario A new co-production within our top scenario designers team: v. Neuber (WPC) has converted Amona's already excellent 'Lodz' campaign scene to an even greater stand-alone version. Have fun with 'Break-through to Lodz'! The Sealion 1943.ZIP is now WinZip / Windows-compatible. If you had probs extracting it please try again. |
| 03/06/2005 - New Raider The Huns are still alive, even in our ladders! We welcome Etzel (ancient German name for Attila) as a regular member! |
| 01/06/2005 - GOOD News Poooh! After some sleepless nights I finally managed to get the ladder generator basically running under Win XP. The ladders are updated again! However, there is still a lot of work to do for Luigi and me. So please understand that updates can't be done daily for a while. And please check your recent results! And yes, you can send result reports again! - Rayy |
| 30/05/2005 - Bad News, New Raider The e-mail account probs have been fixed. You can sent reports again. However, you will not see your results in the ladders for a long time. :((( Please read on here! Although you can't see him in the ladders, we are proud to welcome SGT V, a member of TBG's General Staff, as our latest regular member! For those who want to challenge him: he is a US American and plays BEM. |
| 26/05/2005 - New Mega-General Fennek has become a Mega-General (more than 300 points in the long term ladder) after only 8 months of membership! Amazing! Of course he has been awarded the Raiders' Gold Star and 10 bonus points for his merits. |
| 19/05/2005 - Wanted: Campaign Translator, Tournament For meanwhile over 2 years there has been a superb 'Guderian' RSFplus campaign ('Klotzen - nicht Kleckern') which is still an absolute favorite of German and Austrian players. We would like to make it available for English reading players, too! However, there are lots of 'OKW style' texts to be translated. Is there any English native speaker with a deep understanding of German who wants to help? In the round of 24 of the tourney already 4 games out of 12 have been won by Raiders - and there will be one more 'RR' winner for sure. Good job, guys! |
| 17/05/2005 - TGR, Mega-Generals Thanks to Rommel a new raid (#14) is available and waiting for the commander(s) of Army Group South! Chris Filio and Rommel are our latest Mega-Generals having more than 300 points in the long term ladder. Congratulations! The deserved medals in the ladders and in the Hall of Fame have been awarded as well as and 10 bonus points each. |
| 15/05/2005 - New Scenario Race to the Rhine on the excellent Kharkov map by Vito is a tricky retreat scenario (for the Germans, of course). Have fun! |
| 07/05/2005 - Scenario Update Finally, RedScorpion's El Alamein / Alam Halfa has been converted to RSF and slightly modified. Maybe it's not quite state-of-the-art, but it's a must for 'desert foxes' (and required for TGR as well). Good news: entirely new scenarios will probably be up soon! |
| 01/05/2005 - Miscellaneous There is a new player and a new recommended scenario of the month. Members who have not played any game this season and who have contributed nothing else should think about starting to play soon! Maybe some challenges by our busy generals would help? |
| 27/04/2005 - New Raider We got another regular member from Poland. Welcome to our club, Grisha! :) |
| 24/04/2005 - Scenario Updates Jedrek's 'Sealion 1943' v1.3 is debugged and up again. German fresh units, however, can still be deployed on the British isle; as implemented in the game engine, ports are always deployment hexes for either side. The Battle of the Bulge v1.5 is now available as an RSFplus version. Unrealistic air-transport facilities have been stripped. |
| 23/04/2005 - TGR: New Raid Available |
| 20/04/2005 - New Raider, Suite PG2 Update We got another regular member. Air force generals, beware of the Kugelblitz! ;) Version 3.32P of Luis' Suite PG2 can now be found here as well:: PG2 download -> scenario tools. |
16/04/2005 - Panzer Puzzle Resolved
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| 01/04/2005 - Player of the Month, Tournament Thanks to Chris Filio and all other busy players. :) New: a click on a listbox entry now opens the respective player's relevant statistics page. 14 Raiders have reached the 2nd round of the Portal tourney - and 2 have already won their 2nd games. Great! |
| 28/03/2005 - New Raider After a quick boot camp game Wehrwolf, a bilingual veteran from Germany, is a regular member now . :) |
| 27/03/2005 - Miscellaneous Sorry, due to organizational matters no 'easter-eggs' this year. :( There will be some new stuff within the next weeks, though. :) The TGR page has been updated again and will be maintained by Scipio in the future. New head of the boot camp is Fennek. Thanks to both of them and of course to our friend Luigi for their readiness to keep this club running! :) Please have a look at the scenario page! Happy Easter! |
| 19/03/2005 - Facelift and More Hopefully you like the modified title bars and menus, particularly the additional complete, hierarchic menu! Unfortunately, despite enormous efforts by Scipio, it doesn't work quite as well with incompatible browsers like Firefox. The IE is recommended anyway. ;) |
| 10/03/2005 - New Mega-General, Tournament There is a flood of medals and bonus points these days! Black Tuareg gets 10 for becoming a Mega-General (more than 300 points in the long term ladders). And he gets another 10 for his oustanding 2nd place in the 7th Portal tourney which is thereby finished. The winner (for another time) is Rommel, playing for TBG. Congrats to both of you! |
| 05/03/2005 - New Grand Raider, New Raider Xamos, after a 'near miss' in raid #07, now is appointed the second Grand Raider in the history of our club! To be honest: he could have been even the first if his opponent had been a little faster. Anyway, he will enjoy a view at the relative ladder! ;) Furthermore we got another new regular member from Italy. Benvenuto, RIC1960! |
| 04/03/2005 - Ladder Updates, Google Tool Bar Thanks to our busyssimo friend Luigi the current ladders are updated daily (if new results supplied) and the long term ladders twice a week again (in the evenings :) Those of you who have the Google tool bar installed can give them a 'positive vote' for our pages (just click the smiley). |
| 02/03/2005 - The Grand Raid, Tournament At last it happened! Congratulations to Fennek, the first Grand Raider ever! Apart from 20 bonus points he gets his first medal in the Hall of Fame and in the long term ladders. For details see the TGR page. The 8th Portal world tournament has started and can be accessed directly form the menu frame (left). Among the 80 participants there are 22 Raiders - more than from any other club! Good luck to all of you! |
| 01/03/2005 - Scenario Update Service Unfortunately the scenario update mailing list has been lost in a disk crash. Please register again if you are interested in further notifications. Sorry for your inconvenience. |
| 24/02/2005 - New Raider Our 'Polish Army Corps' gets stronger and stronger. :) Welcome to Arex Mirniman again who, BTW, has already registered for the tourney as well. And what about YOU? |
| 20/02/2005 - New Scenario Huertgen Forest by Xamos represents an excellent mix of historical correctness and PG2 playability. And due to the map it's a nice diversification in our scenario pool. :) |
| 18/02/2005 - TGR Xamos has successfully finished raid #07 and collects 15 bonus points! |
| 15/02/2005 - Tournament Due to the overwhelming interest the number of slots for the 8th PG2 world tournament has been increased to 96! There are already 17 Raiders registered; now there can be even more! Keep in mind: if you start for the Raiders your tourney games - and maybe bonuses - are scored in the regular ladders! |
| 14/02/2005 - New Mega-General Oops! For already quite a while Bruno the Brute has been the Raiders' third Mega-General (more than 300 points in the long term ladders). Of course he is awarded the Raiders' Gold Star medal for his outstanding activities. :) |
| 12/02/2005 - New Ladder Master (3) There is a photo of our friend Luigi in the imprint now. In the future ladder updates will usually be done in the evenings (CET). |
| 11/02/2005 - New Ladder Master (2) In order to facilitate Luigi's work for you, please use the result report comments to brief him about: - any bonuses you / your opponent deserve(s) from the respective game (tourney, TGR) - any new member, i.e. a recruit who has finished his first boot camp duel. Thanks for your cooperation! |
| 10/02/2005 - New Ladder Master, New Raider For the first time the current ladders updates have been done by LuigItaliano2, the Raiders' new ladder master! He will more and more take the reins from Old Rayy within the next weeks, and we should appreciate that he is willing to do this really demanding job. :) So please forgive him slight delays and maybe mistakes (plz check your results carefully) as long as he is still learning! We also welcome Game Maker from Poland / USA, another most experienced player! :) |
| 08/02/2005 - New Raider Welcome to Tacticus from Canada, a most experienced player! :) |
| 06/02/2005 - Scenario Bugs In a PBEM duel some mysterious bugs have shown up in Op. Sealion 1943. You'd rather not start a match on this scenario until this is resolved. |
| 01/02/2005 - Nationalities Please read this! |
| 31/01/2005 - Tournament In the current, 7th PG2 world tournament Black Tuareg has already qualified for the final, and Bruno the Brute is fighting in the semi-final. Great job by the Raiders 'top guns'! :) Registrations for the 8th tournament, starting on March 1, are possible right now. Of course each player may register once only! |
| 27/01/2005 - TGR There are two open raids again: one relaunch for 2nd league players and quite a new one by Xamos. Xamos, BTW, is our new 'Lord of the Raids', i.e. responsible for everything TGR-related from now on. If you email him please write in simple English or in German (doesn't have to be perfect :) |
| 23/01/2005 - New Scenario As announced, Jedrek41 has submitted his first Raiders scenario. Sealion 1943, the hypothetical invasion of England, is inspired by the great PG1 version - and it has turned out well indeed! :) |
| 21/01/2005 - New Raiders, TGR Our 3rd and 4th new members this week are another two very experienced players: JSweitzer from the USA and Goerner from Germany. :) Several TGR raids are close to their (successful?) end. New raids will be opened soon. |
| 19/01/2005 - New Raider Bergsteiger is our first 'playing member' from the USA (despite his German alias). Welcome again! :) |
| 17/01/2005 - New Raider Hauptmann Hauser (.de) has finished and won (!) his boot camp duel pretty fast and is a regular member now. :) |
| 16/01/2005 - Scenario Update, Statistics Pages, Record Good news: Jedrek41 has tweaked Westerplatte; v2.1 is better balanced than its predecessors. Better news: Jedrek will also supply some fine scenarios of his own in the future. :) As well the current as the long term statistics now actually deserve their designations thanks to Scipio. Have a look at them! BTW: our Mega-General Eiswolf has just finished his 100th game within less than one year! |
| 14/01/2005 - New Raider Duke van Hudde from Germany has finished his boot camp duel in only 4 days (also thanks to his busy drill sarge Fennek) and is a regular member now. :) |
| 12/01/2005 - Boot Camp, Support After nearly 4 years of constant work for the Raiders it's time for a (partly) change. Rayydar goes outsourcing. ;) From now on Scipio is responsible for the 1st level support. Please do no more send emails concerning technical questions to Old Rayy! |
08/01/2005 - Icons Search Tool, PG2 in Italiano, League
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| 05/01/2005 - Jubilee, All-Time Record The 100,000th visitor to our site has been our friend LuigItaliano2 who has received 3 bonus points in the long term ladders. Of course, many thanks to all other visitors as well! After a long time there is a new number one in the absolute long term ladder: Eiswolf (who else? ;) |
| 03/01/2005 - 8th Season The new season starts with lots of results, among them a sensational 8:0 by our Italian hero Luigi! :)) BTW: don't wait for bonus weeks; there will be none this season. ;) |
| 01/01/2005 - 7th Season Finished In the championships of the 7th season the die is cast. Congratulations to the following generals: Absolute championship:
Good luck for the 8th season! |
| 31/12/2004 - New Scenario The final scenario for this year: a historically correct 'Narvik' by Xamos on RedScorpion's winterly and beautiful map. A happy and successful new year, and thanks to all who have been active in our club! - Rayy |
| 30/12/2004 - Scenario Comments You can write scenario comments again. But please focus on scenarios having only one or no comment at all! The 10th comment on scenario XYZ won't be published. |
| 27/12/2004 - New Raider We got a new member from Corsica (France) - like Napoleon! Bienvenu, Titus20! |
| 24/12/2004 - Christmas Gifts A Christmas gift by Gerra: his first, yet well-done historical scenario Fight for Monte Cassino on his self-made new map. Have fun! And our 'infotainment dept.' gives you a brand-new WW 2 quiz. Have fun with it, too, but please do also remember the humans behind those facts and figures! Have a merry and peaceful Christmas! - Rayy |
| 19/12/2004 - New Scenario, New Raider Another excellent scenario by Stephen deJong has been converted by Kessler. Retreat to Tannenberg Line is probably one of the most challenging tasks for a Panzer General ever. Hagen has made his way his out of the bootcamp and is a regular Raider now. |
| 16/12/2004 - More Maps There are a few more maps available, among them a small-scale MonteCassino, the first by our member Gerra. :) |
| 14/12/2004 - Members Jerry has decided to leave the Raiders. As a new member we cordially welcome Joerg0866. :) |
| 12/12/2004 - TGR: New Raid Available |
| 11/12/2004 - Research Project, Ladders For a statistical research project as many EML files as possible are needed. There are rumors that German DLLs on the one hand and US/UK ones on the other hand 'behave' differently in rare cases. And maybe one will find the reason for replay crashes in correctly played turns? Probably the easiest way is to forward / cc me each turn you get from / send to your opponent for a while. Of course you can also send me lots of archived turns. Passwords are not required; the code of the EMLs will be evaluated by machine exclusively. Thanks in advance for your help! With today's ladder updates many players are promoted to the respective 1st divisions. ;) The current ladders 1st div. are expanded to 25 players, the long term 1st div. to 30 players - just in order to represent roughly the half of all listed (ex-) members. And thanks to Scipio (see 25/11) the long term ladders can now be updated twice a week. :) |
| 04/12/2004 - New Mega-General Having a look at the long term ladder or the Hall of Fame you will notice that there is a new medal for His Honorable Excellence Eiswolf. He has become the 2nd Mega-General (300 points or 100 games) in the history of our club! :) Even more amazing: it took him less than one year to collect this huge amount of points! |
| 03/12/2004 - Suite PG2 update The mysterious fatal error (in exceptional cases allegedly the e-file got corrupted) has been fixed, and Luis has again added some important enhancements to the Suite. Please download v3.32c right now and make sure not to use v3.31 or 3.32a/b anymore! |
| 01/12/2004 - New Raider, Tourney, Championships Jedrek41 has successfully finished his bootcamp duel (vs. 'PG2 pensioner' Amona!) and is a regular member now. :) The 2nd round of the world tournament has officially started, and nine players are still fighting heroicly for the Raiders: Black Tuareg, Bruno the Brute, Chris Filio, Eiswolf, Fennek, Kessler, Kojak, Kurt Steindorf, Sgt.Pepper. :) Eiswolf and Kojak, BTW, have already won their 2nd round games! The last month of this championship season has come. Time for some lazy players to start / complete their 2 required games! The current standings (taking the respective no. of games limits into account): - Absolute ladder: 1. Chris Filio (111 points), 2. Eiswolf (103), 3. Mad Hungarian (94) - Relative ladder: 1. Black Tuareg (ratio: 6.75), 2. Chris Filio (6.16), 3. Rayydar (6.0). |
| 26/11/2004 - Suite PG2 again Download of the Suite PG2 is temporarily disabled. There might be a fatal error in the latest versions. Please don't use versions 3.31 and 3.32 until further notification! |
| 25/11/2004 - Ladder Updates OK, the current ladders will be updated daily again from now on - thanks to our DOM and Javascript wizard Scipio with reduced effort for your webmaster who has more time for other tasks thereby. :) |
| 23/11/2004 - Suite PG2 again Ooops! Just today the new version 3.32 including more improvements has been released (-> PG2 Download -> Scenario Tools). |
| 22/11/2004 - Miscellaneous Luis Guzman's 'Suite PG2' is now available at our site (-> PG2 Download -> Scenario Tools). Please read the notes on the d/l page! Amona's excellent 'Anzio v1.1' scenario seems to have been incompatible with the H-patch up to now for some strange reasons. Anyway, here is a corrected release. Have fun with it! Mad Hungarian, always ready to test, has additionally taken on the job of a drill sarge. Thanks! :) Ladder updates are postponed to (probably) Thursday due to an internal redesign. |
| 15/11/2004 - Journey to 'Rommel' Thanks to Winter's report today you can learn something about Poland, Warsaw and WW2 hardware. And in the 2nd part, appearing soon, you will meet the ingenious PG2 Rommel himself! |
| 10/11/2004 - Rules Please take part in our poll on a modification of the rules! |
| 09/11/2004 - TGR Success Raid 04 is finished, and Drache has performed a nearly perfect march-through to Berlin! For his final victory he gets not less than 18 points! Participation in TGR can be rewarding, indeed ... ;) |
| 07/11/2004 - New Scenario Xamos has hit again! He has built a new sophisticated 'what-if' scenario dealing with Gibraltar - Operation 'Felix'. BTW: all scenario table header links do work now *blush*. |
| 06/11/2004 - Tournament Good news: two Raiders have already won their first round games. Bad news: the losers are members of our distinguished club, too. ;'o About the rules: 1. If you play for the Raiders in the tourney you may and you shall report your results for the ladder! 2. But please look at which club your opponent plays for! If a Raiders' member starts for another club, please enter him as 'external player'! |
| 04/11/2004 - New Raider, Scenario 'Updates' Thanks to our busy drill sarge Fennek there is another regular member today: Musaka has finished his first pbem game ever pretty quickly. :) Two old scenarios have been made H-patch compatible and bilingual: Op. Crusader and Kasserine (no new versions, though). |
| 03/11/2004 - New Raids |
| 02/11/2004 - New TGR Rule The new rule (see TGR entry page), valid from now on, prevents 'sudden death' raids. |
| 31/10/2004 - Portal Tournament, Ladder, New Raider, TGR The 7th PG2 world tourney roster is up; just press the 'Tourney' button in the menu frame! And there is a new all-time record with 17 players starting for the Raiders. :) Good luck to all of you! There are lots of new ladder results today. These are usually not commented - but two of them are indeed worth to be mentioned: a) Sgt. Pepper from Austria has finished his boot camp duel and is now a regular member :) b) After 36 games without a single victory our Italian hero LuigItaliano2 has won his first duel!!! I guess really everybody rejoices with him. Congratulations, Luigi! :)) There are not quite as good news, though: another raid has ended in a draw. :'o A modification of the rules is being thought about ... |
| 27/10/2004 - Scenario Update, TGR Oops! I did it again! I.e. I uploaded another version of 'Kharkov March 43', this time the correct one with increased no. of turns. You can download v2.1 right here. Sorry for the inconvenience! A new raid will not be published until new TGR results arrive. It should be a matter of course to play TGR games with highest priority since other players are waiting! In other words: a TGR game should be finished within 2 weeks as a rule. |
| 24/10/2004 - Scenario Update, New Raider Xamos has improved and RSFplusified his 'Kharkov March 43'. It could even said to be a 'new' scenario because it has been never played up to now for mysterious reasons (?). RLM has successfully gone through the boot camp in his second attempt. The first, BTW, did not not at all fail due to lack of qualification, but due to an unforeseeable vacation. |
| 22/10/2004 - Raid Restart After its early 'sudden death' From Africa to Italy is being restarted. May the Force be with you at Tunis! Upcoming is a completely new raid by Amona. :) There has just one scenario to be modified. |
| 20/10/2004 - Internationality Black Tuareg, one of our very top players, would like to face international opponents. His knowledge of English is poor - but who cares? You will understand his 'language' on the battlefield! :) |
| 19/10/2004 - New Member of Staff, New Raider Another 'drill sarge' is ready for duty in our virtual boot camp: Fennek, who himself has joined us recently and is already one of our most active members. :) Our latest regular member is Gazelle from Germany. |
| 18/10/2004 - New Raider Devean (Poland) is our latest regular member. He writes in excellent English - no communication problems at all :) |
| 17/10/2004 - New Member of Staff, Download Mad Hungarian, one of our most active members anyway, has joined our staff (see the imprint) as a quality manager. Maybe scenarios will be played on Excel spreadsheets instead of maps in the future? ;)) On our PG2 Download page -> Scenario Tools there is a new and - of course - significantly improved version of Progi's equipment editor. |
| 15/10/2004 - Raid Restart After its early 'sudden death' the Fight for the Oil is being restarted. Please avoid a draw in the very first game! ;) |
| 12/10/2004 - Scenario Update Xamos' masterpiece 'Monte Cassino - Op. Shingle' now available as even more realistic RSFplus version. |
| 05/10/2004 - Button The actual TGR page can now be accessed directly from the menu frame (left). |
| 02/10/2004 - New Raid The new 'Raid to Berlin' is available in two versions. |
| 30/09/2004 - New Raider Thanks to our Italian Connection Vito has finished his boot camp duel as quickly as successfully and is now a regular member. :) |
| 29/09/2004 - New Raid Thanks to Xamos there is a new raid available. Good luck with your Fight for the Oil! But please do no more register for slots which are already occupied! :/ BTW: there is already a first result in raid #01 ... |
| 26/09/2004 - New Play Format Have fun with our new play format, The Grand Raid (of course accessible from the re-organized site map as well)! And please post questions and suggestions in the Raiders' Corner exclusively. |
| 25/09/2004 - Tournament The next Portal tournament is going to start on Oct. 1. However, there are still free slots. Although the Raiders are already the strongest team with 13 participants even more of us should register! |
| 23/09/2004 - New Email Address Also RedScorpion has a new address now: redscorpion@freakmail.de . Thus there are no more unreliable AOL addresses in our club. :) |
| 19/09/2004 - Scenario Update, New Raider The very beginning of WW2 at the Westerplatte is one of the earliest scenes by RedScorpion, now converted to RSFplus. Maybe it is not really authentic to a large extent, but it is fun to play - and maybe it will be required for the upcoming new play format. ;) Fennek has finished his boot camp duel in only 3 days (!) and is now a regular Raider. :) |
| 17/09/2004 - New Email Address Infernalex has a new address: alexander.schmid1@chello.at . |
| 15/09/2004 - A Word About Rules (if the forum is temporarily down please try later) |
| 07/09/2004 - New Scenario, New Email Address The first scenario by Xamos since he joined our club: Crete - Op. Mercury (no Freddie ;) deals with the German airborne assault in a historically most accurate way. Great! Also Boruse now has a reliable email provider. His new address: boruse@freenet.de. 4 scenario update subscribers, however, did not receive the update due to Amok OnLine. :(( |
| 06/09/2004 - Good News Good old Kurt Steindorf has recovered from serious health problems and is ready for combat again. :) Thanks to his tourney registration there is a new record in Raiders' participation - already 12 of our guys will take part! There are still free slots, though. |
| 05/09/2004 - New Email Address Drache can again be mailed to by anybody anytime since he has got a new address: drache@rayy.de |
| 01/09/2004 - New Raider, AOL Mail Adresses We welcome a well-known PG2 veteran as a regular member: though Xamos has not yet finished his boot camp duel, he has sent in two of his high quality scenarios which will be published soon :) AOL mail adresses will no more be accepted in our club. Meanwhile nearly every mail to AOL users is rejected by AOL for absolute ridiculous reasons. This is just unreasonable! |
| 29/08/2004 - Player of the Month Retrospectivly as from the start of this season the busiest general - regardless of his results - is appointed 'Player of the Month'. Limitation: each player can achieve this title only once within a season. |
| 27/08/2004 - Tournaments Congrats and 5 bonus points go to Black Tuareg, the second runner-up in tourney #6 for the second time in a row! You see, it can be rewarding to start for the Raiders in the biggest PG2 contest ever! Unless you have already registered for tourney #7 (start: Oct. 1), please do so here right now! |
| 25/08/2004 - New Raider Mad Hungarian from Canada (where else ;) , a busy and excellent player (some Raiders have experienced that in the tourney ;) is our newest regular member. Welcome again and good luck! |
| 23/08/2004 - Additional Web Address If you ever sit in front of another computer and can't remember the Raiders' address, try to remember this one: http://beam.to/panzergeneral (without 'www'!). |
| 19/08/2004 - New Rule Despite we don't like detailed rules for each and everything this one about ships blocking port hexes seems to be inevitable. If you have a better idea how to handle this please post your suggestion! Anyway, this is a default - you can agree on a houserule with your opponent as usual. |
| 17/08/2004 - Tournament, D-Day II The registration for the 7th PG2 World Tournament (start: October, 1) is open here right now! Please remember that tourney duels and (bonus) points are only scored in our ladder if you start for the Raiders! ;-) For infos about D-Day victory conditions please read this! |
| 16/08/2004 - Tournament In the 6th tournament, Black Tuareg is fighting for the 3rd place against El Condoro (playing for the FFWC). And our new boot camp member Mad Hungarian (playing for TBG) is striving for the cup! Good luck to all of you! |
| 15/08/2004 - New Raider Cherusker (.de) has been thoroughly drilled by Wuestenfuchs and is a regular Raider from now on. |
| 08/08/2004 - New Scenario Advance on Murmansk is the first Raiders scenario by the well-known Stephen deJong aka The Duke of Brabant, converted by our wizard Kessler. |
| 02/08/2004 - New Drill Sarge Thanks to Krassus who is now at our disposal as a PBEM drill sarge :) Furthermore 1 - 2 online drill sarges are urgently needed! |
| 29/07/2004 - Good News, Bad News Please read this!. |
| 20/07/2004 - New Raider, Change of Address Infernalex has made his way out of the boot camp straight into the 1st division. However, he can't play for some weeks due to a 'baby break' :) Please note that LuigItaliano2, one of our busiest players, has got a new e-mail address: de_lorenzo@tiscali.it. |
| 18/07/2004 - New Raider Adalbert Schulz has played his boot camp duel in an absolutely correct way and is now a regular Raider. :) |
| 17/07/2004 - Scenario Update The fictitious scenario about the famous Panzer-Lehrdivision is now available for RSFplus + H-patch. Please look into the readme file! |
| 06/07/2004 - Raiders Bonus Weeks Summertime? Lying on the beach / at the pool? No computer / no internet available? So far, so good ... :) But maybe you are just missing some extra points which could be decisive for this season's championship! So you better take advantage of the Raiders bonus weeks right now! For details see the result report form. |
| 03/07/2004 - New Ladders, ex Members The current ladders for the 7th season are up and show some results already, including those of "Rehhagel's Heroes" ;) The following Raiders have been dismissed in honor and are therefore kept in the long term ladders: Eisensau, McLong, Schumi III. Good luck to all of them! Several other guys have been stricken from all ladders due to inactivity, partially even not replying to e-mails. :( |
| 02/07/2004 - Hall of Fame The international Hall of Fame has been established and completed by the results of the 6th season. 'International' up to now means that explanations are in English - hopefully in the future there will be also more than one non-German players in it! |
| 01/07/2004 - 6th Season Finished In the championships of the 6th season the die is cast. Congratulations to the following generals: Absolute championship:
Good luck for the 7th season! |
| 29/06/2004 - New Portal Club, New Raider Another great PG2 international club has joined the PG Portal. Welcome, players of the Generals Guild! Interclub games are basically possible, but please ask your GG opponent before you play! Out of the boot camp into the ladders: Shukov, a Panzer General who has already been very successful in other German leagues. A tough opponent even for top players! |
| 27/06/2004 - Change of Rules What do you think about a last minute change of our championship rules? Please read and discuss this! |
| 25/06/2004 - New Raiders Chris Filio from Greece and El Condoro from Australia have successfully finished a pbem duel in the boot camp and are now regular members. Welcome aboard, guys! |
| 20/06/2004 - New Scenario (Sinyavino) |
| 19/06/2004 - New Mapnames Files |
| 17/06/2004 - Tournament The 5th Portal tournament, perfectly organized by 'world tourney master' HPS has been finished earlier than scheduled. The winner and the runner-up had already been certain (see 30/05). Now our Black Tuareg came third and therefore gets 5 bonus points. Peter Pan (4th) who fought his way into the finals against strong opponents has also done a good job. All in all, the Raiders were more successful than ever! Congrats to all participants in the finals! |
| 10/06/2004 - New Raiders Our 'Vikings', Hikker100 and Ragge40, have successfully finished their first online duel in the boot camp and are now regular members. Welcome again! |
| 07/06/2004 - Scenario Update Maleme (Crete), an oldie but goodie by RedScorpion, is now available for RSFplus. |
06/06/2004 - D-Day
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| 01/06/2004 - Kessler is back again, Scenarios After nearly one year of absence Kessler, a very busy player and scenario designer / converter, has returned to our club. Two of his older scenarios are available again: Trap them at Demyansk and Run for the Oil. Maybe there will be new ones in the future? |
| 30/05/2004 - Tournament Success Raiders intelligence reports that RedScorpion has come second in the 5th Portal tournament! Therefore he will get 10 bonus ladder points. Congratulations, Scorpi! The tourney winner is Rommel, playing for TBG. Congrats, too! |
| 27/05/2004 - Boot Camp To make an end to 'fake registrations', i.e. filter out guys who register and are never heard of afterwards, a boot camp is installed - like in other clubs. This will avoid unnecessary work (ladder maintenance), minimize trouble with non-responding 'players' and give regular members some infos about new applicants. |
| 23/05/2004 - Our new guests We are proud to host the web page of the M&L Italian WW3 Project now (the WarHexes site seems to be down, unfortunately). Matteo's and Luigi's club provides a quite revolutionary game format: large scale PG2 team pbem on a fictitious WW3 background also involving political, economical, and industrial aspects. For questions and discussions our Italian friends got a nice forum of their own. Please learn more about it here!. Of course you can find a link on the site map (league section), too. |
| 16/05/2004 - New Raider, Championship Another very active PG2 enthusiast, this time from Italy, has joined us. Benvenutto, LuigItaliano2! Luigi's WW3 project will be presented here soon! The top duel of this season, Jerry vs. Eiswolf, has just been finished - in a People's General scenario, BTW! Probably one of these tireless fighters will become the absolute champion. Favorites for the relative championship seem to be Wuestenfuchs and RedScorpion - Scorpi will still get at least 10 extra points from the 5th tournament! |
| 15/05/2004 - Inactivity Alerts These members are to finish at least 2 duels until June, 30: Eisensau, Paris, Rai-Khan, Strachwitz. These members are to finish at least 1 (more) duel(s) until June, 30: Contender, Jo, Josuadom, McLong, Minox, Rakassan, Schlieffen, Schumi III, Ward's Grenadiers. Otherwise they will be dismissed at the end of the current season! Please read more!. |
| 13/05/2004 - New Ladder Layout All ladders are now split into two divisions. This has absolutely no effect on the rules, though. Please read more!. |
| 12/05/2004 - New Raider We are proud to present the first Raider from Greece: Silver is a seasoned wargamer (PG2 PBEM: 2 years) and a very fair player; he even gives unexperienced opponents strategy tips during a game - in excellent English! Kalosírthes, Silver! |
| 10/05/2004 - How to Play Online, Jerry's Help Desk Jerry's guidelines for playing PG2 online are now available in English and can be downloaded in the 'league' section of the site map or right here. If you are looking for an opponent Jerry will help you as well (of course, you should use the Portal opponent finder and / or the forum first). Last, but not least: Jerry will also help you with technical questions (installation, graphics problems etc.). This means, Jerry is your 1st level support person from now on, for your webmaster needs more time to develop new features! :-) |
| 08/05/2004 - New Raider, Kurt Steindorf After being drilled by the one and only Wuestenfuchs Ironduke is now ready for PBEM and a regular Raiders member. Sad news: Kurt Steindorf is in hospital since mid-April and can of course neither play nor reply to mails. Get well soon, Kurt! |
| 25/04/2004 - New Scenario At last 'D-Day II', the first scenario using new H-patch features, is up. Please: a) Take a look at the README file (even if you don't so normally)! b) Write a comment after you have played it against a human opponent - the scenario is rather sophisticated and will require some duels to make it perfect. |
| 24/04/2004 - New Raider A new multi-lingual member from the U.S.A. using a famous German alias and also understanding French, German, Polish, and Spanish - way cool! Welcome, Schlieffen! Having 2 years of PG2 PBEM experience, Schlieffen is ready for combat. The new 'H-patch scenario' will probably be published tomorrow. |
| 18/04/2004 - New Raider Another jugador from Spain has joined us. Bienvenido, Josuadom! Josuadom has 1 year experience in playing BEM and online and is looking for opponents. |
| 17/04/2004 - New Raider, Misc. Welcome to a new member from New Zealand! Zealous wants to play BEM and online (1 - 2 years experience). I guess his alias speaks for itself. So please challenge him! Hartmann is temporarily offline 'thanks' to his new ISP and cannot play regularly right now. For urgent cases he got another e-mail address - see the ladder. Sorry, guys, the new 'H-patch scenario' announced for this weekend will be delayed for some days or a week due to recent webspace trouble and apparently required massive changes (according to the running playtest). Quality rules! |
| 15/04/2004 - Tournament, RSF, Scenario Comments Congratulations again to our 'three musketeers' Black Tuareg, Peter Pan, and RedScorpion for reaching the semi-finals in the 5th Portal tourney. Three Raiders among four remaining players - excellent job! :) The registration countdown for the 6th tourney is running! Thanks to IronlunG and Tolly for the following hint: The RSF is in fact compatible with the BP Datup & Soundup, i.e. you can install it like most other e-files and need not download the graphics and sounds if you have those BP files. More scenario comments have been added. |
| 12/04/2004 - Two New Raiders New members nearly everyday - amazing! :) We welcome Santiago Fuertes from Spain, well-known as one of the famous Latin Generals, and Wards Grenadiers from the U.S.A., a very experienced PG2 veteran. |
| 11/04/2004 - Easter eggs Giants at the Vistula, the ultimate 'heavy metal' scenario, is now available for RSF. Believe me, there are even more tanks than in 'Kursk', 'Citadel North' and 'Prokhorovka! Both versions of the likewise excellent Monte Cassino have translated files now and will no more crash due to special characters. For those who had missed the links in the forum, there are four galleries of large-scale photos from the Sinsheim technical museum where some of us met last year. See Misc. Stuff -> Panzer Photos. Happy Easter! |
| 10/04/2004 - New Raider And a new member from Germany: welcome, Drache (= Dragon)! He is an experienced PBEM player and supposed to be a demanding opponent. |
| 09/04/2004 - New Raider Another new Raider from Spain! Bienvenido, Minox! Minox has 1 year of experience in PG2 and PBEM, plays in several leagues and is now looking for opponents in our club. Who dares to fight a duel against him? |
| 06/04/2004 - New Raider We are proud to welcome our first member from the UK. IronlunG has 2 years of PBEM experience and has played online as well, i.e. he is ready for combat. Who will be the first to challenge him? |
| 04/04/2004 - Opponent Finder A bilingual opponent finder form is available on the new Portal pages and in the 'league' section of the Raiders site map now. Future entries will be displayed in English as well. |
| 31/03/2004 - The H-Patch is up! No more G-patch! From now on the H-patch should be the Portal standard (unless you still prefer v1.02). Particularly in the upcoming 6th tournament it will be mandatory! So please download, install and use it now! And please read the description linked on the download page. BTW (1): that page is completely translated now. BTW (2): the first 'H-patch scenario' is already being worked on. :-) Last, but not least: please tell your opponents and other PG2 players about the H-patch in order to introduce it Portal-wide ASAP. |
| 28/03/2004 - Tournament Congrats to Black Tuareg, Peter Pan, and RedScorpion for reaching the quarter finals. Three Raiders among eight remaining players - good job! :-) |
| 26/03/2004 - New Link, Scenario Comments The Latin Generals, the premier PG2 site for Spanish speaking people, is now linked under 'PG2 Specials'. Some more scenario comments have been added. Please read the comment on 'Stalingrad' by JJLL! |
| 24/03/2004 - New Portal Community WarHexes, recently introduced international PG community from Romania, has joined the PG Portal and will take part in the upcoming tournament (May, 1)! Due to a current redesign of the Portal pages it will take a few days until WarHexes appear there. Anyway: Welcome to the Portal! |
| 21/03/2004 - Scenario Update 'Perekop' is now available as an RSFplus version. |
| 19/03/2004 - Panzer Puzzle solved If a discussion on the solution is wanted, please use the forum (Raiders' Corner). |
| 17/03/2004 - Panzer Puzzle Update OK, now the entire AFV is visible: a Russian TD captured by the Wehrmacht. Should this be the first puzzle to remain unsolved? Or will anybody send the correct designation? The solution will be published on Friday, anyway. |
| 16/03/2004 - New Link ... ... to another great PG community: PG2 leagues -> WarHexes. |
| 15/03/2004 - Panzer Puzzle Update OK, now it should be clear which AFV it is. And what was its Wehrmacht designation? |
| 14/03/2004 - New Raider, old Raider, new rule Contender from Germany has finished his tutorial duel against our Wuestenfuchs (Desert Fox) and is a regular member from now on. However, he needs a 2 weeks leave after that battle. *g* Jerry, one of the earliest Raiders and our busiest player has been appointed Mega General (more than 300 points) as our first member ever! Therefore as well as for other contributions to our community he receives a prize, a medal and cordial thanks by the ladder master.:-)) Since our league has grown significantly in the past months, from now on also the third-placed players in both championships (absolute and relative) will be honored. |
| 13/03/2004 - Panzer Puzzle Update C'mon, guys! There have already been some basically correct solutions. However, this AFV was obviously used by the Wehrmacht. So the according designation is ...? |
| 10/03/2004 - Panzer Puzzle Update |
| 09/03/2004 - New Raider The first member from Spain, one of the leading 'PG2 nations', has joined us. Bienvenido, JJLL! |
| 08/03/2004 - Panzer Puzzle Update |
| 06/03/2004 - Panzer Puzzle Update, New Raiders, Scenario Updates We got a new member from the U.S.A. Welcome aboard, Rakassan! And a new member on trial from Germany who is going to play his first pbem duel ever. Welcome as well, Ironduke! In its new version 2.2 the Dieppe scenario has more turns to prevent frequent draw results. The Kasserine scen (no new version) has a *.PLY in English and won't crash anymore - thanks to Rakassan. |
| 05/03/2004 - Scenario and campaign tools Translated section of our PG2 Download page. |
| 04/03/2004 - New Panzer Puzzle, Tournament In the 10th Panzer Puzzle there is an 'amnesty' for former winners, i.e. they may win again. Have fun! The second round in the Portal tournament has been reached by 4 out of 9 Raiders: Black Tuareg, Eiswolf, Peter Pan, RedScorpion. Unfortunately, there had been some Raiders vs. Raiders duels in the first round. Anyway: congratulations, and may the force be with you! For those who were eliminated there are only 2 months to go until the next tourney - thanks to HPS! :-) |
| 03/03/2004 - Still alive and well No update for an entire week without previous announcement? The one and only reason for this could only be a desastrous computer crash - and in fact, it was. :-((( OK, now the webmaster is back. Today there are some comments on the scenario page (rightmost column), and of course many ladder updates. Tomorrow the new Panzer Puzzle will start. |
| 24/02/2004 - Links section complete Now all link descriptions are in English, and only sites in English are linked. Of course 'complete' does not mean there won't be more links in the future. Suggestions will be appreciated! Reports on broken links as well. If you like to surf German sites, nevertheless, just hop to our German pages (see site map). |
| 20/02/2004 - New Raider, Imprint It is a great honor and pleasure for us to welcome the famous Gen. h.c. Alsenor, founder and carrier of TBG, as our second international member (the first had been Rommel). The imprint is now up in English; so you can take a look at those funny guys of our staff. :~) |
| 19/02/2004 - Update info If the site is updated without an entry in the news it is usually a ladder update or another minor update (scenario statistics, comments etc.). |
| 18/02/2004 - Opening of the Raiders' International Section Welcome again to our PG II community. Maybe you have already visited our site but have not understood anything. Well, this is going to change from now on! In order to make yourself comfortable with this site please read this first!! Of course, we can't translate all pages at once. However, you will already find everything you need to play our fine RSF scenarios in the Raiders league or elsewhere:
Last, but not least: many thanks to our 'guest translators' Gen. h.c. Alsenor and Ines for their support! :-) - Rayydar |
Champion: Shukov (gets 15 extra points in the long term ladders)
Vice champion: Joerg0866 (10 extra points)
Bronze Medal: Infernalex (5 extra points).
Player of the Season: Shukov with 20 PBEM games in 6 months.