Congratulations to all the players on the Axis side for their stunning victory from a turnaround push back from inside Germany!

We expect to be off the air for up to 3 hours. We can't be absolutely certain of the downtime because there are several unknowns we have to deal with and can't predict ahead of time, we will only know their true status after the upgrading process begins.

When we come back up after the upgrades are complete, we will go into INTERMISSION mode for probably 2 days. We currently have a patch in beta (v1.28 point release not v1.29) with some important fixes we have wanted to get into the live game since the last point release to v1.28 ... naturally we'd like to patch this into the live client before the next campaign starts but that may require an intermission of 4 days rather than the normal 2 days, and we really don't want to put you guys through that, but the alternative is to not patch for the next campaign. That would be rather sad if we had to do that.

Perhaps we can run 2 intermissions back to back, this first one a general free for all like a normal intermission, blow off some steam, try some different stuff in a "no real rules" enviroment as per a normal intermission, then run a 2 day "event" with special rules etc.. this would buy us some important and much needed time to get the patch ready ... although this is not certain as no one knows what beta progress will be like over the next several days.

We're going to make the best call we can on this, but our options are not wide open or completely clear at this precise moment, a lot depends on several factors.

You can comment on this situation HERE if you want to make your impressions known.

Once again, congratulations Axis forces on your well won victory.

4:00pm (Monday) update.
New OS is installed and good (live servers) but databases are FUBAR, so we have to redo those. This is taking more time than we had hoped. Patch stuff is still questionable and will remain so until basically we're ready to go with it ... obviously the more time we have before the community goes into panic/heart-arrest the better the whole process looks for a campaign start (#45) with all we could ever want squared away and hunky dory.

So don't panic and be patient, and we'll all have an early Christmas this year.