I’m not a modder, and I’m not about to become one, but I can’t understand why EA don’t want to release the SDK. People still have to buy the game to play the mods created with it so EA get their money, and, as we’ve seen with Half Life, a few good mods actually shifts more units. I’m dying for TFC 2 to be released but not to play it, but the mods which will surely follow. Sierra are sharp enough to the value of good mods that they have signed up the best FPS modders to ensure they continue to get good stuff. As it is Shogun is going to remain a minority game because its samurai, take it or leave it. If you could play it with Tiger and T-34 tanks folk would desert Sudden Strike to play it, if you could play it with gnomes and fairies I’m sure that would attract another whole constituency. Unless they think they can sell us the WWII and Dragon version of the game as well as the samurai version I don’t know why they aren’t making the most of great engine, damn I wish this game had a decent publisher.

Actually there is a game coming out that seems like a carbon of copy of Shogun but with huge fantasy armies, I saw a screen shot with a massive bone dragon eating about four tiny little dwarves while the other dwarves and assorted skeletons battled at its feet, its not the Shogun engine, but a similar one. Anyone know the name/ release date?