Those screenshots make want to get my considerable Avalon Hill and Victory Games board game collection out of storage.

Hello fellow Hours of War fans!

We have started the Closed Beta phase, during it we will make the game and underlying technical infrastructure ready for the Open Beta.Two weeks of closed Beta so far and things are going well. Here is a short information package related to Closed Beta:

- All games we arrange are still Closed games, they are not open for public
- We will have two types of games, Invitation only games and Continuously running games

INVITE YOUR FRIENDS TO CLOSED BETA

We have accepted 100 new Beta testers in the last 2 days and we’ll keep adding more:

- We would appreciate a lot if you would invite your friends to the Closed Beta: do tell them to send an email to the address:

communitymanager@hoursofwar.com

with a subject: Applying to Closed Beta

Thank you for reading this, stay tuned for more information.

HOW Team

Piri

PS. YouŽd have to sign up first to our site (https://www.hoursofwar.com/members/register), and then you could apply for the tester status!!!

A new version of the game released now to closed beta!

Play now and check out the new version of the Hours of War game - it's completely free.

Some of the new things are:
- Completely new user interface
- Accurate casualties shown
- Radio Normandy joint chat for both Allied and Axis players
- Lot of bugs fixed e.g. regarding line of sight and observations

Play Hours of War Closed Beta anytime you want to 24/7.
First you need to register to:
https://www.hoursofwar.com/members/register

...after registering, hit "Request Beta access" button - the request will be processed within one workday.

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When you have been approved to the Beta group, joining into the game could not be more simple, go to:

http://www.hoursofwar.com/pages/play

...login, and choose a game from the list!

The games are running 24/7, and restart every three hours. Don't pay attention to the starting times mentioned
in the lobby, just choose a game and start to play! See you in the game!

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If you have friend who might be interested in playing in closed beta, let them know that all it takes is registering:
http://www.hoursofwar.com

...after registration, click "Request Beta access" button!

Best regards from Finland!

Piri

Great, have been enjoying the beta and will be good to have some things fixed. Come on North and South Americans, we need more players.

Thanks Rummy/killdevil for Your words! And Yes, we need more players from the great country of USA

Piri

Hello gentlemen, I was on holiday for a bit - I am glad to announce that the Open Beta of Hours of War been launched! Game is running 24/7, and all registered users are able to play for free.

If you haven't registered yet, you can do it here:
https://www.hoursofwar.com/members/register

If you already have an account, login ( https://www.hoursofwar.com/members/login ), click "Join Game" on your profile page, and play.

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PREMIUM ACCOUNT GIVEAWAY

To celebrate this milestone, we will give away 3 Premium Open Beta accounts for best/most interesting War stories from the game, all you need to do is to play some games, and tell about the events/outcome in this forum thread:

http://www.hoursofwar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=382

With Premium account, you get to:
- Choose side (Allied or Axis), and unit (eg. Armor)
- See your player history (wins etc.)
- And quite soon have access to new scenarios

(Premium account: http://www.hoursofwar.com/products )


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What is Hours of War?

Hours of War is a turn/tick based World War II strategy game, playable on browser. Right now we have multiplayer scenarios with 38 and 62 player positions, and are working on both small and much larger scenarios. Open Beta will continue until we launch the final "Live" version early 2010.

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Hope to see you in the game!

Piri

game over?

Kind of looks that way doesn't it?

This whole thread should be removed.

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ya thx for the heads up... since your on my watch list, lol... lost this thread and this was all last year, guess it didn't work out. Unstickied.