Whoa, I missed that Billings is doing a re-master of his World at War. Might have to check that out.
I saw that, too. I wrote the manual for the original and the follow-on game, and demoed it MANY times at conventions for Matrix...but I don't remember a thing about it. I'm sure it would come back quickly because it was a pretty simple, fast, light, yet fun game.
Yeah, I think I remember you mentioning having written the manual (it was one of several you wrote for them, as I recall?). I'd forgotten you demoed it for them; I'll have to keep that in mind for if/when I get stuck.
I played around with the original game a little bit, but (as is so often the case with me) I didn't really get into it like I'd intended to. (No real reason, I think I just got distracted by other games soon after.) I do vaguely remember thinking it had a nice Axis & Allies feel, and that it would probably be about the closest I could get to playing that game (or its equivalent) solo.