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Currently, Wednesday and Thursday are regular open multiplayer online session nights for MOW2. The Wednesday session meets in the Chatroom at 9:00 pm EST, with the game starting about 9:30. The Thursday session meets in the Chatroom at 10:00 pm EST with the game beginning about 10:15. Often custom scenarios are played, and these have been excellent in quality and for accomodating large numbers of players. Everyone is invited to join the fleet of their choice!

It's very important to keep MOW2 updated on your harddrive, especially if you intend to play online. Please visit the Download page and make sure your game is current. The current version of MOW2 is 1.024.

August 7th

Steve Osmanski enters a trio of "what-if" extended time scenarios. Check them out on the Download page.

June 18th

Martin Mielke submits an interesting new scenario, "The Dutch East India Company"

June 1st

Happy first anniversary to this Man of War II website! Hard to believe, but true!
Tom Cundiff's scenario roster has again been updated and a new list has been placed at the head of the document. It lists scenarios in order of the number of players required from 3 to 30. Any scenario requiring more than 30 is not coallated on this list, though they ALL continue to be listed further down in the document as before. ......on the Info/FAQ page.
May 22nd

Captain Christian submits 2 scenarios. The first one is the USS Chesapeake vs HMS Shannon. The second one is assuming that Lawrence had waited until his crew was trained. On the Download page.
May 19th

Tom Cundiff updates his MOW2 Scenario Roster to include all current information for the Extended Play scenarios as well as the new scenario additions. ......on the Info/FAQ page.
May 14th

Tom Cundiff includes "extended play" variants to his "War of the Baltic: Russo-Swedish War of 1788-1790" and "The Russo-Swedish War" scenarios........on the Download page.
May 8th

Tom Cundiff submits a "War in the Indian Ocean-1778 to 1783" scenario collection. On the Download page.

Tom Cundiff completes his MOW2 prebuilt scenario variant collection. He's made minor adjustments to the objective conditions to read 90% of enemy ships out of action. Check the Download page.
A new user-created, online, historically based game merges with MOW2....."Naval War 1800s". This is a game set in the Napoleonic Wars and involves England, France, Spain, and the United States. It focuses on Ship-of-the-Line battles, but frigate commands are also available. Visit Fletcher Christian's and Max Schmid's site at http://navalwar.cjb.net for details.
April 18th

Strategy First releases Mow2Patch 1024. This latest patch adds more frequent sync-checking during multiplayer games, and corrects errors where valid IP addresses were mistakenly identified as invalid. This patch includes all previous patches.
April 4th

Dan Santoro submits a new historical (and unique) scenario Hermione vs. Surprise.

Max Schmid submits a new historical scenario Indefatigable & Amazon vs. the Droits de l'Homme.
April 2nd

Tom Cundiff's "War of the Baltic: Russo-Swedish War of 1788-1790" and "The Russo-Swedish War" has been added to and consolidated on the Download page.
March 9th

MOW2 teams up with "Marooners"! Visit Marc Quinn's expanding pirate realm, where sea duels between pirate and pirate hunter are now a virtual reality via the goal-oriented "Marooner's online game. Duels and larger engagements are arranged through "Marooners", then played out in the tactical world of Man of War II.
February 11th

Steve Osmanski submits Battle of the Komandorski Islands, based on a WWII north Pacific battle.
Steve also sent in a very "immersive" screenshot.
Linked to Marc Quinn's excellent "Cutthroats" game site.....Links Page.
February 3rd

Steve Osmanski submits Convoys in Action, a hypothetical French/English action.
January 30th

Steve Osmanski submits Yankee Battle Fleets: Britain's Nightmares, a trio of hypothetical scenarios.
December 27th

Anthony Lathrop submits a new custom scenario, Trimming Medusa's Locks.
December 20th

Just a mention of the site passing the 25,000 hit mark today. Quite noteworthy IMO, thanks everyone!
December 13th

Dan Shippey creates the first custom MOW2 campaign, No Quarter.
December 8th

A scenario format text file is now available on the Download page, for the tinkerer in you.
December 6th

A new dedicated server patch is available on the Download page. Check there for details.
December 2nd

Jesse Rosso submits a new custom scenario, the Hawke vs the Pigot.
November 21st

Dan Shippey submits the famous Randolph vs Yarmouth duel of 1778.
November 17th

Steve (Oz) Osmanski submits a great series of custom scenarios based on Horatio Hornblower's naval exploits.
October 6th

Van Catterall updates his scenario, Sybille vs Forte to version 2.5.
October 3rd

Van Catterall updates his scenario, The Battle of Copenhagen to version 2.0.
September 30th
Kent Ainley revises his Battle of Lake Erie scenario to version 3.0, taking advantage of the greatly improved victory condition system in patch 1.019
September 26th

Strategy First and Justin Przedwojewski have made available to the MOW2 community, a new editor program for altering ship models used within the game. Check the Download page under Patches and Utilities for details.

Version #19 of J. Bravo's FAQ is available here.
September 23rd

Michael Grindstaff offers a custom scenario of the Battle of Lissa.

September 3rd

Anubis contributes his first custom scenario, Pirates of the Carribean!

Eric Schoell updates his Battle of the Nile scenario to version 2.0.
August 30th
William Sherman revises his 15-scenario package, Naval War of 1812 to version 3.1. See description on the Download page for details. This is an ambitious project, and minor improvements are ongoing.
August 14th

Ed Reiss offers another new scenario, The Battle of Trincromalee.

August 12th
Ed Reiss offers a new scenario, USS United States v HMS Macedonianon..
August 11th

Ed Reiss submits a very nice "period" report of an action off Cape St. Vincent.

August 5th

Kent Ainley submits a new scenario, The Battle of Lake Erie.
August 1st

Lethe Lam offers an interesting new "what-if" Trafalgar scenario.
Miguel Molina offers a collection of 4 scenarios, including small historial encounters between Spanish and British ships.
July 12th
Van Catterall updates his Nymphe vs Cleopatre s cenario.
July 10th
Mark Quinn's trio of pirate scenarios gets updated.
July 2nd
Posted Eric Schoell's Battle of the Nile scenario.
June 26th
Mark Dezendorf adds a fifth scenario to his Bolitho series......"Only The Brave, 1781"
Miguel Molina offers a new Spanish vs English scenario, Habana.
Mark Dezendorf adds a fourth scenario to his Bolitho series......"To Dare Or To Die, 1778"
June 24th
Posted Old Ironsides, a new interactive 3-scenario package by Marc Quinn.
June 19th
A new scenario added, Cochrane's Triumph, by Bruce Trinque.
June 15th
Another new custom scenario by Bruce Trinque, Treasure has been added to the Download page.
June 11th
Bruce Trinque offers a new historical scenario, Seahorse and the Two Turks.
Two different frigate versus frigate Training scenarios, courtesy of Bruce Trinque.
June 1st, 1999
Greetings. I'll be filling all pages with content at a steady but leisurely pace, and I welcome any suggestions or critiques that you may have. If you find things not looking quite right anywhere, please e-mail me with details. The general plan is to offer a harbor of information and services about Strategy First's "Man of War II" computer game of naval combat in the glorious Age of Fighting Sail.

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