Hopefully, you won't mind if that billet-doux takes the form of a lavishly illustrated AAR. In the week I've spent with Eugen's ravishing/riveting RTS thus far, I've seen enough to realise that Red Dragon is culmination rather than revolution - a creeping barrage rather than a breakneck blitzkrieg. Largely thanks to an extra speed setting - bullet-time (effectively an active pause) - it's the four-instalment Wargame series at its most wargamey and wargamer friendly. What I don't feel I'm in a