kipanderson

Hi,
Thanks.. great photos 🙂.
We are lucky to have CM... !
All the best,
Kip.

37mm, hi,
Am astounded by what I have found. Incredible work and generosity🙂. Just installed and launched a Saved game.
Fantastic🙂.
Thanks for all the fine work.
 
All the best,
Kip.
 
 
 
 

Hi,
Thanks.. great photos 🙂.
We are lucky to have CM... !
All the best,
Kip.

37mm, hi,
Am astounded by what I have found. Incredible work and generosity🙂. Just installed and launched a Saved game.
Fantastic🙂.
Thanks for all the fine work.
 
All the best,
Kip.
 
 
 
 

Hi,
thanks to Sorceror117 for the Matrix video. I think the future looks very bright for CM🙂.
The fact that the military have got their teeth well into Combat Mission Professional is a big plus. One advantage is that they are bound to drive the use of CM within a larger operational setting. Flashpoint Campaigns use Command for their operational layer. (According to the video mentioned above and others.) 
Agreed that Command Ops is a stunning game. But seems to have moved nowhere in last few years. I think the developer has other interests he now puts first. 
All the best,
kip. 
 

Hi,
Allowing Saved Games to be edited and adding the ability to password protect scenarios.
Currently it is massive amount of work to build and rebuild games/scenarios, but the two above features would transform everything. They may already be in Combat Mission Professional. Presumably the military use CM within operational games, to some degree. However, it is not a trivial job as Charles has previously explained that games are saved in a different format to that used in the current editor.
Some wargames are available in the standard and “professional…” versions for all to buy. Hopefully the same will happen with CM.
For tactics and more tactics CM is unequalled. Far, far ahead of all else🙂. And with all the player aids turned off, and the camera down low, certainly takes me into the zone as if watching a Spielberg movie🙂.  But its potential for use in an ongoing operational game is currently wasted.
All the best,
Kip.

Hi,
agree on all points🙂.
Remember the James Bailey, Normandy CMMC? Best wargame I ever played. And never even fought a CM contact battle through the entire campaign.
With CM engine 4 and the quality of the Vassal versions of many a great operational cardboard game would be fun. But would be so much easier if one could password protect scenarios and edit Saved games.
All the best,
kip. 

Hi,
have you guys seen this? 
You probably have but worth watching if not. Interesting to see how the military use CM.  
Unimaginably lucky to have CM. For tactics, tactics and more tactics functions in a different stratosphere to other wargames🙂. 
All the best,
Kip.
 

Hi,
It’s the Yom Kippur War for me 🙂!
During the forty-five years of the Cold War, it was the only major, mechanised warfare clash. All the classic armour of the Cold War was used in quantity. Added to which it was very close-run thing.  Most books on the war end after the Chinese Farm battles. In the real-world Israel was losing as many men in the last seven days of the war as it did during the first four days. Long after Chinese Farm.
Best book I know on the subject is Yom Kippur, No Peace, No War, October 1973 by Peter Baxter. Great little book, very even handed and full of interesting information.
Unbelievably lucky to have CM at all!
All the best,
Kip.
PS Hear what some say who may know what wargames sell and which don’t. But still Yum Kippur for me🙂.
  

Hi,
have you guys seen this? 
You probably have but worth watching if not. Interesting to see how the military use CM.  
Unimaginably lucky to have CM. For tactics, tactics and more tactics functions in a different stratosphere to other wargames🙂. 
All the best,
Kip.
 

Hi,
have you guys seen this? 
You probably have but worth watching if not. Interesting to see how the military use CM.  
Unimaginably lucky to have CM. For tactics, tactics and more tactics functions in a different stratosphere to other wargames🙂. 
All the best,
Kip.
 

Hi,
have you guys seen this? 
You probably have but worth watching if not. Interesting to see how the military use CM.  
Unimaginably lucky to have CM. For tactics, tactics and more tactics functions in a different stratosphere to other wargames🙂. 
All the best,
Kip.
 

Hi,
It’s the Yom Kippur War for me 🙂!
During the forty-five years of the Cold War, it was the only major, mechanised warfare clash. All the classic armour of the Cold War was used in quantity. Added to which it was very close-run thing.  Most books on the war end after the Chinese Farm battles. In the real-world Israel was losing as many men in the last seven days of the war as it did during the first four days. Long after Chinese Farm.
Best book I know on the subject is Yom Kippur, No Peace, No War, October 1973 by Peter Baxter. Great little book, very even handed and full of interesting information.
Unbelievably lucky to have CM at all!
All the best,
Kip.
PS Hear what some say who may know what wargames sell and which don’t. But still Yum Kippur for me🙂.
  

Ithikial_AU,
Wow... superbly explained and presented. As with others will follow this closely🙂!
Thanks..
All the best,
Kip.

Ithikial_AU,
Wow... superbly explained and presented. As with others will follow this closely🙂!
Thanks..
All the best,
Kip.

Hi,

Do you have this one yet...

Very high quality, English names from war or near war time period.

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/eastern_europe/

All the best,
Kip.

Hi,
“In John Sowden's all-time classic scenario "Platoon Patrol" (one of the smallest scenarios that were released in the first edition of Combat Mission Battle for Normandy), a US infantry platoon is tasked with securing a ford in Normandy. The platoon leader has a 60 mm mortar as the only indirect fire asset.”
From this article..
http://kriegsimulation.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/walk-and-shoot-combat-mission-battle.html#more
 
All the best,
Kip.

Hi,
Just so. As I understand it the HE effect of the interceptor thrown at the incoming KE penetrator can cause it to slightly skew such that the energy is no longer perfectly  in line nose to tail.  This greatly reduces the penetrating power. This was the explanation in one article a few years ago on the hopes to intercept KE projectiles. It was a German system in RD being discussed. 
All the best,
Kip.

Hi,
Agreed ! 
In all versions of CM. 
All the best,
Kip.

Macisle, hi,
Goodness, we are doppelgangers in our CM habits.. !
Thanks,
All the best,
kip.

Hi,

Stout Hearts: The British and Canadians in Normandy 1944. By Ben Kite.

Many of you will know that almost by tradition now the Michael Doubler book Closing With the Enemy has been considered the best overall CM relevant guide to tactics in WWII. But each to their own of course. As it deals with explaining how the Americans did things when they went well after many lessons learnt you hear little of other ways of doing things but still superb, detailed explanation of real world WWII tactics.

Stout Hearts does the same but following the adventures of the Commonwealth forces in Normandy. It is a bigger, fuller book. An incredibly detailed and well written explanation of how battalions really did fight the war. Lots and lots of detail on tactics. Wonderfully illustrated by first hand counts, but also clearly explained from a more serious, lessons learnt perspective. The two are welded together as in no other book of the many hundreds I have read on military history.

The fact that it follows the adventures of the Commonwealth forces should not put anyone off. As the Doubler book hopefully did not put off those who are not American. Such as myself.

The tactics are relevant to all nations. An example is the detailed passages on the use of anti-tank guns. Near always setup to fire through side armour. Explains why even the Soviets with their ubiquitous light weight but low energy76mm guns could often halt any German, medium armour unit. The 76mm gun could penetrate the side armour of a Panther, let alone Mark IVs, at 45 degree strike angles out to and beyond 1,000m. In “village Russia..” or Ukraine you see this when Panther battalions were ground to halt trying to fight their way into the Korsun Pocket.. to give one example. They had to clear a wide corridor by assaulting over quite long front or losses climbed quickly.

But no matter.. If you are keen fan of CM I know of no better books on the tactics than the two mentioned above. The newer Stout Hearts being the bigger better book but that is no insult to Doubler as no doubt his book was a quicker product.

Each to their own… .
Lucky to CM at all..!
All the best,
Kip.

Hi,

Stout Hearts: The British and Canadians in Normandy 1944. By Ben Kite.

Many of you will know that almost by tradition now the Michael Doubler book Closing With the Enemy has been considered the best overall CM relevant guide to tactics in WWII. But each to their own of course. As it deals with explaining how the Americans did things when they went well after many lessons learnt you hear little of other ways of doing things but still superb, detailed explanation of real world WWII tactics.

Stout Hearts does the same but following the adventures of the Commonwealth forces in Normandy. It is a bigger, fuller book. An incredibly detailed and well written explanation of how battalions really did fight the war. Lots and lots of detail on tactics. Wonderfully illustrated by first hand counts, but also clearly explained from a more serious, lessons learnt perspective. The two are welded together as in no other book of the many hundreds I have read on military history.

The fact that it follows the adventures of the Commonwealth forces should not put anyone off. As the Doubler book hopefully did not put off those who are not American. Such as myself.

The tactics are relevant to all nations. An example is the detailed passages on the use of anti-tank guns. Near always setup to fire through side armour. Explains why even the Soviets with their ubiquitous light weight but low energy76mm guns could often halt any German, medium armour unit. The 76mm gun could penetrate the side armour of a Panther, let alone Mark IVs, at 45 degree strike angles out to and beyond 1,000m. In “village Russia..” or Ukraine you see this when Panther battalions were ground to halt trying to fight their way into the Korsun Pocket.. to give one example. They had to clear a wide corridor by assaulting over quite long front or losses climbed quickly.

But no matter.. If you are keen fan of CM I know of no better books on the tactics than the two mentioned above. The newer Stout Hearts being the bigger better book but that is no insult to Doubler as no doubt his book was a quicker product.

Each to their own… .
Lucky to CM at all..!
All the best,
Kip.

Hi,

Stout Hearts: The British and Canadians in Normandy 1944. By Ben Kite.

Many of you will know that almost by tradition now the Michael Doubler book Closing With the Enemy has been considered the best overall CM relevant guide to tactics in WWII. But each to their own of course. As it deals with explaining how the Americans did things when they went well after many lessons learnt you hear little of other ways of doing things but still superb, detailed explanation of real world WWII tactics.

Stout Hearts does the same but following the adventures of the Commonwealth forces in Normandy. It is a bigger, fuller book. An incredibly detailed and well written explanation of how battalions really did fight the war. Lots and lots of detail on tactics. Wonderfully illustrated by first hand counts, but also clearly explained from a more serious, lessons learnt perspective. The two are welded together as in no other book of the many hundreds I have read on military history.

The fact that it follows the adventures of the Commonwealth forces should not put anyone off. As the Doubler book hopefully did not put off those who are not American. Such as myself.

The tactics are relevant to all nations. An example is the detailed passages on the use of anti-tank guns. Near always setup to fire through side armour. Explains why even the Soviets with their ubiquitous light weight but low energy76mm guns could often halt any German, medium armour unit. The 76mm gun could penetrate the side armour of a Panther, let alone Mark IVs, at 45 degree strike angles out to and beyond 1,000m. In “village Russia..” or Ukraine you see this when Panther battalions were ground to halt trying to fight their way into the Korsun Pocket.. to give one example. They had to clear a wide corridor by assaulting over quite long front or losses climbed quickly.

But no matter.. If you are keen fan of CM I know of no better books on the tactics than the two mentioned above. The newer Stout Hearts being the bigger better book but that is no insult to Doubler as no doubt his book was a quicker product.

Each to their own… .
Lucky to CM at all..!
All the best,
Kip.

George,

Yup,,, fantastic stuff as I knew it would be.. .

Will save this for when I have time to play it a full hour or more at a time.. As is my habit have popped in to the editor just to take a preview of the map.. stunning.. they always are in your games..

Thanks..
All the best,
Kip.

Hi,

I hate to say it.. but I too haven’t witnessed anything so funny in CM for a long time.. .

Now I feel guilty.. I am sure they were very fine men. Really .

All the best,
Kip.