FAI

In WWII, nobody was fighting to win the hearts and minds of the civilians. It was a war for survival. Even atomic weapons were introduced, and that was a much bigger fish to fry than some smoke-and-heat generating weapons. In Fallujah (and Iraq), it was all about hearts and minds. Too much collateral damage, and you'll see military victory in all the battles but eventually the war will be lost.

CM: Prince of Persia, then

Imagine someone high up in Syrian military have been an avid fan of CM. Soon we will see a Syrian shopping spree for some fancy and nasty stuffs, just in an adequate amount to make them justifiable to be included in CM:SF... Remember, how many RL IS-3 (or any other obscure weapon system) did it take to make it to CMBB? AS a side note, if I were a Syrian military commander, I'd take a very close tab on the development of this sim..., err game.

I'm still waiting for a worthy successor to the X-COM series, which for me stopped at Apocalypse. Now the idea of CM:X-COM looks even more farther.... I know the idea of an alien invasion could be thwarted by a handful of elite human warriors is too much to believe, but it didn't stop X-COM from being a very enjoyable game. CMx2 engine will definitely reinvigorate the genre.

Muslims prefer the last translation. Somehow there's a subtle (but significant) difference between "god" and "Allah", especially for non-Arab speaking Muslims. Allah is exclusively Islamic, while "god" is the generic word for other deities.

I thought the click-fest type RTS don't remotely resemble real world tactical situations... Or are they?

Warhammer? Really...? How?

I find this back-story far more believeable....

What if your grandfather was killed at Kursk? Do you think that CMBB should not have simulated Kursk? All the best Andreas </font>

Obviously you have been to a very peaceful school. Look, in the schoolyard it is always the weakest kid who gets dragged behind the bikeshelter and has the crap beaten out of him by the school-yard bully. In this case that is Syria. This is far more realistic than an attack on Iran - while the US could easily beat the Iranian army, take the post-war operations in Iraq and multiply the problem by, uh, a lot. Iran's male population that could be called up to serve is almost as large as the total population of Iraq, and three times the service-age population of Iraq, 4.5 times that of Syria. Landmass is almost four times that of Iraq, ten times that of Syria. Borders with lots of countries that are problematic in the case of Iran, only with US Allies in the case of Syria. World factbook Iran World factbook Iraq World factbook Syria Syria is to Iran what Arnold Schwarzenegger is to Woody Allen. I know who I would like to take on, even if I am Mike Tyson. All the best Andreas </font>

Steve should thank you fytinghellfish for dragging more WWII fans to a more futuristic mind

Yeah, especially 2007 is only, what..., 2 years from now?

They say with power comes responsibility.. Let the one without enemy cast the first nuke...

. ...and red on red. I think we might be going to see a bit of flexibility. We the user may be able to develop scenarios for Afghanistan and Iraq. It will be interesting to see exactly what CMSF will be capable of doing. </font>

Those rifles..., what are they? XM-4?

Yes, it was done, but it was slow work. Who'd want to sit around for 300 turns wating for your engineers to lift a path through a minefield? Flail tanks, on the other hand... Michael </font>

Shouldn't there be other ways to clear a mine field other than using explosives? I mean, engineers do physically remove and disarm mines one by one.

Wildman, I think those are excellent (though copyright protected ) game systems. In a way they offer unlimited possibilities, while WWII offers only the same possibilities as what everybody else does. The only way we can differentiate our WWII games from others is by the attention to realism, scale, and overall quality. We can do all of that and a heck of a lot more of all the rest of the elements are up for grabs. Steve </font>

It will be insane if it isn't WWII. The largest market is there. But, why tempt the market by not just saying it so....?? :confused: I haven't seen the harm in just announcing earlier which conflict it will be.

Ha ha ha.... This is the post that finally forced me out of my lurkdom. Got me a good (uncontrollable) laugh. Now I know where to direct people asking where I got my strange sense of humor... And, Hi mom