Darren J Pierson

What? Where the hell? Okay, I'll look it all over again. A man in my position simply cannot afford to overlook a well thought out, insulting reply. Why else the heck am I here, after all? </font>

Seanachai, I gave you a well thought out insulting reply to one of your posts and I don't even get offered a large mug of STFU. I realize I'm not a cesspooler, but I'm hurt. Deeply and truly. I may never recover. Okay, I'm better now.

Okay, I'll buy it if for no other reason that it has armed motorcycle sidecars. Seriously.

Thanks, Lt. Bull. Now I will have to sear my eyes out to get that image out of my head. And I don't even want to think about who is Marsha. [ July 30, 2006, 09:09 PM: Message edited by: Darren J Pierson ]

New game announcements always bring out the best and the worst.

I'm looking forward to playing an era when a 20mm cannon was the biggest baddest boy on the block.

Well, this is a very interesting observation. Or it would be, if you weren't talking to someone from the Peng Challenge Thread, where we know, absolutely fecking know that the Apocalypso has already begun. So your points about 'anticipated, feared, predicted and uncertain' are a bit, for us, like discussing the colour of the icing on the Birthday cake of a child that's never going to be born. Not only that, but we've already all been informed about when the Game is going to be released. Go ahead and go ballistic about it on the Board. I mean, how likely is it that a tightly knit community of fanatics with an intense set of rules and incredibly rigid hierarchy could all be possessed of that knowledge and give no hint of it, eh? No one will believe you. It simply couldn't be true. Philip IV destroyed the Templars because they'd become too wealthy. Not because they knew secrets and had access to things that undermined the thrones of Europe. The Knights Templar were destroyed in order to forward the cause of Nationalism. And the Peng Challenge Thread has chosen to grant the rank of 'Knight' to seniour members out of a whimsical sense of nostalgia. [/QB]</font>

Are you suggesting that it is better to have sinned and lost then never to have sinned at all? I think that release dates are a lot like the millenial concept in certain religions. Anticipated, feared, predicted but uncertain until it arrives.

So, are all of the cries for detailed building environments setting us up for a super duper ToW II: Humpin' in the Hood for only $49.00 at a dealer near you? "The Boys* from Battlefront and those Crazy (ex-)Commies* bring you the exciting sequel allowing you to fight all of your favorite urban hits: Stalingard, Berlin, Arnhem, Dieppe, Portsmouth Pub Run, and the ever popular Denny's on a Sunday Morning after Church!. Get the dead cow from live cow to the kitchen on time or face reduced stats in the next battle. Based on demand from the forum faithful*, this carefully researched product is a reward for you, the forum faithful*. Due to the meticulous research, this product will be released when it is done*. * - Gender not confirmed by science. Cold War political associations not guaranteed. Faithful not to imply any religious or spiritual dispostions nor state of hygiene. The Surgeon General recommends against consuming meats or computer games at anything less than medium, but well done or actually finished is strongly recommended. Patent pending.

I wonder how many, if any, of those names were requested into CM the first time by forum members? Or from ASL as was pointed out? As I'm not German except by descent I have no clue about these names. Even if they aren't in the 100 most common names are they that unusual? For today or WWII? or if I was culturally German would I be rolling my eyes? As far as I can tell the current German polling is 1-1.

Can you give some example of the bad joke names? I'm just curious.

There's much more discussion in a few other threads such as the link above that go into more detail that might be helpful.

One thing I've always admired about BFC is that they try at least to keep the discourse elevated including the language.

This is a good point. I would put ToW more towards CC in terms of ease of play, atmosphere, and realism. WAY, WAY ahead of CC in terms of the AI and map size These last two issues are why many people on this Forum, myself included, grew frustrated with the series. It had so many positive things going for it, but when your tanks had to be individually handled so that they didn't spin around backwards in the middle of bridge, instead of crossing it, that really took the fun out of the game. And when the entire map was only 500m and you started the battle with a bunch of Fireflies facing off against a Tiger, all in the open, that too wasn't much fun (OK, the first time was fun ). ToW has neither of these two big problems. So in some ways ToW is closer to CC, some ways it is closer to CMx1, some ways it is different than both. But when combined, it is unique and rightly stands on its own two feet quite well. Meaning, *after* you play ToW you will soon stop wanting to compare it to other games and just compare it to itself. Obviously you can't do that yet since you don't have the game, but all good things to those who wait Steve </font>

I am probably just reading the article too quickly or not reading the same one that you are referring to, but I would assume Matt, etc. will answer shortly.

I probably missed it, but the only other game I saw was CM:SF so I'm a bit confused. Not that that is unusual...

Which of course begs the question, will you consider adding some more names to the common national name database?

I'm sorry, you misspelled Lt. General. Edit: PS - I'm not volunteering to coordinate it. I remember all the awful garbage Fionn got put through about the names.

If the data is manipulated for the smaller battlefield, is this also true for infantry? How will the affect infantry vs armor (and the reverse) engagements?

Just a wild guess, but I imagine they would say why program such a thing into the game when you can do it yourself. Or maybe they will say that it is a wonderful idea and let a player set automatic pauses at specific intervals.

Might as well ask this earlier than later? It was cool when forumites could request their names be used for leaders in CM - so any chance of getting our sorry selves into ToW?

Anyone publishing a tactical WWII game through BFC needs to sit down and read the old CM archives. From Bren tripods to Tiger mantles to corpses to national traits to hardened steel to track overpressure to facial features to what names are acceptable for leaders, etc. This can be a supportive group and a brutal group and a downright silly group at times, but always demanding - with all the positives and negatives that entails.

It isn't a mountain out of a molehill if urban combat is important to a player. Of course, if urban combat is that critical to the player then ToW should be a pass, correct? Customers need to judge a game by what it is, not what the customer thinks it should be. Personally some of my fondest memories from CC were firefights in buildings where it went room to room. ToW I'm sure will present other "fondest memories" in the future for those who accept it as it is.

I for one haven't yet figured out yet if ToW is suppoesed to be a fun game with realism (CCish - and yes, we can all debate the realism of the CC series) or a realistic game that is fun (More CMish). I would be happy with the former as I'm content to let CM be CM. Knee jerk reactions to changes in paradigms are not usually healthy, but change by itself does not mean that things will be improved either. But, all one will see is debate until a demo is out so we might as well buckle in and enjoy the ride.

The only nitpick that I have so far is that on the shot of the P-47 from beneath, the US insignia is on the wrong wing. It should be on the top of the left wing and the bottom of the right wing, but in the shot it is on the bottom of the left wing.