Sublime
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On 3/8/2023 at 10:05 AM, snarre said:
i could
Thanks for your response
to be upfront, Im working full time, so at best 2 turns a day maybe only 1.
If still interested PM me
ALSO (sorry) I dont want bttn vs bttn its too much for me nowadays. MY 'sweet spot' is company or company (+) with a plt of tanks. This isnt a HARD RULE, but a rule of thumb.
Any other house rulles can be discussed later, there arent many besides like if it were BS and it isnt ID say no APS, etc
OH I dislike meeting engagments, theyre just not realistic. I dont like assaults because the ratio, the defender is almost guaranteed a loss.
Otherwise my one other HARD rule is this - I always +1 map size on battle size
Small battle? med map
Large Battle? Huge map and so on
If you go by the same map size, youre almsot always doing frontal assaults
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On 3/29/2023 at 12:31 PM, Sublime said:
he woods. (its the huge map of a village with woods on southern edge) I split up the teams, (mostly scouts) Ive been impressed and appalled and law
On 3/13/2023 at 4:01 PM, cargol said:Check FGM,you will always find a game or two there.
Im just lazy, but aware of the site. I appreciate your response though
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please excuse my typos
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ALSO
The_Capt
Wheres he?
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7 hours ago, LongLeftFlank said:
Ha ha, that would make you pretty much the only one at this point, now that our dear SgtSquarehead has ascended to ValhallaCon. I'm out of here for the duration, mostly work, but also the general tone of late feels like 8th grade. I don't need that crap at 59. Be well mate, hold the course!
wait, wtf Sgt Square is.. are you serious?
Bro.. this is hard to even keep typing Im like... in shock now... ****. But dude, you and I never interacted a ton, but your posts, your content, I have been on these boards since I was 14 in 1999. I dont remember exactly when I first remember u but you been around as long I think. However you have been key to this community. Half these people here, they dont even know that CMBB or BO existed. LOL. And you were in your prime back in the BB days....
Still, how you carry yourself, all of that, I really do have a lot of respect for you. Ive had bad days where I posted dumb **** because I was.. well I was f'd up lol, or I said dumb things, I cant think of you ever doing so. This is a sign of a measured, thoughtful man. Something I wish I was more of.
Dude please take care of yourself. Like holy hell did Squarehead get KIA?
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Highly recommend if you have sov problems watching this vid and if this isnt the same the one where he attacks also as a T64 bttn with troops.
He uses and explains how he is using Soviet doctrine.
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.....I have ever seen
Everything him and whiskey produce is good IMO
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On 3/21/2023 at 1:03 PM, IanL said:
@Sublime He's alive. Sorry I'm too busy to add another game to my list. But Welcome back.
I wont lie anyways man, Ive done you dirty on the PBEMS before and not finished games. I dont blame you. Also I really (part of why what happened did happen) got burnt out on CM and life. So.... Im going in slow. Got a new partner, hes a lot of fun, turns are slow but then again on my end too.
Ian it really is a pleasure to see you.
And I have to admit, though still adamant than CM is gonna die unless BFC makes CMx3 like NOW, no more other stuff before, I WILL admit, that the last two battles where my opponent actually finished and stuff realyl sucked me back into CM. I hadnt actually played CW in MP fiirst of all. He kicked my *** the first battle as a Soviet probe. I mean I got kills but he kicked my *** Ill be real. However same map, roles reversed, I feel really optimistic hes about to FAFO. I really got him off guard too - I didnt 'cheese it' like by putting stuff with LOS as soon as his units deplloyed but I deployed a **** load of infantry REALLY close to the forward edge of my deployment in the woods. (its the huge map of a village with woods on southern edge) I split up the teams, (mostly scouts) Ive been impressed and appalled and laws. sometimes they work sometimes a t series whatever takes 2 to the side hull and blasts my men.
But he was NOT expecting turn 1 contact and paid for it heavily. I took some losses too, but **** nothing compared to at least 4-5 bmps. one or two tanks, and perhaps 3 immobilized tanks one with its *** towards my lines. OTOH I saw a t64 or t80 literally tank a tow to the upper hull. that was lame.
btw my opp is probus. And again his defense of my probe. i may be outta practice but I used to be that 'redfor guy' back in the day in BS.. He decimated me. considrering he had m1s if he had charged he probably could have killed me entire force despite me still outnumbering him when I surrendered the battle
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On 3/25/2023 at 1:08 AM, Livdoc44 said:
Oh, can't wait for multiplayer and new armor (T-62, Leo 1, etc.). Certainly does; small team, they have a grip on what they're doing...it's awesome so far. Plus, all the stuff - fire and maneuver, using terrain, spotting, smoke, the list goes on - I've learned from playing CM over the years is instantly applicable to their environment. Good call!
The awesome thing is I got to talk to the devs on the discord latenight one night and almost noone was there. I mean most of this is known anyways but I confirmed some stuff
Crew will be modelled, not interiors. The T80 will appear. ERA is iffy, prolly not, Other theaters are planned. Infantry is definite, the level is unsure. Air support is obviously planned. They wouldnt divulge anything about when my beloved (the t64) let alone the hammerhead, leo 1 and bmp2 (thats gonna be a big deal) will arrive. Same story with when soviet and german voices will come, the voice acting for the US is *amazing* so Im pumped
The campaign is going to blow your mind. They got BIGGG Plans, logistics, lots of maps, battle types like now PACT attacks use nato formations numbers wise. If you play 'silver dart' you see a more realistic scenario - 2 m1s vs like 16 t72s and a couple atgms. in the futre PACT attacks will reflect the different doctrine and numbers.
smoke dischargers are 100% gonna be in game
you know you can play the t34 right? you gotta (and u can win) take losses as e germany but dont lose. take A LOT of losses but dont lose. the campaign u can lose battlles. theres a CHANCE if yourun low enuff on vehicles that you will be issued T34s. ive seen proof but hasnt happened yet
if you olay the original training range (without preview vehicles) and make sure to shoot every target on thr range theres an easter egg
Uh what else.... MP is gonna be mind blowing. I mean I paid for the steam version but I was playing this for 6 months for 5 bucks man. The team, their live streams their demeanor, they got the right vibe. TBH they didnt have streams and **** in 1999, IDK what steve and co sound like, but I really get the BFC back in 1999 vibe from these guys.
Like Id put 50 bucks on this game becoming an instant classic when its released.
BTW can you believe that these clowns online were arguing to me (on tankograd) that 3bm15 was superior to m833?
Oh and apparently GHPC is NATO propaganda. I said look its extremely EA. your literally judging a book by reading half of chapter 3 and thats it. I also pointed out the Soviets arent even in yet. Anyways idk if theyre tankies or what but after I worked a goddamn 9 hour shift came home, saw I accidentally didnt leave the discord and some Brit fellow said 'i dont think hes here anymore' then the rest of the server dogpiled that and basically said I was lurking and I was there and all this weird insulting ****. Like my god, dude if u guys think Im lurking on discord bc Im mad like what kind of lives are these ppl living? who has the time for that ****?
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bro lmao this is what I meant this is what he sent lol
https://discord.com/channels/@me/1083402959867613245/1085694197807468665
the 25k numba Id have to scrn but he really thinks 25k dead russians now versus 200-250k dead UA, I pointed out UA if nothing else is on DEFENSE, oryx, kharkiv kyiv kherson severdonetsk, lyschansk. doesnt matter.
BUUUUT Im getting to em, and hes YOUNG, like 14 I found out today. Im surprised, He wasnt alive for 99
But apparently 99 is alive in Serbia VERY VEERY much so
Tried telling dude most americans dont even know serbia is a place let alone about 99 etc, that most americans really just... well put it this way. like it or not, theyre better off with the west. not even US, the US really doesnt want anything there. But the EU? Every. Single. Former Eastern Country that has 'gone western' has become propserous etc.
It boggles my mind BRICS exists
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On 3/16/2023 at 4:05 AM, LongLeftFlank said:
It does happen tho.
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The 35th I.D. command nearly 'broke' and withdrew in a heavy forest battle in France when a German shell blew a bunch of the already overstressed staff into shreds. It required the direct intervention of 'Ol Blood 'n Guts to turn things around. I wish this had been in the movie.
Also LLF - first if you dont know I have the utmost respect for u...
But this was DURING ww2. 80 years ago, during a world war.
Now this we are NOT at war with Russia. I CANT see the US allowing the Russians to TARGET a 'secret nato HQ' and kill 'dozens of senior US officers' and do nothing. Honestly Id imagine the US would claim they were embassy staff, or on a legitimate legal reason to be somwhere and got killed and itd be all bad for Russia. Like some retaliatory strikes or strong rhetoric, or maybe (if I had my way as dictator jeff):
What Id do is build the worlds biggest nato repair facility on the Polish UA border with one wall literally being the UA border. (also when everyone discussed M1s being sent.. the t80 uses the turbine and the yooks use it fine? Also I can provide a source, a USA Maj Gen (ret) saw a M1 near Moscow the Russians showed off in 94. So all this 'secret tech' is bs
Anyways remember Putins 'maybe the Donbass miners bought theiir B3 T72s on ebay?' Id park 750 F16s, with a squadron of Gripens, and all the ammo, literally on the border, 'with the keys in the ingnition. Id also take our pre positioned stocks in Europe and GIVE UA 750 abrams and 1k bradleys, NOW. When Russia goes ape shrug and say ' IDK MAYBE THEY GOT IT ON ALI BABA'
Ironically I agree with Sergei Lavrov! The longer this goes on the more needless deaths there are. Problem is he means UA should roll over and take it. I mean we should call Russias bluff, and play their own game. Russia opperated entire regiments of fighters out of China. What could they do if a B2 or F35 MAYBE from Poland-ish bombed something? How could they prove ****?
Also What could they really do if we started doing this across Russia with B2s, on critical things a jdam can really mess up?
Totally o.t on the fitghter pilots podcast I was FASCINATED bc they find a f117 driver from the 80s
Did you know the F117 obv was made to nuke Moscow BUT after was supposed to hunt Russian AWACS? With sidwinders!! I shiit you not, Idk how, I dididnt know they could, but the pilot flew them from beginning thru gulf war 1 and serbia to iirc. IE He would know
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also dont wanna break forum rules but anyone who hasnt check out GHPC
Tank game. I think it shows A TON OF PROMISE. It FEELS like the BFC team did circa late 90s ( the dev chats, small team, etc)
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On 3/16/2023 at 4:05 AM, LongLeftFlank said:
It does happen tho.
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The 35th I.D. command nearly 'broke' and withdrew in a heavy forest battle in France when a German shell blew a bunch of the already overstressed staff into shreds. It required the direct intervention of 'Ol Blood 'n Guts to turn things around. I wish this had been in the movie.
Fair nuff But why in 2023 would the US need a NATO hq in Kyiv?
If Russia can do this how is Zelensky alive?
A platoon of US grunts, especially in the era of a draft, is a totally different matter than 'senior US officers'. That means career prolly field grade officers. That means also several combat deployments, and lots of comrades in arms.
I just do not see it. I dont see the plausibility of such a HQ existing (Why not Lviv? or Warsaw?) I dont see, if according to the UA sources Kyiv was built to withstand nuke attack and its tunnels are how Zelensky survived early war - what a Khinzal out matches a 1 megaton nuke? IDK
Given Russia performance as well - if this happened Im sure this happened by accident trying to wipe out an orphanage.
But seriously though, I really think several dead US officers would mean a war or at least a retaliatory strike.
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3 hours ago, Simcoe said:
Hell ya! I'm all for hordes of T-34 with tank riders against Shermans and Pershing.
IS3s, Comets, throw in some French panthers, maybe have some 'frei volk' unit with a weird mix of wehrmacht and US kit, It couuld be pretty awesome.
I dont know jack about any coding or anything, but Im just saying the vehicles and TO&Es, they really could get away with using summer 45 ones for the 2 or three year period I discuss covering.
Theres no real arms change, only a few new tanks that are hardly a necessity, etc.
Just sorta a wet dream, besides 80s CW late 40s always was my other fav what if
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On 3/8/2023 at 4:40 PM, Vacillator said:
CM3 not in the near future, but has been hinted at as a longer term intention (that's from my memory of recent posts by Steve).
I would do a PBEM but as per my signature I don't have CW yet. And I'd be a modern war virgin, so perhaps not what you're looking for
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no I love WW2. But.. Im burnt out my friend. On all of them EXCEPT cw. CW I bought immediately, then promptly didnt play it at all until I met a serbian kid, who was totally z pilled, and after weeks of actually friendy logical debate, sharing of links on both sides, I got him. He aint pro west, pro nato, but the cracks.. who am I kidding. He claimed (LMAO) 25k russian dead rn tops with over 200k UA dead. He doesnt care about like oryx. So I said look - Ill give you 1k dead from moskva, 1k from the kyiv 'feint', 1k from mariupol, 1k from kharkiv, 1 k from kherson, 1 k from bakmut, 1k from severdonetsk, 1k from lysychansk - point is its INSANE to try even claim ONLY 1k russian dead in operational, strategic, or otheriwse proven mass defeats. Still, even 'giving' him a mircalous 1k dead it easily goes above 25k dead.
I asked also if he thought UA was a nation. He said yes. Obviously I went with that. He sent me a hilarious link claiming a khinzal wiped out a secret nato hq in Kyiv and killed 'dozens of senior US officers' I was like bro if this was true
1. why is zelensky not dead?
2. more so - you claim the US is this evil empire everywhere. I get it, your a Serb tho too young for 99. However... IF this was true, the US would say ' we had officers there (they wouldmt admit a HQ duh) and say they got slaughtered while on a legit diplomatic mission. This.... this would be REALLY bad for Russia. THE US isnt gona let Russia kill a platoon of grunts, let alone 'several dozen' high ranking career officers.
Like I said, gimme a few more weeks and Ill have him watching codename magyar with me ' JAGGA JAGGA'
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On 3/9/2023 at 7:52 AM, LongLeftFlank said:
Welcome home brother.
Dude this means a lot coming from a legit forum legend like you.
Thanks
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21 hours ago, DougPhresh said:
I find, and I mean no offence, for any game I'm really invested in, do research, provide a lot of feedback, get involved with the community, particularly Grognard games, I'll get burnt out and take a year or more off the forums. There are a lot of reasons, one of them is that the time between patches or developer updates is really difficult, especially when many of these titles are so close to what I'd like them to be, with mostly janky issues, engine problems, etc. holding them back.
Bro no offense taken! You know my post history! Im one of the most offensive, hyperactive, annoying forum members here. Worst of all its unintentional. Im just... weird.
I agree btw, I just made a post and IMO if theres no CMx3 its over
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On 3/9/2023 at 7:27 PM, MOS:96B2P said:
Welcome back!!
Hey man thanks it means a lot. I lurked here and there. Actually IRL my abence isnt the 'younger me' reasons, its just I work like an adult now, a lot more than before
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OK guys.. Hear me out
dates May 45-May 47 or something
Almost EVERY WEAPON thatd be used, by both sides, is already in CMx2, in end of war fashion. They COULD add a few noice things like IS3, but this is hardly a necessity.
You could even throw in some weird mix ex werhmacht units for 'if it went bad' scenarios to make the wehraboos happy
Why not ? More options, more use of RT maps which frankly IMO are the most underused... things like that.. More money for BF
While Im at it - CM needs a new engine. Look I love CMx2. And Ive been around this forums since early 99. But if CM doesnt get a new engine, this game is gonna die.
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last post I swear
anyone want a CW PBEM?
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It feels like it to me. I didnt even really lurk here.. I think maybe once or twice since CW came out, once or twice a few years before that, and IDK how to explain it. Somethings gone =(
Or hey maybe Im just old
PS is CMx3 ever coming out? I think CMx2 needs to be put to bed.
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1 hour ago, Vacillator said:
The more I lose the more I want to play, it's a learning process after all. Unless you're on the dirty end of a very unbalanced battle of course.
I think sadly not, some info in the thread below and elsewhere. Also another good friend (Andy) who it seems departed was the subject of the thread.
As for John Kettler, I think he may have been given a lifetime ban for comments made on the massive thread, something to do with conspiracy theories? Same happened to General Jack Ripper IIRC.
We can only hope that they and others might one day be granted a pardon, but they may not wish to return I suppose.
Well.. ****. Thats a tragic loss for our forum.
Kettler... I honestly thinks means well but perhaps its for the best, IDK.
I will miss Ripper. I liked General RIpper. In the movie and in the forum.
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and btw is Kettler still alive?
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Hey guys
what a year huh? Jeesh. I was burned out badly on CM. I got CW and even though it was my CM wet dream all along I just couldnt get into it. A few weeks ago had my first pbem. it was a newbie but I thought... well he had said he had more experience etc. I didnt wanna just wipe him down so I basically told him 'yes now Im using my TOW to destroy this tank, this is what u did wrong' but not AAR, more like as it happened. Losing over and over is a turnoff, and he understands mil stuff so I just wanted an easy transition.
Problem one was when i realized how much I had missed PBEM. Problem two was the more this kid lost the less he played, and then he declared he lost a battle but didnt surrender or send more files. I told em its fine, but warned him that on forums or elsewhere such behavior wouldnt be tolerated.
/End Rant
I missed you guys. what did I miss forum wise? Is Emrys still around and ok? I heard Nidan1 passed. RIP. I dont have his families permission to say whom, but also a forum member thats semi well known was KIA in Ukraine. Not sure if it was last month or this month. He was a Legion member (American or Canadian i dont recall RIP)
Im sure you didnt miss my rambling, at times incoherent posts. But I DID miss you, MAAAYBE even Kettler.
Also WTF happened to the wild *** discord that every. single. time. I signed on everyone would tell me they assumed I was dead?
pbem anyone
in Combat Mission Cold War
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Im not, but thanks for ur answer
I literally manually move the files Im a dinosaur