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Awesome shots Peter!!! Hehe u better hope ya tactical CM skills are as good as ya camera skills in our Current PBM match!!!!!

Ive got SS, its ok for a bit of a laugh. I enjoy the mulitplayer part of it, can be quite fun. I prefer CM for tactical wargaming so to speak and the abilty to mod units etc. Cm is on a scale 1 to 100, a 90 to me. Cm's rating ( not 100) is because u are limited to what u can mod etc and the fact the game is based from Normandy onward. I was wanting 1937+ aleast in the same package. SS is a 75. I suggest to any who trash SS, atleast; play the full game before u say it sucks. The demo hasnt got everything in it. Im actually quite interested in WWII online, depending on how good the servers can handle all those players. I hope that game will not be a let down like many other online games. Hurry up with the new patch BTS i want multiplayer network links!!!!!!!

If u really got married congrats aka_tom_w!!!!!!!!!

So how about putting in a option for a german vw scout car with a mounted gun? Ive sen pics of em and it would be nice to use the car in a similar way to the US jeeps. I know it was rare to do this but they did it. Probably as rare as a US jeep speeding straight up into the german line looking the defensive setup hehehe. By the way im for putting up the cost of jeeps because basically they can kill a halftrack too easily. With the tests others have done; and myself from what ive seen jeeps are very nasty for the points cost. They cost bugger all and can kill a halfie with a mg that costs double far too easily. As for the use of vehicles runing them up, and there cheap points value, i couldnt care less, people that have done that crazy recon to me have generally died very fast. I think to help stop this u should have a new tactical game option. Recon planes!!!!!!!!!! And if a unit is hidden in tress u canna spot it but moving units u can spot. That way flak would be used more as well. Either way whatever u do, any recon on me will die fast. Personally id rather save fast vehicles and throw a few mgs in em and when the battles half way done run em up on someones flank and give it to em. Cheer Bol

Yes ive found German tanks are more accurate over long distances. Short range can be nasty as well to most allied tanks, the turrent's rotation being slow is the bad thing about close up fighting. Regarding all the previous discussion i dont have a problem at present with any sides tanks/gunnery. The bad luck one can have is insane sometimes but it happens. I have been into WWII fro 17 years and i believe the ballistics etc are done very well. I feel there is a slight pro german taint in the air regarding tanks and i would like to add that they were not that amazing. They were good though, as i have tested making testing ranges with all the tanks. Using both ai and human they all work well according to certain ranges and calibres. Specifics like terrain, tactics and the like come into it more so than the weapons themselves i believe.!!!!!!! As u dont see Allied tanks sitting there shooting germans long distance as they moved up and engaged at close range using there speed to outflank and turrent rotation speed to boot. I appreciate improvement in games but i feel whats done so far (tank wise) is good enough. (just my opinion but) Sometimes i think the AI is cheating hehehe with the luck factor that i find occuring alot; this game keeps me laughing all the time. This game is one of the few where luck kicks in alot at the worst possible moment. This to me is the start of thigns to come, Good luck BTS making Russian tanks etc.

I played the SS demo harcore before i heard about CM. I found it ok, much more fun that C & C etc. However once i played CM, the demo umm well it disapeared from my HD. CM is the bomb!! ( excuse the pun ) Sudden Strike is something u play for fun one evening against a mate, or with for a night's fun. CM to me has better value for monnies and more playability. U can DL and alter units colours, missions etc and have alot more long term fun than SS. SS is a good game if u like that sort of thing. Im a wargamer and a WWII historian and i would recommend CM over SS anytime. The only downer is CM's lack of multiplayer, being restricted to PBM currently. However hopefully real soon next month, BTS will have the TCP/IPX foor us to grab and DL and the game will go from 100% to 200%. Well thats my view anyways.

The sequel will be CM2 Russian front of course. However i was hoping they would make a Warhammer 40k game using this engine. The game would be awesome to play, as using the BMPs, people from around the world would make there own armies in different camo and colour. 40k is a good game, its a futuristic game with similar things like tanks, snipers etc. 6+ races, hundreds of different weapons etc. As i have asked BTS if they would make a game like this. No reply yet Some of u might go what a load of crap!!. U cant make everyone happy but this game is big in alot of countries. I have got a few mates who all play CM and whom used to play 40k strangely enough. The whole CM game seems quite similar to a game of 40k to us. We are all WWII fans as well, we all love to wargame. 40k used minatures on a tabletop with home made terrain, and was to an extent a game of similar size to that of a 1500 point CM game. Painting these figures and tanks has made us all keen mod makers and not just in CM but other games as well. 40k has been made into two pc games that have sucked because they have failed to make a realistic battlefield, one that really suits the game. The CM one is perfect. The whole setup is perfect for it. BTS has really done well making a 3d kickass tactical game that is unlike most games really awesom. But the question is what other games will come from this? And will other games companies make similar games? I love CM and whether they make a game we want etc dosent bother me too much but it would be nice to have something different and varied from WWII. But yeah whatever happens CM rocks the house!!! I feel lucky to be playing one of the revolutionary games of 21st century.

Nah i heard em firing, the same sound as a flame thrower but i couldnt see anything. This happeened over both turns hearing but not seeing a flame attack. Also the 3rd time it fired i saw the flame thrower his actual figure ie with backpack etc but no flame. Weird. Its not a mis identifcation. Hehe me guys routed very fast typical of a flame attack. Its a flame unit all right!!!

I just got off a PBM which takes place at night really mad. The reason being a German flamethrower guy fired at me unit at close range 2 times in a turn and also he shot at me again the next turn. And guess what i saw nothing no flame nothing. This happened both turns. I had a tank watching him as well. I can see he is a flamethrower by his actual graphic model now but still cant see his flame. So are they shooting invisible flame now? I use flamethrowers myself and i can always see em firing. So its not me graphics card. And if i hear that u cant see flame at night, umm thats just a bit stupid. As a result i ran another group towards em thinking it was normal squad hehe and now they are toast too. This bug has screwed me up. Any ideas? Happened to anyone else?

This would make CM2 very complex. Its a good idea and fun in thought but fighting Russians wiht King Tigers would be real strange. If u could capture stuff then and there ok, but starting with captured stuff i think would be a no no. I mean nicking a jeep etc is fine but capturing a tank?. CAn they crew it? Do they no how it works?

This would make CM2 very complex. Its a good idea and fun in thought but fighting Russians wiht King Tigers would be real strange. If u could capture stuff then and there ok, but starting with captured stuff i think would be a no no. I mean nicking a jeep etc is fine but capturing a tank?. CAn they crew it? Do they no how it works?