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  1. I can Check out p. 217 of the (US version) CMBB manual for changes made to artillery use. CMBB features pre-planned strikes you can launch on turn 1, new rules about targeting out of LOS, and so forth. That said, I think most of the basic ideas will still apply.
  2. Magnum MMG, Feel free to copy and paste them. Please leave the parenthetical intros and copyright notices intact (I'm a professional writer, so I like to protect my stuff--I've been plagiarized before ). The articles were written for CMBO, but I hope your friends might still find them useful for either CM game. I was hoping to help newbies into the CM fold with those articles. The more of us, the merrier! For the time being, I'll have to pass on the kind offer to post pics for the articles since I don't have the original screens anymore and would have to make new ones but don't have the time atm. Maybe some day, though. Thanks either way. [ January 05, 2003, 04:04 PM: Message edited by: Gremlin ]
  3. Bumped for newbies who haven't seen it and might find it interesting.
  4. Since this forum seems to be getting more attention of late, I thought I'd bump this old article for new players who might benefit from it.
  5. Bumped for newer players who might benefit from this old article.
  6. From When Titans Clashed by Glantz and House: "Total Wehrmacht losses to 30 April 1945 amounted to 11,135,500, including 6,035,000 wounded. Of these, almost 9,000,000 fell in the East. German armed forces' losses to war's end numbered 13,488,000 men (75 percent of the mobilized forces and 46 percent of the 1939 male population of Germany.) Of these, 10,758,000 fell or were taken prisonere in the East." p. 284
  7. Try the Internet Acronyms Dictionary.
  8. Fwiw, if you ever want a highly detailed and richly illustrated reference on the beloved StuG check out Walter J. Spielberger's Sturmgeschütz & Its Variants (The Spielberger German Armor & Military Vehicles Series, Vol. II, Schiffer Publishing, 1993--also still available in the original German-language edition, iirc).
  9. Here's the link: http://www.battlefront.com/cgi-bin/bbs/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=7;t=000812 It's usually on the first page of this Tips and Tricks forum. When it's not, please bump it up
  10. To quote what I wrote today in another thread: "....to my knowledge, as an industry veteran [i.e., professional gaming journalist], the major gaming sites and magazines all have editors and/or freelancers such as myself who are grogs, military buffs, wargamers and/or CM fans. (For example, I've written at least five professional articles about CMBO and CMBB, and more for fan sites like Manx's old Combat Missions.)" That is, all the big pro sites and magazines I know of, or have written for, have editors and use writers who specialize in a wide variety of genres across the different platforms. They sure as heck don't just have a couple guys sitting around playing Red Alert all day and nothing else If that were the case, they'd go out of business in a heartbeat because their gaming coverage would suck, no one would read them, and the advertisers (i.e., the main revenue source) would therefore take their money elsewhere. For that matter, I can't think of anyone who seriously thinks CS is the most realistic game ever (there's very little realistic about it, though it can be great fun) or who only plays RTS games
  11. I can't speak for GameSpot since I don't work directly for them, nor can I speak for Tom Chick, but I can speak as a professional freelance gaming journalist who's written dozens and dozens of articles for GameSpot. What you say is totally, demonstrably innacurate. GameSpot consistently provides some of the most in-depth and unbiased gaming coverage out there. (I say that as someone who was a fan of the site before I ever even wrote for them.) They cover all game genres on all platforms, not just bloody PC action games built around the Q3 engine, though they of course do cover those, too I don't have the pleasure of knowing Tom, but I know he's a veteran gaming journalist and a damn good one at that. Not at all: to my knowledge, as an industry veteran, the major gaming sites and magazines all have editors and/or freelancers such as myself who are grogs, military buffs, wargamers and/or CM fans. (For example, I've written at least five professional articles about CMBO and CMBB, and more for fan sites like Manx's old Combat Missions.) Anyway, a great review from Tom Chick of a superb game [ October 30, 2002, 01:32 PM: Message edited by: Gremlin ]
  12. The original post that inspired my link to that data was specifically discussing computer games. Here's a list of the top-selling PC games of 2001, according to NPD (I haven't checked their method of stat gathering): http://www.gamers.com/news/1083373 bottom of the page I can't comment on Harry Potter since I haven't played it, but you could make good arguments that there's depth in all the other PC games listed there--yes, even in Diablo II. It may not be the same type or level of depth you find in CM, but as another poster has pointed out in this thread, depth is created and enjoyed in multiple ways. Most of those games listed are thought-provoking and/or require you to make tactical/strategic decisions as you play. And as for the console games listed, GTA3, Madden, the Tony Hawk games, and certainly Gran Turismo 3 all have some depth to them. They're hardly just mindless button mashing. Fwiw, I saw someone playing one of those Pokemon GBC games, and while it looked pretty lame to me, it looked like there was actually some strategy and thinking involved.
  13. It's funny that some people assume gamers generally only like one genre or level of depth in games. Lots of people, myself included, are as likely to play something like CM as something like Serious Sam or Tony Hawk's Pro Skater. Most every gamer I know--and I know lots--enjoy all sorts of games, on multiple platforms. It's not an exclusive either/or proposition. I imagine there are some people who only listen to Schoenberg while superciliously deriding the rabble who like the Ramones, or who only drink a fine Darjeeling whilst reading Pope, but I think most people have somewhat broader tastes--I hope!
  14. Unfortunately, that's been my repeated experience, too, over the couple years I've read and participated in these forums and the CM community. There are a couple bad apples in particular (obviously, I'm not going to name names--they're well enough known by forum regulars) who might seemingly be tainting the whole bunch by association. On the other hand, despite some patronizing, elitist, and irascible posters who love to knock others to boost their own ego, this forum has generally been one of the most mature and polite gaming forums I've encountered, all told. The atmosphere around here is vastly more tolerant and intelligent than most gaming forums I've seen, where the level of discourse rarely rises above the level of Beavis and Butthead (minus the vaguely hip irony). [ October 29, 2002, 07:39 AM: Message edited by: Gremlin ]
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