Cavall

I’ve been a table top wargamer for many years and cut my teeth on Napoleonic wargames. When CM first came out the first thing that a friend at my local wargames club said was tabletop wargaming is dead! The second thing he said was how cool a Napoleonic CM would be and I couldn’t agree more CM will surely revolutionise computer wargaming as we know it. On a fundamental level CM has killed the traditional I go you go system or real time click fest. The CM “play-back” system is definitely the future and I hope we will see this becoming the norm in computer wargames whatever the period. As to a Napoleonic/ACW conversion I think this is a logical next step and I would have thought it would be a lot easier to do than WWII. The game mechanics are much easier and there are plenty of miniature rule sets with good ideas that could be adopted. As for the engine following the tabletop methods of 15 to 20 figures per battalion with appropriate base sizes and a scaled terrain will work look at SMG and Shogun! (A reworking of the CM engine would probably be required but Im sure its technically possible). Above all if someone does use the CM system for other periods lets hope they remember that a big part of CM’s success is due to the first rate game mechanics, superb quick battle generator and map editor and the inclusion of almost every conceivable unit allowing vast scope for new scenarios and endless replayability! As a few people have said look at Talonsoft’s Battleground Waterloo. An otherwise very good game totally ruined by stupid game mechanics. How on earth did the Cavalry infantry melee system get past the beta testers? It always amazes me how games companies can ruin perfectly good wargames with stupid game mechanics when miniature wargamers have been using basic but workable rule sets for years. It would take a competent program a matter of hours to implement one of these sets! Ok rant over J Thank god for CM its put my faith back into computer wargames and for the first time we have a computer system that has tabletop wargaming beat hands down. What took so long?!!!!

You think attacking without a gun is gamey how about this: Quote from a British tank officer John Cloudsley-Thompson "We continued our advance, mopping up more enemy infantry as we went. One sergeant tank comander captured a small ridge firing a Sten gun from the turret of his tank when both Besa machinegun and 75 mm had jammed. We crossed the {main Caen} road and captured a small wood on the slope beyond. German infantry were hiding in the corn all around us: we fired at them with machine-guns and high explosive, and took many prisoners. We were shelled and mortared heavily the whole time. Then we entered the wood, our Cromwells facing outwards in all directions". :eek From "The bloody battle for Tilly, Normandy 1944" by Ken Tout. An excellent book about the British and Canadian assault on fortified villages south of Caen (Goodwood etc) written by a Sherman tank gunner who took part. Includes many staggering eye witness accounts and a must read. cheers Cavall

Thanks Mudfrost Ive contacted Matt and he replied in minutes (!) so hopefully we well be able to sort this out cheers Cavall

Three days! I ordered on the 29th November (to be delivered to the UK) and Im still waiting! The cash has been debited from my card so I guess the order has been dispatched but two emails to sales@battlefront.com to confirm this have so far elicited no response. The waiting is driving me nuts. I must say though that it is very refreshing to see a wargame of this calibre on the PC, particularly one so well supported by the community and the designers. A real labour of love if ever I saw one! Cheers Cavall