Blenheim

-Jaw droppage and droolage in massive quantities here- Matt, will the Euros be allowed to ask for CM II before the americans? I won't be able to resist a month of CM II starvation with all the amis enjoying arround the board... :mad:

Woow! That page is hella cool. And it seems that the dammed T 34 was a beauty, really; easy to drive, as well. I find amazing that the engine still works, 60 years later. Solid Soviet construction. Does anybody know if the Tigers or Panthers were that easy to drive?

I second "Combat Mission X: Imperial Eagles" about Napoleonic Warfare... I want to break those goddamed British squares at Waterloo, Sir ! Or the Sun of Austerlitz... Or... orr.... . Please, I want this kind of game...

I need it !!! I need it !!! Pleaseeee !!! I need it !!! Dammit, I can't wait. I can't wait.....

Well, last week I was really, really badly beaten by the AI. Yeah, I know.... I know. I suck. But I was in the phone, and did not see that Tiger, and.... errrr.... . I suck.

Who has revived this old thread? err... well, I have moved, so I'll repost my data . Now I live in Madrid, Spain. I was born in Venezuela, but I've spent most of my life near Barcelona... BTW, I know that there're people from Madrid arround here... hello? A Spanish-CM mini-meeting? :cool:

I reviewed it in a Spanish web page, and... well, maybe somebody bought it due to my brilliant review !!! (Yeah, I used to work as game reviewer in Terra... So I got CM:BO for free !!!)

For Allies, those nifty Daimlier armored cars with that painful gun.... I love Churchills with 95 mm. guns, as well. For Axis, it's a tought call. Probably I'll go for the really evil-looking Panther and Jagdpanther. I love the Lynx, as well... is just so cute !

Come on, we have to be grateful to all those "courageus" Axis allied troops that were so usefull contributing to the Allied victory.... Remember who was covering the German flank in Stalingrad. .

Wasn't Ancient Rome a profesional army? (I regard them as the finest war machine ever build... )

Shameless self BUMP !!!

I don´t remember seing this discussed yet, so maybe we can have some useful discussion here. Correct me if I am wrong... OK. I remember several threads arround the Psycological effects that war and combat has in soldiers and tankers. I remember as one of the most interesting threads here that one arround the studies that said that very few sodiers in the II WW actually tried to kill anybody, and were reluctant to shot. Well, but I digress... I'd like to get some knowledge from the grogs and soldiers that are arround here on the issue of the psycological straints of officers during a war. I imagine that they must have a really hard time, really: they have to survive to the same risks that the average grunt faces, but also must take care of a group of scared guys that keep asking him what to do. Taking decisions is never easy, but taking decisions under deathly arty barrages, trying to lead a group of people, and knowing that some of them (even you!) will get hurt or killed... OK, I don´t like this position, for sure. Damm, I'll be scared as hell. The problem is I can´t afford showing that, because I am suposed to be the moral support of my squad, platoon or whatever. (note: I refer to low rank, even NCO... yeah, I am not entirely accurate. I am no grog, so to hell with it ). So Question? How tought it is/was? Casualty rates? I remember reading somewhere that in the I WW the number of Oxbridges that got killed in the war (high class people => mostly officers) was outrageously high, and also read that several US officers went to combat without any sign of their rank, to avoid being targeted by snipers. So well, probably they die quite often... but how the fare in combat stress, and things like that? Answers rolling....

OK, God himself (aka Steve) has spoken. Thanks !!! Er... so they have ALL the models, he said.... how many of them? Please... just give me (yet another) good reason to buy CMBB !!!

Overrated: I'll go with the uber 37 mm halftrack, as well. Maybe tanks do not kill them as easy as they should, but man... If you need a tank to kill a Halftrack, something is not doing his job. Bring the .50 cal, please.... Underrated: British Tanks. In CM ranges, the late war Churchills are really wonderful to be used.

About the "Sanchez" surname.... As far as I know, several Free French tanks that entered Paris were crewed by Spanish Republicans. In fact, I've seen photographs of tanks named "Don Quijote" and "Teruel" entering the city...

"you´re facing a depleted SS company, with no armour. As the resistance is going to be light, your assigned Shermans will be changed with Stuarts" (Of course, the moron who wrote that put a two Panthers and a KT there... )

excellent thread.... BTW, any significant difference between east and west fronts?

Damm... nobody has mentioned a "Combat Mission 4+X : Imperial Eagles ? I really want a Napoleonic CM !!!! I need it badly !!!

God Bless CM. Yes, I am an addict as well. This seems a therapy group. Come on, let´s hug each other.... True, this game is awesome. Amazing. Incredible. Just imagine. I got it. After a month, I had two CD copies just in case.... Lucky me. My CD reader went nuts and killed the original CD... Now I have 3 copies of the game, just in case.... You know what got me? the explosions. Never in my wargaming experiences I've understood so well why my troops don´t like heavy arty...

Just a note... differenciation between "abandoned" tank and "knocked out". Does the first one means "****, Lt., we got scared" and the second one "****, Lt., the engine was useless"? I mean, maybe CM models scared crews after all. An AP round comes in, passes through the turret, and leaves a 128 mm. hole in the other side. Nobody is hurt, but well... that Jagdtiger is deadly serious about us. So we "abandon" our soda can, just in case. "knocked out" is when the 128 mm. decides to go BOOOM right inside our small tank, and shows us what "detonation in closed rooms" means... Lots of pain, and 3 killed crew members. [ 07-15-2001: Message edited by: Blenheim ]

BTW, I forgot to translate my post.... Just talking about how important would be in "CM somefink: med tourists" to model the brazilians that fought in Monte Cassino. Por cierto, ¿qué es esto de acusar a los clubes europeos de pervertir a los jugadores brasileños? Caramba, también queremos divertirnos viendo buen fútbol.... (y mas en Barcelona, que hemos fichado un buen puñado...)

aaronb, que estabas diciendo? Según mi ordenador, cuadrado-cuadrado-cuadrado.... Soy el único que no leo nada? Por cierto, los Brasileños tenéis un problema, y grave, con el fútbol... joder, que os ganen los gabachos tiene pase, pero que Méjico os dé un baile... A ver, por favor !!! Que Méjico no ha dado un buen jugador desde Hugo Sanchez? (<me pongo el traje de amianto>) -y es broma, eh?- En fin. Reverendo, oido cocina. Apunto el mail, y prepara una lista de bares de interés general en Villa y Corte, que tengo años por delante y necesitaré abrevar de vez en cuando. Y que caramba, podré jugar a TCP/IP con alguien que no sea mi gato en las LAN parties... a mis amigos no les gusta el CM (no entiendo pq son amigos míos... )

Reverendo, me traslado a vivir de Barcelona a la capital del reino en septiembre... me debes una copa !!! Err.... yeah, early war CM should include the Spanish civil war, but Steve said that no way....

Really good post. Really good. Well, my take. First of all, I am an avid wargamer. Really. Not TacOps -yet- but lots of CM. I think that Wargames are sometimes a blatant attempt to make a terrible thing more rationalised and bearable, really; most of us -not everybody- play them for fun. It is cruel... well, yes. But that´s not the end of the history. I remember when I discovered CMBO that at first I was kind of overwhelmed. I loved previous wargames, really, but I used to play them more for the intelectual challange and to learn history than for anything else. CMBO was in fact the first wargame that made me think in how tough war really is. I knew before it was a bad place, yes, but thought that while wargaming. Do you know my reaction? I prefered to go back to my intelectual challenge framework. If I think to much of it, I really feel bad after having fun with such a brutal thing. I feel inhuman if I keep in mind what I am really doing. So well... I prefer playing CMBO as a difficult chess game, sometimes. Eventhough, I still think that wargaming has been a good thing for me. I understand many things about human condition after playing wars.... On a sidenote, wargaming is really vital in the military. Of course. It helps saving lives of our guys, and inflicting more pain to the others. Damm, war is really stupid, actually. But we'll never get rid of it.

Oh, Dios, están hablando de la copa del mundo de selecciones... (Blenheim se tira a cubierto, antes que alguien recuerde el papel de España en los mundiales... Vale, dimos pena!!!! Vale !!!) Sobre los okupas argentinos que quieren invadir mi casa con la excusa de ver jugar a Saviola.... Bueno, deberéis superar las defensas en forma de trincheras (réplica de Kursk) de mi jardín y ateneros a las estríctas reglas de asalto del CM2... Veo un ataque de "ola humana" (¿como carajo se dice "human wave" en castellano?) inminente a mi pequeño bunker. Ni un paso atrás !!! Saviola es del Barça, o de nadie !!! Ah, y si los brasileños no se clasifican para el mundial... ostras, eso hará quedar hasta bien a la selección española. Que teneis a Rivaldo, joer. Los gabachos... esto, franceses . Zidane al Madrid.... . Uh oh.... Matt, BTW, I refer to the command restrictions that a hypothetic Human Wave assault made by British Hooligans would have in CM3 (facing the famous legionarie corps of Marshal Zidane, almost free french).