Loderunner

Hey! I FINALLY got the actual disk. It completely rocks. It's the best wargame ever, but I want the same thing on the Eastern Front, Pacific Theatre, ect. (The winter battle of the Russians and Finnish, you get my drift). Thanks for the nice welcome, folks! Currently, I'm playing against the AI to figure out the mechanics of this thing. God, what a beautiful game. Once I get the feel down, I plan on coming here to play a few of you guys. Hopefully. My job might get in the way, but we'll see. Tom (Loderunner)

Hello: "The name ocming from that eighties game where you scurried around blatsing holes in the ground and climbing ladders and such? " Yes. To me, that was the greatest arcade type game ever created to create the perfect balance between an action game and a logic game. Hence, the name. Just discovered the demo of Combat Mission. I'm drooling at getting the actual CD. Should arrive within 3 days. I've spent over 300 dollars on Advanced Squad Leader, and issues of The General. Well, I've been meaning to learn the rules to ASL for, perhaps, 6 years now? I'm no longer in denial, thanks to this game. Hell, if the design mode is powerful enough, it could recreate quite a few Squad Leader and ASL scenarios. I've poured over tons of these messages, and the only realistic complaint I've read so far is that Halftracks are hard to immobilize by infantary. I have recieved a response on this. At 20 meters: yes. Close combat, they can be immobilized. I've played both demo missions. The second one, I reluctantly played American (It's always more fun to play the Germans in WWII games-they have the coolest stuff) I am looking foreward to playing the real deal. Tom

Shoot! I just posted a new comment section! Anyhow, I'm new. I read about this game in Knights of the Dinner Table (GREAT humor comic based on roleplaying- mainly D and D- rivals Fineous Fingers). Picked this group because of the volume and off the wall posts. Played the demo, and I'm hooked. Waited all my life for a game like this to come out. Thank God I'm still in my early 30s. If I was 70, I'd destroy the computer with a brick and curse God for the irony. TRYING not to offend anyone, one post reads: "A Penger tends to suffer from excess intelligence, over-education, and complete frustration because these things are not enough to enable him to beat the rest of us in CM." OK- My thoughts- anyone smart enough to follow WWII history and be addictive to complex games of strategy (so as to not buy the cheat book- instead, they buy a book on tank combat written by a German veteran, and put it next to the other 100 books they own in similar subjects)- is probably within the top 5 percent of any USA IQ test. All the posts I've read seem to indicate intelligent, educated, well read people. But the slams are MERCILESS! My take on that is: everyone here knows that they're pretty damn smart, in one way or another. When one person of this calibre gets slammed by another, it's the ultimate insult. Eventually, one person pretends to be Einstein, proclaiming the other as the village idiot. My favorite posts are the truly funny ones. You all know what they are. The funny thing about these posts: people try to slam the posters of the funny posts once in a while, as well. I noticed quite a few of you quote obscure sources (I'm trying to sound smart- really, I am) My favorite quote (listed on my Yahoo ID from a long time ago): "Gentlemen! You can't fight in here! This is the War Room!" -Dr Strangelove, or, How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb P.S.- Aragorn would like the game more if there were +4 magical 88s (Behold- the gun that was broken!) P.S.S.- I've played the demo- should be expecting the game Monday! I can't wait! I've spent about 300 dollars so far on Advanced Squad Leader modules, rules, and issues of The General, all of which I'll probably never use. However, I can transform some of these scenarios into actual form. Damn, we live in the ultimate age! If Beethoven was alive today, he wouldn't have written anything! In fact, he'd be yelling, "I'm alive! Christ! Dig me up!" Tom- Dammm the spell check!

Hey all, A newbie here. This game got a glorious review in Knights of the Dinner Table (fantastic comic that can be purchased in back issue compilations- devoted to roleplaying- generally D and D). Tom - will post second message if this is successful. ------------------