SimHq.com Tom Cofield

First off, you are dealing with people who have played the CM series since the beginning. People get a 'new' game in a series expecting it to have both new features and improvments to the old standbys, not to have features that were in the older game left out. Maybe the developers didn't think people would want the older style of gameplay in TCP/IP but many (including myself) do. I hope it comes along in another patch. If enough of us want it I am sure Battlefront will make it happen. I remember when TCP/IP wasn't availabe in the first game, it came along shortly afterward. It will in the traditional manner in this one too-I hope.

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Go to Basic and AIT, save the money, buy a laptop and then get the game. That way you have something to play when you are deployed. Depending on your MOS you can expect it. You will have some down time and you will need to do something to enjoy yourself. No joke guys, my laptop was a lifesaver when I was in the Gulf in 2003. I played the snot out of CMBB and CMBO during that time. CMAK wouldn't run well enough on the computer to make it worth while.

I suspect that this would be a good add on later on. Another would be a US vs Warsaw pact in 1989. It would take some changes but not that much. Another would be Gulf War 1. A lot of the old Steel Panther's Modern Battles scenerios would be nice to add later.

JohnO, I might have to go digging around in my old footlocker for those books.

That was an error on my part based upon the game not wanting to run on my X64 operating system and the fact that the game wouldn't run on a second previewer's Vista based system. The IL2 series seems to have some troubles with Vista so I assumed it was an engine related problem. We have corrected it in the preview and Magnum is getting his system geared up for the final review. I hope his problems are gone when the final game is out.

That alone would scare the hell out of me.

Did a preview of the game at www.simhq.com . I really think this will be one of those sleeper hits with the wargaming and simulation crowd. http://www.simhq.com/_air2/air_029a.html

Rune, didn't realize you were an Illinois resident. Grew first south of Chicago (Will County) then over near the Quad Cities. Dad was a State Trooper. Went to Bradley University in Peoria. Will fire you an e-mail when I come home on leave, would love to hook up, maybe do a SimHq Illinois meet with an entire bunch of midwest folks. Maybe get some tickets to Wrigley, watch the Cubs lose, get poed, go get drunk. Beats watching the Mariners here. How can you cheer for a team called the Mariners? Or the SeaHawks? Bears, that's a team name. (P.S. have a signed 1986 Walter Payton Jersey on my wall, do I count as a fan?)

Thanks a lot (yes I do lurk here). I am a self confessed fanboy that is for sure. Thanks for the positive comments. There are very few games that I consider significant improvements in the genre and CMBO was one of them. CMBB didn't advance the genre, but it didn't need to. I took CMBO and improved upon it, I would love for the changes in CMBB patched into CMBO but I know that would be very difficult, if not impossible.

same problem that everyone else is having. Athlon XP 2100 WinXP 512 Megs DDR WD 30 and 20 gig hd TDK CD RW and Sony DVD (neither work)

Tom I noticed that a couple of your links gave error 404 messages. Maybe you were updating but thought you would like to know.