Erwin
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2 hours ago, Lieutenant Ash said:
CMBN and CMFI both have British / Commonwealth forces that use the No4 Mk1 lee enfield (also the No.3 SMLE in CMFI).
Thanks... I completely forgot about CMFI. (I rarely have played it.)
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BF have always pooh poohed chances of early war or NA as apparently those theaters didn't sell well. But, maybe if increasing numbers of our voices asking for those keep rising...
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Nice. Thank you. May be worth trying it in CMA as the Muj often have Lee-Enfields. (Are there Lee-Enfield equipped units in any other titles?)
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"Zawiya Uprising" did a great job using portions of the same map in a campaign so there is continuation from one mission to the next as one uses a portion of the map from each immediately preceding mission. That's the best one can do in the absence of the wonderful CM1 "Operations" that enabled one to play in a "window" of a much larger map. (In a CM1 "Operation/Campaign" the window either advanced or retreated in each successive mission depending on previous mission success or failure.)
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I know what people mean about MOUT. I learned my MOUT SOP playing a scenario called something like "The Relief of Joker 3" on the (at the time) amazing Ramada map. (It was a long time ago so am sorry I don't recall the designer's name.)
Once you get the MOUT "system" down (in CM2), MOUT ops (in CM2) can get very repetitive. A serious challenge is that in CM2, it's often hard to see what is going on due to the viewpoint getting blocked by buildings etc.
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There is nothing wrong with speculating that Hitler and his advisors made different decisions regarding what weapons systems were developed and built and what the strategy was. Eg: Maybe throwing all the war effort into Panthers so they were as common as PzIV's - but no Tigers (or vice versa). Or, negotiating a peace or stalemate on one of the fronts so Germany could focus on the other front.
Churchill really hated the Soviets, but feared Hitler's intentions. Halifax, Chamberlain and other wanted appeasement. What would happen if Hitler sought peace with the West in exchange for an all-out offensive vs the Soviets?
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Looks very good.
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1 hour ago, Shady_Side said:
“Shrinking the map”. It is one of the largest issues we have at this scale of wargaming. One cannot employ the same map scales for WW2 in a modern title.
IIRC GeorgeMC has created CMSF2 maps for his campaigns that do offer that sort of long range (2Km-3Km+) LOS for optimal use of the ATGM vehicles. So, it is possible for other titles.
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10 hours ago, sttp said:
I think it's extremely likely that Steve is referring to CMx3.
That also occurred to me when I saw that all the CM2 titles being heavily discounted. That is usually a giveaway that a company is releasing something new that will make the old stuff obsolete.
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No worries. It's fine whatever works best for one.
My beef with trying to find a hull down position is that the unit frequently goes from NO LOS, to PARTIAL HULLDOWN with no chance of getting "full" HULLDOWN. I have spent much time experimenting moving an AFV back and forth the minimum distance possible trying to get hulldown in a situation like this, and due to vagaries of the CM2 terrain have found it impossible.
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It's good to see you are taking it easy now...
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1 hour ago, OBJ said:
veteran players, can't seem to get it to work.
I think that it's more that we can position units for hull-down more easily due to experience and don't need the aid.
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15 hours ago, Battlefront.com said:
I need new batteries for my hearing aids because I could have sworn he said Western Front instead of Eastern!" ...Modern is a solid second, then Eastern Front, and then Southern Front.
So what I'm hearing is that means that North Africa is in the pipeline...!!! Yay!!
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Re "fantasy" scenarios, it would at least be interesting to have the German succeed in Ardennes not get stopped and reached Antwerp, and hypothesize what would happen next.
"What would the western Allies have done if the Germans had succeeded in capturing Antwerp during the Germans 1944 Ardennes offensive? They would have flanked von Zangen's forces ( the 15th Amy), trapped them at Antwerp and either forced them to surrender or destroyed them.Oct 11, 2017"
Would they??
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It's a shame the Super Pershings are not available. This is a game, and it would be fun to pit them vs some of the German (or even Soviet) super tanks.
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12 hours ago, Paper Tiger said:
I appreciate that the Bulge wasn't all knife fights and that there are plenty of open terrain missions but my own feeling is that the Germans had already lost the war at that point and that they're just there to delay the inevitable
The point is that it doesn't have to be all woods knife fights if you are designing an ahistorical scenario. I was only saying be inspired by the Bulge situation cos that is one of the most popular situations - a crack formation driving thru one obstruction after another.
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2 hours ago, David Jaros said:
Take your time Mr.X
Yes, please do.. Nothing worse than releasing a game that is buggy and then players who are halfway thru have to wait for fixes b4 having to restart the whole campaign.
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5 hours ago, markus544 said:
I am 63 years old
So... you are youngster newcomer to the game. Welcome.
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51 minutes ago, Paper Tiger said:
having fantasy OBs and things that just never happened happen is very jarring for a wargamer.
Depends on what you mean by "fantasy". But, given CM is a tactical game, you'd have to be a bit of a historian to notice something that never happened and it being jarring. On a tactical level almost anything could have happened at some point - it just never got recorded in the history books. One would be a bit of a pedant to worry about that aspect.
51 minutes ago, Paper Tiger said:I would love to make a German WW2 campaign where the Germans enjoy air support and have the all the advantages they enjoyed in 39-42 and all the kit they had in 44-45,
Yes, agreed. I for one would love that as well. It gets a bit boring always playing scenarios/campaigns that attempt to be accurate historically - when one normally can only be really accurate at an operational or strategic level.
Since the Ardennes is a perennial favorite, how about a similarish operation on the East Front? Eg: Hitler has several crack units still available and they cut a swathe thru the Russians trying to cut off a major supply source and force the surrender of a large part of the Red Army.
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3 hours ago, Centurian52 said:
I don't recall Steve ever saying that they have no intention of ever doing the early war. I recall him saying that they felt it was more profitable to do the late war first.
I very much hope you are right. I always had the impression from when CMBN came out that BF had no intention to do (say) a N Africa game - ie: a CM2 version of CMAK, nor a CM2 version of CMBB enabling us to fight from Barbarossa onwards. But, if the have changed their minds... that would be great. Certainly N Africa '40-'42 was a favorite of cardboard wargames, but it was dismaying that BF said that CMAK did not sell well.
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Last I heard, BFC was not going to go back to Early War as (presumably) they thought Early War to be less marketable. That was a huge disappointment to many of us. Has there been another BFC statement that they are now considering Early War?
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From WSJ today (edited):
"Western officials and Ukrainian soldiers are concerned that rising tensions between President Volodymyr Zelensky and his top general could hamper the country’s war effort against Russia...
...Russian forces are back on the offensive after Ukraine’s military effort, involving thousands of troops trained and equipped by the West, withered in the face of well-prepared defenses. Ukraine is also facing a crunch in military and financial support as internal political disputes in the U.S. and the European Union have stalled proposed aid.
...Signs of discord between the two leaders, long dismissed as rumors by aides, emerged after Zaluzhniy referred to the war as a stalemate in an interview with the Economist last fall, saying Ukraine needed a major upgrade to military capabilities if it hoped to expel Russian forces from Ukrainian territory.
...differences have surfaced over how to fill Ukraine’s ranks to hold off the larger Russian army. Zaluzhniy has said he needs more resources, including hundreds of thousands more troops to replace dead, injured and exhausted fighters."
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Attrition realities:
Population of Russia (2021): 143 Million
Population of Ukraine (2021): 44 Million
Ratio 3.25.
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11 hours ago, slysniper said:
then the commander will fire the top MG if by chance he has a target in the general direction that is in line with where the gun is mounted to him
Right... AI controlled.
Command for Vehicle Where It Will Back Up When It Is Fired On
in Combat Mission - General Discussion
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A vehicle will back away from a threat - ie: if it sees an enemy that can hurt it. It probably won't back away from an enemy that cannot hurt it.