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    Re. Shipping preorders..

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

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    Thanks for the suggestion. I have asked about the costs of printing PDFs from a local printer and was quoted a price of about 20 GBP for a 150 page book. No binding included at that price.

    I wouldn't mind so much paying the extra costs if the money were going to BFC, it's the middle men taking their cut for doing not very much that gets me so irritated.

    I'll print one of for you, no probs (might cost you a pint though! :D)

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    A fresh video to hold us over!

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

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    Given the pedigree of CM I reckon PIATs will get the full treatment, if not in the Commonwealth module, surely in the Market Garden one....

    From Wikipedia page on Robert Henry Cain VC (Oosterbeek Perimeter)

    On the afternoon of Thursday 21st two tanks approached Cain's position. Guided by a colleague in the building above him, Cain waited in a trench until the first tank—actually a StuG III self-propelled gun (SPG)[28]—was close enough to engage.[29] The SPG fired at the building, killing Cain's colleague and showering him with masonry but despite this, Cain kept his position.[29] Staff Sergeant Richard Long of the Glider Pilot Regiment remembered that through the clouds of dust, Cain fired round after round from his PIAT until the SPG was disabled,[26] but whilst engaging the second tank a round exploded in the PIAT with a bright flash and Cain was thrown backwards.[26] Cain recalled thinking he was blind and "shouting like a hooligan. I shouted to somebody to get onto the PIAT because there was another tank behind. I blubbered and yelled and used some very colourful language. They dragged me off to the aid post."[30] The British brought forward one of the Light Regiment's 75mm guns which blew the tank apart

    Not exactly a ringing endorsement!

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    Utah, Omaha in CM:BN?

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

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    Everything that happened on those beaches and getting off them could be represented; bombardments, wire, mines, obstacles, the escarpments, marsh, trenches,foxholes, bunkers, the valleys/ draws leading of the beaches, engineers, AFVs. It's all in.

    As for the actual surf, you'll have to use your imagination because

    'Charles don't surf!':rolleyes:

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    A Quick Battle AAR: Shermans vs Pz IVs, Not Your Fathers Combat Mission

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

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    Interesting stuff..

    This has certainly opened my eyes a bit (and almost certainly saved me from humiliation at some point it the future). In terms of depth CMBN is looking like the Mariana Trench...

    Just a quick question....How will special ammo type(s) be handled such as PzGr.40 /42 (German), APCR (British) and HVAP (US)? Will they be abstracted or appear in the load-out for each vehicle?

    Cheers for the AAR..

    Keep 'em coming...

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    Wot, No Preview in Britain?

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

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    had a mate who ran UK wide business and in the end the Liverpool area was the only zone he barred standard 30 day business credit to. So North west excluding a zone that was alledged as "theiving scouse gypsy land."

    Thankfully, i don't live anywhere near scouseland.

    @ Para and Vincere...ain't irony a bitch!

    Nice one Other Means,

    If you go ahead with it count me in and if you need a hand with anything just ask.

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    No CMBB in the UK till October?

    in Combat Mission Archive #4 (2002)

    Posted

    From the link above it says the Special Reserve price is £27.99 and that this is a saving of £12.

    So it looks like the UK RRP is going to be £39.99....

    as of 2002.09.04 16:51:28 GMT.

    39.99 GBP United Kingdom Pounds

    =

    62.6065 USD United States Dollars

    1 GBP = 1.56555 USD 1 USD = 0.638751 GBP

    The game is going to be $62 off-the-shelf in the UK, compared to ordering it from BFC for $45 & PP, for those outside CDVland.

    Mmmmm......time to move to a different continent I think.. smile.gif

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    Get a load of this CMBB box art !

    in Combat Mission Archive #4 (2002)

    Posted

    Originally posted by DrAlimantado:

    A strange thing though, Amazon.co.uk does not have CMBB listed, while Amazon.fr and Amazon.de has it listed for a September release. But in the CDV interview on Warfarehq.com, it was stated that the initial European September release would be in Germany and the UK, the other countries would assumably follow on a later date. But on the other hand, if one goes into the English version of Cdv.de, one cannot order the UK version of CMBB in their webshop, and the only stated release date is for Germany.

    Oh well, we will see what happens.

    M

    [/QB]

    The CDV website can be quite difficult to navigate around, and has conflicting information on it. It seems that the Euro version of CMBB (CM2 :confused: ) will be relaesed later than in the US.

    Press release from the CDV website;

    22.08.2002

    Combat Mission 2 – How’s the weather today?

    Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin will hit the shelves this October! Will you be ready by then? If yes, you will need some warm clothes! Everyone who is searching for his comrades: there is a link on the official preview site from CDV to the English forums. It will also, by the way, be very substantial to know that the nicely used weather effects will be either debilitating or beneficial in the game too...

    On a different note I think Goanna (above) has an intersting point. It does seem that the marketing for the game in Europe is going to be different to BFC's....

    Here's the preceeding CDV press release concerning CMBB;

    15.08.2002

    Combat Mission 2

    When playing Combat Mission 2, you will be introduced to an extensive variety of detailed vehicles and combat units, in more than fifty vast missions and operations. The photo realistic appearances of the units are down to the fact that they have been modelled from their real counterparts from the second world war – details were noted with authenticity in mind.

    In some missions you will have to face the Russian army, which although enormous in size at the time, was mainly made up of farmers. These farmers were basically in good physical shape, but completely unskilled in the art of war.

    ...and the one preceeding that;

    07.08.2002

    Combat Mission 2 - Preview Screens

    The American Developers, Battlefront.com, have excelled themselves! Combat Mission 2, CDV's new strategy game, is already at the preview stage.

    Players will be able to find solutions and choose strategies that were engineered in World War 2. The units in the game behave just like their real-life counterparts. For example, the Panther unit is a mighty vehicle with heavy-duty armour. But the engineers who designed it expected a frontal attack and left the tank susceptible for sneaky attacks from the rear!

    I don't know if the BFC "brand" is going to suffer as result of this though. From this website;

    Battlefront.com's mission is to provide the challenging military minded computer gaming experience that has all but disappeared from the face of corporate gaming today. Our goal is to serve gamers, rebuild our community, and breathe some life back into a hobby whose followers are still here in sizable numbers but have been tossed aside by the Industry.

    Sure, it seems that CDV are casting the net wide as it were, I guess it's to attract as many people to the game as possible. Once these people are introduced to the game, they'll realise it's a quality product and that BFC are a quality outfit, and then become hooked like the rest of us ;)

    I assume the people at CDV are professionals, and no doubt they know what works best in their respective countries/markets.

    Of course, none of the above makes any difference to the end product, (it'll sell it itself IMO), but it's going to be interesting to see what other versions of the box/adverts/press releases/previews etc pop-up over the coming weeks...

    [ August 27, 2002, 03:48 PM: Message edited by: Kilgore ]

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