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    Tis the season to Peng Challenge

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

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    Well, since it is now officially Dec 24th in this part of the world.

    Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, our best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low

    stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of a holiday on or near the date of the winter solstice, practiced within the most

    enjoyable traditions of the religious and/or secular persuasion of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasions

    and/or traditions of others, inclusive of the choice to not engage in the practice of any religious or secular traditions.

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    prohibited by law, and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within

    the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year, or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting,

    whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher.

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    . . . and a Peng Challenge in a Pear Tree

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

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    Originally posted by Boo Radley:

    </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Leutnant Hortlund:

    </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Boo Radley:

    </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Leutnant Hortlund:

    Democracy is for loosers. I declare myself to be Battlefront.com's man of the year. Anyone having any problems with that can send me a setup or SOD OFF.

    So if Democracy is for "loosers", does that mean that Socialism is for "tighters"? </font>
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    Campaign ???

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

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    Originally posted by Moon:

    Yes, a campaign mode as they are typically represented (or requested), i.e. involving hand-picking of one's forces and fighting from the beginning of the War right down to downtown Berlin while keeping the same troops who rise from green to elite troopers in the process.

    Personally I would like to see another type of campaign than the "pick forces in 39 and fight to 45".

    Is this a good or bad idea for a CMX campaign:

    You guys pick one division from a combatant included in CMX, for arguments sake, lets say US and Germany. The choise of division would be based on variant factors such as how easy/hard it would be to research it and how much combat it saw, etc etc. Lets say just for arguments sake that we pick Grossdeutschland for the Germans, and 1st infantry division for the US.

    You then put the player in a very specific spot in that division. For example, you let the player command one infantry battalion in one regiment. Then you build the campaign around that. Whatever battles that battalion took part in, you let the player take part in by creating an operation or battle, depending on the historical situation. All these operations and battles are made historical, so in battle X where the players battalion had tank support from unit Y, the player also controls these tanks.

    If the battalion was in reserve or if it was sent on R&R, or if it was on a quiet sector of the front, the campaign just skips these dates. If teh battalion was upgraded, from motorized to mechanized, or whatever, the players battalion is upgraded.

    The campaign keeps track on all squads and all hq's (assuming that this is the units you will be using in CMX) letting them gain experience depending on previous behavior.

    So on the one hand you will let the players build that special type of relationship to his little pixel-troops that only true übernerds can have or understand... Like me playing Steel Panthers 1 ages ago and keeping track of all the kills made by all my units on a separate paper, awarding them medals for heroic actions.

    And then I would scream in agony as Lt Hansen...the hero of Smolensk, where he singlehandedly held the left flank against a platoon of BT-7s in his PzIII, was killed in his Panther by a IL-2 Sturmovik on some unknown polish hill in 1944.

    Yes *nods* I was/am quite the übernerd.

    *hrm* anyway

    But on the other hand since you still keep the CM operation as the largest type of battle the unit takes part in. So you wont have to track ammo and stuff like that from 1939 to 1945. And since you lock the player to a unit and a division, you wont have the totally-ahistorical effects of having one task force or kampfgruppe being created in 1941 and then fighting all over the place once/month to the end of the war.

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