Aragorn2002
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On 2/21/2021 at 4:21 PM, IronCat60 said:
All I have to say is that we need to display the same spirit and attitude we have demonstrated in the past. Qualities that I feel makes up the average Battlefront customer.
That spirit is faith that the BF folks are doing their best to produce the same quality which may take a little longer and we all know no development ever survives first contact with reality. Plus they have lives outside of work which as we all know, can influence job performance.
That attitude is Loyalty. I like to think there are no "sunshine patriots" among our crowd. Through thick and thin, past and present, we patiently wait for what we know will be as great as the last release.
Great products and outstanding customer service has always been the hallmark of companies that garner die hard loyal customers. And this company has that in spades.
And to quote my the great wisdom of my caretaker who says, "sounds like a first world problem to me", when her children complain about how unfair or unbearable it is to endure certain situations that are a want and not a need.
To quote a great movie line:
"The oxen are slow, but the earth is patient" - High Road to China
I need some coffee...
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8 minutes ago, IICptMillerII said:
I understand the frustration, but I do want to quickly point out that there were some very real (and serious) life complications that cropped up (multiple times unfortunately) that caused a fair number of the delays. It is not my place to comment on those. I only mention it to try and give some context.
Which is justified and no doubt true. It hardly matters anymore, since we're all about to get swept away by the wonders of CM. Let bygones be bygones, we have wars to wage!
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23 minutes ago, sfhand said:
As a long time observer of BF forums this thread's topic seems very familiar. I do not write this to denigrate anyone, I am and have always been someone who is deeply fascinated by human behavior and psychology. I am all too human myself. I have enjoyed the perks and suffered the follies and heartbreaks that go along with that.
From my first days here I, as a gamer not a grognard, have taken note of my fellows' interests, partially to enrich my own experience of CM and to enhance my abilities in game in an effort to be a worthy opponent. As a result, I have read many people expressing desires for many things. In terms of "what games they would like to see next" the Eastern Front of WW2 and a fictional Fulda Gap scenario have been very popular ideas dating back to CMBO. As a result I can only view this as a win/win with no losers from either camp.
For me, if I were to look for one of my "CM desires" to be frustrated by this announcement it would be my desire for a modular CM3 that could take full advantage of modern computer architecture (another very common theme around these parts). I write this as one who can not know if the development of a fully modernized CM3 is likely, or even possible, for a small company like BF. So, in reality, I am not frustrated by the announcement but rather very happy for more content, engine upgrades of current content, as well as more user made scenarios and mods that will invariably follow. Two birds in the hand... what?
All true. But the development of Fire and Rubble has been a very troublesome one, with a lot of delay and radio silence. And human as I am I've lost my patience and good manners on several occassions. With two new products in the pipeline it's easy to forget how the frustration and impatience came about. All in all I think the development of Fire and Rubble is an example of bad communication and agonizingly slow progress.
All water under the bridge now, but there are lessons to be learned here and not just by a short tempered, greedy forum member like myself.
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1 hour ago, Bulletpoint said:
For realistic games such as Combat Mission, I'm not really interested in fictional scenarios. That's also a big part of why I'm not really interested in the modern warfare or cold war versions.
However, if they were to make a 1946-46 game, I think it would be more interesting to say "what if the Germans had not wasted their final resources in the Ardennes but had instead fought more defensively, dragging on the war for another year?"
I don't think the war would have dragged on for another year. The Western Allies would have reached Berlin first. If the attack in the Ardennes had been cancelled AND the counteroffensives in Hungary too the war might have dragged on longer, but perhaps some months, not a year.
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1 hour ago, Bulletpoint said:
"...also murdered 50 odd German men. I hope we can conceal this." -Patton's war diary.
I said 'clever', not 'flawless'. At least he was ashamed of it.
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7 hours ago, Vacilllator said:
I am curious enough, but is it better to wait for the fully baked article so as not to spoil the eventual wonder? If you think so I'll wait, but if not I can PM you with an email address...
Better to wait, I think.
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44 minutes ago, Vacilllator said:
And not just any scenario:
Come on, please share the joy
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I will. Just give me another couple of months. Or if you're really curious I could send some work in progress if someone is interested. I have to add objectives and AI plans, but it can be played by the German side. The map is finished, the troops positioned, so it can be used already.
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52 minutes ago, mjkerner said:
Lol, more like average sized modder--you just like Goums!
No, no no, no, no! I won't permit you calling yourself average. Your Goums are brilliant. I fought a battle with them only yesterday and it nearly broke my heart to finish them off!
52 minutes ago, mjkerner said:So, you have been holding out a scenario on us, Aragorn? Why haven't you been giving us any bones about it? (Couldn't resist, my friend.)
And well deserved too. I behaved rather badly when it came to bones and stuff.
52 minutes ago, mjkerner said:Btw, with the announcement of CW, and with F&R coming soon, I hope to get the Goums based on the British and the US (along with some "unleavened" uniforms for SF2) out the door in the next month.
That is great news, MJ! Really looking forward to that! Still hoping for Gurkhas too, you know.
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1 hour ago, IronCat60 said:
I think that I see the start of a behavioral patton developing from these posts
"They are a scurvy race and simply savages. We could beat hell out of them.”
(Hmmm, who does that sound like? I think he thought he was taking the heil road on this one)
Clever man, Patton.
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6 minutes ago, mjkerner said:
Hi Phil, it’s good to hear you’re getting back into CM! I modified the Finn mod some time ago, added some weapons and even some uniform bits IIRC. Anyway, let me know if I can help out on any mods you might be cooking up.
Another mod giant turns East!
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Just now, kohlenklau said:
I seem to remember your large scenario based on a German unit up near the Baltic(?) coast. The Lions or something like that...?
Thanks, it is good to be missed. It goes both ways, I did enjoy working with you and lots of other great guys on various CM projects. The best is yet to come!
The Lions are hunting.
Yes, I still think it's one of the best maps/scenarios ever. And I do play it a lot. Perhaps I will finish it and release it when Fire and Rubble comes out. Not sure, might not be to everyone's taste, although Earl Grey liked it and that's high praise!
You're right, the best is yet to come! Winter is coming!
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16 minutes ago, kohlenklau said:
I will definitely try to take my Finn Mod to winter. Juju had done the UI emblems and some other stuff. I borrowed the Finnish voices from CMBB. My limited photoshop skills (think kindergarten art on the fridge with magnets) got me greyish uniforms and I think I used the Soviet PPSH SMG to look like that famous Finnish SMG. It was what it was.
I also had a Hungarian Mod in progress years back. I saw somebody took that ball and was trying to run forward with that. I spotted the Hungarian greatcoat collar emblems I had "photo shop bludgeoned" into the mod. I had so much ambition without the requisite skill or talent.
I was trying to make a Hungarian camouflage poncho... I had trouble getting the color of the Hungarian helmets correct.
I am kind of re-emerging into CM and the forum after several years hiatus...
We missed you. Remember we both worked on that scenario? You made the map with the different heights for me.
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1 hour ago, Soldat-Hans said:
Youre damn right! Germany just transferes into a Politically correct Country! I see this transformation brutally! Got a high Depression because of this and am at the Point, where I say:" **** this, I am out! **** yourself Society!" Thinking about going into early retirement! I have really enaugh of this, since I always say what I think and I never had any problems with that but some idiots! But today? It hase gone out of Hands here!
As Jordan Peterson says; 'Without Free Speech there is no true thought".
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Btw it would be grand to have a winter version of the Finn mod, Kohlenklau.
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On 2/19/2021 at 8:50 PM, RepsolCBR said:
Belive it or not...But i have heard it mentioned many times that back in those days the Swedish airforce was considdered to be the 3rd strongest in the world...Surpast only by the USA and...the sovietunion.
If this is actually true i dont know...but we did have more than 1000 modern combat aircraft back then.
At the height of the Cold War the Dutch army could field 1000 tanks. Unbelievable.
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9 hours ago, Childress said:
The three English sailors were not alone in resorting to cannibalism by necessity. The Donner Party indulged as well.
As their supplies dwindled, the Donner emigrants stranded at Truckee Lake resorted to eating increasingly grotesque meals. They slaughtered their pack animals, cooked their dogs, gnawed on leftover bones and even boiled the animal hide roofs of their cabins into a foul paste. Several people died from malnutrition, but the rest managed to subsist on morsels of boiled leather and tree bark until rescue parties arrived in February and March 1847. Not all of the settlers were strong enough to escape, however, and those left behind were forced to cannibalize the frozen corpses of their comrades while waiting for further help. All told, roughly half of the Donner Party’s survivors eventually resorted to eating human flesh.
-History.com
And more recently, in 1972, the plane crash of the Uruguayan rugby team. A survivor: '‘I will never forget that first incision’.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news ... gbooktalk/
However, in both cases, they reserved their victims for the already dead unlike the crew of the Mignonette.Dying is a lot harder than most people think.
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4 hours ago, kohlenklau said:
I am today enjoying the 5 year old snows of the CMRT Winter Mod (released late 2015) but of course it is a workaround with modtags and many things not fully winterized. I use muddy terrain to TRY and simulate snow. Nothing perfect.
Far too modest. I've used it for the past five years and I still think it's brilliant, even compared with winter in CMFB or CMFI.
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2 minutes ago, sburke said:
woohoo that and $60 will get me CMCW!!
Hahaha...Now there's a thought to do someting useful with it.
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7 hours ago, sburke said:
yeah the dearth of material for anything in this period is more the problem.
It is. The appearance of the T-54 (or T-44?) is well described and very interesting to read though. And I like the element of espionage in Gee's book.
Congrats with 2000 upvotes.
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1 hour ago, sburke said:
I tried him. The overall idea I was really into but his character development is pretty awful. When the Native American started wielding tomahawks I ditched the series.
I remember we had this discussion before.
But I think you're being too harsh. I've read them all and although I agree that not every chapter is of the same high quality, for me it's still one of the best series in this genre. And I've had my share of unfinished fictional books. Colin Gee knows his stuff and makes few if any mistakes describing battles, weapons and tactics. That's rather unique to my experience.
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Quite a story.
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1 hour ago, rocketman said:
Yes, it was the formation with the most Swedish volunteers in the Axis (German, not sure about Finnish) side. I figured I would make scenario(s) in which I can punish them in a digital form for volunteering.
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1 hour ago, Earl Grey said:
If there weren't so many mods to make all the time... But there still are those "GD" mods in the works I started all those years ago, do not worry!
Kamerad! Good to see you're still around at this forum!
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Looking forward to that, MOS!
Frustrated by this recent CMCW announcement . . .
in Combat Mission Cold War
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Pretty strong, but you're right. I do need something stronger.