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    How small?

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

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    Originally posted by Michael Emrys:

    </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Dillweed:

    For the record, basic infantry tactics, say pinning down with one squad, flanking and assulting with another took me a long time to figure out. A tutorial mission on doing this in CMBO would have been greatly appreciated.

    Have you checked out the tutorial in CMBB? It's not quite as small as what you have been talking about, but it's pretty small.

    Michael </font>

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    How small?

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

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    Cause I'm sure if your not some middle aged grograd who already knows everything, the community doesn't want you, and BFC doesn't want your money.

    For the record, basic infantry tactics, say pinning down with one squad, flanking and assulting with another took me a long time to figure out. A tutorial mission on doing this in CMBO would have been greatly appreciated.

    BFC may indeed be shooting for a different market with this game. The questions we seem to be asking are: Why did they do this? and How can we change their mind? The question we need to be asking (and one that I hope BFC is considering) is How can we get people whoever never played a real wargame intrested in one? as opposed to say Starcraft.

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    How small?

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

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    There's an old saying, it isn't the size of your command, but...

    Seriously, we've heard that a battalion is the largest force we will "officially" be able to command, but what about the other end. I'm assuming that it is going to be a platoon, but I havn't heard anything about this.

    Personally, I'd like to see a very small mission, say 5 or 10 turns with just a squad (2 fire teams) just a simple take a LMG or clear a house sort of thing. Perhaps it would make a good start for the intro campaign? Just to introduce moving around the map and very basic infantry tactics in MOUT.

    Just an idea.

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    Stalingrad

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

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    I know, just stating a fact. I just find the Arnhem campaign intresting because its a bridge for the german units between the early war (for the western front anyway) and the late war Gomer Pyle formations.

    But I think we would all agree that with the new mission objectives availible with CMx2 a stalingrad game would not be unwelcome. smile.gif You are on notice Steve.

    I wouldn't be suprised if we see one in a few years. And as far as I know I have the best record on the boards for predicting unannoced releases. tongue.gif

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    Stalingrad

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

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    Originally posted by Michael Emrys:

    </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Sergei:

    Arnhem sounds like a too narrow subject. Wasn't there only a battalion of Brits, just for a week.

    No, the whole 1st. Airborne Div. made it to Arnhem. It's just that only a battalion or so made it to the bridge. The rest of the division got trapped on the western outskirts of the city, where they fought a vicious week-long battle to try to hold on to the DZs.

    But to take your point, it would make a better module than a whole game series.

    Michael </font>

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    Space Lobsters, When would people like it set.

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

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    Originally posted by Wisbech_lad:

    Hmm, why are we thinking big? Why not CM - Space Lobsters Of Doom - the nano wars?

    Automata fighting viral like battles, trying to either repair or destroy the chitin of the lobsters? Or the immune systems of their opponents?

    That'll see if steve can put his "CMx2 can do anything" money where his mouth is.

    And if scotty giving out diagrams, why not just a pershing, make things a lot easier than a sherman.

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    Military service poll

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

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    Originally posted by mazex:

    </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Battlefront.com:

    </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />So does the swedish AT4 have the "this end tword enemy"

    No silly, because Swedes don't have any enemies! Closest they have is the Norwegians ;)

    Steve </font>

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    Stalingrad

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

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    C'mon you know you want a Stalingrad game with the new urban warfare mechanics. I realise that this is going to be a longway off (after CMSF, CMBO2.0 and CMSLOD) but I would be suprised if 1 of the 2 remaining games wasn't an eastern front game. I think it would be a crime not to include old S-grad in an eastern front game. As I said, a long long off, but any other support for this? And any other ideas for an EF game? With the new plan we'll prolly only get 1 battle, at least for the initial release.

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    We could be in Syria well before 2007

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

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    Originally posted by Abbott:

    </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Battlefront.com:

    Abbot, (snipped)

    Steve ,

    I know I was a bit out of line and I thank you for your graciousness. I did not post anything I do not personally believe. I felt that someone needed to speak up in defense of our great nation.

    With respect,

    Nick Abbott </font>

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    Space Lobsters, When would people like it set.

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

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    Well, the thing to remember is that BFC is a pretty small company. Unless CMSF sells serveral orders of magnitude beyond what the current crop of games have been selling I think we can rule out any licensing of other IP. That being said I would love to see a sci-fi game about highly mobile infantry inserted onto a planet from space in power armor. It would be similiar but legally distict from the book Starship Troopers. Also, I may be wrong here but I had heard that Games Workshop (the Warhammer 40k people) actually owned the rights to the names Space Marine and power armor.

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    Military service poll

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

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    Originally posted by mazex:

    Swedish Army 1989-90 - I'm the one with the raised G3... The observant viewer will notice one of the guys having an AT4, which is a swedish weapon sold to the US.

    /Mazex

    So does the swedish AT4 have the "this end tword enamy" with the little cartoon man pointing that away from himself. 'Cause I always found that funny.
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