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    Romanians and others

    in Combat Mission Fortress Italy

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    In his defense he kicked my ass in the next battle, a straight US vs German attack, him attacking as US. My ATGs took out about 3 tanks, I shot my artillery too soon, though still did probably kill around 30-40 men with it. and my two Pz IVs got killed for 1 sherman. I had about a reinforced company in a small town, which he charged and did a WW2 thunder run on. My Luftwaffe troops got annihilated. This is where I sort of recently lost faith with fortifications in CMFI. I had my men behind buildings or at least in wheat fields around 1000 meters away from his troops and he managed to spot a surprising number hiding in their foxholes to my shock. They had covered arcs and all, and his forces were even distracted by the long range duel with his tanks and my ATGs and their subsequent shelling and demise.

    Sounds like BF made the germans in CMFI to take over the role of the syrians in CMSF ....... cannon fodder in prettier uniforms

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    Romanians and others

    in Combat Mission Fortress Italy

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    BFC has never said they would not do North Africa. I would not be surprised if we eventually see one. However, they already have a lot of projects on the go and they have already done CMx2 "Desert", its called CMSF. ;)

    North Africa is one of my favorite theaters and I spent a lot of time trying to recreate battles with CMAK. It did not work well in CMx1 because of "Borg spotting". However CMSF shows that CMx2 handles open desert armor battles much better.

    CMAK worked very well for me - borg spotting was necer a problem for me (guess i was blessed) - I just assumed they had radios on tanks and informed the other units accordingly of enemy positions - CMSF - not so much - it felt too much like a heavy weight fight between Mike Tyson in his prime against Benny Hill .......

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    Romanians and others

    in Combat Mission Fortress Italy

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    I know the feeling, but for a different reason. I think the first serious book about the war I ever read was The Rommel Papers, and that set me down a road I've never turned from. NA is just so damned interesting! What a perfect arena: the tactician's dream, the logician's nightmare. So many nationalities and yet the total forces were so small that one can hold them all in one's imagination. Lots of oddball units and improvisations. And all in country that has its own desolate and exotic beauty. What's not to like? I mean other than the sand and flies and lack of drinkable water and women?

    Michael

    But you got the best fried eggs ever !

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    Romanians and others

    in Combat Mission Fortress Italy

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    There were some CMAK campaigns/battles on the german paratroopers on crete that were absolutely AMAZING to play ! Maleme me thinks one was called ? Especially PBEM !

    CMAK is and was vastly underrated ...... the only CMx1 game that let me down was CMBO .... as I was getting this after I had CMBB - what a letdown !

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    Romanians and others

    in Combat Mission Fortress Italy

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    CMAK was great for what it was at the time - a module in a series of great games although a bit dated ...... and EVERYTHING that would have followed after the groundbreaking and fantastic epic scale CMBB would have been doomed for failure IMO.

    Just imagine CMSF coming out after CMBB with the old CMx1 engine - it would have sold far less than CMAK did.

    I love the desert fighting because it is where tanks really can shine and nothing like a good sandstorm and dunes ....... long range 88 duels ... ahhhh

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    accuracy/efficiency of machine gun fire

    in Combat Mission Fortress Italy

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    <Ahem.> The pool table test reveals the flaw in the aiming logic, a flaw that most of us all recognise and think should be changed.

    Further, JonS has defended this behaviour earlier in this thread.

    Post #41 in this thread

    and a bit further in.

    He's said it both here in this thread and on the Beta boards

    Further, he said this...

    Link to the actual post can't be posted here but is available if you want to take some sort of action on it.

    Well he could be awarded the "FANBOY OF THE YEAR" award for postings above and beyond the call of duty and complete disregard for others' opinions and real life .........

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    Antony Beevor - any good?

    in Combat Mission Fortress Italy

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    My suspicion is the Soviet recollections are valid and that the Wehrmacht, as an organization, was a lot nastier to civilians on the Eastern Front than it is given credit for. It probably wasn't systemic, my guess it probably was that minority of Wehrmacht personnel - maybe substantial, maybe a minor percentage, but in either case far beyond the norms of conventional military discipline - who for whatever reason chose to murder or rape Soviet citizens, because the chances of being punished were minimal, and probably also because they felt like they were going to die anyway or that the civilians were complicit and they deserved it.

    Which is almost exactly what you will hear on the Red Army side, when it comes to the behavior of the Red Army in East Prussia.

    I think that Wehrmacht behaviour in SU was also influenced by the very active and cruel partisan activity there - so revenge was part of the behaviour there too ......

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    Spotting still too easy!

    in Combat Mission Fortress Italy

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    This is why some long for the days of CMX1 - we could argue about a bloody tripod all day and night, but thankfully it was a given that you could hide ATGs, Shreks and what not for ambushes etc and had no bloody fanboys to tell us why it is all right to spot a veteran sniper team with normal infantry from 500 m away after mere seconds .... or that enemy tank around the corner of the building suddenly my infantry completely forgets about after 5 secs, do they not hear the bloody engine and smell the diesel ....... or german heavy MGs on tripods that shoot over their targets half the time even when they shoot at the same damn target for minutes ...... give it up skelley, you could more likely get a junkie to stop using than those fanboys to look behind the curtain .....

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    Ukraine > NATO vs. Russia

    in General Discussion Forum

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    Actually, I'd say it's the norm. Or at least if it didn't start out being nuts it got to be nuts. In fact, my father-in-law and I were talking briefly about the real reasons behind The Crusades. The upper classes had to get their spices for rotting meats and silk for undies, no matter how many poor bastards had to be tricked into dying for a false cause.

    Steve

    And don't forget that it was a lot more safe for the rich to have the poor fighting and dying in another land far, far away than to have them rebellious and hungry in their own lands .......

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    An interesting tale of Tiger and being depressed

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

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    It is also a very useful device for revisionist historians, who can claim, factually, that the uber kitty was not knocked out by allied action but disabled by its own crew. This logical approach allows hugely inflated kill ratios and a belief the Germans really had a chance.

    Be thankful the Germans attacked Russia or else you would have been starved on your little island of superiority .....

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    Moving AT Guns: An exercise in frustration.

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

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    RKT Otto Riehs described, that he couldn't make a Stellungswechsel (change of position) with his PaK40 during the soviet attack, because they were entrenched on a forward slope and the RSO was too far away on the reverse slope.

    This seemingly realistic and effective tactic (reverse slope placement and quick move backwards after firing to get out of LOS before contact from tanks can be made) is not possible with these deploying and packing times in the game ........this and the almost instant detection of ambushing ATGS from enemy troops makes ATGs next to useless in game .....

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