Ardem

August 30, 2005

your kidding me, I pray its not cause that sucks

August 30, 2005

Don't Change

WEGO system

PBEM - I know wishful thinking but us Aussies its hard to find people in our timezone.

Your dedication to realism

Change

Need a Campaign Experience addition, or even a two verus two campaign experience.

Operation editor much more involved, which would included reinforcement entry at varying times, more deloyment areas.

Smoke an AT gun then using area fire on the AT gun which has a fair bit of accuracy to knock it out, this option must be more realistic. Either smoke not as accurate as shells or Area fire not as accurate when firing at smoke.

Spotting of AT teams a lot harder, at the moment I think it very easy to spot two people, whereas even in brush they could be hiding in a ditch.

More terrain features, such as Anti Tank Ditches, fortified positions like bunkers that squads can enter, creeks just more and more hahah

August 25, 2005

Personally i think the current casuality rate is extremely high, not because of the modeling but how we push out troops to absolute oblivion to win the map with no concept of after effects.

So already with this high value, you could argue that some the causalities are infact deserters or malingers.

If we reallt considered our troops as real people I don't think we would make some the decision we make in CM to win a match.

June 16, 2005

Originally posted by JasonC:

So if I have to advise one thing, it is have a narrower plan, be a bit more patient, focus more on that overall plan and less on the tactics used in each spot. It is a lot easier to pry apart one position with most of your force to call on to do whatever tactical mission needs doing, than three of them side by side with a third as much in each spot.

From a historical perpective compared to a CM perspective a narrowed attack is that more desireable?

I see a lot of CM games won via CM tactics which don't always fit with historical tactics, for instance the typical CM tactic to load all your troops on a map edge and sweep up the outside of it then when reaching the rear pressuring the flank.

NO Map edge in real life, so I am just curious when you narrow the attack in real life how many troops are you able to narrow into a pentrating attack without hindering your own advance?

BTW Really nice AAR, but do agree a map picture would be helpful.

June 16, 2005

Originally posted by Seanachai:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Ardem:
hahah same thing still Americans announcing to other Americans how great they are hahahahhaha.

Adam? Is that you?! </font>

June 16, 2005

I to am a fan of expanding the roles of strategy gaming. Perhaps we are getting more greedy as time goes on, although the total war series is not ideal as far as realism. I do believe they are going down the correct path, when they are combining operational and strategy battles together.

They are giving us a story, a role and experience of a generation of warfare not one off battles.

People are not just satified in having another good strategy game with new features. Destructable ground or some other new feature they are wanting a story behind it, a feeling of immersion into the game itself.

If gamers were happy to play strategy games in their pure form we woul dbe just as happen to play SSI Wargame construction set. A great game but no feeling of immersion, when the graphics get real enough as I feel they are getting, then what is next to swing a gamer.

Total Immmersion in a story line (random not scripted) that create you as the Leader, General, Company Commander and the foot soldier.

Game designers like total war are heading down that path and as the years progress and their game play become better and thier operational stories become more enhanced, they will be the true winners of strategy gaming.

People who put pretty graphics and gimmicky features will be like the SSI simulations of the new world of strategy.

Games are not just interested in the battles they also want the immersion, the story.

June 9, 2005

hahah same thing still Americans announcing to other Americans how great they are hahahahhaha.

June 9, 2005

Its not any thing in America so you wouldn't know <smile>

Sketch:

American Geography class, teacher pulls down a map of the world and it show all 50 states. There you go kiddies this is the world as we know it.

June 8, 2005

Stuka, I heard that joke an age ago and it was just around the other way, I wish you guys were not 4 steps behind us, your like our hilly billy cousins nobody wishes to invite for dinner.

If you read history correctly we been trying to seperate QLDers from the the rest of Australia forever.

If you remember rightly, before Queensland was named 'Queensland' it was New South Wales, after sending all the undesireable out of Sydney we decided to create a border to segregate the undesireables to the North.

If you look at World War 2 we were preparing a stopping line on the edge of New South Wales, to stop the Japs, actually we were trying to give it away.

New South Wales is God own land and Qld is just our pissing pool.

June 8, 2005

I got a feeling I will have to change my name for the new version on CMx2 to IwilzOWnzYoos

Cause the more it shaping up that is the type of people in the 'Silent majority' it going appeal to. No I am not being negative and still got the wait and see approach but so far looking in the post above, people that are asking for rail guns and fast action are people that just stopped off the CS bus.

As for the 'silent majority' they don't care about CM or the series, they take every game on a game by game basis and reviews online, how glossy the box is in the shelves and friends that are into that style of game.

I wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for some more original CM members saying I got this great game have a look at it.

Difference with the Total War series and CM is over the years the little fights have been about features added, the total war series has only ever increased the scope not decreased. Just look at the campaign stuff for Rome Total War compared to Shogun, leaps and bounds more enhancements.

CS has got its kids to entertain, Total War has it kids to entertain, with the CM product it always a totally different age group on average (maybe not on the forums) if you aim more for the kids and try and make it glossy with enough scope for kids that who will purchase it, you aim it for adults with depth and medium scope they will get it.

In the end we are already the winners if we don't like the scope we still have CMx1 and probably still be playing it for another 5 years until someone does it.

CMx2 will probably be treated like all the other games out there by other makers that haven't swayed the CMx1 community from going there, perhaps CMx1 is the perfect mix that not even BFC can even match in a new style of game.

BFC is taking the gamble that it will sway its own loyal fans and the silent majority to a totally new expereince good luck to them cause I think its not going to be easy.

Talking with the gaming group of guys that play CMBB and CMAK who don't post on BFC have exactly the same concerns that is being posted above, with a mixture of apprehesion and cross ones fingers. The Silent Majority steve talks about is all the people that haven't got CMx1 cause he just has to go to the different CM forums and he would notice several links to this exact thread, this is his customer base.

[ June 08, 2005, 05:11 PM: Message edited by: Ardem ]

June 8, 2005