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Bulge is not going to be a module, but it's own standalone game covering NW Europe from the fall of 1944 to end of war. For sheer content of the games that are continually updated CMBN - Normandy is your best buy. Beyond that I am afraid you are just going to have to pick what you like most. Try the demos. Some are dated in terms of features but can still give you the gist of the game. All the games are generally kept current though there might be a slight lag based on release schedule priorities. Personally I am with fivefivesix, CMFI is pretty special though not everyone's cup of tea. CMSF is not being updated but there is some talk that the game may see a re release of some sort to current engine standards - that would then be my favorite...There is just something about that game. Even without all the features of the new games I probably spend as much time with it as any other title.

forum grog.

you know you can edit the maps anyway you like. Open in editor, edit your setup zones, save, voila you have your own preferred settings.

Yeah really, I love that ship no reason for it to suffer... oh wait maybe that isn't what you meant.....

I can fill in for you there. Having done a couple campaigns with Broadsword I absolutely agree. It is one thing to have the scenario briefing tell you what success or failure might mean. It is another to know that your next battle is going to be based around your results and to know the overall force and terrain conditions that this particular battle could influence. In the case of our St Lo campaign, for me it meant trying to keep my frontline from utterly collapsing. great fun.

Well there are posts on this subject in every forum, I understand why but it also splinters the discussion.

yeah pretty much. If we do not meet the goal, the only conclusion is there is not enough interest to make it financially viable. Sad statement for us all considering how much expressed interest there has been on this forum over the years. Uncle Matt needs you! (Kohenklau, can you supply the proper graphic? No not the Kate pic..sheesh.)

Hang in there, it is not Endor for every map by any stretch of the imagination. I don't want to give anything away, but re read the overview and you may get some idea of what is coming.

yeah, for me the point isn't do not have woods, but rather make the woods interesting if they are there for any reason beyond just funneling an attack. Creek beds, fire cuts, trails, variations in terrain, anything to make it interesting and varied. Bois de Baugin is a classic little map. It has a couple small patches of forest, but they add a lot to the battle on the map. Besides having a profound influence on the battle space they are interesting in their own right...ahh shall I regale you all ... yet again... with the tale of a tenacious fighter by the name of Probst?

damn you are right. I am so used to seeing it I didn't even think about it CMSF never had that. Well when they get around to redoing that one it will have it.

well the money is just a commitment that you don't pay unless they reach the goal. And if they don't reach the goal it dies. soooooooo KICK IN DAMN IT!

their response, assuming there is one, would also need to be tempered by talking to the owners of the site hosting it. Patience, Ian has made sure you aren't just a voice in the wilderness shouting into the wind.

Well said Hattori (damned nice first post, welcome aboard!), a stream of consciousness wall of poorly written text becomes practically useless for a tactical primer. Look to Bil and combatinfman's posts as examples of what a tutorial needs to look like to be useful.

Well if you want something done right . . . Should I take this to be a suggestion that the vehicle pack will include a sample of "Steve's Special BF Popcorn"?

Lee if you meant my reference to triggers, those are what allow you to configure a possible AI response to player moves. For example you could have a battle where the player has choices for an axis of advance. Depending on which they chose you could have triggers that cause the AI that would have been defending the other axis to conduct a spoiling attack into the players flank I have yet to really put time into those, but there is a lot of potential for creating a sceanarios where the AI is more responsive to player moves. It is definitely a more advanced option but not necessarily that much harder. It will take some messing around with to get comfortable, but is a nice addition to the design toolkit.

Man I hate popcorn. It is like eating styrofoam peanuts. Can we do chips and salsa instead, with some beer of course

Out friggin standing, will hit that today and spread the word.

Lol hey if they are real they might be worth something!

you select the unit and it shows you what damage it inflicted on the enemy. You have to have the map display up to do that, the aar screen just shows totals.

you are just dodging the Kate Upton genealogy. I won't let you bait me with that Nazi mumbo jumbo! As to sins - Burke comes from Deburgh - a damned Norman follower of William the Bastard. But Harald promised the throne to William, I know cause he said so and then a fabulous tapestry proved it! By the way, why do you have a profile pic of Leonardo DeCaprio in uniform? He needs a doody cap. I can arrange one.....

that Russian proof about MH17 is about as big a steaming pile of crap that has ever been seen. Easily debunked and most of it so inconsistent it didn't even need to be debunked. And the UKR are not your countrymen, they are Ukrainians. You can't cross thew border and fight in their country by any international standard. Russia has a really bad road ahead of them fighting Islamic extremism if they can't even secure their border with Ukraine. The Crimea vote was a sham not even coming close to an international standard and no way 90% of Crimeans voted for that. Come on even just the Tatar vote would have kept it below 90. If Russia had said 60%, maybe just maybe it would have been believed, still an illegal vote, but at least somewhat honest - 90 though? Lie big seems to be the Kremlin motto. We disregard most Russian sources as time and again the lies they have told are far too transparent. MH 17 was shot down by a Buk, possibly run by a Russian technical crew, but definitely in occupied territory. The ONLY country that says different is Russia...which should surprise no one. It is not by chance that Russia vetoed the UN resolution to go after the culprits even though they were not yet named. Russia screwed up, It was definitely not their intent, but they screwed up and they don't want to own up. Honestly not much different than the US shooting down Iranian flight 655, but at least the US paid reparations in the settlement that was reached in an international court of justice- a move Russia is actively blocking regarding MH 17. As to Viktor's ousting, that is an internal matter for the UKR people, not for Russia to decide. Hey I hated when Bush won the election here in 2000 and feel the vote was actually stolen, but no way would I support a civil war especially one run by a foreign power. Vladimir you are most certainly not a bot, but your belief in the mis information coming out of Russia and your trust in those sources is misplaced.

Absolutely! But you have to split that 40 acres and a mule with all the generations since so that leaves you with this... uh blade of grass and a mule hair. As for me, most of my American ancestry is pretty recent so I don't have to bear any of that guilt. I might have had an ancestor (Clarissa Dye) who server as a nurse in the civil war. http://www.civilwarphilly.net/2003survey/LittleSurvey-Medical.pdf Hard to say with my family - wouldn't be the first time I was told something that turned out to be completely false. The woman is real- our relationship to her meh maybe maybe not.

again, I made a distinction in how the institution of slavery functioned, I did mention that the west likes to say how everybody had slavery (and many still practice today - hell we still have slavery in the US,yes- it is illegal, but it does still exist.) Africans selling Africans into slavery definitely happened, but what they were selling them into they had no idea. More to the point, what difference does that make- THEY sold them can not be your excuse for our buying them - sorry officer about having that ounce of crack, but that guy was selling it- it is his fault. For more on that whole issue, this wiki link has quite a bit of interesting info. (for clarification- I am not quoting below as a response specifically to anything you said and am not trying to imply that you did - it is just for me an interesting discourse on how the whole discussion of the African slave trade is itself a very political discussion.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Africa The viewpoint that “Africans” enslaved “Africans” is obfuscating if not troubling. The deployment of “African” in African history tends to coalesce into obscurantist constructions of identities that allow scholars, for instance, to subtly call into question the humanity of “all” Africans. Whenever Asante rulers sold non-Asantes into slavery, they did not construct it in terms of Africans selling fellow Africans. They saw the victims for what they were, for instance, as Akuapems, without categorizing them as fellow Africans. Equally, when Christian Scandinavians and Russians sold war captives to the Islamic people of the Abbasid Empire, they didn’t think that they were placing fellow Europeans into slavery. This lazy categorizing homogenizes Africans and has become a part of the methodology of African history; not surprisingly, the Western media’s cottage industry on Africa has tapped into it to frame Africans in inchoate generalities allowing the media to describe local crisis in one African state as “African” problem.[18] —Dr. Akurang-Parry, Ending the Slavery Blame-Game My point was the institution of slavery to a specific social/ race grouping that was bound in servitude forever was kind of unique. And the fact that it was banned in the 1800s shows there was contemporary issue with it. You were the one who stated it was a retrospective thing as if in the 17 and early 1800s it wasn't considered bad. Fact is it was. Perhaps not by all, but by enough that the French revolution banned it and eventually a terrible war would occur in the US over it. But enough of this, more importantly you did not state your agreement or disagreement with my most influential people list.

I haven't really experienced an issue with following orders based on C2. I have however seen a delay based on the squad's quality. Could be that there is a relationship for really poor quality units. Now mind you I always play iron, so I don't have anything to compare with regarding elite.

Hey you are the one starting a thread on Hitler. Stalin and Castro. How did you ever expect that to stay on topic? And while continuing "off topic", US policy towards Native People's was far more deliberate. The trail of tears, extermination of the buffalo, the constant land theft and confinement to the reservation system. You are far too lenient on the culpability of the US gov't and white population in general. Small pox was one small part of a much broader theft of land and resources. As to the Opium trade. The Boxer rebellion was not begun to stop the proliferation of an analgesic. Christ man. Opium dens ring a bell? The Chinese held it as wicked as a contemporary experience, just as Africans held slavery to be wicked while they were dying in droves during the middle passage. Slavery as was practiced then was different.The west likes to confuse this matter saying- well everybody had slaves. True except for one critical detail - in most cultures slavery was individual, a slave wasn't a slave forever based on the color of their skin. Slavery as practiced by the west was a far more institutionalized thing than say for example what it was in the Ottoman empire. Being a slave is never good, but being a slave and knowing your descendant 5 generations removed will likely still be a slave.. well that is slightly different. Now to that list of most influential people, he has it all wrong #1 The person who first harnessed fire. #2 The person who first learned to plant crops #3 The person who first domesticated animals. #4 The person who first thought up writing- okay that is likely a bunch of people so we'll call 4 a group win. #5 The person who first realized shell fish are damn good eating - okay that probably doesn't belong there, but this is my list. For Kohlenklau #1 The genetic forbears of Kate Upton.