[hirr]Leto

Uh-oh... enter the philosophical.... : ) Wasn't everyone warned about this! LMAO! Back to the topic of the thread though, for those of you who have been competitive ladder or tournament players before in CMx1, what is your honest opinion on CMBN being as conducive to competitive play as CMx1 has obviously proven out? Cheers! Leto

Pretty accurate... : ) Leto

Wow, if rules for blowing up things could be transposed upon the activities of Al Quaeda or the Taliban... computer gaming could make the world a safer place! : ) Cheers! Leto

As perhaps the last person to play him, I think he withdrew from the scene due to his perceived views of how the game of CM was not being played within the purity of his worldviews (realism, no flags, abhorrence of gamey force picks, etc) and likely from burnout. That is just my opinion from my short time playing him and reading his posts. It should not be construed as putting words in his mouth, nor inferred as badmouthing him: simply as best an answer to your question as possible. Cheers! Leto

My question was simply looking for normative responses, not philosophical viewpoints of how the game should be played that run the risk of introducing stark dichotomies that may create arguments between dogmatic positions. My question should therefore not be inferred as introducing philosophical discussion, but feel free. To each his own. : ) Cheers! Leto

Head to head in a ladder game where the results are recorded to provide a record and inevitably to use as a measuring stick for skill level. Tournaments where scenarios are tested for balance or where one side competes against another where balance is not always a necessary control (skill is netted out across the one set of players who play a side in the scenario). Cheers! Leto

What are your thoughts on how the new evolution of CM may work in head to head ladders, competitive gaming and tournaments and other areas that are very important to competitive wargamers? WeBoB is now entertaining a ladder system, but are there other clubs out there that have in the past run ladders and competitive tournaments seeing a resurgence? Cheers! Leto

The blitz has a ladder for CM. I don't play there anymore, as I am a WeBob member. I can attest to the awesomeness of that club with respect to fair gaming and dealing with "game droppers". Cheers! Leto

I just received a file from my M8, but have no idea as to how to start the pbem from my end. I have followed this process: -save file to incoming emails folder -open file in saved games on menu page -insert password -save game file and then "poof" I am booted back out to the main menu. Lil help? Cheers! Leto

Whoa. Hold on here. I hope you are not suggesting that dkchapuis must accept MikeyD's point of view to make his own point of view legitimate... especially when it is obvious that MikeyD obviously does not reciprocate?!?! What kind of twisted logic is this? Opinions are opinions, and whether they are respectful of others opinions is superfluous to their being exactly what they are. I think the better route to take here is that everyone perhaps should cool down and realize that these are just that: opinions. Sheesh! Leto

Uhh, beta testers have exchanged years of sex for helping to develop the new game... Isn't it obvious? : ) Cheers! Leto

I thought it was "tube guy" tm*? Cheers! Leto

We detected a person named 101paratrooper in our club that had actually found a way to manipulate CMx1 using PBEM helper. There was also discussion on how he was able to change ammo loads for his units. I know so little about the game mechanics, that I just took the word of the techies at our club to resolve. Gamey is fine, especially in a tournament with an objective to win but cheaters are the lowest of the low and should be flung into the nine hells when at all possible. Cheers! Leto

How did the ROW tournaments monitor for/deal with cheaters? This is of course, making the bold presumption that there are actually people out there who would actually consider this/have the capacity to do so. Cheers! Leto

Let's make it official: sign me up too.

Is this Peng thing you wankers refer to so much in these threads: a) a comedic savant that may be closer to the middle left of the Belushi - Farley 'fat stupid guy' spectrum? a name someone adopted from an overturned chinese take out box that lay on the floor next to his convulsing body for two days and is now a symbol of strength that represents surviving the compound effects of diptheria and bad kung pow chicken food poisoning? c) an acronym / brand name of a penus enlargement product that is well used (but largely ineffective... pun intended) by the purveyors of these threads d) the omnomatopeia of the sound that the first AP shell impacting upon the upper glacis of the first ever cyber beta panther model ever made in Combat Mission? e) A new iteration of the slang term "dirty sanchez". I am dying to find out which path the olde historians of the Peng challenge thread will actually take to get to its earliest foundational moments. Cheers! Leto

I have nothing against Nabla, my question was more focused on how do we incorporate the CMBN scoring system (which appears to be very different in intent, function and purpose than CMx1) so that it is similar to previous ROW tournaments. I may be ignorant here, but it appears to me that there are no longer per centage based scoring outcomes in CMBN. Cheers! Leto

I recall scenarios like Across Moltke Bridge has a lot of statistical variance due to the "puzzle" nature and inherent non-replayability. That being said, how shall anything work in CMBN if there is not an adequate scoring system for us number crunchers? I hope that gets fixed before we go to gold... or else there will be a real monkey wrench thrown into any attempt to revive ROW. Cheers! Leto

I fully agree. It's good for the moral to chant we're #1, but when considering that they are the only guys out there in a niche genre, a bit superfluous. I think that in itself should be heralded over anything else: BFC seeks to make it in a space that would otherwise not be populated, to the benefit of all of us. Competition would only mean that BFC would be over a barrel and beholden to the ubiquitous and ceaseless grindings of our many whims and desires when it comes to let's say, throwing in the Finns and other Axis minors into an East Front module.... heh heh heh... : ) Cheers! Leto

CMBB runs fiine on my new rig avec (notwithstanding) Vista (bleaccckk). Never tried PCO before as I also am a CM guy (limited amount of time, ergo, not too curious about other titles). I will probably buy PC and get the Ostfront update just to support the efforts of fellow wargamers. Cheers! Leto

The point is moot, as we all know that Bastogne was out of supply and that when the Vodka ran dry, the Finns would have immediately sobered up and surrendered. Cheers! Leto

Thanks M8!! But how exactly does this translate into anything tangible? What are the effects? How do we best utilize them? Cheers! Leto

Romanians then? ; ) Cheers! Leto (yes, finns, I know and love them too!!!)

I also have no idea why people keep piling it on (sarcasm sorted through) when BFC is so absolutely rock star great. Rally to the standard to fight as brothers on St Crispins day I suppose. But more to the point, although the CMx1 games were legendary, I don't see why they are referred to at times in the same manner as how dark wizards are referred to: dare not speak aloud their name! CMx1 was great, still is great and I still play it prolifically. I also intend to play CMBN... hopefully it is as near as good. I just don't see why the lines are drawn and the polearms displayed menacingly all the time when the products BFC put out speak for themselves? There has got to be better things to do with one's time. Cheers! Leto

Neither is there in CMBN.... (and from the conversations, it will be a snowball in hell type day when we get a module on the east front from BFC that includes the beloved axis minors as it just does not make "economic sense"... let's hope that is not the end case result) Cheers! Leto