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    First Impressions

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

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    well, having played the demo for a couple of hours now i have to say that this games kicks major a...rsch.

    back in the day, i always felt that WEGO was just to slow for me and...khrm, unrealistic. i mean what kind of a simulation allows you to take infinite pauses and rethink a hundred times every decision that you're supposed to make. war is hell boys, you've got seconds to make decisions which will either cost you the lives of your men or not. fluidity and organized chaos, that's what makes a good wargame for me, and that's what RT delivered primarily.

    in this sense I welcomed RT play. The fact that there was still is a lot of micromanagement and now real-time, did make things a bit hectic. With CMSF and co. RT might actually and ironically be just too much. With the kind of capabilities that a modern army carries things are over in seconds.

    CMSF for me has always been just plain asymmetrical warfare, no way around that and also lacking the mythology of WWII ( i gues that will be rectified in the next 20 or so years, once all the books are written and movies made about Iraq and Afghanistan).

    So it's all clicking together for me: RT and a WWII setting which allows for a slower pace yet seems totally realistic, forces which are pretty much even. There wasn't a moment yet since I started playing the demo that I thought: wait a minute, that looks weird or funny or naw, that can't be. There's such a flow to the game, it's unbelievable.

    Ok, if there was one thing that I found just a tiny bit enervating is the way the AI seems to be prodding you forward with successful mortar strikes. there's just no stopping anywhere on the map, they'll find you. as much as I love RT, I just wish they gave me a brake once in a while. I sometimes feel like medic Irwin Wade in Saving Private Damon." just give us a f... chance you sonomamitch." spittle in the wind.

    so congratulations to the BF crew, it's an awesome game, you did it again as the blonde lady used to say.

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    First Impressions

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

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    I didn't know (or forgot) that right click allows the camera to rotate in any direction. At least that's what someone said on the Wargamer forums. I will give it a try next time. If thats the case then perhaps the camera isn't that bad (but still could be better although I'm certain I'm probably in the minority here).

    Yes, rigth-click allows you to pan the camera in every direction. That makes a whole lot of difference, you're reaction-time becomes much shorter, gives you the edge. You'll get used to it no-time

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    A few words from your sponsor

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

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    Sigh.. Steve is in big trouble now. My wife is going to kill him since I have been reduced to sitting my the computer hitting refresh all evening... At least if I had the demo I would interact more with her "Look Honey, a Tiger !" "Honey, you can control 2nd platoon. Where do you want me to move them? No, no.. Move over there, up the flank. NO HONEY.. up the flank !!!"

    LOL

    Well im smarter than that. I got myself an ipad so i can refresh in bed, by my wife's side.

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