RogCBrand

I feel the same- some of my favorite CM games, I've lost, but my badly wounded forces managed to pull off some wonderful surprises before they were finally thrashed! Not that there's any chance of anything close to it, but I'd hate to win every game- it would get boring!

Did you choose the "Ship Immediately" option or stick with the standard "Ship For Christmas Delivery"?

Sounds like a fairly common Summer in the Northwest!

I always assumed that even in their Winter, those Down Under have much nicer weather than us!

WITCH!!! Your Shermans shall burn at the stake!

Also remember that in the Northern Hemisphere, with Summer right around the corner, the nice weather leads to people venturing outside more, as well as more vacations, etc. I know here, those 9 months of dark, gloomy and perpetually wet weather get me more enthused with playing something like CM, but when the sun actually comes out regularly, I'm off camping or doing other stuff. If you start you campaign in the next couple months, you may run into some problems with people having a lot more going on away from home and the computer. Perhaps a slower pace to start would be good- especially as everyone will still be getting used to the game, and as the Summer starts to die, things could speed up...

Thanks again for all the hard work tyrspawn!

I still love CMBB and CMAK and even on rare occasions go back and play the old Steel Panthers! If something is really, really good, it never dies! Hopefully CMBN joins those games in the Game Hall of Fame!

Oh! I forgot about those! LOL! Once again that whole designation confusion! Thank goodness for the Brits giving us names for a lot of our equipment, because otherwise it would be even worse trying to figure things out!

That is true. But most any armed vehicle against unsupported infantry will enjoy a bloody good time of slaughter!

If I remember right, the nuclear carrier Enterprise was named so, because of the disappointment of people that had fought to preserve the original carrier and failed. I imagine that at the time- only a bit over a dozen years since the end of WW2, there wasn't yet the nostalgia that we all feel, so even though many saw the historical value of preserving some of the most important parts of that war, many just didn't see that. Funny how at one time thousands of units of a particular tank, aircraft, etc. were made, and many of those survive the war, yet today only a few examples of some are left. If I could time travel, I'd want to go back a couple years after the war and buy up so many things for cheap and ship them off to a huge warehouse in the Arizona desert!

Yeah! I think CMBO was the only time I've dealt with the M8 that was built on the Stuart hull. Worthless little things!

LOL! Mine is still rolled up in the tube too!

I know they couldn't preserve everything, but a whole lot of people fought to keep it as a museum, as they did with some other ships, and the Enterprise fought through a lot of major battles and would have been one of, if not the most important ship to preserve. I think in its case, the value for history was greater than what they got out of it in scrap.

Keeping up the commentary through 1 1/2 hours was impressive too!

Same here! That's why CM and IL-2 Sturmovik are my two favorite games of the last 10 years- not only are they fun but I can always go back and watch the really cool moments as often as I want and from various angles!

LOL!

I can understand many of those vets not really wanting to talk much about what they went through- and I'm sure, right after the war they didn't feel too special, as millions of other men from around the world had gone through the war too, but today, every last word they could have written down about their entire experience would be gold to us! Hope you can find as much info on them as possible!

That would have definitely made for a better video- I know I was getting a bit of motion sickness there and definitely there would be sounds of something happening, where I would reach for my mouse, before realizing I couldn't go look at what was happening. But doing the video playing real time is the only way to really do a vid like this- using WEGO I'd imagine the time and effort he'd have had to put in would have been much, much more and I'm sure what he did was more work than most of us would have wanted to do. I look at it as a great preview, while leaving a lot of the close up, juicy bits for us to get a good look at when we get the game in our own hands.

I agree! The bean counters and other bureaucrats in the American military have often seemed an unimaginative and heartless bunch! Whether it's the ridiculous way they provide designations or things like selling the aircraft carrier CV-6 Enterprise for scrap metal!

LOL! When I started my post I paused to go check to see if I was remembering right!

Wasn't that an M8 GREYHOUND that did that?

I preordered CMBO, CMBB, CMAK and CMSF. I loved the first 3 and still enjoy playing CMBB and CMAK, but even though I kept trying with CMSF through the first many patches, I just never enjoyed it- it wasn't fun for me to play the way CM1 was. But I have high hopes for CMBN being fun like the earlier games.

Definitely a good idea! You don't want to start a project that would quickly go from a hobby project you're excited about to a non-paying full time job that burns away your soul!

LOL! That wascally Erwin Wommel!