RogCBrand
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That must be more than 6-8 weeks after preorder. I hope it will be released before the May the 10th, otherwise I will lack the ability to download anything from the internet for a couple of weeks. How many weeks after download release will the box arrive then?
Did you choose the "Ship Immediately" option or stick with the standard "Ship For Christmas Delivery"?
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Keep in mind that June-July 1944 was unusually cold and stormy. Photos of GIs in Normandy show them in woolen shirts and trousers with field jackets and sometimes gloves. It was a chilly summer until August came along.
Michael
Sounds like a fairly common Summer in the Northwest!
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There will be probably be more Americans playing CMBN than any other nation i suspect so that could determine the start date but please correct me if im wriong
I always assumed that even in their Winter, those Down Under have much nicer weather than us!
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Boy, aint that the truth? I've made casual comments to other gamers on other forums about preferring one method of playing over another and sometimes it's almost like I've suddenly been transported to Salem. Mass. in the 1690s and said, "Hey, witches are people, too!" in a crowded room.
WITCH!!! Your Shermans shall burn at the stake!
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I agree with you, i sometimes forget that not everybody lives the way i do and given that i am not going to a/ pay people to play this operation and b/ interview people to weed out the ones with good health, jobs and relationships i guess a compromise is a necassary evil.
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...
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Thanks again for all the hard work tyrspawn!
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I like my wargames with "amateurish" graphics for the same reasons I prefer World At War over Patton 360. World War II to me is not shiny and new. Games like Combat Mission, West Front, Close Combat, Sudden Strike, Hidden and Dangerous, Steel Panthers, and others have always made me feel like I'm discovering World War II all over again. Company of Heroes feels like any other modern RTS in terms of atmosphere and immersion.
Playing Sudden Strike II today, I spent four hours trying to capture this hill and at least another hour positioning all of my troops, vehicles, and captured equipment in preparation for a Soviet counter-attack. Are the graphics on par with Crysis? Nope, but I'm still loving it in 2011.
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!
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No, I was thinking of a completely different vehicle, whose correct name is the T8E1. Here is a model of one that has been modded to represent one in British service. As you can see, the turret has been completely removed and a .50 HMG mounted.
Michael
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!
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Not against infantry with no armor support.
That is true. But most any armed vehicle against unsupported infantry will enjoy a bloody good time of slaughter!
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I agree. I think it fought in every important carrier battle except Coral Sea and was thus of unique historical significance. It was a strange oversight not to have preserved it as a museum piece.
Michael
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!
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Wasn't there also an M8 combat car made from the hull of a Stuart? ISTR it from CMBO.
Michael
Yeah! I think CMBO was the only time I've dealt with the M8 that was built on the Stuart hull. Worthless little things!
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I'm pretty sure I did. I got the lithograph of the Panther and that went out only to the pre-orderers, right? I've still got that around here somewhere. I came across it a couple of years ago. I think it might still be rolled up in its mailing tube.
Michael
LOL! Mine is still rolled up in the tube too!
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Swords into ploughshares. What else are you going to do with an obolete hull? The world only needs so many artificial reefs.
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.
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Have to agree with this.
I'm also firmly in the WeGo camp, when I first discovered CM after Steel Panthers, it was so refreshing to have a system that didn't have the inherent gameyness of turn-based games.
Plus, 90%+ of my opponents live in other timezones, so Pbem WeGo is pretty much essential.
I take my hat off to Tyrspawn, I doubt I could actually handle/keep track/form and carry out coherent plans in real time unless using a far smaller force than he controlled in the 2 battles.
Keeping up the commentary through 1 1/2 hours was impressive too!
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Dont want to feed the fire in this thread of RT versus WEGO, personally I prefer WEGO (ie. only play WEGO) but I think its great that BFC made it possible to have both. No need to argue which is better. Everyone gets to choose for themselves.
But I do agree that I feel like half the fun is constantly rewinding and watching the cool moments unfold. Such as the close assaults against the Shermans. Would have watched that 'minute' ten times over.
I have very fond memories of CM:BO PBEM's where I would watch critical 'minutes' over and over to get every little tidbit of the game out of that 'minute'. Thats the beauty of CM in my book.
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!
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So your uncle was carried to hospital by Mr. Hind. And when he came out of the hospital, he brought your uncle home, and then your uncle married your aunt? Excuse me, but I don't think that these kinds of... relations were recorded officially.
LOL!
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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!
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If only it had been played in WeGo so tyrspawn could go back and get a good view of it.
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.
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It has always amazed me what a daft system it was. Thankfully at least naming them was adopted. : )
It leaves though a slight sense of dismay that an organisation could be so blind to the problems of everything being M1', 2, 3, 4 's. And what happens when they get to an M13 is it unlucky? I bet very few grogs here could say what a WW2 M13 was.!!
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!
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Tsk 4 minutes from looking sharp
LOL! When I started my post I paused to go check to see if I was remembering right!
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Strange things can happen in wars. I just ran across a passing reference to M8 Howitzer Motor Carriages taking out a Tiger! I imagine if it happened at all it only happened once.
Wasn't that an M8 GREYHOUND that did that?
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The flood of old-timers can also be slightly frustrating as well. A lot of game-related questions from people who have skipped over an entire generation of CM. The CMSF and CM:Afghanistan demos are free. If nothing else they'll offer a few hours of blowin' up stuff while increasing your motor skills for CMx2 camera movements. A little practice will greatly reduce the number of initial "this game sucks!" posts from people who are simply unfamilar with the UI controls.
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.
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The operation i plan to run will be nothing like CMMC as i am familiar with it and its complexity was one of the reasons that inspired me to create a simpler method for the average player to be able to play CM at an operational level, however things went on hold once CMC was announced but the idea resurfaced again once that project was aborted.
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!
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Personally, I would prefer just a little bit of variation. Maybe have Scouts sound like Elmer Fudd; "Be vewwy, vewwy quiet! We're gonna hunt Germans!"
LOL! That wascally Erwin Wommel!
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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!