Frankster65
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Well said Peter.
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Beautiful looking map there LJFHutch! I myself find the map editor to be a very excellent tool. You really can be quite creative with it.
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Very informative thread.
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Based on the preorders for CM:BN so far... we're not concerned we'll come up short on this one. Not concerned at all
Steve
Very glad to hear this. You guys deserve it and I'll thank you again for giving me my "PanzerBlitz" in 3D.
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Yes, very beautiful work sir. I will enjoy playing on this map. Thank you.
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You place it on the vehicle itself.
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Great post womble and welcome. I'm afraid I'm not the guy to answer your questions, others here more qualified. But, I will say that is one of the best things IMHO about CMSF is the fact that you have all these different TO&Es to play with. Each requiring different tactics and use. If you've got all the modules, and I do recommend you do, you will see a very large difference between U.S., British, Canadian, German etc. units.
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It really is fantastic stuff.
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Hello and welcome to the community. Don't ever be hesitant to ask questions...there is a wealth of knowledge with these people...both real world and virtual world.
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guilty here as well.
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I think PCO will do quite well actually,hats off to them on a good job. CM:BN on the other hand simply raises the bar to another level. The infantry model in PCO is again abstracted similar to the original combat mission series,the new CM:BN simply blows it away.
Was the first poster a fan of PCO? I'd tend to doubt it,if he's that critical of the new combat mission graphics he'll feel as bad or worse about PCO.
Are there members of the Matrix boards that bash CM? Most probably,they tend to be fairly free in posting like battlefront. Similarly there are members here who just have to vent their spleen at matrix as well. I like both companies,have many of their games and want them both to do well and produce more games!
Will the guys running matrix be playing CM:BN? Most certainly! They love good games same as the rest of us.
You are right Smithers. I should have thought more carefully when posting my response earlier. I have become very impaitent with a small group of BF haters that I assume sometimes any negative post here is attributed to them. My bad.
For what it is worth, I do think PCO is going to be a very good game and my hats off to the volunteers who made the current upgrade for it. They have done enormous work on a game which was so flawed in so many ways. I do intend to get PCO and enjoy it for what it brings to my wargaming table.
My apologies to the PCO volunteers out there I have offended.
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What's PCO? Google was no help.
Yes, Panzer Command Ostfront. There is a small, minority of hard-core gamers who are involved in that game as testers, coders etc. They have been known to bad mouth BF and the CMx2 engine.
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Of course you did. You are a PCO troll. Now run away little turd.
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I'll be playing CMSF for a long time yet. There is so much to do with the editor and I love the modern TO&Es. It is always a challenge to play Syrians as well.
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Yeah, I had to laugh at his post too. What a loser.
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Yeasterday at dusk we were all camping in Perthshire having a BBQ looking out across fields and hedges to a wooded hill beyond. My brother handed me binoculars while I looked at the lengthening shadow and said "Do you want these to look at the Osprey nest" to which I replied.... " No I am trying to work out how to take that hill".
He was enjoying the evening and the kids were talking about FPs's and the next transformers movie, but me well like you since I was the same age and my nephew and son have been programmed to try to take that hill.......
Peter.
That is wonderfully funny! My wife will be glad to know I'm not the only nutcase in the world...
Every time we go on a drive in the country and I'm in the passenger seat, I'll be looking at the beautiful scenery...my wife will ask with a smirk..."You looking for a reverse slope or hull down position again?" She knows me only too well. -
It does seem to be mostly a club of geezers here. Glad to see young people getting involved in the game as well. I'm 45 and started playing wargames as a very young teenager with Avalon Hill's Panzer Blitz.
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CMBN isn't even out the door yet and you want to talk about the next module? LOL...I feel for the developers. You poor bastards.
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What's most gratifying to me is seeing the scenarios play out like little stories. That's what made CMBO such an addicting game.
I think the nit-picking about grenades and bailed crews, besides being what gamers do by nature, is result of the great storytelling ability of the game. The downside to the huge leaps the graphics have made since CMBO may be a foray into the "uncanny valley". CMBO was kind of a cartoon of those tactical board games I loved come to life. Little things could be fudged and it wasn't so jarring.
This looks to be so close to an actual film that any little deviations from what each gamer perceives as realistic is going to be pounced on, because when things get that close to looking real that's what the mind does.
What a great time to be a gamer!
Very well said sir! Two thumbs up!
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This infantry model is not as sophisticated as CMBN. They say it will improve with Panzer Command four. I will probably get it myself just to try it out but the two things which do give me pause is the "infantry model" since I love infantry vs infantry battles and I don't care for their HUD interface. I think what Battlefront has done with bringing the information to the player is much, much better.
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What a great thread. It really brings out what we all have in common, brings back a lot of great memories through the years.
I've been a wargamer since I was a kid. I had most of the old board games like the rest of you had previously mentioned. Tactics II, Anzio, UpFront and PanzerBlitz to name a few. Used to spend hours with my brother and a few nerdy friends fighting battles with these games on a card table down in my parents basement.
Then computers came and I got into flight sims. Went hog wild on those for quite a few years. Then, I believe it was early 2002 or so, can't remember exactly what year I read about a demo of CMBB. I downloaded the demo and played the demo missions over and over. I thought wow...PanzerBlitz in 3D! It really brought back a lot of good memories. There was one demo battle in particular that really hooked me. It was the demo mission of the tank battle at Kursk. I had happened to have a book of the battle next to me and there was a picture of the German panzer waffe spread out among tall grass. I looked at the picture, very powerful, very intense picture, then looked at my game screen and there was the almost identical picture right there on the screen. It was amazing.
I bought the CMBB CD and from there have been a Battlefront customer ever since. I could not believe the depth and broadness of the game, the attention to detail. I could fight battalion vs battalion battles with this game, infantry vs infantry, combined arms vs combined arms...the sky was the limit. I was able to take the tactics I read about in the history books and actually use them in game, understand the how and why of those tactics used. I learned how to clear city blocks one section at a time due to CMBB and CMSF.
The game was not only a game but an educational tool on military tactics and history.
I've been hooked on Battlefront games ever since. I have all the CMX1 games. I have all the CMSF modules and will be purchasing all the WW2 modules. I have a particular fascination with the eastern front so will be doubly excited when those modules come out.
Thanks for the great game and teaching tool.
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It looks very interesting and well done. Will try it soon. Thanks for the work on this.
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CMSF will long stay on my hard-drive for years to come. I have too much fun playing the campaigns and multitudes of scenarios. PBEM with various opponants brings the game to an all new level.
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No, I did not skip any modules. I like the variety of the different TO&Es to play around and experiment with.
Every time we go on a drive in the country and I'm in the passenger seat, I'll be looking at the beautiful scenery...my wife will ask with a smirk..."You looking for a reverse slope or hull down position again?" She knows me only too well.
BF, You Blew It
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Now, now LemoN, don't be so sour.