Pipski

Am I missing something here? I just tried a QB and it gave me 35 green unconventional Syrian infantry to hold off an attack by 76 veteran marines backed up by 2 grenade launching Humvees and 2 TOW vehicles. At night.

Nope, you're absolutely right. All I want is random maps and pickable forces. Don't care about anything else - scenarios, mods, campaigns, multiplayer and the rest of it. Didn't say the game was crap, said it's probably not for me and that I frankly can't understand what seems to be a bizarre design decision.

Well, having played CMBO, CMBB and CMAK happily for years without ever even looking at anything other than Quick Battles, I bought Shock Force yesterday with both expansions. Stupidly I bought them by download, otherwise they'd be going straight back to the shop. QB without being able to pick your own units is the most wilfully stupid design decision I think I've ever come across. As I couldn't give two figs about the asinine `zomg dirty bombs' campaign either, I seem to have just wasted my money on a game I'm probably never going to play. Great.