DaveyJJ

Latin? I must have the first version then because mine's in Klingon. No wonder I'm having trouble, Latin would've been much easier. I find myself now "A fronte praecipitium a tergo lupi."

Cleaning the cat's litterboxes and making my wife her birthday breakfast. (Yes, I washed my hands thoroughly in-between.)

You betcha! I've already got two maps and TOEs designed. I can finally combine my double major historical geography/fine art degree and love of tactical WW2 gaming to produce small scenarios/engagements for the community. Looking forward to it!

Very tempted to quickly code up a CM-specific chat client in Unity3D for folks here. Hmm.

Corpsman! Corpsman! Private George is hit!!

Up to September would be fine. We can get Operation Totalize and the Falaise gap fighting in (August 44) with Commonwealth forces and it'll be just dandy.

Oops! My bad, definitely wrong city. My dad always said a geography degree was useless.

Per scottie's post elsewhere (http://www.battlefront.com/community/showpost.php?p=1230379&postcount=87) you'll see the CMSF preview was just a shade over a month before its release date. That answers your question, I think, but only in relation to CMSF however, and in no way should be an indicator of when CMBN will be released or available for pre-order. The answer round here is it'll get released when its ready and not a day before. Everyone seems to have their guesses though. Sometime this year is a reasonable assumption, perhaps even as early as April/May some guess. Soon enough.

I'd suspect/hope that we'll see the gameplay in motion (at least some short snippet(s)) when CMBN hits pre-order. At least I hope we do.

I am using this music in my upcoming iPad WW2 tactical combat game for the opening theme ... http://www.productiontrax.com/trackpage.php?id=107712 and for the menu music (just prior to battle starting) this one ... http://www.productiontrax.com/trackpage.php?id=60533 Thought the first, especially, evoked the heroic yet calm sense of battle I wanted as a theme.

It probably hasn't changed much since being incorporated in 1945 ... last census shows only 195 houses and 421 people. I have 45,000 university students outside my office window most of the year.

If that means Steve and the other BF guys are heads down cranking and polishing this thing to finale, then quiet is good!

Ah, Oakland. I used to get off the BART at Fruitvale and make my way by bus up High Street towards my (rented) house in the crook of the 580 and 13. It was right at San Carlos that the bullet smashed into the bus window 3 rows in front of me at around 6:30pm one evening. No one hurt just a real scare. Ah, such fond memories. (Actually Oakland isn't that bad. But there are a few parts like any major city ... shudder.)

No, Martin, it's not. Fliipingbook are Flash files and the iPad can not view Flash (cue criticism of iPad in 3...2...1 ). There's no reason not to use jQuery and make the pages viewable via a slide show type format, however. Once the manual is finished I'd be happy to convert the manual and provide the HTML code and images for you if you'd like (I do that as my day-job so it'd be fast).

I will carry the CMBN PDF on my iPad with pride among all of my other (board) game manuals. Awesome news.

I will be buying two copies as well and handing out one to some deserving fellow gamer over on Insidemacgames forums. It's been a long long time away for me from this series and the previews are doing nothing at all to lower my level of squealing anticipation. I want to share the CM goodness with others.

Ditto. I'm way too old for real-time games of this nature. I likes my leisure.

They are expensive. That said, if you ever get to Knob Creek at either the mud or dust semi-annual MG shoots let me know. I have friends who go every year at least to one of them and they manage to shoot almost everything you can imagine. I'd be happy to hook you up with them for some heavy weapon experience if you'd like. It's apparently the place to be for firearms enthusiasts.

You mean Rocky's wasn't a screen shot in-game?

Agreed with previous posters, thanks very much for that update, that's great news.

It's definitely original, early 40s. I'll get the date and production details next time I manage to hook up with him, and have a real good look at the rifle as well. External condition is fine but you're most likely right about the barrel being worn out, or perhaps improperly cleaned over the years. I now this one's changed hands a fair bit and was picked up for a song.

Ditto. If it hadn't been for the transition to OSX and the whole RAVE graphics debacle (not Battlefront's fault) I'd still be playing CMBO. It was, and remains, my favourite computer game of all time. So with that, I'd be willing to pay CDN$80 or so for CMBN which is $20-30 more than the standard PC game in these parts.

Whew. That's why I plan on doing really small scale infantry-only engagement scenarios for the community. 500mx500m on average to a max of 1km square.

How's your Lee Enfield shoot in terms of accuracy? Any time I've fired off a friends at our nearby range, I've found it to be "inaccurate" to say the least. I am not the best shot (although could manage an FNC1A1 with some really decent accuracy in most conditions) and find my targeting off with the Lee Enfield. Maybe it's his model or is there some history that they wildly vary in accuracy?

I can see America from Canada, you know.