Sakai007

Yes, as did I, and for some reason they accepted my application.........must not have talked to the ex-wife

Yeah, I love the RT, I have to admit it. In fact, I don't think that CMx1 would be as much fun with RT, but CMx2 doesn't feel fight with WEGO. Different systems, different needs.

I hadn't considered that kind of play style with CM. I always did enjoy the Operations in CMx1 for that fact, having to make higher level decisions then the usual tactical battle presents. It is fun to have a "mobile fire brigade" that you keep in reserve to exploit a break through, or prevent one.

I am stoked about CMSF2, as I play the crap out of CMSF now waiting till I can get Normandy. The temperate region will be a nice change of pace, but people wanting larger maps will realize a ton of that size will be nerfed by all the terrain (trees, hedges, etc.) in a temperate region. Sure, there will be large expanses of land, but a good many battles will be fought at infantry AT range, or closer, like in CMBN.

1.31 broke more then it fixed IMHO so I still play 1.30 so my PzGrenadiers have Panzerfaust 3s. I have to sacrifice Canuk engineer demo charges and having exposed crewmen looking like jesus, but I can handle it.

LoL, Thats the funny thing about hand grenades, you always want to see it go off, but you might lose something (eyes, ears, head) in the process if you do. Face in the dirt as soon as she leaves your hand (on the range anyway)

I find myself more aware of casualties, but I tend to take quite a few anyway so that only helps so much. The most effective way to kill the baddies is to keep my men shooting, so in a round about way, I try to keep as many weapons on line as possible.

Thanx Murrin, just what I was looking for. Love the MP40 inside the 251, beautiful. Just 13 more days!!!!

Hey, I would love some more pics of the PzIV, StugIII, and the 251/1 APC, as for the 251 I want to see what she carries for supplies for the troopers in back

Hey Steve, this mean a regular download purchase will be close? I have to wait till the 1st of June anyways, but am curious!

"All Hail, All Hail the Infantry, Queen of Battle Follow Me" I think that about says it all

Heh, the missus and the twins were at her mothers house last night, so I got in some solid hours oh death and destruction. We have the net instead of cable so I have to share my puter so she can watch Make it or Break it!!!! I hate that show BTW

I watched that episode of Band of Brothers right after I played the tutorial, oh yeah, I loved it. In my first run, I had a squad do just as you showed in the screen, and got the same results. They killed 15 all by them selves. I played the one with Panthers as the Americans a little while ago. I had two 60 squads with 50 kills between them, epic!!!

I just played the tutorial a second time. Total Victory, 13 Dead, 16 wounded, 3 Tanks lost. SPOILER ALERT I went up the LEFT side first, after dropping all my mortars in the area of the AT gun. I thought I had knocked it out, I didn't. I fired smoke round through the gap on the left to cover my infantry. Two squads hauled a** up to the trees, then a rifle team stormed the first house, killed two, captured the rest. I used the rest of the men to form a base of fire into both houses before this. I then lost a tank, then another tank, to the "dead" AT gun. I got an MG team into the second story of the second house and suppressed the gun. At this time, I took 1st Platoon that was on the departure line to the right flank and pushed them into the hedge rows. I had already killed the HQ I guess, so shock and awe was the word of the day. I took hedge after hedge and captured far more then I killed. The Germans surrendered with about 10 minutes left.

First impression.......AWESOME!!! Same as the second and third impressions as well. I love CMSF, and now I love CMBN. The fragility of infantry is something I will have to learn, since my body armored pixel truppen of CMSF don't die quite as easily, but I feel that for a WWII strategy game, there is nothing else out there that compares with CMBN on the tactical level.

I don't think there is an area to deploy in with the tutorial. I tried the other mission as the Germans on the attack and the whole deploy area is red, as the americans it's dark blue. BTW, the other missions are a blast too, great time I tell you!!!

You really want to know how many times I've yelled, "You dumb s***, go the other way, no, the other other way" today???? Heh, more then 4, how about that!

I also got my but handed to me by the AI and I am a veteran CMSF player. The difference, mistakes are punished much more so then in CMSF. For example, no body armor on troops, that means the ambush that would have killed 2, kills 10. Also, The tanks don't take hits like an M1 Abrams. Don't get me wrong, this is not a bad thing, just have to get used to it. I must say, I had a ball. ***SPOILER ALERT*** I tried to go for the farm first. I got to the gap in the hedges and lost a tank and then the germans made it rain 81mm shells and annihilated the two infantry squads and an MG team. So, I went up the right side next, and fought hedge to hedge using TONS of small arms as I went, and it worked. I pushed up the far right side to the sunken road and flanked the AT gun and MG team with a single infantry squad. They were all killed, that one squad had 15 infantry kill with one missing kill, lol. But, as I was charging across the field, time ran out, and it was a major defeat. Two more minutes and it would have been a tac victory, oh well!

I would like to go with option 1 for $1,000 Alex. And as a side note, if I could choose two, option 7 would be right there as well.

Here in Bath, Maine an Arleigh Burke class Destroyer was commissioned named the "Michael Murphy". This man was a Navy SEAL who was killed in Afghanistan in 2005 after his team was compromised. During their operation they were discovered by some goat herders. After a lengthy discussion about whether or not to kill these men to protect their missions integrity or to let them go, Lt. Murphy called for a vote from the team. It was decided to let them go. A short time later, over 100 Taliban attacked their position. During a running firefight, most every member of the team was wounded, including Lt. Murphy. Their radio wouldn't transmit where they were and Lt. Murphy decided to do the unthinkable. He went into a clearing, in full sight of the enemy, and used his SAT phone to call for reinforcement and assistance. During the course of this he was mortally wounded, but still managed to end the transmission with "Thank You". He died there on that hill top in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, an MH-47 Special Operations Chinook was dispatched with another SEAL team to affect a rescue. The Taliban had been monitoring communications and knew the flight path of the helicopter. A well aimed RPG took this helicopter down, killing 8 SEALs and 8 Night Stalker Special Ops Air Force crewmen. All of Murphy's SEAL team, except Marcus Luttrell, were killed. Luttrell was able to get down stream to a small village who sheltered him until help could arrive. 19 men, 11 SEALs and the 8 Night Stalkers, were killed during this mission, the most devastating loss suffered by American special ops in a single mission. Luttrell regrets his vote to not kill the Afghan goat herders to this day, as his was the deciding one. I know they weren't POWs, but they were potentially (and as it turned out, actually) hostile and under the guns of these men. If they had been killed, Murphy's team would have probably been called murderers, but now they are dead heroes. I do believe, and would stand by this during high stress moments, that the good of the many sometimes out weighs the good of the few. There is a time and a place for all things, and without being there to see the actual circumstance, we are not in any position to judge any man for what he does during wartime to other men fighting in the same war. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Red_Wings Wiki Link to "Operation Red Wings", the above mentioned operation.

I also trained on and used many of the weapons available for the US Army in CMSF, so it will always hold a special place, both in my heart and on my hard drive. I was stoked when a modern setting CM game was made, so I will never stop playing CMSF. When CMBN is released, I will play the crap out of it for quite a while, I know this. However, when I am burnt out on CMBN, CMSF will be waiting with open arms to relieve the frustration of not hitting the enemy tank on the first round when I really, really need to.

I am really thinking about making yet another red vs red scenario. Valiant troops rebel against their masters to save civilians. Ahh, you can't write this stuff.

Casco Bay brew???? Must be a Yankee like me, and I don't mean the New York Yankees either, Red Sox fan here, all the way!!!!

I can't agree with you more Wodin. This game is going to be a huge time sink for me, and it will be worth every hour! I am grateful to Steve, Moon, Battlefront as a whole, and all the beta tester who have made this possible. I thought CMSF took a huge chunk of time, and the CMx1 games I still play, this is going to be a wife killer, lol!!!

Yeah, I have a little wood now, and it's cause of the manual. I tell ya, the words "I have just read the CMBN manual" should be enough to get you laid the way we've been going about it, and I wouldn't have it any other way. REFRESH MONKEYS!!!! UNITE!