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  1. Some excellent suggestions and points ladies & gentlemen! Well, if we're talking separate games proper (as opposed to modules for existing ones) and I have to choose one (Poll, anyone?) it's easily WWII North Africa, no question. I mean, if we're talking potentially epic battles with significant Armour? Tim Stone of Rock, Paper, Shotgun has lamented this in his various Flare Path articles over the years; I think his recent-ish playthrough of CMAK illustrates the point: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/06/17/the-flare-path-welcomes-combative-commenters-2/ BTW, I'm guessing Tim's articles in Rock, Paper, Shotgun have been an effective sales boost for Battlefront in this regard (or at least I've always bought a new module after reading his write-ups) and I suspect Tim's enthusiasm for a new CMAK would be shared by a significant number of wargamers around the world too? My only question is, what to name it? CMOT (Operation Torch)? CMBG (Battle of Gazala)? CMKP (Kasserine Pass)? CMEA (El Alamein)? CMRR (Rommel's Revenge / Raid on Rommel)? CMDF (Desert Fox)? CMDR (Desert Rats)? CMSS (Sandstorms & Stukas)? CMSQ (Sandstorms & Quicksand)? Of course, add-on modules don't have to be epic tank battles. LRDG raids are cool too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Range_Desert_Group e.g. I like the idea of commanding a small LRDG force with the mission of rescuing a downed RAF Hurricane pilot (Roald Dahl?), stranded in a minefield. (you only have so long before a DAK / Regio Esercito patrol arrives). Or, how about including a quicksand mechanic? Either way, I just feel WWII North Africa is an interesting environment to roll tanks through, more-so than CMFI for me. Also, sand storms. Lots of epic lo-vis sand storms and swathes of rising dust from vehicles, tactically obscuring that column of enemy Armour. Also, Stukas? Not to mention Hurricanes, 109 strafing runs, He-111 low levels, etc. Um, did I mention Stukas? Alright I'm blabbing on now, cheers! -H P.S. Whenever I see a classic war film set in WWII North Africa, I can't help thinking it's disappointing we couldn't buy a new CMAK so we could make our own personal Tobruk, Ice Cold in Alex, Patton, Raid on Rommel, Desert Fox, Sea of Sand, Big Red One, Play Dirty, The Hill, The English Patient, Raiders of the Lost Ark (etc!) CM scenarios based on the old movies just for fun.
  2. Interesting how the BBC "journalist" was grinning with glee, beaming at the prospect of this museum closing. Why was he so happy about it? Is there a connection with the closure of this (privately owned) museum in France & the recent dismantling of the Battle of Britain museum aircraft at Hendon? So, there's a recent increase of individuals making a cool killing selling WWII museum pieces to private collectors. Shouldn't these artifacts remain in a public museum? Or could it simply be that the public who are now living in the immediate vicinity of these museums couldn't care less or know about WWII history? I expect the thinking behind this is, the museums are more profitable for the owners by being sold off and converted into housing (for immigrants)?
  3. I'm one of those nutcases Easily fixed of course; created fake music intro.wav, music splash.wav and music end of battle.wav files (renamed zero byte text files), dropped them in the z (or Mods) folder and no more distracting music. Still, I hope the currently missing/broken music splash.wav is fixed in CMFB 1.02 for those who want it Sounds good!! Looking forward to how the new FX lighting looks during a night skirmish! Now I'm really going Nuts! (re: Lt. Gen. Harry W.O. Kinnard's BotB message) Take care and all the best to you sir.
  4. Hi, thanks for the patch! Just one small bug report (so far, lol) the trigger for music splash.wav is still broken during scenario load. music intro.wav plays instead. (music end of battle.wav works fine as normal after a scenario). Just mentioning it in case you were unaware. I see Erwin and CMFDR were talking about the bug in Maps & Mods before 1.01 patch release...
  5. Hello guys, please excuse the impromptu message but I just felt I had to say thank you to Battlefront for making such brilliant games. And I wasn't quite sure where else to post this, sorry if I got it wrong. I just bought Red Thunder and the modules I missed (Vehicle Pack and 3.0+ Upgrades) to complete my CMx2 collection and it's all good stuff as usual, thanks. Now, I just reinstalled my old CMx1 games I bought years ago and hadn't played for a while and I'm loving it even more! Yes, even with the genius of your CMx2 series I have to admit my favourite is still old CMAK, mainly because of the North Africa theatre. I hope you'll revisit North Africa at some point in the future but at the same time, I was thinking at some possible reasons why you've avoided it in recent years. I'm just guessing here... could the reason be because the swastika on the Afrika Korps vehicles is a bit too obvious and "politically incorrect"? And you want to "avoid potential problems" of having the swastika portrayed in full view? I know you have the swastika in CMx2 already on some uniforms but you really have to zoom in close to see that. But of course, on the main AK vehicles it's right there for everyone to see, isn't it? So, is this one of the reasons you've avoided Afrika Korps recently? I'm thinking this could very well be it! But hey whatever guys this is my main point I'm drifting from I wanted to say: The main thing I like about your Combat Mission games is not so much the WEGO system (which I love, don't get me wrong) it's just the fact we have those "instant replays" to watch the action from any angles or viewpoint. So I was thinking if you wanted an idea or improvement for a future game, the one "new" feature most welcome would be a full battle replay movie viewer. I'm thinking something along the lines of the movie viewers we already have in games like Rise of Flight, Cliffs of Dover, Flaming Cliffs, Black Shark and DCS World that record everything in the game world from mission start to mission finish, saveable in a replay file for later viewing anytime we like. This way, if we want to play our missions in Real Time mode rather than the WEGO system, then we still have this tool for debriefings and catching events that happened on the battlefield we might've missed during Real Time. I mean, c'mon guys... we had this years ago in Falcon 3.0 and Total Air War, didn't we? And let's not forget what our god and savior Larry Holland did with his Battlehawks 1942, Battle of Britain Their Finest Hour, X-Wing and Tie Fighter movie recorders (even if a little buggy, the trick was not to hit pause during recording!) If nothing else, we could make editing our war movies so much easier. And isn't more videos on YouTube more free advertising for you anyway? I loved whoever made the "Cross of Iron" video of Red Thunder I saw on youtube a while ago but I think they missed one glaringly important element; no "Cross of Iron" tribute is complete without a "Peckinpah" slo-mo camera mode, is it? Now, if this was somehow recorded in other game engines like Rise of Flight, Cliffs of Dover or even the Birds of Steel engine on PS3 (the forerunner to War Thunder), the "slo-mo Peckinpah" movie camera mode is already built-in to do exactly that with no further editing necessary! Does anyone else think a proper battle recorder (slo-mo feature optional!) is just a basic feature worth having in Combat Mission, or is it just me? I mean, it isn't just Flight Sims that have "black box" recorders like this, is it? The Total War strategy games have had a save replay feature able to save full battle recordings well over an hour long for years since the first Rome Total War. The Time Commanders game show on the BBC was based on it as well as a handful of other historical documentaries used it (I'm trying to avoid mentioning the History Channel here as they are a total joke in recent years not worth watching). Imagine the possibilities of using Combat Mission game footage in future documentaries if we had a similar battle recorder as in the old Rome Total War? What do you think?
  6. I'd bother looking at this, if I didn't already believe the IJN movements were already known full well in advance by Roosevelt (Rosenfeldt) at this time during WW2...
  7. Haha yes I wanted those too, but wait for a moment... think of some items that would truly be unique to own... I always wondered *who* in the world it is who has Baron von Richthoven's collection that was reportedly looted from his home after his death. That sort of thing. Somebody out there, has those things, somewhere. A banker, perhaps? I doubt we will ever know.
  8. Brilliant! I read about this in a comic many years ago, I think it was probably Warlord or Battle Picture Weekly. Never saw it in anything other than a drawing until now though, cheers mate!
  9. High end?? If you were into that horribly dumbed-down brainwash device for zombies made year after year by 'Worst Company in America', then you would be the lowest-end person imaginable on Earth and I would probably never speak to you again. Sorry, couldn't resist.
  10. Not the droids you were looking for but I'm currently reading this: http://www.amazon.com/It-Never-Snows-September-German/dp/1885119313 by Robert Kershaw. I think anyone who is currently playing the Market Garden module would be interested though. Also, again perhaps not the theatres you wanted but I've always liked the works of David G. Chandler. He taught at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and wrote a few books you might like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_G._Chandler His talks on The Great Commanders documentaries were brilliant. Sadly, no longer with us, RIP sir.
  11. John, that is such a wonderful film, thank you sir! I don't like to admit, I saw this classic a few years ago. Just in case you didn't know, there is a possibly higher quality version of this superb film on archive.org you are free to download at any time: https://archive.org/details/germansnipers Speaking of free archive.org videos, there's a good collection of various vintage American training films you might be interested in too.. here's a random one I found: https://archive.org/details/gov.dod.dimoc.29862 FUNDAMENTALS OF SMALL ARMS WEAPONS - PART I THE CYCLE OF OPERATION (1945), for example. Don't forget to watch the German WWII Newsreels on there too... or what about Panzer im Angriff (1944), U-Boote am Feind (1943).. etc. https://archive.org/details/1944-Panzer-im-Angriff https://archive.org/details/1943-U-Boote-am-Feind The only reason I mention archive.org is just that sometimes (not always) it is a higher quality version than one might find on youtube (and of course there are *some* rare videos on there, banned on youtube). Enjoy!
  12. Oh man, I feel like such an idiot now... I always thought that CMAK was the biggest selling CMx1 game.. I was sure I read articles about that years ago... haha all these years I've been assuming wrong and Afrika Korps is NOT the most popular?! I thought popularity-wise, it went... I) CMAK II) CMBB III) CMBO Still... wrong or not, the one singular thing that makes the ubiquitous omission of official (as opposed to our own mods) Afrika Korps ops in CMx2 so puzzling to me is simply this: If we took a "who is your favourite WWII general" poll, who do you think would win? I'm pretty sure it would be "Desert Fox" Rommel. Or wouldn't it? So... why wouldn't a CMx2 CMAK-II choc full of the North African campaigns be a sensible thing to make, when we'd all buy it? Stalingrad would be nice, as well of course! Good luck guys, I have my wallet ready for you.
  13. Haha good one. Not a regular forum member here, I usually first hear about my next imminent Battlefront purchase on The Flare Path: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/08/23/the-flare-path-goes-dutch/ Anyone else hear about upcoming Battlefront stuff there first? Tim Stone always seems to make me want to get my credit card out double-quick, whether I can afford it at the time or not haha. Looking forward to buying it Steve and everyone who worked on it, thank you for putting it all together for us. I'm sure it'll be superb.
  14. Anyone else think it odd he was trying to get his mother to "read the script" in the video review? Because from the outset it sounded as if HE was reading from a script. He's definitely reading, it doesn't sound natural at all. Which makes me think... what if he was reading a pre-prepared script written for him by someone like say.. a shareholder of a major games publishing corporation? Or say, a business rival of Battlefront? This is what it seems like to me. He probably actually isn't quite as dumb as he sounds, he's just another paid troll reading a script for the benefit of a rival corporation. In this way, Battlefront can't sue him because it's just his "personal" opinion. The types of low-life individuals who sell their souls like this are the scum of the earth though. They aren't dumb per-se, they know exactly what they are doing.
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