Magpie_Oz

Thing is you have to frame your review in terms of your reader demographic. Sorry to say it guys but our fav game is very much a small item in a huge market. If PC gamer say wow fantastic game everyone should buy it, 99.9% of their reader base will think them idiots for it. We know it is the seminal work for computer wargames but it is far removed from what the mainstream market wants.

I've been wanting something like this for sometime now be great to make a contour map etc for planning

Looking back through the many pages of your hallowed peng threads does tend to torpedo the credibility of that bitch slap.

Isn't fire hose a reference to Stuka's thingy ?

So really it was the evil British who started the war with the peace loving Nazis?

Yes of course that is the rub isn't it? Can't blame a company for doing what is commercially viable.

But is the fighting in the Pacific really all that different? Sure the terrain and climate are different but the soldiers involved are basically the same. The US Army and British forces are already modelled all you need to do is add the Japanese. As for the terrain Jungle is similar to heavy forest, bamboo is like bocage etc so it's not that much of a leap. The difficulty only arises if you want to model an amphibious landing by the USMC but in reality the actual landing part is a small component once ashore all you need are the peculiarities of the USMC soldiers themselves. I don't see that the game engine itself would need to be all that fundamentally different.

That's going to make modelling the Australians rather tricky. The Japanese Infantry squad was generally between 13 - 15 and progressively re-armed with the 7.7mm (0.303)

So really what it comes down to is that Nazi Germany was simply beaten at every level, economically, technologically, politically, strategically and tactically?

I for one would love to see a PTO module but for sure I'm not holding my breath. I have for many years pined for a computer game that worked through a series of modules, as CMx2 seems to do in the hope that one day, like ASL the less commercially viable theatres can be represented. As for the Banzai charges, well they were really a marginally less wasteful way of committing suicide, the Japanese troops knew they had lost and their way of looking at things necessitated suicide so why not try to take a few of the enemy with you? Rather than needing to compel a player via the game engine to perform a Banzai charge you could simply do it by scenario design. Give the player a mass of troops and a very short timescale to achieve an objective, like occupy an area for 2 seconds and make casualties irrelevant.

Yes that is the one, without doubt my fav of any scenario in any game I have played since 1979...... How's that for a rap? I'd love a campaign centred around a similar sort of small unit feel. To my mind this size of scenario is the perfect size for CMSF.

Does seem a bit odd to have a strict rule regarding bringing replacements but not apply it to all of the teams in the comp.

hmmm let's see if I can remember my school days, 12 "Heaps" = 1 "Butt Load" , 8 "Butt Loads"= 1 "Boondoogle" ?

I wasn't but I do, the only ... errr "Ripped" vids I have on my laptop are the Twilight Zone episodes.

I agree, my absolute favourite scenario of all time, can't remember the name, but it is the little one where the Scimitars and Warriors have to rescue the WMIK from the dier. Excellent small unit tactics action.

Good point Aff and further to that I see that a company has just released a pill that contains plant extracts that act on genes to encourage the production of chemicals in the body that fight wrinkles. Regulatory bodies and the company are currently beating each other about the head trying to determine whether this is a drug or a food supplement. My wife is currently beating about the head anyone who gets between her and a reliable source of the pills.

hmmm Berlin 1945. Streets full of Soviet Armour, rubble piles full of Uberpanzers.

I was trying to make him feel good, not you

Oh sorry my bad. In that case it should read: 2 retarded 12 year old Hitler Jugen shared a Panther and accounted for 50% of British armour losses in Normandy. The other 50% spontaneously combusted because they were that crap. I too enjoyed the Buckley book and it confirmed a long held suspicion for me. I could never understand why the Tiger I which was produced and in action for less than 3 years was much vaunted as one of the best tanks ever produced and yet the Centurion, which could be considered something of a contemporary of the Tiger, has served for approaching 70 years in all theatres around the world and has rarely lost a fight yet receives very few accolades. It seems Myth is far more romantic and desirable than fact.

You do me a great honour Sir !

John Buckley in his book British Armour in Normandy attributes 50% of Allied tank losses to German armour.

and yet the T34's and M4's annihilated the Uberpanzers.

Things is tho' they weren't , they just said they were.

"sburke - notice how they always say "bayonets and grenades", over and over? Here is a hint - the grenades are doing all the actual killing, and the bayonets are just getting press copy..." That is just silly. Throw a grenade at someone 5 feet away and at best they will run away leaving you to be blown up by your own bomb by the time it goes off. The drill is chuck a grenade in the bunker/trench/room and bayonet what ever runs out so you don't shoot yourself or your mates.

Miles off the mark there mate. There are numerous accounts in Australian military history of bayonet charges, notably El Alamein and through out the Pacific war, bayonet encounters were common in the fighting in Malaya. The Japanese as well used the bayonet which ultimately lead to the banzai charges. Even as recent as the Falklands Islands conflict the bayonet was used to good effect. Things there are numerous reasons a well trained soldier might resort to a bayonet. In close and no time to reload, firing a rifle at someone at close range, particularly in urban terrain, invites a ricochet that could harm you, shooting a person at close range the bullet passes through and can shoot your comrades and most of all is the effect a bayonet has beyond its ability to kill you, the terror it can invoke in the one on the receiving end. There are many occasions where a spirited bayonet charge has put to flight a defender through fear alone.