LemoN

Ah, doing fine, can't wait for this gem to be released! Oh and I don't play PBEM. It's a shame that there's no TCP/IP WEGO in CM:BN. So at the end of the day, multiplayer will probably be a no-go for me in CM:BN as I have no incentive to play either PBEM or real time.

I never understood all the SS hype, although they did have some pretty sexy camo smocks.

DISLIKED Naah, great vid.

The 10m clearance is for persons. "Beim Abschuß tritt am Rohrende ein Feuerstrahl heraus. Paß also auf daß auf 10m niemand hinter Dir steht. Der Feuerstrahl muß auch nach möglichkeit über den Rand Deiner Schützenloches weggehen. Sonst senst Du Dir den Rock an." Translated this means: "A backblast will come out of the end of the tube when fired. So watch out that there's nobody closer than 10m behind you! The backblast should, if possible, be directed over the top of your foxhole. Else you'll scorch your uniform." It's written in very simple German, so I translated it to rather simple English. It's rather interesting that not one single Panzerfaust manual is actually talking about the dangers of firing it from inside a building. There's a lot of notes about the lethality of the backblast to bystanders, but not once does it say anything about confined spaces, except of scorching your uniform if you direct the backblast into your foxhole.

Hey Nolton, it's Fuchs here.

23 here, started with the release of CM:BB back in 2002, I was 14 back then.

That's the 15cm IG.

All I can say is that large building blocks built between 1890 and 1950 here in Austria have rather large rooms (The house I'm living in was completed in 1936, has 60cm thick outer walls made of brick with no room smaller than 4x4m and very high ceilings). Of course, small houses in the countryside are a different thing. What I'd vouch for would be the ability to fire handheld AT weapons from large buildings and sheds.

I think that's a very poor excuse not to do it and by the same standards you'd have a separate colour coded thingy for every single plate of armour against every single gun. Yet BFC chose to keep it simple, which *gasp* also is a possibility with this system. It should be a fairly accurate but by no means too informative guide, exactly how it was in CM:BB and AK, giving you fairly accurate penetration data against one standard target at different angles and ranges. Include too much information and you'll turn off players by confusing them, include too little information and it just ends up being too inaccurate. BFC had it just right with CM:BB and CM:AK IMO. Oh and great job at the mod! That's at last a fairly usable graphic.

While I do think the review caught the "feel" of the game very well, it doesn't offer enough information for people who never played CM IMO.

Hey, long time lurker here, registered a looong time ago but forgot my username/password and had to register again now. Anyway, I'd LOVE to see the pop-up window from CM:BB and CM:AK again (never really played CM:BO a lot so I can't say if it was in there or not). The numpad enter popup was incredibly useful for a variety of different things, to look up most effective ranges for your guns, special things like equipment on the tank, etc. One key feature was a basic penetration chart against "normal" armour at 0°, 30° and 60°, which often served as a good indicator if that gun had a good chance to penetrate that tank or not. It also featured rough armour thickness and angles of the tank. Granted it wasn't too accurate, but having a chart say 70mm rounded is better than nothing. The limited amount of time I played CM:SF (quite frankly, I hated it, not because of the mechanics but because of the horrible scenario... I just dislike modern settings, let alone asymmetrical warfare) I always missed that key, and I personally find these different categories complete unusable and nonsensical. Is a 75mm considered a medium or a large calibre? If a 50mm is considered a medium calibre and a 88mm a large calibre... is a 75mm a large calibre? What about the M1 76mm or the 17 pounder? If the 17 pounder is considered a large calibre and the 75mm a medium calibre... is the KwK42 a medium calibre? God, that system is just complete unusable IMO and confuses me more than I could use it as a guide. It didn't take any special things into account but then again, I don't think anybody would want that. I simply want a rough indicator at what kind of armour my tank has and what kind of capabilities it's gun has... heck, even ToW does a way better job in this regard than CM:BN. Granted, I know quite enough about armour, guns and the physics behind armour penetration but CM:BB is the reason that got me into this kind of stuff. If it wouldn't have been for CM:BB I never would've started to read up on this stuff, buy books and study reports. I hate the very thought that THE one single feature that opened this whole world to me... is gone. Yes, I do associate a LOT with this one single feature.