General Chaos

After waiting a month for the game, I picked mine up today after paying £17.90 tax and handling. No-one likes to pay tax, handling fees, offshore trouser tariffs or anything else for that matter. But...... The post guy at the local depot said to me "you know if they hadn't put a value of $80 on the front of the package, you'd have had this sent directly to you". So why don't you guys at Battlefront put a value of $5 on the front of the package? Or even "$0 - sample". Who's going to know otherwise? I can't be bothered to play the game now to be honest. Deflated, defeated and with a hard-to-read manual, this just sums up the year's gaming for me so far. I've played the game a couple of times and given up in frustration. I'm an old fashioned person who likes to have the manual in hand when I play, take it to bed to read and even peruse it whilst on the throne. CM:BN is a complex, unforgiving beast and it just isn't a game you can dive into and RTFM later. Not for me anyway. Oh and one more thing, mid-brown print is hard on the human eye. Couple it with a light brown paper and you're asking for trouble. Whats wrong with black and white for heaven's sake? I wish I hadn't bothered to pay the 17.90 and then the Royal Mail would have had to ship the package back to the good ol' US of A, instead of gouging me for £8 handling charge. What have I got for my money? A difficult-to-open box, a disc and a manual that is difficult to read without getting serious eyestrain. And a game that I can't sell, I suspect.

Just had my rip-off demand for 17.90. I'll never do this again; its taken a month to get here and now I have to pay yet more money. All for a manual effectively. Extremely annoyed.

I'm in Worcestershire, UK. The Steelbox was shipped to me on 18th May according to an e-mail from Battlefront, but I still haven't received it.

Still waiting for mine to be delivered. Not very happy at all.

Shipped the same day to me as well, still waiting - Worcestershire, UK.

Crikey, I'd forgotten about Silent Service & M1 Tank Platoon, what great games they were! Both from Microprose weren't they?

After seeing this thread, I thought I'd stop lurking and actually post, so here goes... I was 48 last week, wondering where the last 30 years went to. I looked under the bed and down the back of the sofa but it wasn't there. I've been into wargaming since the mid 70's, started with 1/300 scale tanks and figures then moved to 00 scale, using the rules from Charles Grant's Battle:Practical Wargaming, which I picked up in the local library. I've played a lot of strategy games over the years and have been into computing since the early 80s. Did the Vic-20 really have 5k of RAM, 3k usable? The good ol days eh? I played CMBO for a long time, along with the Close Combat series, Steel Panthers etc, but gradually slid into playing MMOs such as Asheron's Call, World of Warcraft, and most recently Lord of the Rings Online. I play a few online shooters such as Battlefield and Operation Flashpoint on XBOX, but these days my eyes are old and bent, and my reaction time is measured in days. I have 4 cats and a very tolerant Canadian wife who keeps me in check. My name is Chaos and I'm a strategy-gameaholic.