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Yo entiendo perfectamente.

Perdóneme. No entiendo la lengua alemana

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I met some pretty smart people when I was in Barcelona so don't try to use that as an excuse!

LOL !! A person can be "smart" yet due to cultural differences also have a "lack of understanding" in a particular situation.

I'm sure you recognize the gentleman I refer to.

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I know that the announcement says: ". . .all orders for CM:BN will be fulfilled out of our US location until the European warehouse is stocked. . " but maybe that means that ALL already sold steelbox editions will have to be mailed to the EU warehouse before individual boxes are then mailed to the Pre-order customers.

Just wondering.

Or maybe we Pre-order customers will have our individual game mailed directly to each of us anyway, apart from the remaining unsold editions going to the European warehouse?

(Please don't flame me for my seeming lack of understanding - I'm from Barcelona !!)

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Thank you BF, for this wonderful game. May I ask if you can tell me, (apart from the eventual Customs wait-period which may occur), when the first postage day for the Pre-order game will be, from the U.S. to the U.K. ? ( I want to eat the manual).

[Some lame questions while waiting]

Don't know if anyone can confirm this but here goes: During the late 1960s and thru' the '70s I lived in Phila., PA. I met a guy then who had served under Patton. Among other things that happened, he told me that as they were advancing thru' Germany, they had a serious problem with snipers that lay in wait for them.

So Patton had flyers printed up and dropped over each little village or town a couple days before they entered them. The flyers warned everyone to stay indoors because of the snipers. They were to keep even their dogs indoors because Patton gave the order to shoot anything that moved. He was taking absolutely no chances that any more of his men would be killed.

This guy told me that the guys in his platoon were so on edge that they took no chances and did indeed shoot at anything that moved. Dogs WERE shot. An old guy came riding around a corner on a bicycle and he was shot, he said.

I don't believe that many people were shot like that but it sure depicts the atmosphere of the time. One thing about Patton was, from what I had been told, that altho' he was a real taskmaster, he stood by his men 100%. He considered himself one of them.

Also, I worked with a German who had been an Infantryman. He told me of how Hitler had inspected them on parade when they joined up at the start of the war. His eyes lit up as he told of Hitler walking past him. When I asked him how he felt about all the thousands killed in the concentration camps he insisted that it was the men around Hitler who were responsible; that Hitler was a great leader and didn't really know of much that was going on. hmmm.

The irony there was that although he worshipped Hitler and the German cause, here he was, in America, earning a good living. The paradoxes of life ?

[Some lame questions while waiting]

Really looking forward to BN. Enjoyed the old CM games.

Couple of questions.

1. Will any foul language in CM:BN be any worse than the previous games? Hoping my grandson will be able to enjoy the game without the crud.

:confused: Dunno what all the Hoora is about. Life is Life. I, too, have grandchildren. From what I see, this game (CMBO+) has more Senior Citizens than non-Senior Citizens playing it. So. . . wake up and smell the roses. It's an ***ing game for *** adults in an *** world. ROFL.

One of my uncles (Charlie) was in the Royal Irish Fusaliers and served throughout WW2. The only time he spoke of his experiences (and acc. to my Dad he had some horrific experiences ) was when he was evacuated at Dunkirk. He had plundered a bombed store nearby and filled his battle jacket and pants with thousands of cigarettes and then had to wait in the sea up to his neck in the water for over a hour before getting on to a boat.

It's a wonder he didn't get nicotine poisoning. That's war for you.

[Limited Edition. . . Just curious.]

So. . before I ask the question, I took no chances and preordered a few days ago. I WANT THAT MANUAL!!!.

I still have the original CM and followups on my hard disk and often go back to them . . and. . . I STILL Have the original 192 page manual, plus the others. (love it).

So. . I wonder just how many copies of Limited are available? Does Battlefront print only an exact number of copies and that's it. When they're gone - they're gone, and we are the happy little Band of Brothers? Or do they keep on printing as long as late-comers frantically push the button?

Just curious. . . and not worried.

[Continuity from battle to battle.]

And some forces in a battle of a campaign are not part of the campaign force, they only take part in this particular battle.

If you know who they are, they are the ones to sacrifice, if you have to.

May I ask this: Will there be individual names to (some) soldiers, sergeants, teams etc., and if so, will the fatalities etc., individually or collectively be recorded automatically? Or would that be too "picky" technically to be an ongoing part of a battle? It certainly would be very fulfilling to be able to follow the "career" of a particular soldier or unit.

My thanks for your informative replies.

[Continuity from battle to battle.]

Loss of personnel, damage to equipment and vehicles, ammunition expenditure, and morale/fatigue state are all separately tracked between battles and throughout a campaign. These can be replenished at varying rates, based on what the campaign designer has specified. So, at one extreme, you could have a campaign where nothing gets replaced/fixed, and on the other end you could have everything fixed and replaced. It can also vary for each scenario in the battle. So you could have one battle where nothing is fixed, and after the next battle everything is. Or anything in between.

There are no points or other resources for the player to spend to replenish their forces. It happens automatically between battles.

Fascinating and, to me, wonderful: Randomness and no guarantees of what might happen - just like RL.

Sems to me this actually opens up the anticipated delight of a complete "non-linear" experience when a scenario/battle is re-fought again and again?

Am I, therefore, right to assume so? The actual total absence of any linear path gives the game the ultimate in replayability.

Goodbye, my future.

[Continuity from battle to battle.]

Can anyone tell me exactly how much "continuity" will there be between battles ?

As one particular skirmish or battle takes place within a compaign, will fatalities, loss of tanks and equipment, etc., carry over into the next skirmish or battle and the need to thoughtfully use points to make up for any losses be part of the ongoing planning?