altipueri
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It's more of a sim, less of a game. A pity but the blinking cursor has moved on. Nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.
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I think fields with only one entrance is exactly what there was in many parts of Normandy. Partly as a result of historical hereditary rules farms got split up between sons. The result was that a farmer has a couple of fields over here, a couple over there and some near the next village. A lot of inefficient traipsing between fields.
Devon and Cornwall in England have country most like the bocage in places with high hedges and sunken roads. It's really annoying as I often go there and instead of enjoying the view I'm thinking about whether I could drive a tank through the hedge. This game has ruined my enjoyment of the countryside. Let alone peering across fields trying to work out if I could spot anybody about to shoot me. It's all very stressful.
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I am a sort of archeologist - my career is in ruins.
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Ian Daglish was also a wargamer and contributed scenarios to Advanced Squad Leader.
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Why is that person with orange trousers goose-stepping?
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Some interesting bits from a few talks on Normandy here including an attack on a bus shelter mistaken for a pillbox.
- http://www.bcmh.org.uk/archive/reports/2011NormandyInMemoriamIanDaglish.pdf
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JonS 's guide was good, but showed me I don't have the patience or application to do a scenario.
The CM club is becoming more exclusive which is better if you are in but the barrier to entry discourages others.
It's about 10.30 pm UK time, I've just come back from my squash/racketball club where a few weeks ago I tried to encourage a few people I knew from bar conversations had an interest in history/war to actually try a wargame for adults - CM or AGEOD or Paradox by giving them copies I had bought. Sadly they all loaded them, saw the size of the manual and gave up.
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Massive improvement for me playing on a laptop.
Even the RT Kool-Aid tastes OK.
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Er, but surely CMx1 QBs worked even better even quicker and there were squillions of scenarios. One of my copies of CMBO even came with a disk of extra fan made scenarios. CDV Europe, box 2 CDs + with paper (ie made from trees) manual.
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Yay - worked first time for me. Thanks.
PIAT range reduced to 180 metres. Blimey, what chance of a hit in perfect conditions?
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8.1 ugh.
Luckily I found out about problems with 8.1 for many games before I upgraded. I can see me sticking now to 8.0 as I've got about 50 games on this "work" laptop!
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Why does your CMBB not work?
I got mine working on Win 7 and 8 albeit laptops.
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Why don't you just buy an MA like everybody else does these days.
Now back in my time there was only three of us a year got MBAs so we had to turn up....
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Well for me as opening page excerpts:
"He commanded the armies of Europe against France for ten campaigns. He fought four great battles and many important actions. It is a common boast of his champions that he never fought a battle that he did not win, nor beseiged a fortress that he did not take. Amid all the chances and baffling accidents of war he produced victory with almost mechanical certainty."
Beats
"Gared did not rise to the bait. He was an old man, past fifty"
So Marlborough gets my attention, aided by the discovery he was born about five miles from where I'm reading this - so he's a local lad what done good.
Shocked to discover Game of Thrones was published in 1996 - so much for me thinking it was the new thing.
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I have three books on the table next to me. Which to read?
1. Game of Thrones by George Martin - I'm told this is the new thing
2. Churchill's Marlborough - His Life and Times. A classic.
3. World Politics since 1945 by Peter Calvocoressi. A classic, for some at least.
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Some years ago I knew Mark Bailey, grandson of the inventor/designer. In family tradition he had joined the Royal Engineers.
On one army river crossing exercise he duly placed the eponymous bridge; but too close to the river bank edges which promptly collapsed leaving the bridge on the river bed. So he roared off to the quartermaster; deviously requisitioned another bridge; dumped it on top of the first; and thus got his men across to complete the exercise. One happy young officer. One really pissed off quartermaster.
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Could be - and I can't recall if it was per rocket or per attack.
Trucks and horses and men of course suffered. But they don't count because we like tanks.
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I think I read that operations research analysis of Typhoon attacks showed they only had a 4% hit rate. So the chance of surviving 4 attacks would be: .96 x .96 x.96 x.96 or about 85%.
Not that I would want to chance it.
The Typhoon pilots claimed hit rate was much higher of course.
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I agree. It was a reckless attempt to bring the thread onto CM.
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I got it working on win 8 albeit with bit if a flicker.
They still sell it so it must be current.
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Whoa, man I read dem Lord o de Rings in Katmandu in 1976.
Frankly I preferred the spoof "Bored of the Rings" where the place of Bilbo Baggins was taken by Dildo Bugger.
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CMBB got 89 on Metacritic, and a user score of 8.0
No cherry picking allowed.
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I agree. As long as what happens in the game is approximately what you feel would have happened then that's good.
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Possible anti-tank gun crew scenario - best done with a Birmingham accent if you are British.
Hey. Brian. There's a tank coming down the road.
What sort of tank?
I don't know. A big one.
They're all big. Quick. Look it up in the book.
I haven't got the book. I gave it to you.
No you didn't.
Yes I did.
No you didn't.
I distinctly remember giving it to you straight after you finished your cup of tea this morning. So there.
It's getting closer.
What should I do?
Shoot it.
What do you mean shoot it? It's not a bloody dog you know.
What if we don't kill it. It'll be really annoyed then.
Well, the book says - if you can't kill it with solid shot, fire HE. That should at least give him a headache.
First impression
in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy
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I love automatic transmissions. I don't understand why anybody wants a manual one. And I have the fastest campervan in the west.