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Yeah, I was musing when reviewers were at awe about the "granularity, detail" of certain tactical level boardgames when in CM that would be regarded as utter abstraction. Thank you guys, my vision regarding boargame tactical level is clearer now. If CM would have a Pacific core game I would probably avoid buying any tactical level boardgames for it- I for sure am not interested in getting me tactical boardgames that cover any TOO that CM already covers. Operational and grand tactical that play well in solo mode is gonna be my main focus for WW2 boargames besides storytelling ones like Silent Victory and Doolittle Raid from now on.

Great. Will center my focus on Simonitich then. Will probably just go with the Combat Commander Pacific and its extension and ditch CoH and OST for the time being. A Victory Lost was made by the guy who made The Fire in the Sky. Nice. I was already checking on Grand tactical combat series - the Mercury mission but game costs too much. Will pay a bigger attention to it from now on.

Thank you a bunch Zveroboy1! I am fully on board with you regarding the board games - they do give you a whole lot of different feeling when you play them. Maybe has something to do with physicaly being able to move stuf around, the sensorical aspect of it, etc. I started with war boardgames with Risk back in the day but then PC games took over until a year or so ago when a friend introduced me to war boardgames again with Columbia Games Julius Caesar. A whole new dimension opened for me. Own 3 Columbia games (+Pacific Victory, Napoleon), GMTs Sekigahara, Empire of the Sun and some others. Preordereda bunch of new GMT titles and am ordering Silent victory, D-Day at Peleliu, ECA The Doolitle Raid, Combat Commander Pacific+battle pack and yet to see if I will order FoF2, Conflict of Heroes Guadalcanal, Old School Tactical Vol III and its extension and WarfighterWW2 Pacific. Excellent clarifications on FoF2. Also glad the content fits inside the box aftr you unpack everything - that was my mig gripe with it. Am closer to getting it now that you explained it to me. Which grandtactical and operational games would you suggest for me to check out? I've seen Stalingrad '42 from Simonitich take a lot of cool praise.

Yeah, I did list Fields of Fire 2 on my list (see below). Thank you for the input. I believe FoF system is the most serious take on tactical level of them all and would come closest to what Combat Mission simulates, right? It is a real shame GMT released such a bad manual on each 3 releases - so not like them. Also, the box that the game comes in is way too small I hear - I don't wanna have my shiny boardgames stored in a random shoe box, blimey! Would these rewritten rules help me getting on with the game or would I still need to search around? https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/187173/rules-rewritten-and-reorganized-11x17-charts I am intrigued with this game, alot.

OK, CC Pacific is defenitely on my buying list now. Again, I have seen lots of praise for Old School Tactical Pacific - has any of you played that system on how do you find it especially against Combat Mission? People state this is their go to tactical ww2 game but this might be just 'cos it is something new. *Addendum: I will play my tactical boardgames mostly solo. Thank you for standing for boardgames. High Frontier looks awesome!

Thank you domfluff - CC does come up awfully lot. Have you perhaps also played any Old School Tactical games and if yes how does it stack to CC? Will check the no Retreat! series.

OK, undersood - not much sense going in tactical level games when Combat Mission exists. CM doesn't cover Pacific though so I might have an excuse to try one nevertheless. Thank you for your input guys.

Ha, not many then, eh. Still, if some soul is out there do come forward and let me know if it is worth taking the plunge - boardgaming has a special feel to it that PC games don't have.

As the title says - interested to learn what other players here think on this topic. Recently discovered tabletop wargaming and am in the process of aquring a bunch of games among which are also tactical level boardgames. I am wondering if CM players think playing CM games is all it is needed in the tactical level universe or are there any CM players who love to take their phisical board games for a ride? Which tactical level boardgame systems do you liek the most and why? I am into the WW2 Pacific theater and am choosing between Fields of Fire 2, Warfighter Pacific, Combat Commander Pacific, Conflict of the Heroes Guadalcanal and Old School Tactical Volume III. What say thee?

Thank you for your input Bud. I personally am not so sure this observed divergence of performance is really as big as some say - it might also have to do with how different people perceive things. For some playing on 15 - 20 frames per second is great while for others it is completely unplayable as I learned on this forum. I can't play this game on max settings at all. I can't play with shadows and shaders on, nor with 3D model quality set to anything above improved on a what was top tier computer hardware-wise one year ago if I want to keep my frames above 20 FPS in most scenarios. The ony thing that I haven't tried is using the Nvidias g sync technology with it which some people say makes the game much more smooth and less stuttery across the board. These monitors are still on the pricey side so haven't splurged on one as of yet. Would have to really see it with my own eyes to be able to determine if it is worth it.

It is what it is then. One can not have everything. Would be so good if this aspect would be adressed though.

Thank you MikeyD. You don't experience any better shadow rendering and faster less stuttery camera movement?

Seen a couple of posters mention that their game runs better with the latest content/patch. Was something done on this front by the devs and how better would you say your agme runs now if at all? Devs, can we expect such performance patches for other titles too?

Yeah, it is like when my wife is feisty - no matter what I do it often ends as a wrong move.

Yes, indeed - new vehicles/units should come out with deisgnated scenarios and one campaign tailored for them. Seems the most reasonable packaging to me.

Haaaaaa, awesome! Thank you Steve.

This should be cheched into by the devs I suppose. CM's screenshot was taken while another game was being disscussed: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/commercial-gaming-industry-offers-creative-solutions-to-defence-analysts

Excellent, thank you and defenitely a route to follow - hotfixes have been dearly missed with Battlefront in the past.

FINALLY!!! Installed them so long awaited patched without a problem. Thank you for finally deliveringthem Battlefront&Friends.

The Battlefront devs are actually Greeks disguised as the US guys - the delays are the ultimate proof of their Greekness!

I now installed the new 418.91 driver and the problem remains. Uh oh.

If you have more then hundred games installed on your PC and among those games many recent that haven't gotten a proper driver support yet, then you need the latest drivers. If you sport only old and older non recent games then sure, you can install an older Nvidia driver and forget all about it.

No, the current driver is still the driver version that made havoc in my PC: 418.81

Ah so they made a new driver yesterday, I missed it. They might have solved the problems introduced in the previous one with this one. I will try how it goes, wanna get my full monitor surface back.

I never and I man never had such a global driver issue and I have been using a PC since I was 10 years old. That makes for 20 years of no problems in that department where you don't even think not to update as soon as the official driver pops up.(Yea I know, Nvidia's drivers weren't around back then but still...).