niall78

In asymmetric warfare civilian casualties are a disaster if you are attempting to win the 'hearts and minds' of a population. They are completely counter-productive leading to many more deaths than a cancelled fire mission in the longer run.

Start a thread on tactics if you'd like to see one maybe. There's plenty of room for tactics and screen-shots.

I'm willing to pay for more battles. For more campaigns I'll pay even more. I'll happily pay for this vehicle pack and I'll happily pay for any content packs that are released. I'd even be happy to pay many of the Combat Mission modders and scenario designers for the magnificent work they put out. Nothing has given me more bang for my Punt/Euro than the wonderful CM1 and CM2 series over the years. Incredible value considering the hours spent using the products and the enjoyment (and frustration!) gained in that using.

I'd love to see a Polish and French campaign eventually. Eventually I dream that that whole European War - east and west will be playable. Throw in North Africa for extra goodness.

Irving's has been a darling of the fascist movement preforming many recruitment drives in Germany and Eastern Europe for disaffected youth. Of course his fake history plays a major part in the rehabilitation of the Nazis by minimizing and excusing their crimes. I respect the forum too much to type what I really feel about Irving or his quoter's or supporters. And to be fair - in ten plus years reading here you guys do a great job policing the nastier elements that can get involved in World War Two discussions.

Hellas references the David Irving book 'Nuremberg: The Last Battle' in one of his posts. Of course Irving is a well known British Holocaust denier. In a 1991 speech in Regina Irving called the Shoah "a major fraud...There were no gas chambers. They were fakes and frauds". Goggling 'Nuremberg: The Last Battle' the first hit on the list is an aryan-nation website. I argue that staff should dump Hellas as soon as is possible. He brings this forum into disrepute.

Steam or no Steam - I don't really care. Where it would come in handy is for reinstalling old titles. I currently can't get CMSF and all its modules up and running on my new computer. That's a pity because not only do I want to play CMSF but it and its modules represent quite an outlay of cash when taken as a whole for me to simply abandon them.

No problems here. Very nice work.

I'm not knocking BF for the amount of campaigns they ship with each module. I'm not knocking the community for the great user created scenarios they release at great expenses in time to themselves. But as someone who loves campaigns I'd pay for extra campaign add-on packs. The main reason for this is that user made campaigns seem out of reach of community designers at the moment.

You mean the 'Battle of the Bulge' film isn't technically correct? Get up the garden path! Next you'll be telling me the battle didn't end with the Americans rolling barrels of flaming petrol down a hill to stop the SS panzer spearhead!

They should have used the proper model Tiger for the time the film covers. When this happens in films the results can be fantastic. Check out these Tigers from the old 60's flick 'Battle of the Bulge'. Not a smoke launcher in sight!

Can you link to Euroscape please?

Did you try the player made missions yet? There's already quite a few released.

Put it on kickstarter and I'll - and I'm sure many others - will help Battlefront pay for the development of a PTO Combat Mission. I personally think the CM format is perfect for PTO battles and campaigns.

My computer gaming has revolved around Combat Mission since the days of CMBO. I feel jealous of you that you are just starting your journey. Welcome to the rabbit hole that is CM - there is no bottom. One word of advice. Check out the mods and player created missions and campaigns. They make an already wonderful experience incredible and are a breeze to put into your CM games.

Wow jaw dropping stuff Juju.

Had both a Dell and Alienware desktop before they were bought out by Dell. Both were solid computers but vastly overpriced for the performance they gave. With the Dell especially I felt afterwards that I paid top money for a system that contained mid-range components. I wouldn't buy from them again. And since then I've done a lot more homework when purchasing a system.

It is the type of childishness that has destroyed many a game system or community as the 'new blood' is scoffed at by the 'old hands'. History has shown that 'old hands' slowly leave or die-off - without new entrants the game or community slowly circles the drain until it eventually becomes unsustainable. I'm watching it happen in slow motion lately with the owners of the Battletech IP. It's a well trodden path.

I did all that myself. Frankly give me Steam any day of the week over spending all my gaming time making boot disks, c:\, manually patching from game magazine 5 inch floppies, 20 megabit hard drives requiring constant installations and deletions to free up space and the rigmarole involved in new hardware installations that would melt a software engineers head. The past is a foreign country. Thank god for that. We can now be gamers instead of working a second job in IT as our hobby.

I have no strong feelings about Combat Mission being available on Steam. As a gamer I've found the service useful from the day it was released. I would question the near invisibility of the game for those 'not in the know'. I just don't see it mentioned. For such an amazing series of games that is sad. My first introduction to CM was a demo of CMBO that came with a PC gaming magazine. Loyal fan since then. I don't see CM getting much exposure these days in the mainstream gaming magazines or websites. People who don't know about these wonderful games can't buy them.

Hi benpark. I use Viens_Russians_v1. Will your mod override that completely or just add the extra camo changes on top of it?

This sounds like great fun. Looking forward to you releasing it.

Love this Juju - it is now safely stored in my Z folder.

Basements are a huge minus I would say if you are driving a tank through a building. I've seen table-top and board game rules before that had a random roll for a basement every time armour entered a building. It was a roll you never wanted to fail. Also commercial or industrial buildings could potentially contain reinforced concrete walls in various forms. Pretty much like driving units onto dragons teeth anti-tank defences. There's also the issue of building collapse and either damage to ancillary equipment on the tank due to falling rubble or getting buried and stuck in such a collapse. I'd say most WW2 tank commanders avoid driving through buildings like the plague unless as a desperation manoeuvre if in need of a quick escape.