StieliAlpha

Finally, I finished my PBEM game of Wittmans Demise. I played the Germans and scored a tactical victory, killed 43 tanks but lost 29. Wittmann survived (with Dollinger and von Westernhagen).
Extremely exciting scenario. I was about to give up a couple of times. Each time when I thought „I‘ve done it! That‘s it now!“ some more Shermans popped up.
I don‘t want to spoil the scenario for others, so just my two highlights:
- Von Westerhagen single handedly saved the left flank and cleared the farm west of Gaumnesil (La Maisonette, I believe) with his Tiger from 3 Shermans in (almost) hand to hand combat. 🤓
- After missing twice, Wittmann scored the last kill precisely in the last second of the regular playing time.🍾

I find that melee combat is laughable in computer wargames. In Theatre of War and Graviteam Tactics, the soldiers kick in the air -- as if they were dancing. Then a random algorithm causes 1 of them to fall dead.
In Island of Fire (Stalingrad book, by Jason D. Mark), they do mention sharpened shovels used in hand-to-hand fighting (by both sides). However, the King of room-to-room fighting are grenades and assorted explosives. SMGs being the Queen, if you will. I actually don't remember any mentions of bayonets being used against personnel. Troops would either run or surrender before they ran out of all ammo.
Bayonets were primarily designed to be used against cavalry. So, I wouldn't mind seeing cavalry, as well...
Is modelling something that rarely happened, and is largely irrelevant in a world with grenades and guns, the top priority here? No matter how much money, or people you have working on a simulation -- you can't simulate /everything/. 

That‘s what we did in the Bundeswehr, when we had an exercise near and in a natural reserve and were not allowed to use training ammo... 😎

I don't try to be friendly with the game designers even though I bless them every day for making such a game available to us !!!
I try to be pragmatic because bugfixes tend to lead to more annoying, if not unplayable, bugfixes, and the banzai bug is the best example of this. for me the most embarrassing is the bug when units enter through multiple doors even though I have learned over time to split groups before entering
They've probably reached the end of the system

That will be interesting to hear. I usually find it quite difficult to come back to old games. Though I just recently went a long way to get my old „Tin Soldiers: Julius Ceasar“ back. But that‘s a different story...

If you care for Napoleonic games: Have a look at the OSG series. Say „grand tactical“ games, where one counter equals a Brigade or a Division and a game covers one campaign. Some of them, like „Napoleon at Bay“, are extremely good. Most are quite manageable, others get pretty big...

If you care for Napoleonic games: Have a look at the OSG series. Say „grand tactical“ games, where one counter equals a Brigade or a Division and a game covers one campaign. Some of them, like „Napoleon at Bay“, are extremely good. Most are quite manageable, others get pretty big...

Please, let's not bring that fiasco up again 😉

Outch, THAT really would hurt people. 😎
You know the of rest of the verse? Translates approximately to “Under the linden we’ll find each other when May comes”.
Boah, shudder.....😱

Yep, some of the pixeltruppen want to die as heros. I once had a lone survivor of an infantry squad defending a crossroad in a village for 5 minutes. Nicely settled in a ruin until he ran out off MP ammo.

Yep. I stumbled over it, when I searched for the v4.02 patch the other day.

@StieliAlpha I think this post from @IanL answers your question?

Yep, thanks. I haven‘t seen that one.

That‘s what they call „placebo effect“.
As long as it helps, all is good. 🤓

Another game came to my mind, since you seem to prefer solitaire games and the Pacific Theater: Tokyo Express from Victory Games, about the Guadalcanal night (sea) battles.
That one is excellent. I have rarely seen such a well working solitaire system.

No, I would not say so. Tactical board games are somewhat difficult to find, but otherwise:
Nothing better than seeing your opponent crumble at the table.... A joy you rarely find in computer gaming.
I don‘t play board often nowadays, but still manage two or three weekends a year.

Yep, once I accepted that all of a sudden a trench could pop up in front of my troops, I started to love it. (One of  the reasons, why I have no problems with abstractions and little understanding for certain „bug reports“.) 🤓
The fast pace of a card game really pulled me in. And, after all, it is „realistic“ enough for what it is. Good game for quick, tense sessions.

I would recommend „Up Front“. No board game, more of a table top card game. Quite old and unfortunately never up dated, so the „visual appeal“ in almost not existing. It took me a while to accept the system, but then I found it extremely  immersive.
Clash of Arms „Hell of Stalingrad“ is pretty good. Card driven, but not ultra „tactical“.
If you would consider WW1: Clash of Arms „Landships“ is quite recommendable.
GMT‘s Combat Commander series (already mentioned above) is very worthwhile, indeed. I bought them all, except CC Pacific. Together with the scenario packages. you‘ll get a huge amount of content. Though you have to accept the system, e.g. that you need (to wait for) the right cards, before you can stage a more complicated action.
While we are at GMT: Have a look at the „The last hundred yards“ series“ (which includes a Pacfic War module) and„Tank Duel“ series.
I personally did not like it, but Avalon Hill‘s „Pattons Best“ was highly acclaimed. A tank simulator and only solitaire playable.
Another solitaire recommendation would be „Raid on St. Nazaire“ from Avalon Hill. Unfortunately, I never played it, but that one received very good ratings.

Hi Gerad
Welcome to the forum.
It may help, if you ask Heinrich directly in a personal mail. You have the option to do so within this site.
Not everybody reads everything in the forum, especially not the „General Discussion“.
Good luck with your project!

Thanks, @IanL.
That’s just what I meant.
There is much more to “seeing things” than optics.
Perhaps, I should have mentioned as an example the number of traffic signs, which we do not see because we are busy racing down a high way. Or the number of times I am not seeing the car keys right there on the table, because my mind is already going through the shopping list. Or you name it....
CM is a very detailed simulation. But one can simulate only so much. Otherwise the simulation would be reality, which would create an interesting new problem. 
Especially the soft factors are difficult to simulate. How do you simulate that the gunner is distracted for a split second, because he “sh.ts his pants” in face of the Panthers’s 75mm?
In less detailed (board) games this is handled as pure luck. One may have overwhelming odds and a perfect line of sight, but with a roll of 6 six on the Morale Effects table, the shot goes down the drain (or elsewhere).
 

Yes, the same discount that happened last year had already been confirmed.

I'd say put whatever you wanted to give here into saving account for your son (for education etc, things like that). Add as much in it as you can I'd say. Not that I want to tell you what to do, but I would personally think that is the wisest and probably most well spend. 
This can help reduce the balance to levels that don't need your obsession 😉

I just came across this series of WW2 tank photo collections on YouTube. Some unusual stuff there. Like the Maus, a Panther turret in Berlin, some captured and re-captured
 
 

Here are some shocking news from the UK. Perhaps @Warts 'n' all can confirm:

Yep, and the actual landscape is quite different. I visited the 200 Years reenactment on the Waterloo battlefield in 2015. @danfrodo   If you guys want, I can give you access to my Dropbox with hundreds of pic‘s.