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The WWI with Breakthrough or Strategic Command Global Conflict Gold?

I wanted to say "I bet you'd charge for used toilet paper if you could. :{) I never saw someone so greedy for money as you guys. What happened you didn't used to be this way years ago. Why so greedy now?

I find it happens quite a lot really. I can place my units at the other end of a road into a town and they will filter towards me and just get shot up piecemeal outside of the cover of buildings they could be using on the path to my troups. I just played a game last night so I know what the AI is doing. There's something else they used to be vulnerable to in CMx1 also. Side of the map flanking maneuvers. I find this just as easy as before as they pay more attention to what's coming straight at them instead of their sides. I can easily ruse them still with a small frontal assault while running up the sides of the maps with the main forces.

Just goes more to show the "weakness" of the AI in this game. You should have been destroyed by any human player but the ai is soooooo weak it will come out of good defensive positions for no reason at all or for some silliness just to take back one objective tile it does not need for victory.

Throwing helmets at each other and bayonett fights, gas an animated deaths like in that lil soldiers game. Can't remember its name but its funny as heck when someone gets shot and wounded just before the kick the bucket.

Battlefront could do it just like Matrixgames where they use both systems of delivery. Through steam and through their site as well. Therefore you'd always be able to buy from here and your game would be activated from either site. You'd never have to use Steam if you didn't want to and they would still get exposure on Steam by casuals and people interested that didn't know about this site or these games. It's basically an advertising method that can perhaps be 30% of the sale. I don't know how much Steam gets but I do find that rather high. Of course I know Steve an others associated with Battlefront surely know and it's their game to decide how they want to distribute it. Not caring for my sake because I know where the site is and where to get their games. I'm just thinking about the thousands of dollars they "may" gain by using Steam as well. Makes no difference to me whether they do use Steam or not though in the long run.

Steam doesn't price drop games if the developer says not to. The only reason you see a lot of price drops on Steam is because the publisher/developer has reaped all the sales expected at full price. Then they give a discount to milk those standing on the fence. Not everybody does it though or has to. Battlefront could leave their games at whatever price they choose for as long as they want and Steam can't do anything about that.

There will be one game with all the modules in it for one discount price in the future? I just don't like buying one at a time. I'd like to get them all someday as one bundle package deal. Do you think they will do it?

Heh, yep you called yourself a fool fool lol.

1. FI. I like the setting, the terrain is definitely a huge factor without being as frustrating as bocage, I'm not playing with early/mid-war cripple-tanks, there is an interesting variation in composition between the two forces and engine improvements. 2. BN. Loads of content, plenty of scenarios, some great campaigns, Market-Garden doesn't really interest me much but at least added something besides the airborne operation. 3. SF. I like modern forces, the asymmetric tactics involved, the setting is especially timely and it had tons of content. 4. RT. Just not interesting to me at all. )

Frank Sinatra: To Dream the Impossible Dream....

I vote for this way. Put it on kickstarter and see if there is enough support to make it. I'll certainly contribute. There's a mod for CMx1 for the japs and the Pacific War land battles (Guadacanal since AH days) are my favorites.

You forgot barefooted. EDIT: Also, seeing as there's already an abundance of "trolls" here I imagine Battlefront, Steve an all don't want to add anymore either. I can only imagine what Steam would bring to this website.

Plus, I bet not one of them can make a "boot" disk with several ways to setup XMS or EMS or conventional memory. Yep they got it "easy as toddlers" but then they still scream when they pop something in an it doesn't work. Back in OUR day we made it work. Remember "basic"? hell we typed in our own games.

Me too these children are nothing but whelps compared to us.

Yeah I think it was about that time for me also. I read that PCgamer and it looked interesting and new. So, I went down to Software Etc. (or local software outlet at the time) and found it on the shelf and like you, bought it and the rest is history.

Holy bust my drawers and shake my legs. Look what I found on GamersGate http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-SC2O/strategic-command-wwii-pacific-theater http://www.gamersgate.com/publisher/10/battlefront http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-CMA/combat-mission-afghanistan Now, the 64 dollar question is how come you use Gamersgate and not Steam?

When computer games used to be in stores like Software etc, babbages, and those other ones Battlefront got a lot of exposure from way back in the 1998 era or around that with CMBO. I bought my first one there so I'm pretty sure it got the exposure it needed to survive all those years if it was good and back then it was pretty good. Can't say I like the new model but the graphics are nice. I don't see Steam as a site that will bring it that much more exposure than it already has. Putting the old series of CM on there and some of the older strategy games would be ok I guess. People can see how good those were and then come here and see the rest. Makes more sense for the most money.

No, He's more likely more worried about his games getting sold for $4.99 or $9.99 like most Paradox games and having to give away most of his profits. Battlefront and Shrapnel are the last holdouts. Squeezing every dime of income and profit they can out of these games. Sure they are niche but they know if people want good quality wargames of this ilk they are going to have to pay them through the nose to get them. Why, do you think they went on the module based system to begin with. There's a lot more money in modules of each front than selling the whole front in one package thas why. From $35 for CMBO to $55 + module costs for each front...think of the difference and profits.

I'd rather goto YouTube and watch old reruns of "Combat" with Vic Morrow. Maybe some "Band of Brothers" Episodes, 12 O'clock High.....anything but read some stale ole history books. This is the 21 century. Book larnin is for old fuddy duddies in their 50's and 60's. haha

You obviously haven't been computer gaming very long or you would know games need MORE difficulty levels if anything. So that each person can find their own challenge niche. Like Galactic Civilization II has like 13 difficulty levels and is one of the best sold, most challenging game of it's type. I wish more games were like it in choices of difficulty. I for one am tired of the simple easy - normal - hard - impossible difficulties of games. There needs to be more "inbetween" those as those either pose not enough challenge or too much. Therefore I would propose 13 difficulty levels per games today. The other thing is when a game says "impossible" I want it to be truely impossible to beat (not with some gimmick play or build like Civilization games where only playing against 1 computer opponent on the highest difficulty and on a small island and then grunt rushing it before it gets started is a victory over that level of difficulty. Make ai's to have overwhelming odds at the beginning of the game and the futherest away from the player on the map. Make it so a grunt rush would be a fool thing to do. Make it "impossible" so they will come to the forums and whine about it, not come here and brag how they beat it.

Sorry, I don't spend my LIFE posting on game forums like you do. lol I have a life and much better things to do.

You lost to the AI? Dam you must suck pretty bad at modern day wargames. I on the other hand can't seem to lose to the AI and that's why I don't buy too many games of any type anymore. Not enough ai work in games for me, not like the good ole days anyways when games like War of the Lance or Centurion Defender of Rome could kick my butt.

So, when you following suit Battlefront?

Just do what I did. Put everything on a netbook and stay offline and you can play XP games forever or until that harddrive burns out. But, I've had harddrives for going on 14 years now that still work.