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    Rome to Victory Pre-orders are now open

    in Combat Mission Fortress Italy

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    On 7/30/2019 at 8:06 PM, Mord said:

    You should give Order Of Battle WWII a try. It's a lot of fun with just enough depth to make it interesting without bogging down in minutiae. It reminds me of Unity but a bit deeper with a different art aesthetic of course. It's free to try on Steam. You can play one scenario from each DLC if I remember correctly. I played the Pacific tutorials and had so much fun I got the DLCs a couple days later. The thing I really like about it is you can play as the Japs (starting in China), Marines, Army, Burma with the CW, then there's the Winter War as the Finns, and of course the typical stuff like Germans in North Africa, East Front, etc. Check'er out if you don't know about it, it's a great laid back beer & pretzels game.

    Thanks Mord... just got the free download for OOB WWII, played the boot camp missions. The game is really enjoyable!

    I'm going to get the Blitzkrieg, North Africa and Marines campaigns now!

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    What happened to the German Tank hunter teams

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

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    7 hours ago, Mord said:

    Man, I'd be nervous as hell around old ordinance. I often wonder how many people get killed accidentally or purposely finding WWII stuff. I've seen some hairy situations on Youtube, guys digging up old grenades and such.

    Absolutely... took my dog for a walk on the beach a few years back. Threw a ball for him back towards the cliffs.

    Strangely, he didn't bring it back, but sat down and waited for me to go to him.

    When I got there I was astounded to see him sitting in between some old rockets and bombs!... Got him away from them and ran back to the camp site and got the manager to ring the bomb squad, who subsequently came out.

    Apparently it was a common occurrence as the area at the top of the cliffs I had been walking the dog along, was an old RAF bombing range during WWII, and after a storm, parts of the cliff face would collapse and old ordinance would end up on the beach... 

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    CM1 @ GOG

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

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    On 6/12/2019 at 4:36 PM, Mord said:

    That's some masochistic logic, man.

     

    Mord.

    You often see that kind of logic in any of the gaming forums... ''until you fix this, I'm not buying anymore of your products''... or, ''No VR, then I won't buy this, and neither will all my friends''.

    It's the sort of thing my lad would say when he was 14... but would usually end with ''I hate you!''

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    A Walk In The Sun...

    in Combat Mission Fortress Italy

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    I watched 'A Walk in the Sun' today, a 1945 made film about a US rifle platoon in Italy, 1943.

    I must say, I saw the film years ago, but it's still worth a watch, yes, it's typically Hollywood, but they did a good job.

    I love the different characters and the interaction within the platoon, typical army humour and griping throughout.

    Good to see how they used their tactics as well, and I guess some will find fault with it, but it is early Hollywood  :)

    Here's the title sequence...

     

     

     

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    New Book by Adam Makos....a must read

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

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    I guess we have all seen the wartime footage of the combat in Cologne between the Sherman's, Pershing and the Panther, crew's bailing out, injured and dying... but to read the first hand accounts of people who were actually there, living through it, giving an in depth perspective on that action, makes it all to clear how dangerous it was.

    The book, right from the start, takes you into the minds of these soldiers, with accounts from both sides, infantry, tankers, civilians... plus the state of the equipment and vehicles etc.

    It's like reading an adventure story, with characters that you are just starting to know and like, and then the author bumps them off... only this is real life accounts and although exciting, is also very sad... this is a very worthwhile read.

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