danfrodo

There's no spending an hour issuing orders if you play REALTIME . CM is as easy or as intimidating as you make it, yourself. Take scenario design, for example. Some scenario designers spend months building giant real-world maps and meticulously researching historical units for historical battles. Others plop a farmhouse next to a country road and have at it with randomly selected forces (you can probably guess which one I am).
One thing that hasn't been mentioned is how EDUCATIONAL CM is. Not just becoming intimately familiar with period weapons and their capabilities, or the reading details of historical battles at historical locations, there's also applying tactics straight out of field manuals.

It's inevitable when people are passionate about a subject.
If anything, it should be taken as a compliment that Combat Mission is a good enough game for people to get their panties in a twist about it.
Dispassionate mediocrity is the final death knell for a game franchise.

Although we are WWII, I thought some of you, especially the Brits would like to hear this. 
The rock group Sabaton is considered a heavy metal band but they sing mostly songs about the various wars and battles throughout history.  They are actually quite good, you can understand what they are saying and are not obnoxiously loud. Plus they are generally all historically accurate.  Their latest album is about WWI.
This one is probably the best ever: Flanders Fields and isn't what you would expect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQmMqZlLFVc
 

Interesting that we are all at the funeral of our still living friend.  It's his 50th birthday, he aint dead.  Yeah, he definitely could be better in 1000 ways, and all BF needs is a lot more money and people, which they don't have, to make that happen as fast as we want it to happen.
And why does this always have to degenerate into personal criticisms or conspiracy theories?  They are a small team and simply can't do it all.  Are there actually people here that never worked on teams that had limited resources and had to prioritize?  Had to choose what to do and what to delay? 

Just want to pipe in that not EVERYBODY prefers WeGo play. As long as scenario size is not too cumbersome I much prefer playing Realtime. I've said before that there are (at least) two forms of play. One could be called '3-D table-top wargame' and the other is 'interactive war movie'. Some people play almost exclusively from a high elevation looking down on the action. Others stay down in the weeds with the troops as much as they can. It all depends on what you're in it for.

To be clear, WEGO is REAL TIME, but with fixed pauses at 1 minute intervals.  We all play this way because we can watch the replay of that one minute from anywhere on the map.  In regular real time, most of the action in large battles is missed because you can't be in two (or four) places at once.  w WEGO, if you have multiple sectors you can watch everything that happens in each sector.

I think it's in the interest of the health & safety of people all over the world that this is released ASAP.  It would guarantee that at least the CMRT community would happily abide by any quarantine.  I'd certainly be happy in my basement w my computer for several weeks.

I think it's in the interest of the health & safety of people all over the world that this is released ASAP.  It would guarantee that at least the CMRT community would happily abide by any quarantine.  I'd certainly be happy in my basement w my computer for several weeks.

I think it's in the interest of the health & safety of people all over the world that this is released ASAP.  It would guarantee that at least the CMRT community would happily abide by any quarantine.  I'd certainly be happy in my basement w my computer for several weeks.

Interesting that we are all at the funeral of our still living friend.  It's his 50th birthday, he aint dead.  Yeah, he definitely could be better in 1000 ways, and all BF needs is a lot more money and people, which they don't have, to make that happen as fast as we want it to happen.
And why does this always have to degenerate into personal criticisms or conspiracy theories?  They are a small team and simply can't do it all.  Are there actually people here that never worked on teams that had limited resources and had to prioritize?  Had to choose what to do and what to delay? 

Interesting that we are all at the funeral of our still living friend.  It's his 50th birthday, he aint dead.  Yeah, he definitely could be better in 1000 ways, and all BF needs is a lot more money and people, which they don't have, to make that happen as fast as we want it to happen.
And why does this always have to degenerate into personal criticisms or conspiracy theories?  They are a small team and simply can't do it all.  Are there actually people here that never worked on teams that had limited resources and had to prioritize?  Had to choose what to do and what to delay? 

Interesting that we are all at the funeral of our still living friend.  It's his 50th birthday, he aint dead.  Yeah, he definitely could be better in 1000 ways, and all BF needs is a lot more money and people, which they don't have, to make that happen as fast as we want it to happen.
And why does this always have to degenerate into personal criticisms or conspiracy theories?  They are a small team and simply can't do it all.  Are there actually people here that never worked on teams that had limited resources and had to prioritize?  Had to choose what to do and what to delay? 

Interesting that we are all at the funeral of our still living friend.  It's his 50th birthday, he aint dead.  Yeah, he definitely could be better in 1000 ways, and all BF needs is a lot more money and people, which they don't have, to make that happen as fast as we want it to happen.
And why does this always have to degenerate into personal criticisms or conspiracy theories?  They are a small team and simply can't do it all.  Are there actually people here that never worked on teams that had limited resources and had to prioritize?  Had to choose what to do and what to delay? 

So the British Ministry of Defense is subsidizing me playing w my toy soliders & tanks?  And all I have to do for this is wait a little longer for the new release?  I am considering this a win for all of us CM gamers.  So maybe I'll not throw temper tantrums and wet  my pants over not getting my toy immediately.

So the British Ministry of Defense is subsidizing me playing w my toy soliders & tanks?  And all I have to do for this is wait a little longer for the new release?  I am considering this a win for all of us CM gamers.  So maybe I'll not throw temper tantrums and wet  my pants over not getting my toy immediately.

So the British Ministry of Defense is subsidizing me playing w my toy soliders & tanks?  And all I have to do for this is wait a little longer for the new release?  I am considering this a win for all of us CM gamers.  So maybe I'll not throw temper tantrums and wet  my pants over not getting my toy immediately.

Well, I only said I am not going to throw tantrums about this.  I do throw lots of tantrums.  I threw a couple on this forum the first time I did a campaign.  Later I realized it was just that I sucked at CM and had to play better and should stop wetting my pants on the forum.  Others are free to do what they wish, though I prefer it when folks talk about our digital toy soldiers and military history books & such.
Speaking of toy soldiers, I am ready for pre-order, just say the word.  Can't wait for Hungary, Berlin, Oder, Seelow!  Masses of SMG-toting soviet troops and T34-85s trying to punch through german defenses, that's epic.

Well, I only said I am not going to throw tantrums about this.  I do throw lots of tantrums.  I threw a couple on this forum the first time I did a campaign.  Later I realized it was just that I sucked at CM and had to play better and should stop wetting my pants on the forum.  Others are free to do what they wish, though I prefer it when folks talk about our digital toy soldiers and military history books & such.
Speaking of toy soldiers, I am ready for pre-order, just say the word.  Can't wait for Hungary, Berlin, Oder, Seelow!  Masses of SMG-toting soviet troops and T34-85s trying to punch through german defenses, that's epic.

So the British Ministry of Defense is subsidizing me playing w my toy soliders & tanks?  And all I have to do for this is wait a little longer for the new release?  I am considering this a win for all of us CM gamers.  So maybe I'll not throw temper tantrums and wet  my pants over not getting my toy immediately.

So the British Ministry of Defense is subsidizing me playing w my toy soliders & tanks?  And all I have to do for this is wait a little longer for the new release?  I am considering this a win for all of us CM gamers.  So maybe I'll not throw temper tantrums and wet  my pants over not getting my toy immediately.

I wonder if Mick Jones plays CM.

Fortunately we play at the "amateur" level, dealing only w tactics.  Which is really fun.  
 
What I find interesting is that despite Stalin doing just about everything possible to lose in the first summer, the Germans were still unable to win.  Which speaks to just how much more resilient the soviet empire was than anyone expected, despite it's murderous lunatic dictator.  So while I love to "what if" to think how the Germans could have won, a more plausible "what if" is around the Soviet side:  What if Stalin had been even marginally competent and had a defense in depth and had allowed retreats?  It was too late for Stalin to undo his massacre of the officer corps, but he still could have allowed basic military common sense once he was attacked.  He could have allowed his staff time to develop proper counterattacks instead of forcing them to throw units at the Germans piecemeal, unprepared, and uncoordinated.  If he had done the most basic rational things the Germans might not have gotten much farther than Smolensk.  
So what I suggest is that it was much more likely for the Russians to have done much better than for the Germans to have done much better -- though no one at the time knew this.  

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