danfrodo

(So does this mean Fire & Rubble pre-orders are open or not???? )
When they came out w modern stuff I thought "oh, not my favorite, why didn't they do more WW2 first?".  then I bought & played SF2.  Holy f*&k is that a fun game.

That was my experience after having CMBN and thinking, CMFI? Really? who cares? And now, I love it! 

I agree to all this.  I still do that on car trips.  I bike to work and picture AT guns and tanks and infantry battling along the bike path & streets.  And to Markshot's point, yes, this is chess.  History chess.  Chess that's more open ended and lots more fun.  
 

Going back to the title of this thread.  this module is worth buying because it's FUN.   I've been doing the scenarios in alphabetical order since I installed R2V, playing against AI.  These are good solid battles -- Italy probably isn't the first choice of very many combat mission buyers but the fighting in Italy was intense and diverse and complicated and the scenarios reflect that well.  Now fighting as Free French, Dec 1943, east of Cassino w wet snow on the ground, fog & rain.  good times.  And when BFC does go back to N Africa (like in 2024?) they do have some of the gear built out.
Family heading to big city today for shopping so I am alone for R2V battles; nice NFL triple header schedule on in the background, cold & raining hard outside -- perfect day.  

In this holiday season, let us all remember that we are just grown men (mostly men?) playing w little army men and toy tanks.  No one is right or wrong in which army men they want.  

In this holiday season, let us all remember that we are just grown men (mostly men?) playing w little army men and toy tanks.  No one is right or wrong in which army men they want.  

ohhhh, that battle.  Yeah, I lost badly first time.  Then added 6 more shermans and some halftracks and played again -- I won't call it cheating, I'll call it regrouping and getting reinforcements.  And it was still a rough fight.  Italian terrain certainly favors the defender.

I suppose the way to do it at this point is to do east Front (or if one prefers Russians, I guess that would be west front) 1943, then 1942, then 1941.  That way each module has the minimum new OOBs.  Get 'em out the door w 80-90% of the stuff available in theater and I'd be plenty OK.  Heck, I'll pre-pay for that right now.  
Then head for sunny N Africa.  Then make new game engine.  Then start back over again w Normandy.  That's my dream for BFC.
Oh, and in between all that they have to make new modules for the modern games.  Dang, they'll be busy.

In this holiday season, let us all remember that we are just grown men (mostly men?) playing w little army men and toy tanks.  No one is right or wrong in which army men they want.  

In this holiday season, let us all remember that we are just grown men (mostly men?) playing w little army men and toy tanks.  No one is right or wrong in which army men they want.  

In this holiday season, let us all remember that we are just grown men (mostly men?) playing w little army men and toy tanks.  No one is right or wrong in which army men they want.  

In this holiday season, let us all remember that we are just grown men (mostly men?) playing w little army men and toy tanks.  No one is right or wrong in which army men they want.  

hear hear!  Less minor detail and more big picture stuff.  like Barbarossa, Case Blue, Kursk time frameframes.  Oh, and N Afrika.  
 

Of course there's always the domestic audience factor to consider also.  We always think foreign policy moves are actually about foreign policy.  Sometimes it's for domestic consumption.  Putin could do this because it makes him look tough and nationalistic to his own people, upholds russian pride, etc.  He could do it because Russian people think they are being disrespected and he needs to stand up to the west to keep his tough guy image. 

I am confused as to why pricing is an issue.  If you want the products when first introduced, you pay the opening price.  Same w lots of other games, same w books, same w DVDs & streaming movies.  It's normal.   Then later price might drop, or product bundled w other stuff.   
The games are expensive because are a specialty product, lovingly hand crafted by a small group of organic sustainably sourced artisans holed up.... well, somewhere.  and last time my son bought Call of Duty it was $60 (bought w my money).   These games are not commodity items.  I can't just get it somewhere else, like buying pepsi over coke because it's on sale.  
Just speaking for myself here, but I am OK w pre-order of new CMRT module.  Where do I sign up?  I look at CM preorder as a kind of crowdfunding.  Others will disagree, and I totally get that, so can choose to not preorder.  

Mountaineering. You won't find terrain like this in Normandy!
 
 

tank  in french color
but American-made
it's tough !!!

The debut of the new Churchill 75NA in a QB was somewhat inauspicious, seeing how the QB force autopicker gave the other side Tigers! Ah well, it was fun anyway.
 

Thanks for that tip GeorgeMC, now subscribe to the miltary history visualized channel.  Good stuff.  
Now, can you get the russians to run away so I don't have to lose half my infantry digging them out of the villages?

oh, there it is, alt-k.  I must've accidently hit this.  Thanks, that fixes it.  Didn't even know it existed

New Vid up!

Don't feel bad - this type of thing most often happens with turning off trees, I've fallen foul of that on a number of occasions - thinking 'why is LOS so cr@p on this map?'  I got three quarters of the way through testing one of the CMFB campaign missions with trees turned off before I realised my mistake.  Luckily I had that facepalm moment before I had given feedback to the author which would have been … the map has serious issues.

those awful soviet SMGs..... and just had artillery strike land shells in two full halftracks.  Ouch.  very lucky strike because it must've been plotted before the smoke blocked all view to the area.  germans have so little infantry in 1944, losing even a couple sections really hurts.

oh, there it is, alt-k.  I must've accidently hit this.  Thanks, that fixes it.  Didn't even know it existed

I know about the hotkey panel, somehow I just never noticed that one.  classic, something right in front of me for years and never saw it.
While I've got your attention, if you could ask the russians to not occupy all the buildings in the village objectives it would also be a great help.   😊