PanzerBlitz

@Michael Emrys 1972? I wasn't even born then I get the feeling I'm a junior around here, heh. Thanks for your friendly and helpful replies everybody! I bought the CMFI+Gustav Line bundle plus the 3.0 upgrade for $75 tonight. Downloaded and installed. It's getting a bit late here in Sweden to start going through the manual right now I think (1:20 am) but I guess this officially makes this thread off-topic as this is the CMFB sub forum And thanks for the PBEM offers! I'll keep them in mind if/when I feel it's time to take that step. Thanks again!

Wow, lots of replies in a short time The community seems nice here. Much nicer than in some other games (Yes, I play World of Tanks, way way way too much, because it's quicker, easier, more seductive...). @Abbasid111 I like the early years as well as the later. I'm not too picky about which front to play as I'm interested in basically the entire European theatre, but I think the Italian theatre might be a good place for me to start. Regarding PBEM.. .You like seal clubbing? Eh.. We'll see.. I play pretty much solo, but who knows. Thanks for the offer @John Kettler Wow, nice lengthy reply. Thanks! The detailed penetration calculations seem to find their ways into more and more games, or at least I've seen them in WW2Online which I played a lot a while back and also in War Thunder that I played a bit until I got tired of spawn camping. The way you describe crews ability to abandon and later return to their vehicle sounds familiar, but I wonder if I'm not confusing it with the old Steel Panthers series. Similar mechanic, different game engine I'm prepared to take the time to try and learn the game again, as I'm sure I would've had to do even if I was only returning to CMBO. Btw, yes, I played PanzerBlitz. I bought it back in -85 or something. I was only 10 years old at the time and none of my friends were interested in playing with me, so I had to wait until I did military service 10 years later until I got some opponents. After that, computer games took over and I actually got rid of the game, which I deeply regret now. Not that I'd play it again today, but it would still be nice to have it... That achtung t-shirt site was great I have to tell you though, some of the things there... Maybe the culture is a bit different in the US. I live in Malmö, Sweden. If I was to put the balkenkreuz sticker on my car and wear WWII Germany themed T-shirts I would seriously fear for my life, at least in some parts of town. Funny thing is how people here say "we like different" and "ethnic diversity enriches" etc... These two T-shirts made me laugh out loud http://achtungtshirt.com/Celebrate-Diversity-Ww2-German-Panzer-Tiger-Tank-D-Day-Tee-P4145813.aspx http://achtungtshirt.com/Luftwaffe-Ww2-Fighter-Jet-Planes-Me262-Bf-109-Messerschmitt-P2503917.aspx They're "so right" but "so wrong" at the same time OK back on topic.. @MikeyD Life's too short for demos! I think I'll just pick one of the games and give it a go, probably CMFI. It's a good recommendation to get the demos and see which one I like most, but I'm afraid they'll take so long to get into I might as well just buy one of the games and start from there. Thanks. @PhilM Ah ok, thanks for clarifying. I read a bit about it before but it was somewhat confusing. But to put it short, all CMx2 games are engine 3 versions so from that perspective it doesn't matter, as long as I buy the corresponding upgrade (if not included in the base game). Correct? @Combatintman Heh, well.. The CMBO CD was the only one I actually found as I looked through my old games last night so that's the only one I'm sure I played. I might have played all three of them actually. I think I'm gonna enjoy all the European theatre themed games @Aragorn2002 Buy them all? I know I will. Just trying to resist buying them all at once! Better to try and focus on one first though. @womble Ah yes, the problem of keeping the demos up to date. That can actually be one reason not to get the demos as they may be slightly misleading I'm sure they're just fine, but like I said, I'm probably just going to go ahead and go for CMFI @kevinkin Yep, lots of good advice here! I watched a couple of youtube vids already but I'm gonna see what else I can find. Technically I think my computer should had no problems running any of the games. I've got an i7-4790 4GHz, 32GB RAM and nVidia 970GTX. Thanks to everybody for your replies. I do have questions about one more thing though: Campaigns I have a very vague memory of CMx1 games not having any kind of "real" campaign mode with core units. Seems you had to use some external tools to make it into some sort of meta game with setups used by the actual game itself to kind of simulate campaign functionality. Or maybe I'm confusing it with other games again? It was so long ago... I've searched this forum a bit and have found threads suggesting there are campaigns in which you sometimes play different parts of your core force in different battles, sometimes progressing with them to other battles, sometimes not. I take it the campaign system is more integrated now? Or maybe it always was?

Hi everyone, Not sure this is the correct sub-forum, but since it's the most recently released title... I played CMBO a looong time ago (and I think I played CMBB as well? or CMAK? Don't remember) and when CMSF was released it didn't interest me one bit (maybe because I live in a non-NATO European country so that conflict theatre seemed a bit "irrelevant" to me, in a way, if you know what I mean). Being mostly interested in WWII-era and thinking CM went down a path I wasn't interested in I let the series slip out of my mind and just forgot all about it. By chance, just a couple of days ago, I met the only guy I ever played a couple of PBEM games against in CMBO and asked him.. "Soo.. what games are you playing these days?". He replied that he was still playing CM and there were a lot of new versions released. I got surprised and went back home to check, and was pleasantly surprised! It seems there's been some generation changes in the series and that the old CM-games I knew about belong to something called CMx1 and that everybody is waiting for CMx3 My question is: Should I pick up all (or whatever games I find most interesting) in the newer series or are they all sort of obsolete now with Final Blitzkrieg just released? I actually enjoyed the diverse unit types available in the old CM that I get the impression has been slimmed down to allow a deeper focus instead of 1 billion different units. Still, I like a lot of variety. Anyway... Any suggestions on where to pick up for someone returning from CMBO with primary interest in WWII?