[CM:BN Screenshot Thread #2]

[just to say: MERCI]

Hello it will be a year now that I discovered CMBN and this forum and  is time to intervene to say thank you

I'm not the only one to do it but the repetition is good

Since my childhood I have a dream, a desire, to see with my eyes this battle that has rocked my childhood, imagining to travel the battlefield like a drone.

I was born in Falaise in 1970 and my family suffered the battle : 4 killed, the house bombed, the exodus on the road, the strafing of the bomber fighters, the artillery, the fighting but also after the battle, the destroyed houses, the burning vehicles and corpses littering the battlefield were all family meal conversations. Here in Normandie this was an important trauma.

It always impressed and interested me, in a word: fascinated. I constantly asked for clarification and to question civilians or soldiers who had experienced these events.

All the film reports on the subject, I watched them. I think I have seen ¾ images known from the battle.

 I never stopped walking the battlefield, collecting vestiges and remaining some hours to imagine the events.

I used every means to immerse myself in this battle and the battles of the second world war in general. Movies, books and even games

Squad leader then Close Combat  that I practiced  a long time.

But although this battle has become my daily life because I have made it my job (I am a guide of  museum and even considered as an expert of fighting led by the Poles during the Battle of Falaise pocket), the time passing my imagination has declined. and little by little the image of these fights in my mind was becoming more and more abstract. I ended up consoling myself by telling myself that if I go to paradise there I  will can achieve this wish

i was not counting on CMBN

What a shock and even if it remains a game, my imagination work and as in my childhood events come to life in my head.

 After a year of practice my enthusiasm is not blunted my dream is somehow realized.

So for that:

thanks for this formidable game

thanks to the moder who improves even more are aspect,

thank you to  persons who animates this forum

thanks to the battle designers (for the anecdote I live on a map of the game !)

I'm begining to smoke again and  to say some nastiness on my neighbors, paradise has lost its appeal !!!

[APDS vs AP]

Hello everyone

it's my first intervention!!

I spoke with a former tankman of the 2nd AD Leclerc, during the fighting in the pocket of Falaise, the French were with the Polish of the 24th lancer at the exit NE of Chambois

He explained to me that they hired panthers on the ridge at over 2000 m with WPs to set them on fire,

He remembered burning one

they hited the horse-drawn convoys with the same ammunition! Gruesome !