Megalon Jones
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How is the TOE going to be handled in regards to Soviet forces in the QMB? This would be in regards to the Red Army mobilization scheme. They put units into three types: frontline (Category A), frontline and partially demobilized (Category B} and reservist (Cat C}. Cat A groups got the best stuff, most training etc. I suppose the whole thing could be coded to reflect existing CM convention.
Just wondering how this is planned on being implemented? I know the whole thing could be covered in existing CM code, but would like to know how I'll be able to recognize a Type A unit from a Type B. (If the tank companies are loaded with T55's, we'll know it's a Cat C.)
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About the NTCC....how many individual maps are involved? I'm looking forward to calling them 'Iran', renaming Vth Corps to the RDF and facing a Soviet thrust into the Persian Gulf. I don't think any individual title has ever featured such radically different maps. (Syria is pretty varied in SF2 though!)
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20 hours ago, HerrTom said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like we can expect both main forces to run into each other in a nice clash of steel that the Capt might win due to his overwhelming firepower advantage. My read of the coming manoeuvres:
I'm not sure Bil is expecting a large push over the southern part of the valley, so it'll be interesting to see if he sniffs it out in time.
Beat me to it.
As soon as Bil fleshed out his plan.....I smiled. It'll be a armored slugfest with REDFOR having the advantages in numbers, gun penetration and frontal armor. Bil is unwittingly stacking his troops into an unfavorable correlation against The Capt. The deciding factor will be if BLUEFOR can make the spots/take the shots quicker. For the M60's it'll have to be acquire target/shot first/kill target/acquire new target before the REDFOR armor. That means superior training. It also means Bil will have to be in position before The Capt makes his move. If both are on the move at the same time, REDFOR wins.
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8 hours ago, IICptMillerII said:
The sandbox element just means that the game itself is not bound to a specific narrative. The campaigns share a common back story, but a lot of the scenarios have their own background.
In reality, a Cold War gone hot war would have only lasted on the order of months, not years. Instead of limiting the scope of the game to, say, March-July 1979, it instead covers 79-82. But it does not assume a war would last that long. It allows the player to choose what year they want to set up a scenario in and go for it. Plus, it allows the player to compare how the same scenario changes when newer (or older) equipment is used instead.
Understood. Hope I didn't start a rumor that haunts you guys going forward.
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I'm still trying to figure out the whole 'sandbox' nature of this module. I've got a feeling things are going to be a bit different than other CM titles.
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4 hours ago, Bil Hardenberger said:
CMCW Feature: New to Cold War, CLUSTER MUNITIONS!! For both artillery and aircraft (if available historically). Wait until you see these in action.
That is going to be the only way out of this type of scrap. I've got a feeling it's 'lose your FO; lose the fight' in the pre Abrams/Bradley scenarios.
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13 hours ago, Battlefront.com said:
Sooooo... who here still has a device that produces the wobbly blue screen that appears just after the Battlefront logo? I know I do! And someday I'll get Spinal Tap on DVD so I can retire it
Steve
I've still got a VCR. Beta was superior (once the bugs got fixed.) As a musician, I appreciate the ease and convenience of digital, but I started out on 1/4 inch tape. Sounds better, but is harder and more unforgiving to work with.
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40 minutes ago, sburke said:
well thank you for the dedication. This was the focus of most of my boardgame purchases. Gawd so many. MBT, IDF, Air and Armor and those were just the tactical. Went all the way up to The Next War and NATO. Even went so far as to include 2nd Fleet to determine if NATO convoys would be able to cross the Atlantic.... This is my retirement year and you gave me the game I've waited decades for Bil/Capt. Nice timing, how did you know?
Yeah, I owned and played all those titles minus 'Air and Armor.' Swap that one out for 'Gulf Strike.'
'NATO' was real fun. What was the title whose instructions for nuclear exchange read "Dose game board in kerosene and throw a match?"
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16 minutes ago, IICptMillerII said:
Yes.
The plan is to launch at the same time.
BF gets a bigger cut if you buy direct from their website. If you buy through Steam, both Steam and Slitherine get a cut is my understanding. If you buy on BFC and then import the key into Steam and download it there, I still think BFC gets the biggest cut.
Done. Thanks for the heads up.
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Quick question: if I preorder here (BF site), will I be able to DL via Steam on day of release? Will there be a delay between BF release and Steam? I prefer the DL, install and update capabilities of Steam but am not ruling out standard DL (like all my other BF purchases.)
If BF gets a bigger cut ($$$ wise) through direct DL, let me know. I gladly put up with DL'ing from the site direct.
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I always knew that Armageddon would be scored with cold 1980's synths. At least that's how I remembered it.
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8 hours ago, MikeyD said:
No speculation on what exactly is raining down from the sky in that top shot?
Cluster munitions fired by off map arty.
That can only mean one thing!
16 minutes ago, Bufo said:Quoted from wargamer.com:
- the game will include three campaigns and 15 standalone scenarios
- West Germany between 1979 and 1982
- between the US and Soviet forces
- The game primarily centres on the Fulda Gap
- the first of the game’s campaigns follows US forces [...] Players take command of two US regiments to stop a Soviet invasion of Europe and can play the campaign in either 1982 or 1979
- The second campaign, playing as the Soviets, traces the opening 48 hours of a fictional USSR invasion of West Germany
- The final campaign gives you command of a US Army Company Team, simulating battle in the US National Training Center
- The game also includes 15 standalone scenarios set in the US V and VII Corps sectors of West Germany, involving different-scaled battles, from platoon- to battalion-level
- historically accurate equipment and weapons effects, alongside a suite of era-appropriate tanks and vehicles – including the M48, M60 series of tanks, and T64 – alongside a range of US and Soviet aircraft, such as the F-4 Phantom and Mig-23/27
YUP! Take my $$$ now. That time frame was extraordinarily interesting as NATO and the East Bloc were (more or less) 'balanced for gameplay.'
Can NBC be simulated? I know that literal nukes are overkill, but having contaminated terrain type where MOPP suits degrade pixeltruppen speed, stamina and spotting capability would be a nice touch.
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The rematch!
Central Italy in spring '44.
I play ze Germans and Irish is the CW.
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Single player run through on the Dutch scenario. Last vid to be done on my ancient computer. Next vid on new gaming rig.
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True.
That's why the Red Army would've put it's main emphasis on the North German Plains instead of Fulda. Better tank country. Way less US Army to smash against (III Corps/7th Army had a forward deployed brigade from the 2nd Armored for defense of the Weser.)
Fulda would've been a noisy side show tying down Vth US and III WG Corps.
Of course....
On 6/16/2020 at 4:39 AM, Bulletpoint said:I don't understand why people keep talking about Fulda Gap as if any real fighting could ever have taken place there before the whole area was obliterated by nuclear weapons.
....that was always a distinct probability.
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A lone Tommy mech company stares down an unexpected Syrian attack!
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19 hours ago, Oddball-47 said:
Personally, I think this would be a fantastic addition to the CM series! How cool would it be to be playing a
night scenario and watching 'em burst in the air, lighting up for awhile various parts of the battlefield, then
fading/dropping to earth?You're sneaking a platoon across a relatively open area in the dark of night when suddenly they're all caught
'neath the glow of starshells? This would be, as we used to say in Boston back in the '60s: "wicked pissa!"Regards, Odd
That's exactly what I was thinking.
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The implementation of star shells and flares would make a great improvement for night fighting in the WW2 titles.
Could it be done? I'm assuming the problem is with the Tac AI's visibility and viewing regimes.
Just a thought.
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Be sure to read the description as the match had a number of special rules.
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9 hours ago, Erwin said:
If you think about it, logically the best way of handling this crisis is if everyone was infected. Then there would be no reason to not go out and live normally and keep the economy going.
30,000 people die from the flu every year and something like 70,000 die from traffic accidents and many more are seriously injured, but we don’t panic about that.
If we focused on protecting the most vulnerable and let everyone else get sick for 2 weeks, our society & economy would probably be in better shape very much faster.
All we've accomplished so far is create panic buying and price gauging, the store shelves are empty, and ensure that the pandemic could last thru August (we're told) or longer.
I work in the medical field. That's literally the worst possible scenario. This is several magnitudes more serious than the flu. The panic buying is a result of poor leadership and people not paying attention (or being unable to be differentiate trustworthy news sources.) If your news source went from 'Meh....It's like the flu' to 'Holy F*ck! National emergency!!' in the span of a week, that ought to be a tell.
I stockpiled back in February and have been social distancing for the last two weeks. You don't need a weatherman....yadda, yadda, yadda
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OK....I probably didn't word that very well.
Will the Soviet mobilization categories be reflected in the force selector?