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I ended up upgrading to CMSF2 with all of the expansions, though CMBS is still my favorite of the two, just wanted to own and play both.

Resolved, John from customer service was able to get it to where I could upgrade to version CMSF2 2.1, NICE!

Honnêtement CMBN a été un choc pour moi
je suis né en Normandie et j'y habite et cette histoire, cette bataille c'est ma vie car ma famille était là en 44 et mon boulot c'est de l'expliquer.
Je suis toujours impressionné par la proximité du jeu avec la réalité
J'adore me battre dans le bocage, ma nation préférée y a joué les Américains avec leur puissance de feu et j'aime jouer avec l'infanterie Greene
juste un reproche dans le bocage (ce qui est souvent critiqué au contraire) les champs sont trop grands. en réalité la visibilité à plus de 50 m est un luxe en 1944
souvent les concepteurs de cartes s'appuient sur google map mais depuis les champs ont été considérablement agrandis
but apart from that what foot
a great game

Spending all your time in bocage country is really not what happens in CMBN. CMBN + Commonwealth was my intro to CM in general, and I recall many battles that had no bocage at all. This only is more true if you buy the Market Garden add-on. There are over 900 maps if you buy the entire collection and while there are plenty of bocage maps to satisfy those who want to slog through the early days after d-day, there are even more that have no bocage at all. 

CM:BN is the only game more developed than CM:SF2, but it also has a few issues right now.....Some of the user created content from older iterations of the game does not seem to behave at all well with newer patches.  Further there is the now notorious 'Bocage-Bug', which is driving several long time CM:BN players, including me, nuts! 
The grass is always greener, as they say.....On the subject of which, once 'Heaven & Earth' is released you will get another full CM:SF2 game for free (I recommend a seperate install, it really is that different). 

Appreciate it, definitely worked for me and I ended up buying the upgrade and all of the modules!

I ended up upgrading to CMSF2 with all of the expansions, though CMBS is still my favorite of the two, just wanted to own and play both.

If you want maximum content & maximum difference from the base-game, I'd buy in this order:
NATO. 
Then UK.
Then USMC.
However, you will inevitably eventually buy the lot anyway.....So why not just get the bundle and take the discount? 

Resolved, John from customer service was able to get it to where I could upgrade to version CMSF2 2.1, NICE!

Couldn't agree more, would be epic!

+1  That would be cool. 

It would great if you could get modules outside the scope of this conflict to introduce additional armies into the mix, would be a boon for everyone, devs and consumers. Would also be nice to see SOF and other unconventional units mixed in to a degree. Can you imagine how cool Merkavas would look for example in this engine, would be fantastic...

You purchased another distributor's version of CMSF (Paradox). That version required unique patches (due to the different copy-protection). When you installed the 1.32 patch, you installed the Battlefront version of the patch that uses eLicense for the copy-protection and therefore required an eLicense license key. Paradox/Gamersgate published its last patch as 1.20. You had to purchase either the 1.21 patch (for US$5.00 at the time, if I recall correctly) OR you purchased one of the modules, which then converted you to using the Battlefront patches. On top of that the 1.32 patch is NOT cumulative. You had to install other patches before installing the 1.32 patch.
Your fix is to delete/uninstall your current CMSF installation and then reinstall from the DVD again. You need to figure out if it is a Gamersgate (I believe those may have been just downloads) or Paradox (most likely) distribution. Download the CMSF1 (v1.20 Retail Only Patches) (just the Paradox one, most likely) and install that. This will bring you up to version 1.20, the last Paradox/Gamersgate patch (Paradox's decision, not Battlefront's).
I'm not sure what sort of offers there are with upgrading from the retail version to CMSF2. The sales website only mentions Battlefront copies being capable of the upgrade (requiring the previous eLicense license key). Support may have an offer for an upgrade, but you would probably have to purchase the CMSF2 modules at the listed (new, rather than 'upgrade') prices.

It would great if you could get modules outside the scope of this conflict to introduce additional armies into the mix, would be a boon for everyone, devs and consumers. Would also be nice to see SOF and other unconventional units mixed in to a degree. Can you imagine how cool Merkavas would look for example in this engine, would be fantastic...