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Billythegoat

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  1. Korean War would be great , mostly WW2 stuff , as far as infantry is concerned , would need vehicle and some arty upgrades for the US/S. Korean side. Communist forces and maps would be the build. I think Black Sea could mod out a " what if" of a modern Korean conflict. Hey you could kill 2 birds with one stone, mostly, map wise.
  2. New here so , why has Battlefront never done a WW2 Pacific campaign?
  3. To be sure ...... I think ........... most ( including myself ) hope , maybe pray, that a first module would include - the entire NATO forces in the theatre ( Germany) and the ...............likely Warsaw Pact forces in theater, . With the possibility of conquest of Germany , and dare I mention an excursion into a possibly secondary nation or three. .....that may be a battle pack.
  4. Take a look at the prices of those games on EBay , when they come up, compared to other games in the genre
  5. While the premise of a North American invasion in the late 70’s - early 80’s was not practical as history has played out. That does not negate a “what if “. What if the oil embargo extended through the 80’s, ( would have made the colonial pipeline shutdown almost a life style )operation Eagle Claw succeeded , Reagan was defeated ( wife dabbled in the occult, frowned on by moral majority), unemployment rose even higher , interest rates stayed between 17-20 percent ( yes , they were that high once ) all the government spending goes out for social relief, half the fleet mothballed, Panama Canal becomes non navigational, Armed forces size cut in half , Central and South America democracies fail, dogs and cats living together , human sacrifices...... really what I was saying is Combat Mission is the PERFECT system for enjoying tactical warfare defending interstate 95 North to prevent Cuban/Warsaw Pact/Soviet forces for getting to DC. Point is , this is a great gaming opportunity. And a generally popular theme.It would be a missed opportunity of gaming history. It’s not Red Dawn ( far too small a venue with partisans ) but the Airborne ambush of the US armored column to relieve “ Calumet” would be ( if you remember that from the movie ). As far as logistics go , be it Argentina/Brazil/Venezuelan alliance, with arms, oil , manpower from Central America, Extraterrestrial support - create your own theory.we would just have to deal with 3 Soviet tank corps crossing into the Montana/North Dakota boarder. IMHO
  6. Well it was that or take JFK back with me and have him assassinate himself like in Red Dwarf
  7. Save Archduke Ferdinand, prevent WW1 and WW2 , no bulschvick revolution , but we would probably have a king of the world by now
  8. I know it's a dream , but a Cold War gone Hot - man it fits perfect, who doesn't want to invade the US , very popular with the " Modern Warfare" game crowd and who in the USA doesn't want to be a Wolverine ? tried to quote , but failed
  9. I would like to see the module or modules 1. Soviet drive to Paris and Antwerp ( intro to NATO and Warsaw Pact forces) with airborne/air assault forces 2. Invasion America ( SPI's very popular game from 1976 ) - selected scenarios :i.e. Canadian/US border , invasion in southern/gulf area US from Cuba or Central America , crossing the Mississippi, strategic points, ect. not asking too much for a new guy, Lol i think maybe BS could expand into a modern Korea engagement (off topic)
  10. I saw that , man you have to be careful with handloads. I know he didn't realize these were handloads, but you should Be careful about using any ammo that is not commercial. I was visiting my 24 yr old granddaughter and her husband up in Michigan and she was showing me her .38 cal pistol he gave her , she said her and her friend were out shooting it a few weeks back. I opened the cylinder and discovered a bullet lodged just inside the barrel. We put a cleaning rod in to try to clear it , but the rod only inserted about an inch and 1/2 on 2 1/2" barrel. Turns out she had 2 rounds in the barrel. She was using reloads that the husbands father had made and gave them. She or her friend were darn lucky.
  11. The reason for the extra drive is , the laptop would be my main computer, and if I got several of the CM2 games , I did not want to have to start limiting my use for vids or pics. I would not want anything to be installed in the laptop , my assumption is the seagate is just something I would use a cable to connect to The laptop and hook it up every time I used the laptop. My life was spent in the operating room.
  12. it looks like the CM2 series of games have requirements that are manageable, but trying to find an older computer to play them for sale is a little difficult for someone who does not speak the language.
  13. Found a Acer Nitro5 in my price range , but only with 256GB SSD ( 256GB PCIe NVMe SSD (2 x PCIe M.2 slots - 1 slot open for easy upgrades) & 1 - Available hard drive bay ) does this mean I could get a seagate 2TB Portable hard drive and plug it right in for the extra storage ?
  14. Thanks all very helpful , lets see if I can find a laptop with the above spec's , thanks Schrullenhaft
  15. Ok , I come from a generation where you had to buy a calculator before you got a circuit board in the house. I played the SPI and Avalon Hill Board games in the 70's - 80's , I did have a Nintendo , and an Xbox . I really like the Combat Mission series of games (CM2 graphics) and have been binging on then in the Youtube channels. All I have now is a 1st generation IPad , I would like to get a laptop to purchase and play this series ( laptop just for portability and no real area I could set up a desktop). I can see system requirements for the games , but do not know if current laptops will allow me to play all the CM2 games , Battle for Normandy - Cold War. I did play the Panzer General, Allied General, and Pacific General on a prior laptop but when That Laptop died , the windows software went from XP to Vista , or the other way around , and I was unable to play those games , they would not load. So i have a few questions if anyone cares to answer 1. What current laptop could I buy to play all CM2 games ? 2. Laptops do not have a drive in them to load games these days , are these games physical ( like a CD sent to you ) or just downloaded ? 3. If downloaded how do you get all those games loaded on a laptop's memory? Thanks in advance for any answers
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