Billythegoat
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9 hours ago, Pilaf said:
CM2 is tank centric and excels at this. Pacific theater would be light on tanks, especially for the Japanese. Maybe Korean War would be more suitable?
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.
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Good to know , thanks
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New here so , why has Battlefront never done a WW2 Pacific campaign?
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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.
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7 hours ago, Sequoia said:
@Combatintman. The idea was based I think on a old 1970s board wargame Invasion America that had an alt history from the 1980s to roughly 2000 when the invasions took place and was not supposed to be a serious prediction of the future. To be fair the same company, SPI, has another game Objective Moscow of the whole world ganging up to invade the Soviet Union in the late '90s.
Take a look at the prices of those games on EBay , when they come up, compared to other games in the genre
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1 hour ago, Sequoia said:
If and when we get a German module one could make scenarios based on this boardgame.
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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
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5 minutes ago, chuckdyke said:
Keep on dreaming it was only the excuse they needed. They would have found a different excuse. Christianity imploded, Orthodox Christianity, Catholic Christianity, Protestant Christianity, Church of England thrown in decided not to turn the other cheek and 30 years later 80 million killed. Nationalism ruled it started with the La Marseillaise during the Napoleonic age and everybody followed suit. It reigns till the present day.
Well it was that or take JFK back with me and have him assassinate himself like in Red Dwarf
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Save Archduke Ferdinand, prevent WW1 and WW2 , no bulschvick revolution , but we would probably have a king of the world by now
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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
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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)
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1 hour ago, chuckdyke said:
It is very easy to become complacent. I used a Dillon which was capable of reloading 500 cartridges an hour. I cut the chore in 2 stages., before seating the bullet I visually inspected the powder level. Took a little longer as you had to take the crimped and primed brass with powder out of the press manually. With this guy's load I suspect that somehow a primer got mixed with the powder. I don't rule out a practical joker if you could call him that. The rule you do your own reloading and don't use somebody else's reloads.
Agree , 100%
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On 4/30/2021 at 6:32 AM, chuckdyke said:
One tough cookie.
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.
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6 minutes ago, JoMac said:
Hey BillytheGoat,
Just get one of these older Dell XPS M1730 off Fleabay:
Dell XPS M1730 in "Computers, Tablets, and Networking" | eBay
Will take a look
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18 minutes ago, Artkin said:
Realistically, hard drives are able to contain so much space nowadays that it's not even a concern anymore. Reliability and speed are much more important today.
Western Digital's Enterprise drives (made for big companies... but people can still use them in their home pcs) are among the best of the best. They are usually made to fit the 3.5" form factor (for desktops) but they might come in 2.5" size (for laptops).
These, or something similar should be totally okay for you. You should be looking for at least 1TB of space. But 2TB would have you set for ever..... good luck filling that up.
Enterprise drives are made to be tougher since they're expected to be running at full capacity all day long.
I use Western Digital Gold drives. I think they have a new name now, but should be the same thing.
I've had a Seagate that I bought brand new fail on me. It took about 4 years. NEVER lost a Western Digital.
Thanks for info
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2 hours ago, Lucky_Strike said:
Yes a 2.5" HDD for bulk storage, or a 2.5" SSD for something a bit faster. Also worth thinking about - pretty sure the Nitro comes with USB-C Gen 2 port which should give a full 10gbps throughput, faster than the internal sata HDD socket. If you have cash to spare buying a full speed 10gbps external USB-C drive will give you a very fast external drive for backups etc - just a thought.
Ooh forgot to say, you could also stick another PCIe SSD in there, again fast, not cheap though if you want mass storage, and they can run a bit hot.
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.
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29 minutes ago, Artkin said:
The hard drive will go INSIDE the laptop. It has an available space inside that comes empty.
My 2c...
Laptops are still trash... PC prices are WAY TOO HIGH. If you want to play CM, you can run it on a 10-15 year old computer with little to no hardware.
I'm not even kidding.
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.
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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 ?
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Thanks all very helpful , lets see if I can find a laptop with the above spec's , thanks Schrullenhaft
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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
Is there a reason there has not been any Pacific campaigns
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Yes, that would be a very interesting campaign