moeburn Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 After reading the comments section of the 96% review of Commonwealth at Armchair General, I found this little gem: My Dad is an amazingly spry 93 year old man with an incredible history. He fought in both WW2 and Korea. His last 2 weeks in the service just happened to coincide with the Cuban Missile Crisis. His war stories are numerous and to the best of my knowledge, true. The craziest part is that he’s still a grognard. The game he chooses to play, and the only game(s) he plays is the Combat Mission series. He feels that these games model tank warfare better than most. Who am I to argue? I wasn’t there when Patton pissed in the river, Dad was. It’s the coolest thing in the world to watch my father put together a custom map and play a battle he fought in real life. When I play one of his maps he provides a play by play which I cannot even describe the feelings that rumble around as I’m doing the usual sterile act of moving units around. While there are some minor technical issue with this series, CMBN and the new expansion are considered by my Dad to be well done with more and better attention to detail than some of the more hardcore wargames. I’ll take his word for it. Whoever does marketing for Battlefront needs to get a hold of and interview this man before he passes. Do you have any idea how attractive it would be to gamers to discover a war game that an old man likes and finds realistic? It would set Combat Mission MILES apart from any other game! [EDIT]: Whoops, I mean 93-year-old. My bad. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanir Ausf B Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 Marketing? They need him to design some scenarios 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moeburn Posted June 21, 2012 Author Share Posted June 21, 2012 Marketing? They need him to design some scenarios That too, would be awesome, but appreciated by fewer people. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunnergoz Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Very cool: do it BFC, and we'll all benefit. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanonier Reichmann Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 After reading the comments section of the 96% review of Commonwealth at Armchair General, I found this little gem: Whoever does marketing for Battlefront needs to get a hold of and interview this man before he passes. Do you have any idea how attractive it would be to gamers to discover a war game that an old man likes and finds realistic? It would set Combat Mission MILES apart from any other game! [EDIT]: Whoops, I mean 93-year-old. My bad. Yeah... not bad. Mind you, I reckon in Michael Emry's eyes this guy is a veritable whippersnapper seeing as he has recollections going back to the Boer War from what I'm told. Regards KR 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mord Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Boer War? Ha! He helped Sherman burn Atlanta while in his 30's. If you watch Gone With The Wind you'll see him playing himself. Mord. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moeburn Posted June 22, 2012 Author Share Posted June 22, 2012 If you watch Gone With The Wind you'll see him playing himself. I read that as playing with himself. I was very confused about what type of movie/series I thought Gone with the Wind was. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mord Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 That would explain Emrys' near sightedness. Mord. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baneman Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Yeah... not bad. Mind you, I reckon in Michael Emry's eyes this guy is a veritable whippersnapper seeing as he has recollections going back to the Boer War from what I'm told. Regards KR Wasn't he in the Grande Armee marching back from Moscow ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
womble Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Aha. Emrys is Longinus. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Radley Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 No. Emrys baby-sat Longinus. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 All right, all you tadpoles! Let me ask you one thing, where were you when the Persians came streaming across the Bosporus by the millions onto the sacred soil of Greece, the cradle of democracy? Huh? Where were you when the chips were down and everything was on the table? If it hadn't been for me and Leonidas and a few of our buddies, you'd all be kowtowing to some ayatollah now, by Zeus! Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chas_in_mlb Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 If I was able to convince my PC to run properly on the 'net I'd challenge the gentleman to some HTH. A cool story. Thnx 4 sharing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cymru Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 All joking aside: the past is not that far away. As a young boy my grandfather talked to someone who had fought at the battle of Waterloo. Granted, the person was something like 16 at the time of the battle and played no significant role, but it still means I am just one step away from hearing an eyewitness account. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baneman Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 That's true Cymru, my great-grandfather was 14 years old during the Boer War and used to tell us stories about going to town on an ox-wagon. He lived to 101, so he basically lived from "Aeroplane ? What's that ?" to "Space Shuttle". He was amazing to talk to. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poesel Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 My grandmother told me how she remembered when WWI broke out (she was 7 then): the pastor came over by bike, they had bilberry cake and then he told them that the war had broken out. No telephone, no radio. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Radley Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Was the internet down that day? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oneyearwarpilot Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Was the internet down that day? No no the government was rationing it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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