Vanir Ausf B Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 I'm pretty sure that game and the one Regiment0 is referring to is the same game, but the developer has changed names. I won't post a link to it, but it is still for sale after all these years, but apparently he doesn't own the trademark for the name anymore. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c3k Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 I'm OK with the name, but I'm still trying to figure out what Tnipdeya means. Well played! If you like "Red Thunder", great! If you don't like it, rest assured that the previous name was FAR worse. Far, far, far worse. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Captain Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Speaking of Lucas! Combat Mission: Revenge of the Soviets. Yes, you may proceed to groan now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kensal Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 How about 'Belorussian Strategic Offensive Operation' - the Red Army knew how to come up with snappy titles 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLSTK Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 CM: Lemmy Atom! www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-kKLZH0xlE 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PanzerMike Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 If you like "Red Thunder", great! If you don't like it, rest assured that the previous name was FAR worse. Far, far, far worse. Yeah, they had just about decided to go with CM: Vodka Force... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wodin Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 CM:Bagration Would have done perfectly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 CM:Bagration Would have done perfectly. Lest I be wrong, this game will (in the end) cover the whole last year of war across the front, eventually. Bagration doesn't work then. In similar vein CM: Operation Husky would cover all that is seen in CMFI base game... In comparison, Battle for Normandy as a name may not cover the fighting in Holland seen in MG module, but at least it works for CW module and covers the majority of fighting seen in the full game. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanir Ausf B Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Also, there seems to be a rule that Combat Mission games must have 4-letter abbreviations. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Also, there seems to be a rule that Combat Mission games must have 4-letter abbreviations. Combat Mission: Afghanistan? (but then you can put the blame on Snowball) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battlefront.com Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 One also has to remember that many people haven't a clue what Operation Bagration is. Which means not only does it not properly convey what the game is (i.e. it is much more than Bagration), but it also doesn't necessarily make people think "Eastern Front". Trying to find one name that satisfies all marketing considerations is a lost cause. Just not going to happen. Which means there's always going to be someone who thinks they have a better name Yes, Sergei is correct. We would have named CMA something else. CM Fight for Afghanistan, CM Battle for Afghanistan, CM Afghan War... so on and so forth! Steve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 CM:RS As in RUSSIAN STEAMROLLER 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 One also has to remember that many people haven't a clue what Operation Bagration is. Or... they actually know Bagration, and expect the game to be about Napoleonic Wars. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Canadian Cat Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 ...we had a pretty good name that wound up being "CMBS". Not!... Good thing you are paying attention to this stuff. 14 years ago here in Canada at a conservative convention trying to form a new party that would unit the Reform party and the Progressive Conservative party the convention delegates voted on a new name. They chose Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance Party which was CCRAP. No one noticed the crappy achronism - or more accurately no one listened to the few people that put two and two together. Wikipedia has a nice summary In 2000, following the second of the two United Alternative conventions, the party voted to dissolve in favour of a new party: the "Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance", a declaration of policy and a new constitution. ... Media covering the convention quickly pointed out that if one added the word "Party" to the end of the party's name, the resulting initials were "CCRAP" ... One day later, the party changed its official name to the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance,[3] but was almost always called simply "the Canadian Alliance" or "the Alliance". That story still makes me laugh to this day. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baneman Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Or... they actually know Bagration, and expect the game to be about Napoleonic Wars. I'd buy that ! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt Belenko Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 CMBB = CM Bagration to Berlin (with modules of course) 43 version could be CMBB = CM Before Bagration. 41 version could be CMBB = CM Barbarossa Blitz. 42 version could be CMBBB = CM Between Barbarossa and Bargration. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
permanent666 Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 How about: Combat Mission Red Tube 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Childress Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 CM: Oh! The Humanity! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poesel Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 CM:GW - Go West CM:TB - To Berlin 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLSTK Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 ...here in Canada at a conservative convention trying to form a new party that would unit the Reform party and the Progressive Conservative party the convention delegates voted on a new name. They chose Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance Party which was CCRAP. And we still ended up with CRAP. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Canadian Cat Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 And we still ended up with CRAP. LOL well some have a different opinion for sure. But I still call them that when I am particularly annoyed "What do you expect from a party that used to call itself CRAP":D 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelte Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 Combat Mission: Red Offensive Combat Mission: Red Anvil Combat Mission: Red Hammer Combat Mission: Red Wave My two cents ^^ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weapon2010 Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 CMDRFWLCOFT Combat Mission Death on the Russian Front with a Whole Lotta Chaos and Flamey Things. That's what I would have went with.I don't know why they didn't consult me? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 CMDRFWLCOFT I don't know why they didn't consult me? Possibly they foresaw their printers running out of ink. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maarten Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Good thing you are paying attention to this stuff. 14 years ago here in Canada at a conservative convention trying to form a new party that would unit the Reform party and the Progressive Conservative party the convention delegates voted on a new name. They chose Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance Party which was CCRAP. No one noticed the crappy achronism - or more accurately no one listened to the few people that put two and two together. Wikipedia has a nice summary That story still makes me laugh to this day. We have a university in Tilburg that was supposed to be named Katholieke Universiteit Tilburg (Catholic University of Tilburg). They quickly changed "Tilburg" to "Brabant" once they saw the acronym - a not-so-nice slangword for the female genitalia. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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