CMM or Combat Mission: Campaign Query

[Grisha]

BFC, I remember back when work was being done to make an operational overlay from which to create and link individual CM battles into campaigns, based on a persistent OOB. It was called Combat Mission: Campaign. It never made it due to a number of reasons, and it was focused on the x1 engine. I'm curious as to whether the newest engine(4?) has the functionality to have something like this designed and developed?

[Erwin]

It seems to still be in "development hell". 

 

[Schrullenhaft]

When CMC was in development it was initially aimed at CMBB. A special version of CMBB was necessary in order to get the stats from a battle and to possibly read the battles that would be created by the Campaign game (which required all of the maps for the campaign to be pre-made in CMBB). Right now I don't think any of the CM2 games has any code like this at the moment. The 'military contract' versions of CMSF2/CMBS put out some end-game stats and, I assume, have the ability to have some weapon behavior/data modified. The end-game output stats however may not be of the type that would be most useful for a campaign system to utilize (from a consumer player perspective). I don't know if BFC would have the rights to distribute this version of the games (they certainly wouldn't have the classified data).

[Combatintman]

To answer your question ... it is probably doable but only for the reasons that most things are probably doable.  From official announcements, however; the company is not looking at it.  There was talk about 18 months ago of some sort of campaign interface from a third party supported by BFC which doesn't seem to have moved on much but apparently is not dead.  There is a thread about it kicking around somewhere.  I wouldn't expect anything soon.

[domfluff]

There are campaigns run over the forums at The Few Good Men. These have a variety of rulesets, but they're always separate from the game. That's not a bad way of doing it, mind you.

I've posted before about the idea of running a Combat Mission campaign as an Engel Matrix, and I still think that's a pretty good idea. You need a third party to manage that, but you could run a convincing campaign with as little as three people.