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14 minutes ago, Fenris said:

Lots of vintage armour in this victory day parade including a T-28 and T-35.

 

... first time I see a BT2 so rolling so quiet, wheels have a big advantage when the tracks are gone, hope only, that the driver dont have to turn to stay in straight line...

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Who doesn't miss a Combat Mission Barbarossa after seeing the first three minutes of the parade? 😪

Suprisingly, no Sherman nor Grant/Lee tanks in the parade!... 😎

Jokes aside, the late war Red Army armors were REALLY impressive...

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On 5/12/2024 at 1:52 AM, Fenris said:

Lots of vintage armour in this victory day parade including a T-28 and T-35.

L'Shana Haba'ah B'Yerushalayim.

At the rate it's going for the Russians today though, I'd guess these tanks might as well be saying L'Shana Haba'ah B'Ukrinh though.

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On 5/14/2024 at 12:53 AM, Centurian52 said:

You can still get CMBB. I have CMBB and CMAK on GOG.

Yeah, but it‘s not the same anymore. Just for fun, I reinstalled CMAK a while ago and found it „unplayable“. Well, „graphics-wise“ unacceptable, I should say.

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2 hours ago, StieliAlpha said:

Yeah, but it‘s not the same anymore. Just for fun, I reinstalled CMAK a while ago and found it „unplayable“. Well, „graphics-wise“ unacceptable, I should say.

Eye of the beholder I guess. Graphics are nice to have, but I never really considered them to be very important. The CM1 games definitely aren't as good as the CM2 games. But they're still pretty good. I'm the kind of person who believes that games never really age out. I still go back and play Red Alert 2 from time to time for the nostalgia, and it's still just as good today as it was in 2000 because...well, it's still the same game it was in 2000. Likewise I feel that CMAK and CMBB are still exactly as good as they were when they first came out*, because they are still exactly the same games that they were when they came out. Because the newer games are getting better doesn't mean that the older games are getting worse.

The beauty of the modern digital age is that nothing really disappears the way they used to. Way back in the bad old days once a movie stopped playing in theaters, or a game stopped selling physical copies in stores, it was gone. But that's not how the world works anymore**. Now, if there's an old movie or game that you're nostalgic for, you can just find it on the internet. As long as a copy survived into the digital age somewhere, odds are you'll be able to find it. And if it was ever any good to begin with, it'll still be good today.

*Full disclosure though. I wasn't playing them when they first came out. I started playing Combat Mission in 2009 when I discovered CMSF. I had already been playing CM2 for several years by the time I discovered CM1. I never got CMBO because I already had CMBN by the time I discovered that it existed. But I still consider CMAK and CMBB to be must-haves because they scratch wargaming itches that CM2 still hasn't gotten around to scratching. And until a newer Combat Mission engine does get around to covering North Africa and the Eastern Front as far back as 1941, CMAK and CMBB will remain indispensable parts of my gaming library. Again, CM1 definitely isn't as good as CM2. But it's still the second best wargame engine in the world after CM2.

**Which is why I've often had to balk at older folks who tell me "oh you wouldn't know that movie, it's before your time", revealing that they clearly don't get how the world works in the digital age since I regularly watch movies that are before their time. Casablanca (1942) is still one of my favorite movies. And Battleground (1949) is still the best Battle of the Bulge movie that I'm aware of.

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