You wanna know the name of the next BFC game?

[flammenwerfer]

The DOD also Trademarked- 'Mission Accomplished'.

[Michael Emrys]

Good grief.

Michael

[Pvt. Ryan]

Well, since many of us will resume active gaming when CMx2 arrives, and thus spending an inordinate amount of time on our butts, I think the first game should be called Combat Mission 2: Return of the Cyst.

[konstantine]

Originally posted by Battlefront.com:

Actually, we didn't abandon the TMs per se. We got a nice letter from the DOD stating that they would challenge us on both counts. One because they have their own TMs (Stryker) and the other because, get this, "it might confuse people that your product is somehow officially endorsed by the US government" (Operation Iraqi Freedom). Yup... we should have seen this coming because of all the people that thought CMBO was an official product of the US government and all the Nazis that were upset because we didn't get the consent of the Third Reich for naming CMBB and CMAK.

On both counts we felt we could do a legal challenge and succeed, especially on the latter challenge, but felt neither were worth the effort.

Now, I will throw out a bone... CMx2's first release will not be set in Iraq. Not that we feel it would be an uninteresting setting (quite the opposite), but because it is too current. Very tough to make game decisions while history is still being written.

Steve

Note that he did not mention Kuwait.

[V]

Originally posted by Battlefront.com:

Now, I will throw out a bone... CMx2's first release will not be set in Iraq. Not that we feel it would be an uninteresting setting (quite the opposite), but because it is too current. Very tough to make game decisions while history is still being written.

Steve

The thought crossed my mind when I first read this thread, seems to hit too close to home to make a game out of it, IMHO.

Especially one as "realistic" as I am sure yours will be.

Anyways, as I said in another thread, please feel free to set the first release in the Civil War. Antietam would be fine place to start...

[Elmar Bijlsma]

Nah, if we must suffer ( ) a game about Americans please let it be the American War of Independence. A conflict that hasn't been given as much attention as the others. I'd be keen to learn more about it through playing, like CMBB did for me.

[Panzer76]

Originally posted by Battlefront.com:

Now, I will throw out a bone...

Mission Accomplished!

[Michael Emrys]

Originally posted by Elmar Bijlsma:

Nah, if we must suffer ( ) a game about Americans please let it be the American War of Independence. A conflict that hasn't been given as much attention as the others. I'd be keen to learn more about it through playing, like CMBB did for me.

I am somewhat dubious that a tactical game a la CM on that war would hold a great deal of interest. I could be mistaken since I haven't studied the tactical aspects of that war at great length, but I haven't yet received an impression that there was a great deal of variation of tactics because there wasn't a great deal of variation in weapons types. You had (mostly) smoothbore muskets and a few smoothbore cannon, and that was pretty much it.

OTOH, a strategic game along the lines of AH's old 1776 might be a stone gas. But in either case, I think the audience would not be huge (which is fine by me, but for the guys who have to make their living selling them...).

Michael