Cull Posted December 4, 2002 Share Posted December 4, 2002 I still have BO. Actually, I have not since CMBB arrived. I am getting the itch to though, both to experience that front again, and to compare and contrast the games. Oh, and I would vote definitely on the combo pack.* *BTS paid me to say that. No, they didn't! I would say that even if CMBO was an inferior game (which is isn't) just to have both options. Not to mention that the original will someday be worth millions. For me it is better to play a finished game which is declared dead from a developer maintainance standpoint. Good God, man, just when I thought it couldn't get any lower. Have you no shame? Sorry....couldn't resist [ December 04, 2002, 02:18 AM: Message edited by: Jack Arilliac ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuomas Posted December 4, 2002 Share Posted December 4, 2002 Well I was playing CMBO until we ditched it in the Nordic tourney. So I am only playing CMBB now. What do you think about this: when CM3 comes out from Battlefront will there be these kind of polls in the CMBB forum? Maybe some diehard Finns will keep to CMBB but I think ther will be only few, if any, others sticking with the older game. -TNT- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tailz Posted December 6, 2002 Share Posted December 6, 2002 Zero interest in the Eastern Front. (How can you tell the good guys from the bad guys??) CMBO... Canadians vs the 12SS all the way!! [ December 06, 2002, 06:22 AM: Message edited by: tailz ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaylord Focker Posted December 6, 2002 Share Posted December 6, 2002 Originally posted by tailz: Zero interest in the Eastern Front. (How can you tell the good guys from the bad guys??) CMBO... Canadians vs the 12SS all the way!!It's only a video game, no good guys, no bad guys, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaylord Focker Posted December 6, 2002 Share Posted December 6, 2002 I am not playing CMBO, and i don't even have it on my hard drive. With CMBB, i have no use for it ever again. It was a great game for it's time though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Carr Posted December 6, 2002 Share Posted December 6, 2002 I still play both however I am playing less and less CMBO. The game engine in CMBB is, in my opinion, more realistic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easytarget Posted December 6, 2002 Share Posted December 6, 2002 i don't see the existence of cmbo and cmbb forcing me to make a choice between them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foamy Posted December 9, 2002 Share Posted December 9, 2002 Got both, been playing CMBO almost since it came out and CMBB since it came out. Trying very, very hard to like CMBB but it just is not as much fun for me. So, I play CMBO 70% of my games and CMBB 30% of the games. Interestingly the 30% of CMBB games occupy about 70% of my alloted playing time - another reason I don't like CMBB - it's so slow, don't move more than 100 meteres, then rest a couple of turns otherwise your troops get tired, poor things - boring !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdr220846 Posted December 12, 2002 Share Posted December 12, 2002 I recently purchased the bundle pack and have only loaded and played CMBO. I wanted to start off with it, and then later move to the new graphics and tactics of CMBB. I have followed the advice of others here in the forums though and downloaded some mods to enhance the graphics of BO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Manuel Posted December 12, 2002 Share Posted December 12, 2002 Both, though I'm starting to lean back towards CMBO since there's so many good CMBO scenarios I haven't tried. I'm sure I'll get into -BB more as I try more of its scenarios, though I seem to relate to the Western Front a lot more. The Soviets are cool but I get this "push everything thru the meatgrinder" mentality when I use them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Måkjager Posted December 12, 2002 Share Posted December 12, 2002 Both on my HDs....and will remain forever so. Play wise... playing CMBB. MOD making wise...CMBO... not finished there just yet....as i wipe the dirt and grime of my mush from a very recent trip to the Bowels of the ModMines best Måkjager Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Carr Posted December 13, 2002 Share Posted December 13, 2002 I know there isn't a chance of this happening but I would love to see BTS go back to CMBO and put the CMBB engine in it. It just seems more realistic when a tank continues to slam shells into an enemy tank until it sees the crew bail out. I also much prefer how a squad of troopers caught with their pants down get literally wiped out by hidden squads/machine gun nests etc. Any opinions? I still play and enjoy CMBO but it doesn't seem as realistic as CMBB. I will say that with al lof the great mods that I've downloaded over the years, that my CMBO looks just as good as my CMBB game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easytarget Posted December 14, 2002 Share Posted December 14, 2002 i bought both about 3 or 4 weeks ago only installed cmbo (so as to basically force myself to play it first) it's been a total blast i've mostly been playing the AI - in fact, just finished playing chance encounter (a classic small battle imho) as the germans - it was really quite amusing to work out the tactics of combining the shreks with the stugs to defeat the 5 shermans i've also started a couple PBEM's and played a couple IP's with my brother (bought him both games for x-mas and he opened it basically the minute it showed up) all in all, i'm finding cmbo the most entertaining game i've played in years - and at this rate it may take me a year to get around to installing cmbb - i guess at some point i may break down and check it out - but honestly, i'm having A LOT of fun in europe [ December 13, 2002, 10:04 PM: Message edited by: easytarget ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevJack Posted December 14, 2002 Share Posted December 14, 2002 Got the bundle about 2 weeks ago and I have found that I like aspects of both games. CMBO plays just as well as CMBB to me and I am having a blast with both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bish Posted December 15, 2002 Share Posted December 15, 2002 I'm gettng CMBB for crimbo off the wife, but still plan to keep playing CMBO. Now if we get a CM3 set in North Africa, won't that be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breakthrough Posted December 19, 2002 Share Posted December 19, 2002 I have both but most of my games are BO. Yes, I love the improvements in BB but Im not a big fan of the East Front. The ETO was always one of my favorite wargame topics. CMBO forever! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted December 19, 2002 Share Posted December 19, 2002 I still am playing both. I started with CMBO and started modding with CMBB. I'am working on some mods for CMBO, and to be honest it seems easier to mod the CMBO tanks and such then the CMBB, strange, I guess it's just how I think about modding, who knows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moriarty Posted December 19, 2002 Share Posted December 19, 2002 Playing both with no intention of dropping CM:BO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Gregg Posted December 19, 2002 Share Posted December 19, 2002 Still playing CMBO,in fact I'm about halfway through Hastings Howards at this time.Really enjoying this scenario,using Magua's Normandy terrain along with the Utah Beach mod and it looks pretty darn good.Got the new CMMOS 4.02 working and have d/loaded all of what's available for CMBB and actually the CMBO/ CMMOS compliant mods as well(thanks for cable).Just haven't found the time to start a CMBB scenario yet but it looks pretty good from the little I've played.CMBO will always be played by me with all the great scenarios available.Why quit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PiggDogg Posted December 22, 2002 Share Posted December 22, 2002 Guys, Got both; playing both. Probably, that is the way that it shall be for quite a while. Cheers, Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RA Posted December 22, 2002 Share Posted December 22, 2002 What spec computer do you fellas have that will bog down doing BB? Just curious. I have a 1.2 T-bird, 512 DDR, Geforce4 ti4200, Win98 OS. Is that going to be good for CMBO and BB? I have CMBO on it's way to me and figured I had enough grunt to upgrade that game with the better detail add-ons available. Am I mistakened? :confused: [ December 21, 2002, 11:05 PM: Message edited by: RA ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Manuel Posted December 22, 2002 Share Posted December 22, 2002 RA, My cpu is HP Celeron 566mhz, 191 MB RAM, only 12MB video that is shared on the MoBo. For CMBO I use all hi-res mods (i.e. vehicles, uniforms, etc.) except for terrain, which can really hog memory since there are so many terrain tiles on any map. Small battles are find and big ones (i.e. ME w/ 8000pts each side, 30 AFV each side) still only take 2-3 minutes to compute. For CMBB, it seems OK up to maybe 1000pts, and larger ones take long to compute. Battles that are only maybe 1250pts take as long to compute as those huge 8000pt CMBO battles! I don't think I could use any hi-res mods for CMBB. In fact I might load some lo-res terrain .bmp's from CMBO (they are cross-compatible) to save Vid-Memory. Esp. "Tom's Battle of the Bulge Mod" for winter battles. I don't really like any of the default CMBB terrain, it's too polished, shiny, and "nice" looking, IMO. It's still a HUGE step up from the default CMBO graphics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firefly Posted December 22, 2002 Share Posted December 22, 2002 Originally posted by RA: What spec computer do you fellas have that will bog down doing BB? Just curious. I have a 1.2 T-bird, 512 DDR, Geforce4 ti4200, Win98 OS. Is that going to be good for CMBO and BB? I have CMBO on it's way to me and figured I had enough grunt to upgrade that game with the better detail add-ons available. Am I mistakened? :confused: Your machine will have no problems at all running CMBO even with hi-res mods, CMBO was designed for much slower machines. It should also have no problems withe CMBB, apart from the 'To the Volga' operation, which even 2.4 gig P4s and top range AMDs have problems running at an acceptable rate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RA Posted December 22, 2002 Share Posted December 22, 2002 Great, thanks for the info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lane Posted December 23, 2002 Share Posted December 23, 2002 Have been playing CMBB I am sure it is more Realistic. but last night I slipped my CMBO disk in and played some small battles I had forgotten how many mods I had installed, Played a few small battles and had fun nice to hear English again. Played British Vs German what surprised me was I would order troops too attack a German tank and they would go out there and throw hand grenades under the tank. A bunch of " Metal of Honor" guys. It may be more Realistic in CMMBB but have not seen much of that. I like both Sims and glad I keep CMBO on my hard Drive Will enjoy CMBO more looking for those "Metal of Honor guys. Regards Lane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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