M1A1TC Posted September 12, 2005 Share Posted September 12, 2005 My guess is that whatever it is, Ill buy it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philippe Posted September 12, 2005 Share Posted September 12, 2005 Oddly enough, I was just reading a few of Steve's posts and I suddenly realized that I'm unlikely to buy a title under certain circumstances. WW I, great. WW II, great. Weird wars in between, even better. Korea, fine. Vietnam, fine, but I'll probably end up re-reading Heart of Darkness. Weird little wars from the sixties, seventies, and eighties, right on. Russians in Afghanistan, Cubans in Angola, Che in Bolivia, the Toyota Wars in Chad. But I would feel really uncomfortable playing anything that is a little too current. As long as I can squint at a subject and convince myself it's history (even if I was alive and cognizant when it happened). Or that it is hypothetical and hasn't happened yet. But I won't play anything where people are still getting killed. So the Iran-Iraq war and the First Gulf War is fine. But I'm too superstitious to play anything more recent than that. It just seems too ghoulish (even if I used to have a close friend name Pickering). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dorosh Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 Latest rumour is that Hasbro, still pissed over the Avalon Hill blowout vis a vis CMX1 (before they bought AH out), has made Steve an offer he can't refuse. CMX1 will now be released as a Space Lobsters card game, a new version of the classic UP FRONT! for the PC. <font size=0>Original artwork stolen from Gpig</font> 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilroy Lurking Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 Hi! As a result of speed-reading these threads I can with some certainty predict that the first release of CMX2 will be a complete historical campaign of all the LRDG and SAS operations in the Western desert - with some Commando Ops thrown in as teasers for future expansions.... However owing to the lack of KTigers (and scarcity of Finns) BF may get cold feet and make a last minute switch to a more European venue. David 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Cairns Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 COBRA:- Pattons breakout from Normandy. Why, The Water thread rules out a beach asault till later Modules, so don't expect Omaha. The Paratrooper Thread says, yes to better Para rules, but not yet, so that rules out D-Day or Market Garden, Anything before 1941 rules out Americans and it's a US company with more customers stateside than anywhere else (Though I don't have stats to back that up). The thread on Helicopters tends to lean towards nothing modern for a while. The thread on Horses likewise says pree WW2 sometime, but not yet. Cobra has a mix of terrains, all the most famous allied units and some of the best German ones. It's also got Tigers, Panthers, and Shermans, which for all the variety you can have are very much the staples, most people would raise eyebrows at a WW2 game without them. It's got US, UK and Commonwealth. It covers a crucial period of the war when it was argueably at it's most fluid on the battlefield, (yes 1939 and the Eastern front had that too, but they didn't have Yanks). So I may be wrong, but if I was BF, as a launch module for the new game, I'd choose, Cobra France 44, Beachhead to Belgium Oh and I'd call the game "Company Commander" or just "CO" not Combat Mission 2 Peter. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melnibone Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 'When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.' - Sherlock Holmes 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melnibone Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 'It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.' - Sherlock Holmes 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Cairns Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 We have plenty of data, it's just sifting the wheat from the Chaff. or as John Cleese said about Shakespear, "It's all in there, all you need to do is get it in the right order". Peter. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil stanbridge Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 I would absolutely love to see a Battle of the Bulge game, accurately represented. I loved the BOB battles in CMBO and CMAK - they were easily my favourite scenarios, and they could offer so much more under the right cirumstances - just imagine a new engine and new graphics based on the '44 campaign with 1:1 'representation'. You get the best wild cats, excellent infantry games and tactics and strategy galore. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melnibone Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 Originally posted by Peter Cairns: ShakespearDon't shake your pear at me 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melnibone Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 episode IV: Operation Thermidore 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
undead reindeer cavalry Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 sorry mr.Dorosh, but i just stalked with Steve and he confirmed my fears that neither of the first titles will be Winter War 1939. here's what he revealed to me about the first two titles and the following modules. 1st title: Finno-Russian Tribal Wars 1918-1922 1st module: Viena Expedition 1918 2nd module: Aunus Expedition 1919 3rd module: Estonian Liberation War 1917-1920 4th module: Petsamo Expeditions 1918,1920 5th module: East-Karelian Uprising 1921-1922 6th module: Ingrian Uprising 1919 2nd title: Guerra del Pacifico - War of the Pacific 1879-1884 1st module: Antofagasta 1879 2nd module: Towards Lima - The Chilean Invasion 3nd module: Peruvian Resistance 4rd module: The Fall of Tacna 5th module: The Fall of Arica 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simovitch Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 Originally posted by phil stanbridge: I would absolutely love to see a Battle of the Bulge game, accurately represented. I loved the BOB battles in CMBO and CMAK - they were easily my favourite scenarios, and they could offer so much more under the right cirumstances - just imagine a new engine and new graphics based on the '44 campaign with 1:1 'representation'. You get the best wild cats, excellent infantry games and tactics and strategy galore. I second that. My 1944 Ardennes topo collection has recently expanded and I would like to put them to some good use. The CMX2 scale may not be big enough to warrant accurate topography, but having these maps will be better than nothing. :cool: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melnibone Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 Originally posted by undead reindeer cavalry: sorry mr.Dorosh, but i just stalked with Steve and .....I trust you were properly attired. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Cairns Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 Reasons I 'd think it will be BotB, "The coldest, snowiest weather “in memory” in the Ardennes Forest on the German/Belgium border". To narrow in terms of weather, terrain and time, it only covers four weeks. Good for a module particularly to add advanced weather, but not for a launch. Peter. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightningWar Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 If it is Market Garden could we see a release on the 17th of Sept? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pvt. Ryan Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 I love these threads! It's so much fun to predict what BFC has in store for us. Based on what Steve has posted I think it is undeniably clear that the first game will be set in the Pacific theater of WWII, with the follow on modules covering Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, and Midway. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul AU Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 BFC can imagine, now, what if it's *not* "Private Ryan". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul AU Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 ("Modules", Grrr). I'll feel like a carnival dupe. "Here's a taste, come get the rest!" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASHBERY76 Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 It looks like 1C are doing the whole war not just modules.Both games set for Q1 2006, should be a good fight. http://www.worthplaying.com/article.php?sid=28215&mode=thread&order=0 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philippe Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 Originally posted by undead reindeer cavalry: sorry mr.Dorosh, but i just stalked with Steve and he confirmed my fears that neither of the first titles will be Winter War 1939. here's what he revealed to me about the first two titles and the following modules. 1st title: Finno-Russian Tribal Wars 1918-1922 1st module: Viena Expedition 1918 2nd module: Aunus Expedition 1919 3rd module: Estonian Liberation War 1917-1920 4th module: Petsamo Expeditions 1918,1920 5th module: East-Karelian Uprising 1921-1922 6th module: Ingrian Uprising 1919 2nd title: Guerra del Pacifico - War of the Pacific 1879-1884 1st module: Antofagasta 1879 2nd module: Towards Lima - The Chilean Invasion 3nd module: Peruvian Resistance 4rd module: The Fall of Tacna 5th module: The Fall of Arica Although I much prefer the Chaco War, I am also a big fan of the Guano Wars and applaud it is a suitable choice for the second series of new CMx2 games. There would never have been a need for the Chaco War if Bolivia hadn't lost its corridor to the Pacific. And it's a wonderful comment on the futility of war that grown men could kill each other for control of bird droppings. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Carr Posted September 14, 2005 Share Posted September 14, 2005 June 2006 - Normandy landings to the end of the war, West front. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Cairns Posted September 14, 2005 Share Posted September 14, 2005 "2006" hell i thought the war was over..... Damned Krutes they never give up... Peter. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FAI Posted September 14, 2005 Share Posted September 14, 2005 It will be insane if it isn't WWII. The largest market is there. But, why tempt the market by not just saying it so....?? :confused: I haven't seen the harm in just announcing earlier which conflict it will be. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PseudoSimonds Posted September 14, 2005 Share Posted September 14, 2005 Are you facing South East? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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