wings7 Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 I'm hoping so...of course I'm looking forward to Mother Britain and the Commonwealth too! Combat Mission: Battle for Normandy looks and acts fantastic...it won't be long! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soldat-Hans Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 Eastern Front would be awesome. Have to say, that CM:BB is my favourite CM until today! May be, BN will change this, but what ever. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Canuck Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 It would be nice to see a number of theaters based on the BN platform. In 'Advanced Squad Leader' terms, there's always the core modules: - Beyond Valor - Yanks - Partisan! - West of Alamein - For King and Country - The Last Hurrah - Hollow Legions - Code of Bushido - Gung Ho! - Croix de Guerre - Doomed Batalions - Armies of Oblivion' - Hakkaa Päälle (not yet released) and then everything else . . 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ssnake51 Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 Count me as one of those hoping the next game in this series will focus on the Eastern Front. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LemoN Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 Count me as one of those hoping the next game in this series will focus on the Eastern Front. Well said! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Cairns Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 The Eastern front is a mammoth task and one that nearly broke the back of Battlefront the last time so don't hold your breath. Much as I like the t-34 as much as the Sherman, the next logical build is the rest of the war in the west followed by Italy and africa mainly because so much of what is needed in equipment terms is already there. I full expect them to work on the East in the background as they did with CMBN during CMSF ( I remember seeing a CMSF screen shot with an M-3 in it), but it will be an on going project while things that will generate more revenue for less work pay for it. As I said elsewhere I'd like a 39-41 game but without American involvement it might not pay that well. Put in the commonwealth and include Cannucks and Aussies and you add a lot of paying customers. Peter. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjkerner Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 It's already been decreed(search the threads) that EF won't be here until after the Bulge game and modules; 3-5 years??? I understand the progression of games is related to the development of things like winter terrain, certain armor, etc. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocky Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 Makes you wonder how CM2 would fit the Pacific ???? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soldat-Hans Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 Dont understand why? Eastern Front is in my Opinion more interesting than the Battles on Normandy! The Battle of Stalingrad, Kharkow, ... The most important parts of the War happened on the eastern Front. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchy Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 As Battlefront as said in the past - the Pacific Theater will not happen. As much as I would like it to, it won't. It's been talked about in several forums - going back to the old CM series. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchy Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 Dont understand why? Eastern Front is in my Opinion more interesting than the Battles on Normandy! The Battle of Stalingrad, Kharkow, ... The most important parts of the War happened on the eastern Front. BF has explained their reasoning in the past - search for Eastern Front, it should pop up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurra Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 CMBN = Hors d'œuvre CMEF(?) = Main course 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abrams Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 I have little interest in the East ... I just bought CM:BB when I pre-ordered CM:BN ... more to have the entire CMx1 series ... Bring on the Brits , and the SS ! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RooksBailey Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 As Battlefront as said in the past - the Pacific Theater will not happen. As much as I would like it to, it won't. It's been talked about in several forums - going back to the old CM series. That's a shame. I wonder why the Pacific always seems to get short shrift in wargaming. Heck, we haven't even had a good carrier game in almost a generation! :mad: Oh well. Guess I'll have to content myself with playing the Rising Storm Pacific mod for Heroes of Stalingrad on those inevitably sultry August nights. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLaurier Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 Ostfront!. And Poland '39. Also we need sikh infantry, gurkas, and those sad colonial troops that France abused so shamelessly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ssnake51 Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 Dont understand why? Eastern Front is in my Opinion more interesting than the Battles on Normandy! The Battle of Stalingrad, Kharkow, ... The most important parts of the War happened on the eastern Front. I can understand the technical reasons for not taking up the Eastern Front right away. However, I do agree with your point about the importance of the Eastern Front. And I share your interest in that aspect of WW2. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wodin Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 Anyhting with American troops sells better than the EastFront... Shame...EastFront is my bad too...so it's a long wait....I just hope I'm not dead before it's released...oh to be 25 again then I know I have enough time... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zukkov Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 da comrads, everyone knows that soviet russia was the main reason for allied victory against the nazis. only imperialist capitalist propaganda kept us from getting the credit in the west that we deserved. and more to the point, kept us from being first on the list for the return to ww2 for the cm2 engine. if only the great marshal zhukov(no relation) were still alive, he would lead his armies to your game company and force you at gun point if necessary to code the eastern front first! :-p 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogCBrand Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 That's a shame. I wonder why the Pacific always seems to get short shrift in wargaming. Heck, we haven't even had a good carrier game in almost a generation! :mad: Oh well. Guess I'll have to content myself with playing the Rising Storm Pacific mod for Heroes of Stalingrad on those inevitably sultry August nights. I would absolutely love a modern remake of SSG's Carriers At War! I had the original on my Commodore 64 and I can't count the hours I spent playing it! The newer versions improved it, especially with the cool, if rather basic attack animations, but they could really make it great today! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PAEZ Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 I would like to see the Eastern Front next myself.and not in 5 years front now 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tactical Wargamer Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 That's a shame. I wonder why the Pacific always seems to get short shrift in wargaming. Heck, we haven't even had a good carrier game in almost a generation! :mad: Oh well. Guess I'll have to content myself with playing the Rising Storm Pacific mod for Heroes of Stalingrad on those inevitably sultry August nights. The best Pacific wargame hands down is "WAR in the PACIFIC" by Gary Grigsby. It is of course a massive operational level wargame. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunnergoz Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 I'll be happy to see Normandy followed by Bulge, then perhaps Med/UK and then Eastern Front. In that sequence we would have the longest possible development time to build up the programming and artwork needed, not to mention taking all the bugs and refining this system up the wazoo. But I too hope that it does not take 5 years...3 or so would be reasonable in my book. I'd like to play the East Front variant while I still remember what it is I'm doing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 Last I have heard, and this is information within these public forums, is that the next "family" of games will be the Bulge (Oct/Nov '44-'45), which covers up to the end of the war. After that it gets a bit hazy. The East Front should be up next (Bagration Summer '44 - end-of-war '45). Possibly being developed concurrently may be the next modern title, CMSF2 (temperate-climate modern warfare, near future). I believe that Bulge '44-'45 will definitely be next. After that it gets hard to predict exactly what will come out next. I suspect though that you may see Eastern Front within 2 - 2.5 years (as a very rough guess). I don't think it will take 3 years. The CMx2 engine "birthing process" that was CMSF's development and patching probably isn't a good yardstick for future games. However it always seems to take a bit longer than initially guessed to get games/modules out the door. There are also other game features (graphics, game play and AI) that may take a bit longer to code, possibly delaying some of the games/modules. The future "expectation" is that there will be a bit of concurrent development going on with games and modules. With a second programmer on hand the module development may come a bit faster (though it still takes quite a bit of effort to do all those models and animations). Hopefully things will come a bit faster in the future, but that is always hard to consistently gauge. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjkerner Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 I suspect though that you may see Eastern Front within 2 - 2.5 years (as a very rough guess). I don't think it will take 3 years. That'd be good. I'm retiring in 2.3 years. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ssnake51 Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 Anyhting with American troops sells better than the EastFront... You're probably right, though I suspect (or hope) that would apply more to the causal wargame player. Seems that most Americans conception of WW2 is that of American troops landing on the Normandy Beaches and then holding out against the Hun hordes at the Battle of the Bulge. Shame...EastFront is my bad too...so it's a long wait....I just hope I'm not dead before it's released...oh to be 25 again then I know I have enough time... Well I just turned 60 recently and stil feel confident I'm going to be around to enjoy it when it is released. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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