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Title: The Combat Mission:Battle for Normandy demo is out
Post by: Ed Anger on May 12, 2011, 08:01:14 AM
Over at battlefront.

Loaded it up and looked at it. It looks purty. Don't know how it plays yet. I have a slight nazi killing murder boner.
Title: Re: The Combat Mission:Battle for Normandy demo is out
Post by: Berkut on May 12, 2011, 09:53:52 AM
Definitely going to have to give this a try tonight! CM was always one of my favorite games ever.
Title: Re: The Combat Mission:Battle for Normandy demo is out
Post by: Ed Anger on May 12, 2011, 10:05:29 AM
Plus, there is a demo for that Panzer Command :Ostfront game.

http://www.matrixgames.com/news/802/Demo.Launched.for.Panzer.Command:.Ostfront!

More dead krauts.
Title: Re: The Combat Mission:Battle for Normandy demo is out
Post by: Norgy on May 13, 2011, 01:12:58 PM
 :licklips:

Thanks for the heads-up!
Title: Re: The Combat Mission:Battle for Normandy demo is out
Post by: Ed Anger on May 17, 2011, 02:52:28 PM
After playing both demos, I think I like Ostfront better. And that pains me, as a longtime Combat Mission junkie.
Title: Re: The Combat Mission:Battle for Normandy demo is out
Post by: Tamas on May 20, 2011, 08:23:57 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on May 17, 2011, 02:52:28 PM
After playing both demos, I think I like Ostfront better. And that pains me, as a longtime Combat Mission junkie.

I also tried both demos, and I think you are wrong. And I am saying that despite being a thousand times more interested in the eastern front.

Ostfront just looks so unpolished compared to CM, despite the better handling of formation-orders.

I think I'll buy CM.
Title: Re: The Combat Mission:Battle for Normandy demo is out
Post by: Ed Anger on May 20, 2011, 08:33:01 AM
I think you are a poophead.

To be serious...for those with time to play a lot, it is a good time to be  a kraut killing wargamer.
Title: Re: The Combat Mission:Battle for Normandy demo is out
Post by: Tamas on May 20, 2011, 08:44:10 AM
I think these past few months (or year?) has been great for strategy gaming in general.

I have more money to piss away than time, so I end up buying (yes, buying, not pirating, I have become stupid like that) games than never really exploring them, because some other cool stuff comes up.
Title: Re: The Combat Mission:Battle for Normandy demo is out
Post by: Tamas on May 24, 2011, 02:51:33 PM
OMFG fighting in the bocage is HARD
Title: Re: The Combat Mission:Battle for Normandy demo is out
Post by: 11B4V on May 25, 2011, 02:11:19 AM
QuoteI have more money to piss away than time

I hear ya. I just have no time. I will probably buy both, they will sit on the self for a couple of years till I get around to them. That's what happened with CM:BB and CM:AK. Bought them and they sat for close to three years.  :Embarrass:
Title: Re: The Combat Mission:Battle for Normandy demo is out
Post by: 11B4V on May 29, 2011, 02:48:55 PM
Watched both on youtube. Panzer Command gets ordered tonight and CM:BfN when it comes out.
Title: Re: The Combat Mission:Battle for Normandy demo is out
Post by: Razgovory on June 30, 2011, 09:11:35 PM
Took a shot at the demo.  I see that hiding in the brush, and jumping up suddenly to shout "Panzerfaust!" is still an effective anti-tank method.
Title: Re: The Combat Mission:Battle for Normandy demo is out
Post by: Razgovory on July 02, 2011, 12:26:27 PM
I noticed the Manuel and Wikipedia both use the same sentence.  I'm not if one copied the other or both stole from the same source.
Title: Re: The Combat Mission:Battle for Normandy demo is out
Post by: Habbaku on July 02, 2011, 12:39:18 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on July 02, 2011, 12:26:27 PM
I noticed the Manuel and Wikipedia both use the same sentence.

Si?
Title: Re: The Combat Mission:Battle for Normandy demo is out
Post by: sbr on July 02, 2011, 12:51:05 PM
I think Manuel wrote the wiki article.
Title: Re: The Combat Mission:Battle for Normandy demo is out
Post by: Razgovory on July 02, 2011, 12:59:37 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on July 02, 2011, 12:39:18 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on July 02, 2011, 12:26:27 PM
I noticed the Manuel and Wikipedia both use the same sentence.

Si?

Article concerning the M10 TD.  Don't know which one was written first (cause I never did figure out how to see previous revisions on Wikipedia.

"It was numerically the most important U.S. tank destroyer of World War II and combined a reasonably potent anti-tank weapon with a turreted platform "  Appears in both.
Title: Re: The Combat Mission:Battle for Normandy demo is out
Post by: sbr on July 02, 2011, 01:32:43 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on July 02, 2011, 12:59:37 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on July 02, 2011, 12:39:18 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on July 02, 2011, 12:26:27 PM
I noticed the Manuel and Wikipedia both use the same sentence.

Si?

Article concerning the M10 TD.  Don't know which one was written first (cause I never did figure out how to see previous revisions on Wikipedia.

"It was numerically the most important U.S. tank destroyer of World War II and combined a reasonably potent anti-tank weapon with a turreted platform "  Appears in both.

Google that quote, it appears everywhere, from Youtube comments to blogs to internet forums.  I haven't seen anyone credit a source with it, they seem to pass it off as their own thought.
Title: Re: The Combat Mission:Battle for Normandy demo is out
Post by: 11B4V on July 02, 2011, 03:30:51 PM
This might help
M10
Grand Blanc Arsenal 11/1942 - 12/ 1943: 4,993
Ford 10/1942 - 9/ 1943: 1,038
Grand Blanc 9/1943 - 11/1943: 675

Total 6751

M18
M18: 2,5073 Manufacturer: Buick Motor Division (GMC)
Production: July 1943 - October 1944



The Encyclopedia of Weapons of World War II, Chris Bishop, 1998

Quotenumerically the most important U.S. tank destroyer of World War II
I would have to say that is a correct statement.


Title: Re: The Combat Mission:Battle for Normandy demo is out
Post by: Razgovory on July 02, 2011, 07:37:06 PM
That's really strange.