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chemkid

#15
February 10, 2016, 12:35:39 PM
Quote from: Tinkershuffle on February 10, 2016, 10:05:26 AM
Don't be too afraid of it. My ww2 tactical background before CM was limited to Company of Heroes and Men of War so I was pretty far off but I think I did decently after watching this great tutorial:



If you watch that carefully you don't maybe even need to RTFM. ;) One lesson I soon learnt playing CM was that never lead with you tanks. One well positioned and hidden Pak can wreck your whole Sherman platoon in a turn or two.

When you start playing CM a likely side effect is that whenever you're cruising or walking around the countryside you're pondering where you would setup your MG or AT team or what would be the best avenue of approach...
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that's the 'only' vid you would need to get started! ...everything else is just peanuts also important! make sure to play WEGO NOT RTS!!

cheers!
chem!

panzerde

#16
February 10, 2016, 09:19:22 PM
+1 to what Elvis said about giving play against a human a try. You'll learn a lot that way and the pace is great for studying and planning. Also much agreement about taking your time, move your troops unobserved as much as possible, and learn to sue combined arms.

These really are just wonderful games. They really aren't that complicated to learn the basics of, and there's no shame in losing - a  lot - particularly at first. If you don't think of it as an RTS and rage quit when you make a mistake and take casualties, you'll start coming up to speed in no time.
"This damned Bonaparte is going to get us all killed" - Jean Lannes, 1809

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jomni

#17
February 10, 2016, 09:28:11 PM
I prefer RT because of stupid tactical AI that needs babysitting. It somehow improved along the way. WEGO is now ok.

Boggit

#18
February 11, 2016, 02:09:21 PM
I can honestly recommend Jeffrey Paulding's brilliant CM2 101 series of YouTube videos as some of the best introductions to the game, and the tactics needed to win.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ6dDlqye9Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHm6FDh1738
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI4MNt-BtBM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQgFnIW3VtE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFc6ge53jZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvoKNVDNtVI

My one regret is that I can't find any more videos done by Jeffrey Paulding on CMx2! :(

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Zonso

#19
February 11, 2016, 03:31:45 PM
A premier site for combat mission battlefield techniques from the expert Bil Hardenberger - http://battledrill.blogspot.ca/2013/08/tactical-skills-001-key-tactical.html

Perhaps a little advanced and overwhelming at first blush but rewarding nonetheless. Some great AARs there also if you don't frequent the BFC forums.

Toonces

#20
February 11, 2016, 05:03:49 PM
I think the fact that there are so many resources out there to learn how to play this game is indicative of the high regard with which it is held. 

Like I said before, I think the time you invest to learn this game will pay off with many hours/years of enjoyable gameplay.

I can't give you any tips, though.  I completely suck at it.   ::)
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Boggit

#21
February 11, 2016, 05:14:14 PM
Quote from: Zonso on February 11, 2016, 03:31:45 PM
A premier site for combat mission battlefield techniques from the expert Bil Hardenberger - http://battledrill.blogspot.ca/2013/08/tactical-skills-001-key-tactical.html

Perhaps a little advanced and overwhelming at first blush but rewarding nonetheless. Some great AARs there also if you don't frequent the BFC forums.
I've seen it too. Zonso is good to mention this one. Quality stuff.
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. Aldous Huxley

Foul Temptress! (Mirth replying to Gus) ;)

On a good day, our legislature has the prestige of a drunk urinating on a wall at 4am and getting most of it on his shoe. On a good day  ::) Steelgrave

It's kind of silly to investigate whether or not a Clinton is lying. That's sort of like investigating why the sky is blue. Banzai_Cat

Redirected

#22
February 12, 2016, 02:20:27 PM
You will notice I didn't respond to your post and have no interest in what you have to say. Especially on this subject.
....You have made 73 posts since you joined and 72 of them have been about combat mission. -ZULU1966

panzerde

#24
February 12, 2016, 08:40:27 PM
"This damned Bonaparte is going to get us all killed" - Jean Lannes, 1809

Castellan -  La Fraternite des Boutons Carres
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