Battlefront.com has just posted this new module due "soon". Includes Commonwealth forces, German paratroopers, AA guns, and.... SNOW. $35. Let the opinionating commence.
i am testing but sworn to secrecy
I don't suppose you're open to bribery are you?
Quote from: Sir Slash on February 19, 2013, 10:09:07 AM
Battlefront.com has just posted this new module due "soon". Includes Commonwealth forces, German paratroopers, AA guns, and.... SNOW. $35. Let the opinionating commence.
Freaqking awesome - there are some nice new toys in there ...
Elefants Brummbars and Nashhorns ... Fallshirmjaeger - Antiaircraft weapons ... all the brits ... snow ... even static panther turrets ... all for 35 bucks... not even the price of a bad meal ...
I am toast there goes another 35 bux. ::)
Quote from: Barthheart on February 19, 2013, 11:15:08 AM
Quote from: undercovergeek on February 19, 2013, 10:22:16 AM
i am testing but sworn to secrecy
Slutty teeze! >:(
this from you?! make with the HoS info and ill meet you behind the bike sheds!
WANT ! :)
How exactly do you go about taking-out a Pather tank bunker I wonder?
Quote from: Sir Slash on February 19, 2013, 12:12:52 PM
How exactly do you go about taking-out a Pather tank bunker I wonder?
There were some guys from 1st Canadian Infantry Division who could have told you the answer.
There was a painting somewhere I recall. Since turrets are expensive I always wondered why
they put them in the ground instead of on tracks. Doesn't seem cost effective.
CMFI Gustav Line?
1. I see US Tank Destroyer Battalions listed but, still no US tank destroyers?
2. Does this mark the end of CMFI (June 4, 1944), no more expansions?
Quote from: Longdan on February 19, 2013, 12:23:07 PM
Quote from: Sir Slash on February 19, 2013, 12:12:52 PM
How exactly do you go about taking-out a Pather tank bunker I wonder?
There were some guys from 1st Canadian Infantry Division who could have told you the answer.
There was a painting somewhere I recall. Since turrets are expensive I always wondered why
they put them in the ground instead of on tracks. Doesn't seem cost effective.
Didn't have many tracks; smaller silhouettes; better than a pillbox because they had 360 traverse. Remember Panthers tended to be garage queens. Also think of the fuel saved.
Quote from: SgtRock on February 19, 2013, 01:10:04 PM
CMFI Gustav Line?
1. I see US Tank Destroyer Battalions listed but, still no US tank destroyers?
2. Does this mark the end of CMFI (June 4, 1944), no more expansions?
No - I think there will be a 44 - 45 module.
As far as tank destroyers go - I think both the M18 and M36 are just outside the time frame - though they have added the M5 AT gun which presumably allows them to make up towed TD battalions. M10 is there already of course. Though a prototype of the m18 saw action at Anzio both did not enter the TOE until after june IIRC.
Quote from: Sir Slash on February 19, 2013, 12:12:52 PM
How exactly do you go about taking-out a Pather tank bunker I wonder?
Gundams.
Just wondering. I know the Germans liked to make assault guns because turrets were expensive and carriages and guns less so.
Quote from: Longdan on February 19, 2013, 05:20:08 PM
Just wondering. I know the Germans liked to make assault guns because turrets were expensive and carriages and guns less so.
Everything you need to know about panther turrets
http://www.histomil.com/viewtopic.php?p=48819
Thanks.
Quote from: SgtRock on February 19, 2013, 01:10:04 PM
CMFI Gustav Line?
1. I see US Tank Destroyer Battalions listed but, still no US tank destroyers?
from someone who knows better than i:-
Tank Destroyer Battalion (towed) --- Oct 43 - End. There was exactly one towed AT battalion in Italy, it was completely armed with the M5 76.2mm antitank gun. It was not successful and in June was refitted into a M18 GMC battalion.
I didn't realize those pill-box Panther turrets were so widely used. Interesting that they were supplied with electricity for lights, but only had hand crank traverse.
Quote from: Zulu1966 on February 19, 2013, 05:33:04 PM
Everything you need to know about panther turrets
http://www.histomil.com/viewtopic.php?p=48819
Outstanding ! THX for the link :) ...how über-cool those turrets were in detail 8)
I can't help but wonder what they have in store for the 4th module for CMBN.
If dynamic weather and snow is now in for CMFI then I would presume these features will make their way to CMBN too; let loose those Winter '44 - '45 scenarios!
theres OMG, and then the 'weird bits that dont really fit anywhere'
word is out that once Gustav is out of the door its full steam for bagration and shock force 2 which are already underway but not at the front of the queue
Quote from: undercovergeek on February 20, 2013, 03:09:14 PM
theres OMG, and then the 'weird bits that dont really fit anywhere'
word is out that once Gustav is out of the door its full steam for bagration and shock force 2 which are already underway but not at the front of the queue
Confirmed
I wish BattleFront would release the expansion plans for CMBN & CMFI. I'm not asking when, just what! I know Market Garden is next for CMBN, then what? Will they take CMFI beyond the surrender of Italy into 1945?
You mean after the Fall of Rome?
Or maybe up to that oft pondered moment when the first Pershing and IS-2 meet on opposite sides of the Oder River and start bouncing shot off of each other's glacis plates.
the fall of Rome was way earlier, i know that, i am the history buff.
Rome fell on June 4th 1944. The Italians surrendered in the previous year. The Germans did not go home until somewhat later.
Rome fell 480
Rome fell well
before Rommel
by Stahlhelm Haiku mofo Keunert
to the best of my knowledge and dont hold me to it:-
gustav (thats it for CMFI modules but there will be packs, 1 or 2 - free french forces blah blah blah all the way to end of war)
OMG
Bulge
Bagration/Shock Force 2
Didn't they talk about an Eastern Front game in the works as well?
Did Rome fall or was it pushed? Snow'll be great but any real attempt at Italian campaigning is gonna have to include lots of mud at certain times of the year and by default rain. Which reminds me. I miss the rain and thunder sounds from the original CMBO game way back when. I hope at some time in the future to be able to set something on fire somewhere in Europe too. Which reminds me. I miss the Churchill Crocodile from CMBO too.
Quare: I am running CMSF (still one of my fav games!) on my laptop, but am now thinking I want to get into some WWII stuff. Are there any real "game feature" differences between BN and FI...or are there just theatre / force selection / equipment differences? I was thinking about getting BN, but this add-on is having me lean towards FI.
What say you?
Jack Nastyface
Quote from: Jack Nastyface on February 21, 2013, 01:45:22 PM
Quare: I am running CMSF (still one of my fav games!) on my laptop, but am now thinking I want to get into some WWII stuff. Are there any real "game feature" differences between BN and FI...or are there just theatre / force selection / equipment differences? I was thinking about getting BN, but this add-on is having me lean towards FI.
What say you?
Jack Nastyface
The games are the same - except the latest Normandy patch makes some large improvements to how Machine Guns are handled that have gone down very well. CMFI will get the same - but likely not until Gustav arrives. (obviously there is the Brit expansion for Normandy as well)
Yeah I was gonna say you get the Homies in Normandy but not yet in Italy.
When I play that one (CMBN) the good guys can be relatives and some people I actually met
in my neighbourhood as a kid. That is thinkmaking.
Is there a bundle? I still haven't jumped in to cmfi and cmbn.
No bundle and rarely a sale from these guys. CMFI-$55, CMBN-$35.