Combat Mission Final Blitzkrieg

[sandman2575]

Anyone know if Aris or Umlaut have plans to reskin the FB units?  I find it hard to go back to vanilla's more 'flat' and character-less skins after using Aris's and co. in the other CM games...

[Pete Dero]

Anyone know if Aris or Umlaut have plans to reskin the FB units?  I find it hard to go back to vanilla's more 'flat' and character-less skins after using Aris's and co. in the other CM games...

Found this on the Battlefront forums :

All the buildings are new art, all the terrain is new art, all the vehicles are heavily reworked at the very least. Some are unrecognizable, like the early Panther G now without zimmerit and sporting a late summer 'ambush' camou scheme. Tiger I mid and Tiger II Henschel will be incompatible with CMBN mods because of model changes.

So modding could take a little more time ...

[MengJiao]

This might be the best group of scenarios I have ever seen in a CM game.  A great variety and most of them have great atmosphere.  A lot of detailed work went into these.  It's worth the $55 US just for those.

   The maps alone are worth the cash.  There are some fantastic maps in this game.  I've been doing my usual....playing in the editor in "real" time.  This makes for interesting accidents.  For example, I failed to properly deploy 3 shermans and they ended up pretty far behind German lines in an expanded Ferme Dendermod Mod.  Getting them back through the forest was an adventure.  One bogged, but I sent some jeeps to rescue the crew.

[RyanE]

What do you mean playing in the editor in "real time"?

[Father Ted]

Crafty Battlefront have found a way to remotely rewrite the code for CMBN on my PC in such a way that after many past failures I suddenly achieved a total victory against the AI, and now I feel like buying another game...

Actually this has been on my wishlist for a while.  As a Brit, the Bulge was of little interest to me until relatively recently, when I watched Band of Brothers.  Then there was Darkest Hour, which had battles in Foy, Stavelot, La Gleize and Stoumont amongst others.  Later, it was Command Ops.  So, out of curiosity, I wanted to put all this into a bigger picture, and I read a couple of books.  Now I really want to see what the CM take on these battles is.

[MengJiao]

What do you mean playing in the editor in "real time"?

   I just revise things in the editor and then play in real time.

[sandman2575]

Anyone know if Aris or Umlaut have plans to reskin the FB units?  I find it hard to go back to vanilla's more 'flat' and character-less skins after using Aris's and co. in the other CM games...

Found this on the Battlefront forums :

All the buildings are new art, all the terrain is new art, all the vehicles are heavily reworked at the very least. Some are unrecognizable, like the early Panther G now without zimmerit and sporting a late summer 'ambush' camou scheme. Tiger I mid and Tiger II Henschel will be incompatible with CMBN mods because of model changes.

So modding could take a little more time ...

Thanks for the info.

Hearing that the scenarios are top notch, but has anyone tried the campaigns yet? I tend to be more of campaign player than stand-alone scenarios.

[Grim.Reaper]

Finally will have time to purchase and play over the weekend...can anyone tell me how many of the scenarios are classified as tiny or small?  Much prefer these levels so curios how many exist.

[Michael Dorosh]

Finally will have time to purchase and play over the weekend...can anyone tell me how many of the scenarios are classified as tiny or small?  Much prefer these levels so curios how many exist.

Two of them are on maps about 250m x 250m - both are fictional.

[IronX]

Eight tiny/small scenarios.

[Grim.Reaper]

Finally will have time to purchase and play over the weekend...can anyone tell me how many of the scenarios are classified as tiny or small?  Much prefer these levels so curios how many exist.

Two of them are on maps about 250m x 250m - both are fictional.

Thank you...was hoping for more smaller ones but I guess most people like the larger battles.

[JudgeDredd]

I prefer the little ones as well.

Also, regarding prices, I imagined this was going to be DLC for Normandy so I thought the price was going to be - well, considerably less than the price at the moment. I just bought the Vehicle Pack and Battle Pack for about £20. I was hoping this was more "battle" DLC and wouldn't be the price of "a full game".

[Grim.Reaper]

Review posted....screenshots not that well done, believe the reviewer mentioned something was wrong with his screen capture software, but some of those pictures tough to look at.

http://www.wargamer.com/reviews/review-combat-mission-final-blitzkrieg/

[sandman2575]

It's funny -- I bought FB in a kinda half-hearted way, just wasn't that excited about it and thought I'd put off buying maybe indefinitely.

But I'm really enjoying it so far!

Played the "A Muddy Affair" scenario. The up-gunned Sherman 76s are a hoot. Didn't manage better than a Draw, but it was fun. Starting playing the Kampfgruppe Peiper campaign and working on the second battle. It's a lot of fun. Especially since I recently finished Beevor's "Ardennes 1944", it's neat to see some of the stuff I read about 'playing out' in the game.

Beevor btw gives a great sense of how completely doomed "Wacht am Rhein" was from the get-go -- and that pretty much all of Hitler's generals knew it, but pressed on anyway...

[Hofstadter]

It's funny -- I bought FB in a kinda half-hearted way, just wasn't that excited about it and thought I'd put off buying maybe indefinitely.

But I'm really enjoying it so far!

Played the "A Muddy Affair" scenario. The up-gunned Sherman 76s are a hoot. Didn't manage better than a Draw, but it was fun. Starting playing the Kampfgruppe Peiper campaign and working on the second battle. It's a lot of fun. Especially since I recently finished Beevor's "Ardennes 1944", it's neat to see some of the stuff I read about 'playing out' in the game.

Beevor btw gives a great sense of how completely doomed "Wacht am Rhein" was from the get-go -- and that pretty much all of Hitler's generals knew it, but pressed on anyway...

I was halfway through that book...and then I forgot about it and left it at my husbands place....goddamnit....

Kampfgruppe Peiper is my jam yo. His story in the whole offensive is riveting, when I played the demo and realized I was fighting against him I spazzed out.

Im not getting the game though, 75 dollars australian and I just bought l33t Souls 3