Combat Mission 20th Anniversary trailer

[Nefaro]

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[Arctic Blast]

Trust me, you're going to learn more new stuff with the BS Gus and Mirth show in this thread than you ever will with the ongoing Combat Mission penis contest.

That seems like an odd choice for the next expansion, but I guess they know what will sell. 

[MengJiao]

<== Is CM fanboi.

It is a tribute to just how great CM is that a) it's been around for 20 years and b) it inspires this sort of weird.

  I prefer the hate directed at Rome II.  That was truly baffling.  A high point in pure hate. The hate directed at CM is pretty thin and watery compared to the full-strength hate that Rome II could have sent its way.

   Put me down as a fanoi of most games. 

[Cyrano]

^ In a world where FoGII exists I no longer need R2:TW, but I wonder if anyone's gone so far as to commit its sins, whatever they might be, to video...

[Toonces]

^ Man, them's fightin' words!

Seriously, though, I was all about ready to buy FOG 2 but decided to watch some gameplay videos online first.  All I could think was, "Wow, why in the world would I play this when I've got Rome 2?"

[MengJiao]

^ In a world where FoGII exists I no longer need R2:TW, but I wonder if anyone's gone so far as to commit its sins, whatever they might be, to video...

  There was so much wonderous hate that it was poured out in many a haar-haar-haar-ing video by screamin' Abe and Howling Haar-haar- Howie and so on.  "And look at this...trees!  Those are Trees!  They  look upside down! or are they little clouds?  I can't tell. Haar-haar-haar."

   Really, I've never seen anything quite like it.  And I like FOGII and Rome II both, of course.

[jomni]

^ Man, them's fightin' words!

Seriously, though, I was all about ready to buy FOG 2 but decided to watch some gameplay videos online first.  All I could think was, "Wow, why in the world would I play this when I've got Rome 2?"

Mutually exclusive. FoGII has no map campaign but some like the the battles of FoGII better (covers more armies and eras)

[Cyrano]

Courses entirely for horses, but, as an MP game, the battles in Rome simply aren't capable of giving me the same experience as FoGII.  Their pace, rhythm, and interactions have been poor since Rome I, despite all my attempts to love them.

No one with eyes disputes that Rome's the better looking game, but FoGII is good looking enough for my needs and the wargame it gives is unequaled in the era.  It's the only credible successor to the Great Battles games released by Interactive Magic.

[MengJiao]

Courses entirely for horses, but, as an MP game, the battles in Rome simply aren't capable of giving me the same experience as FoGII.  Their pace, rhythm, and interactions have been poor since Rome I, despite all my attempts to love them.

No one with eyes disputes that Rome's the better looking game, but FoGII is good looking enough for my needs and the wargame it gives is unequaled in the era.  It's the only credible successor to the Great Battles games released by Interactive Magic.

   I didn't think of comparing FOGII to RomeII.  I've been mentally tallying it against the Hoplite Board game.  I think FOGII is a more convincing hoplite game.  The campaign I accidently started in FOGII with Umbrian Hoplites is very neato (and the Samnites just joined up with their swordsmen -- unexpected and very neato).

[undercovergeek]

^ In a world where FoGII exists I no longer need R2:TW, but I wonder if anyone's gone so far as to commit its sins, whatever they might be, to video...

  There was so much wonderous hate that it was poured out in many a haar-haar-haar-ing video by screamin' Abe and Howling Haar-haar- Howie and so on.  "And look at this...trees!  Those are Trees!  They  look upside down! or are they little clouds?  I can't tell. Haar-haar-haar."

   Really, I've never seen anything quite like it.  And I like FOGII and Rome II both, of course.

It still goes on - for all they did for Rome 2 and all the good work with warhammer if you posted a 'new tw game coming' in certain places you'd still get 'hurrrr hurrrr do they still not climb ladders to get to your settlements'

Well done for that you total war Hermann because one ever fixed rome 2 in the last 10 years

[Elvis]

<== Is CM fanboi.

It is a tribute to just how great CM is that a) it's been around for 20 years and b) it inspires this sort of weird.

I'm offended that I wasn't mentioned!

[Cyrano]

It is a tribute to CM that it inspires this kind of Elvis ;)?

[Elvis]

It is a tribute to CM that it inspires this kind of Elvis ;)?

Hee hee.....sorry.... I meant the video...not the post.

[glen55]

Funny. Sad but funny. Has it REALLY been 20 years? Damn! I gotta finish one campaign of CMBN at least before I die.

No, it hasn't. I remember damned well when Combat Mission came out. I had 3 months off between taking the bar and starting my 1st lawyer job, and praise the lord, my mail-order copy of CM1 was sitting on my doorstep my first morning off! That was approximately June 2000.

[Elvis]

Funny. Sad but funny. Has it REALLY been 20 years? Damn! I gotta finish one campaign of CMBN at least before I die.

No, it hasn't. I remember damned well when Combat Mission came out. I had 3 months off between taking the bar and starting my 1st lawyer job, and praise the lord, my mail-order copy of CM1 was sitting on my doorstep my first morning off! That was approximately June 2000.

That was when the first full version was released to the public. A "public beta" demo was released in the fall of '99. It might have been as long as a year before that when Moon and Fionn made an Alpha AAR with screenshots and descriptions.  That still doesn't get things back to '97 but it's getting close. Dorosh likes to track these kinds of things so he probably remembers earlier stuff than I do.