From the mouth of Aristotle

[Stormbinder]

Boron said:
Thnx again Stormbinder .
So Afrika Corps is an expansion only ?
On amazon.de ( the german amazon ) it is sold for 45 € as Combat Mission 3 AK while combat mission 2 is sold for ~10€ .

One other question : In the combat mission demos from battlefield.com there is no blood to see anywhere but only AK demo is in german . So is this the same with the Us Version too or is blood perhaps in the european Version deactivated too ?

Yes, it is not CM3, just an expansion. But it is good one. Sand storms in the desert, dust clouds raised by tanks obscuring visibility, multy barreled tanks, a lot of new nations with all their equipment and units, etc. But it is not CM3, which as I said will be in development for a long time.


Frankly I have no idia about blood in demo vs real Version. Never payed much attention to it in CM. But I don't think there is much blood in this game. Considering the small size of the units on the standart game resolution, what would you want to see? Few red pixels over white background as indicator of mortally wounded soldier dying in the frozen steppes of Mother Russia? It is not a 1st person shooter after all.

But if you are looking for realism I can tell you that each nation soldiers shoots orders and commucate with each other in native language during the battle. And it can actually help you quite a bit if you understand the nation's language, since there is a lot of information about your units actions and attitude that can be gained from listening to what they shoot. Not to mention it adds a lot of atmosphere to the game.

I even picked up few german and french words that I didn't know before from listening to this game.