From the mouth of Aristotle

[Boron]

Battlefront , the publisher of your mentioned combat mission series has a game called Strategic command too and now develops a sucessor .
Did you play this game too Stormbinder or anyone else ?

[Arryn]

Boron said:
Battlefront , the publisher of your mentioned combat mission series has a game called Strategic command too and now develops a sucessor .
Did you play this game too Stormbinder or anyone else ?

I have. It's a simplistic beer&pretzels clone of an AH Third Reich-style game. Play HoI instead.

[Stormbinder]

Boron said:
Battlefront , the publisher of your mentioned combat mission series has a game called Strategic command too and now develops a sucessor .
Did you play this game too Stormbinder or anyone else ?

Nope, I didn't Boron. I've read reviews of it though, and lurked on thier forums a little bit when it came out. From what I've heard and read it seem to be a decent game but it didn't strike me as something that I have to buy.

And btw Battlefront is just a publisher for the Strategic Command, the guy who had developed it (and who is developing SC2) had nothing to do with Comabat Missions seria.

[Boron]

Who is the developer from Combat Mission series ?
And do you know if there is any difference between the german Version and the us Version ( censorship ? ) .
Strangely in germany CDV sells it but there is no info who the developer of Combat mission is on their homepage .


I am intending to buy first combat mission 2 because it is lowprice already .
I don't know if i should buy combat mission 1 but i will buy combat mission 3 sooner or later too .
Probably combat mission 2 fits my taste most though because i like the russian + german tanks most

[Stormbinder]

Boron said:
Who is the developer from Combat Mission series ?
And do you know if there is any difference between the german Version and the us Version ( censorship ? ) .
Strangely in germany CDV sells it but there is no info who the developer of Combat mission is on their homepage .


I am intending to buy first combat mission 2 because it is lowprice already .
I don't know if i should buy combat mission 1 but i will buy combat mission 3 sooner or later too .
Probably combat mission 2 fits my taste most though because i like the russian + german tanks most

Yes, I think there is. Something to do with Nazi symbolic being illigal in Germany. IIRC I've heard something along these lines on the Battlefront's forums, but I don't remember any details.

As to which game to buy - I would suggest buying just buying CM2 and it's expansion - African Korps, and not spending your time and money on CM1, at least for now. Don't get me wrong, CM1 was a great game, but CM2 is very similar in terms of gameplay and have nothing but hundreds of sbtle and not so subtle improvements over CM1. A lot of scenarios from CM1 were adopted for CM2 as well by fans. With AK expansion it also gives you access to wide range of nations in addition to russians and germans in "Barabarossa to Berlin".

Have fun!


P.S. And yes, german and russian tanks were undoubtfully the best in WW2.

[Boron]

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 ?

[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.

[Boron]

Cool the decision which Version to buy is not longer necessary
They offer it now in a special edition with all 3 Combat mission games included and for "only" 30€ while AK alone is still sold for 40€
Hopefully they send it soon . That waiting will kill me