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.

[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

[Arryn]

So, Zen, you decided to be a moderator again after all. My condolences, er, congratulations.

[Zen]

No, I'm not doing much of the moderating bidnezz. But I will be doing much of the "FAQ"ing bidnezz and trying to catch the Community Support back up to the Outrageous Depth of the game.

My time is not going to be spent moderating or watching or curbing potential train wreaks. But rather doing the things that everyone always asks me for/about

[Arryn]

Are you going to lock the info sticky threads (and create separate reply-to threads) as you once had (which was a cleaner system than at present), or are you leaving the stickies as is?

[Zen]

If you'd like I could lock and redirect. Only issue of that is, what happened with the forum upgrade. Not that I think it was a bad upgrade, in the least, it did kill all the links and created a massive void of information.

I prefer the lock and reply thread mode and it's alot easier to maintain and keep up to date. It's actually something I'd like people here to venture an opinion on. Now that the threads are sortable, I would like to attract alot of the prodigal children of Dom2, as well as create the newbie friendly enviroment (again).

[Arryn]

Well, for your first opinion, I like the stickies the way you had them before your hiatus: locked and with a prominent link in the top post pointing to a dedicated reply-to/comment thread.

OTOH, I'm presently maintaining the AAR sticky, which you'd have to take over from me, if you don't mind doing so. Ditto Liga's mod sticky.

[Zen]

The Snazzy thing is if I lock the Thread you *should* still be able to edit the original content of the post. So if I delete superflous Posts and lock the Thread, and you create the respond thread, you will still be able to edit your post in order to keep it up to date.

What lovely elbows you have M'dear!

[Arryn]

Cool. I/we can have cake and eat it too! I can hardly wait.