Rule_303
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In the interests of fairness, since I gave Michael a pretty hard cuff across the muzzle on the other thread, I'd caution Elvis to take the high road here and not to get too smug. Honestly, I find this AAR pretty incoherent and it seems to serve little purpose other than taunting. Say what you have to say, dude, and leave out the cattiness -- the personality drama really isn't interesting to read.
I would very much like to see Michael do a DAR with a comparably erudite opponent who also has a commitment to using RL tactics, without regard to who wins or loses as a consequence. In other words, do your best to recreate a walk-through WWII company engagement using this flawed but capable game engine; complete with some documentation and insight into the actions taken (and constructive criticism of spots where the game makes RL tactics hard or impossible).
Unfortunately, JasonC -- another WWII savant whose forum etiquette is even worse than Michael's -- doesn't participate here to my knowledge. Bletchley, do you feel up to that?
But I think that would also require finding on a map that isn't totally nonsensical non-Normandy, which unfortunately all but a few of the maps that shipped with the game are. Even though I'm a WWII junkie at heart, I've shelved CMBN for this reason and gone back to playing CMSF for the duration. I am a glass half full kinda geek though and, hopefully, as with CMSF, the designers will have learned a thing or two by the CW module and things will improve.
I would very much like to see Michael do a DAR with a comparably erudite opponent who also has a commitment to using RL tactics, without regard to who wins or loses as a consequence. In other words, do your best to recreate a walk-through WWII company engagement using this flawed but capable game engine; complete with some documentation and insight into the actions taken (and constructive criticism of spots where the game makes RL tactics hard or impossible).
Unfortunately, JasonC -- another WWII savant whose forum etiquette is even worse than Michael's -- doesn't participate here to my knowledge. Bletchley, do you feel up to that?
But I think that would also require finding on a map that isn't totally nonsensical non-Normandy, which unfortunately all but a few of the maps that shipped with the game are. Even though I'm a WWII junkie at heart, I've shelved CMBN for this reason and gone back to playing CMSF for the duration. I am a glass half full kinda geek though and, hopefully, as with CMSF, the designers will have learned a thing or two by the CW module and things will improve.