Comments on: Decade Feature – 2000: Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord

By: Theme Parties

Theme Parties — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:01:33 +0000

[...] In his essay on Decade Retrospective on Combat Mission, Bruce Geryk wrote one of those lines that still make me envy his writing skill: If you give players a hook, they will hang themselves on it every time. [...]

By: Angry Gamer

Angry Gamer — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:27:29 +0000

Panzer Commander does the best to rekindle my old thoughts about CM at the moment

By: Primemover

Primemover — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:41:17 +0000

Great writing Bruce! It is one of main reasons why I miss CGW. I never played CM, and now I know what I missed after reading that essay. Those backyard mock battles with our plastic soldiers in a sand box is a common history I assume we all share. Thank god we have electronic facsimiles and fancy boardgames that allow us to perpetuate those childhood times.

By: Mr. CM

Mr. CM — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:06:15 +0000

Nice review of the good old days and what made CM so special for us wargamers!
I still have CMBO, CMBB, and CMAK on my harddrive and I still fire them up at least once/week.
CMSF (cmx2) is a heap of junk. I certainly hope BFC make CMx2 WWII live up to the original CM!

By: Andy Farley

Andy Farley — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:58:33 +0000

There’s a $5 patch from BFC so you can run the game under Vista now.

Good times with CM1. Loving CM2 as well.

By: Michael Dorosh

Michael Dorosh — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:07:01 +0000

Great article. Many people who came up through the CM1 series have been disappointed with the “new” CMX2 engine, as you apparently are – and feel they indeed missed the point. But sequels are always tough. Remember how great M1 Tank Platoon was, or Red Baron, and how – blah – M1TP2 or RB2 seemed in comparison, because they improved the graphics while ditching the gameplay that made the original great? I don’t know why the developers never learn from that. It was doubly disappointing for me; I had had scenarios “published” on the special edition discs of CM:BB and CM:AK and finally “made it” onto the design team for CM:SF, and felt I had finally hit the big league, only to find the magic was gone. Looking forward to your next piece.