Llyranor

I respect people who bought Enter The Matrix too.

Alright, I'm game for the full operations. Chronological order it is. I'll, erm, give you the privilege of arranging it in the proper order. If you want to do battles instead, that's fine too. It won't really make a difference for me since I won't be touching CMBB for a very long time otherwise (CMBO is massive, after all).

From the manual: "Both sides can have fighter-bombers for close air support (CAS) in a battle. However, the player does NOT control the actions of his planes. They roam above the battlefield, spot and engage targets at their own discretion. Combat Mission does NOT simulate carpet-bombings or large scale raids. These are outside of the game

Actually, we could set aside all 20 operations for PBEM if you want. Multi-battle scenarios should be fun. Tell me if these are representative of the Ostfront.

Join the Dark Side, Eldar!

You get to be the robot boss from Wolfenstein.

Actually, why would we not? After you're done with the book, you should try experimenting with storytelling within an interative medium and make a CRPG!

Alright, we could start with CMBB, then.

What kind of story is it?

Which games did you get?

Whichever you want/have, jerkface.

Easy, 3500 spells.

The thing with the clean state is that we'll *never* be able to go through every battle. Taking an average of ~40 rounds/battle, that's 9-10 battles a *year*. This works great as a distractory 15-30 min per day. What we could do is set aside some battles (or maybe operations?) exclusively for PBEM beforehand. You can't buy units for the scenarios, but apparently you can for the quick battle maker. As for which game, I don't have a preference for any front, I was just going in chronological order of game releases. We can set aside a few (10? 20?) battles, or maybe operations from each game.

I'm expressing good will towards you too, Eldar!!!!!

Ignore the naysayers. You should get Battlefront 2 because it's a third-person game. You can't go wrong with that!

Yeah, I took advantage of the DD discount and bought all three of them 2-3 days ago (everything digital gets 30% off aside from new releases). CMBO is fine on its own, but if you're going to get the two sequels, go for the bundle one - you get about 10 bucks off. Basically, it's a company-level wargame that uses the WEGO ("pseudo") turn-based method. Basically, give orders to all your units (while your opponent/AI does the same), then the 60-sec round unfolds during 60 secs where you can look around, analyze stuff, but where you can't do anything. Your units act according to your orders (they will also REACT to new threats, and basically try to keep alive, but they won't usually go act on their own most of the time). Then round 2, etc. The format is quite excellent for Play-By-Email. You go, send email to dude, s/he goes, watch round unfold, then next round, etc. There seems to be a LOT of value here. Just checking quickly through Beyond Overlord, it has over *200* battles. Which you can, of course, play through from both sides. There's also about a dozen operations ('mini-campaigns' where you go through multiple battles). Barbarossa to Berlin has around 150 battles and 20 operations. Afrika Korps has around 70 battles and about 7-8 operations, but the battles seem to be on average longer (more rounds). Mind you, all I've done so far was read through the manual and finish the tutorial for CMBO. Though, I played through all the demo battles before buying the games. But, technically, I haven't gone through any 'real' scenario yet. So, heck, if you need a PBEM partner (wink wink) for a daily round, I'm game . We could either go through a 'learn the map from both sides before playing' mode or a 'never played this map before' clean state (though the latter might be impossible if either of us want to play singleplayer - which I do - given the turtle rate of PBEM). To its advantage, though, given the relaxed pace of PBEM, it'd be very convenient. Also, it'd give incentive to carefully analyze every single detail meticulously every round. And then there's the scenario/map editor and quick random battle maker.

Hint hint.

The funny thing is that *I* already won the console war.

I don't know what Eldar's talking about, but I'm all for going after him with a pitchfork.

Depends what he means by 'assets', and by 'all'.

Pics!

When I think about DnD made in real-time, I shudder too! Then I cry myself to sleep.

Don't put words in his mouth.

No, ninjas eat YOU for breakfast, while sleeping.

Maybe if you're not a ninja. Loser.