Well done Falco battlefront have banned you

[Sgt Barker]

I never forget that these guys came from Avalon Hill...

I didn't know that.

They did the same thing with Squad Leader that BF is now doing with CM.
Started off encompassing everything. Then we started breaking it down into smaller and smaller pieces...more and more modules for more and more money. Then we do a complete revision in which just the rules cost you about $100. Sound familiar with what BFC is doing with CM?

IMO, the results should be about the same. Just like AH did with SL/ASL BFC may have made a classic and then go out of business. Just like with SL/ASL CM will live on with or without them.

I don't think the guys I remember as the driving forces behind ASL (Don Greenwood, Bob McNamara, Charles Kibler) are part of BFC.

There are similarities between SL/ASL and CM at first glance. But I think they're actually very different because 1) SL really had developed into something unwieldy, 2) ASL was a straight forward remake of that unwieldy system that was actually better than the original and 3) the modules were substantial, or as time went on if they were the smaller ones they were not essential to the game. Over all there was value for money in the the ASL system.

So far at least SF isn't like ASL at all, IMO, once you look deeper.