Well done Falco battlefront have banned you

[Mad Russian]

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.

I never said that the BFC guys were the ones that made ASL just that Charles and the gang are old AH employees.

1) CMSF is something that evolved from CM that is unwieldy.

2) From where I sit CMSF is a straight forward evolutionary remake of CM that has developed into something unwieldy. Just ask BFC they'll tell you it's going to be MUCH BETTER than CMx1.

3) The CMx2 modules are supposed to be something substantial too. Take Normandy in 4 or 5 modules. The Beaches, the hedgerows, hill 112, the breakout...etc...etc...that was the plan that I saw laid out by BFC. And you getting to pay for each of them. Remember SL? All the nations in one box? Then along comes the modules...each specific to it's own time/area. Then there were very specific modules...paratroopers, partisans, Stalingrad Tractor Factory...etc....

The proposed modules I've heard of for CMx2 won't require the entire set to play either. Just like in the old days. These guys learned sales and marketing in "Monarch Publishing's Sales and Marketing 101"

After ASL's entire system started to cost a couple hundred dollars I started to see less and less value for the money. If CM goes that route I'll have the same response. I'll vote with my wallet.

Of course that is just my opinion. You are very welcome to your own opinion of how this is all going.

Good Hunting.

MR