CM Then and Now

[Mad Baron]

I love CM probably more than any other game (series) for reasons mentioned by others. I never really understood what We-Go meant, but it is turn-based like the old Avalon Hill games, and you have the AI or PBEM for opponents, when it was always tough to get a live opponent with the same free time you had to play with the old board games. I did enjoy Close Combat a lot despite being real-time, until I discovered CM in a computer games magazine. I don't really need ultra-spiffy graphics...just a realistic game, and CM does that for me (I have never even added any mods, etc.).

I will confess I recently played a lot of Panzer Tactics on the Nintendo DS when we had a 4-day power outage last week due to the midwest US ice storms, and had some good fun with it. A neat little WW2 game for a hand-held system. But again, it's a WW2 game, and WW2 is what works for me!! :P

I miss a few older games I can't play anymore these days, but I'll play CM for a LONG time to come!!

One idea for a short/quick tournament (no idea if this could work or not, but it just came to me, and seems different anyway): How about a large-point QB/ME game (2000-3000) on the smallest map the system would generate, and have it just 10-15 turns. Sort of an opening barrage ''show-down'' fight that would largely be decided by the opening setup (since there wouldn't be much time for maneuver). This in turn might dictate it would be a mainly tank-aircraft fight. Has this been done already?? (I think I'll set up something versus the AI to see what happens, with cmbb).

I will also add I am in the 50-60 age group of gamers (turned 57 during the ice storm power outage--haha--prepared my birthday dinner under Winter War conditions).