CM Then and Now

[Mad Russian]

Hello CM friends,

CM is by far the best game I ever played (and I will play it as long I can find fine opponents)
But maybe the game or AI can be upgraded or improved so it will better as we play it now. Recently I noticed a post concerning the not availability of motorcycles (with MG) and for myself I think there are more units or effects that are not in the game (for example illumination rounds during night combat)
Perhaps we can start together with the CM clubs all over the world (and there are many!) a media campaign to ask Battle Front for an update together with better graphics??
Further we can start to make it more popular. For example lets challenge the most famous military academies all over the world and play a tournament. So The Blitz vs. Frunze Academy or the Blitz vs. WestPoint. In combination with a media campaign that a civilian clan, challenges (and maybe beats) professionals can result in an interesting article and in excellent PR for CM.

greets to you all

Owl

There is alot that's not in the game.

Motorcycles, horses, night effects except on LOS, a workable command and control...the list goes on.

Some of those can be worked around. Motorcyles and horses both can be modeled by using jeeps/VW's fairly accurately.

Night can be given different degrees of light using dusk/dawn and fog/cloud cover. Night and clouds/fog will also give different LOS ranges. But still night is only about the LOS range and some friendly unit identification.

The leadership command and control issue cannot be worked around. The CM system is worthless for showing chain of command.

There are some things that could be added. As far as CMx1 is concerned though they won't be.

Is that any reason not to play?

We have years worth of WWII combat that can be modeled. Not quite to SL/ASL standards but very close and it has an AI that is workable for some battles that you don't have to hunt down opponents for.

I realize that those reading and responding to this are the core and not the ones that have left or slowed down. Is there a possibility of the Blitz doing an emailing for members to look at additional tournaments/campaigns new tournament ideas...etc?

Good Hunting.

MR