CMBB Dying

[Zemke]

I hate to say it, but I agree with MR. I have not played a CM game at all in over a year and I loved the game. It is still the best tactical war-game out there. For me it was CMSF, and the huge disappointment with BFC and their treatment of the WEGO/PBEM crowd of CM gamers out there, and the realization that "this was it".

I also got tired of having to micro-manage my "icons", and to a degree that was turning into labor and not fun. I was checking every fold in the ground, every depression, getting down at eye level checking LOS from possible positions. I realized I had turned into every team leader for every unit on the map, instead of playing the role of Company Commander or Battalion Commander, which is what I wanted to do.

Also some of the tactics used seemed un-realistic, but worked. I remember reading a CM article by POS about massing tanks, with pictures, and remember thinking; I do that too, just not to that degree. Later, I realized tanks do not bunch up into very tight groups so they can mass fires on a single spotted target, which is what this tactic allows you to do. This is possible because the tanks can shoot through each other, in real life they cannot. Also in real life tanks are many times regulated to single file on a "trail" through woods or town, not in CM. I can almost always get several tanks to shoot from a single "key hole" location if using the "POS" tactic.

Yes I am getting ready to climb up on my "time limits" soap box, so skip this is you have heard it all before.....lol.

Each game became a match of not only tactics at the Company Level, but also at the micro-tactical level. What had been realistic once had become un-realistic for me. I still think CM played using short time limits is the most realistic way to play. You CANNOT micro-manage units because you don't have the time, and you cannot check every fold in the ground, because you don't have the time. The game then becomes more of what it was designed to be, a company to battalion level tactical game pitting who has the better Company level tactics, not who has spotted that perfect rise in the ground, to mass five tanks, to slaughter everything coming down the road.

Just my two cents, which I am sure, will ruffle some sensibilities out there.