Opinions on CMBN?

[daisy]

Where to start..

I only bought CMAK (in 2010) after I had played a lot of CMSF - and although I could understand why the first CM games had been so popular I could not get myself to play CMAK - It just looked so damned ugly. Maybe if I had found it 5-6 years ago it might have been different?

CMBfN is a vast improvement on CMSF - there are issues but patches will sort them out. BFC knows that poor support = poor sales.

The game has so far been stable, unlike some problems I had with CMSF.

I regularly had pbem files in CMSF of up to 20mb - which made it a pain to send and receive. I have played large battles in CMBfN and the pbem files have been no larger than 7-9 mb.

Did BFC make a perfect game, of course not. Did they make the best game they could, in my opinion yes. Will the game improve as patches and modules are added - hell yes. I can see that this series will keep me busy for at least the next 10 years, even longer if they decide to add the Italians/French/Romanians/Fins/Hungarians/Indians/South Africans etc.

IMO there is no other game out there that even comes close to what BFC have done with CMBfN and I dont see any other company suddenly making similar games with a similar engine.