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[cplkrotz]

@cplkrotz

The Pacific and Africa are selling poorly.In the Pacific, the weak land material of the Japanese.
In Africa there are too few tactical options because of the terrain. Infantry dies faster there than in other CM modules.
And tanks have fire control computers in the new CM games, at least 99% of the time they hit with the first shot.
Instead, grenades are now deflected by branches and leaves.Bizarre.Since there are no trees in the desert, tanks will go up in flames even faster.

Do you know this information from attempting to produce it? What do you mean by selling poorly?

I suppose they could include a Banzai feature for the Japanese. It is not like the Japanese were pushovers. Guadalcanal was a close thing. In China and Burma they did quite well until the end. It may be that Japan would always be on the defensive though although that was not always the case in China, Burma, Philippines (etc). They could go so far as to model Bataan or the Battle for Manila for both sides.

In North Africa, I suppose there is much desert, but then again Tobruk was not all desert nor was El Alamein (such as the El Taqua Plateau). Gazala had strategic "boxes" so I agree there was little in terms of natural defenses when the Germans attacked. I think there is room for a North Africa Campaign, but then again they could roll North Africa into Fortress Italy. I suspect if you are aware that the old CM 1 had a North African stand alone version and it may be what you have said sold poorly.

Are you saying that the tanks of WW II would have fire control computers? I doubt they would simulate that for a North Africa game. I would guess for Shock Force 2 the computers are there but not for WW II. So, these are two completely different issues. It would be a computer game designer modeling issue for North Africa World War II (i.e. where the tank or anti-tank shell hits the tank). On a side note, I am surprised Battlefront has not done CM Iraq or Afghanistan and that Shock Force 2 is based solely on a hypothetical war.

I would imagine that any game to do with North Africa or the Pacific theater during the Second World War could be based on after action reports that do not always give one side a clear cut win