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#1 |
Never gonna be as ugly as Lurker
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Everywhere...
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Combat Mission: Afrika Korps review by Beta1
http://www.counterglow.com/article.php?id=cmak
Thanks Beta1 (and thanks to CDV for supplying it for review) |
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#2 |
Intermittent du spectacle
Join Date: Oct 2002
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#3 |
Die Müfzwerge
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Drowning in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry
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Nice review!
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#4 |
Intermittent du spectacle
Join Date: Oct 2002
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I noticed the hommage
Beta "although it still won't make coffee or clean your flat, it still will probably make your girlfriend/boyfriend/husband/wife (delete as appropriate) think you've left them." me in the CM review After such an appallingly positive review, I’ll balance it out with some weaker points : the game won’t do coffee, will dampen your conjugal relations and teach you facts and figures you won’t be able to share at your next dinner party (or so I hope for you). |
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#5 |
[works only in german, sorry]
Join Date: Nov 2001
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Thought you would like that.
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#6 |
Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2001
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I got a PDF manual and a little getting started/quick reference booklet in my box... no full printed manual.
Haven't played too much (stupid thesis!), but infantry handles a lot differently than CMBO. |
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#7 |
[works only in german, sorry]
Join Date: Nov 2001
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you wait till your artillery starts landing behind you. No more highly accurate and totally lethal CMBO artillery.
But crusaders look great roaring throught the desert with dust billowing out behind them Until they meet a p3 of course.
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#8 |
Look out behind you!
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Rudolph's stable
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Good work Beta.
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#9 |
[works only in german, sorry]
Join Date: Nov 2001
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Well I realised I hadnt done a review in over a year!
I used to do more - I should get back into it.
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#10 |
Die Müfzwerge
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Drowning in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry
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Yes! You should.
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#11 |
[works only in german, sorry]
Join Date: Nov 2001
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Well I've nearly finished Tron2.0 and I should do something about Engima:Rising Tide.
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#12 |
Look out behind you!
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Rudolph's stable
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One of these days I'm going to do another review. I just don't know what game.
Last edited by Venom; 15-01-2004 at 14:08:40. |
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#13 |
[works only in german, sorry]
Join Date: Nov 2001
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Well Rome Total war is out next year and I'm sure you'll love that.
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#14 |
Look out behind you!
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Rudolph's stable
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Ah yes...I will pour even more hate into that game.
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#15 |
[works only in german, sorry]
Join Date: Nov 2001
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Careful we may end up with a second maroule
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#16 |
Look out behind you!
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Rudolph's stable
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I will bring this forum to it's destruction by acheiving critical mass of Frenchman.
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#17 |
pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo
Join Date: Nov 2001
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I think 1 is a critical mass of frenchmen
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#18 |
Look out behind you!
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Rudolph's stable
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So I've done it already! That's the first time in my life I've ever succeded. At anything.
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#19 |
Intermittent du spectacle
Join Date: Oct 2002
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we frenchmen are very teritorial anyway
now I pied all over this forum, it's mine, not to be shared with any other french scum |
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#20 |
for your usergroup and post count
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Among the clouds
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But are you critical?
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#21 |
Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2001
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Pied?
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#22 |
Hmmm, Fondue !
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
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Foot?
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#23 |
Die Müfzwerge
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Drowning in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry
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So... if we get another frenchman can we maybe drive Maroule out?
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#24 |
for your usergroup and post count
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Among the clouds
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I'm hinking of reviewing WarioWare, Inc.
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#25 |
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Join Date: Nov 2001
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Moon from Battlefront (assuming its not an AE) has registered.
I see you!!! |
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#26 |
Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2001
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Bah, now he's gone.
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#27 |
Look out behind you!
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Rudolph's stable
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SISSY BOY!
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#28 |
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He didn't stay long enough to read your Total War review!
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#29 |
really doesn't pay attention
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: With the Monkey Pirates
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CDV has the review linked from its homepage.
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#30 |
Look out behind you!
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Rudolph's stable
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To my Total War review? How stupid of them.
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#31 |
Registered User
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You are indeed a moron.
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#32 |
Intermittent du spectacle
Join Date: Oct 2002
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hey, I didn't say anything
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#33 |
[works only in german, sorry]
Join Date: Nov 2001
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LOL the bit they've quoted was the bit I quoted from maroules review of CM2!
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#34 |
Look out behind you!
Join Date: Nov 2001
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From my review of CM2? How stupid of them!
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#35 |
[works only in german, sorry]
Join Date: Nov 2001
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dam cookies
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#36 |
Hunter of Game
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Lost in the jungle
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Great review...I was going to DL the demo but it said it would take 8 hours on my "connection".
I'll just wait and buy the fucker.
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#37 |
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Join Date: Nov 2001
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Worth it. I played a game this weekend against the AI. It's gotten smarter. The Italians actually managed to hold off my NZ Valentine's and Stuart's for about 15 turns. If they had real guns on those tanks I would have had problems.
I had another game where I was Italy on the attack against infantry and a platoon of Matildas - Italy lost 12 tanks in very short order. The AI put one Matilda on the crest of a hill, and when I rushed three italian tanks by for rear shots (the only way they could score a kill), they got blown to bits by a second Matilda covering the first from 300 meters behind the hill. I lost that one badly as the Matildas then proceeded to work on my infantry. |
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#38 |
[works only in german, sorry]
Join Date: Nov 2001
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yeah the AI has improved a little. Although I havn't lost to it yet I have been suprised a few times. I think its managed to learn how to attack off-axis so it doesnt just come at you in a rush down one line.
Now it tends to spread itself out a bit and attack down 2 or 3 paths. Playing as the Italians is hard work. Their light tanks can compete with the early cruiser tanks at almost level (they seem to be slightly inferior agasint armor but better against infantry due to the lack of a HE 2pdr shell). The Matildas cruxify them though. The carro armato/Matilda line up is about as one sided as the sherman M4/Tiger. The italians have almost nothing that can even come close to penetrating a matilda apart from those 75mm portees which are liable to abandon at the first sign of the enemy. Theres one scenario where a allied armoured group intercept a very large italian column retreating from a previous battle. In that one my matildas took out about 40 vehicles between them and the cruisers another 20. Lost about 4 cruisers and a gun damaged matilda to 60+ assorted italian vehicles. Matilda - the supertank for people who dont like supertanks. Of course once the P3/P4 turns up the matilda is fucked. Its far to slow to manuever and its gun is far too weak. The armor is still useful but the 50mm P3 and 75mm P4 will kill you eventually.
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