Combat Mission: Afrika Korps review by Beta1

Nav · 14-01-2004, 14:13:38

http://www.counterglow.com/article.php?id=cmak

Thanks Beta1

(and thanks to CDV for supplying it for review)

maroule · 14-01-2004, 15:17:06

Funkodrom · 14-01-2004, 15:23:13

Nice review!

maroule · 14-01-2004, 15:23:57

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).

Beta1 · 14-01-2004, 17:45:43

Thought you would like that.

MDA · 14-01-2004, 18:45:47

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.

Beta1 · 14-01-2004, 22:40:35

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.

Venom · 15-01-2004, 01:41:25

Good work Beta.

Beta1 · 15-01-2004, 09:44:07

Well I realised I hadnt done a review in over a year!

I used to do more - I should get back into it.

Funkodrom · 15-01-2004, 10:22:18

Yes! You should.

Beta1 · 15-01-2004, 11:31:00

Well I've nearly finished Tron2.0 and I should do something about Engima:Rising Tide.

Venom · 15-01-2004, 13:37:57

One of these days I'm going to do another review. I just don't know what game.

Beta1 · 15-01-2004, 13:48:07

Well Rome Total war is out next year and I'm sure you'll love that.

Venom · 15-01-2004, 14:08:27

Ah yes...I will pour even more hate into that game.

Beta1 · 15-01-2004, 14:26:02

Careful we may end up with a second maroule

Venom · 15-01-2004, 14:27:42

I will bring this forum to it's destruction by acheiving critical mass of Frenchman.

King_Ghidra · 15-01-2004, 14:44:22

I think 1 is a critical mass of frenchmen

Venom · 15-01-2004, 15:03:01

So I've done it already! That's the first time in my life I've ever succeded. At anything.

maroule · 15-01-2004, 15:07:23

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

Scabrous Birdseed · 15-01-2004, 15:31:32

But are you critical?

MDA · 15-01-2004, 16:06:40

Pied?

Aredhran · 15-01-2004, 16:41:35

Foot?

Funkodrom · 15-01-2004, 16:42:32

So... if we get another frenchman can we maybe drive Maroule out?

Scabrous Birdseed · 15-01-2004, 22:29:18

I'm hinking of reviewing WarioWare, Inc.

MDA · 23-01-2004, 21:52:42

Moon from Battlefront (assuming its not an AE) has registered.

I see you!!!

MDA · 23-01-2004, 22:14:46

Bah, now he's gone.

Venom · 24-01-2004, 04:08:04

SISSY BOY!

MDA · 24-01-2004, 18:42:53

He didn't stay long enough to read your Total War review!

Chris · 24-01-2004, 20:15:30

CDV has the review linked from its homepage.

Venom · 24-01-2004, 20:34:22

To my Total War review? How stupid of them.

MDA · 25-01-2004, 00:36:28

You are indeed a moron.

maroule · 25-01-2004, 09:11:09

hey, I didn't say anything

Beta1 · 25-01-2004, 11:53:41

LOL the bit they've quoted was the bit I quoted from maroules review of CM2!

Venom · 25-01-2004, 13:20:56

From my review of CM2? How stupid of them!

Beta1 · 25-01-2004, 17:33:43

dam cookies

BigGameHunter · 27-01-2004, 16:21:55

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.

MDA · 27-01-2004, 18:51:08

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.

Beta1 · 28-01-2004, 13:54:50

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.

14-01-2004, 14:13:38	#1
Nav Never gonna be as ugly as Lurker Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Everywhere...	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)

14-01-2004, 15:23:13	#3
Funkodrom Die Müfzwerge Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Drowning in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry	Nice review! __________________ protein: Bryan Adams rocks Blog - Band Müf Gigs 5th March BerkshireLive Aid

14-01-2004, 17:45:43	#5
Beta1 [works only in german, sorry] Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: here	Thought you would like that. __________________ I've got ham, but I'm not a hamster...

14-01-2004, 22:40:35	#7
Beta1 [works only in german, sorry] Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: here	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. __________________ I've got ham, but I'm not a hamster...

15-01-2004, 01:41:25	#8
Venom Look out behind you! Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Rudolph's stable	Good work Beta. __________________ TO MY BALLS!!!!! or TO LazyView!!!!

14-01-2004, 15:17:06	#2
maroule Intermittent du spectacle Join Date: Oct 2002

14-01-2004, 15:23:57	#4
maroule Intermittent du spectacle Join Date: Oct 2002	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).

14-01-2004, 18:45:47	#6
MDA Registered User Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: updated his email address and can look but not post	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.

15-01-2004, 09:44:07	#9
Beta1 [works only in german, sorry] Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: here	Well I realised I hadnt done a review in over a year! I used to do more - I should get back into it. __________________ I've got ham, but I'm not a hamster...

15-01-2004, 10:22:18	#10
Funkodrom Die Müfzwerge Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Drowning in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry	Yes! You should. __________________ protein: Bryan Adams rocks Blog - Band Müf Gigs 5th March BerkshireLive Aid

15-01-2004, 11:31:00	#11
Beta1 [works only in german, sorry] Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: here	Well I've nearly finished Tron2.0 and I should do something about Engima:Rising Tide. __________________ I've got ham, but I'm not a hamster...

15-01-2004, 13:37:57	#12
Venom Look out behind you! Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Rudolph's stable	One of these days I'm going to do another review. I just don't know what game. __________________ TO MY BALLS!!!!! or TO LazyView!!!! Last edited by Venom; 15-01-2004 at 14:08:40.

15-01-2004, 13:48:07	#13
Beta1 [works only in german, sorry] Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: here	Well Rome Total war is out next year and I'm sure you'll love that. __________________ I've got ham, but I'm not a hamster...

15-01-2004, 14:08:27	#14
Venom Look out behind you! Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Rudolph's stable	Ah yes...I will pour even more hate into that game. __________________ TO MY BALLS!!!!! or TO LazyView!!!!

15-01-2004, 14:26:02	#15
Beta1 [works only in german, sorry] Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: here	Careful we may end up with a second maroule __________________ I've got ham, but I'm not a hamster...

15-01-2004, 14:44:22	#17
King_Ghidra pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: MORAL HARDCORE CHAMPION	I think 1 is a critical mass of frenchmen __________________ i check my hair at the elevator mirror and the highlight of my day when I say hi to a girl who's opposite of the elevator door at my floor. the one i went out with. after that, it's the same old fucking thing all over again. -paiktis

15-01-2004, 14:27:42	#16
Venom Look out behind you! Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Rudolph's stable	I will bring this forum to it's destruction by acheiving critical mass of Frenchman. __________________ TO MY BALLS!!!!! or TO LazyView!!!!

15-01-2004, 15:03:01	#18
Venom Look out behind you! Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Rudolph's stable	So I've done it already! That's the first time in my life I've ever succeded. At anything. __________________ TO MY BALLS!!!!! or TO LazyView!!!!

15-01-2004, 15:07:23	#19
maroule Intermittent du spectacle Join Date: Oct 2002	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

15-01-2004, 15:31:32	#20
Scabrous Birdseed for your usergroup and post count Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Among the clouds	But are you critical? __________________ Birdseed's Tunedown

15-01-2004, 16:06:40	#21
MDA Registered User Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: updated his email address and can look but not post	Pied?

15-01-2004, 16:41:35	#22
Aredhran Hmmm, Fondue ! Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Geneva, Switzerland	Foot? __________________ You like me because I'm a scoundrel. There aren't enough scoundrels in your life.

15-01-2004, 16:42:32	#23
Funkodrom Die Müfzwerge Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Drowning in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry	So... if we get another frenchman can we maybe drive Maroule out? __________________ protein: Bryan Adams rocks Blog - Band Müf Gigs 5th March BerkshireLive Aid

15-01-2004, 22:29:18	#24
Scabrous Birdseed for your usergroup and post count Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Among the clouds	I'm hinking of reviewing WarioWare, Inc. __________________ Birdseed's Tunedown

23-01-2004, 21:52:42	#25
MDA Registered User Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: updated his email address and can look but not post	Moon from Battlefront (assuming its not an AE) has registered. I see you!!!

23-01-2004, 22:14:46	#26
MDA Registered User Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: updated his email address and can look but not post	Bah, now he's gone.

24-01-2004, 04:08:04	#27
Venom Look out behind you! Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Rudolph's stable	SISSY BOY! __________________ TO MY BALLS!!!!! or TO LazyView!!!!

24-01-2004, 18:42:53	#28
MDA Registered User Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: updated his email address and can look but not post	He didn't stay long enough to read your Total War review!

24-01-2004, 20:15:30	#29
Chris really doesn't pay attention Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: With the Monkey Pirates	CDV has the review linked from its homepage. __________________ Her name is aphrodite and she rides a crimson shell

24-01-2004, 20:34:22	#30
Venom Look out behind you! Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Rudolph's stable	To my Total War review? How stupid of them. __________________ TO MY BALLS!!!!! or TO LazyView!!!!

25-01-2004, 00:36:28	#31
MDA Registered User Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: updated his email address and can look but not post	You are indeed a moron.

25-01-2004, 09:11:09	#32
maroule Intermittent du spectacle Join Date: Oct 2002	hey, I didn't say anything

25-01-2004, 11:53:41	#33
Beta1 [works only in german, sorry] Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: here	LOL the bit they've quoted was the bit I quoted from maroules review of CM2! __________________ I've got ham, but I'm not a hamster...

25-01-2004, 13:20:56	#34
Venom Look out behind you! Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Rudolph's stable	From my review of CM2? How stupid of them! __________________ TO MY BALLS!!!!! or TO LazyView!!!!

25-01-2004, 17:33:43	#35
Beta1 [works only in german, sorry] Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: here	dam cookies __________________ I've got ham, but I'm not a hamster...

27-01-2004, 16:21:55	#36
BigGameHunter Hunter of Game Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Lost in the jungle	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. __________________ BOOM!