Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

Yes with en major but: Playing the game throuhg PBEM is awesome for people who have limited online time. However: - The graphics are heavily dated. - The controls are ♥♥♥♥. - It's clunky as ♥♥♥♥. - The price is more than rediculous. It should be 10 euro max. - The DLC's are rediculous. - The amount of maps that come with the base game are quite limited. But since this is the only proper RTS with an automated PBEM system I really love it. If you dont want to play through PBEM, steer clear of this title. It's an idiotic money grab.

I have owned the trial version of CM:BN for some time but over the weekend took the plunge and bought the full version, along with all the CM:BN DLC. Working my way through the initial missions using the WEGO turn system and satisfied with it.

“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.” ― George S. Patton Jr. What i say to my units after they ran into a german ambush without any HQ communication. Games like arma but RTS

It's excellent. Ok so it runs badly, the UI is garbage, graphics are mil-sim and not pretty. However if you have a particular kind of hunger for realism and the application of real-world tactics then this game will blow others out of the water. An example I regularly cite is my (human) opponent firing 105mm shells into my midfield area and a shell's splinter clipped a squad leader 100m and that guy was the furthest guy away in that field where I had like 20 men. Almost always shells will damage as you'd expect but the engine is strong enough mechanically that odd ricochets can have real effects. This includes tank shells bouncing off armour plates and clipping poor bloody infantry. Much like other play by email games, if you can get into a multiplayer game and carry it through to the end, you'll remember it forever. One time I used a 76mm sherman and knocked out the gun of a tiger and I didn't know the gun was out so my opponent effectively had this asset I feared in this nice fog of war effect. How is this different to other Combat Mission games? This one is set in hedgerow country so it's very much hopping to each one in turn and clearing them systematically with the odd bit of urban usually rural-level urban combat. Close unit tactics with infantry including blowing up holes in hedgerows dominate. So the combat is very tight and close ranged OR based on creating a base of fire from a hedgerow line of good cover before charging some guys across a nightmare empty plain.

i would not say its worth £50, only get it if you like simulation games and its overpriced for what you get. The UI and integration etc is pretty dated and i think its technically a old game, that's just had its engine updated over the years. (UI hasn't been, nor has some other features) i did not buy it off steam at this price, i got it in a bundle. Also you need to go to third party sites to get multiplayer games, the mod support is kind of hit and miss, battlefront got brought out by matrix recently so that still in there. (this applies to all CM games)

I have been sooooo dissapointed with 99% of all reissues I hve bought. This one is great. The game plays just like it did 20 years gao and its a great game. One of my favorite all time wargames.