My First Impressions of Combat Mission Battle for Normandy | End Battle OMG!

[@kenc9236]

Load the mods and learn the hot keys and this game is exciting.

[@TacticsWithJoe]

Oh yeah, but that takes time.

[@kenc9236]

@@TacticsWithJoe Oh heck yeah. Took me awhile to get the hang of it. It's so worth it in the long run.

[@gcgrabodan]

You can press backspace do delete only the last waypoint. press it double and it deletes all :) also you can assign easy to remember short cuts for move (eg m), quick move q, target t etc. makes playing the game relatively smooth. Of course, there is still quite a bit of micro management, as in Mius Front.

[@TacticsWithJoe]

Oh, thank you for the information, especially the backspace hotkey, I will be using that one frequently. The other hotkeys I will learn with time.

[@mikewood4242]

Thanks for the video.I bought this and all DLC's years ago.I will fire this up when I have time.

[@TacticsWithJoe]

This scenario is a lot of fun. I think it is called lost cats.

[@gcgrabodan]

Jozu, at 14 minutes you send a halftrack forward with only a driver. I dont think he is gonna engage anything. Dont think they switch positions to the MG in CM

[@TacticsWithJoe]

He's a distraction, and it can appear threatening. I wasn't overly concerned with hostile in that direction.we destroyed the enemy recon units fairly quickly.

[@waduwill1332]

I really want to get it 🤧

[@TacticsWithJoe]

Battle for Normandy is so good

[@HistoryNerdWWII]

Graphics look good to me.

[@TacticsWithJoe]

What about the level of violence?

[@jinchoung]

yeeesh... this looks as bad as the original combat mission games.

[@nathanwailes]

the graphics have much more polygons than the CMx1 graphics, but I think both CMx1 and CMx2 graphics look great.

[@gcgrabodan]

@@nathanwailes What is CMx2? CM BfN has the older graphics but same game engine, compared to CM SF2, right?

[@TacticsWithJoe]

I'm not bothered by the graphics at all. When I first played the series, they were off-putting, but now they are fine

[@nathanwailes]

@@gcgrabodan CMx2 is the abbreviation used to refer to all of the"second engine" games like SF2, Battle for Normandy, Cold War, Black Sea. CMx1 refers to the "first engine" games: Beyond Overlord, Barbarossa to Berlin, Afrika Korps

[@gcgrabodan]

@@nathanwailes Ah thanks

[@vy7925]

Combat Mission still remains the best of its kind, but man is it outdated and expensive as hell. Wish some new developers would step up to the plate and give us a better tactical wargame on a modern engine.

[@soap_off]

or that Matrix Games or Battlefront just create a new modern engine

[@vy7925]

@@soap_off I don't trust them with that to be honest. They're lazy and underskilled. It's been how many years and yet somehow trees in Combat Mission are still made of adamantium plate that can deflect any shell...

[@soap_off]

@@vy7925 too bad