I couldn’t decide which ‘B word’ screenshot to lead with today so have provided three. The first is a nod to the Comment Commanders’ tardy taxi. The ponderous Churchill VIII finally delivered its passengers – Sergeant Forester’s squad – this…
During the course of Turn 21, the German arsonist in the woods north of the castle, is fired on by five different Allied units. Miraculously, not one of the incoming rounds hits flesh or Flammöl 19.
During this sixty-second snatch of WeGo WW2 action, several enemy infantry units suddenly remember urgent extramartial commitments and hurry towards the map’s eastern fringe.
Watching the Comment Commanders’ GIs doing their thing during turn 19, my mind turned to the famous Brecourt Manor assault. The inspired tactical choices… the calm, efficient execution… Dick Winters’ Easy Company couldn’t have done a better job.
Two of the three anti-tank rockets that whoosh from shouldered lengths of drainpipe this turn are of German manufacture. The other was made in the United States.
Thanks to the considered/conscientious comment commanding of SunderLad and Colonel_K, the Allied push towards Nottingheim shows no sign of stalling. In this sixty-second chunk of WEGO action the understaffed Allies strengthen their hold on the rail bridge and make life…
Two of the five buildings on the northern half of the map collapse into heaps of blackened brick and burning timber during turn 16. That sort of thing tends to happen when you use 25-pounders and Sherman tanks for home…
I reckon there are few more evocative sound effects in computer wargaming than the wave files in CMBO’s audio folder numbered 900 to 904. Used to communicate close quarters violence largely ignored by Big Time Software’s no-frills graphics engine, these…
One of the reasons I prefer first-generation Combat Mission to second-generation Combat Mission is the AI. Although the German troops in Bounce the Bogen don’t have a carefully prepared battle plan to guide them, at present they’re doing a fine…
How about I relay this turn’s developments in reverse benefilogical order rather than chronological order? ‘Benefilogical’ is a word not found in many dictionaries. It means “arranged in order of welcomeness”.
This sixty-second burst of WW2 WeGo action leaves map square 29, 4, 5 and its environs reeking of cordite, limonene, and pinene. The citrusy terpenes waft from conifers violently pollarded and pruned by 25-pounder rounds.
Before the war the village of Nottingheim was something of a tourist magnet. The big draw wasn’t the castle, it was the famous Eichhörnchenhaus and its unusually tame residents. As CMBO doesn’t include an ornate squirrel tenement among its building…