Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2015 9:38 pm Post subject: Almost done with "The Thin Red Line" by James Jone
Holy cow, my favorite War Movie (and top 3 movie of all time) is proof positive that "the book is better than the movie". I'm absolutely loving it!
It makes me want to play the "Thin Red Line" mod (a small submod/scenario-package based on the CC2 Pac Mod) again.
If I only had a little more time... I'd love to create a version of the mod that follows the events as they occur in the book.
- Kind of off topic if you haven't read the book/seen the movie: Although they don't have medics per se, Combat Mission simulates stretcher-bearers with a game concept called buddy aid. Move a soldier near a wounded/dead mate; he will "get him help" (and improve your "score" at the end of the battle). Its too bad that the game doesn't model psychological effects to the extent of Close Combat (morale drops for dead/incapacitated squad/platoon/company mates), imagine there was a system like scavenging purely for "medic" activity in CC, you could really keep an assault going.
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2015 7:26 pm Post subject: Re: Almost done with "The Thin Red Line" by James
By all means. I picked it up and began reading... to be honest, I wasn't impressed within the first twenty or so pages. As I had gotten two books, (the Thin Red Line and the Beauty and the Sorrow) I started and finished the other one. Great narrative story of WW1 told by all sides, from the journals and diaries of twenty different people (Red Cross nurses all the way to Turkish Mercenary who experienced the Armernian genocide). The way its written, it reads more like a story than just a bunch of random entries.
Anyways, after I finished the Beauty and the Sorrow I picked up the Thin Red Line and could not put it down. The way its written is amazing. Jones seamlessly shifts from character to character, often giving you several points of view on the same event without becoming redundant.
I cannot reccomend it enough.
PS: Just dusted off my copy of CCIII and am currently searching out the PAC mod for CCIII.
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2015 1:59 am Post subject: Re: Almost done with "The Thin Red Line" by James
Sorry to jump into your conversation, gentleman, but fry30 you mentioned no medics in CC. Very true. What I did for my Vietnam mod and Operation: Olympic mod for GTC was to make corpsman (armed with .45 Colt) and assign them as "leaders/commanders". Of course, I am not really treating wounded or moving them off the line, but it does improve morale when they are near by.
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