Burden of Command Announced

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lhughes42

#120
"Judge Advocate General, Administrator, Longbowman"  and JarHead. ... OK I'm intimidated!  :notworthy:

So to your question, the image is from the US Torch landings in 1942. I believe this particular image is not our Cottonbalers but maybe Big Red One? (different landing). Let me see if I can do better by you...
OK found it.. yeah Oran landing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_African_Campaign#/media/File:American_troops_on_board_a_landing_craft_heading_for_the_beaches_at_Oran_in_Algeria_during_Operation_%27Torch%27,_November_1942._A12661.jpg

We actually had a colorizer rework the image with care for our teaser video. That version attached.
And yeah, that soldier is shockingly young. Reminds us so many of them were just boys. That's why we made one of our Lts feel just as young on the right in the twitter collage of prior message.


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lhughes42

#121
rereading your comment Jarhead0331 made me stare at that image again. Gives me the shivers frankly.
We have some of the AAR reports from the junior officers involved in the Cottonbaler landings at Fedala (I hired an archivist to go into the US national archives and get them as well as other AARs throughout the campaign). It is something to read them. Really puts you there. Let me see if I can post a sample for you.

  As the son of an historian and WWII vet this reaches deep within me.

First image from Colonel Moore in command of 7th at Fedala Morocco. Second from one of the Captains. The writers drew on these reports in creating the Burden of Command experience. The second one in particular gives you some sense of the chaos... which naturally we do not spare you from ;-)

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Jarhead0331

Grogheads Uber Alles
Semper Grog
"No beast is more alpha than JH." Gusington, 10/23/18


Mad Russian

#123
Things to announce...

Some items that are set for tentative inclusion in the game...

Flamethrowers
Satchel Charges
Vehicles on both sides
US mis-identification of German units
As many command decision points before, during, and after, actions as is reasonable and not overwhelming
Historical research down to the nuts and bolts level.

That list is by far not all inclusive. There are far more items we are working to include but these are some of the ones that should get everyone's attention...

Good Hunting.

MR
The most expensive thing in the world is free time.

Sir Slash

Attention gotten in spades.  O0
"Take a look at that". Sgt. Wilkerson-- CMBN. His last words after spotting a German tank on the other side of a hedgerow.

Tripoli

Here's the latest update on Burden of Command (BoC). I'm working on the BoC team along with Mad Russian and lhughes42 in putting this game together.  Today's update is the release of a short video highlighting some of the RPG and tactical decisions the player must make as they lead a company of the 7th Infantry Regiment through the ETO in WWII.

https://twitter.com/BurdenOfCommand/status/1029406194962595840

See also the Steam page: Steam Page: http://bit.ly/BoCSteam
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Zonso

Ugh, did I just see a Squad bum rushing a MG Team?!?  :o

Michael Dorosh

Quote from: Zonso on August 14, 2018, 12:21:58 PM
Ugh, did I just see a Squad bum rushing a MG Team?!?  :o

I think the idea is that they jazz up the gameplay with dramatic music and wartime film footage and you're not supposed to notice?

Sir Slash

I will check it out on Steam. Thanks for the heads-up.  O0
"Take a look at that". Sgt. Wilkerson-- CMBN. His last words after spotting a German tank on the other side of a hedgerow.

acctingman

This still a 2018 release? (looked here and on Steam)

This looks pretty good.

lhughes42

#130
Hey Zonso and Michael.
Lead developer here. So glad you picked up on that!  Yes yes yes! Exactly. So what happened to our brave greenhorn LT?  :-(
   He failed to observe the 4Fs didn't he?   And so the result was predictable. Following his tactics in Burden of Command will lead to a short career.  We heavily reward following the 4Fs (in BoC terms you suppress first, ideally with combined arms (rifle fire, automatic, explosive etc) and then you flank and finish).  Typically not with an actual melee (those were relatively rare) but with a surrender. Or a failure of morale on your side to assault.

We'll have some future videos not so formal where we'll go over those mechanics. But we had to keep simple for this pass and human.  Plus I somewhat perversely wanted to show the outcome of a lack of good tactics. As opposed to one more "win win win" game sequence ;-)

Always a great pleasure talking to Grognards and so glad you called us on. But hope maybe assuaged a bit?.
  Luke
Burden of Command lead
Steam: http://bit.ly/BoCSteam

lhughes42

#131
(besides replyl above) Ack! Your comment just made me realize the really clever way to do that teaser would have been to have the final assault *FAIL* at the end! No need for a 4F tutorial in a teaser but the point comes across more clearly. Doh!

  Well hopefully you guys see our tactical hearts are in the right place if maybe my movie direction isn't perfect LOL. Though if I'd done that maybe I would be sitting here today feeling virtuous and everyone would be finding the teaser too much of a downer and not sharing. Ha. Who knows.

looking forward to your further comments!
  Luke
Burden of Command lead
Steam: http://bit.ly/BoCSteam

Steelgrave

Added to my Steam wish-list   <:-)

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