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Right now the theory is that 1 of 2 things happened. Either both players did not complete the turns by clicking End from the final AAR screen OR the game did not send the "that was the last turn" message to the servers and a penalty was awarded because a player "stopped playing"/abandoned the battle.

Hiya geezer. Open a Help Desk ticket. There are tools that I will send you that will clear this up.

Is this going anywhere, folks? Or has gotten to the point that it should be locked up?

The Game Files folders must be in Documents. That's where the game "looks" for them.

It possible the the Round wasn't over, even though every battle had been completed.

Make sure that you have a hotkeys files in the Data folder. Here's one with the default keys. hotkeys.txt

Possibly but at one point the proper scores were displayed. Here is what I saw when the Tournament ended and what we see right now. Now:

Hopefully @Vacillator will have a chance to check and see if this graphical bit is more than just what we're seeing and will be bale to confirm that they are also getting protection for being "inside" the vehicle. If they are "positioned" wrong, rather than just represented graphicly correctly, it will 100% matter. I remember way way way back in CMSF1 testing there was a vehicle that couldn't "see". After much hair pulling it turned out the the 3D model had a sodlier facing the wrong way inside of the vehicle. And him facing the wrong position prevented him from seeing out.

Yes.

That is actually a very good idea. I ask that of people on the Help Desk from time to time when I don't understand what they're asking. Google Translate does a decent job. I have read his questions a few times now and I'm not sure that I understand what he is looking for. I kinda think he is suggesting that when a previously unspotted unit appears that the game should pause on it's own? If so, the game doesn't do that. I'm not sure how the 2 tank and 4 tanks comments fit into that though.

Martix has released an article in their The Armory series about Jeeps. Combat Mission is nicely represented: https://www.matrixgames.com/news/the-armory-article-2-jeeps

Wow. I hope that a player wouldn't stop playing a tournament round because someone wasn't playing by their preferred house rules. That would suck out loud. Tournaments are hard enough as it is. I'd never ask players in a tournament to follow any house rules. It's hard enough to get players to follow the out of game instructions, let alone special in game rules. People entering tournaments should go into them with the mindset that, if it can be done in the game then it is ok. If that isn't fun for someone then they shouldn't sign up for a tournament. Let's keep in mind that, other than the Invitational, these tournaments are played by all levels of CM experience. Not all players have been playing the games for decades. There are lots of new players brought in by having the games on Steam and the tournaments have had a mix of familiar names and new players...............Which is part of the reason that they are done. That said, turn 1 arty is/was an issue. To try to avoid that, for the Invitaional and current CMFB tournaments, we've used scenarios that do not have any offboard indirect fire. Not much can be done about on board assets. Although, I suppose that we can look into making all on board units capable of indirect fire arriving as reinforcements.

It looks like the first round is coiming along nicely. If I'm reading the leaderboard correctly, it looks like the only matches not completed are @Fizou vs @cargol and @Artkin vs @Jackal2100. With @sohzaz curently at the top!! Well done!

@Jackal2100 in the game that you lost points, did you complete the battle by clciking End and having the last file sent to your opponent? That's what it looks like on the leaderboard. It looks like you timed out and @Tyrandar got 1,000 points, instead of 162.

Vacillator is exactly right. When we see this it is because the program being used to extract the download is failing. I use a free one called Bandizip and it works like a charm but there are lots of free ones available.

Try using a different program to extract the download. I use a free one called Bandizip.

We've got a @sohzaz . Sorry that I didn't put you on my list zaz.

Yup. 4pm GMT........which is 11 minutes from now.

Boom! Out of curiousity I checked in the back end to see how many had signed in so far and saw there were 11. Made me wonder if you'd had an issue. Apparently not. It now shows 12. It's on like Donkey Kong.

Did you get the Join information email? It looks like you're the only one that hasn't signed in yet.

Here ya go: https://battlefront.sharefile.com/d-sa02bf64c06bf44bda03755affbbe8382

Ah. When I tried to look him up I didn't use a "." after the M.

Great games. I really enjoyed them.....even though I lost both battles. I didn't get slaughtered as bad as I normally do and I'm thankful for that. Your strategy as the Americans was brilliant. I saw that you had 2 KIA and only 10 wounded. For anyone who saw my earlier puzzled post on my battle playing as the Germans. He let me roll untouched to all 3 Touch victory locations. It turned out he had all, but 1, unit in the Rally Location. I could not crack that even a little bit. And the 1 unit, a MG team, that wasn't there was in the stone farm house. I had tried to move a large healthy force across the field by the farmhouse to try and flank the Rally Location. The MG team stopped them dead. Most of the German units in this battle are Green and Conscript units. That gun held them all down. Brilliant.

The Combat Mission Shock Force 2 - Invitational Grand Tournament has been announced today! https://www.matrixgames.com/news/combat-mission-shock-force-2-invitational-grand-tournament-announcement This tournament is for the Chamionship of the Grand Tournament that recently ended. It will be played by the top 12 players from the 3 Grand Tournaments. I recognize a lot of the names and wish you all good luck. If I don't tag someone who is on our forums please raise your hand! @Artkin @MeatEtr @Andrew Kulin @laurent 22 @Fizou @cargol @Tyrandar @Jackal2100 @AtlasActual @Dawntaker The scenarios used for the Tournament are 3 brand new battles made by @George MC. The scenarios were made especially for this tournament. They are some interesting looking battles (I've been playing one against George..... and getting whooped...as usual). We will make all of the scenarios available. Matrix/Slitherine plans to showcase each battle starting with a live Twitch. These players will have a benefit that we don't get with other tournaments. Because this is invitational there is almost no shot of someone's opponent being a no-show or not knowing how the system works.

@The_Captis right, as usual. EVERYONE settle down with the personal shots and sniping.