Maastrictian
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A lot of old timers coming back
Maastrictian replied to Nidan1's topic in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy
Yep, I remember CMBO. Get off my lawn! Seriously, I'm very excited for the return to Normandy. CMBO, CMBB, and CMAK are still some of my favorite games. SF didn't really click with me as I'm a WWII buff. I was thrilled to check in at battlefront and see that CMBN was close to launch! --Chris -
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Maastrictian replied to Miska's topic in Combat Mission Shock Force 1
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For the record, I would be much more likely to purchase a module that includes IDF units than one that includes US Marines or Canuks. --Chris
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I'm definitely enjoying the game as well, especially after being away from the CM series for years. I may need to be stripped of my grog credentials, but I am also really enjoying real time play. If anything, it adds a sense of realism to me. I never liked the perfectly coordinated movements that I could achieve in WeGo. Its also refreshingly hard! I ignore a squad for a minute while I'm directing something else and find that they have been decimated. What I don't enjoy is the pathing issues, which are really bad. Even micromanaging movement doesn't seem to prevent Strykers taking joyrides down IED filled alleys when they could have just taken the straight main road like I asked them too. This is the big "must resolve" issue for me, and if its not correct this will be the last CM game I purchase But I'd rather have the game now than be waiting on bug fixes. Now to figure out the (very complex) scenario editor... --Chris
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I know the British used the term "Jerry" to refer to a German, "Yank" to refer to an American. How did they refer to a Frenchman in (somewhat derogitory) slang? Thanks! --Chris
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While it has nothing to do with WWII, I highly recommend The Normans in Sicily. The historical narative is spiced with notes about the modern day sights for tourists. Well worth a look. --Chris
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Thanks DesertFox and Sirocco, that's very useful information. --Chris
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A little off topic for CMAK, but I'm looking for information about the 21st Panzer's attack between Juno and Sword beaches on D-Day. Any info the grogs could spew would be much apprecited. Even better would be pointers to some books on the subject. I'm currently working from Six Armies in Normandy (John Keegan) which mentions the attack, and its lack of success, but doesn't really say much else. Thanks much! --Chris
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Got mine today in NYC. Installing at as I write --Chris
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How is it that the 37mm PAK gun's HC ammo penetrates about 180mm at 0 degrees? I thought (as a general rule) that HC penetration was proportional to the diameter of the round.... --Chris
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I was playing around with the scenario editor the other day and noticed that many Soviet batalions have two platoons of 8 anti-tank rifles. How were these units used historically? Were they parsled out individually or in pairs to the infantry platoons? Or were they concentrated as "batteries"? --Chris
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Maastrictian replied to Monty's topic in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin
Michael Emrys -- I *think* the AC's wheel is on the ground, but its a few meters ahead of that crater, which makes things look odd. Monty -- The Maastrictian epoch in geology is named after a rock formation near that town. Its the last epoch of the Cretaceous, the last time period in which the dinosaurs lived. So my nickname comes from my interest in the extinction of the dinosaurs, and, kind of, from that town. --Chris -
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Maastrictian replied to Monty's topic in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin
Here are some photos I "found" in the atic. Funny... I didn't know I had relatives in the USSR in the 40s.... A Soviet Officer over sees an oppossed river crossing in the summer of '44. An IS2 in heavy action in the Courland Peninsula late in the war. A T34 drives past a knocked out armored car outside Karkov in '43. Incidentally -- Some photoshop filters I've found useful for... um... "improving" these atic photos include motion blur (3 or 4 pixels) and add noise (3%). It also helps to erase little bits out of the edge of the picture after you place it in the frame. You can also rotate the entire image before you crop it to put it in the frame, photographers under fire have a hard time holding the camera perfectally level. Finally, I tend to think that photos from camera level 1 look best as that is the highest a real photographer could have gotten. --Chris [ August 16, 2003, 10:11 PM: Message edited by: Maastrictian ] -
AI cheats! (with real data)
Maastrictian replied to Warren Peace's topic in Combat Mission Archive #4 (2002)
Here is Treeburst155's latest numbers (the 600 trial) Observed AI hits: 228 Observed Human hits: 196 Expected: 212 Chi Square: 2.4150943 P: 0.1202 So still not significant . But getting closer. I'd be very curious to see your scenario Treeburst155 so that maybe we can see what difference there is, if any, between yours and Cameroons. After 300 trials Cameroons seems to show no bias or hint of bias, but with 600 trials I have to defer to your work at this point. Regarding Steve's post: Yea, as has been said no one thinks that BTS is lieing too us, if there is a difference it is due to a bug, nothing more. On the other hand if at the end of the day we find no discrepency then that will certainly silence BTS's detractors. Think the AI cheats? Well look at this thread where more than 1500 tests were run (and counting). --Chris