markgame

Reportedly the new edition will be out in February, and they will not be sending out any of the first editions anymore. [ December 23, 2002, 08:34 PM: Message edited by: markgame ]

Actually you can order it now, since they aren't shipping any more of the "bad" versions. That way you'll get it as soon as it's available and also give Battlefront a little Xmas bonus.

HAH! I have a first edition with the misprinted pages! EBAY here I come! Seriously, this is pretty first-rate on the part of Battlefront. Now let's see, what else can I buy from them...???

Martin, I emailed sales@battlefront.com this past Saturday when I got the misprinted guide, but so far I haven't heard back from them. Is there someone else I should contact? :confused:

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Thanks, Martin. I just wanted to bring it to the attention of the forum so other people can check. Errors in book binding like this are usually in a batch, so there might be others out there. It would be a shame for someone to give it as an xmas present and not know there was a problem.

I just got my guide I ordered Monday night. Unfortunately it's missing pages 1/53 through 1/84 . There are also duplicated pages, which from what I remember reading about how books are printed means that the wrong folio got inserted during the binding process. I've already sent an email to sales@battlefront.com, but I'm posting here just to alert people to check their own guides. I'll let everyone know how they are handling the problem <sigh>.

If it's just grammer and obvious typos and not errors in data I can live with that. Can anyone confirm this?

Me.

Let's do a little thought experiment. I'm private Fritz (or Ivan). I've got this huge freaking tank of very nasty stuff on my back and I'm trying to do my damnest to avoid even being seen, much less getting shot at. My sergeant, passing on orders from the Great Player In The Sky, orders me to torch the next door building. Doing this will of course will require me to stand or at least expose part of myself, and when I light up every bad guy, who all by nature hate flamethrower carrying soldiers, will be trying to kill me. So what do I do? Do I carefully observe how much fire I lay on the building, stopping when it seems sufficiently alight? And how do I judge that, especially when (and this is something probably not considered by many) while the flamer is active, I can't even see my own point of aim?. To accurately observe my efforts, I should sent a short burst, look, send another burst, look, etc. WHAT, AM I CRAZY? I do that and I give every enemy nearby plenty of time to hunt me down. So instead I give it several big honking blasts, trying to not be too obvious that I am deperate to use up all the fuel so I can drop the whole ensemble off my back. So I agree with The_Capt, no reasonably self-preserving flamethrower wielding soul should be counted on for more than one target. If you get more, great, but I think that CMBB's TacAI correctly has the guy try to use up the fuel right away.

As a wargamer for almost 40 years (Tactics 2 RULES ) and a Physics major, I can't resist leaving my normal lurking mode and adding a comment. I remember from my readings years ago that the original German for what is commonly called The Uncertaincy Principle is better translated as The Principle of Indeterminacy. It is not that the particle is traveling an uncertain path, it is just not possible to accurately determine the position of the particle in space and time. It's applicability to CMBB could be stated in this way: No matter how many experiments are run to test the outcome of a specific combat encounter, the influence of the experimenters would always alter the results in some indeterminate way. Therefore conclusions about the actual behavior of the code cannot be accurately made. And don't even get me started on Chaos Theory

Well, I certainly hope so. I have been waiting ages to command my French Silk Commandos against the forces of the evil Banana Splits

I'd like to add my $.02 and also thank all those involved with the Stalingrad Pack . My mouth dropped open the first time I started up one of the missions. The smoke, the flames, the wrecked buildings, people staggering around... reminded me of one of our particularly more enjoyable frat parties .

Baetis, they're responding as fast as they can, but it takes time to heat those electrons over a stove so they can jump to a higher energy state and head out over the modem Ah, the old 56K days... I remember the weekend I download the Steel Panthers World at War freebie from Matrix games. 312MB of gaming goodness, and 40+ hours online straight to download it. Hope no one important wanted to call...

Thanks Matt, downloading now....