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OK Abbot start playing now. You have raised my spirits significantly. Many thanks for all the info on the QB generator. It has been very very helpful. Bobo Was Now

Want to add my thanks to Abbot. I was brooding pretty heavy when I got home today with no CMBB even though others in my metro area and state have it. Good stuff.

Agh! No big deal. But I was REALLY jazzed today when I was working/reading the forums. I guess that I should move to Glendale. . Brooding in Chandler.

No luck here in PHX. Perhaps tomorrow. I had hope when the reports were spreading across the US including Northern AZ. Oh well. More CMBO tonite I guess. :-(.

Schrullenhaft, I did disable and then reinstall Zone Alarm. The key was enabling port forwarding on the linksys router that I had installed. It works now. Just in time. Thanks for the help. Bobo

I did what you suggested with ZoneAlarm and no luck connecting. I disabled ZoneAlarm and no luck. I can ping IPs that are hosting, but CM will not connect. Is there any other way to debug this problem? No IP and CMBB coming :-(. Bobo

Nope. I am running Window ME still. Haven't been blessed with XP yet. Bobo

Greetings, I am having problems connecting to others to play IP games in CMBO and probably CMBB demo as well. I am on a cable modem and have played at least one game on TCP/IP but I believe that was before I installed ZoneAlarm. I am able to ping known open game IPs, but CM will always repond with a cannot connect to IP error. I have tried disabling ZoneAlarm but no luck. Any suggestions? Thanks, Bobo

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Can I get a copy please? bobostudaz@yahoo.com Thanks, bobo <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Commander: I am wrapping up the finishing touches on a really cool Artillery Test Range. On this test range (playing as Allies) you are supplied with four each of every type of artillery including 60 mm and 81 mm mortars. The FO's are Elite, come with maximum load of artillery shells and are guided by a fully decked out Battalion Command Unit and a fully decked out Company Command Unit (both elite) FO's are located on a elevated firebase at one end of the map. There is line of site over the entire map which is broken up by a small town, a river and broken forests which provides several natural chokepoints and some wide open areas that the enemy has to cross. The enemy I have been testing with is a German Infantry Battalion and a German Armored Infantry Battalion. The test range is excellent for developing your timing in calling down artillery strikes on moving opponents - Plus its just dang cool to watch 8 105 artillery pieces decimate a dozen halftracks in under a minute or watch 4 8 inchers drive infantry away from a bridge. Like I said, I am almost finished with this (it is a lot of fun to play with!) and I'm sure some of you will want to check it out. If you do, let me know and I will send you a copy.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Greetings, I was wondering how much interest there would be in a stat tracking feature that kept track of your wins vs the AI and vs other players and as the Germans vs the US and what not. Maybe casualties and vehicle kills and hit percentage and number of turns played. Time with CM open. All sorts of stats. I got the idea from NCAA2K2 on the playstation 2. You have a profile that you play as each time and it keeps tons of stats for you each time you play. It keeps track of all sorts of football stats and I was thinking that it would be great to at least be able to keep track of number of games played in CM. I am keeping a hand count, but sometimes I forget. Any thoughts? Bobo

Greetings, I saw this on a mailing list for another game this morning and had a bit of a chuckle. Quote----------------- If any of youse mugs have a copy of Combat Mission you'd be willing to trade away, let me know. I have the following, so make me an offer. Shogun: Total War Delta Force Allegiance Earth:2150 MiG Alley Deus Ex Starlancer Jane's F/A-18 European Air War Total Annihilation Panzer Commander Jane's USAF Drakan: Order of the Flame Starfleet Command Age of Empires II (and expansion) UNQUOTE------------- I don't know these games, but suffice to say that I ain't trading CM for nothing. Well maybe NCAA Football 2002 today, 10 days before the release and the PS2 to play it on. Later, Bobo

Greetings, Back when CM was first being worked on we were treated with Penetration diagrams in multi colors. There is one if the FAQ that I was just reading which reminded me about them. I seem to recall that there was a comment that BTS would include them on the CD if there was room. There wasn't of course. I was wondering if BTS might post them for download either all at once (HUGE) or in more downloadable friendly chunks. Anyone else interested in these? Thanks, Bobo

Schrullenhaft, You paint a depressing picture for transparency on a laptop. For anyone else that may be interested in laptop CMing as I am, Dell offers a 32MB 4X AGP NVIDIA GeForce2 Go video card on the Inspiron 8000 line. Will it give you transparency? I am not sure. If anyone out there buys one or has one for work and can verify transparency on one of those laptops I would be thankful. I probably will buy one of those near the end of the year (assuming I can pay for my wedding and a new laptop). I know, I know, just buy a desktop. Sadly that doesn't fit my needs. Thanks for the help Schullenhaft. Very informative. Bobo

Thanks Schrullenhaft for the reply. I went and got the "latest" drivers from Compaq and of course I still have no transparency or fog effects. No big concern there. But.... from what you wrote the NVIDIA chipsets that can be ordered in the new Dell laptops may work better? I guess a follow-up question would be will a 16MB NVIDIA video card show transaprency and/or fog well or will I need a 32MB NVIDIA video card? I will probably by another lap top in the future, but if I do I want to make damn sure that I get transparency and fog. Thanks, Bobo

Greetings, I am happily playing CM on a Compaq Presario Laptop with a 8MB video card, but I don't get transparency effects. My question is has anyone purchased one of the newer laptops with 16MB or 32MB video cards and if so do you get transparency? I was pretty happy with no transparency until I was on vacation and playing CM on an old (pre iMac) Mac laptop and voila there is transparency with at best a 2MB video card. Now I want my transparency. But I need it in a laptop. Thanks, Bobo

I will add my voice to having one go to place where one could get a ton of scenarios. I was disappointed that Admiral Keith had taken down his mega pack. It sure would have been easier that searching through a ton of web sites and downloading scenarios one at a time. I can live with the searching though. One thing that would be nice for CM2 would be for the scenario access through CM2 to allow for folders which would make organization of scenarios much easier. Right now I have to page through 11 pages of battles and I only have about 240 scenarios with the installed and my saved games and the shipped scenarios. Plus I only have the one liner to describe the scenario. It would be great to organize the hundreds of scenarios into folders and be able to access them easily. That way if I am looking for one of Rune's cool scenarios I can have all of his in the "Rune Folder". Any thoughts? Bobo

Gyrene, I felt the same thing after first playing CMBO. Playing some of the ASL conversion scenarios that I once played in ASL is a real hoot. The ASL maps are so flat compared to normal CM maps that I wondered how the hell I ever played ASL and thought that is was accurate. I am still on the ASL mailing list and I see these guys babble on about die roll mods and what not and I shake my head. I would much rather play CMBO than ASL and I would never have said that with any other computer game until now. The best thing about CMBO vs ASL is that you don't have to find opponents of questionable hygiene habits and spend 6 to 8 hours with them hunched over a board tweaking your back and neck in terrible contortions. As far as modelling as much stuff as ASL, I think the modelling in CMBO is much better than ASL. Things just feel right. I would agree with keeping ASL for the scenario ideas and chapter H is pretty interesting.

Well two favorite things. The first is the quick battle generator. Is there a more useful function on any other wargame? In a few short clicks a new scenario on a new map. This word is used to often these days but the quick battle generator is awesome. If only we could use it on our own created maps. My second favorite thing is when two tanks kill each other at the same time. I love snapping to each tanks view and watching it fire right before it is taken out by the tank that it is going to kill. Later

Whoa 30 minutes a turn. So a 20 turn small to medium QB takes 10 hours to play? Is that what I am hearing? Doing the math on my small QBs I am at about an hour and a half vs 10 hours... Wow!

Greetings, How long does a normal scenario take to complete? I have been playing smaller scenarios and I never have enough time to complete them so the save feature is great. I guess the question is how long does a "normal" turn take for you to complete? I probably spend about 10 minutes for setup in smaller scenarios and then about 5 minutes for the original orders phase. The next orders phases typically don't take as long as many units will be continuing prior orders. Movie playback review time usually takes about 3 minutes on average. So I probably average about 4 minutes per turn. Any comments? Bobo

Greetings, As the subject says I need some laptop reccomendations. I posted a few weeks ago asking for laptop recommendations and received mostly comments on the iBook. Can anyone give me opinions on the following: Toshiba 1715XCDS, HP N3410, Compaq 12XL300. All are Celeron-type processors w/ 64Megs of RAM. Good enough for CM? Thanks, bobo

Major, Thanks again for the great reponse time. I love it, I get a response from the author of the game within 30 minutes of posting. I will instruct the xmas purchasing agent to proceed. Bobo

Major, Does the CD contain both Mac and PC versions? I used to have the Mac version from Arsenal, but am more into PCs now, but one never knows when there will be Mac available to play and I like having both flavors. Thanks, Bobo

Thanks Schrullenhaft. I need a laptop if I want to play any games. It is legal for me to play games on the laptop on the couch with the SO while she watches TV, but not to sit in the den and play games on a desktop PC. Sooo..... I need a cheap laptop that still runs CM. I have access to NT4.0 laptops but of course CM will not run on them. Thanks to everyone for the responses. Keep 'em coming. Bobo