desertrat1943

I am the fool who made a posting in the CMBB forum about organizing a get together and bragging about how we knocked out that King Tiger with a 20mm gun from 1 kilometer. I apologize for the dealy. Things got a tad frantic here. In any event I propose to meet at the KGB Bar (http://www.urban75.org/photos/newyork/ny208.html) on Friday February 21, at 9:30 (it is conveniently exactly one week after Valentine's day so we can all forget how boring was last Friday). If you are in, please drop me a line so I wont be waiting like a dumb ass all alone. Desertrat1943@yahoo.com

ok, so far we are three. Come on, there must be more of us CM addicts in the big apple!

If there are any CM fans in NYC and its larger area (I am sure there are many), it might be nice to get together for a drink and talk about our obsession. Eventually, we can organize a CM LAN party. Drop me a line @ desertrat1943@yahoo.com (And if you are not from NYC but you know some chaps who do, please give them heads up about this)

Can anybody sum up this discussion? Besideds the occasional personal bitching, there have been some constructive ideas that BTS might want to consider, and summing them up in a bullet-point list will help them greately.

I modded the opening music. You can get the modded files at www.combat-mission.com

Guys, I think everybody (but Scipio and another chap I forgot) is forgetting a basic thing: BTS is a businness company. OK, we are all grateful to them for making the best PC game ever and giving us this monkey, but why should we tax ourselves (both in terms of money and time) to do that? Somebody in this tread said it costs $300 per month to host 30 gigs of stuff. Even if the figure was 10 times as much, that is still well withing the league of a business company (besides, BTS can write this off taxes, and they are saving big time money out of the direct marketing strategy they decided to pursue). Scipio also rightly pointed out that mods are what keeps the community going, and it is big and free advertising for BTS. I don't think it would be asking too much to have them create the space for us, the adoring fans, to post mods without having to scramble for improbable solutions.

fernando est ce que tu as la versione fraincaise? si non, il peut etre que il y a vraiment un bug.

Well, if BTF wants to share with us their business plan, organization scheme, etc. then we poor dreamers could get a better idea of what they can and what they cennot accomplish. :confused: Come on! Forums are made to float things around, even the impossible ones. :cool:

Thank for all the technical comments but, again, don't you think that T34s are a little too brittle and undergunned to be used in CM as effectively as they were used in reality? I know soviets could churn out hundreds of them every day, but the poor fellow like me has only a few hundres of purchase points to spend...Don't touch the stats, because they are right and holy, but at least bring down the price for T34!

I vote for the full monty. WWII total, all theaters, all units, everywhere. If possible I'd strech the boundaries even to include the Spanish civil war and the Korean war (which were fought with units not really different from those fighting respectively in 1940 and 1945), and even the first arab-Israeli war. That should not be difficult to do. Use the CMBB engine, import all vehicles and stats from CMBO, add a ton more of stats and voila'.

What is the most incredible/odd/unlikely/amazing thing you saw happening in CMBB? I haven't played enough yet, and I am sure that in this thread we will read a few truly amazing things. So far I saw: 1) A Panther being hit by a shell and a nearby sniper getting killed. Watching the movie carefully I found out the guy was so unlucky to be hit by the very shell that ricocheted on the Panther. 2) A tiger killed by 50 mm mortar fire. The tank commander unbuttoned half second before a mortar shell fell exactly on top of his head. Had he unbottoned half-second later, odds are he would be still walking. Admittedly these are things that happened/could have happened in CMBO, too. But they were pretty cool.

I know this issue has already been discussed in detail, but I am still baffled. In every book you read about the copernican revolution of the T34 and how it created huge problems to the Germans, swarming around in droves. Now, like most fools, I went about starting a series of PBEM battles buying T34s in large quantities. OK, my mistake to get T34/76s and set the date to July 1943 only to see them slaughtered by German armour but, still, the numbers are unbelievable. I probably lost all together 25 T34s in three battles, never had a shell rococheting on my hull, always knock outs, alsmot first shot, no matter from what distance. Moreover, I almost never got the target and when I did it was useless. So far, no kills for me. T34/76s have a skin almost as frial as that of Stuarts and a gun worst than the worst Sherman. Is there something wrong in historical accounts or modeling in CMBB is so realistic as to be "unreal"?

Bruno, The website you pointed out is terrific. Yet, the problem is that the scores are too long for an intro music. I edited the songs to be maximum one minute long, ending when they start repeating the main theme. I used a 16,000 htz. I recorded the first 1 minute of the soviet anthem at CD quality and it was 11 megs! Now it is 4.2 megs. Besides, the quality of the 1940s recording is not so good. It gives you the sense of hystorical immersion, but if you want to use those four speakers and subwofer, you gotta go for a cleaner recording. In any event, I ripped a CD I bought long time ago in Geneva. It is "Les coeurs de l'armee rouge" of Boris Alexandrov, Vol. 2 (Chants de la revolution et de la guerre). I made also replacements for Konarmeiskaya, The Artillery Song and the Patriotic Song.

I modded the wav file of CMBB opening music to replace it with the Red Army Choir singing the USSR anthem. Nothing wrong with the original one, but this one starts with a blast instead of a crescendo, and is a must have for every red army player. Any mod website willing to host the file? Send me an e-mail and I'll ship it right away.

Thanks! Any useful sources online I can check and get a culture? now, do you know a CMBB spotter how many batteries he represents? 1, 2, 3? Just to get an idea of how many spotters I should use.