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  1. I'm with ya, Bil. Whenever I watch a youtube video where the stock icons are used, I have little idea what units I'm seeing. I use a combination of yours and ones I've done myself. I just found this aar... Thanks for doing this and all you do for the hobby. I didn't play CMSF1 much. At the time, I didn't care much for modern equipment (I really didn't know much about it to tell the truth); it was WW II all the time. I only bought the base game, and that only much later on after most of the bugs had been worked out. I bought Black Sea on a whim and since then have played mostly cold war and later in all the games I play
  2. Done... before I even got to your post. Trolls like this are a major reason why I rarely post on any forum. The anonymity of the keyboard gives far too many a presumed right to be asshats obnoxious. I'm far from thin-skinned, but I doubt he's spoken with too many people in that vein
  3. DF... This is excellent!!! Many thanks!
  4. I've been reading, again, Blumenson's Breakout and Pursuit. Along with this, I've been doing some other research and located a trove of aar's in the Ike Skelton Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library. What I'm having difficulty (sp: l a z i n e s s, ) with is converting map coordinates in the aar's into lats & longs so I can find a "real" location. I've found a site explaining the "British Modified System", but that system uses coordinates such as "vZ3383", meaning (as best as I can tell) Map Section vZ, 33 kM East/83 kM North. The US aar's use coordinates similar to, say, "565-068". Does anyone here have a link that will point me in the right direction. I'm a land surveyor IRL, so I do understand coordinates, projections and the sort. Thanks in advance, Rake
  5. This happens... and it has since the release of CMBN (and probably CMSF; I didn't play that enough to notice). You have to back off of the "boundary", either by rotating or moving forward just enough to allow the camera to scroll left or right. It is annoying as hell, but IIWII!
  6. 8 bits per channel for the RGB channels, and 8 for the alpha channel... I kept making the same mistake as the OP until I remembered I was dealing with four channels, not three Oh, one more thing... Every time I make a selection, I've learned to save it as a separate channel (I'm assuming you're using Photoshop). That way, if I screw something up, which I'm often prone to do , at least I don't have to recreate the selection; just load a "new" selection.
  7. And a couple of the Germans from, well... CMBN, CMFI & CMRT...
  8. I do understand that the modern version would be the rectangular, but after starting a set, it just didn't look right to me. I'm working on it slowly; as I play a new scenario and encounter new types of units, I'll pop open Photoshop and create a few new ones. My ADD won't let me game long sessions, just as I can't play in PS until I finish a whole series One thing that I am doing, and have done with the WW II sets is to make the "Icon ** 2" version the opposite and/or much lighter color of the "Icon ** 1" symbol, e.g., the "Icon Soviet * 2" is red on a yellow background... The brighter color helps to pick out teams that have been hit, but more importantly, it has several times saved me from the silly mistake of double-clicking to select a unit and then giving orders to an entire company An example from RT...
  9. Bil... sorry to throw my hiccup into this (ya just can't please everybody ), but I always loved the circle version for the blue army. I understand that some may prefer the square or rectangular versions; these seem to fit more with the NATO symbols. After playing with my own modded versions of your period based icons for so long, I've found I'm just going to have to create my own set for CMBS... Now trying to fit the wheeled AT symbol into the 128 square pixel area (circle or diamond) is gonna be tough, but I'll figure out something, even if it's using old WW II style symbols Thanks for all you do for the series... from your AAR's to you Battle Drill blog (an extra thank you for the link to the Obscure Battles page). I read it all, post little, but always grateful.
  10. Okay, as a bit of a "mea culpa" for my outburst the other night (even at my age, enough vodka can get me, ummmhh... "riled up" ), I have a planning map to share of the second KG Engel scenario. Basically, it's a copy of the mission map with contour lines drawn in. I do this for a number of the larger scenarios I play... If you're able to get into the second scenario with all your tanks and the AT gun showing up I can drop it into a dropbox account... that is IF I can figure out how to do so... Send a PM... or, if you're lazy, just right click and "save image as"
  11. Yikes!!! The first picture (studio lighting) looked awful close to the color of the Class 3 safety gear OSHA requires for construction workers... minus the reflective striping of course
  12. Well,. I just tried to send a file to Ken, but with this new F^*(*$##%$^& board, an old F%&*% like me can't figure out how to attch a F^(*^ing file :mad:
  13. I tried playing this scenario as a "stand alone"; i.e., exploded the campaign and opened it as a scenario. This time, the Pz IV's and the Panther were there, but the AT gun was nowhere to be found. The crew and ammo bearers were sitting inside the hano yet the gun was nowhere to be found. I opened the editor, and the gun was right there where it should be... trailing the 'track, but once again, after loading the scenario, the gun is missing. The scenario looks interesting, as does the campaign. At this point, it looks like my options are to play the campaign with a couple of Lynx, which likely allows a slim chance of winning, or playing the remainder of the campaign as individual scenarios and defeating the entire purpose of the campaign system. I suppose the good news is that I'm too old to be mad about stuff I can't change... just gotta change the game I'm playing for a bit.
  14. Same issue here with the disappearing Pz IV's & V. I've even gone back and replayed the last turn of the the first scenario a couple of times to see if that would magically allow the tanks to appear. The first time I tried to play this campaign after upgrading, the AT gun wasn't there. I waited a few months before trying the campaign again and the gun showed up. I've got saves if anyone is interested. I started this campaign because I've gotten tired of the monster games in CMRT and the fact that I never got through the second Engel scenario due to the issue where MG's would not set up with LOS through bocage... the size of these campaign scenarios make this an interesting campaign for me; I'd love to be able to get beyond the second one
  15. - 1 to turning off the red crosses. I like knowing when someone gets hit Early on in the vid, I watched a T34 w/ riders get get ko'd... I had to go back and watch it a second time because I missed the red crosses; I watched the tank explode and thought no one suffered collateral effects. Everyone has an opinion and is most certainly entitled to theirs'. CM, as realistic as it is, nor any other video game, certainly isn't not going to fool anyone into thinking it's a movie. Nice job, Macisle!
  16. One thing I just recently noticed is that a spotter can place an arty call to places that won't show up in LOS. The downside seems to be that the accuracy suffers. I'm in the middle of a game against the AI where I've tried this extensively, but artillery landing where I've asked for it has been dicey at best
  17. kensal... My guess is that it's called "ditch lock" is because it was primarily designed to create ditches. A one meter deep ditch is a pretty deep ditch; at two meters, there aren't many humans that could stand in the bottom and still see out. Anything deeper than one meter is a gully or wash
  18. ^^^THIS^^^!!! At least back to France and Barbarossa. Something less than the uber-tanks has always been much more fun for me. Modern day, robot-controlled warfare just doesn't hold my interest :confused: Maybe I'll try CMBS and change my mind, but SF isn't on any of my computers any more. I bought it solely to learn the CMx2 system and haven't played more than a half-dozen scenarios. I've always enjoyed JT's Panzer Campaigns as an operational game, yet his modern warfare series (Fulda Gap and NGP) is sitting underplayed on my hard drive. When I need a break from CMBN, FI or RT, I always head back to Smolensk '41 or Kharkov '42.
  19. I played through The Passage and my experience was exactly the opposite. I raced the IV's into covered and partial hull down positions and picked off the T-34/85's as they popped onto view. As stated elsewhere in thread, I kept the Pz IV's at range, where I felt their optics would be better than the Russians'. It usually took 3-4 penetrations to knock out the Soviet tanks, but they rarely seemed to have any idea where the shots were coming from. When they did return fire, trees saved several of my tanks from taking hits. IIRC, I lost two tanks and knocked out all but one T34/85.
  20. It is a bit annoying to have to reset the hoykeys each time an upgrade/patch is applied, but Ive done it so many time for different games/patches/upgrades that it doesn't take much time for me to do it in game. Does that mean I don't wish it were different? NO, of course not What really does annoy me is loading up a game and hitting the "Q" key to plot a "Quick" move and find that my screen starts rotating I'm not sure everything you say is so... I do have a ton of mods and have started removing my Z folder and saved games before I apply a patch or upgrade. I had some issues early on when I didn't remove them; it's been so long now that I can't remember what they were. I just remember doing a complete re-install of CMBN to get things straightened out. The older I get, "a long time ago" for my memory was quite different than what it is now. When I was much younger, a long time ago was a year or more... now it's 30 minutes ago
  21. Phil... I am so very grateful to BFC for getting this out so quickly. TBH, when I found the remnants of the building bug after 1.01, I thought it was just something I was going to have to learn to play around... I've loaded up the 1.02 patch and NO building entry problems that I had on the "Blunting the Spear" map have cropped up... THIS is why I keep buying BFC games. I'm a designer in a whole different world of engineering, but I don't stop until the problems get fixed. Sometimes, these fixes take longer than others, but you guys don't give up either... Hats off!!!
  22. Steve/Phil and playtesters... I'm not a coder in any sense of the word; the only program I've ever written was something like a ten-step "macro" for my HP-10C calculator before I took my Land Surveying exam. From what little I do understand, I'm sure this thing has been a nightmare. As I've said previously, I'll try to figure out exactly what building(s) and/or combo of them is causing problems. I will do what I can, time available, to see what's going on with my rig... I know this might not be the same with the next player's computer. In any event, it's a whole lot better than it was before. And, I thank all of you involved with this issue for that! :cool:
  23. I just edited the Beutezug map to remove all soviet forces... no problems entering any of the buildings on this map. I guess I'll have to edit the Blunting the Spear map to try and pin down exactly what buildings troops will not enter
  24. A little more testing on the Blunting the Spear map... I ran some units to the buildings at the northeast end of the map to see if there were issues with buildings outside of the setup zone it seems units will enter single-story independent buildings but but not one-story modulars, at least not ones that are connected to another building Maybe I can try and break this scenario out of the campaign and delete the russian units in the editor. At least this way, I could preserve FOW and try to figure out what buildings work and what buildings won't.
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