Cambronne

Very nice report Elvis,thanks! I started to check twice or three times a day the forum to see what's going on with the battle! It keeps us busy until the release(I hope).

ohohoo!! This road feature practically reduces by more than 50% the amount of time needed for the "construction" of a road in hilly terrain. )

well,in my campaign those to enjoy air supremacy are the Germans.Any problem with that? I'm the designer,I decide the conditions,don't I? Hmm,maybe I'm gonna give them some American allies,former members of the Klan that changed sides in the middle of the war. Personally I find the historical campaigns a little boring,since they seem somehow...familiar, even before playing them.

...and thanks for the customizable TOE.

Yeah,the inaccurate claims made by the pilots are notorious.Heh, I read somewere(don't remember where now) they even pretended to sink a carrier when the ship mentioned wasn't even hit,and it wasn't even a carrier but a cruiser.If that kind of error was possible, the correct estimation of an air strike against much smaller targets as tanks could seldom be done. But it was an entire another matter when the story was narrated by the ground troops who called the air strike,they could see better the impact and afterward,resuming advance,encountered no opposition from the burning skeletons of what previously was holding them back.This kind of testimony from the ground is much reliable than the one from the sky,in my opinion.

if previous examples of CAS called by battalion or company commanders and executed almost by the book don't work...other examples won't work either since you don't believe they existed.If you need combat reports from the Russian 1st Tank Corps about losing 6 T34s in the morning of 22 February in the village of Petschanka exclusively due to Stuka attacks to match with the reports of SS Der Fuhrer saying exactly the same thing,you probably won't find any,since most likely no Russian tank commander(either dead or POW) could write such a report.And since most of us (I believe) track the informations more from historical works written by professionals and less from direct study of official archive papers I tend to believe what is written there as long as I don't find something contradictory and as long as there are other accounts about similar events.

First I was not talking about evidence from German side nor Soviet side. It is about a third party work,based not only on German sources.Second,aside whether you like Irving or not,it doesn,t change the mentioned diary.Third,speaking about both sides evidence,do you think you need more German evidence that the air raids at Bir Hacheim (ok not really a "pure" CAS as mentioned) really existed and they practically brought victory?! And last,there are a lot more examples of effective close air support but since you wouldn,t believe anyway,I let you find them by yourself(ves).

The Kharkov examples: Nipe Jr. "Last victory in Russia"

David Irving : "On the trail of the Fox"

From the diary of a British soldier subject to CAS called by Rommel at Bir Hacheim 7-10 June : "Only God can help!All of my friends look like madman.All of us keep looking involuntarily to the sky.I'd never had believed that air raids COULD KILL SO MANY MEN.The stink of corpses is unbearable.

To be noted;in some cases the bombers were flying along with the advance guard,being thus able to answer to the situation within minutes.

There is evidence of effective CAS and there is evidence of ineffective CAS.Yes indeed,there are examples in France 40 and Africa where dive bombers called for CAS did more psychological than material damage.But I recall,for instance, a book about Kharkov 43 where Stukas literally "cleared" the ground before SS regiments more than once(for example on 22 february the recon battalion of SS Der Fuhrer encountered a reinforced Russian position at the village of Petschanka with several T34 and elements of a Guards Div. Stukas ,flying above, were called by radio and shortly afterward all Russian tanks were destroyed and the battalion passed by without casualities.The same day a platoon of halftracks run into a few T34s near Sinelnikovo;in a matter of moments Stukas arrived and destroyed the tanks allowing the platoon to continue the advance).

Rain!I want rain and mud. Oh,and triggers for AI editor and AA able to shoot down planes.

Nevermind,Reinstaling windows solved the problem

I get the same error message.Can you tell what solution you found ?

think so??? I overheared somewere that this was under development. I hope they are thinking about implementing it into CM:N. Aren't you Steve???

I like you made the game so versatile,it is a big help for most imaginative people.

triggers for the AI script. You know..."if the enemy reach that zone,group 3 counterattacks using this route" or "if friendly units of Group 1 cannot take that objective in 30 minutes,another route of attack is activated for Group 2 in order to help Group 1" etc. edit:and,of course,rain !

I remember CM Campaigns was exasperating delayed and finnaly...cancelled...

In fact I remembered I saw an old archive movie with German pioneers assaulting in the open.They had something we may consider a "smoke grenade",in fact a smoking stick with a wisp at one end,soaked into some kind of flammable material.Every man in the platoon had such a grenade and the sequence of actions went like this:throw it a couple of meters,rush forward,grab the stick again,throw it again and run forward again. And from what I've seen,those smoking sticks used simultaneously by the whole platoon deployed in line provided a decent cover.

haha...almost the same here

I thought the work was almost done! What should we understand from your post above?

there is a difference about the subject,but as about freedom of speech they should be treated as equal. Someone can say he wants a gibbon as president of US,should he be banned? No,just that everyone else would treat him as half-nutty weak minded guy. Oh,and...yes better back to wargaming!

come on,the guy expressed his thoughts.He thinks the Bundeswehr is a mercenary army.So what,is this kind of thought forbidden by any law? He thinks USA's nickname is USrael.OK so what?big deal,nothing to write home about ! He may wery well be a nazi.So what? I think you should either allow all political views to be expressed or interdict all political topics.You cannot be biased from this point of view. I saw a British TV show where the guest had the sicke and the hammer on a red t-shirt(and it wasn't a political show) and there was no problem(and shouldn't have been). C'mon BF,let them all speak or make them all shut up.

Does anyone know is there a way tho change the ammo into the editor for larger groups without micromanage for every unit? It isn't very comfortable to lose time modifying ammo for every single unit especially in very large scenarios.