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  1. I hate getting used to a new computer! I tried it again and it's installing just fine from the D drive, as I speak. I'm really relieved, 'cause this laptop is for personal use on a three-month business trip coming up in January (I'm getting sent to Orlando for the winter!), and CMAK is the one game I keep going back to. Now, if I can just get used to the bloody touch-pad.
  2. I've had CMAK installed on my desktop PC forever. The old thing is dying, however, and my new laptop just arrived. I tried to install CMAK but, while the laptop can read the CD, it doesn't want to install the game; it "doesn't respond." At the moment, I'm installing "Rome - Total War," and things seem to be going OK. Any ideas? Does it matter that I haven't taken CMAK off the old computer, yet?
  3. Oh, I'm enjoying it! You asked for comments, however, and I assumed you wanted to hear more than just compliments.
  4. Well, I haven't seen this comment anywhere, so I'll stick in my two cents (remembering that I'm only through about the 1st half). I think the book is a tad unbalanced. If the reader isn't somewhat familiar with the overall campaign, the groupings of individual narratives gives one the sense that the British are constantly winning. I think the problem is the lack of overall context; maybe a page should have been spent alongside each map, giving a quick overview. Another problem is the perceived comparative lack of German and Italian accounts. I would think that there are enough English translations available that I don't understand why they haven't been included.
  5. Congrats! Umm... What happens at 6 AM? Do you plan on being done by then?
  6. Which one? I'm rather proud of the editing job I did on the march version.
  7. I've found it a good idea to construct a "dummy" scenario, where I can try out things like this, where I'm not sure things are going to work the way I intend them to. Way off in a corner is an enemy bunker facing the wrong way, just to make the "game" valid without fear of a mobile enemy screwing up my trials.
  8. http://www.wtblock.com/resume/code_reuse.htm
  9. Am I the only one having trouble downloading the usage guide?
  10. I don't think it's supposed to work in either editor or setup, just the game.
  11. Well, in *the* classic meeting engagement, Gettysburg, no one was surprised, and everyone, for the most part, knew where everyone else was (except Lee didn't know where Stuart was, but that's another matter). Meeting Engagement doesn't necessarilly mean that someone is surprised, it just means that everyone is arriving on the field at the same time. As far as the limbered/unlimbered question, who's to say that the guns weren't unlimbered the turn before the game started?
  12. *Where* is/are CFBB/Worthington? I'm an hour south of Montreal.
  13. Now, what kind of dork would do something like that?
  14. I've really only played a couple of scenarios, Another Hill and Gathering Before the Storm, but I've played them several times from both sides. I've also played around with the scenario designer, completely replacing both forces in Gathering, then playing it out. I've noticed something, but never got around to aking about it. Is it just me, or does the AI insist on fighting with one hand tied behind its back? In Gathering, only about half of the AI forces even attempt to approch the central ridge, while virtually nothing is sent against the village. In my experimental scenario, half the Allied infantry (the ones in trucks) stayed on the trucks and the trucks retreated to the map edge and stayed there. In Hill, the Allied tank is almost always the only unit to advance into combat; the jeeps and infantry usually sit outside the valley having a smoke. Playing as the Americans, the German sniper is the only unit that gives me a lot of trouble. Am I missing something?
  15. Not meaning anything derogatory, or anything, but why would I want to bother with CMMOS instead of the CM Mod Manager?
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