JohnO

Took me 6 minutes to dl 386MB and ran my first battle and its awesome. Computer had no problem running it, going to lock the door pull the curtains shut throw out the cat so it wont walk across my keyboard See you guys in about a week JohnO

Hell, do like I did, just take the day off and relax. You'll get the download today. JohnO

Maybe we need are on thread labeled "Old Farts" JohnO

My very first war game was Kampfgruppe from SSI on my Commodore 128 computer now thats old. JohnO

The TMs are restricted for now. Unless your in the military or a DOD contractor. Not releasable to the public yet. JohnO

fire 6 rounds per minute. JohnO

Mailman? We had no stinking Mailman We had the Pony Express JohnO

Your absolutly correct MikeyD JohnO

Who cares what another person wrote about CM:SF. I will make my own judgment when I get the game in a day from now. And then I will post what I think about the game. JohnO

Didn't buildings, trees, and grass burned in the other CM games? JohnO

Another FM that will be of use is the FM 3-20.151c1 MGS Plt But the only way anybody can get it is if they are in the military or DOD contractor. Its not releasable to the public yet. JohnO

Yes JohnO

Excellent video JohnO

Moon and everybody else, as the person who started this thread about the AI. Let me get this straight, the Strat AI is only as good as the person who design a scenario while the TacAI is hardcoded in the game and can't be changed. With that in mine does it help that the person designing a scenario have some understanding on how the units fight? JohnO

Where I work at it is easy for me to get copy's but for now FM 3-20.15 Tank Plt (Dated Feb 2007) is not releasable to the public yet. However the old FM 17-15 Tank Plt is JohnO

After looking at the SimHQ AAR on a CM:SF battle. I would recommend at least looking at these FMs, FM 3-21.9 SBCT Inf Rifle Plt/Sqd FM 3-21.7 (FM7-7J) Mech Inf Plt/Sqd (Bradley) FM 3-20.15 Tank Plt Just my two cents JohnO

Go here to see the AAR that was posted yesterday, there are some nice screenshots during the fight AAR CM:SF SimHQ JohnO [ July 24, 2007, 06:50 AM: Message edited by: JohnO ]

I agree Joe. I preorder the standard CM:SF and will be checking it out myself. And I do trust BFC as well and I'm counting the days JohnO

Just so that you read the topic at the link I provided, (which some haven't) which nowhere in this article states anything about an issue of not having a tutorial, Round Table Entry: Artificial Humanity JohnO

Did a search and couldn't find anything on the AI. So the question is "How Smart or How Dumb" is the AI? Reading allot of reviews stating about the problems with the AI. I quote from the Flash of Steel web page which you can read at Flash of Steel "If the setup tells it to advance, it will until it meets fire. Then it stops, never to move until you decide to meet it. If it sees enemy armor, it will attack it with the nearest available unit, so good-bye infantry squad. It won’t seek cover from enemy artillery or make use of terrain in any sensible way. Every battle becomes a turkey shoot. " This is not my opinion. Just a way to ask the tester's what they saw when running the scenarios. JohnO

Thanks guys. Ryujin, I'm well aware of what you posted, I did twenty years in the military. All of it in the Infantry Again thanks guys for answering the question. JohnO

Thanks guys. Did any one see if any of the track vehicles on either side, threw a track when getting stuck or going over rocky terrain? JohnO

Question, to the Beta testers. Did any vehicles both Blue or Red side ever get stuck/immobilized due to terrain or thrown a track during play? JohnO

Question, while I wait for the 27 of July to get here I noticed from allot of the screen shots that I didn't see and soldier man the turret on the HMMWVs? Maybe they do, but from all the angles that was shown, I didn't see any soldier there. Also can the hatch for the driver be open? I see from the other screen shots of the Striker IFV and see soldiers in the back troop hatch. JohnO [ July 19, 2007, 01:36 PM: Message edited by: JohnO ]

Thanks for the hard work gibsonm. After moving my cursor over the screenshots I could make it large for me to see the words. Getting to old need new glasses JohnO