SgtMuhammed
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And let's not even mention the wrinckled, wooded terrain of Bavaria.
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Yes, the 88 was a strategic AA asset rather than a tactical one. Their only hope to bring down a fighter was to catch it in a fixed barrage, and for that you need a bunch of them.
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I was about ten feet from an M60 that had just started going into reverse on a hardstand. The tank hadn't moved more than about 2 inches when an end cap shattered and the track flew off. Got my attention.
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The last I heard from Steve on the subject was that Bogging does indeed simulate vehicle breakdown as well as actually getting stuck.
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I doubt this was something that BFC spent any time on. It worked for CMBO so why spend the effort to change it when there was so much other work to do.
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If your opponent doesn't choose a password then just pressing enter will access his turn. If you type in a wrong one it will tell you and not let you continue.
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Playing Scenarios Blind
SgtMuhammed replied to Lady Roxanne's topic in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin
I'm not sure what you are driving at. Do you mean you want to have a peek at the whole scenario, your stuff, his stuff, where they can go, etc.? Or do you just want a look at the map? You have all the time you want during the setup phase, why not just make your plan then? -
Greatest FO artillery disaster ever?
SgtMuhammed replied to A.E.B's topic in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin
Oh, here's another one. Silly me, after playing the Russians with their all in one volley rockets I forget to look at how many tubes my Nebelwerfer FO has. Once the first barrage stops falling I begin moving my assault troops forward. The lead company reaches the line of craters just as the next volley falls. I don't think I have ever seen rockets as accurate as those. -
Greatest FO artillery disaster ever?
SgtMuhammed replied to A.E.B's topic in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin
Back in CMBO I was calling in fire on a squad in a crater. 105 rounds were going off all around him but the guy was still hangin around. So as the battery is approaching rounds complete I move a Sherman to about 300 meters from the crater. Guess where the last round of the barrage fell. That's right, right in the TC's hatch. -
Scenario designers - I need your input
SgtMuhammed replied to GJK's topic in Combat Mission - Scenario Talk
I'll second that. It is easy for a designer to get caught up in creating a certain battle only to find out there is really no interest in it (Italian infantry line vs Soviet Tank Army for example). Having a kind of request area could help focus those creative juices. -
Kursk Operation - Playtesters wanted.
SgtMuhammed replied to SgtMuhammed's topic in Combat Mission - Scenario Talk
Thanks for the work Maus. I'll get the newest version out as soon as I can. -
Grog question on German military terminology
SgtMuhammed replied to Hans's topic in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin
I think a lot has to do with how permanent the group was intended to be or how much time there was to organize it. The German tendency was to just name groups after their commander if they were an adhoc grouping i.e. Kampfgruppe Peiper, or Gruppe Meyer, or Abteilung Schmidt. More permanent or longer planned units tended to get numbers like Skorzeny's 150th Panzer Brigade. So most likely the remains of a company of infantry commanded by Hauptman Ritter plussed up with a couple VG platoons and a tank would be Gruppe Ritter or Abteilung Ritter. This isn't from any official source, just what I have noticed. Note on American naming: A task force was usually battalion size or bigger while detachments of smaller than a battalion were called teams. Most of the time they were named after their commanders although they were sometimes named for locations or just given codewords (Team Cherry, Task Force Smith, Team Sword, etc.). [ May 16, 2003, 04:42 AM: Message edited by: sgtgoody (esq) ] -
Why does that nearly always seem to be the case with a lot of decent books. There are a couple out there that I want to pick up but their $100 (84 Euro, 60 Pound, for the international audience) tag is a little steep right now. Guess I won't have a choice once I start grad school. Here's another good one. I am reading it right now. "Rommel in the desert" by Volkmar Kuhn. It has some scenario material in it and is a fair read.
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Well said. I think if this is going to devolve into a colaboration debate then it will either get locked or moved to the General Forum, and we all know we don't want that to happen.
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Was the Tiger really "King"?
SgtMuhammed replied to OZ77's topic in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin
The guys who were fighting it thought so. Perception matters more than figures any day. P.S. Wasn't this exact same thread up just a couple of weeks ago? -
RPGs. Please report.
SgtMuhammed replied to flammenwerfer's topic in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin
That has pretty much been my experence as well. A very good reason to send infantry with your armor. -
The problem is that the Germans are still too busy feeling guilty about WWII to have a sense of humor about it.
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Vehicles that need modding, any suggestions??
SgtMuhammed replied to tracer's topic in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin
PzIIILs of schwere Panzerabteilung 505 in Kursk pattern. How about primer KTs for battle of Berlin.