Elmar Bijlsma

You betcha, you turner on of fog! :mad: :mad: :mad: btw, can I get that scenario? Love to try my hand again without fog.

Dear Lord, not Nestor! I'm still playing ROW IV with the guy! :eek: To all my opponents in 3 of V, prepare to meet my doom. [ February 03, 2005, 05:53 PM: Message edited by: Elmar Bijlsma ]

That's cruel and inhumane punishment. Actually, I'd rather welcome another lesson from Walpurgis. As for Her Reichmann, would like to play him again, but I'm concerned that CM-X2 would come out before the games are complete, thus making it impossible to focus on finishing. </font>

The experience bonus is 'under the hood' so while it says conscript they were performing as regulars. That kinda answers the 2nd question too. Conscripts act like veterans, not veterans looking like conscripts. No bug, feature. I guess they chose this way because they have their scenarios designed with a troops a specific quality. I guess it's easier giving them a bonus then changing their quality. Please don't ask what happens if elite troops get a +2 bonus. Is there an uber elite quality?

I'm not thanking anyone just yet. I played Proof of Honour as the Germans. I still wake screaming at night with a vision of a AC hurtling out of the fog, past my Jagdpanzer IV KO-ing it with it's .50! :eek: :mad: :mad:

Woohoo! I'm in. Uh-oh. Just received a letter from my ISP, they are upping my data transfer rate. Last time they did that was the start of ROW IV and I got disconnected by mistake for months. They'd better not do so again if they value their office decor. :mad:

Yeah, I was a bit dissapointed too. I think there was a BBC docu over the Indian Army. I think it was called 'The forgotten army'. Not quite what they deserved. Hate to imagine an Indian veteran loading up CMAK. I'm glad the Anto-Podeans made it in and all but if you leave out the Indians you do them a grave injustice and perhaps from a moral standpoint it would have been better to have a generic Commonwealth army.

This seems like a good place to ask a question I always was afraid to ask. Is there a difference spotting wise between a tank with a dead TC and one with a buttoned TC? I'd asume with a cupola there's a marked difference, but without one? Not that I have noticed anyway. Has borg spotting hidden the difference from me?

I believe we were. BFC, fix and un-fix it back again. Or somefink.

If you unbutton and re-button them each turn this won't happen. Ever. So I'm thinking you messed up, not your Tac AI tankers. On artillery I'm with you, the CMBO model was far less frustrating. In CMBB/CMAK if you can't see it you can't shell it, not really. That sucks, fair point. On infantry survival depending on the tile they are in. Well yes, what would you expect? People in woods are going to last a bit longer then people in the open. Bomb proof Matildas? Sure they can stand up to a lot but they can be destroyed. You think they are too tough? I get the impression the Italians and the DAK shared your view. End of this year, early next. Or therabouts. In the mean time, load up GI Combat every time you get tired of CMAK. Works great.

This is not the post you are looking for. Move on! [ January 28, 2005, 06:44 AM: Message edited by: Elmar Bijlsma ]

Rebored is what I heard.

I find them very unwieldy. They can't profit from the array of movement orders other vehicles have, thin armour and you WILL put them back to front (front to back?) sooner or later. Keyhole-ing works OK but try any other usage and it's just too unwieldy to use. Can't hide, can't move well. If you want a mobile 17pdr get the Firefly or Achilles or even seriously consider buying a truck for the 17pdr ATG. I keep using them because I WANT to like them but I keep getting them thrashed. Not that I don't thrash every vehicle assigned to me but Archers are way worse.

Make sure you install/copy the patch to the right directory. IIRC the patch wanted to install into a Combat Misser directory instead of the directory I had CMAK installed in. You can manually place the files installed to the right directory. Just overwrite what's already there. btw Hi, welcome and don't let the grogs scare you.

60 seconds is just right. The right amount of time to build up tention of the "oh no, now what are they doing?" quality whilst not long enough to grow frustrated at the amount of time the underlings go without my guiding hand. And not quite so short that I feel the troops need constant hand holding. Besides think of the time spend playing a PBEM game if it were 30 seconds. No, I'd rather send out a 60 second turn and be done with it for that afternoon.

Yeah, I thought CMBB wasn't really for me because the east front wasn't where my interrest was. After buying CMBB I'm fully interested in the east front. It's worrth every dollar, dirt cheap or not.

Could someone move the quote button away from the edit button?

I wish I could say that that completely reassured me. You guys have a better idea then us as to what it's going to be like and have proven that you lot know what you are doing. But CM was always like chess on steroids. I didn't mind the thinking two turns ahead but I'm going to hate also having to order the moves two turns before making them. Let alone if the pawns go off on an adventure of their own choosing. Responding to a fluid situation as it develops is half the fun for me. So please please please,when in doubt err on the side of caution/fun rather then wizz bang realism. Otherwise I foresee much frustration at my end as I have to wait ages before I can correct a bad situation. Because I get into bad situations... A LOT. Then again you guys should probably ignore me. While reading this thread I often had to apply corks in an attempt to keep my brain from leaking out.

I very much like the Mk VIB light tank. Thanks for a great job, really nice job.

Other Means, it's supposed to have a crusader turret. Like this one:

You do realize that because of this post more people (including me) will have downloaded your trench then otherwise would have, just to see how you messed up. Me? I'm just happy there are modders doping what I have no ability to do. Thanks.

Or this one? And then there apparently is the US 105mm Pack Howitzer but it hasn't got a unit picture and is quite rare. So let's ignore that one. Anyway, keep them hidden till you really need it or your opponent really bunches his inf. Might take down a decent tank under the right circumstances too. 105mm guns are quite usefull but not quite the 'oomph' of the German 150mm who only needs one good hit to pay for itself.

VT without little doubt. But the small stuff is very good too. It won't kill your men inside the trench. No, that be too easy. It'll break their morale with the sheer amount of shells exploding nearby (if you spend the same points on small stuff as on the big arty) and make them flee their trench with hardly a casualty. And then they die. btw VT is Variable Time fused shells, though that isn't actually accurate. They are basically proximity fuses (similar to Flak) that make the shell explode at a set height above the ground. Very good for dispersing shrapnel in an optimal fashion.

According to the sources, it was Fishfang. Sounds hokey, yeah. </font>