Elmar Bijlsma
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Traffic has increased and is getting more detailed with every screenie that falls into our grubby paws. I would like it if the CMAK stuff got a seperate forum now. I was premature earlier but since last week I would prefer it. And if I'm any judge of human nature, the moment that a forum is created posts would triple in volumne just because it's there.
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I didn't know this too. I always shunned the winter mods for the hassle. Me thinks I have some DL-ing to do!
This game just keeps surprising me with new stuff or marvelous details I hadn't noticed.. Fantastic!
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Objection yer honour!Originally posted by Moon:Yes, it's barely noticeable in that screenshot, but muzzle blast does create dust clouds when the conditions are right. Oh, wait, did I just answer a question nobody's asked?
Martin
Some guy with an idiotic bird name did ask. You just delayed answering by a month or two.
But thanks nonetheless, that's very good news to hear! I am already looking forward to enshrouding a 25pdr batteries with dust clouds, and their targets even more! -
I am nearly certain one is in, but something with the dreadfully underused exit points would work very good here IMO.Originally posted by Firefly:I'd be very surprised if a Beda Fomm scenario isn't one of the scenarios on the disk. I don't have any inside kmowledge, but virtually every game that has featured the Desert War in the past has covered it.
Something I would really like is a Australian night 'patrol'. They seemed to have made quite a reputation for themselves in a very short time.
I have dozens of battles I would like to see (parts of) but I have faith that most will be included anyway. A request for a Kidney Ridge scenario would be kinda pointless, I'm sure.
[ September 29, 2003, 09:33 PM: Message edited by: Tweety ]
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They rarely get used but they have saved my bacon every now and again when my KVs punch to deep into an infantry position. A quick burst from the rear turret MG will likely prevent the approaching squad from doing anything dangerous before the turret can swinmg round. I find them utterly useless as long as you don't make a mistake but if you do make one, they can be a lifesaver. But you can't count on it, either, quite often the crew are too busy to bother with the rear MG.
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Something based around Beda Fomm would be nice. There aren't too many scenarios wich use exit point, this battle could be a great excuse. Italians trying to flood past the roadblock. Oh yeah!!!
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Wow, that big a difference? Wich one is closest? I'm guessing and hoping the A10, even though it looks to have a bit much white in it(weathering?).Originally posted by wwb_99:Tweety,
Might well be the computers they were taken on or the graphics packages used to generate the images. They look alike ingame.
WWB
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Covered arcs while moving to contact? It's gems like this that make me think I had better read the manual again. Thanks FK!
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If you compare the camo of the latest two Brit tanks the Cruiser has a better shade of blue then the Stuart, IMO. I don't know why but I keep trying to look through the Stuarts blue, it has this weird opaque-like quality to it. It's quite off-putting.
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I had a rather pathetic case of immersion a few months back. I was playing an operation, can't remember wich one. The weather was rainy. And next battle, rainy again. And I kept being rained on battle after battle. So here's me sitting in my home wich is flooded in sunlight and I'm getting a SAD-like feeling because of the crappy weather. I couldn't believe it when I noticed it.
:eek: And you are not the only one who during a snowstorm hunces up from the cold. Weird but I can't stop myself.
Not quite immersion but playing Danube Blues very aggressively as the Russians while Prokovievs blares from the stereo, that had me in a real trance. There's nothing quite like a fast moving T-34/85 swiveling it's gun in preparation to engaging an unsuspecting Tiger down a side steet while listening to Dance of the Knights.
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And very psychedelic that scheme is too. Something for Mr Dorosh and his eyewatering mods?
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I'm a little Stuart, short and stoudt
Hihi, and it looks good, too. But my eyes are drawn to the HT in the background. Does my eye see a gun on top of it? I think it does. Sweet!
Anyone care to venture a guess as to what we are looking at?
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The latest pic looks like a (75mm) PAK to me, not a 6pdr.
I know, I know, WIP. But I remember the horror that is the CMBO 25pdr, so I will ask it despite knowing of the good faith work of BFC. We are going to have a honest to goodness 6pdr with wavey gunshield top and that curious extra plate in front, right?
On the topic of Brit guns, will we see the early war 25pdr or the one with a muzzle flash surpressor (or both)? I hope that the earlier model is in at least, since that was the model used during the heydays of the 25pdr in the direct fire role.
And to keep going on guns. Will the heavier guns be modelled too? I hope so, I've read several accounts of the heavy stuff firing over open sights. (Commonwealth accounts mainly, since that's where my main interest lies)
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Airborne troops with Kangaroos? How Gamey!
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I knew if I kept on clicking on the link it would start to work for me sooner then later.
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I second firefly's nomination.
The time commanders this time were completely clueless. And the two guys we're the worst. They had all this huff and puff about wich tactics we're better but hadn't a clue, and warnings from the other players never even registered.
'We are outnumbered 6-1, quick let's spread out our forces as thinly as possible'. Everything they could do wrong they did do wrong. Each command was unclear and was carried out only after 5 minutes of debate, at wich time a poor order became a disastrous one. They ignored all threats except the one they'd focus on. It was dreadfull. I thought the guys of the first show made mistakes at times but the got it spot on compared to this team. Honestly they didn't do a single thing right. Not one. The repeatedly had troops facing away from the enemy!
The male general upon al troops being surrounded.:"We are completely surrounded, should we retreat?" Duh, theres hundreds of Icini on all sides, where he was planning to go I don't know. Another real gem is where he said something along the lines that the Icini we're holding the flat ground because they hated to fight on it and thus prevented the romans from fighting on the plain. This believe resulted in them moving away from the high ground. He was so eager to move forward he wouldn't let his luitenants deploy their troops for battle first. Lovely also where they debated near the end if their archers could help out. They missed that they were ridden down in the first few minutes of the battle.
Sorry to Hijack this thread but as it is named Worst Commander, these people should be included despite being OT.
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Sweet looking screenies, that's the pics I'd been waiting for, some Brits in shorts. And some nice looking Crusaders. I can't wait.
One question though, how long have you guys been working on these beauties? 11 sept 1970? wow!
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date on the "Tank Trio" has been fixed.
[ September 11, 2003, 06:41 PM: Message edited by: Tweety ]
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It's definitly worth taking along you don't plan a swift fire and maneuvre battle with it. I had one 75mm Churchill take on a Tiger I at approx 300m. I knew it was a good choice when in withstood it's 88mm shells for nearly four turns, when a Cromwell showed up on the Tigers flank and nailed it.
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Kingfish, did you manage to get a replacement for our section (1-7)yet? I'm eager to finish the sucker off.
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Those Crusaders you saw, are they in image 40? They look like A13s to me. They seem to have a higher turret then the Crusader, though it's hard to be sure from the image what they are. We could do with a better image. (wink wink, nudge nudge)
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*Bump*
Because I think I know the answer but would like to make sure.
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that's the question.
On a thread over at the CMBO forum Moon said the following:
Dust for example makes a ton of a difference. Remember, it's not only kicked up by moving vehicles, but also by artillery barrages and main gun fire.
Now that last one escaped my notice before. Does this mean a large calibre gun firing wil kick up dust aswell? That would be great. Or is Moon refering to detonations of shells fired from on map guns and tanks?
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Obviously you'd want the 88mm mounted instead.
You can only mount certain sizes of weapons on vehicles, also depending on their role. It's a scout never intended to take out well armoured tanks but rather a scout to fend of light tanks and ACs. For weapon and ammo size the 20mm is value for money for this purpose..
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I could do without such an option. I like CM simulating commanding a company not simulating a company comander.
What's the point of a game of maneuvring troops about, where half the time you can't maneuvre troops ?
I hate to see resources spent on taking away commands instead of adding them.
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Hardly to much expectation, I am yet to see it KO anything that a light Panzerbuchse couldn't. For the much vaunted tank killer, that's a bit dissapointing, isn't it?
The only medium tanks I ever saw it KO were, ofcourse, my panzers. :mad:
Beyond Overlord
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I've read a fair few accounts of observers crawling into KO-ed tank, and indeed of gunners taking shots at KO-ed because they suspected the same. So pretty realistic and would be nice or inclusion in the new engine.