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I tried to copy/paste it but apparently I can't do that with the text in the game. I suppose that I can make a screenshot but the best thing is to open the scenario in CMSF2. It is one that shipped with the game. Ambush in al Fubar. That will give you more information than just the text would anyway.

You already got points. I haven't even seen a movie yet or heard a shot fired. That's how much I suck.

The only thing that I would really recommend is making sure to get a dedicated video card. Either nVidia or AMD. The Intel integrated card isn't what you want to run the game on.

If you didn't complete the ceasefire before the time had run out you will have whatever the running score was at the time the clock stopped.

You should have 2 files in your In Progress list. The original and the one that I just processed.

You got a lucky draw, my friend. This will move you up the leaderboard fast.

That may to how it's done. I'll ask.

I am pretty sure it is done radomly.

The Fall of 1999. I'm not sure how much of CM history you know but, in the Fall of '99 Battlefront released a public beta demo for CM Beyond Overlord with the original CM1 game engine. The game itself didn't come out until June 2000. Between the Fall of '99 and then all we had to play were, initially, 2 scenarios, with a 3rd added around Christmas. The PBEM feature was included in the demo and many of us old timers played countless PBEM games in those months. Countless. And using only 3 scenarios. That is where I truly learned to suck at Combat Mission. I've continued that sucking through today. Start playing PBEM today. Don't worry about winning or losing. You'll have a lot of fun and learn what to do and not do in the game more quickly playing against a human.

The way tournament scenarios have to be set up, the Blue password is always filled in as blank before any player touches a file. But, when playing the Red side if the player enters somefink in the password field then it will have a password that isn't blank. In other words, before the file was sent to MrSpkr you entered a password. Try to think of what you may have entered. Otherwise, the battle is dead in the water and there isn't anything that can be done. This round ends in a couple of days anyway.......so there isn't much time to have played it. Regardless of how that plays out, welcome to our forum! It has been hard for us when there are people we want to reach out to to see if there is a problem but they aren't on our forum (or they are but under a different name). Which just gave me an idea...........Who here regularly posts on the Matrix forum? You have to have posted a certain number of times on their forum before you can send a PM. My account has all sorts of issues and has prevented me from posting there.....let alone sending PMs. But maybe someone here that posts there frequently can be a our "go to" person when we see players unresponsive.

I believe that once each player has sent a file for a battle that the 1,000 points is off the table. We'll find out soon enough. No, this won't happen. The only time the in game score is ever used if when a battle is completed and the final score is pushed to Slitherine. If a battle isn't completed then the running score is what will become the final score. At least that's what I have been told and saw when testing.........But we'll see on May 26th.

Call in sick and play CM all day......after waking up late.

It wouldn't have helped if you had. You brought to my attention that the wrong manual is with the Steam CMBN installation. It doesn't have the PBEM++ information in it. I grab what I posted from the manual that installs with Cold War.

Correct. As with the Battlefront version, when you install the game everything is installed. The license keys "unlock" the content. From the how to get your Steam key post:

In Steam, right click on the game in your Library. In the dropdown menu that appears move the cursor over Manage and then select "browse local files". From there you will see the Game Files folder to put scenarios, saved games, etc in. You will also find the Data folder to place your mods. You have found something that needs to be fixed, without even intentionally doing so. The Steam game manual is not the most current manual. We need to correct that. If it were the correct manual it would say this on page 30: .

It is not available until May 1944

Whenever Matrix and Steam have had sales we managed to stamp down our greed long enough to match their pricing.

Yeah......It has definitely been discussed. Not necessarily for Steam but updating all of the demos. What keeps getting in the way is that there aren't enough hours in the day. Heck, the Cold War demo hasn't been finished. Does Steam do demos? None of the games that I ever purchased on Steam had them. I also have access to every Slitherine/Matrix title and, although I haven't been through them all, I haven't seen any demos in those games.

It's been fixed.

It sounds like they (finally) sent the initial turn of your second battle. PBEM games for CM, both PBEM++ and regular PBEM battles, the first file each player gets is to only ceare an ingame password.

Have you opened a Help Desk ticket? If not, do so here: Help Desk

This is all fantastic news!!!!!!!

I've gotten a bunch of confirmations that 23.4.2 has fixed things for the players. Give it a try. You can always roll it back and let me know if it doesn't.

Only use the license keys for activation. For installation, use only your 4.0 Big Bundle purchase for those games.

Joe, I used your forum email address to see if I could find your account in the store. I think that I see what is happening. I only found 1 account and all of the early orders that I found were "mail only" orders. Back when we had the option of "mail only", "download only" or both the mail only orders had the license keys on the CD cases. That is why they don't appear in your account. They are on the physical CD cases.