BFCElvis
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4 minutes ago, Artkin said:
Yes I did, been preoccupied lately, I just signed up for it, thanks!
Boom!
Out of curiousity I checked in the back end to see how many had signed in so far and saw there were 11. Made me wonder if you'd had an issue. Apparently not. It now shows 12.
It's on like Donkey Kong.
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On 2/23/2024 at 1:19 PM, Artkin said:
Lets do it!
Did you get the Join information email? It looks like you're the only one that hasn't signed in yet.
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On 2/25/2024 at 1:34 PM, kei23 said:
can not find the download link on patches page.
can anyone re-upload it?
Here ya go:
https://battlefront.sharefile.com/d-sa02bf64c06bf44bda03755affbbe8382
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57 minutes ago, laurent 22 said:
1st round finished!
Thank you @BFCElvis for these 2 battles which will be written in the history books, I will observe a minute of silence on the graves of your men in Colleville-sur-Mer in Normandy, an American cemetery not far from my home.
Great games. I really enjoyed them.....even though I lost both battles. I didn't get slaughtered as bad as I normally do and I'm thankful for that.
Your strategy as the Americans was brilliant. I saw that you had 2 KIA and only 10 wounded.
For anyone who saw my earlier puzzled post on my battle playing as the Germans. He let me roll untouched to all 3 Touch victory locations. It turned out he had all, but 1, unit in the Rally Location. I could not crack that even a little bit. And the 1 unit, a MG team, that wasn't there was in the stone farm house. I had tried to move a large healthy force across the field by the farmhouse to try and flank the Rally Location. The MG team stopped them dead. Most of the German units in this battle are Green and Conscript units. That gun held them all down. Brilliant.
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The Combat Mission Shock Force 2 - Invitational Grand Tournament has been announced today!
This tournament is for the Chamionship of the Grand Tournament that recently ended. It will be played by the top 12 players from the 3 Grand Tournaments. I recognize a lot of the names and wish you all good luck. If I don't tag someone who is on our forums please raise your hand!
The scenarios used for the Tournament are 3 brand new battles made by @George MC. The scenarios were made especially for this tournament. They are some interesting looking battles (I've been playing one against George..... and getting whooped...as usual). We will make all of the scenarios available.
Matrix/Slitherine plans to showcase each battle starting with a live Twitch.
These players will have a benefit that we don't get with other tournaments. Because this is invitational there is almost no shot of someone's opponent being a no-show or not knowing how the system works.
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2 hours ago, Cirrus said:
Sure. I did that already. I actually do every day anyways. Because of email redirector etc. etc. gmail throws lots of mail to spam.
Are you positive that the email address that you use when logging in through the game is the same email address associated with your Matrix account?
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22 minutes ago, The_Capt said:
Oh good this guy came back. It was getting slow in here.
13 minutes ago, FlemFire said:I can provide you many quotes, essays, papers, pamphlets, government researches from or adjacent to socialists and unionists in that 1900-1940 timeline talking about immigration if you would like. If it helps your dog whistles, they weren't talking about 'Hispanics' back then, but Slavs, Greeks, Irish, Italians, and others. Then again, slyly implying this is a racial issue is the trick deployed by the industrialists to get the pro-union left onboard with their own destruction. I would expect a man with your surface level approach to warfare to be of a similar mind when it came to economic issues.
No, not good Capt. I asked nicely to cut it out. This is the 2nd time I'm asking nicely.
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Guys, you're going way off topic. Please stop.
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On 2/17/2024 at 8:09 AM, IMHO said:
Moved to a new PC, installed CMBS, run Activate Product yet when I start the game exe it opens a window that looks like Activate Product yet with now buttons. Yet cursor changes to Press Button where those buttons should be they're just not displayed.
What I did:
- Downloaded Base Game v.2.18
- Tried to run Activate Product. It hasn't accepted Engine 3 key yet accepted Engine 4 key.
- Got the above described problem.
- I downloaded separate Engine 4 and run update installer.
- Run Activate Product with Engine 4 key. It finished successfully.
- Got the above described problem again.
So the questions:
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Long time ago I bought Engine 3 base game and Engine 4 upgrade. How can I get to Engine 4 v.2.18?
- Should I download and run Engine 3 first and then Engine 4 or the base game is now Engine 4?
- If the base game is Engine 4 might it be that since I bought the games long time ago my links need to be first used for Engine 3 installation then Engine 4?
- In what sequence I should run Activate Product? Engine 3 first with Engine 3 license then install Engine 4 and run it's own license.
- Potential problem with licenses might be over the course of time I had CMBS installed on three platforms and I was trying to install on the fourth. I needed the fourth since one of those three died so technically I had three at any given time. Yet I cannot run license deactivation on the one that died if I need to. Should I have deactivated that? Can tech support deactivate it on their side now?
- I actually have two copies of CMBS in my inventory so I should be able to have CMBS on three sumultanious platforms yet I'd like to sort out which licenses are tied to which platform. Can tech support help me with that?
- If tech support can help with sorting out the licenses please DO NOT deactivate them without contacting me first. I have two installations working and I don't want to loose them.
Thanks for your help if I might be helped
PS @BFCElvis should I tag you?
Installing the games is much more simple now than it used to be. I your case, use the download link in your order number : 315493. That is your 4.0 Upgrade purchase. The download link there is an all-in-one full game installer. There is nothing else that you need to download and install. Once installed, use the Activate New Products utility and enter your 4.0 key and the original base game key (order number 307155). It doesn't matter what order you enter them. I checked both license keys and they have multiple activations available.
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1 hour ago, laurent 22 said:
Sorry, I thought you read I am your opponent
Yes I redeployed to the rear from the start. I thought you had seen the smoke screen to cover my retreat, and I feared that you would immediately launch after me. I didn't anticipate that you would find out so late that I was gone, you won't have much time left to take the last objective. My area is easier to defend because all access routes are exposed. I don't know if I made the right choice because the Germans have good firepower, however the panzerfaust will be ineffective if I manage to keep them at a good distance.
For my part, playing the Germans, I don't think I can take the US rally zone, your right wing is holding up well and I'm running out of ammo.
(I'm tempted to use the pronoun "he" instead of "I" like Julius Caesar in "The Gallic Wars"
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IT'S YOU!!!!! I am so happy to hear that. I looked to see if anyone had the handle that is used for the Martix site and didn't find a match. It's excellent to know that the person that is going to crush me is here.
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14 hours ago, Vergeltungswaffe said:
Hope it's not the latter, too gamey for me.
Nope. He's not being gamey. It looks like he set up in the rear and conceeded the touch locations.
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As I reached the last touch location contact was made. And I have died appropriotely.
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12 minutes ago, Vergeltungswaffe said:
I love those battles.
Recon and sneakin'.
We're down to 17 minutes left in the 35 minute battle. Still no sign of him. I've touched the next VL. I only have 1 more touch location.
At this point I am guessing that he has either ammased all of his units in the rally location or done some math and figured that he'll win if he does nothing more than take 0 casualties.
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How's this for weird......
In one of my battles we're fighting it out pretty hard. On the leaderboard it shows as 38-22.
The other shows at 0-0 because we've made no contact. It is the battle that I play as the Germans. We're 15 turns into the battle. I've taken 2 of the touch locations. No contact at all. Not even a sound contact. Not a single shot fired.
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45 minutes ago, JM Stuff said:
Pleasse BFC admin delete this thread !!
I don't delete threads but I can lock it, if you'd like.
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Pinning for better visability
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1 hour ago, Centurian52 said:
Thanks. I didn't check my CMFB scenarios folder before leaving for work. But I have the Steam version, so I probably don't have it if no one else who got the Steam update has it. I might regret going straight for the Steam version, rather than buying on BFC and redeeming on Slitherine for a Steam key.
This was 100% "end user error" on my part. I own this one, not Slitherine, not Steam, not Charles. Me. It will likely be like this until the next time a CMFB patch is made.
Fortunately, this does not affect gameplay at all. What it affects is 4 scenarios that had some minor changes made (the original versions are still in the Steam release) and the addition of 1 new battle.
The Pacthes page not contains the scenarios:
Patches -
I am going to create a link on our patches page for the updated scenarios and the new one.
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4 hours ago, Sakai007 said:
Ok, thank you for the heads up. I didn't think it would, don't know if you don't ask and all that. Am still slogging through mission 4 of the US campaign so the wait won't kill me, lol.
I got confirmation a little while ago. It'll be released on Steam (and Matrix) on Monday.
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17 minutes ago, Sakai007 said:
So quick question, can I install this patch over my steam install? I have all my CM games installed through steam for convenience, but they haven't been updated with this patch yet.
No. The exe files are different.
The Steam patch will be available very soon. I was testing it this morning. They're on UK time and don't usually do things on weekends. So it may not be until Monday.
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6 hours ago, Vacillator said:
Excellent, thanks John
. I'm a naughty boy and ignored the PBEM save instruction. It works fine anyway.
Whose is the new scenario - is it a Benpark or someone else? Looks good - preserving force eh? I might learn something
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Mark Ezra made that one.
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6 minutes ago, Andrew Kulin said:
John, is there any requirement to apply patch during orders phase of any existing games? I am in a middle of campaign - not sure if that past requirement only applies to PBEM games or all games.
Also does this get borked up in any way due to Steam? As in Steam updating the game automatically and you are not in a position to go into the older version and save game in orders phase before the update?
Excellent questions!
It shouldn't mess anything up. Sometimes patches can. I was worried about the Tournament that is scheduled to start on February 5th. I started a PBEM++ battle with myself using v2.10 and then tried to continue it with v2.11 and didn't have a problem. That said, we've left it up to Slitherine if they can get the patch up on Steam before the tournament starts or if we should push the start date back a couple of days to be safe. Also, I don't know how long it will take them to patch. They told me it's usually 1-2 days. So if you're using Steam you're better off making the save sooner rather than later
Any saved games it's always safer to make sure to save the game in the plot phase before installing the patch. You'll probably be fine if you don't but it doesn't hurt to be extra sure.
Combat Mission Shock Force 2 - Invitational Grand Tournament
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Yup. 4pm GMT........which is 11 minutes from now.