Dallas

Comrade 1: What are we waiting for? Comrade 2: The road ahead has many twists and turns. I need to get it all straight in my head.

I think its that when the crew abandon the tank it is rightly not classified as a kill. I just played Yelnia yet again today and my tank hunter teams took out four tanks yet none of them were credited with a kill at the end. In each case the tank was abandoned. Perhaps we should check if the crews get the kill credit...lol

Sorry for the double post. Andreas, I am not sure if the source Lucas is accurate or not, but I have read other similar accounts and I find it hard to believe that it never happened. It may be that the fighting in this particular scenario (Yelnia Stare) is portrayed accurately, but without the option to robotically send your troops forward, you cannot create a historical scenario as described by Lucas' source, or others for that matter. Because its not included is not a game killer by any means. I'm just wondering why its not there.

One description of a Russian infantry attack that comes from Lucas in War on the Eastern Front says... "I can never forget the first mass attack by Russian infantry which I experienced Just after we came into the line during August 1941..." The same time period as the Yelnia Stare CMBB scenario. ..."The Soviet assaults on the other hand, were carried out by masses of men who made no real attempt at concealment but trusted in sheer weight of numbers to overwhelm us"... ..."The lines of men stretched to the right and left of our regimental front overlapping it completely and the whole mass of Russian troops came tramping relentlessly and solidly forward"... It goes on to describe how the later waves of Russians continued clambering over their piles of dead to continue the assault etc... With the current modelling of infantry in CMBB as seen in the demo, it will be impossible to set up a historically accurate Russian infantry attack scenario such as this. Given the attention to historical detail in all other areas, this seems odd. Perhaps the incidents I have read about are isolated but interesting and thus more saleable book material and the vast majority of Russian troops did behave as the demo Russians... anyone care to comment?

Perhaps an option that forces you to upgrade each existing unit to new tech levels at a cost might be worthwhile. It seems too easy that you can buy many units at low cost after researching Industrial Tech and then target other techs and have all your low cost units automatically upgraded. Alternatively, a number of points could be deducted on new tech advances depending on the number of affected existing units that are in play. If you don't have enough points.. you miss out on the advance??

Well guys, I reckon we should treat Shornofalldignity's offer to give us pretty yellow stars to sew on our sweaty blue singlets with extreme caution. His name sounds Irish to me and all Aussies know that the Irish are sneaky bastards and cannot be trusted. Mainly because we are mostly Irish ourselves. But thats beside the point. Have to admire his spirit though, so he must have been an Aussie in a previous life. It's because of this possibility that I vote we spare him. Perhaps just locking him away somewhere safe like the PENG thread where he can fantasize about crushing Australians without irritating anyone that matters.

Hey thanks Schullenraft this is the info I was after. I did not know of the dll verification feature... excellent stuff cause it might save me many hours of re installing!

Thanks for the idea but I'm definitely running from the hard drive.

Hi, recently I have been unable to pbem or save home made scenarios because my system does not display the load pbem game dialogue box or the scenario save dialogue... weird because it used to work perfectly. I can still play TCP/IP as that dialogue works fine and pre made scenarios work as well. I am running win2k and have recently updated to service pack 2 and latest directx 8.1a???. I suspect these changes are to blame as they are the only things that have changed on my system since cm pbem 1.12 last worked properly. Other than a complete re install, I can't think how to fix the prob... any tips or ideas before I begin this tedious and time consuming task??

I'm running win2k and have a geforce 256. I've tried every driver I could find and none work satisfactorily to eliminate graphics problems such as invisible text. Forcing anti aliasing does not help either. To make it worse, I can never bring CM back when minimised to the task bar. I get the 'ding of death' and have to restart the game. Anyone else have this problem? If so and you know what causes it please let me know. In the absence of any quick fix, I agree with the call for a programmed solution even at the expense of CM2 development.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by kverdon: Hmmm, I may be wrong but along time ago I seem to remember BTS saying that the CM games would be kept up to date.... Kevin<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> A long time ago before the demo when Steve and Charles ran the board, I was emphatically assured that CMBO would have the full battle replay functionality built into it. At that time the intention was also to update all previous versions of CM with any later enhancements. As we all know a plan rarely survives contact with the enemy. My guess is that BTS are muzzling themselves at this stage of CM2 development in case anything they say like the above comes back to haunt them later.

I've had the game for a long time and I still get thrashed by really good players. The really good players understand the strengths and weaknesses of each fighting object and deploy them so that they contribute the maximum to their well thought out co ordinated battle plan. Some of these guys actually do it for a living! I think the most important turn is the setup because that is where you set your tactics/strategy. If your strategy is flawed, it will tell in the end score. Keep playing and learning. Even the losses are fun.

Sorry Randy, the only option I have found (on this board somewhere) that fixes the text problem in Win2k is to download an old Dell driver. I did this and the CM text problem was solved but the driver is so slow and limits the resolutions that I could run at that I decided to put up with the impossible to read text in cm. I can try to find it on my system and email it to you if you really want it. Cheers, Dallas

Sorry, In my excitement I posted too hastily. Seems it fixes it for the first game only? Still have the same problems in later games...odd.