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  1. 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.
  2. 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
  3. 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.
  4. 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?
  5. 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??
  6. 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.
  7. 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!
  8. Thanks for the idea but I'm definitely running from the hard drive.
  9. 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??
  10. 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.
  11. <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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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
  14. 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.
  15. I posted some time ago with a win2k text problem. The worst part was that when saving a pbem game, I could not see the game name and had to remember what the next number was. But the text in the game itself was distorted as well. I got some helpful replies such as turn FSAA on or off and another one which suggested I use an old Dell driver. FSAA I thought did something, but not really. The old Dell driver worked, but it was very slow for everything else and I decided the text problem was not all that bad... Anyway, I was mucking around in my cmbo\bmp folder and found a bmp with fonts on it. There was another obviously modded clone of this bmp there too. By renaming the old file 3002something else.bmp and substituting this new version of 3002, voila! Every text issue has gone and I can use the latest nvidia drivers too. This is a win if you are experiencing the same prob. If you have text issues in CM send me an email and I will send you the bmp its only 17k. It might just work for you too! Cheers Dallas
  16. Hey thanks guys! Forcing FSAA for all applications worked fine at 1x2. I would never have found it by myself. Wishing you both many tcp/ip victories (except against me)
  17. I've recently upgraded to Win2K and installed Service Pack 1 and am using the latest nvidia drivers (6.3.1) for the ge force 256 card. The game works fine except for some annoying graphic glitches. Particularly annoying is that I can't read what I am typing in the pbem save game textbox or pbem password box. I am getting good at guessing what I have written but is there someone out there who actually knows how to fix my problem?
  18. Hi all, Glad this wasnt locked up because mixed in with all the emotional fog is something valuable. I think it is a mixture of freedom of expression, thought, understanding and tolerance. My take is that anyone can use any name they like.. even the big guy 'Devil' is ok with me. I would take great pleasure in kicking their butts via pbem and would delight in taunting them with historical references to their namesake's failings. Educating without bullying or overbearing tactics. I think the fascination with SS etc. has to do simply with their 'image'. I would guess that most of those on this forum with germanic names are younger and more impressionable. While its productive for the older members to point out to them that their namesakes were not nice people, it is also important to show that we are balanced and capable of understanding them. Otherwise, human nature dictates that they will casually dismiss us as 'fuddy duddies, lamers' or whatever. Hey, if 'image' wasn't powerfully attractive to young people, the whole rock music industry would collapse. It's well documented that Hitler took advantage of this and designed insignia, uniforms, posters etc himself with a great deal of personal attention to the details. It's so powerful, it's still working now. Let's not hammer the kids for being impressionable, lets simply tell them how it really was and let them discover the truths for themselves over time. We must tell them, but with consideration and tolerance.
  19. <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by maddmatt: He took a course on Western Thought ...etc. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Good argument madmatt. As this thread has not yet been closed for it's irrelevance to cm, here's the well publicised situation that the professor used as the basis for his experiment. <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR> But Joyce Jillson, Hollywood astrologer to the stars (whose column is carried by the Tampa Tribune), unwittingly allowed ABC-TV reporter John Stossel an opportunity to demonstrate for his millions of "Good Morning America" viewers in November 1988 just how well astrology works in spite of it appearing not to be real. Jillson first prepared a detailed horoscope for a person unknown to her, whose birth information (which is all she requested) was supplied to her by Stossel. Stossel then distributed a copy of the completed horoscope to each student in an adult education class (all 20 students had given Stossel their own birth information one week earlier). The students, thinking that they were each reading their own personalized horoscopes, marveled at how Jillson knew things about themselves that no one else could possibly know! But they all, male and female, were reading the same horoscope, that of someone described by Jillson as "enormously bright . . . [with] sexual charisma . . . great charm . . . a sense of moral propriety . . . [who] may know celebrities . . ." Stossel thought that Jillson may have incorrectly assumed the birth information to have been his own. But Jillson's one-size-fits-all unisex horoscope was actually based on the birth information of mass murderer Edward Kemper III who, in addition to many other "charming" deeds, had cut off his mother's head and used it as a dartboard! Concluded Stossel, while confronting Jillson on camera with the facts and watching her squirm, "I just think this shows it's a hustle, and you make money by writing general things that everybody believes is about them." <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Obviously a very embarrassing episode for astrologers. However, even scientists understand (more than most because of their well documented history of scepticism of concepts that were later proven ie. gravity) that the absence of proof is not quite proof of absence. btw the eastern astrology that I use definitely uses date of birth, not date of conception.
  20. <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Durruti: Surely you would also need the time of day and the latitude and longitude of birth location to get anything more than a generalised 'newspaper column' type reading? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Absolutely right, but I use more than just astrology. I have found that eastern astrology and numerology also can give an ok generaralised reading based on simply a date of birth. Now if you add all three general analyses together... you get a much more accurate picture of the personality. Certainly more complete than any one type of analysis in isolation.
  21. Willhammer, About the birthdate of cm, I don't do that type of analysis (nations etc) but many others do. It comes down to personal interest. My interest is in personality analysis. But if anyone can tell me the exact date, time and from where in the US the first message indicating the game's release was posted, I will have a go for fun. Sailor Malan, Giving dates in the format ddmmyyyy means that if the day is less than 13, I use the wrong date of birth. Some people are posting dd mmm yyyy which I should have specified. ie 12 may 1954... This format is unambiguous and is much preferred. If anyone posted ambiguously, please repost in this format. BigMac, ______Have fun! How many responses will it take to come up with something statistically significant, ie "viable"?_____ I was hoping for well over a hundred. I don't know how many members the forum has but I do know that its a lot more than the 33 that have responded so far. The dates are still dribbling in, I will wait a while longer before posting the results. This delay also gives me a chance to do something interesting with html.
  22. Lorak, I've got no idea what the leap year coincidences mean. But it is interesting. Maybe it means that you will only win ladder games of cm in leap years Wilhelm, Sorry, It's unusual for me to be asked for my date of birth My date of birth is 17 Oct 1957 I have 29 dates of birth so far and have graphed them in several ways and although there are several interesting anomalies, the conclusion I have come to is that no conclusions can be made Before the doubters get too excited, maybe this is because the 29 people are a sub set of the forum as a whole ie. "Those who like cm AND are willing to post their dates of birth." Maybe it is simply that cm attracts many types of personalities. I will post the results to my web site and provide a link for all who are interested.
  23. Joe, You're right. I apologise for my abruptness. I was reacting to my disappointment at getting so few dates of birth and the well meant but none the less, condescending and patronising tone of the posts. Wilhammer, You forgot that you are an eight in Numerology which gives you an excellent mind for business and large scale enterprises such as controlling armies. Also, you have two threes which gives you a great deal of self confidence because your thought processes are very clear. Also you have a full creativity line which gives you excellent ideas. Also, you have a full mind line which gives you great mathematical ability. With all this power at your disposal, your challenge is not to become too arrogant.
  24. I second CEO's tweak. I play with random ai forces and as soon as you id one unit you know the experience level of the whole opposing force. Also, it's challenging to have mixed units yourself... don't close assault with the green squad etc. It must be somewhat realistic to have mixed experience level platoons.
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