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    CMAK Euro Mod's?

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

    Posted

    Greetings folks. Been gone awhile and now have a hankering to play some CM, but in Europe. I was going to just load my old copy of CMBO up, but was wondering (after perusing the forum with no luck)if there has been any conversion of CMAK to the Area of Operation that CMBO had? Or mod's etc.

    Particular interest in Cobra, France/Belgium (or for that matter anything that was in CMBO's realm) would be appreciated.

    Thanks!

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    HQ and Indirect Fire:Line Color

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

    Posted

    Greetings. First, I searched this and didn't find

    a question of this sort. Second, been playing

    CM from the beginning and have all three (and demo's:) But I don't play these all the time, so I always do the tutorial's to 'freshen' up (although a friend of mine wanting to pbem goes nut's I take the time to do this instead of sending him a game turn:)

    My question: in the CMAK 'Quick Reference

    Guide' tutorial, p.21, 2nd paragraph, it

    states that if I have a good HQ LOS to target

    and the mortar team is within command (and

    the HQ is not hiding), it can (i.e. the mortar

    team) target the OPFOR target and an 'orange'

    line' will extend to target after placing the

    fire location. O.k. But the CMBB manual say's

    (p.129-30) that the mortar team can fire, but

    the line will still be black and it will be

    'area fire'. Is the CMAK tutorial wrong? (it's

    the same in the .pdf manual too). I've tried

    it to see if I can get that 'orange line', but

    what I get is what CMBB manual say's I should

    get. (can't find my CMBO manual to compare btw.

    But I think this type of Indirect fire had

    changed since then (oh! I guess I could of

    checked the CMBO .pdf file of my newly

    purchased CDV copy. Sorry))

    Thanks.

    Donan

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    Interesting observation

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

    Posted

    I'm one of those one's that prefer Western Front over Eastern. CMBO was great to me. CMBB was interesting because of the cool additional refine-

    ments (fire arch etc.). CMAK will bring back the Brits/Americans(!)and not only have Africa, but Italy in the mix which is great. But even of more

    interest's to me is that from what I've read, many of the cool CMBO battle's will be able to be coverted/made using the new tools introduced in CMBB. Very nice indeed if true.

    Donan (Toxie)

    p.s. Plus I must admit I play all types of games

    all the time. Addiction to say the least smile.gif And with so little time :(

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    Strong Arms of Pioneer's

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

    Posted

    Just finishing up a B&T 'Hitler's Son' regarding

    one of the small actions of Korsun Pocket. I saw an amazing throw by a German Pioneer. He lofted a

    demolition charge about 24 meters(!) at a Russian

    squad. This is a bit hard to believe unless they

    carry sling's for launching these babies :D This

    while under fire too.

    As a side note, I'm amazed at how quickly the AI can turn their armor units. I had an STUG VI coming up on the rear of a SU-85 straddling a fence and heading away from the STUG. Within in a minute it had done a 180 and got me in two shots.

    Amazing! (obviously new 'spin top' technology ;)

    Donan

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    Politeness: giving some slack

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

    Posted

    You know (and I'm sure I'll bet 'banged' for this :D I don't quite get the immediate slam folks put on what appears to be a 'newbie' or just someone that doesn't visit the boards very often, when they put a post forward that doesn't fit. What's with that? Can't we just say, 'this really needs to go to the 'General' or 'CMBO' or 'Tech Support' or wherever. Instead of jumping all over the person. I bet we beat some folks off this game/forum/ etc. by being alittle too unpatient. And why? Our loss in the long run.

    Donan

    (p.s. And yes...I can be a 'grognard', but not in this sense)

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    Couple Oddities

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

    Posted

    Thanks folks. Seeing how no one has had this happen I could log it to definitely having a

    'senior moment' :D I'm not double-clicking tho' and this has happened in several games. I must being doing something odd that is 'locked and blinded' by a mis-firing synapse :eek:

    I can live with it (well darn, I have too!). It just takes a bit more care (space bar versus right-click) and to remember to cycle twice. No biggie in the realm of things. I can't remember wether this occurred in CMBO,but I'll find out soon enough smile.gif

    Donan

    p.s. And I have to thank Franko for an excellent

    Korsun Pocket scenario, 'Hitler's Son' I'm having a blast as the Germans. I want to give CMBO SE a whirl and haven't been able too 'cause of this 'knock down' (in my limited gaming time).

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    CMBO SE-Nice touch!

    in Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord

    Posted

    As I mentioned before, I bought CMBO when it first came out. Modded it to the max (thank gawd for the mod installer smile.gif and have enjoyed it ever

    since. But I bought SE because I thought it would be nice to have many of the mods on one cd and the minor tweaking that was done etc. (especially when I changed machines ;) I play CMBB for it has some very nice additions to CMBO. But really I prefer the Western Front (including Italy and North Africa :D So I looked forward to finally getting around to installing the SE. What all this leads up to is the great html page it installs on the desktop that not only allows many, many great links. And not only because it has the mod's easily accessiable, but that it even(!) has pic's of the mods in question. Anyway, I think this was a very nice touch and I

    appreciate the added effort to this product.

    Donan

    p.s. I do wish tho' that it explained more exactly what the initial install has added to the gaming system. I'm assuming that the mod's one see's listed are additions that one can use, but other mod's or tweak's to the original system are what exactly?

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    Couple Oddities

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

    Posted

    Greetings. I've searched around but can't quite find the answer's to these. And for all I know it could be just 'me' and my machine or whatever).

    On several occasions I've had this two particular

    things happen. 1)I will be 'plusing' thru my troops checking them out and will come to one I want to do something with. If I right-click it and do a command, I invariably end up doing it for the previous unit. If I hit space bar, no problem. 2) I will again be 'plusing' around and I have come to realize I need to cycle around more then once to get all my troops. I.e. I will cycle thru and end up with my original unit to cycle thru again, and I do, for I know I have some other troops. And low and behold I indeed get to them on this second cycle thru. What' with that? Is this just some strange happening's on my part of the universe or are other's noticing such

    occurrences?

    Thanks.

    Donan

    [ August 27, 2003, 01:59 PM: Message edited by: Donan ]

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    More unit info in game?

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

    Posted

    I have just quickly looked thru the CMBO forum, but I didn't notice anything like BCR or ROQC for CMBO. I remember back when the CMHQ had such a thing, but is there anything more current and easier to handle?

    Thanks!

    Donan

    I haven't had a chance to look at the CMBO SE I bought. Is there such a device sitting in those mode files?

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