Dschugaschwili
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Originally posted by Skipper:
I understand that "Finding opponents" section is for TCP/IP games only. Where should one go to find a pbem opponent?
Start a new thread titled "PBEM opponent wanted" on this forum or reactivate an old one.
Dschugaschwili
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After reading this thread, one statement stayed on my mind: Shouldn't MG pillboxes have smaller (read: harder to hit) firing slits than those housing AT guns? While I don't know the answer, does somebody have any information on this issue?
Dshcugaschwili
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Originally posted by Pvt. Ryan:
My understanding is that CM doesn't model gun elevation and depression limits. I think maybe the Stug doesn't really have LOS to that particular spot and won't fire - like when you area target with a mortar to a spot that is not within LOS. I am sure Scott already thought of this. I have had not noticed any problems myself.
I'm pretty sure that CM does model gun elevation and depression limits. So this may well be the cause of the problem. Perhaps somebody should run a test on this subject (I can't do it myself now because I'm at work).
Dschugaschwili
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Originally posted by Pvt. Ryan:
My understanding is that CM doesn't model gun elevation and depression limits. I think maybe the Stug doesn't really have LOS to that particular spot and won't fire - like when you area target with a mortar to a spot that is not within LOS. I am sure Scott already thought of this. I have had not noticed any problems myself.
I'm pretty sure that CM does model gun elevation and depression limits. So this may well be the cause of the problem. Perhaps somebody should run a test on this subject (I can't do it myself now because I'm at work).
Dschugaschwili
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I think you're lucky if you can get your IG to fire more than a handful of rounds. I don't know of any other weapon that's a stronger arty magnet than the 150mm IG. It usually doesn't last long once spotted.
Dschugaschwili
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On this Luchs/Lynx issue, I suggested this name change a long time ago (even before the gold demo, I think). If I remember correctly, the reason why they used "Lynx" was that "Luchs" doesn't sound good for english speakers if they try to pronounce it the english way. Oh well, never mind.
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Originally posted by David Aitken:
You can cancel any order you're about to give with the Space Bar. Say your FO has called in a fire mission, you press T to retarget, but then change your mind, you press Space before you click to confirm that target, ie. while the targetting line is still attached to the cursor.
David
You can also press "L" before clicking the target. This changes to the LOS tool, and clicking anywhere while in LOS mode doesn't give any orders. Works fine for me.
Dschugaschwili
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Have you tried to play a PBEM game against yourself to see if you can get corrupted files without sending them through a mail client? If your files get corrupted without having left your computer even once, there's probably something seriously wrong with your system.
Some random guesses:
- If it only happens with files you receive via e-mail, you (and the sender) might want to check for viruses.
- Do you have multiple OSes installed on your HD? I once managed to create overlapping partitions, so everytime I started one OS, the data from the other one became corrupted.
Try to get a better hold on where your files get corrupted. This makes the search much easier.
Dschugaschwili
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Well, I'd consider myself a pacifist. I enjoy playing CM though, and I don't say no to a good game of Quake either. I can differentiate between the computer screen and reality.
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I once had a ricochet take out a halftrack. Misses can definitely hit other things.
Dschugaschwili
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I think that the chance to hit for weapons whose projectiles are tracked individually (mortars, guns >= 20mm, bazookas and the like) does not benefit from HQ bonuses. I don't know for sure though.
Dschugaschwili
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Apart from the fact that I didn't have a template to start with, I mailed my intended parameters over to my opponent every time before I started the game. Just a matter of fairness, I think.
Dschugaschwili
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Erst hat man kein Glück, und dann kommt auch noch Pech dazu.
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I'm running a Duron 700 on the Abit KT7-Raid with 256MB RAM and a GeForce 2 GTS card. In all the time I've played CM, I didn't have any problems.
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Well, I guess the german player almost has to buy a Puma or a similar vehicle. I don't have the exact numbers with me at the moment, but I think it is now impossible to buy an Axis combined arms attack force without spending some points for vehicles (at least if you want to spend all your points). This might be a problem because German vehicles have to be handled VERY carefully if you're facing an American force because of the .50 cal HMGs that might be standing everywhere.
Perhaps the German player should be able to spend still a few points more on infantry in Combined Arms forces?
Dschugaschwili
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Ok, thanks. I guess those 4 additional shells wouldn't have saved the game for me because they came one minute too late anyways, but it was highly annoying nontheless.
Dschugaschwili
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Did a search, but couldn't find anything, although I think there was a thread about this bug before. Anyways, here we go:
In a PBEM game I'm currently playing (still using version 1.05 because we started the game some time ago) I had an arty spotter start a barrage during the last second of a turn. The ammo count was reduced by 4 as expected, the "falling arty" sound played for a short time, but not a single shell landed anywhere. That's just 4 points of ammo fired into the void. If it was the kind of spotter with tons of ammo, I probably wouldn't care, but in this case...
I haven't found anything about it in the 1.1 readme, and I can't play that turn again using 1.1 either because it's a PBEM game, so I don't know if this apparent bug is still in CM 1.1. Does anybody know something about it?
Dschugaschwili
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No, windows doesn't support the "/" character for directories directly. But many programs do the conversion between "/" and "\" internally depending on what platform they're running on.
Dschugaschwili
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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Bullethead:
Stalin said:
It's not so simple. Shock wears off in a turn or 2, after which the tank goes back to turning its hull along with the turret. So you have to time your TC assassinations carefully. Do it too soon and you lose the "benefit" before you need to use it
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I know.
And the additional problem is how to kill your TC without possibly damaging the entire vehicle. Any ideas?Dschugaschwili
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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Bullethead:
Another little tidbit: shocked tanks don't seem to rotate their hulls but only their turrets. So if you're still scared about this, just shoot your TCs
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Now that's a great tactic! I guess from now on I will take a small gun with area fire to kill my TCs during the first turn before driving my tanks into combat.
Dschugaschwili
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What's the problem here anyways? If my opponent really wants to spend 225 points to get a tiny amount of information about my forces, I don't have any problems with that. Think about it that way: if the pilot has dropped the bomb on an infantry/support unit or a vehicle, it's now dead. If was a tank and it has survived, it might be anywhere by the time you can do something about it. If it was a pillbox, you don't get it with arty too. So does the crater tell you anything useful? Hardly.
Just my 2 cents,
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You can always keep older versions of CM. You just have to rename the old executable before installing a new one. I have more than five versions of CM available on my computer, so if anybody wants to play a game using version 1.02, that's fine with me.
Dschugaschwili
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You can't. But it will disappear if it isn't targeted by any unit for one turn.
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Bumping this thread up so everybody wanting to post this bug can read that it's already known.
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To Stefan: 700 MHz. I haven't tried overclocking it yet. By the way, why are you wasting time on this forum when you could tell your men to get their lazy butts into action?
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[This message has been edited by Dschugaschwili (edited 12-21-2000).]
Quick Survey: Allies or Axis?
in Combat Mission Archive #3 (2001)
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My vote: 4
Total:
1) 1
2) 0
3) 4
4) 2
5) 2
Dschugaschwili
[This message has been edited by Dschugaschwili (edited 02-06-2001).]