Oddball_E8
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I'd say this is more like a Chess Grandmaster trying to play against the aforementioned Viking Berserker. First thing to happen is that the chess table gets kicked out of the way, pieces flying. Then the axe is introduced.
This is Combat Mission with prison rules.
I like axes...
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Excellent! Finally two good players worth watching.
Oh...
Well...
I was thinking of making an AAR with not only screenshots but videos of the main action and such for the entire Kampfgruppe Engel campaign...
But I guess I'll skip it then...
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I was thinking about making a complete overhaul of my soundmod for the release of Market Garden.
Basically going through all the sounds I currently have stored away and seeing if I could improve upon the mod a bit more, maby switch a few sounds around.
Possibly add more if the mod includes new sounds.
So... Should I make a version 3.0 of my mod or should i leave it the way it is (and possibly just add new sounds if there are any in MG)?
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Nice one jack. I didnt know you could destroy an stummel with a cal.50!
I lost an entire battle in CMBO because my opponent bought 2 jeeps with 50's and drove behind my 3 Pz IV's and killed them
It is pretty decent at shooting armour that has weakspots.
Also, i have a few pictures to show
First: To balance out the overabundance of Tigers lately:
Second: I think my men might not be taking this war too seriously...
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I can't play campaigns because of lenght and time issue.
REgards
Thats ok. We forgive you
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I'm beginning to understand how your reached the amazing number of 20 795 posts, Michael.
Michael has so much to say, but so few willing to listen.
It makes me sad sometimes.
Not this time tho
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Using lower quality graphics helps the performance of the game. This improvement is especially noticeable when you are playing a game that taxes your machine. I mentioned it because I had not been taking advantage of doing that. Monty's Butcher was very difficult to actually play because on my machine it would studder and stop and take holidays drop to the desktop and back. Then I dropped my graphics quality two steps and it runs very smoothly. True, it does not look as good but I can issue orders again without spending 60% of my time waiting for the machine to return control back to me.
Yes, I need a new machine. I almost had the head accountant (wife) on board but at the last minute she pulled the plug:D
In your case dropping the graphics quality would mean you can get the same performance while using a larger area of city than you can with higher quality grphics and the game will play just as smoothly.
Well yeah. But I commented on that earlier, so i thought he must have meant something else.
Like I said, i prefer smaller battles. And not just because of FPS issues.
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Hmm... never seen an enemy surrender and then attack again.
I've played this battle 2-3 times now and I have always used the spotters 105mm to take out the stuart and sherman in the town.
With great success I might add.
I've never made it to this battle with any PzII's intact tho :/
Maby I should stop using them as recon vehicles and start using them as infantry support. Treating them like halftracks might actually keep them alive hehehe
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And probably a mediocre one as well.
Michael
Dang! I knew my poor spelling would bite me in the butt one day!
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Dropping the quality might improve the handling of urban terrain about which you were commenting earlier.
Huh? What do you mean?
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Give the urban defending infantry plenty of anti-tank mines.
OOooooh, thats nasty... why didn't I ever think of that?
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Have you considered dropping the graphics qualities back for larger or more dense maps? I mostly play with 3D Model Quality and 3D Texture Quality set to Better but for large maps (such as the 20 000 point quick battle and Monty's Butchers) I drop them back some times as far as Balanced. Clearly this is a compromise but if it means being able to fight the battles you want it is worth it.
Considered it? Yes.
Decided against it? Yes.
I tend to gravitate towards smaller battles anyway since I tend to lose oversight on larger battles (thus forgetting some units, an attack or even an entire front) so i stay with battles that only include about a company of troops or thereabouts.
Small to medium in quickbattles is another way of saying it.
Of course, if it is a vehicle heavy battle, it becomes easier to cope with larger sizes, but I still tend to gravitate to the smaller engagements.
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Happy to hear this. Creating a realistically looking town and an urban environment that allows for AT weapons were my main ambitions when making the map.
Very cunning trick there, ian. I´ll make sure to remember it this time (I think I have "used" it accidentally a couple of times, but never thought of exploiting it further).
As Erwin said, he has kindly offed to help me testing a scenario for the Ciembienne map. But when he has finished testing, I am going to need voluteers for a second round of testing. Perhaps one or two of you "urban combat grogs"
would be interested?Wish I could help, but my computer cannot handle urban maps larger than 350x350 meters without slowing down to a snail pace.
Its fine for making quickbattlemaps and testing the AI, but I simply do not play on urban maps that large in general.
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BTW. still working on cut up versions of this map for quickbatles.
I have the AI down for 2 of them so far. But since I am in the process of moving, it will take a while.
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Oddball E8, could you please show me your papers?
Yes, Sir.
Absolutely, Sir.
You will find they are all in order, Sir.
A Great Dane?You'll find that I would make a medioker Dane at most...
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I'm curious about the town itself. Was it really that heavily "paved" (well, cobble stones but still)?
I would have expected a bit more grassy areas or gravel alleyways and the likes.
I've tried finding pictures from the town itself around this time, but all I can find are pictures from the battles where everything is chewed up...
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It's pronounced like "C-M-B-N" squished together.
Holy crap! That just flew right by me!
I'm usually good at picking up stuff like that...
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I wish the game would work on steam so i could Use my steam overlay to take screens
I use fraps. Works great with CM (other than the fact that I get constantly reminded that I should buy a new computer since i get around 10-20 fps in battles the size of the 2nd one in Kampfgruppe Engel :/ )
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Hmmm, curious. Nearly always when I need to place a waypoint precisely, I am in view 3 with the camera directly over the spot pointed vertically downward. Different strokes, I suppose...
Michael
different ways of getting the same result.
I press 8 and then scroll the mouse button until i get close, you press 3 and angle the camera down with the right mousebutton (i think).
Result is we both plot from a top-down view
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No, of course not: Is gets dark for about three hours on christmas night.
Oddball E8 should have told you that - he is after all a dane (even though he is too modest to admit it)
I am not allowed to say that I am a dane, or the swedish secret police will take me in for "reschooling"...
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I am still surprised no one has commented on the name of this map. I was embarrassed it took me as long as it did to catch it. Kudos to Umlaut - very funny
Whats with the name?
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By "everywhere" i meant everywhere on the surface of the earth of course...
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Doesnt the sun shine 24 hours a day in Denmark?
Actually, the sun shines 24 hours a day everywhere... but part of that time it spends on the other side of the earth, so we are in the earths shadow...
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I always switch to view 8 and scroll back down with the mouse to place waypoints on and around bridges.
I've never had any problems doing it that way.
would be interested?
AXIS - CMBN-Market Garden - BETA AAR
in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy
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I get the feeling from Bil that his interest in objectives amounts to "Oh look, there is a town over there that I'm supposed to take... Maby I should go there once i kill all these germans."