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    Finnish landscape

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

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    One of the nice things CM1 does is to leave a little gap in between different types of tree tiles. If you cover a 10x10 tile area with, say, pine trees, you get a 100 tile area unbroken and completely inaccessible to vehicles.

    But if you were to alternate pine and woods like this:

    PWPWPWPWPW

    WPWPWPWPWP

    PWPWPWPWPW

    WPWPWPWPWP

    PWPWPWPWPW

    WPWPWPWPWP

    PWPWPWPWPW

    WPWPWPWPWP

    You would get a checkerboard tree pattern (obviously) with a narrow grid of open ground running between all squares. In a less extreme application, you can use this to make "forest trails" that vehicles can negotiate slowly. I really like this feature as an alternative to 20 meter highways or open meadows through rural forest. Of course, there's a time and place for those too.

    One other note on LOS, the last time I checked (several years ago), wire emplacements were treated like open ground for LOS purposes, no matter what terrain they were set up on. This lets your defenders extend their LOS in the forest a bit as well.

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    CMBB PBEM security

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

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    Originally posted by brycie35:

    When you are player 1 and auto buy for both sides, you can simply re-load the PBEM file after your move, put in any password (its your opponents side is not password protected as yet) and view what you are up against.

    Since you need to enter a password to view the opponent's setup, when he gets the file he won't be able to get in.

    If you (the hypothetical cheater) were intending to generate another file to send the opponent, it would contain new random forces that you hadn't seen.

    On second thought, there is a way to do it, but it's all pretty bush-league to begin with. Cheat on your taxes, if you must, but CM is sacrosanct. :D

    [ May 07, 2008, 03:01 PM: Message edited by: Impudent Warwick ]

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    Assaulting anti-Tank/Infantry guns

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

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    Originally posted by JasonC:

    That being so, it would have made much more sense to grind through said reserves as carefully as possible, with little attention to immediate haste and plenty to exchange efficiency. But they didn't. Wasn't doctrine, didn't fit the high hopes always brought to the table, etc. Everyone generally thought too highly of the initiative and not highly enough of conservation of own side force.

    So operationally, they fought the same way we play CM? ;)
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    Listen to this!

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

    Posted

    To be fair, everything the reviewer said is true in terms of gameplay. Your units move slowly, deceptively so when they're using Advance (Move speed but Run animation). Tanks are slow, especially off-road. You can shoot and shoot at an enemy squad and never see an effect, thanks to FOW.

    Those of us who play CM don't care - in fact, we like it - because it's all done that way for reasons we understand and appreciate. It's not the reviewer's cup of tea, but most of his favorite games are probably not mine.

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    Are Tigers an exploit?

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

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    Originally posted by Bigduke6:

    Certainly the Soviet sticks are undermodeled. This is because the designers failed to take into account the fact that Russian stick woods (oak, ash, larch, etc.) are denser than German stick woods. This is because Russian dirt has a high metal content than German dirt, and because Russia had larger forests and so more wood to select sticks from. Admittedly Soviet stick selection was poor at the beginning of the war, but by 1943 Soviet sticks were quite effective at flailing dead horses from the flank at short ranges normally found in combat. My life is much worse for the fact that I can't do that in the game.

    That design error was the legacy of BFC's skepticism toward reports of Finnish pinecones' effectiveness vs. Soviet tanks. They adjusted all the penetration stats in the game downward to bring the Finnish weapons in line with reality, and unfortunately the game was published before conclusive photographic proof was furnished that the Finnish stuff really was that good.

    CM's sales in Finland never really took off as a result, and I think even "Where in the Woods is Carmen Santiago" outsells CM there.

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    Damage question

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

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    Originally posted by Der Kuenstler:

    Ok I just wanted to know if it was possible - I was in the middle of a raging PBEM game and didn't want the sideshow of doing all the experimenting myself at that time

    That's easy--ask your opponent, then do the opposite. Unless you think he anticipates your doing that, in which case you take his advice. Unless you think he anticipates that, in which case... ;)
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    Immobilizations In CM And Why I Want Them Reduced

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

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    Originally posted by jacobs_ladder2:

    </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Walpurgis Nacht:

    I just ran a lengthy bogging test comparing BB to AK. It confirms my earlier posts on this decisively.

    In both cases I fast moved tiger Is (middle varient), 4000m over flat dry ground, july '43. 6 sets of 320 tanks. At the end of the run I counted the immobilized tanks.

    BB 1,920 tanks, 201 immobile =10.4%

    AK 1,920 tanks, 68 immobile= 3%

    If this were even close you could debate it somewhat, but it seems pretty clear that even BF wanted to tone it down a bit in AK.

    Yikes. That is really high. This is across dry open ground right? So how about roads? Would be interesting to run a few tests on dirt roads to see how often it happens.

    Cheers

    Paul </font>

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    US Infantry Company 1:1

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

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    Originally posted by Wubbits:

    </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by gibsonm:

    </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Michael Dorosh:

    MAJ Gibson...Sir....good luck! How many armoured regiments do you have Down Under?

    1 x Tk

    4 x Recce (2 Full time, 2 Reserve)

    2 x APC (1 Full time, 1 Reserve)

    2 x Ind Recce Sqns (both Reserve)

    Meanwhile back on the topic ... </font>

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