Conscript Bagger

My paternal grandfather was about 40 when the war started, so he didn't fight. Maternal grandfather was in England and Europe as a ground crewman in 9th TAC, maybe servicing the P-38s that Kitty's grandma built. He had Alzheimer's for several years and died when I was in middle school, so I never got to talk to him about his service, but Grandma has shared bits & pieces that she remembered over the years (and she has some interesting stories of her own about running a grocery store during rationing).

My paternal grandfather was about 40 when the war started, so he didn't fight. Maternal grandfather was in England and Europe as a ground crewman in 9th TAC, maybe servicing the P-38s that Kitty's grandma built. He had Alzheimer's for several years and died when I was in middle school, so I never got to talk to him about his service, but Grandma has shared bits & pieces that she remembered over the years (and she has some interesting stories of her own about running a grocery store during rationing).

My paternal grandfather was about 40 when the war started, so he didn't fight. Maternal grandfather was in England and Europe as a ground crewman in 9th TAC, maybe servicing the P-38s that Kitty's grandma built. He had Alzheimer's for several years and died when I was in middle school, so I never got to talk to him about his service, but Grandma has shared bits & pieces that she remembered over the years (and she has some interesting stories of her own about running a grocery store during rationing).

Is there a victory flag on the house? The guns could be moving to "secure" it.

That's odd, I never have it deselect my unit when I ctrl-click somewhere else (though I always have to scroll/rotate the screen a bit before the ctrl-click is recognized; THAT's aggravating.) The other option is to use the scroll arrows at the bottom of the screen - the scroll speed is higher with those.

Viewing at levels 1-2 and tilting the camera as necessary (with shift-A & shift-Z) usually does it for me.

"You see, children, when you jump into too many frozen lakes, it chills the brain and you start to sound like this silly man." I don't think "Rat" would be so jarring; aren't there already some SS units labeled "Rot"?

Maybe the MGs had a higher kill chance? 45mm HE is pretty small. Check the HE blast value against the firepower of a Russian MMG at 200m.

You're probably right. I was thinking of the performance improvement when using low-res vs. high-res images, and thought perhaps "no-res" would be even better. Never tried it, though.

As an alternative, couldn't you just replace the shellhole bmp with a transparent image?

1. Suppression. Achieving it (on the enemy) or avoiding it (on yourself) makes all the difference in the world. Sometimes it takes a few turns to get the enemy's heads down, even with multiple units firing, but it's so worth the effort. Even rifle squads are able to suppress the enemy at range, though MGs are much better because of their ammo load. 2. The Advance command is your friend. 3. Molotov cocktails are about as effective as thrown eggs. Don't stake your anti-armor defense on them. I'd be happy to PBEM after the holidays. Pop me an e-mail (ezp at mail dot com) anytime you want to start.

You may think you want that, but are you ready for when your troops yell back? I think most of us are better off not knowing what the men think of the orders we give them...

While you won't know who sees your troops, you can see when enemies are targeting your unit. If you click on your unit, a yellow line connecting it to an enemy indicates the enemy is firing at you (or preparing to do so), a red line indicates your unit is firing at an enemy, and a thick red line indicates they are targeting each other.

True, but the existence of such a thing on the same server as Pengthreads and the General Forum would violate every law of physics, thermodynamics, and morality. Not to mention common sense.

Links to those sites are: Scenario Depot Proving Grounds

dug, how do you conserve infantry platoons while spending the squads?

I have little enough time to play CMBB; I can hardly justify getting another game. That, and my computer doesn't quite meet CMAK's minimum reqs... Hopefully I'll have time this weekend to try the demo and see just how badly my machine gags on it.

Not to split hairs, but the field-converted P-38 night fighters were single-seaters - I assume they saw some action, but maybe not? The production P38M (shown in the pic I posted on page 1) added the radar operator's rear cockpit.

According to this page 80 were produced, but they only saw action at the very end of the Pacific war.

BB is actually "Barbarossa to Berlin." Another thing worth noting is that CMBO and CMBB play quite differently in many respects. As a very general rule, CMBO is more forgiving and has less of a learning curve. The scope of CMBB (four years on the eastern front) may also be somewhat overwhelming at first - not necessarily in a given game, but the sheer number of options sometimes makes it hard to choose a setup! That said, CMBO has a ton of variety in nationalities and units too. Ande, you know there are demos for both games available on this site, right?

They'll throw the DC on their own, but sometimes it takes a turn or two. Not sure on the max range for this; it might be 30m.

True, but it also reminds me of what happens when you pop your hood in a parking lot - from nowhere, several well-meaning folks appear, rolling up their sleeves and poking around the engine just because they want to help. :cool:

What about the AI? Does it react to moving dust, or wait until it actually spots vehicles?

Michael, are you doing screenies for this battle?

Did you hit Shift-S by mistake?