RobH

I think you are probably experiencing the problem reported on this thread http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=70;t=000473 This displaced icon has occurred with me when one squad member gets "stuck" somewhere for reasons unknown. Rob

I have experienced this bug repeatedly in several scenarios. The 9-man squad is not split and has never been split, yet half the squad moves off leaving the other half behind with the single icon remaining halfway between the 2 "teams". The only way I have found to get around this problem is, as others have suggested, to manually split the squad with a Split order and then move the 2 split teams back together. I have also seen this problem happen with a 3-man US MG team. 2 men moved across and then along a road as ordered leaving the 3rd on the original side of the road and never moving. The icon was midway between the now 2 groups. However, I did manage to get them to re-group automatically when I set the next waypoint, although I did set this back on the original side of the road where the single MG guy was. It was as if the original guy not moving was stuck and could not cross the road at that point for some reason I do not know. He eventually did move parallel to the road and joined back up when I gave the order for his team mates to cross back to the original side of the road. Rob

I'm going to bump this thread because in your excellent Paradise Road scenario Birdstrike, which I am currently playing, I have not found a way to get the 4/5 man crew - in the Humvees where there are no "passengers" - to get back into the Humvee and "acquire" some extra ammo which I know is there. Regards Rob

My specs are certainly below yours with AMD 64 3700+ 2GB RAM ATI X1900GT w/256MB WinXT Pro SP2 fully patched ATI v7.9 beta drivers Rob

Hmmmm. That's an interesting observation metalbrew because it definitely did not happen that way for me. I just played this scenario over the weekend and really enjoyed it. The 4 bus stops and the telegraph pole were clearly visible at start-up and all through the game for me. Never noticed any disappearing objects throughout the scenario. I simply reversed that Stryker back up the road from the start without a problem since I had no room for a turn. Rob

In answer to question 2, you do this by using the covered arc command - keeping the tank gun pointed in the centre of the blue arc - no matter which way the hull is facing. The manual covers this in the Tutorial for the "Jaegermeister" scenario. Rob

You may be right there Phil. Certainly the networking and security features of XP Home are not up to the standard of XP Pro, but I can assure you "simple" networking does work even between XP Home and standard Win98, both for internet connection sharing and file sharing. I have had my simple 2 pc network operational for more than a year now. It just uses a NIC in each PC connected by a Cat5 crossover cable with the adsl usb modem directly connected to the Win XP PC. Rob [ May 07, 2003, 11:26 AM: Message edited by: Robert Hall ]

Doug, I have a similar set-up to you with XP Home on my main PC networked to an older Windows 98 client PC (not even up to the level of 98SE). The Windows 98 PC also has shared web/email access though the adsl modem connection. I followed instructions on this site http://www.homenethelp.com/ under the headings "Networking Computers" and "Internet Connection Sharing" using Microsoft ICS - though you say you do not need the Internet Connection Sharing set-up. If you have any problems following ionstructions on that site - there are several different approaches you can use for the set-up depending upon what you need - send me a private email. Rob

Yes, but just have not had the time to post them as yet. Also am still awaiting one AAR to complete the 4 battles. Rob

If you are looking for CMBO AARs, go to the Rugged Defense Combat Mission Tournament AAR site to read a series of AARs and download the movies accompanying them. Rob

Still having a problem on a pc Panzer Ace. Although WinZip will now open the archive it will not extract it, neither can the files be dragged out with a mouse. Gives an error message "The system cannot find the path specified". Also, normally you can double click on one of the files in the archve to view it. None of the files in the archive can be viewed so I think there is still a problem with it unfortunately. Rob

Same problem Panzer Ace. WinZip tells me it is an invalid archive. I downloaded it about 4 times, always deleting the file on my PC first and always receiving the same WinZip error message after downloading again. Rob

Try downloading the Miscellaneous Ruleset v1.02 from the Core Files ssection. I think that will cure your problem. Rob

True Treeburst and it does require a fair amount of HDD space for your "virtual images". But at least I can forget which CD is currently in my drive when I fire up CM. The other solution, of course, is to buy a second CD drive so long as you have a spare EIDE connection inside your PC. Rob

Treeburst - try Daemon Tools. It enables you to set up "virtual CDs" on your HDD thereby eliminating the need to continually swap the CDs around. It really is a timesaver if you play both CM games and avoids the danger of damaging one or the other CD with constant disk swapping. Rob