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Wade .. Been there three times in the last two years. (Was astonished to find 1977 Versions of AH's Squad Leader and Third Reich boardgames in the gift shop .. shrink wrapped .. like I walked in to a time machine. Ahhh .. the smell ... that cardboard smell when you open a new war game ... smells like ... Victory Anyways, I found the museum to be very well kept and the machines in excellent condition. They had a KING TIGER inside, which absolutely blew me away. They have a catwalk set up there and you can look down in to the tank (they have it disassembled slightly so you can see down in it). If I recall, I believe they have a StugIII there too that some farmer RECENTLY found submerged in his swamp. It was actually in pretty good condition too. Outside, it's all US Military Hardware including a helicopter. It's just an outstanding place to visit that is pretty well kept but you can definitely tell that is certainly not overfunded. DD ..

.. For what it's worth ... in my personal OPINION <which means absolutely nothing ... > I asked a couple weeks back about who makes the best mods of Soviet and then German vehicles\armor. After many hours of downloads (thank you CMMODS and combatmission.com) .. and after many hours of playing in the game with the mods. I hereby declare .. CANON as the Champion German Modder .. in the Soviet division ... there was less of a contest .. Mr. Noobie, hands down. Before the broadcast, earlier this evening, the following awards were achieved: In the peripheral categories.. DD is the King of Terrain. That was an easy one. RadiofreeCMBO sound mod was awarded a special commendation for research and innovation. Fatherofnone is easily the sound mod champ. The Modscar goes to EDS in the "supplemental ambience" category. Juju received The Bob Villa Lifetime Achievement Award for buildings. Stay tuned and cast your vote ... Still to be decided: The Single Greatest German Armor Mod of All-Time and The Single Greatest Soviet Mod of All-Time Submit your opinion below. Remember, this is not a competition, this is only an exhibition ... please ... no wagering. (On a serious note, many thanks to all mod-makers. The talent displayed by all is truly awesome.) DD ..

.. Thanks for the help guys .. Tecumseh .. you wrote: "My favourite mod of all time is Dainius Kartanas' King Tiger in CMBB. Why oh why does this guy not make more?!? My favourite modder is Andrew Fox" Can't find "Dainius Kartanas" or "Andrew Fox" on CMMODS. Do they go by any aliases? Crap game wrote: "Who makes the best mods? Blasphemy! That is akin to asking who makes the best scotch! All scotch varieties are better than no scotch - Different flavors appeal to different folks..." I was asking for your OPINION on your favorite scotch .. err .. mods. Definitely no scoreboard here. Just subjective input. DD ..

.. THumpre .. Thanks for the advice. Can't find him listed at CMMODS anywhere. Any idea where his work can be found? Thanks in advance .. DD ..

.. Wondering, in your opinion, who makes the best GERMAN armor\vehicle mods would you say? And where would you find them? Been checking out CMMODS.com and the old Madmatt site but it looks like Madmatt has moved on to other things .. or something. Maybe there is some site for just German armor\vehicle mods? If not, who is the designer to look for that is THEE MAN when it comes to mods of German armor? DD ..

.. In other words: WHO BE DA KING OF DA GERMAN ARMAR MODIFICASHUNS?? Y'ALL DD

.. Thanks Lt. Bull .. Getting them now. Anybody want to offer up a counter to MrNoobies Russian Vehicles with some great looking German vehicle mods? DD

.. Hey thanks again everybody. I'm in to it and have quite a few installed. Yeah, Nevermind, if you compare your member number of 11,341 to my member number of 693 you'll see that I have been around a very long time. I was in to CMBO quite a bit. I believe I did a few very minor, probably low quality mods for it. Nowhere near the quality of most of these mod designers. ONE LAST REQUEST FOR YOUR OPINION: The Vehicles My God, man. :eek: How many mods of those are there? JHEES. I'm baffled and overwhelmed. Could you lay on me your top three vehicle mods for CMBB? This is strictly your opinion, no formal poll or anything. Again, I greatly appreciate your time. DD ..

Hey Doc Rosensquared .. Question .. I can truly see how the grids will make a HUGE difference in figuring out terrain elevations and such. At first I thought, "Well, there's no grids on a battlefield so perhaps this will detract from the realism of the game." After further thought, I realized .. if I was there I could obviously see if something was higher than something else and the grids just help display this. My question for you (or anyone else in the case that the good doctor is pre-disposed at a gynecological appointment with Catherine Zeta-Jones .. or Star Jones .. or Anna Nicole Smith .. OMYGOD could you imagine) is this: If I install the grid terrains ... will that supercede the other hi-res terrains that I install? More clearly: I like the work done by "the real dd" (could be the name) and I would like to have his terrain textures and look with a grid overlay. Possible? Again, thanks for any help .. DD

<feverishly writing this down like a schoolboy in grammar class> Boy, at that CMMODS place, it takes a long time to download stuff. But IT IS FREE so I am greatly appreciative. Just kind of confusing. How about this DD fellas terrains and stuff? They look pretty big. The CMMOS thing is kind of a hit and miss proposition, isn't it? Some work, some don't. Makes it hard to tell which is good, which is pedestrian. -Well, on the bright side it's the weekend, there's so snow on the ground so what are you going to do, Dial, golf? - Again .. Much Obliged. DD

.. Canuck .. Care to comment which of those "eye candy" mods are your personal favorites? And thanks for the advice from everyone. Downloading CMMOS now. Made the BMP backup, as suggested. DD

.. Thanks for your time. I have spent many hours searching these forums but I am at a loss. I am requesting the opinions of some of the ace players here. Mod packs. Graphics and sound .. those are the ones that generally enhance the game experience, correct? If you were starting from scratch and you were going to install some mods, which ones would you choose? What's the concensus and where do you find such things? :confused: I went over to the Madmatt page but I am kinda of confused. I need a veteran of Barbarossa to give me a helping hand and basically say: "Get this and this .. here. Those make the game look better and sound better." I really appreciate this as I am overwhelmed by the scattering of the mods. I am just looking for a few good mods and then play the game. I wouldn't take this last resort of taking up your time if I hadn;t already invested a great deal of mine to try and sort this out. I surrendered and realized that it was time to ask the community for their opinion. Thanks again and I'll be intensely reading this thread for as long as it is viable. ..

.. Before espousing on a variety of philosophical notes concerning this game, please look at my member number up there to the left. I've been around for a very long time. I keep my mouth shut and see if I can learn something .. mostly. For quite a while I was very turned off by this community, and therefore the game, because of the pandering attitude that present BTS as some form of worshipped god and infallible. I won't cite posts or people but you know guys know what I am talking about. So, after the demo came out and I found it truly atrocious and downright boring, I thought, "Ahh .. I'll just buy G.I. Combat or go check out some HPS games." I had played BO quite a bit and enjoyed it a great deal. I figured after the demo that this was a one trick pony. I was wrong. After buying several games over the last couple months, I came to realize that this community .. on these boards .. is what I was looking for. You people create a great compulsion to continue on with BTS software. The work of the good people who create things like The Stalingrad Pack and all the mods make this game far and away a superior wargame product. It's most dissapointing that BTS has become so aloof that they won't even offer bandwidth for the heavy mods. It only makes their game an exponential sum more enjoyable. The mod makers and designers are the salt of the earth here and they are the best at what they do. There is no comparison. So, even though I was not going to purchase the game, I viewed many mods and saw that Wild Bill's Raiders were going to release a series of scenarios done on Stalingrad. These mods and the Raiders pack created so much .. motivation .. to again game in a superior community that I had to relent. And after purchasing the game, the compulsion proved valid. The talent displayed is phenomenal. The mods are amazing and the scenarios precise and tense. There is no green over there. There is no there over there. It's all here .. in these pages .. in these people .. in this community. And no other wargame can touch it. DD ..

As you can see by my number there to the left, I've been around a while. Was very much looking forward to CMBB. Gave up hope actually. Dowloaded the demo and played the two scenarios. Ahh .. I'm sorry guys. It just doesn't have "it". I think "it" was the new sensation of somebody doing a wargame like this. But I think that is over now. The demo was so poor, or at least I didn't enjoy it very much at all, to the exent that BTS not only lost a sale to a loyal customer (several other BTS products purchaser) but I'm starting to believe this may have been a one trick pony. I'm very happy for those that may derive enjoyment from this sequel and I wish the best of luck to them. I simply believe that gaming has surpassed this system. There's many points but the main one is that the infantry just looks like toys. The whole thing just looks like toys being played with. It was kinda neat at first. But I think I'll be spending my money on Tiller's new effort, with aid and abetting from Wild Bill, called "Eagles Strike". I'll miss checking in with The Community. I read a great deal but generally keep my mouth shut. I just listen. Perhaps I'll check in another two or three years down the road and see if they can bring things up to current standards graphically. Unti then, I think I'll take my wargames in traditional style and leave the 3D stuff to Unreal Tournament doodz. The demo just turned me off of buying the product. That's the bottom line. Best to all and good hunting, DD [ September 10, 2002, 01:08 AM: Message edited by: davedial ]

Oh .. I'm sorry .. I didn't address one of your questions. Didn't mean to be rude. No .. I haven't run CMBO on this computer. I uninstalled it about six months ago and haven't messed with it. Kinda fried on it. If it would help for me to install it again and report the results, let me know. I'd be happy to help. DD

Not overclocking anything for this particular game. I do, from time-to-time, see what she'll run to just for kicks. But not here. I don't really know what the VIA Latency patch is. First I've heard of it. Have loaded the latest VIA 4in1's from the website. If that has the patch in it, and I would trust it would, then yes, I am patched. It's not that big of a deal for me. It's just a demo and they aren't even taking pre-orders yet so nobody should be alarmed at what I'm experiencing. I'm sure it's something minor they will have worked out by release. DD

Yeah Maybe "Terminator SS" All he needs is the sunglasses.

Long .. Long time CM player (check the number out in the upper left there) Been around computers about 30 years now. Glitch in the programming. Three times Citadel scenario started. Three times Citadel scenario froze. Nothing out of the ordinary done. Straight-forward battle. I don't even think I set a target. First time: Turn 3 Second time: Turn 5 Third time: Turn 2 Total lockup. Esc crashes to desktop on two occassions. Third lockup was garbled video data that forced a complete cut of power and reboot. Running: Windows ME Athlon XP 2200+ Epox 8K3A Motherboard VIA KT333 Chipset Corsair DDR 3000 RAM GeForce 4600 video Sound Blaster Live! audio No virus protection No background programs running of any kind Just locked up, froze, malfunctioned to become Null and Void. Not that big of a deal, personally. Wanted to try and help the programmers for the main release. Double D

Last year, I visited the Patton Museum. Great experience. It was a surreal site watching my boys climb all over this King Tiger they have there. That tank is about three times the size of the M1. It's like an Ogre in that old science fiction wargame. Speaking of old wargames .. I went in to their gift shop there and was stunned by the site of BRAND NEW, UNOPENED, ORIGINAL copies of Avalon Hill's "Third Reich" and "Squad Leader". I bought 'em. "Ahh .. that smell .. that cardboard smell in the morning ... smells like ..... .... Victory" <shrugs> CHARLIE DON'T SURF!

Huh ... that's something else there. I'm pretty much unimpressed by any mod, period. But that one pretty much takes the cake as far as all mods go. wow DD [ July 08, 2002, 12:01 PM: Message edited by: davedial ]

WIth the XboX and the Playstation 2 and so on blowing right past everybody .. the longer companies take like this, the more pitiful you realize they are. Over on the newsgroup, we've had a beta tester tells us the game is basically done since the first of December. It's now the middle of MARCH. MIDDLE OF MARCH. And everytime somebody writes on here, and they see it, "oh it will be done when it is ready" .. "oh I support them because I hope they finish it" "oh . oh . oh" fuddy-duddy ad nauseum, it's bad for the entire PC Gaming industry. It's already being whispered that PC Gaming is done in five years. By MAJOR players, not by me. When stockholders and investors think "hmmm .. a company that makes PC Games or a compnay that makes XXXXXX games." Somebody, somewhere is going to bring up this whole Combat Mission fiasco and farce. Because, we all love wargames. They don't, they love units and dollars and return. And they are the ones who run the store, gentlemen. I bet I lurk around here four or five times a week just rooting like heck they have released it. Not for Combat Mission .. I could really careless about the game. I root for the entire PC Gaming genre and wargames in specific so that we are all still viable in this new age. Every single day that goes by that the game goes unreleased, the pressure adds to the entire industry and this game in particular loses potential customers. You have these 15 guys around here that are the equivalent of the brown shirts. They'll buy it even if it is announced the found a fly out at coordinate A8 when it needed to be Waaaaay over at R3 and they have decided to scrap this edition until they can figure out why the engine did that. I MEAN COME ON! .. jhees o man .. enough is enough here. Someone needs to explain to these guys .. there's more at stake than just Combat Mission. We're trying to show that PC Games can get built. They sure ain't helpin'. They can tweak this thing until the cows come home .. they really can .. and probably will .. doesn't change the fact that with all these new machines and avenues for entertainment somebody is going to come along real soon and make this game look silly. Like it is three generations old. This blind devotion to "well .. I'l gladly pay my money when it is ready .. whenever that will be" is admirable. So is the guy that is after nice, clean water to bathe in ...it's just he totally missed the big picture and now there's an infant with a bad memory that will never leave it. Marketing is my chosen field. I am educated in it and experienced in it. In my professional opinion, everyday this game is delayed (taking in to account these special circumstances, demo, good pr, lively community, etc) everyday they delay it, they lose 50 sales. Every week it is not available, another 50 on top of that. People have options and avenues and have limited time to devote to things, that's the fact jack. (that's the fact jack) There will always be these 25 broun shirts around here that will give the developers this false sense of security that they can take another year if they want and they never, even have to give you a solid date other than "When we are DARN GOOD AND READY that's when!" WHat's wrong with you people?? Jhess o man Don't just dimiss this as "another ... <call me what you want>" Really think about it. You guys, all of you on this board, need to start cranking up the pressure a little instead of being so blindly devoted. Blindly devoted helps nobody from any perspective. Help the developers help themselves. Start turning your back on this forum, start leaving, start questioning ... It's for the good of Combat Mission. It's for the good of wargaming. It's for the good of PC Gaming in general. Please at least consider this. DD

I have an Elsa video card and this deal here: http://www.maximum3d.com/reviews/revelator.htm It's like .. um ... it's not like anything. It's just almost frightening is what it is. Closest I've ever been to war is the Revelator and the CM demo. It's really, really ... authentic. DD