lucero1148

I'll agree to that. I just finished a pbem battle using my FlamHetzer to great effect. Burned out 2 vet. platoons from their buildings and mowed them downed in the open. All flamethrower units are basically psychchological weapons as it'll scare the defending troops like nothing else. Patrick

Thanks that clears it up real quick! Best Patrick

One of the battle selections for a QB is a "Probe". Now I understand that a probe is a operation for a unit to search for and test the enemy's lines strength. However in CM it sems to me that the 2 opposing forces will just be engaged in a attack /defense type battle. What are the real objectives for a Probe battle in CM? The manual doesn't make any statements re. this matter? Thanks

The Trilogy CC series is a great bargain. Not as good as CM but enjoyable. You should also look into downloading the bug fixes for the different games. Virtual PC is the only way to play TrilogyCC games on a Mac. CC2 in the Trilogy set although labeled as a hybird pc/mac disk isn't and can only be installed to a pc. Patrick

Do you have "Graphic Converter"? If you do drag and drop those bmp. files onto the GC icon and it will instantly convert the PC bmp. files into files the Mac can understand. Than you process the converted files through MCM3. If you have Res Edit as Mr Aitkensstated that should work too. Merry Christmas Patrick

Juju Likewise with the sentiments to BTS although now that I've turned nto a CM zombie..... You also are a gentlemen player and tough at it. Just sent my belated 22nd file and my apologies for the delay, however if you'd send some umbrella's outside for my guys I'll give you a warm welcome!mas to you all! Patrick

As a followup to my other post. I've just finished the operation of my 2nd try at Op Carentan and came out as a draw. Final results were Allied losses at 1033 with 562 KIA /13 mortars/ 26vehicles & 1 captured. 35 OK. Germans losses at 279 casualties w/ 153 KIA, 4 guns, 16 vehicles and 1 captured. 385 OK. Clearly on the last game of the op there was hardly anything for me to fight against but instead of moving forward I stayed put covering the town of St Com du mont and the forest areas in front of Temerville. To win as the Germans you are therefore going to have to destroy the Allies plus advance to the allied staging areas in force to claim a major victory. I guess this is to simulate the pushing back of the allies to Utah Beach and backwards to the sea. Great operation against the AI and I suspect evenly matched HTH in a PBEM game. Best to all who reads this Patrick

I'll be 44 in a couple of weeks, but I have to check my birth certificate, if I can remember where I placed it. Patrick

Moon "A Day in Cav" is one of my favorties ops. I've played it several times and the playing it the 1st time blind has so far been the best I could do! Getting that green KT is more difficult that can be imagined. Mortain is also an incredible piece of work! SALUTE PATRICK

Likewise! Great scenario altough I've only played it as the allied forces and smashed the Germans (AI only) without too much trouble once I fixed their locations. HtH would obviously be more difficult but the Brits have the advantage with numbers and if they can figure out how to reduce the terrain advantage for the defender can systematically defeat the germans. best Patrick

Hi I am playingthe same op for the 2nd time now and like you have the same question although definitely differnet playing styles. !st time I destroyed roughly 2.4x more US troops than my losses , still held the bridges (in my estimation), but still loss to the AI as a minor tactical win for the US. On this 2nd go around I am playing more agressively as the Germans. Sending out 2 platoons size units (3RD to currently 5th game) on active patrol and ambush detail. Basically sending out these forces in areas I believe the AI will try to infiltrate which for me seems to be the center and right flanks (1st game was VERY DIFFERENT). It would be the equivalent Vietnam era firebase active deployment. Where you sent out patrols especially at night for ambush engagements. Find them and send in the artie. I've notice that by doing so my German units are not being pushed back gameby game. My 4th game I ambushed about 215 confirmed WIA/KIA VS 80 casulties on the Germans. that's about almost 2 full companies not including 8 M-4's and a recon vehicle in total. So far this 5th game of the op I am finding few US troops to deal with and actually sending my patrols farther out on Search and Destroy. I've not seen the US order of battle so I can't say what is in store for me but it appears that in this op the Germans cannot just sit and wait for the attack to come. This is an op for active defense where each game the German must go out of its way (judiciously to wage havoc against the US forces). The AI will gravitate (like water) to the least resistance and you have to figure out where that will be. Artilery is crucial it seems. This op is more than what it seems and playing it safe means you lose a tactical battle to the AI. If you feel up for it let's do aPBEM of the scenario. Send me a set up (any side - your choice) this op is pretty balanced from what I can see. Everything is dependent on the commander's ability to maneuver and strike effectively. Patrick

Maximus Bite you where? As far as being PC goes most of it is silly but, what is this about this "board being no place for wusses"? What I object more is the manner in which Maximus first made it an issue by saying "OH SHUT THE HELL UP!" Is this an open board or not. Terrence was quite right to make a point and he did it well. For others to state that it's not right to do so (which is how I'm perceiving this turn in the discussion) because they're sick of hearing how to be PC well fine, we're all entitled to an opinion. Since half of my ancestry is Japanese I can honestly say I don't like being called a Jap. However I didn't find "Head Mahone's" use of the word Jap offensive as I didn't perceive it as being used as a slur.

Maximus pretty uncool. Re. "Pac battles being boring", I think if you look at the tactical side of trying to defeat a bunker system it would be quite challenging. Although the general response has been that it would be only a series of bunker busting, it took an endless supply of US troops to conquer Tawara, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. CM battles are tactical situations so if you had a company of troops to go at a Japanese bunker system could you defeat the emeny without getting castrated? That is where I find a Pac game interesting at this level. All best Patrick

A Pacific version would be great. I'm sure it would open up a new market for BTS. There is probably an untapped market of Japanese, Korean and Chinese wargamers who would love to try their hand at re-fighting WWII Pac battles. Best Patrick

A Pacific version would be great. I'm sure it would open up a new market for BTS. There is probably an untapped market of Japanese, Korean and Chinese wargamers who would love to try their hand at re-fighting WWII Pac battles. Best Patrick

Don't know if anyone here has TAC OPS, but this suberb game covers modern warfare and uses the same game engine as CM (more or less) The graphics are its only fault as it's very simple (looks like you're playing a Avalon Hill board game). I bought this game before CM and enoyed thoroughly. If Tac Ops graphics could be made to look like CM we would have the game that you are all talking about here

I just installed the public beta and tried connecting by typing in the opponents ip address but I keep getting an error message saying that "I can't connect to the specified address". What's up? I'm on a beige G3. Another question re. the Open Play Module and the OpenPlayLib, according to the Read Me note they are to reside in the CMBO folder, but they look like extensions to go into the extensions folder. So is it correct to let the items above sit in the CMBO folder? Best Patrick

Looks great to me. When will it be ready? Best Patrick

Why isn't there any recon specific units in CM. Units that have better stealth capabilities and can remain undetected in hide mode and with the ability to call in artillery strikes? It would add to the realism I believe? Best Patrick

I just played your scenario and the operartion ended after the 1st turn. I played as the US and destroyed 12 German vehicles to 9 US vehecles destroyed and with 59 Ger vs 49 US casualties. the outcome was a total victory for the Axis even though I still held Norville solidly. Is this what other players are experiencing? all in all though its a real kicker of a battle and good fun. Patrick

Hey will that graphic need a video card for proper display? ROFL!!! Very funny! Patrick

Thanks guys, will try it and will send a query to the makers directly, but I have to go to work now and appreciate your reply. Best Patrick

I've d/l both Mac Mod converters and can't get both mod conveters to open up the mod files. Drag & drop doesn't bring the bgm file into the converter's nor does clicking on the "Open Mod File" show anything in the file e.g. I'll navigate down to a mod file, e.g. "fieldgrau file" open it and nothng shows up in the dialog box for me to select. I've reread the read me files but can't get past this. Any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong? Thanks Patrick I have QT 4.O and graphic files conversion from other parties is enabled. I'll double click on a bgm file and the image will show up on my desktop so QT is doing it's job, but the mod converters can't see any of the bgm files in any of the PC uniform files.

I D/L both Mac mod converters and read and reread the read me notes but can't open the files to convert. E.G. I'll have MCMMM open, I click on "Open Mod Folder" which opens a dialog box and make my way down to fieldgrau mod folder when I open that folder nothing shows up (when there are several files in there). I'll click on a file but cannot get it to open up in either mod converter. What am I doing wrong? thanks Patrick

It took about 3 weeks for my copy to reach Manila. Glad to see there are more players in Asia. Anyone up for a PBEM game? Send me your setup to: lucero1148@pacific.net.ph I'm using V1.05 and have some of the player scenarios. all best Patrick