Darwin

I would love to see examples of the "grog" interface, please try to find the time to throw some up. Although I am sticking with the originals for now I thought the health bar interface came out looking great.

what type of music do they play? Swing, big band? I'll have to see if I can't find an mp3 of them, are there any tunes you can recomend my searching for?

I have been able to get good results from my flamethrower units. I don't expect any kills for them as a unit but use them to supress or rout a target as supporting infantry wipes them up. Terrain density will of course heavily effect their usefullness on any particular map. The denser the better for them.

hahahahahahahaha now you must suffer as the rest of us did!!! 10 days??? A mere 10 days you've waited??? You'll get no pity from me. if it turns into a month with your package sent to iceland or something you may recieve a momentary arched brow with accompanying pensiveness before I turn away grumbling disgustedly. Aye the old days of waiting and waiting and waiting knowing the game to be "almost" done while Moon and Fionn teased us with AAR's (after action reports) of their ongoing alpha game battle. Now that was a wait. At least for you the game is merely being delayed in shipment, soon you will be having your ass handed to you in Pbem games like the rest of us. You might wish to spend your last days (hours possibly) with family and loved ones as once the package does arrive they will be no time for them (you might wish to move the fridge to within reaching distance of your comp, and stock up on snack foods, cigarettes and alcohol as well). I get the impression (just an impression, could be wrong) that you haven't tried the game versus a human opponent yet. If so, you have to try it. People are so freackin devious you turn your back on them for a minute and they've gotten into everything. They really can mess up the best laid plans. Playing Pbem games of the demo versus each other kept many of us alive during the dark days pre-CM and we are now thriving on the full version. Anyways, welcome and quit whining

I doubt data could be brought forward showing every combination did occur but with all the thrown together defences consitsting of luftwaffe AA units with their own infantry attached, the town volksstrum, whatever army has responsibility for the area and possible straggler groups recruited as they were retreating the Axis have a lot of leeway for scenario design. How historical do you want it to be?

Matt, screw this guy. We all realise and appreciate the effort you've put into CMHQ. You should definitely recieve a your fair share.

Good call KIA You know hot tar seals up blowtorch holes pretty good, perhaps this could somehow aid in imersion as well...

Hey guys, I'm running a 16meg voodoo as well. The transparency sucks, I get smoke but nothing like the beautiful stuff I've seen screens of and building transparency doesn't work for me at all. Regardless, the game is eminently functional. Of course I would prefer the better graphics I see others getting but the game works the same with or without.

Thats a sweet combo you've put together gunslinger [This message has been edited by Darwin (edited 09-03-2000).]

I was over Atomic from CC3... But god the glory days of CC2 were fun The flammpanzer hetzers in an opponents backfield, the mg42's oppening up from ambush, the gammon bombs taking tanks from the second floor...

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by swamp: <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> A most spectacular emoticon sir, my compliments on your excellent taste. Yes, I think both the Unit purchasing screen and the after battle report screen would both be better with this type of information included.

Old war stories huh? How about the time we all dropped L and drove to this big punk rock show at the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles. We started drinking around noon so we we're already pretty torqued when my crew showed up with with the score. They had these crazy teenage punker girls with them, really hot rebel girls. The kind that just *huh, what, oh, those kind of war stories...* Nevermind

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Pershing Predator: Never before have I seen group of more mature, thinking gamers, and I couldn't be happier. Pershing Predator<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> uh, yeah...

Putting stuff on the net... 2 options. 1) find someone with a site willing to post it for you. 2) Get your own site snd learn html.

As the smoke rises to the ceiling my brain sizzles over some of the larger maps. Taking another guzzle from my handy jug, I attempt to focus on the possible possible's. Targetting lines blur the landscape in a pattern vaguely reminiscent off my drive home, I stumble through the hotkeys M, F, T, N, S. Will that ****ing bird never stop??? Soon I am brought back by a soft ding announcing a returning file. Stunned I look back through our email discussion wondering who's been sending files for me...

This is tough, trying to decide if my favorite missions were due to the inherent satisfaction of bashing difficult players or the obstacles the map offered. As I've yet to play the same scenario twice many won't be given fair consideration. Anyways, I really enjoyed the "All or Nothing" map. It was long and grueling and in the end extreemely satisfying. The operation "Team Desobry" which I've only just started has a beautiful map and looks to be fun as well. Props to TeAcH for recreating Schijndel Road, going to have to check that out

The ability to preset a portion of the OOB while also giving the players points to buy additional units of choice. An enhanced feature along the same theme would be the ability to allow a player to purchase his reinforcements. Set points only available to be used for reinforcements after a certain turn. To give the player the ability to choose between various reinforcement entry points. A preview topdown basic map available during force selction. As the game creation sequence goes this is rough but even a generic map section of the particular terrain combo showing general densities would help. maybe a pool of bmp's of the various possible combinations (I'm thinking black and whites or with most of the color removed) to appear in a window which is shaped relative to map dimensions of the coming battle. Disclaimer, Although CM1 is done the series continues, this is not meant as a petulant demand but rather discourse for the future. Please take it as such.

Hey guys, I know this has been gone over but... I would love to see a few more things listed on it. Namely the points for the various sides involved as well as bettle type (attack, assault, etc). For ladder games this could be a tremendous boon, as with tournament saved games we cant load them into the editor for this information.

With all the crap out there it sucks that sirtech can't get it's products to market. I for one will definitely buy the expansion and JA3 if they ever become available.

Melta-guns and heavy stubbers should do these Volks nicely. Cant wait for "CM6 Beyond Earth"

Shhhhhh, I'm involved in drop to destiny now and I don't want to know yet

Minor bragging rights, nothing substantial though and not a win. However on the ladder I think even a draw can affect your ranking. If you were to play the number one guy to a draw you would gain points and he would lose points as he would have been expected to have scored higher. Thus in essence a win

Empire of the Sun is one of my favorites, good stuff. Another favorite that isn't too well known that was mentioned recently is "The Beast" set in Afghanistan. If you haven't seen it, rent it

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by TP_Bomber: This one doesnt qualify as a war movie but how about Tank Girl? No, I havent seen it. Just curious if anyone had. I saw the title and just had to wonder.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Tank Girl Is an excellent piece, I highly recommend it. Truly some awful movies have been mentioned but how can you guys pick on stuff like Red Dawn when there are the made for tv afternoon special rescue the mia's type warfilms that just blow. And the low budget Rutger Whore stuff... (godawful) My number one recomendation for worst war movie ever is THE PATRIOT. (or at least the most recently endured)

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