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I'm the Swedish guy........ Real life caught up with me..... I have a substancial amount of code and have generated map and units. You can move around those units and yada, yada, yada........ Then a number of questions arose. So i halted that and began to work on the game format and mapmaker. The MapMaker is almost finished, but thats my education to. Im about to do the final examwork(X-jobb in swedish) and their is no spare time what so ever....... If anyone know a "X-jobb" in Sundsvall or Stockholm in Sweden please mail me. I finish the mapmaker as soon as i have time. 060.563882@telia.com Björn Elfström

Strategic Command AAR ? Where ?

Yes. When is the next Strategic Command AAR due?[/QB]

Skipper, very interesting ! Care to expand that to Battalionlevel ? Do you have something simmular for the Russians, Finns, Rumanians, Hungarians ? If you have, please post it here or post the link to where it can be found ! /björne

We have all seen the FlameThrower explode in the documentary movie SPR(=Saving Private Ryan). So without historical research, let's asume all flamethrowers that was damaged ended in a big mushroom explosion ! Asumtions is after all, the one thing that make this game great ! I've read somewhere that sometimes zookas was used in a inderect fire role. Let's asume they have a blastvalue of 1288 ! That would be sweet ! /björne

We have all seen the FlameThrower explode in the documentary movie SPR(=Saving Private Ryan). So without historical research, let's asume all flamethrowers that was damaged ended in a big mushroom explosion ! Asumtions is after all, the one thing that make this game great ! I've read somewhere that sometimes zookas was used in a inderect fire role. Let's asume they have a blastvalue of 1288 ! That would be sweet ! /björne

I'm not going to do anything illegal. No I don't want the savegameformat. I wan't CM to be able too read my(or any outher) txt style file format. /Björn Elfström

My last post on the CMSL was somewhat blurry and I hope that this subject will be clearer I'm writing a Totally Computerized campaign game on the strategic level. The Tactical combat will be solved in combat mission. Some of you might ask how that is possible without knowledge of the savegameformat. It is possible with some difficulty.........BTS is finding it hard to motivate a load/save to textfile feature because there is no Campaign game out there. But if there is a working SL with both manually purchase and Load/Create txtfile feature that people use.........it's a completely different question then (I think). http://www.mycgiserver.com/~elfbj97/CMSL_ALPHA.JPG What (basic) features would you expect from the CMSL: -wego -TCP/IP -Load/Create textfile (that CMBB hopefully will support in a later patch) -Merge depleted squads. -Tools for Campaign making (mapmaking tools, unit purchase and more.....) This could be added indefinitely with things like -Prebombardment with artillery -supply -building fortifications/Bridges What I'm wrestling with now is an accurate moving model, the pieces are moving perfectly but i must decide how! My first thought was to give mechanized units the capability to move 2 hexes and non-motorized units the ability to move 1. That would be a serious design flaw on something as important as movement. my present idea(not fully implemented, but almost) is to subtract from a units 60 minutes (one turn in CM tactical layer 60 seconds--> CMSL one turn 60 minutes) private int maxspeed = 15; //THE UNITS MAXSPEED IN KM/H private final static int tacticalmapsize = 5000; //meters*meters private final static String moving_at_speed_StringArray[] = {"Carefull","Normal","Fast","Reckless"}; private final static double moving_at_speed_IntArray[] = {0.3,0.5,0.7,0.9}; private double movingatspeed[]; private final static double terrainmodifier[] = {1.0,1.2,1.5,1.7,2.0}; private double time=60.0; //minuter till godo so if a unit at first move from HEX 6,7 to hex 6,8 in Fast speed that means that (15*1000/60*0.7)/terrain modifier 1.1 (meters/minutes at 70 % of maximum speed/the present terrain modifier in this case 1.1) in a 5km*5km map would have consumed 31 minutes. Is this model accurate enough? If someone have suggestions, different approaches, please respond. I would appreciate if any response to this (if any) is short. Time is in short supply, even shorter after I have started this CMSL thingi.... /Björn Elfström PS. My native tongue is not English so any comments on that have to be written in flawless Swedish DS

I's this it ? Is 12 people interested in a Strategic Layer ? 12 is not good but it is better than 0 /Björn Elfström

Thank you Stoffel, but how can you simulate the battles around and in St. Lo with this Magenta Onion as the Strategic Layer and CM as the Tactical battlesolver ? Is it a computersoftware or a paper(email?) and pen version ? I will check for myself but would apprecheate a fast-version. /Björn ELfström

..........would someone except that someone who made the Campaigngame play it ? Someone is talking about a Strategic Layer™ to CombatMission. Someone is not a NaziFacist who would like Germany to win the war, but rather make "what if" campaigns like for example the area around St. Lo, Bastogne and so on.......... Someone have already written a substancial amount of code and could if encurraged by the unwashed masses "smack" in the final gear and throw upp some half-finished Beta for the previously named masses to test. The question is, if someone would produce a stable Strategic Layer to Combat Mission, would someone else play the god damn thing ? Would someone else help someone to playtest the thing ? Someone would appreciate if any responce to this(if any) is short. Time is in short supply, even shorter after i have started this CMSL thingi.... /Someone PS. Someone's native tounge is not English so any comments on that have to be writen in flawless Swedish DS.

I always buy the "most-bang-for-the-buck" and P4 isn't.......... ohhh! I almost forget, HI MOM!

Where is my turn ? Rantboy !

For the love of..... I've got 3286 brown eye mail requests mainly from you Agua Perdido(if that is your real name). I can't stand it, public demand that is.... I'm not giving you any closeupps so this picture have too do...... Hmmmmm! I still remember those nice wetspotts in my cold ass. Yours truly Björn Elfström bjorn.elfstrom@mhs.studit.com

A quickbattle then, I don't want to waste my maps on substandard opponents. BAH! Do you read at all, or do you only look at the pictures ? Another picture looker! Great! A substandard opponent on a substandard map......... Maybe I will follow you home ! Björn Elfström bjorn.elfstrom@mhs.studit.com

I have been a lurker in the pengthread for a while now. Sitting in the darkest corner, afraid to step out of the closet....uhmm NO I mean afraid to step out in the light. Afraid that you would laugh at my Swedish-English no good spelling and grammar. But behold you miserable little band of hamsters. I have the ultimate weapon that will make you tremble and beg for merci. You can beg but i will spare no one. Mark my words NO ONE ! I introduce to you..............The Eye of Divine Light . Some of you might think that this is just a M3HT hit by the rather powerful (but not divine) gun of the Hummel, so that it jumped down from the bridge, and somehow got beneath the bridge. Some of you might (by pure ignorance) claim that the Ray of Divine Light is nothing but a unusual grafik bug. If you are such an imbecile send me a PBEMsetup and i will show you (perhaps) the might of the Divine Eye. There is no way in hell that i will show you the brown eye so there is no point in asking ! Look at the ice and look at the bridge. See what The Eye of Divine Light is capable of and fear me. Some of you might think that The Eye of Divine Light is gamey. My only response to you is, send me a PBEMsetup imbeciles. Hitler had loots of Eyes of Divine Light but refused to use them. The ingenious Bömish Corporal thought that it was of no use(just like the MP44 and Me262). Dr Mengele did see its potential but thought that it was too horrible. I'm not even remotely as gentle as those two smucks so prepare to see a lot of Eyes of Divine Light . My references are from two very trustworthy books which names i have forgot and both of them burned up by accident. MadMatt I have mailed you a Save game and a picture of The Eye of Divine Light . Not because it's a bug, I just want you to fear me ! If you want a Screenshot of the Spotter, here you go ! Any resemblance between the spotter and me is merely coincidencial. Björn Elfström bjorn.elfstrom@mhs.studit.com

I have been a lurker in the pengthread for a while now. Sitting in the darkest corner, afraid to step out of the closet....uhmm NO I mean afraid to step out in the light. Afraid that you would laugh at my Swedish-English no good spelling and grammar. But behold you miserable little band of hamsters. I have the ultimate weapon that will make you tremble and beg for merci. You can beg but i will spare no one. Mark my words NO ONE ! I introduce to you..............The Eye of Divine Light . Some of you might think that this is just a M3HT hit by the rather powerful (but not divine) gun of the Hummel, so that it jumped down from the bridge, and somehow got beneath the bridge. Some of you might (by pure ignorance) claim that the Ray of Divine Light is nothing but a unusual grafik bug. If you are such an imbecile send me a PBEMsetup and i will show you (perhaps) the might of the Divine Eye. There is no way in hell that i will show you the brown eye so there is no point in asking ! Look at the ice and look at the bridge. See what The Eye of Divine Light is capable of and fear me. Some of you might think that The Eye of Divine Light is gamey. My only response to you is, send me a PBEMsetup imbeciles. Hitler had loots of Eyes of Divine Light but refused to use them. The ingenious Bömish Corporal thought that it was of no use(just like the MP44 and Me262). Dr Mengele did see its potential but thought that it was too horrible. I'm not even remotely as gentle as those two smucks so prepare to see a lot of Eyes of Divine Light . My references are from two very trustworthy books which names i have forgot and both of them burned up by accident. MadMatt I have mailed you a Save game and a picture of The Eye of Divine Light . Not because it's a bug, I just want you to fear me ! If you want a Screenshot of the Spotter, here you go ! Any resemblance between the spotter and me is merely coincidencial. Björn Elfström bjorn.elfstrom@mhs.studit.com [This message has been edited by Bamse (edited 03-22-2001).]

The best place for a tcp/ip game IMHO is on the computer You don't need to thank me! Björn Elfström

CC2 Realpara. Where can I find it ? Anybody help.

Your problem takes my problem to extreme and beyond! My problem is that overwatch tanks don't se tanks that move up to fireingposition and blasting rounds at them some 100-200 m away. The human eye is very good at spotting movement. Scaning large areas after stationary hulldown targets should be hard IMO.

That's pretty stupid! A thinskinned-reconvehicle that won't stopp for anything but a tank So a PzIV won't stop for a M8 ?

Fuerte I agre with Olle ! This is a great lttle program ! Thank you.

Uuuuhh? Tris for president ? Where do you live Tris ? I would realy like to meet you. You can never convince me that you are this bold/stupid in real life until we meet "in real life". I don't know if you can/wan't to answer on this forum. In that case mail me @ elfbj97@ite.mh.se. Thank's for a god laught, whatever you do...... Björn Elfström

M3 HT with(and without) the 57mm AT-gun. M3 Lee M4 Sherman Stuart's ........