AfrikaKorps

Its not the angle, its the propellant quantity put into it before firing.

Think that not a general in those time had the luxury to fly a planes to see it top down view. To move around is like seeing what your troops can see, nothing more. So i think its more realistic to have limited views. I played Fighting Steel recently and i was completly repulsed by all the views you can have. You can almost see what the ennemy cooks are making in the galleys. I remember the game Pacific 1942. We had only views from the boats. No fency 3D unrealistics views on the ennemies. In that game the real fog of war was on. You could fire at your onw boats. That realistic. And you had to know the profile of the ships to identify them. I guess those feature were made for the newbies or very Age Of empires kind of players. It sure looks good to have 3D views everywhere, but not a commanding officers had that lucky chance in battle. Even today!!!!

My post was not pointed at you Fionn. I hope BTS read all the topics. I just trying to help them. For me even if the game is in Russian i will buy it and get a French-Russian dictionnary. But i know a lot of people who wont. Maybe i just want to act like mother Theresa by helping them makes more money... Or simply have more people to play with and curses them in french....

The Fallshirmjagger units who manned the StuhIII and Stuh42 were actually artilliery troops. They were not from tank trainning cause the idea was to have direct control over them by infantry HQ. They also perfored as the support roles and indirect fires. Low muzzles guns are very good at that. Or you can even name the AVRE mortar gun has the ideal indirect fire.

So 1 month for the replication, 1 month for the TC/IP, and uncertain time for the waxing. So summer could be the most close scenario ATA. That`s giving me a time table. So now i can figure out mu budget for this summer sotware buying....

Your call. If you want to pass beside some buyers. It's a business choice. But it could meen more sell to have a french version and a spanish one. Of course it takes time to make, but its not like reshaping the english manual. The game wont change. How many time it took for the english one? Count half the time for each translations. IF CM sells good you can have a lot more revenues from that translation. And you have to do it once. I am french and i could tell you that a lot of my friends and familly dont buys english software. So if you are sure to sell good with CM you better make translations. Even if you have to pay for it. We are not talking about a poetic book, but a technical one. It just take a ww2 french speaking one to make a good translation. No need to turn into a Beaudelair proses. If you dont care. Other will also dont care about buying it. Thats pretty simple. They wont follow course to learn english. If you dont beleive that you will sell many games, why bother making it. I can say thats a good game and i know for one that my brother and a freind at work will buy it if they can understant it. So count already 2 sells.

Can Tanks can fire indiect fire? The big Tanks were often used as artillery, do CM model that?

The min range of that weapon is the range you want to be as far you ca be for yjr explosion. The range was control by the ammount of propellant put into it. So the range can be 100m if you want to be that close.

I want to know if smoke screens will be included in the game. Lots ov smokes coverage were used in ww2. How can you oder a team to fire smoke shell ammo?

If we are not talking about capitalism. I can sure spare some money if the designers will get socialists ideas.... The game given to all to the pure enjoyement of making it so. Yes we can dream. But Capitalism is just a word to generalise the whole comcept of earning money by working. distrubuters work is to distrubute and making the game to be available to more people. If no distributors, then no big sells. Without distributors the profit margin is higher, but less sells. If the game is going as good as everyone thinks, any publisher will put money in it, and use his ditributions gates to make the game a success. And by haing a publisher they could give a hand on the money side so the game will be available for the good sell season. So i guess with no real publisher we will have to wait to see the game get out of the basement of steve house... No dates, no annoucement, no time table. For me i will buy another game if CM is not out in one month. Maybe in fall ill spend other money of CM if its released then.....

but that's not really ranking but more a track of you record. you cam play many battles with weal players and makes pts, you cant know if a players is really good, you just know that he have beaten others, that's a bit relative to who your playing. I guess for now that the only one available....

The problem to put a mortar in forest is the angle of the firing arc. you have to be away from trees as much as posible. And you can hit trees with your mortar projectiles. mortar crew must have a certain distances to all trees in the direction of the firing. the only good protection for a mortar is a hole in the ground with some sand bags around. Forget forest.

Why 16 % since in the 6 crew one is carrying the tube, another the base plate, that give ammo ratio on 4 crew members. that 25% for each. Also while firing you have a man amming and another directing the operations, it give the rest the task of feeding the the mortar, thats also 25% for each crew lost.

Does anybody will put a rankink system up, so we could find players in our level of play. ( so i could take a break between heavy bleeding). And will it be the BTS who will host it? It could be nice.

Wow. I guess the WW2 is almost on again. Gentlemen please choose the weapon of your choice, walk back 100 step away from each other. Turn and on my signal ..... run away. How come ideas come clashing like that on a nice forum like this one. Are we talking about politics other warm subjects? If soemone is tageted (SS_PL) they must have been ennemy of the state (forum). I hope one will be taken out of his misery. Lucky that CM have weapons in the game......

There's a big difference in the 2 games strategic level. Real time is not veru suitable for ww2 kind of battles. since too much is going on at once. So thats why they gave a lot of responsabilities on junior officers giving them latitudes. They had to make a lot of decision on one order alone. Like covering the left flank againts tank penetration. So they were no told to place that man there and those here. In battles like napolenic or Shugun type, they had a big general conducting almost all operations. They also picked big open terrains so the flag signals could be given directly by the general himslef. Then you have the unit (regiment) officer who make sure his units obeyed and keep the ranks. He also made some judgement moves like forming square of firng. So the general was taking a lot of fast decisions on the flow of the battle. If the general died during a battle it almost always singified the lost of the battle. or even the war. In WW2 we could have lost many generals with not even a glitch in all the operations. (sure having lost Monty would have even help) hehe. So i love the real time action of Shogun. The game must be played like a flowing tactic. no time to calculate angle and count numbers against numbers. You have to to move your troops in actions and reactions of every move of the ennemy. In BM that sure not appropriate since we have to think like all the junior offivers at the same time. That make people go crazy ( me included ) In Close Combat, how many times i saw some of my troops already death when i wanted to see how they were doing after 1 min of play. No even seeing who the hell killed them. The simultanous play of CM is a nice idea, since you have time to think, then the actions is not on the advantage of one of the players.

You have to consider that the brithish secrect services were the best in the world. they used a lot of spies and double agents. They were the first one to really study Sun Tsu teaching about uses of them. Certains thing we will never know about ww2. They were even capable of making Hitler beleive in the Pas de Calais landing. Brithish and usa mount the biggest sea assault ever done in before, without the germans beleive the would. The british use of expentable spies and the sacrifice of many double agents saved the lifes of thousands. For the bulge i beleive that the allies knew about at high level of command. But they didnt expect to have the sky covevred during a lot of the operation. Patton was ready to close the trap. And allies superiority would have made theis sector a real crushing victoty for allies. Since the operation didnt went like it was suppose to go, we sure wont hear that they let so many american die because of a sacrifice. If the dead were a lot less, we could be sure we will have heard them telling us that it was a nice plan. All the plan for closing the gap was even already made. Some info leaked during the operation, but they keep the secret about the sacrifice of so many men. They want to give a finger to the germans wolves, but the woflves eat the whole arm. No wonder why James Bond was portrayed on a british. Brits were on almost everywhere since centuries fingthing many colonials wars. They were on hostiles land away from their iles. The intel services save their country and colonials possession many times

I hear a lot of good things about CM. But sadly a lot outside the demo. Yes i know a lot of beta testers loves to tease us a little bit. If i knew the time table of the release of CM i could enjoy it more to see the post of the beta testers. Because its really hard to eveluate a game on a simple pre release teaser demo. Frankly i tried the Shogun one, and was very impressed by the interface. The details of the interface make it look like a real professional look. Of course no AI ca beat the human brain easelly. Even games like chess, where you can predict move in advance have real problmes with certain humain brains. So imagine 1000 of troops with infinite choice of deploy and movement. Sure i will buy one of the 2 games. Depending on wich one will be out the first. The second one will have to wait until i get tired of the first one. Budget and time don't permit myself to buy everything on the market. If i only knew that CM could be out in a near future, i don't ask any precise date but a idea of time. 2 week, 1 month, 6 months, 1 year,.never...... And is it because of bug, or simply of added feature that the game is not out yet. for bugs i can understant well why not release it. Added feature can be downloaded in future time. Also i hope that not because of financial or legal problems. So i hope to see you all playing CM, or SHOGUN this spring.