RudeLover

I think that Merry Christmas at Hemroulle (on the CD) is from another part of this day's fighting; the German attackers split their force, with one portion going to Hemroulle and one moving north to participate in this scenario. (IIRC.)

Just a few earlier discussions of this topic: http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/Forum1/HTML/002839.html http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/Forum1/HTML/005215.html http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/Forum1/HTML/009110.html http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/Forum1/HTML/007598.html BTW, you should add a 'spoiler' comment in case there are people who haven't played that scenario (see last topic for an example).

Eight minutes, three replies...what more could you ask for??? Yikes, there's another one, now!

It's in. Try scenarios set in Dec.44 or later IIRC. (Given the time table of Market-Garden there's a discrepancy there...)

I know that a slightly modified Ham and Jam can be found at the Rugged Defense site. It's really a pretty minor change--switching time of battle to 'night,' which users could do themselves. I think the scenario's great, BTW, if Dick is listening, and didn't mean to imply otherwise...it's just another that's rec'd a minor tweak since the initial release that might be included on new-edition CDs, etc. Michael Loverude [This message has been edited by RudeLover (edited 09-22-2000).]

Have a HQ set an ambush marker, and then units in command radius of that HQ can target the ambush marker. AFVs, AT teams, etc. can set their own markers, but infantry and MGs need to target one set by a HQ.

Perhaps also the revised Ham and Jam?

Anyone who ever played Squad Leader will want: Guards Counterattack Hill 621 Also, from Cross of Iron, I liked The Defense of Luga (German popgun ATG & flak support outnumbered infantry vs assortment of BT-7s, T-28s, with a T-34 and KV thrown in for giggles) [This message has been edited by RudeLover (edited 09-21-2000).]

Ha! I found the list of German MGs. It's quite a thread, kind of an all-time, um, classic? RL (Search-0-naut wannabe...) http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/Forum1/HTML/004087.html

Hmmm, wouldn't have guessed this; the US 76mm was better than the Russian 76mm or 85mm? Is this regular APCBC or APDS? <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>8. The tank's hull and turret side plates were penetrated by armor-piercing projectiles from the domestic 85 mm and American 76 mm guns at ranges of 800-2000 metres. 9. The tank's hull and turret side plates were not penetrated by armor-piercing projectiles from the domestic 76 mm guns (ZIS-3 and F-34). 10. American 76 mm armor-piercing projectiles penetrated the "Tiger-B" tank's side plates at ranges 1.5 to 2 times greater the domestic 85 mm armor-piercing projectiles." <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> [This message has been edited by RudeLover (edited 09-21-2000).]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Yep. In fact I brewed up a "W" model last night in a PBEM game. So much for wet storage! <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Yeah, wet storage ain't no +5 Cloak of Immunity from 75L AP. They still die fast...

You can find the database (as well as many cool conversions of ASL scenarios) at the ASL-CM scenario site: http://w1.312.telia.com/~u31213280/index.htm (go to add-ons when you get there, but also take a minute to browse, esp. if you've ever played SL/ASL) [This message has been edited by RudeLover (edited 09-21-2000).]

Hi, If you open the information window for early Shermans, you'll see the phrase 'burns easily.' Any model with a W (eg M4A3(75)W as you see in Chance Encounter) has the wet storage you mentioned. Don't worry, early Shermans earn their nicknames, "Ronson" and "Tommycooker."

Lawyer, zooks have little hope vs. Tiger frontal armor (zook penetrates 90mm@0°, Tiger is 100+mm). If it were CC they'd say "We can't hurt THAT!" If it were not shooting at the front and waiting for a flank shot, your guy made the right call.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>While on the subject of trees, I've noticed that in the winter they don't seem to have as much impact on LOS as in summer. I wonder if the seasons also effect how much cover they give.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> This is true I believe. IIRC, in the alpha AAR Moon comments on how much worse the cover/concealment was in 'woods' in the winter. Grain also behaves differently depending on the season.

Way back before the Gold demo (even maybe before the beta demo), when talk of CM2, 3, 4 would come up, the sense was that BTS would make every effort to make game engine improvements backward compatible, but that that may not be possible. Heck, even the Alpha build battle is not compatible with the current release. See, for example: http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/Forum1/HTML/000611.html That's an old, old post, so I wouldn't hold them to anything said so long ago, though...if you search on things like "east front" and browse through you'll see a lot of discussions of these questions. (It's also cool to see the old posts and BB format...if you search you can see stalwarts like KwazyDog and Fionn making some of their first posts.)

Welcome! Don't know how you could wait two weeks, though... There's a Pegasus Bridge scenario on the CD ("Ham and Jam"), as well as several other scenarios with airborne units that have recently dropped, from D-day, Market-Garden, and Operation Varsity. Third-party scenarios add more, including some hypothetical German airdrops into the UK! The editor (which is very cool and comes with the full game) allows units to be scattered all over the map if the scenario designer chooses; in many cases the designer has assumed that units have gathered after the drop into some sort of order. I've played other scenarios where platoons start out scattered and a major hurdle is getting them organized. In all cases units start off on the ground.

Somewhere on a wish list is enhanced map editing capabilities, including cut & paste, rotate, import, possibly cool things like 'smooth roads.' And, to return to the topic, in the category of tough scenarios I also nominate "Meyer's Decision 1" when playing as Canadians. Against the AI I got stomped even worse than the real-life Canadians did way back when. Oddly enough, I'm looking forward to trying again to see if I can improve. Also got stomped on Marechal's Mill. Sigh.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>And for the person who e-mailed me and told me that the game would be ten times better if Big Time dropped Macintosh development -- why e-mail me about that? I am just a critic!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Hmmm, is this perhaps someone who doesn't know that CM was developed on the Mac? See also Colin's sig... [This message has been edited by RudeLover (edited 09-19-2000).]

Forgive my ignorance here, but regarding the process of 'bracketing' with AP before firing HVAP / APDS, would that actually help a gunner? Since the velocity of the projectile is so different, it seems to me that if you hit a fixed target with AP, then fired a round of APDS without adjusting anything, you'd miss on the high side, because the 'fall' of APDS would be significantly less over the same distance. Like the 'fall' of a fastball after several slow curves. Or was there a button that switched gunsights from AP to APDS aim? Or is the 'bracketing' process just to get gross distance information?

You said the time to FFE was consistent +/- 1 second in all three trials (105x2, 240)? That surprises me; I thought I'd seen some randomness in arty time to target as well as varation with caliber. Hmm. Not sure I understand your standard deviation. It looks like you're saying mean - stdev = 2:50 and mean + stdev is 3:05 for the Crack FO, but mean in the table above is about 2 minutes. Do you mean regular? Or am I misreading the table? Is N=3? (how many trials?) More tests needed! Very interesting data! Perhaps the National Science Foundation will fund a study....

Actually Cap'n Manieri did make his Omaha beach scenario and it can be found on Colin's web site IIRC. Haven't played it so cannot offer a review at this time.

I have to say that the hopeless defenses and the pointless attacks have a very liberating element to them. Hell, you say, it's hopeless. My historical counterpart got creamed. Well, let's see if I can do better--how bad I can make it for the bad guys? See also K. Maru, and the hope of beating the unbeatable...

What I like about the Ops most is the sense that if you lose your favorite toy in the first battle, you're really screwed. Imagine an Ardennes op, you're defending as US, there's panzers everywhere, and the mortars start falling on your last AT gun midway through battle one. Really makes you think twice before moving and/or shooting. I've found myself getting _really_ attached to units in ops, like the M-10 crew in **Snip** who killed a whole bunch of ***Snip*** or the airborne squad in ***Snip*** who finally took out the rampaging ***SNIP!!!*** with a Gammon bomb. The no-man's land needs to be checked like KwazyDog says. I hope that the recalculation of front lines continues to evolve with further releases, since it can be frustrating. Long and large scenarios can have some of the same tension, too, if they're done right.

For your entertainment: http://www.metricsucks.com/ http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jup/metric/ http://www.freedom2measure.org/ http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/estatopia/inch.htm I believe that the Slug (the english system's counterpart to the gram) is the official unit of the John Birch Society... [This message has been edited by RudeLover (edited 09-11-2000).]