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I play CM. And when I'am not playing CM I turn to Shogun Total War. Fumble a little round, getting my a(beep beep) kicked, then I turn to CM again. Before CM, I played CM gold demo and before that, guess what - I played CM demo. I think that I can find at least three games on my shelve that I had only played once. They are good games like Freespace II, FS2000, Pharaoh and Rogue Spear but all as one they came in secound line. The only game that I had played hard before CM was Talonsoft's West Front which I played with a friend pbem. Henrik Malmvig

Chambois my dear friend - wasn't it meant to be a freebee for the polish? I got beathen like I ever been beathen before:) More servere casualties on the allies than the VoT scenario. I thourght it should be a walk in the park? Was the Polish army that good? I guess I had more to learn. Greate scenario though - but a little to hard for me I guess. What about some graduation like easy, middle and hard? Yours sincere Henrik Malmvig

Lucky you Jarhead If you are interested I volunteer for a pbem. It seems like the AI isn't good enough for you:) Have you beaten the VoT? Sleep well and be fresh for tomorrows battles Henrik Malmvig

Juardis - I understand your concern and why you let yourselfe focused on those reviewes. Remember though - that many software companies got themselfe into the neck, in creating eyecandy, and thereby forgotten the important part of gameplay. Combat Mission have the best gameplay I had every seen since late '89. (when I purchased my first game:) Eventhough. CM is gona be fameous and hopefully among those candidates for the game of the year! We players should stay focused. Do other game suppliers forceing you to put CM beside for their game if these include better graphic? - No! Remember - Diablo II wasn't pretty either and it scored simulary as CM on GameSpot! And it had alot more focus of the gaming community than CM. I say - don't fix anything not broken! Best regards Henrik Malmvig

Has anybody else seen this scenario before. Under a QB I had a sdkfz 251 doing suppression fire on an enemy squad when out of no where a 'single' enemy soldier came up on my left side, staying there for a few secounds, and then rush down the hill again. After another few secounds my pz goes BOOM! What a detail! Private Ryan came to my mind! This most certain stress the need of infantery support near panzer. I used 3000 point on a PzGrn Cmp supported by two Panthers and three Stug's among others. The AI invested in what seems like a hole infantery battalion supported only by a few tanks. The infantery came over my strongholds like a nightmare even after blasting every one of them damn Cromwells. This would seriously add to the favour of keeping the point system as it is and let every fool use all the point on elephants if they want to. They can't possible win if they play against a veteran player. best regards Malmvig

I would not consider the maps generated by CM as operational maps. They are just too small. The TOAW idea is greate but you could also consider using maps provided in the 'After The Battle' magazine. Reading these magazines also help you getting into the history line of your scenario as the gamemaster. It is not easy to create maps in CM from those printed and even when the scale is provide you have to consider 'prescaling' as a result of adjustment for the size of the magazine. But the good news is that you can almost certain get your hands in every important scenario of WWII. Just a thourght. Henrik Malmvig

Sorry everybody - just need to know. I had tried my best on danish NG's without any luck. It seems to me that folks around here have little or no knowledge to this greate game. If possible we are a few that wanner change that. Therefore we have created Dansk Combat Mission Forum http://hjem.get2net.dk/CutAway/ . Bewarned this is in Danish Sorry about the terrible url but the site is bannerless. I wonder where your all got the knowledge of CM from? We can't all have got our information though a friend can't we? Some bloke told me that the ASL society know there whereabout concerning CM - wonder why? Thanks for you time Henrik Malmvig

I've been waking'up in the last two weeks not feeling well. The only time I felt like this before was when playing Descent. The quick rotation of the map, the zooming in and out do have a impact on your brain. Many games include a warning about the danger of epilepsy but I have never belived in this. If however - this happen frequently you are adviced to consult a medical. Try to limit your gaming play to an hour limit and see if it helps. Malmvig

With v.102 I for the first time must question the timing of the time to impact information given from the spotters. I had one German 81mm spotter targeting a field and when I go to the action phase there were 2 min. remaining. After end action phase I checked again and was supprised to see that there were only 14 sec. remaing. Therefore I canceled the targeting and setup another target area at the same spot. This time the timing was again 2 min. to impact but the enemy passed through the time window unharmed because this time the first shell impact at exactly two turns after I really do not need this supprise in a pbem so why can this be happening? Malmvig

You are proberly right Sten but I do understand Juardis concern though. CM deliver one after the other of sweet details so you as gamer adopt to this atmosphere. When something is not quite as you expect it to be you question it. Malmvig

I know it must be quite annoying to see this forum posted with mails concerning -'When do I get by copy' kind of mails but - If you got a hearth, please post some nice screen captures from your battles to put some fuel on the fire? Your Sincerely Malmvig

When you got your copy. By reading the threads concerning shipment and arrivement I got the feeling that the shipping date only has a minor impact on the receiving date. Imagine this scenario. BTS ship every order they got for US and Canada within this week and then Europe together with the rest of the world the next week(s). When does the first CM land in Scandinavia? Does anyone have a bet? I collect This is fun - almost like Christmas eve Malmvig

Ohh dear - you got me! For a moment I sincerely thought this was some kind of a bug thread Don't do that again! BTS no offence meant regards Henrik Malmvig

Nvidia with their GeForce2 GTS support 400% FSAA and is in that way simulary to V5 5500 4xFSAA. It should however be mentioned that neither of these cards have enough Memory Bandwidth to rendered high resolutions with 4xFSAA. Infact no GPU's does that at present time. Henrik Malmvig

Manx - you make me realize that I did not mention BTS in my previous input. My deepst apology to BTS - this should not happend again I promise. Best regards Henrik Malmvig

The last five years has been a disaster being a simulation gaming player. Lots of expectation to both hardware and computing gaming software was at stake but the later felt sort of most of its objectives. Software developing teams used most of their resources dealing with how to make best use of the hardware present and did not bother digging into the most important part of computing gaming - Playability. Companies like Hasbro hired hundred of 1st class engineeres for developing - what should had been the greatest simulation game ever, but instead they ended up with one of the most buggy games ever. Microprose - with their TPII, shiped a game that many of us had waited over nine years for - fully of bugs and was it not because of the effort of their QA department it would never had been playable. All most evey body had their focus on costbenefit and none what so ever on - quality. Well - Combat Mission had showed the path through next centenary. Showed the path for many who had their doupt in computer gaming. Showed the path for many computing games to come. You do not need a billion to create a good game and you do not need a billion to earn one...What you need is simple a couple of good gentlemen who uses every effort to listen to their customers and how is willing to bring as much as possible of their customers influence into the game. What is the result you ended up with then - you ended up with pure quality, lastability, goodlooking, greate playability, enhenched AI and all those nice sweet'n details. Enough talk about buying multiple copies - instead, go out spreading the news. With you since Tank Platoon I Best regards Henrik Malmvig

Final after playing VoT many hours I managed to sneak up behind the damn Panther G - just waiting for him to show himselfe but .. then it happend - Game over! Ooh no I had this pretty signed AP to show him right up his fu..... a.. Now would it be greate to have a possibility to proceed after end game? Just a suggestion for next version. Best regards Henrik Malmvig

I had played this scenario as the American twich with the same result. After a little more than two hours of play testing the games locks. Both times it happens when there were a lot of talk going on. Could it be a memory leak, eating up my system memory? Beside this - I think this is the best game I played - EVER! Best regards Henrik Malmvig