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Congrads Canuck!
BTW, first, did u stock enough food and water at home? Or do you have somebody else to feed you regularly?
Okay, here is the updated "What you should do when your CM copy arrives"
1. Get the version 1.12 patch.
2. Visit the following sites for mod:
CMHQ http://combathq.thegamers.net/ (fttb) for MadMatt Mod Pack
Manx's Combat Mission site http://www.combat-missions.net/ get all the Tiger's mod
CM Output http://www.afv-uk.net/cmoutpost/ also features a lot of nice mod and comparisons
Deanco 's web site for all UI mod http://mapage.cybercable.fr/deanco
Oh, nearly forget the humorous Hamster mod and great King Tiger mod which are available at Kitty's site http://www.fluffkitty.com/
Don't forget the great CM mod article at http://www.cdmag.com/
3. Visit and get all the 3rd party scenarioes and operations:
Wild Bill Wilder's "CM Boots 'n Tracks" section http://wbr.thegamers.net/ (fttb) Grab all the files you can. Including the most important Scenario Database by Harv.
Manx's Combat Mission page, grab all the Rune's Pack and other nice scenarioes there.
(Oh, please forgive if I have not included your great sites here)
4. Read and learn from other great players from their AARs and tutorials:
CMHQ features many AARs including historical Alpha AARs by Fionn http://combathq.thegamers.net/
Manx has made a series of armor tactics at his Combat Missions site http://www.combat-missions.net
ScoutPL has made a series on infantry attacks and defense tutorials at http://www.geocities.com/fpd131/
Also, there is a CM reading book list but I am sorry I don't have the link right now.
4. Start to play at least one PBEM or live TCP/IP game.
5. Spend your non-gaming time (i.e. the rest of your time) here in the CM Forums.
6. Do not forget to kiss your life goodbye.
Griffin.
P.S. Would you like a game of PBEM?
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"When you find your PBEM opportents too hard to beat, there is always the AI."
"Can't get enough Tank?"
[This message has been edited by GriffinCheng+ (edited 02-26-2001).]
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I agree keeping Firefly alive is a bigger problem. Yep they have a big gun which can deal with almost all German panzers, faster turret but most of the time they are the first pirority target. The Firefly armor is nothing greater than other Sherman. I have many killed by "cheap" Panzer IVs at ranges over 800m. Worse, their HE round count is low and they are really suspectable to German organic troops.
Griffin.
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"When you find your PBEM opportents too hard to beat, there is always the AI."
"Can't get enough Tank?"
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So, CMBO get the award!!! Congrads!
Griffin.
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"When you find your PBEM opportents too hard to beat, there is always the AI."
"Can't get enough Tank?"
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Okay Matt, you know me, count me in if you need help in webmastering.
Will work for CM!
Griffin.
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"When you find your PBEM opportents too hard to beat, there is always the AI."
"Can't get enough Tank?"
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Yep, hold down the key "Alt" and then press "U", the select the "Yes" button. if you hear a confirm tone, you made it!
Originally posted by Bamse:I don't like to lose tanks at all !
IMHO losing tanks is a bug.
BTS can you fix this ?
Yep, yet another shameless BUMP!!!
Griffin.
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"When you find your PBEM opportents too hard to beat, there is always the AI."
"Can't get enough Tank?"
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Yep, after 1.1x, the TacAI artillery spotters no longer rush into your position like regular grunts. Instead they stay low profile in woods or houses where they can see you to unleash firestorm from the sky on you.
Griffin.
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"When you find your PBEM opportents too hard to beat, there is always the AI."
"Can't get enough Tank?"
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Not when you witness the power of 14" naval guns!
Too bad they are only avaible in the first 2 months in CMBO timeline.
Griffin.
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"When you find your PBEM opportents too hard to beat, there is always the AI."
"Can't get enough Tank?"
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Crockett,
Like you, I am still learning how to play the game well.
From my little painful experience, there is not "super" or "uber" tanks in CMBO. All tanks have their own weakness and strength. German tanks are fun and cool but they are not invulunerable. They are just a little harder to kill, but well, when luck comes into play, well, it sure makes you mad. Proper tactics are need to deal with them or use them on the countary.
Some advices (may be poor):
1. Keep them moving all the time;
2. Your infantry are your tanks' best friends, keep them close;
3. Keep your tanks together;
4. Concentration of fire make good sucker punch, espeically when they come in from diffferent angles to your target;
5. When in doubt, reverse into cover;
6. Hull down when firing;
7. Straight and quiet road is the most dangerous path. So is the urban area;
8. In general, German tanks have upper hands at range over 600m;
9. One Tiger VIE worths combatwise more than 2 Panzer IVHs;
10. Watch out for those M5 Straut and M8 Greyhound, they are deadier "animal-killers" than M18 Hellcats;
11. JadgPanzers in general make very good panzer ambushes.
12. Tiger VIE is NOT the best German tank in the game.
I usually refer to http://combat-mission.net/ for armor tactics.
Griffin.
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"When you find your PBEM opportents too hard to beat, there is always the AI."
"Can't get enough Tank?"
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"How about a game of PBEM?" -- This is my line of friendly gesture.
I am not a good player so don't label be me as an "elite" or a "newbie vulture".
Welcome aboard, and see ya around.
Griffin.
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"When you find your PBEM opportents too hard to beat, there is always the AI."
"Can't get enough Tank?"
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For MacOS, it is just a simple matter about using the "Info" dialog. OTOH, I don't know how you can increase a Win-native apps under Win9x/ME.
Griffin.
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"When you find your PBEM opportents too hard to beat, there is always the AI."
"Can't get enough Tank?"
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Choice #1: Hasbro's Squad Leader computer game.
Griffin.
P.S. I gotta find an inkjet printer first.
Originally posted by BeWary:I didn't have too much trouble finding a worthless CD to throw out to make room for my CM CD.
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"When you find your PBEM opportents too hard to beat, there is always the AI."
"Can't get enough Tank?"
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May I ask how many memory do you have for your TBird? Just curious.
Griffin.
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"When you find your PBEM opportents too hard to beat, there is always the AI."
"Can't get enough Tank?"
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To add a gain of salt, many have voice the need for Table of Organization and Equipment (TO&E) chart for CMBO just like Steel Panters and Panthers in the Shadow. It is useful to keep track of the resources and their status.
In the meantime, turn on the troop base, or enlarge your troops helps. Also, try to use "+" and "-" keys to scroll through the units you have on-board. If the scenario designer is kind enough, you can scroll them in order : "A" HQ first, "B" platoon and the rest of the foot soldiers, then "T" group of supporting elements and finally "V" group of AFVs.
Griffin.
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"When you find your PBEM opportents too hard to beat, there is always the AI."
"Can't get enough Tank?"
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Wow! Must get it asap.
I suggest BTS should take serious considerations in licensing your mod as their future standard UI. I am serious.
Griffin.
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"When you find your PBEM opportents too hard to beat, there is always the AI."
"Can't get enough Tank?"
[This message has been edited by GriffinCheng+ (edited 02-22-2001).]
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Any you can always get a small network hub which is dirt cheap. I have one and home with the uplink to my ADSL modem.
For serial connections, you may need 2 modems. Once you connect them to ISP via dial-up networking, you can also play a lan game between two.
Griffin.
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"When you find your PBEM opportents too hard to beat, there is always the AI."
"Can't get enough Tank?"
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<In Jealously Mood>Eeeeee...Okay, I will go and add another 128MB when I get my pay check!!!</Out of Jealously Mood>
Maybe I should give it 196MB - why? Because I can.------------------
"When you find your PBEM opportents too hard to beat, there is always the AI."
"Can't get enough Tank?"
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mensch,
May be you need to allocate some more. I think I have given 96MB even my system is just a little 64MB pismo
Griffin.
Originally posted by mensch:In my mac at home I have 128MB RAM, and allocate 55MB to CM and at work I have 448MB RAM and alocate 80MB to CM.
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www.derkessel.com Home of „Die Sturmgruppe“; Scenario Design Group for Combat Mission.
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"When you find your PBEM opportents too hard to beat, there is always the AI."
"Can't get enough Tank?"
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You know, Boru, I made silly and may be even stupid mistakes even after over a year of CMBO (including Beta Deamo) pbeming. Ask Scott Adams and just CDIC.
Play more and ask more, there are many good people out there who are willing to teach you the tactics. Reading war history books help too.
Good luck and enjoy the game.
Griffin.
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"When you find your PBEM opportents too hard to beat, there is always the AI."
"Can't get enough Tank?"
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Wittman, iirc, there is a thread and pic of this RC Tiger I somewhere before. Sorry can't provide the link right away.
Griffin.
Originally posted by Wittmann:Armournut,How much does kit like that cost you,?
I'm a modeller of many years experience, but have yet to try R/C
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"When you find your PBEM opportents too hard to beat, there is always the AI."
"Can't get enough Tank?"
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Wait, did I sound "offensive"?
Sorry, but are you reminding us that we should better channel our energy to something else rather than partispating some self-fulfilling, little "test"? Fine, thank you but I think I must have lost my sense of humor somewhere along this thread.
I really feel flattered when somebody stick the "elite" label on my forehead. Oh, just a little laugh before I get off work.
BTW, I really enjoy the latest Boru very much.
See ya around, then.
Griffin.
Originally posted by JunoReactor:The point, as I had mentioned, is to understand.
What I am after here, and excuse me if the pharsing out of this offends you, is to find out how closed comminities form and how elitism develops within these. See this as a first step of my way of finding this out.
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I don't think many newbie are not trying to show themselves off here and we don't label "newbies" simply as "trolls" so long as they understand and practise proper social manners..
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My observation is that the "social manners" that the trolls must practise so as not to be labbeled as such are elitist. They preclude most of the casual would-be participitants from the board.
The motive? Self satisfaction, most probably. Curiosity developed, and I want to satisfy it. But isn't it why we are all here? Maybe in the process of me communicating myself, others will enjoy themselves too.
A disclaimer - I am in no way writing this in an offensive mood.
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"When you find your PBEM opportents too hard to beat, there is always the AI."
"Can't get enough Tank?"
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Shameless BUMP!!!
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"When you find your PBEM opportents too hard to beat, there is always the AI."
"Can't get enough Tank?"
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How many physical RAM are there on your machines? How much memory are allocated? I an anixous to see the details.
TIA.
Griffin.
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"When you find your PBEM opportents too hard to beat, there is always the AI."
"Can't get enough Tank?"
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First of all, I don't think I am just an average player and don't have a inflated ego.
My reaction: why the tests after ? Why drop a bomb when everybody is enjoying themselves within the "rule" of this Forum? What is your motive after all?
Frankly, I won't hesitate to point out the first post you made does not sound "Trolling" now, this is "Taunting". From the other posts of this thread, I don't understand how you draw the conclusions.
Constructive critisms are always welcomed. Do you realise how many "newbies" here are reading the thread and benefit from them? I don't think many newbie are not trying to show themselves off here and we don't label "newbies" simply as "trolls" so long as they understand and practise proper social manners. If you read about the "dynamic lighting" thread, we have straighten the original poster out so he finally understand the issues he pointed out with detailed techincal (not historial) discussions and everybody was happy about it, and nobody get locked. I am not representing any authorities. Just a note.
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"When you find your PBEM opportents too hard to beat, there is always the AI."
"Can't get enough Tank?"
[This message has been edited by GriffinCheng+ (edited 02-22-2001).]
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Okay, here we go. I am going to skip some basics and so don't ask me the details.
For each mac, create a profile in the Location Manager, you may want to name it as "Home network",etc. For TCP/IP part, add a new configuration which you connect through "Ethernet". On the IP address setting, fill in the address in format "192.168.0.xxx" where XXX is any value from 0 to 255. Make sure you assign different addresses for different Mac or they would not work! I don't think you need subnet mask on this one. Save the profile and you can just leave the rest of the settings.
Link them up and there you go.
Good luck and have fun!
Griffin.
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"When you find your PBEM opportents too hard to beat, there is always the AI."
"Can't get enough Tank?"
Patch and new batch of CM (no not muffins)
in Combat Mission Archive #3 (2001)
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Frankly Canuck, No sweat! My memory serves me quite well and normally I don't have to bookmark most of sites I reguarlly visit (including pron sites)
Playing against AI teaches you how to use each of the weapon modelled in CMBO, but playing against real living human teaches you real tactics and how to put these weapons together (could be some time gamey).
Nevermind, see ya around then.
Griffin.
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"When you find your PBEM opportents too hard to beat, there is always the AI."
"Can't get enough Tank?"