Abrams
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Seems very historical ....
it DID suck to be a German soldier during daylight time with good weather with Jabos everywhere ....
he ordeal of the German Panzer-Lehr Division offers a good example of the fate awaiting German ground forces in Normandy. .... Air attack destroyed more than 200 vehicles on June 7 alone. Despite the rainy weather, which had threatened the Allies' landing on the beachhead, fighter-bombers continued to strike at the Panzer-Lehr Division, to the dismay of German soldiers who had hoped the worsening weather would offer some respite. This was just the beginning of an ordeal that would last throughout the French campaign; Panzer-Lehr was in for some more rough times in the near future.....This division was by no means alone in its trials. The 2d SS Panzer Division Das Reich made its way from Toulouse to Normandy, .... Once the division crossed the Loire, it had a taste of real war; as Max Hastings relates,
. . . questing fighter bombers fell on them ceaselessly. The convoys of theDas Reichwere compelled to abandon daylight movement after Saumur and Tours and crawl northwards through the blackout. . . . [During a change of command] an Allied fighter bomber section smashed into the column, firing rockets and cannon. Within minutes . . . sixteen trucks and half-tracks were in flames. . . . Again and again, as they inched forward through the closely set Norman countryside, the tankmen were compelled to leap from their vehicles and seek cover beneath the hulls as fighter bombers attacked. Their only respite came at night. -
Oh my !!! Too funny !!!!
The cr@pper needed killin !
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Correct ... and used in N. Afrika ....IIRC the first were armed with captured Soviet 76.2 mm guns.Michael
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I have failed on getting these to load up in the game .... I have the cool flames workin , but , these won't load ...I'm sure I'm dumb and didn't do the files right ...
Any Help ?
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the German symbols are correct for WWIi ... as are the "NATO" .... the US used those symbols before NATO as I understand it ...
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Awesome !!! I have always loved the German tactical symbols ....
Thank You !!!
Put these in the "Z" folder like all the other mods , I take it ?
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Download the screen recorder FRAPS. Click on the screenshot bit and assign a hotkey. It's what I do anyway.... thanks to my woman ..I'm not that smart !
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Beware the M4 packing the 105mm cannon at short range !!!
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Yup ammo does cook off in burning vehicles Abrams...not good for any infantry nearby either
Incredible !!!
It did scare a passing M4 , getting them to button up ....
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I have fire !!!
M4 brews up some Krupp steel !!
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Where do I put these ?
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Amazing things ?
A dead Marder exploded minutes AFTER I killed it ... apparently the ammo exploded ?
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FANTASTIC !!!
2 Quick Battles just to get used to the system ...
the 2nd one ended with armor smoking all over the map with my one Sherman dashing around in a village trying to hide from and get in his sights 2 Panthers ...
he popped one in the side at VERY short range ...
it is un nerving how a Panther will leave your sight and all of a sudden pop up in your rear ...
Had a dead Marder explode minutes after being killed ... ammo explosion ? I only had one Sherman left and I didn't shoot the dead Marder !
Impressive game !!!
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Behold the vision of Nostradamus!!!
"Nostradamus prophesied in Century 10, Quatrain 67: "combattre la mission au-delà de Normandie" shall rise from the battlefront on the day of the second full moon of Spring in the year of the "laden bin" collapsing.
Thus it must be a release date of May 17th."
http://www.battlefront.com/community/showpost.php?p=1255507&postcount=36
Good call .... 33% and counting ....
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Will try this one later , after another download is complete ... Thanks !!
Hopefully this will get stickied into the mods part of the CMBN forum ...
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As a matter of fact there shouldn't be any disc swapping. This wasn't the case with CMSF either It's just an install and you're good to go I have to say though that I have only used the download versions up until now.
I told my wife that I'm going to need a dedicated laptop for nothing BUT CM in all its variations , mods , modules , outside source scenarios ...
I still like the suggestion somebody had of mixing the CMSF units with CMBN ... modern units in the bocage ... with helo's and A10s ...
Gamers are never happy , eh ?
Love you all at BF !!
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E-100. See folks. I was not making it up last time I mentioned it (well actually it was the Maus I mentioned). I'd be happy with just the Sturmmoeser Tiger, and the Jadgtiger too of course. Maybe add the Centurion for the Allies just for fun.
And the US T28 Super Heavy tank to counter the E100 !!
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The Bulge mud will be interesting too ... heavy tanks turning frosted crust into mire ... fun times !!
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Thank You !!
I made the same observation in another thread .... the bocage in the game "feels" identical to how the battle reports and studies I have read have led me to how they "felt" back in 44 ...
great job BF !!
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They look nice .. I like the gray and green ... traditional I guess ??
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Great job BF !!
Yes , CM:BO has been my one and only computer game ... no reason to try any others ,
Getting a feel for the CMx2 ... it's different , but , I love it ...
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Thats when "we" were farmers , mechanics , steel mill workers ... LABORERS !!
I have my grandfathers US Cavalry Artillery Uniform ...
he was "stocky" back in the day ... now he'd be normal ...
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Slow worked nice ... helped clear the board on the Road to Berlin ....
A "Hunt" that means more .."Search and Destroy" would be handier ....
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...they totally ruin the immersion and destroy tactics that would most likely work in real life.
That's EXACTLY what happened in Normandy !
American infantry commanders soon realized that normal tactical maneuvers were impossible in the Bocageyep , damn Bocage ruined the American tactical plan ...
Unable to use normal techniques of fire and maneuver, American commanders were also powerless to influence the battle with increased firepower. Heavy vegetation and the close proximity of the German defenders made it impossible to bring forward and set up heavy machine guns. Company commanders used their organic 60-mm mortars in an attempt to knock out German machine-gun positions. However, the hedgerows and the close combat conditions made the observation and adjustment of mortar and artillery fire almost impossible.also may explain why the indirect mortars seem to fall willy nilly ??
These soldiers are crouching behind bushes on top of a hedgerow ... definitely not easily maneuvered terrain ...
Feels as though BF has the "feel" for the battle as the reports I've read "feel"
Mg 42
in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy
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Just returning to CMBN and was wondering ... has this ever been fixed in a sound mod ? I'll saw my MG42 gunner has extreme trigger control , 2 shot bursts .. and even sounds as though he's able to lower the rate of fire ...