Redleg

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Jeff Heidman: Kansas National Guard, ~6 years, Heavy Anti-Armor Weapons Infantryman. Most boring time in my life was spent in the Armory in Wichita Kansas... Jeff Heidman<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> The Topeka Armory is kind of bland US Army Artillery in Werthiem, GE and Ft Stewart, GA for 6 years. Some time in CA National Gaurd, now full time Kansas National Gaurd as a computer guy .

Since the term "discussed before" has been used by david in the following posts, it is no longer necessary to repeat it. Topic Name Date Forum/Archive Rant 2 David Aitken 08-20-2000 Combat Mission Merely my 2 Cents... David Aitken 09-13-2000 Combat Mission If my artillery pops a squad in a forest how the hell do I see "infantry eliminated" David Aitken 09-15-2000 Combat Mission Zooks, after the kill, are as good as dead David Aitken 10-27-2000 Combat Mission

You can set your LAN up to be a mini 'Internet' using TCP/IP as a protocol. In this way you can use the TCP/IP feature of the upcoming patch. Look here to see how http://plaza.v-wave.com/escapeclause/small_lan.html

According to the FM 7-10 (Infantry Rifle Company) snipers are a company asset. This is current use, I couldent say for sure durring WWII. I would guess that it was the same tho.

Is this the weapon that was used?

goto http://www.scarysquirrel.org/ and find out about the nut crunching devils. Hamsters are nothing compared to this evil...

Meeks, you have violated the law of the CM bbs, you are not are real wargamer and your sniveling flashbanger self makes us ill. Go back to playing hungry hungry hippos. hehe I belive that in the current iteration of CM, the squad representation is fine. In future iterations, however, the game should increase its realism with each version. I belive that the game would be MORE REALISTIC if all the guys in a squad or team were modeled. This does not mean that you control each guy, it just means we can see all the guys. So what is more realistic? Representing a tank with a rock, or representing a tank with a plastic model of a tank. The model of course, and the squad representaion argument is simalar with this example. I dont understand why the big resistence to making the squad representaion more realistic in FUTURE iterations of the game, and then not even neccesarily the next iteration of the game.

http://www.geocities.com/Augusta/8172/panzerfaust.htm is a really good starting point for a quick web reference. Lots of history and pictures as well.

HVSSDSF High Velocity Spiral Stabilized Discarding Sabot Football

Anybody who has ever considered the possibility of representing a squad with 12 graphical guys or thought about a uninturupted CM game is not a real wargamer and should go back to playing chutes and ladders. After playing for awile a guy gets used to CM and then awile after that it all makes sense. It is a rough transition from CC to CM. Give the guy a break. If you cant stand his intolerable assertions, dont read his posts.

Actually Flamers are very effective, they are just disallowed by the Law of Land Warfare - Geneva Convention. Anyway, I have only used them once. When I used it, it worked well. The rightmost platoon in VOT was being overrun so I targeted the flamer at the trees where the germans were. The fire made them high tail it into the road on the left where a .50cal cleaned them up. Other than that, they are a pain to keep alive.

Close Combat forums. Some rude jerk shrieked CM!!! CM!!! until I had to look. From unk CC forum member "CM is the only game to train its own missionary force."

And Sorensky claimed in another thread that his first language is not english, but french. The article appears to be written by an individual who speaks english as a first language. If not, then someone with better english than sorensky has displayed previously.

I was not envisioning 'follow me' column formations for infantry, but rather moving and facing infantry platoons in a 'wedge' formation with one command rather than several mouse clicks. The original poster was talking about waypoints for entire platoons to make more complex manuvers easier. As it stands, moving platoons arround and facing them takes several mouse clicks.

this thread is about infantry platoon movement, not vehicles. Lets get back to ideas about making infantry platoon movement easier. And it is not intentionaly designed to be tedious, thats silly. It was a design choice to focus on other features or the idea of infantry platoon movement waypoints was not considered. No one designs things to be tedious except the Army and Krieg (Kreig sp?) Rifles.

The sound in the game is indeed high quality.

Im OCS, but it is not used officially.

Im surprised you havent been called a big jerk yet by some worshipers of the search function and original design of CM. How dare you question the design of Platton movement!!!! (By the way, just so everyone knows, all of the above statement is in jest - OK) IF I understand the question, you want waypoints for Platoons and you want the Platoon oriented in a particular direction at the end of movement. I agree and would like to see the Platoon movement work maybe like so click PL and he gets the standard commands with the addition of: -Move Platoon (acting like standard move with waypoints, except it applies to the entire Platoon) -Rotate Platoon to (Like armor has, except the entire platoon rotates in formation to cover a direction with fire.) i.e. SQD SQD MG SQD PL ROTATE TO 30deg SQD SQD PL MG SQD etc.... I belive this would reduce some of the major clicking arround when dealing with platoons, fine adjustments can still be made with standard commands, but this set of commands would get the Platoon very close. Just an Idea.

I think the mac is a type of hamburger, but Ill be darned how you would play CM on it.

.....looking for my lost M1 Garand.....

Proximity fuzes (VT) were available to the US forces in WWII but were kept secret. VT fuzes are not necessarily timed to explode, but rather timed to arm. Older VT fuzes have 1 sec ticks on them which, IIRC, arm the fuze close to the target. The actual detonation is done by RF proximity roughly 50m in the air. Setting the timer to Point detonation is an option. Modern time fuzes are used on newer WP, ILLUM, and ICM/DPICM (Cluster bombs). This is all from memory, but on sun I can get my trusty US FM from my artillery days to verify.

It sounds like a valid tactic to me. Guns are exposed to fragmentaion so shelling the general location sounds realistic and a handy method of killing guns.

NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPAINISH INQUISITION!!!!

From the SSI forums ericyoung Sergeant posted 07-10-2000 05:53 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If CM sells 600,000 units over the net I will eat my dead dog. I hope they do well though. Redleg Private posted 07-11-2000 10:11 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric - Is that why so many people ask how many CM units sold? (On the CM forums) So people could see you eat your dead dog? Yuk.

I may have been a bit hard to convert, but after getting used to CM I find it a much more enjoyable game then CC. Try the demo, but play it a few days before you make objections as it is hard to transition from CC to CM. I am ordering it and expect to get more if not a lot more of gameplay out of CM than I did from CC.