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One thing to keep in mind is, obviously, CM2 is not CM1. I think some people may be looking at the AT gun issue through CM1-colored glasses. In CMSF, I find well positioned ATGM and RPG (even not emplaced) very difficult unit to spot by Red tanks. I play almost exclusively Red v Red and spotting with question marks is done very well in 1.11. I would like to see how CMN plays out with the CM2 spotting engine before a lot of changes get made. One way I validate some of this is playing with T54s and T55s. They are more on par with spotting capabilites to WW2 era tanks than an M1. I can shoot 4 or 5 Saggers from 700m at a regular T55 before its spotted.

I thought withdraw worked with tanks as well as infantry.

You have the same disadvantage with the regrouping. Having a squad mill about in the open because they had to turn 15 deg. to the left to get to some woods is no more or less frustrating. Command delays in CMSF would be somewhat of an issue because of the way that waypoints are used by a lot of people as mini-scripting. Can you imagine the delay in a move and peek type command. There, to me, should be one delay at the beginning of a set of waypoints. The other issue in CMSF is not being able to change a waypoint once placed. I always thought it was a neat feature that CM1 told you how far you could adjust a waypoint without incurring a penalty.

Yeah, but from a planning standpoint, you had to make sure you had your command structure in place just to coordinate an attack. While I know there are combat penalties for being out of command, I have complete flexibility in moving units around in CMSF.

Wasn't that the whole point of command delays? Making you keep your command structure together (even though there were ways around it). I was very surprised that there was no communications penalty for Syrian units, which are supposedly incompetent in the leadership category. I am much more concerned about keeping leaders nearby in CM1 than CM2. Area fire is you friend at worst.

All I can think of in this discussion is how two APCs are unusable as such if you have one or two extra men in the squad. Can't direct that extra man to the other APC, so no one can use them.

Unless your men are Syrian and not allowed to have teams.

FYI: Jutland review http://www.dickdestiny.com/blog/2009/02/forty-years-off-jutland-battle-of.html Dick Destiny...has to be a porn name.

If you study/studied Jutland it is a good game to have just for building what if scenarios. Company PR and the draconian DRM make me not recommend it for the casual naval wargamer. Thier support has a thin veneer of fast response, but they are very cranky and make you jump through some hoops to get a response. There are also some odd design decisions regarding how you manage fleets.

I thought Steve previously said that there is some abstraction for cover in terrain. It was in the long "Adam" thread about cover.

It is my standard practice now to reboot before and after CMSF. If I play more than a few medium to large scenarios in a row, CMSF and every other program crawls.

My CMSF was running very slow lately. I removed all sound modes and it seems to be back in form. I'm going to run some tests and see if I can isolate the mod that is causing the problem.

In a nutshell...we were the beta testers for the DRM. The game is great. A few niggles with torpedo targeting, et al. But overall it is very good. I documented my issues with DRM above. Other people have had the issue as well. Support is iffy. They release a lot of pathces, but the update and bug reporting system is a little flawed and the patches seem to fix some things and break others. If you are a big naval fan, go ahead and get it. But if you are only casually interested, skip it until they eventually can the stupid dial home DRM.

I'm not surprised by that.

Be careful forcing the commander to unbutton in a T34. Most of them have the commander as the loader and won't fire unbuttoned.

OK, I have downloaded stuff recently from the same computer with no issues. SOmething changed on your end. It still says I have reached my download limit. Obviously, I am not the only person havig the problem.

Exactly the same issue with the new QBs...failed connection a couple times and then it says download limit reached. It must be lying because I DIDN"T ACTUALLY DOWNLOAD ANYTHING! btw, isn't having to click on the agreement every time a little on the legal paranoid side of things. I work with large multinational corporations that aren't that paranoid.

Shut up! Bloody Vikings.

Bump before it falls off the first page.

I think 100% of the players use Windows of some sort. I still find it hard to understand why a simple standard windows file interface isn't used. I would think it would have been easier to use those APIs than build a custom interface. Just a simple scroll bar that a mouse wheel can access would be a big step in the right direction.

What ever happenned to "Use Main Gun" from CM1? I know target light was supposed to supercede that, but why couldn't anything with very limited ammo have a flag that asks that question when target is directed?

Also known as Boston driving. With the enemy being ANY ONE ELSE ON THE ROAD!

The key word is deliberate. Terror is the deliberate targeting of civilians to deliberatly cause civilian casualties with no pure military value in the act. Killing civilians who live next door to a military/government functional area is not terror. It may be a war crime, depending on planning, etc. The indiscriminate killing or wounding of civilians with no military value when other means exist in the planning by a state or individual trying force political change is terror. Before Hamas became a quasi goverment, it was using strictly terror-based means. Now, it is a little more gray because of the question of their rocket attacks being state sanctioned. It probably is truly terror-based, but some could argue it is a formal act of war, not terror. If Hamas is a government, and it sanctions the indiscriminate firing of military hardware into Isreal, Isreal has every right to defend itself. Even Hamas admits the majority of Isreal's airstrikes have been security and government structures. To me its pretty much straight up a formal war and Isreal has every right to use its full resources. I don't think every one of Isreal's reactions over the last few years has been so clear cut, but Hamas has put itself in a bad position to make Isreal look like it is defending itself.

But RT is perfectly unfriendly and inflexible for replaying the turn.

Are you running the install as admin. If that doen't work, try turning off UAC.