mensch

I must say that most armies are willing to make sacrifices when needed, in the cost of materials and troops.. but the army is as strong as its support at home, if an army is taking terrible losses, the army and goverment looses support from its people at home.. ok unless your Russia or so (Afganistan) but also America (Vietnam).. I mean look at the Gulf War (dont get me wrong here guys) The "Allies" were cleaning house with Mr. "I got no brains in my head" Sadam. Support was strong and everyone (almost everyone) was giving thumbs up, but the day a Scud landed on those quarters where many GI's were hooched in.. the mood back in the states changed (shock, anger and naturaly fear of there boys overseas) even more so when pictures from the iraqi highway of hell was pasted all over the world in newspapers and tv. The people at home started saying ok.. i think we have him beat. no one in thier right mind likes to see a brutal slaughter, doesn't matter which side is doing it. (im not going to go on the disscussion should have we taken it all the way to Bagdad or not story.. someone else can carry this thread if they want) Im not going into wrongs or rights or what army did what, war is hell nothing more both sides will do anything to win a war (winners tend to hide what they did and exploit what the losers did and vise versa), end. In the end I guess, No support at home gives the Government and Army less options in what to do. (evil mix who controls what) and this reduces the effectiveness of the army. Unless you put a total news ban on the war and only do real hardcore propaganda campaign, but thats another story.. ok now that I properly put my foot in my mouth toodles

yes new tiles, for example a road crossing a railway.. I could not believe it was not in the editor.. wow.. that or Im blind and did not see it.. new buildings, every city or large towns have railway stations.. possible stations with all the schnicksnack with Water towers and so on. Airfield buildings there were a few battles over airfields, right? might sound stupid but gardens...not that it would wow the troops on how Ms. Mauthes keeps her roses but ever try to run through a thorn hedge? or rose bushes.. you don't! (minor request not so important), factory buildings? every city has a industrial part... there is none.. would be nice to fight through a tank factory for once... if you ever seen the Hannomag factory in Hannover where they produced tanks.. you would be amazed how damn big the area is! Powerplant or waterfiltration Plant.. any Plant will do. =) ruins.. that look like ruins and not a flat brownspot on the map (I see it that way cuz my graphics card?) how about an option to place burnt out tanks? like kinda starting a scenario with a nice beat up battlefield? craters? Trenches and covered trenches dammit! real FO posts! if you seen what they look like they are pretty damn hard to see. towers? watchtowers? wire fences? hey fences in general they have lots here in europe. Tank traps! dragons teeth and so on. (maybe more a option to buy those things like roadblocks and wire) ok thats my £2 worth. [This message has been edited by mensch (edited 07-27-2000).]

if you want to make them more fanatical. when you make your own luverly Operation you can set the fanatizim for the troops. thats all. if you want a good book on the panzergrenediers look up "steel inferno" by Michael Reynolds ISBN 0-44022596-5 it has accounts from the 1st ss panzer corps in normady.

ok as for ammo. I like lots.. expecial HE right germanboy? Also if you have made the battle yourself just up the ammo amounts on each unit.. if you are playing a Operation then you get ammo back slowly.. more so if night falls. Ja it would be cool to see a ammo truck explode..wow. but in the same sence why are there no Ambulances or Medics.. ? cuz they are pretty irrelivant I guess in such a short battle time. talking about wounded in the game when one take casualties in a Operation do they (soldiers) come back later if the wounds were not critical? sort of like vehicle recovery, sometimes come back if the operation falls under a few days. Yes I know your going to say "hey you'll be hospital" but there are often situations where if it was a minor wound or light head wound they got back into the fight, or maybe units that are surrounded like elements the 30th Div. at Mortain (i think thats the right spelling) where the wounded fought if they could cuz they could not send them to the back due to being stuck on a hill. [This message has been edited by mensch (edited 07-26-2000).]

does that work on PBEM only or if the AI is the attacker? Does it (AI) choose the positions well or stratigic points worth fighting for? going to test this one out myself when I get home

hey buddy, I made a map it had one primary and two secondary flags... north and south map edges were neutral and naturaly the other sides belonged to the forces there. after playing with map layout with roads and so on (thanks germanboy) it seemed the AI had a permanant holiday it just sits there.. I found it doesnt matter how many flags you have or maybe its where they are positioned? hmm na ja if I played the Ami's the germans acted very slow and only aimed for secondary objectives (wierd) as I played the germans the Ami's attacked as normal but held back almost a whole company of troops and support vehicles. I think I solved the problem.. I made three sides Axis and one side of the map Allies. now the germans attack like the devil and so do the Ami's. I wish or hope there is a upcomming online book or something to buy on defining map making, the brief descriptions in the handbook that came with the game are one can say.. limited in description. if it doesn't work as single player you can always opt to make it a PBEM only. [This message has been edited by mensch (edited 07-26-2000).]

no problems on a Power Mac 6500/300 128MB Ram OS 8.5.1, Mac Magic Voodoo, aside that I get only solid explotions and low quality smoke, fog I can forget it works and Im happy.. going to see what it does with ATI's NEXUS GA graphics card. when it comes.

ok what I learned from this battle. 1. shoot all 150mm Ricket FO's before they call in a single round. 2. buy troops lots.. ok mixed force (combined arms) 3. if Im am taking arty FO's Ill wait till they flattened the village before I move in (I think I can wait four turns out of fourty for them to come in, and another three till they are finished. (does not make an exciting pbem for the first seven rounds, but makes for a spectacular fireworks show) 4. germanboy is sneeky (that baguette brigade was a shocker) jk. 5. Field guns are amazing! but you need infantry support!!! 6. germanboy likes flamethrowers. 7. germanboy hates tanks unless they are enemy tanks burning in the streets. 8. I had fun and learned alot, and good tips from germanboy 9. I still have alot to learn 10. I can't wait till I beat him cuz that means a) he was drinking alot while playing making mistakes or I actually am learning. gg germanboy

Hi guys! I need a trick to beat germanboy! you see everytime I drop 150mm Rickets on my troops heads he comes in and sweeps up! Anytime I rush my exausted guys up to his MG's he mows me down, everytime I advance on his Flamethrower positions that I know were they are, he roasts me... What can I do better!!?? my surrendered troops are getting tired of eating his K-Rations. all I can hope for is, the bits flying from my exploded Troopers and tanks hit his troops and set them on fire..causing mass panic and yucky effects.

anyone out there hear explosions, tanks and troops? even when CM is not on..??? ---- Ey… Karl ich höre Raketen? und du? -famous last question from soldat Uwe Fachmann, under command of Mensch ----

Right Im game I sux... just ask germanboy heh... Rickets keep falling on my head! It doesn't matter cuz were dead, la la la la laaa booom baboom ba-boom UGH!

we used muskoil in the army.. worked real well... smelled natural and did a good job... as for falling asleep in ambush and waking up realizing you set up your ambush in Poison Ivy patch.. now that was fun... heh.

we used muskoil in the army.. worked real well... smelled natural and did a good job... as for falling asleep in ambush and waking up realizing you set up your ambush in Poison Ivy patch.. now that was fun... heh.

All I know is that it doesn't matter that it is dry or wet, 150mm Rickets falling short and hitting your own HT's and Troops has the same effect with or without Mr. Happy Sun or Mr. Grumpy Clouds are in the sky. Right Germanboy? *God, The HORROR, THE HORROR!"

I almost didn't make it to the washroom laughing so hard.. damn had I known its so funny I would have not drunken three beers before hand... roflol

hey! that was not my fault... ok it was.. muahahaha it was still fun to watch.. although that HT hit direct by that 150 Ricket was spetacular! --- give me a Ricket and I'll show you fear lads! -mensch's speach to his troops before attacking those pesky germanboy Frenchies

I had a 20mm Flak cannon fire on a Firefly.. sure death for the 20mm Flak crew but the Firefly could not hit also a broadside of a barn and those 20mm were ricocheing all over the place *plink plink plink* this went on for three minutes then a lucky shot! It took out the main gun on the firefly.. so it moves out of the way because the crew were prob. anoyed being used as a improvised church bell... it later came back into view and the church bell story continued for another two minutes until the MG on the Firefly took out the 20mm cannon funny as hell to watch

hey fellow torontonian! had the same similar expierence, my fear was it would be stolen cuz its happend a few times to me with cd's jsut so gone.. *sigh* but I got it.. I was so happy happy.. now people remember I moved here to Hannover germany.. and a crazy canuck dancing up the stairs to his appartment whistling ten varrious war songs with a evil grin on his face, I must say... the neighbors think I'm "veruckt"... and naturaly playing the game connected in my stereo system at volume 5. Im sure I'm freeking out some older people in the house.. DAKA DAKKA DAKKA... BABOOM! I got a few strange looks from the neighbours on the balkon getting a beer... all they heard was BOOM! dakka dakka, and then those arty rounds comming in wweeeeee baaabooom! aaahh! "lets get out of here!!"... muahaha.. *pant pant, drool* ok... I'm ok now... really

off topic here but hey why not. now don't get me wrong I love CM, but i think well accents the canucks have the same accents as the british... that may be true that there were a few british people in the canadian army at the time but (being canadian) there are some very lovely canadian accents from the east coast and west coast nothing like hearing a Newfoundlander screaming at the top of his lungs, telling his lads to move thier butts! hmm maybe I'm being a little nationalistic but canadians don't sound like Amis or Brits... *rant* now where did I put those 300mm Rickets..hehe..(still killing myself over that one, cuz I make spelling mistakes all the time)

you forgot one famous story from Panzer Kommander Hans Richtmann, "We were advancing with panzer gruppe "Lachen" and they were doing a fine job neutralizing the British when we thought, wow great tanks these Hotchkisses… kommander Krupp was putting an order for 30 more but that aside, we saw a design flaw. You see it was hayfever time and well…, to our amazement the first five tanks in the lead just fell apart.. well not realy the seemed to just blow up as if pumped up with air! Seeing this (British) they quickly recovered and counter attacked capturing the full panzer gruppe. We thought wow it must be a super weapon the British had that made our tanks just explode! Later found that the if the driver sneezed the armour plating just few off the thing! after that campaing in 44 we decided to cut off all noses of hotchkiss drivers" "…we were still finding a problem with that toothpick problem, you see when we decided it had the same effect of those damn russian 14.5mm AT rifles, so we thought hey let put a skirting on these babies! needless to say that was another disaster in 44 as we attached the skirts we found that the weight of them was to much for them, falling in on the tank and crushing the crew… maybe these tigers are a better, but capturing troops when they are laughing is much more enjoyable then if they are stiff frozen in terror as the tigers roll in... Gruppenfruher Meyer has an idea of painting smilies on the tigers to make it easyer on the Allies, I hope that proves not to be another mistake Öbergruppenfruher Papnase is not pleased with our ideas, I mean we feel sorry for them and its so damn hard to pick up a scared stiff trooper!…" (text from diary of Kommander Hans Richtmann)

I was playtesting a operation I'm making and talking about strange and funny things, I had a German Enginer team working its way through a town, now I dont know if they used a demo charge or not, but a British rifle platoon was in a house and the enginers move inside it "SUPRISE!".. so begins the house fight (you hear shots, and fist fighting).. next thing I see is a Extreme explosion and the rifle platoon is dead, the house is rubble and the enginer team has two guys alive routed and running as fast as possible to Berlin... what exactly happened im not sure but tossing a demo charge in a house you are in i think falls under "most stupid things one can do" examples. it was beautiful I think the Brits were more suprised to see a jerry pull a pin on a 5Kg high explosive charge and toss it in the middle of the room.

I think this question would best be put under tech support. I'd love to help you there but im a mac boy and dont have those fun .exe or .dll files or funny names like that... Im sure there is someone out there that could help, try posting this in the tech area for a better responce. ----- "information is ammo, its just that I need a Machine Gun" -anon

I dont know if this helps or if it has any relation to you cuz Im on a mac but I found that if the TAB key is down the hot keys are totaly different.... still looking for that any key.

most feared tank on the battle field was naturaly the Hotchkiss Germanboy, it rendered the Allies in a state of laughter that they could not break, naturally the Axis troops were on them before they new it.. pitty realy it was such a good tank too, but nooo they had to make more of those tigers and panthers. (the french realy new what they were doing when they build this thing)...

I found a cheat it was a hidden button just hit the "any key" and your troops get inspired by Rommel who rides a pink elephant across the battle field singing "Das Reich das Reich, were would be without Bratwurst and Beer"... I wiped out the Ami's in a 10 seconds! was wonderful.. what was better was after, all the german troops sat around a campfire and sang "Prase the Bretzel for we would be lost without it!"