Purple4Ever

No to the waypoints thingie... But I have been playing a lot of TFC (Half-Life Team Fortress), and caught myself trying to avoid windows in my apartment - you never know when a pesky sniper will try to take you out!

"I'm here to chew gum and kick a$$ - and I'm all out of gum." - - "Rowdy" Roddy Piper from "They Live"

hmmm... I'd like to see a Zitadelle scen/op covering the northern part of the pincers. Especially the attacks involving the 653rd and 654th PzJgr battalions (the ones w/the Elefants). There was also a battalion of Brumbar (sorry I don't have the 'umlaut' key on my american keyboard ) in the north....the 206th Assault Gun Battalion, I believe (I'm at work and don't have my references handy...) Granted, the Germans won't get far, but I'm a big fan of slug-fests and 'trench' warfare..... ------------------ "The mass of the [Red] army stationed in Western Russia is to be destroyed in bold operations involving deep penetrations by armored spearheads, and the withdrawal of elements capable of combat into the extensive Russian land spaces is to be prevented. By means of rapid pursuit a line is then to be reached from beyond which the Russian air force will no longer be capable of attacking the German home territories." - - - Directive 21 "Fall Barbarossa"

Hi, For what it's worth: I was experiencing random lockups with CM and my computer in general (i.e., it would lock-up while web-surfin' or even when I left it alone for a couple of hours). I uninstalled Quicktime and (just for good measure) RealPlayer - result: No More Lock-Ups. I knew I had a good reason for disliking those programs.... Good luck!

WRT the crater (ex-rubble) bmp: If used, the "crater" will have the same terrain effects as rubble. As far as the game mechanics are concerned, it's rubble - it just looks like a crater. Is this correct? Thanks ------------------ "The mass of the [Red] army stationed in Western Russia is to be destroyed in bold operations involving deep penetrations by armored spearheads, and the withdrawal of elements capable of combat into the extensive Russian land spaces is to be prevented. By means of rapid pursuit a line is then to be reached from beyond which the Russian air force will no longer be capable of attacking the German home territories." - - - Directive 21 "Fall Barbarossa"

Sunflower seeds, cheeze-its and beer or a bottle of water - no soda, coke, pepsi, etc. ------------------ "The mass of the [Red] army stationed in Western Russia is to be destroyed in bold operations involving deep penetrations by armored spearheads, and the withdrawal of elements capable of combat into the extensive Russian land spaces is to be prevented. By means of rapid pursuit a line is then to be reached from beyond which the Russian air force will no longer be capable of attacking the German home territories." - - - Directive 21 "Fall Barbarossa"

What I found surprising was that on the cover of the mag, it says "The Worlds Best Wargamer vs Steel Panthers" (or something like that). It's their mag, so they can say anything they want.... The article inside is a AAR of a Trotter vs Computer scenario that Wild Bill created. See ya ------------------ "The mass of the [Red] army stationed in Western Russia is to be destroyed in bold operations involving deep penetrations by armored spearheads, and the withdrawal of elements capable of combat into the extensive Russian land spaces is to be prevented. By means of rapid pursuit a line is then to be reached from beyond which the Russian air force will no longer be capable of attacking the German home territories." - - - Directive 21 "Fall Barbarossa"

Mr. Schrullenhaft: Good news - after adjusting the H/W acceleration in the DirectX Sound Control Panel, I was able to play the game for (at least) a full hour w/out a crash! Happy Day! Thanks for the tech advice. If I have another crash, I'll tinker with the BIOS or Video settings... Wish me luck! Thanks again! Edited to clarify that my computer did not crash after making the adjustments - it was getting late and after playing for at least an hour (and finishing a battle), I gave up for the night. [This message has been edited by Purple4Ever (edited 08-31-2000).]

Currently, the squads are graphically represented by 2 or 3 soldiers, standing, kneeling (and turning their heads), etc. How will the game be different with 9 - 12 soldiers standing, kneeling (and turning their heads), etc.? As Schrullenhaft touches on, the only way graphically representing these additional men would change anything is to have different animations for each of the soldiers. What's the point? If I can't command each individual soldier (and I don't want to, btw), then I don't need each individual soldier on the screen....and I certainly don't want my CPU animating them... Just my $.02 ------------------ "The mass of the [Red] army stationed in Western Russia is to be destroyed in bold operations involving deep penetrations by armored spearheads, and the withdrawal of elements capable of combat into the extensive Russian land spaces is to be prevented. By means of rapid pursuit a line is then to be reached from beyond which the Russian air force will no longer be capable of attacking the German home territories." - - - Directive 21 "Fall Barbarossa"

Hi, I am also having the same lockup problems - requiring a hard boot (power switch) exit. My system specs: PIII 600mHz Windows 98 SE 256mb RAM TNT2 32mb video bd SoundBlaster Pro (yep - the old 8 bit bd - never had a reason to upgrade!) I've upgraded the video drivers, done all of the critical (and other) updates from the MS site, upgraded to DirectX 7.0a (sumthin like that), CM 1.05, AS with the others, sometimes it "hangs" (with the sound still playing) after 5 minutes, sometimes 20-30 minutes, sometimes longer. But it pretty much crashes (at some point) every time I play CM. The problem got worse after I 'upgraded' (more like downgraded) my video bd with the new Detonator 3 drivers. Before that it crashed infrequently (maybe every 3rd or 4th time I fired up CM). It's probably something to do with the video drivers..... Don't have this problem with any other games.... Thx

some people (or Hamsters) are going back to old posts and 'bumping' them up to the current date - don't know why - they must be bored.... ------------------ "The mass of the [Red] army stationed in Western Russia is to be destroyed in bold operations involving deep penetrations by armored spearheads, and the withdrawal of elements capable of combat into the extensive Russian land spaces is to be prevented. By means of rapid pursuit a line is then to be reached from beyond which the Russian air force will no longer be capable of attacking the German home territories." - - - Directive 21 "Fall Barbarossa"

Hi all, I agree, in general, to ASL Veteran's comments. I am in the midst of doing some conversions myself, and feel that it is important to stay as close as possible to the scenario - otherwise you might as well as call your scenario something else, and say "inspired by xxx ASL scenario". I tried converting the Front Line Pub. HASL pack "Baraque de Fraiture". After completing the map and then starting on the OB, I found that the M16 (aka Meat Chopper) and the M15 (37mm on HT) are not in CM! To balance things out, I tried changing the American OB and then the German, and then the American, etc. until I gave up in disgust. It became another scenario, another battle. I didn't think I could do it justice w/out the M15/16's in the US OB. So, it's on the back burner until (or if) BTS releases those two US vehicles. Converting the ASL maps to CM is not without it's problems, however (for me, bridges are a real pain ). ------------------ "The mass of the [Red] army stationed in Western Russia is to be destroyed in bold operations involving deep penetrations by armored spearheads, and the withdrawal of elements capable of combat into the extensive Russian land spaces is to be prevented. By means of rapid pursuit a line is then to be reached from beyond which the Russian air force will no longer be capable of attacking the German home territories." - - - Directive 21 "Fall Barbarossa"

Wow....I've read the other threads started by Dr. Brian (and the ensuing flamewars) and now this one... Wow... I find it very offensive to have others tell me what is important to me. In my experience, there have been three types of people who instigate these situations: 1). Religious nuts 2). Political nuts 3). nuts There are obviously some people with an agenda and a need to force that agenda/belief on others.... These types of people used to come to my door on an otherwise peaceful and/or enjoyable Saturday (or Sunday) morning - they finally got the message when I slammed the door in their face for the tenth time. In reading all of the threads/posts I came up with some questions/comments for Dr. Brian: 1). If this were not a forum for a WII-related game, would you have put the same information in your profile. Or more precisely, if this were a Italian cooking forum, would you have put "Teaching the world that something liek Nazi Germany should never happen again."? If the answer is no, then I would have to say that you came into this forum to stir up sh@t. 2). I thought long and hard about this next one.... I realize some may be offended and that the death of ANYONE, especially a relative is nothing to make light of... but upon reading certain items in the other threads, it struck me how ridiculous they were. Here goes - Dr. Brian: My father was murdered by someone named Brian. Therefore your 'tag' offends me. I do not understand how you could be so callous and insensitive to pick that handle. Yes boys and girls - the moral of the story is that anyone can/will be offended by anything - the only difference being that there are people who take this to an extreme. To them, their personal slights are a cause to be taken up and rammed down everybody's throats (to them, of course, they are 'enlightening people'). Take your crusades, and keep them to yourself. Believe it or not, not everyone CARES about the same things you do, or are as sensitive as you. In an international forum such as this, please leave your USA-centric sensitivities at the door. Now, time to get off my soapbox and have a Spaten (yes - it's a GERMAN beer).

Dman - You need a 6th option - "(f) Dont know" I've actually managed to *lose track* of time while playing CM! Cheers, Jeff ------------------ And on the eighth day, God made the Art of War And laughing, planned the end.....

Come on now - his (Quango's) last post was at 10:59 am EST. We still have people, 3 hours later, posting "you still don't get it, do you?" replies. He defended himself for 2 hours and left, like some suggested. Leave it alone - let it die....

The Germans - I am also drawn to the Dark Side and the whole fighting as the 'underdog' .... My second choice is the British - I think that their hardware/equipment is the most interesting, next to the germans of course.

Well, as the old saying goes - "There are two sides to every story". That's all I'm sayin' and this is as far as I'm getting into this 'discussion'. ------------------ And on the eighth day, God made the Art of War And laughing, planned the end.....

you might have to... Plug 'N' Play? More like Plug 'N' Pray! Btw - I was considering getting some 3d glasses (just for CM of course!). How do they work? (i.e, good, bad - a more immersive game experience?). Do they cause any problems after removing them (disorientation, etc)? Thanks!

The problem that I had when upgrading my 3D board (I went from an 8mb Voodoo2 to a 32mb TNT2) was that, in order to get the new board to work, I had to remove all of the old drivers for the Voodoo2 as well as all references to them in the Windows Registry (and I downloaded the latest drivers). Pretty involved stuff - I do not recommend messing with the registry unless you know your way around windows. There are also Newsgroup resources (that's how I figured out what I needed to do) you may want to look into.... Good luck!

Does anyone know how the search function works? Does the keyword search only include words in the Topic header - or - does it search the actual text of each post within a topic (or both)? The reason I ask is because, while some discussions may actually follow (or match) the Topic, this is not always the case. For the sake of an example - this very topic. If I wanted to search for "Newbie Topic Posting Etiquette" (using any of those words) or some such - I wouldn't find this post - it would not occur to me to search for "Who Gives A Stuff And Why". By the same token, I have seen posts with the topic similar to "!!!?!?!?!?" and then the actual thread text goes on to discuss something relevant and interesting. It all depends on how the search function actually works....... I agree with all however, in that it is the "tone" of the question being asked that elicits the "rude" responses. Remember - you only get one chance to make a first impression.

Yes - this looks pretty cool. I saw a "Quick Look" on HBO (ten minute preview). They are actually building scale JagdPanthers for the movie - made out of sheet metal(or really thin plate), of course! Once they're all painted-up - should look like the real thing!

I was playing a game where one of my 'schreck teams took out a Sherman, the crew bailed (4 out of 5 wounded). The lone crewman charges the 'schreck and starts firing with his pistol. The 'schreck team just sits there, they have no small arms to counter with. I have not finished the game and the 'schreck team is still alive. It's kinda funny - this lone gunman (you can hear the pop-pop-pop of his pistol) firing at my AT team and they're unfazed (so far) ------------------ And on the eigthth day, God created the Art of War And laughing, planned the end..... [This message has been edited by Purple4Ever (edited 08-11-2000).]

hmm... I say Battle of the Bulge (Robert Shaw = blonde Nazi - ya right!) and Big Red 1.

please send to me! Thanks much

I am (was?) an SL/ASL player and have recommended it to my opponents....err friends