[Panther VD 75/70 super tank]

I tried the Von Lauchert historical scenario as

German first, against the AI (extreme fog of war). This meeting engagement in the open ground of the steppes was pure butchery for the Russian.

The moving German Panther VD tanks with the 75/70 gun were picking up the Russian tanks, mostly T-34 M3 and SU-122, at over 2000 metres with a speed and accuracy that I would expect from an M-1 with modern opticals. I didn't finish

the scenario but by the time the Russian lost about 20 tanks, the Germans didn't have a single casualty.

Well, I thougth the AI was really dumb on this

one so I played the Russian.

The most interesting part was when a line of 16 Russian tanks hiding on a reverse slope moved

on a hull down position to the advancing German

tanks at about 1000 metres.

Some of them were slaughtered on the first shot

after a few seconds, the rest immediately retreated behind the slope and hardly a shot was fired from the Russian.

I did better than the AI though, after losing half of the Russian tanks I managed to kill a Panther! .

If the Panther VD 75/70 was really like that, I

wonder how the Russian could possibly survive

in open ground armor battles.

[How to find embarked units?]

In large scenarios picking embarked/transported

units can be a real pain. It could take 10 to 20

mouse clicks to pick the transported unit from a vehicle, and the + - keys for scrolling through

the entire force doesn't seems to practical either every time you need to disembark a single HMG or a panzershreck. How nice it would be to

have a OOB menu, it would save zillions of mouse

clicks!! Maybe I am missing something, does anyone has a better way of doing this?

[New ATI card with fog?]

I have a Radeon 8500 and I am very disappointed,

it doesn't support fog in Combat mission + the

text it's kind of blurred. Also it runs very

choppy with Ghost Recon. Both games run much

better (especially CM)on my laptop Dell Inspiron

8000 with a Nvidia GeForce2 GO. I will definetely

try to change it with the TI 500.

[ATI Radeon 64 fog effects]

Does anybody know if it is possible to see

fog effects with the ATI Radeon 64 DDR?

I have a PentiumIII 866 with 256 RAM and the

ATI Radeon 64 DDR, but no luck with fog.

(Yes the shift-W key for weather effects is on full).

Thanks.

[Units bases color change]

All right David, thanks for the bad news .

Gherardo

[Units bases color change]

Yes, in fact that's the only way I can find

the British units, but it would be much

easyer to change the color.

I looked trough the BMP.'s, but I could not

find the red base, or maybe I am so color

blind that I couldn't even see it.

[Units bases color change]

Is it possible to change the color of the

units bases? I have a hard time to see the

British (that's right I am color blind!)

[Infantry visibility and target aquisition]

Hello Shugger,

oops! you are quite wright, for some reason

I must have loaded my last scenario without

making sure the "fog of war" was on full.

Thanks.

[Infantry visibility and target aquisition]

I have been playng a few scenarios and I definetly find CM(1.02) the best wargame I ever tried,

so no critics at all but just a couple of points about realism.

1-Small infantry units that are not firing like FO, crawling or sneaking in woods

and heavy rain get instantly spotted from enemy units 500 metres away and fired at

from several directions. Just my opinion, but infantry visibility could be tuned

down quite a bit.

2-I know there was a discussion about the fact that when a unit is spotted it is automatically

spotted by all the units with a valid LOS. Obviously this would not be the case in real life.

Having a limited experience in C++ I don't know how difficult would be to code it, but

I have seen a pretty good solution for it in an old game called Challenger 2000 (miniature

rules for modern warfare). The idea is that while the spotted enemy unit would visible to the

player, every friendly unit with a valid LOS should test for "aquiring" the target on his

own before been able to fire on it. The aquisition would be more or less difficult depending

on several factors (the enemy unit is firing, it was previously aquired etc.). The LOS tool

could show with a different color wether the the enemy unit is aquired as target or only spotted

from other units. this would take care of the fact that like in real life, units cannot

instantly communicate target positions between themselves.

Any idea if this could be done?