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Or perhaps the first step is RTFM?

:confused: OK, guess I am an idiot. How do you verify HQ attachment? Sorry for the Noob question. But as someone really smart once said, "The first step down the road to knowledge is to ask 'Why?'". Thanks.

I'm curious why a single Air Fleet can dole out so much punishment. I know historically Malta was an impressive fortress and harbor but in a single turn attacked it with two Italian BB, 2 IT CR, one German BB (produced in Marseille), a GE Air Fleet, an IT AF and a GE Stratigic Bomber Unit (all in Sicily). The single British AF kicked all their butts (30-60% casualties) while suffering about 2 points damage!! Come on, is this realistic? Furthermore, I marshalled 4 German Air Fleets on the coast of France supported by an HQ to attack the single British Air Fleet in England. I could not destroy that single Air Fleet! It would dole out 50% casualties to all the German Air Fleets each turn while suffering 0-2 points damage!! Maybe I'm an idiot and missing something obvious but the British Airforce of 1940-41 wasn't that much better than Germany's. To top it off that same British AF would attack one of the German AFs, German Interceptors would leap to it's defense, and the British AF would inflict 40-50% casualties upon BOTH the target and the intercepting AFs while suffering 0-20% in return!! Don't get me wrong. I LOVE this game and cannot wait to buy it. But the British Air Force must have developed the Meteor a bit early in this game.

Good Morning Everyone. Does anyone know if stacking a large army on the Russian border will "agitate" them into declaring war earlier? After playing the demo I'm definitely buying this game! Collin

Please don't make the camera controls like B&W. Camera control *ucked in that game. Grabbing the ground and dragging to move, WTF? IMHO camera control in CMBO is the best of any 3D wargame/RTS. Simple and efficient.

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Schrullenhaft: [QB]A Mac was the primary development platform for CMBO.QB]<hr></blockquote> A Mac, wow. I had no idea. Woohoo for the Apple fans.

Excellent question Pat. Does anyone know what hardware/OS was used to develope CMBO? I would assume (and we know how dangerous assumptions can be), given that CMBO came out a relatively long time ago, that if they used GF vid cards on Win2k PCs they were using older drivers that did not present the issues we are seeing with the later Detonator series. Is this assumption off the mark? :confused:

Schrullenhaft, I tried the 15.70 drivers and they made the skies in Aliens vs. Predator 2 look all screwy. Minor detail I know, but overall 22.40 also seem faster. I guess it's a trade-off. Once I finish AVP2...hummm then maybe 15.70's. First person shooters come and go but CMBO is forever. With that said I followed your suggestions and made an attempt to get the 22.40's to work. I set my desktop color to 32bit (from 16bit) and tried the escape thing. That works pretty well, makes the pre-game screens totally clear, and the in game menus are legible. I also loaded the deanco interface mod, which helped. Alot of the affected in-game text is now yellow, circumventing the problem. Neat. The clipboard mod for the right click orders menu helps also. So bottom line CMBO is now playable, thanks. If you try CMBO with your 8500 I'd be curious to hear the results.

Thanks for the info Schrullenhaft. If it's not too much trouble when you try CM with the 8500 could you post your results regarding the fog table problem? If the ATI has probs also, I'm really stumped as to which card to go with. I currently have a GF2 GTS (on a Win2k system), but I use the 22.40 drivers since I play a couple of DX8 games. I was hoping the 8500 would be the answer to my prayers. Being able to play all games without driver swapping. Enough rambling, again thanks for the information. [ 11-26-2001: Message edited by: misery ]</p>

Can someone tell me if CM2 will have the same problems as CM1 when running a Geforce video card on Win2k or WinXP? I'm referring to the corrupted/invisible text problem. I only ask because I can get a new vid card for Christmas. If the problem will persist in CM2, I'm gonna get a Radeon 8500. Thanks,

Print screen = DOH! Thank you both for your help. misery

Here is a bonehead question. How does one take a screen shot in CM? Have I overlooked something obvious? Thank you for your time. misery