Pvt. Ryan

It sounds to me like you have Smart Update running. That program will automatically try to install whatever you download. Disable Smart Update and then you can download and save the files wherever you want and unzip them to wherever you need to.

Barticus, you are smelly. I can't challenge you because my water wings are at the dry cleaners.

Don't give up on me yet! I will get my turn to you tonight. I have been very busy this week.

The zips containing the mods have detailed instructions on how to use the batch files. Follow the instructions carefully and you shouldn't have a problem. Make sure you intall the mods in the order in which they were released. You may want to wait for the ultimate Sherman pack to be released in the coming days. Basically, you copy all the bmps into your CMBO\BMP directory like you would any other mod. Then you place the batch programs into your CMBO directory. Then you make a shortcut for each batch program. Then you associate the included icons with the shortcuts. You can place the shortcuts in a folder on your desktop for easy access. To use the batch files you load up a game of CM as you normally would. When you know which nationalities are involved for the Allies (e.g. British, Canadians, Polish, etc.) [there are also some German batch files for half tracks] you save and exit your game, go to your shortcut folder, and click on the appropriate shortcut(s). Then the magic happens. I don't know how these batch files actually work, but they just do. Then you load up your game of CM and the mods you want are there, ready to be blowed up real good.

To batch users - I installed just the winter files because they won't interfere since there are no other winter sherman files in the CMBO directory yet. At least I didn't have any. (Well, it appears CMHQ has an allied winter vehicle pack, but I never installed it.) Then when the full pack comes out you can install the whole thing.

The HQ acts as a spotter. You don't target the enemy with the HQ. As long as the HQ is in command of the on board mortar, the mortar can fire indirectly at any target to which the HQ has LOS (as long as it is in range). A good example is where you have an HQ hidden in the top floor of a building so he has LOS to an AT gun you want to knock out. Place the mortar(s) behind the building so they are protected. Target the AT gun with the mortars. You will get an orange targeting line to indicate that it is area fire. The mortars will then fire while the HQ remains hidden. Since it is area fire the shells will continue to land in the same place even if the target moves, so you probably don't want to use this method against fast moving targets. This only works for on board mortars. It does not work for artillery, mortars mounted in halftracks, or Forward Observers.

I can see russell's smilies - kind of looks like a Mastercard. But no pics.

They are wav files 311 and 312 (with lots of zeroes before those numbers).

LOL!!! I hated those guys too! Looking back, I think those guys were wading a river and trying to keep their weapons dry. I wasn't so creative then to realize it. But they were as useless as mine detector guy and sitting down guy. They never gave us anything for them to sit in. The halftracks and jeeps weren't the same scale. Marx please fix! or do somefink!. I know I had the 1/32 Airfix soldiers, but I got them at the end of my army men days, so they may actually be in the survivors bag. A friend and I once placed an order from a catalog for the HO/OO scale Airfix soldiers. We didn't know what HO/OO scale was. I knew HO because I had the trains, but I figured OO was like O scale (Lionel) trains and would be close to the size of normal army men. So we ordered boxes and boxes of them since they were so cheap and we circled the OO part on the form. Needless to say we were disapointed with the tiny little guys that arrived. I think I let my friend keep them all.

LimShady, if you are dating yourself then you don't have a girlfriend to prevent you from playing CM!

I have had armor break down. In one game a KT just stopped dead in its tracks before contact was made with the enemy. I heard a sound like gears being stripped and then the engine died. Your may not have given a move order to your JPIV, but it may have rotated on its own to acquire a new target.

I wish I knew Kitty now!!! I still have many of my plastic army men. Most of them were the Marx type, which I painted. I still have all the Britains is a large plastic bag somewhere. The bulk of my collection met their fate in one of two cataclysmic events: 1) The day the hose was left on in the backyard submerging my entire American Revolutionary War collection under a foot of mud (I am sure they will be unearthed as interesting fossils in pristine condition someday) and 2) The day the gardener decapitated most of my WWII soldiers with a weedwhacker after they had spent a two month stalemate entrenched in the front yard. The remainder of my collection is marked with dents from BBs and scorch marks from firecrackers. Life was good. [This message has been edited by Pvt. Ryan (edited 02-22-2001).]

I find they are pretty accurate. I have never tried it with anything less than regulars though. The main drawback is that they won't follow the target if it moves. Iv'e taken out plenty of halftracks and light tanks and even immobilized a few heavies with indirect mortar fire.

Boru, great post. But which were you - NNN#1 or NNN#2?

I don't know. What do you think, Scully?

gunnergoz, that terrain looks really nice!

I was playing an operation last night with lots of British armor in wet terrain. Tanks were bogging pretty frequently and one even bogged on a dirt road. The AI was controlling them, so I don't know how fast they were going. So the bogging is still there, but maybe the problem is when there is snow.

Well, that cahnges things. Maybe you have teeth marks on your mouse?

Eh, sonny, when I was your age we wrote our essays with a pen. A leaky, old, painful to hold in your hand piece of plastic with teeth marks on the cap. That ain't good enough for you? Kids....

Free copies of Combat Mission and other fine software titles are available at your local police station. Drop on by when you get a chance

Doesn't most of the Lox we eat come from Nova Scotia? That's what I always thought. No offense Gustav.

Oh well, we will have to live with it.

That's a very nice site you've got there. Add a guestbook so we can sign it and give you feedback. A section for salmon recipes would also be good.

If those guys can do a total desert conversion, I imagine someone could transform the hedgerow tile into something more closely resembling the real thing.

Tiger, I only said it once and I have already apologized. Incidentally, I always thought the brown Stug was your mod until I realized it came from the MDMP and thus Kwazydog's.