Crimguy

I think I was lucky - I got the email (on a gmail account) while using my Mac. By the time the email was deleted - I had clicked on the link to go to the "battlefront" site and it had downloaded this little puppy 5 times onto my computer before I left the site. However, vmware was running XP at the time, and while I thought that wouldn't be a problem, when I went over to the windows vm it was shutting itself down? Highly unlikely (and highly sophisiticated if true) but I'll do further checking.

http://www.amazon.com/Battle-Kursk-David-M-Glantz/dp/0700613358 That'll keep you busy for a while.

The only issue I had with the UI was the camera and turning off the RTS setting in the preferences fixed that. Not sure what else is bothering everyone. Curious though - do tanks rush blindly at the enemy like they did in TOW1? That was the chief reason I gave up on that one.

I was caressing the trigger last night. Almost purchased Empire: Total War. I am holding off though to throw my money at TOW2 because I thought the demo showed more promise. ETW has awesome graphics and I'm sure a great strategic element, but the battles were a bit to arcadish for me. I can see myself getting it sometime in the future however . . .

These technologies are real. I don't necessarily need them in the stock campaigns, but I like having units available for people to make other hypothetical missions.

Sneaksie - that must be what I'm seeing. Thanks for the tip. While I have your attention, do we have a ballpark on gold status? Can't hurt to ask, right?

Here's what I'm observing that seems a bit off: I use the mouse wheel to zoom in and out. When I'm focused on a spot, it seems as though zooming in actually moves the camera forward simultaneously, resulting in me overshooting the intended spot. Zooming too far in results in the camera pointing somewhat downward. Zooming back out has me up in the air, with a camera pointing at the ground. Have I hit something by accident?

Is that how the final is going to be? Since I don't understand the Russian, is there any way to make it more like TOW 1? It seems to be more difficult to control than before (I have only tried the TOW 1 demo).

I'm trying it now. Thanks a lot for the work!

As and FYI, the Admin privileges issue was preventing me from changing resolutions. I set it to run as Admin and all is well.

I think it's the memory footprint. When I run this application it wants to max out my 2GB of ram.

I'll give it a try. And I think I'll change my name here to Lagavullin4Me :-D

Tartari - yes we should wait for the English Demo, but who are we kidding ! ;-D Those instructions are exactly what I did. Just won't "stick" for me. Don't know why.

I have noticed that on my system this game is using up just under 2 GB of ram. Try stopping as many background process as you can. Try EndItAll for a fast way of doing it. Then again, I'm running Vista. I doubt you're using as much memory as I am :-D

When I hit the bottom right button I get a dialog box with a radio button on it immediately afterwards. I hit the button and am right where I was. I have to hit another button to go back (not the "restore defaults" - that one also gives me a dialog box with either Da or Niet as options). The changes are never saved :-(

Um, is the CM comparison really fair? That engine was developed in the late 90's. . . Not to mention CM was turn based. I do think it compares favorably with CMX2 though, which has developed nicely since its' release.

Anyone tell me what buttons I push to confirm changes in the prefs? I can't seem to make them stick. I'm running Vista, and I've tried running the game in administrator mode.

Make sure your DirectX version is up to date. I think the link below will help. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2da43d38-db71-4c1b-bc6a-9b6652cd92a3&DisplayLang=en

I got through the Kasserine scenario this time. Didn't figure out too much - I was more or less just trying to get my bearings. I have to say I am really looking forward to this one. I do have one issue- zooming with the mouse wheel seems a bit weird. If you zoom too far you end up with the camera pointing into the dirt. Subsequently moving out leaves the camera pointing down.

OK I was messing with the game a bit. Funny I took 3 years of Russian and the folks at my college did nothing to prepare me to play a war game :-D I'm trying to change the resolution to 1680x1050 and it doesn't seem to want to stick. I select the resolution, add HDR, and then hit the bottom right button. A dialog box comes up I hit something and then hit the 2nd button from the bottom right. No matter what I do it stays at 1024x768.

At extreme distance, the T-90 can be devastating with its' ATGM.

I would love an Israeli module. Would be fantastic. It's always a politically touchy subject though, and both Israelis and Palestinians could arguably take offense if they "hypothetical" background somehow made one side or the other look at fault for the current affairs. Also, the Merkhava, which would have to be included cause it's an awesome beast, is a heavily guarded military affair. At least as much of a secret as Chobham armor. No one really has any clue what the penetration values are for a Merk, so it would likely be a completely fictional machine in the game. Love to see battles in the Golan Heights as well as the Sinai.

Anyone else notice that, when going from page to page on the forums, the page loads and is already scrolled 1/2 way down? I've yet to see another site with this "feature."

Don't take a chance. Back up all your important files. I've done the bootcamp thing 3 times without problems, but I didn't have any important data I was worried about. IMHO Apple makes installing Windows easier than Microsoft. It's amazing, to quote some guy in a mock turtleneck.

I went to cmmods and, while I love the site, it is just too slow for regular usage. Any alternatives out there?