Mr. Clark

I suggest picking and choosing your mods. Use CMHQ and KUMPS sites as your two main thrusts into the mod world. Then just pick and choose your favorite in each catagory. Get yourself a faces mod, a flag mod, a profiles mod, Grass, Trees, Buildings, Landscape (wheat, roads, etc.), Sounds, Uniforms, and finally each individual vehicle. After that task, start working on your Snow, and then your winter vehicles... EDIT: I agree with JEDI. Unless you want to be really confused right off the bat, don't get the mods w/ interchangeable thingies until you feel comfortable with the basic look of your game. [This message has been edited by Mr. Clark (edited 01-01-2001).]

Okay, I finally got my Voodoo 3 installed and running properly for CM. Now, for the first time, I can see the good smoke and explosion graphics! Woo Hoo! I can also afford to mod my game a bit now. A few questions on explosion graphics: 1) Which are the most recent? The ones on CMHQ, or the ones that come with version 1.03? 2) I updated to the ones on CMHQ, supposing that they are the newest. In my current game, one of my Shermans got hit by an 88 and brewed up. However, the hit was NOT accompanied by the gigantic explosion I have seen in my last couple of games. Simply a hit sound and fire in the turret. Is the massive explosion graphic no longer in the CMHQ explosions, or is it simply random whether or not it occurs when a tank is brewed? 3) What explosion and fire graphics are everyone else using? Thanks for any help.

DAAARGH!!! I wanted A Bridge Too Far on DVD, but Wally World does not have it...

Agreed! I had borrowed it on DVD, and just bought my own copy yesterday. Splendid! I also enjoy the extras, now if only he would have done commentary, Hanks too. I'm hoping the INDY movies come out this year like they are supposed to.

I just wanted to extend my thanks to KUMP for his amazing website. It's a great idea to post all the comparison shots of the mods. It has helped me and my 56k modem hugely in my selection process! Keep up the great work! http://www.gkump.com/cm/intro.htm

I think the figures are actually very poseable. My biggest problem w/ them is that you have to snap loose all the stuck joints the first time you move em... which occasionally leads to breakage. As for posing, I have my Alied troopers in realistic walking/hunting poses ahead of my tank, and I have a German half squad posed realistically as though sneaking through brush.

Hey Jumbo, Try TOYS R' US (they are a TRU exclusive item) or online at amazon.com!

I'm sure that is correct, for this forum and hopefully all game company forums. Plus, this forum gives great free tech support, and thus makes BTS look even better. Couldn't Combatsim have made cash some other way, like through the use of ads or something, since they supposedly receive sooooo many hits every day?

If you hold down SHIFT (I believe) when firing up the game, it cans the opening movie. This may be why yours no longer plays. I assume there is some way to turn it back on.

If I refuse to pay to play a game online (Everquest, etc...) I sure as heck aint gonna pay to read a forum. Pay forums are a step in a horrifying online direction...

I just went out and purchased SPR (dvd) and Das Boot (directors cut dvd) using X-Mas cash. Hopefully Das Boot is as good as everyone says, as I have never watched it before.

Thanks for the info! I learn soooo much on this forum!

"Where Eagles Dare" is a pretty good special operation WWII adventure. Entertaining. "Saving Private Ryan" is my personal favorite, although I have yet to see ABTF or Das Boot. I honestly think that "A Band Of Brothers" (the HBO Hanks/Spielberg Mini-series) will turn into something pretty special. In 10 episodes we will get everything from D-Day to Market Garden to the Bulge to Hitlers Eagles Nest. Based on a GREAT Ambrose book, with Ambrose helping along the way, I really think it has a shot to be something great.

USTANKER, glad to hear from you! So, from what you just said, can I assume that the figure standing behind the turret and manning the machine gun would/could be ONE of the accurate ways the gun was used? I/O - I think if I stuck a figure in the turret, the gun would be able to point down with very limited arc, or up w/ very limited arc. I assume the same was true when used by the TC while standing in the turret? Basically, it's a nice big machine gun placed in a rather poor position? (I guess I gotta close that hatch, as from what everyone says, he would be spilling down into the engine the way I have the machine gunner standing.)

Thanks! The AA thing makes sense, as the "toys" can be placed in the turret with the gun in a upward firing position. Another cool thing about these toys, is that nearly EVERY piece of equipment on the tank can be removed... all the backpacks, the gas cans, the shovel, hammer, spare treads and wheels, etc... You just have to be careful the first time, and not pry anything too hard, or ... SNAP! I'm thinking of purchasing the Kublewagen next. [This message has been edited by Mr. Clark (edited 12-30-2000).]

How big is that Stuart Airborne??? Check out the WWII "playset" on that site Airborne posted... it's HUGE! It's a bombed out house... pretty sweet if you have the room.

Spielberg was knighted for his contributions to movies over there. Doesn't make LOTS o' sense to me either... BUT, good for him.

BAND OF BROTHERS, based on the book of the same name, about EASY Company throughout the war. It will be 10 episodes long, with a decent budget, last I heard. [This message has been edited by Mr. Clark (edited 12-29-2000).]

Hmmmmm... I had heard the name, but had no idea what it was actually about. Guess I've been too busy waiting for the Hanks/Spielberg HBO series.

Thanks Max!!!!!

Ok, because I'm too lazy to look up how to post pics, first go here: http://home.att.net/~ronin115/Tank.jpg EDIT: OR SEE PIC POSTED BELOW BY MAXIMUS! You'll see pics of my new tank. What a sweet X-Mas present. Next, notice the guy operating the machine gun. How exactly WOULD someone stand to operate that thing? Standing in the hatch seems an impossibility. Is this simply because of the toys scaling? LASTLY, what the heck is that thing behind the gunners legs? It's a "hatch" that opens on the toy to reveal... nothing below. I simply have it open because he stands better that way. Thanks. [This message has been edited by Mr. Clark (edited 12-29-2000).]

That's sweet! Just one more great thing about my favorite game.

I've never owned another game with the amount of Replay Value that comes packed in CM. It's basically infinite. One more bonus of the full game over the demo (as of now anyway) is that the full game can be updated to 1.1b24 and used to play TCP/IP... plus you get all the great tweaks to gameplay, that just make the game that much better.

I Can't remember if Sharpshooter ammo is per round, like mortars, or abstract, like Squads.

Why IS Sharpshooter Ammo so limited? They could not fit more than 10 puny bullets in their baggy pockets? One man with a gun on his own... you'd sure think he'd bring more ammo.