ParaBellum
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First, set the point to where you want your tank to advance, then set the point to where you want him to reverse. Click on the 2nd waypoint, press *space* and change the order to reverse.
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You need to un-hide the HQs in order to spot for mortars.Originally posted by SuperSulo:I was hopeing someone had reported this, so maybe it's just me...
I've tried the tutorial (ruskies) and Yelnia Stare (ger), and in Yelnia Stare I can't use a HQ as a spotter for the 50mm mortars? No "Area fire" comes up when I drag the target line around to a spot visible by the commanding HQ but not the mortar team. Works in the tutorial for the sovjets.
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Thx Matt. I looked at them using the "move" command and yes, that may indeed be a a visual effect of the fast moving tracks. Maybe the effect is just more noticeable on these tanks.
Just checked again with a KV.
When the tank accelerated, first the tracks move in the "right" direction, and when running faster that effect kicks in.
Impressive!
I think I know what I'll be doing the rest of the Sunday.
Thx for all your efforts!
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One thing I noticed so far (besides being absolutely stunned by this piece of art!) is that there seems to be a small bug with the way the tracks move on some tanks (The Pz IV and Pz III in the Kursk scenario and the KV). When I look at these tanks (advancing) from behind, the tracks are moving in the wrong direction, looking a bit odd.
The tracks on the T34 work fine, though.
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I'm in.
Time for some detailed planning...
How do we kidnap the Panther? Before of after we've taken over the 100mm naval gun? And will the Stug fit into Marcus' garage?
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Why not directly go to the downloads page:
I'm sure the demo will appear there.
[ August 30, 2002, 02:38 PM: Message edited by: ParaBellum ]
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Sorry, to hear that, Tom. I think the CD cover you made for CM was the first "mod" I ever downloaded.
And I definately plan to go to Koblenz. A moving Panther and Stug...can't miss that!
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Almost.
I decided NOT to run amok and slay my neighbours but to go into Zen-like meditation and think about life, future, past and concentrate on the raindrops running down the window.
THEN I ran amok...
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Almost.
I decided NOT to run amok and slay my neighbours but to go into Zen-like meditation and think about life, future, past and concentrate on the raindrops running down the window.
THEN I ran amok...
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IIRC it was during a cold, sunny spring morning in 1999. I was sitting on a bench in Beihai park in Beijing and was reading an issue of CGW. From time to time I bought such a gaming mag although it was quite expensive.
I stumbled across a small preview about a new wargame called "Combat Mission". The funny pic didn't really catch my attention, but something told me I should check their website. Turn-based/realtime hybrid? Maybe it could be interesting, who knows...
Since that day, from time to time (and when I find it here in Germany) I buy a copy of CGW, just because they brought me to this absolutely wonderful game.
[ August 29, 2002, 04:59 AM: Message edited by: ParaBellum ]
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Oh, I recall something like "...my mother wanted to invite us for Saturday evening but she told me she tried to give us a call since Tuesday, but the line was always busy! Do you know anything about that???"
*looking innocent*
"Me? Don't know what you're talkign about, honey..."
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Oh, I recall something like "...my mother wanted to invite us for Saturday evening but she told me she tried to give us a call since Tuesday, but the line was always busy! Do you know anything about that???"
*looking innocent*
"Me? Don't know what you're talkign about, honey..."
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My favourite download so far was SPWAW with about 440 MB.
On a 56k dial-up connection.
And when I finally installed the game, I got a "corrupt file" message.
When I posted the story on the matrix fourm, within minutes a bunch of people from around the world volunteered to send me a copy on CD. When I told them that I would, of course, pay for the CD and shipping, I only got answers like "...forget it.. we're all wargamers..."
Sometimes the internet still amazes me. In a very positive way.
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My favourite download so far was SPWAW with about 440 MB.
On a 56k dial-up connection.
And when I finally installed the game, I got a "corrupt file" message.
When I posted the story on the matrix fourm, within minutes a bunch of people from around the world volunteered to send me a copy on CD. When I told them that I would, of course, pay for the CD and shipping, I only got answers like "...forget it.. we're all wargamers..."
Sometimes the internet still amazes me. In a very positive way.
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"Débarquement" is the term for the June 6th landings in Normandie. Maybe the whole fighting in the ensuing weeks is called "le clash". Maybe it's just a marketing issue, since noone else obviously knows what a "débarquement" is...Originally posted by M Hofbauer:ParaBellum, don't the french refer to that famous "incident" that happened in normandy in in mid-1944 simply as "Le clash"? all the road signs to the monuments there say "Le Clash". Le Clash monument here, le clash museum there.
I've talked many times with French about WW2 and whenever I talked about "l'invasion" I got soon corrected.
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Er, yes.Originally posted by Firefly:... and
we're bored 
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The french never used the word invasion for the allied landings in France in '44. Simply because an "invasion" is usually done by enemy forces, not the liberating ones.
That's why the french call (and ever since june '44 called) it Débarquement.
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And here we go:
Things not to expect in CMBB:
1.) A conscript russian sniper under command of a Comissar with a +2 moral bonus falls in love with a female partisan (+3 attractivity bonus).
2.) Air support for the russians in form of a B-29, flown by a certain US pilot (+2 dashing looks) who got bored after defending Britain, surviving Pearl Harbour, bombing Tokyo and single-handely destroying the imperial fleet at Midway.
3.) Italian troops (+2 pasta bonus) wondering what the hell they were doing ín russia during winter and tell the germans they'd be back in Summer.
4.) A german field-marshall (nearsighted +3) who misidentifies a russian mine dog for his beloved basset, causing a sudden change in army command...
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The Glenfarclas is a truely great Scotch. Although I've to say that I usually prefer the "smoother" ones, like the 10 [edited:12] year old Macallan or, still my favourite, the Lagavulin.Originally posted by Juha Keratar:Parabellum:
Gods! You shouldn't have mentioned that 21-year old Glenfarclas. I really haven't tasted many single malts (more than average drinker, I think though) but that stuff was godsend. And I know absolutely no place near me where I can get it - nearest I know is on the southern coast of Finland.
I'll visit some friends in Scotland later this year, guess what I'm looking there for?
[ August 27, 2002, 07:19 PM: Message edited by: ParaBellum ]
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I've fired the MG3 (The slightly modified post-war version of the MG42) both as LMG and HMG on tripod. With the bipod we were trained to fire short bursts, about 3-5 rounds. With the MG3 on tripod we were instructed to fire much longer bursts, about 20-50 rounds.
It's IMO simply NOT possible to fire long bursts (more than 10 rounds) and still keep on target with the LMG. Long bursts with the bipod means just a waste of ammo.
Of course it's much different with the tripod. The weapon is stabilized and long bursts can be delivered very accurately (with use of the optics) over longer distances.
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A glass of 16 year old Lagavulin for my first CMBB game, and a glass of 21 year old Glenfarclas after I've lost that one...
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How about this:
Interesting, two of the screenshots are definately from CMBO...
The same screenies already appeared on the CDV CMBO box.
[ August 27, 2002, 07:15 AM: Message edited by: ParaBellum ]
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Or you could use your old harddisk in your new PC, at least just to copy the most important files to the new HD.
Setting up a 2nd HD in your new PC shouldn't be a big problem.
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[Feels a sharp pain in the chest, gasps, and slowly falls from the chair, tears in eyes...]Originally posted by Rob Murray:I've got to remove CMBO from this computer & all the mods that I've downloaded over the summer.
Hm, these CD burners come handy sometimes.
we're bored 
WHOW what a game ! ( except for ONE real bug )
in Combat Mission Archive #4 (2002)
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Tom is right. I was a bit confused the first time I noticed it, too.
I played the Jelnia scenario as the russians and surrendered right in the setup phase.
Axis casualties were listed as 94, 27 KIA.
All that without even a single shot being fired.
I didn't get points for them, but it still messes up the stats.
Looks like the game calculates squads that start understrength as having suffered casualties.