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    Just discovered something I didn't know about!

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Mord

    No. I am not talking about Emrys's granny panty collection

    Steve's gonna make fun of my observational skills again. LOL.

    Check out these pics. I issued some target light orders and the above pics are what showed up. Of course, I knew the green text gave you info about what each guy was doing but I had no idea crewman changed their weapon icons inside their vehicles as they used them.

     

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    I always thought those icons were just telling you what small arms they carried and their position within the vehicle, and with the gunner, that he was manning the main gun. That's one killer little piece of immersion. Next time you have a man (or two) in a vehicle heavily wounded pay attention to what the survivor's icons do as various fire orders take place (they could end up popping to all kinds of weapon positions).  All this long time playing these games and I am still being surprised! VERY COOL!

     

    Mord.

     

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    CM Engine

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

    Posted

    On 9/3/2019 at 3:33 AM, 2Dog said:

    Does anyone have any gossip on when engine 5 may be released and what it might contain?

    I haven't heard a peep about anything engine 5 related. There could possibly be some new stuff in the upcoming modules but we won't know until they are out unless something is mentioned before hand. But honestly I am not expecting anything that warrants an upgrade across titles to be in them.

     

    Mord.

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    Here is What I Dont Understand about BF?

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

    Posted

    32 minutes ago, RepsolCBR said:

    But i am geniually concerned about the releaserate we have been seeing during the last couple of years and is not totally convinced that something like this can be maintained for much longer without more and more people getting seriously dissapointed with the productivity of BFC and decide to move on to play other things...

    I think we'll get a better grasp on that after the FI and RT modules are released. And the time span between them. LOL. If we don't see the East Front in the next six months I think Aragorn is gonna stroke out. Once they are released it'll be a fresh starting point to gauge productivity from. There's been a lot of weirdness over the last couple years what with SF2 and Chris leaving etc. We shall see. I am an optimist, so I am feeling pumped about the future.  In the meantime I have a ton of CM, modding, and Field of Glory II games to play!

     

    Mord.

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    US WWII Rank Icons In CM WWII

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Mord

    That's cool. I can live with it. Now that I know for sure which ones aren't gonna show I'll rename the files to what best suits my idea of realism. LOL. Which unfortunately for me is probably gonna be damn close to what they were. Man...I wasted a ton of time today! 

     

    Mord.

    P.S. Thanks for the in depth explanation. Appreciated.

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    Here is What I Dont Understand about BF?

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

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    2 hours ago, RepsolCBR said:

    It's a god damn shame that not more people are buying these games...What's wrong with them ?  😉 Why don't they understand that this is the best tactical game avaliable...uummpf, uumpf..

    I tried to interest a guy on Youtube a couple days ago (he had a video about his Marx WWII play set) so I figured hey CM is toy soldiers all the way. Dude pretty much completely ignored the part of the conversation that involved links and info on the game. I was like WTF?! That's right up your alley, man!

    Had another guy tell me he wasn't really interested in CM when I brought it up because the engine was getting old. This statement was posted under his video about the update of John Tiller's Panzer Battles. I didn't even bother to respond after that ironically moronic statement.

    33 minutes ago, Vet 0369 said:

    I recently listened to a news report that said how societies are becoming less “virtuous” because many have no patience. The study attributes it to our modern “conveniences” such as cell phones, laptops, tablets, computers, and most importantly, the internet.

    I guess I must be getting old. Earlier today I sat and marveled at the fact I'd just turned a lamp on and it produced light. LOL. I think I got lost in thinking about it for about five minutes. I find being truly thankful for the (seemingly) tiny things enriches your life just as much as something like a new car or a vacation can. There's a quote of mine I have been repeating for about 20 years now: "Give me a brand new Bic mechanical pencil and a clean sheet of paper and I am happy". If you can find joy and contentment in the little things you'll always appreciate what you have and not worry about what you don't.

     

    Mord.

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    US WWII Rank Icons In CM WWII

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Mord

    4 minutes ago, IanL said:

    Oh interesting. I am sure I have seen the gold bar before. My memory playing tricks? A subtle change that I didn't notice? Could be either. Or they were never used.

    I listed SIX icons I am not seeing! Either I am completely missing them or something is up. I hope I am wrong and just missed them but the only way to find out is if other people check. I provided a set of bmps, so....

    This thread was supposed to be about what ranks should be used LOL. Rabbit hole is an understatement. More like cluster f*** if it's as bad as it looks.

     

    Mord.

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    US WWII Rank Icons In CM WWII

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

    Posted

    Using my modified JuJu icons searching through the Infantry Battalion I found:

    Private                         usa rank 00

    Private 1st Class        usa rank 01

    Tech 5th Class            usa rank 02

    Tech 4th Class            usa rank 04

    Sergeant                      usa rank 05

    Tech 3rd Class           usa rank 06

    Staff Sergeant            usa rank 07

     

     

    1st Lieutenant                 usa rank 13

    Captain                             usa rank 14

    Major                                 usa rank 15

    Lieutenant Colonel          usa rank 16

     

    Which regardless of whether the rank pics are correct I am not seeing 6 that are listed. So if we go by the stock icon numbers we are still missing:

    usa rank 03

    usa rank 08

    usa rank 09

    usa rank 10

    2nd Lieutenant x2  usa rank 11 & 12

     

     

    Now I may or may not have over looked one but I even broke squads into different teams using all variations and I still only came up with what is listed. Beta boys fire up your engines!

     

     

    Mord.

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    US WWII Rank Icons In CM WWII

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

    Posted

    Jeez, did I step into a rabbit hole. Ok, for some stupid reason I started looking at ranks in BN and noticed they seem to be off.

    Here's what CM shows (for BN, FI, and FB). I was confused by why we'd have two blank Pvt, two Pvt 1st Class and two 1st Sgt icons.

     

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    Here's how @JuJu interpreted them.

     

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    Here's what some jerk on the internet is claiming are US WWII insignia.

     

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    Here's what some jerk put together in Elements showing how CM and the internet insignia compare (providing the other jerk was correct).

     

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    Ok, so which one is right?

     

    This is what I came up with using JuJu's icons.

     

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    And while we are at it why are there two 2nd Lt. ranks?

     

    Mord.

     

    P.S. That's three hours of my life gone.

     

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    Rome to Victory Release Date

    in Combat Mission Fortress Italy

    Posted

    12 hours ago, Aquatica said:

    I'm just super excited to see the final product especially the South Africans since I was the person to submit all my research (Info, TO&E, S.A Military Archive & Document Scans) into the 6th South African Armoured Division to ChrisND to properly and historically update the South Africans for the game. So naturally I'm waiting to see what my research looks like in the game ;)

    Awesome, brother. We look forward to shooting up and blowing the crap out of your research!

     

    Mord.

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    Syrian requesting fire mission sounds

    in CM Shock Force 2 Maps and Mods

    Posted

    2 hours ago, ncc1701e said:

    Great thanks, do you know if there is a limit to the number of possible voices? For example, for american requesting fire mission over *.wav, there are 6 files from "american requesting fire mission over 0.wav" file to "american requesting fire mission over 5.wav" file. Do you think that the engine will read a "american requesting fire mission over 6.wav" without problem?

    Technically there are no limits to how many you can add. So you should be fine.

     

    Mord.

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    CMFI Rome To Victory Beta AAR - Indian Infantry / South African Armour

    in Combat Mission Fortress Italy

    Posted

    7 hours ago, IanL said:

    It is a Bedford QLT TT

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    And it has room for 29 men - plus the driver. Oh and I already raided some of the supplies from it and spread it around the unit.

    I was just dicking around in BN looking at vehicles in the Dealership files and low-and-behold there it is. I have probably looked at those files 50 times over the years and swear I have never seen that truck in there. Funny.

     

     

     

    6 hours ago, IanL said:

    Yes, same here. I am pretty sure they were assigned a division in the India army but I could not find details. I did not read a lot just sifted through the wikipedia pages in Italian campaign, Indian Army and the Sikh regiment. I am sure the details are out there but I had enough info for our make believe scenario.

     

    According to the notes DC  @Darknight (DC) provided me during the Gustav portrait mod (and what was created for it) the Indians provided 3 Divisions to Italy (4th, 8th, and 10th). Formations are as follows.

    Note: [INF] denotes British infantry.

    In the mod we used New Zealand to represent them but that'll be changed for the new version.

     

    ..................4th Indian Infantry Division...............

    21st King George V's Own Horse (Central India Horse)    [Indian Armd Regt]
            5th Rajputana Rifles                    [Indian INF]

        5th Indian Infantry Brigade
            1/4th Essex Regiment                    [INF]
            4/11 Sikh Regiment                    [Indian INF]
            1/6 Rajputana Rifles                    [Indian INF]
            3/10 Baluch Regiment                    [Indian INF]
            1/9 Gurkha Rifles                    [Indian INF]

        7th Indian Infantry Brigade
            1st Royal Sussex                    [INF]
            4/16 Punjab Regiment                    [Indian INF]
            2/11 Sikh Regiment                    [Indian INF]
            1/2 Gurkha Rifles                    [Indian INF]

        11th Indian Infantry Brigade
            2nd Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders            [INF]
            4/6 Rajputana Rifles                    [Indian INF]
            3/12 Frontier Force Regiment                [Indian INF]
            2/7 Gurkha Rifles                    [Indian INF]

     

     

    ..................8th Indian Infantry Division...............

    6th Duke of Connaught's Own (Bengal) Lancers        [Indian Armd Regt]
            5/5 (Royal Mahratta MG Bn) Mahratta Light Infantry    [Indian INF]
            1st Jaiper Infantry (Indian State Forces)        [Indian INF]

        17th Indian Infantry Brigade
            1st Royal Fusiliers                    [INF]
            1/12 Frontier Force Regiment                [Indian INF]
            1/5 Gurkha Rifles                    [Indian INF]

        19th Indian Infantry Brigade
            5th Essex                        [INF]
            1st Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders            [INF]
            3/8 Punjab Regiment                    [Indian INF]
            6/13 Royal Frontier Force Rifles            [Indian INF]

        21st Indian Infantry Brigade
            5th Queen's Own Royal West Kent                [INF]
            1/5 Mahratta Light Infantry                [Indian INF]
            3/15 Punjab Regiment                    [Indian INF]

     

     

     

    ..................10th Indian Infantry Division...............

    1st Duke of York's Own Lancers (Skinner's Horse)     [Indian Armd Regt]
            1st Royal Northumberland Fusiliers            [INF]

        10th Indian Infantry Brigade
            1st Durham Light Infantry                [INF]
            4/10 Baluch Regiment                    [Indian INF]
            2/4 Gurkha Rifles                    [Indian INF]

        20th Indian Infantry Brigade
            8th Manchester                        [INF]
            1/2 Punjab Regiment                    [Indian INF]
            3/5 Mahratta Light Infantry                [Indian INF]
            2/3 Gurkha Rifles                    [Indian INF]

        25th Indian Infantry Brigade
            1st King's Own Royal Regiment                [INF]
            3/1 Punjabi Regiment                    [Indian INF]
            3/18 Royal Garhwal Rifles                [Indian INF]
            4/11 Sikh Regiment                    [Indian INF]]

     

     

    Mord.

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