Liebchen

The answers re: a pair of tanks holding up a line are fine and good, but I have only one question for ya: What the Hell you doing playing the AI? If you want a challenge, play a human!

AFAIK a hit to a FT would result, at worst, in the spread of flame over the user's body. Not having the essential mix of O2, however, there would be no explosion.

LOTR defied any attempts to make a decent movie for over twenty years. Peter Jackson managed to take this epic, classic story and turn out a SERIOUS movie that captures the essence of the characters, the plot, the drama, and the mystery. Jackson, in short, pulled off the heretofore impossible. I never expected it to win. It simply wasn't "Hollywood" enough. The Academy is all about politics and lobbying, anyway. The Academy will be honest no sooner than Congress will... "Beauty" was OK, enjoyed it, but it was no award winner in my book.

A wonderful site: yes! Delay production of CMBB another month: :NOOOO! Let the modders have their fun -- AFTER release of the game.

I've got a rain CD (used to use it for sleep noise). Let me know what the CMBO files are that simulate rain ambient noise, and I'll see if I can arrange a suitable alternative...

Pawbroon, I spent a good part of this last weekend DLing CMMOS-compliant mods and installing them in (what I think was) the appropriate folders. The readme is very detailed in certain areas, but unfortunately it assumes some threshhold understanding by the users/readers. A comprehensive set of instruction for the average (non-mod literate) user would be wonderfully helpful. Reference is made in the readme to "info" files. In my work on Sunday I did not find any such files other than the generic "info.txt" files that came with each mod. There is one thing that could be clarified. A warning also ought to be given to any user to first make a backup copy of their BMP file as it currently exists. I spent a good amount of time getting my terrain back where I wanted it. Further explanation of some of the options would be helpful, too.

Hee hee! Gpig was maybe hoping for the zodiacs with the autopilot and the GPS, where all you have to do is whistle and they come to you... In thinking about the Higgins boats, and the heavy coding that they would likely entail, I can understand now why the game is called "Beyond Overlord."

Why on Earth would these be considered "gamey"? :confused: It is SOP to lay down covering fire in suspected enemy positions, so as to avoid ambushes or prep them for an assault. It was done all of the time in RL.

This week finds me shouting at my computer as I watch a convoy of vehicles make the most inane attempts to drive down a road in what is supposed to be single file. If I weren't so pissed off, it would be hysterical. It's now a quarter of the way through the game, and I barely am situated for any sort of action. I know all of the tricks about spacing and pausing. I have been ultra careful in this regard, even waiting for all of my units to be set up in their proper spacing positions before giving the "roll out" orders. Still, they manage to screw it up. I'm sick and tired of watching vehicles stop and back up so as not to hit another vehicle that it 20 meters ahead of it and moving away, and then causing a chain reaction of other vehicle behind them doing the same. :mad: I'm sick and tired of watching vehicles try to bludgeon their way through a line of wrecks rather than follow my explicit orders and move around them. :mad: If there is any one area where the AI needs improvement, in my book, it is this one. Oh, yeah, and the tendency to forget about hostile tanks when they duck behind obstacles can be frustrating, too.

One of the great fallacies of WWII - "...PIAT fires with a spring..." !! Um... a "fallacy" is a conclusion arrived at from an illogical and disconnected set of facts, say for example, "The Nazis were German, therefore all Germans are Nazis." I think that you meant "misconception." I am curious, though, about the PIAT mechanism, as I've also been under this misconception. Just how was it propelled? [ January 31, 2002, 11:32 PM: Message edited by: Liebchen ]

Even a hit that dimples the gun would put it out of commission. As stated above, there's no way to repair a 75mm to 90mm armor piercing cannon on the fly. They'd go back to get the gun replaced, is what they'd do. I believe that your memory has possibly confused this issue with repair of jammed guns?

I seem to have lost my "psst" static sound when I get chat messages during online play. Did I lose my wav file? If so, it is easy to replace, as in, what's it called on the CD? :confused:

While I largely respect and admire the accomplishments of the Russian troops in the Great Patriotic War, it remains a fact that many of their tankers in the early part of the war were very green and poorly led, and that these factors greatly aggravated their morale. I recall reading more than once of tankers abandoning their tanks after being raked -- but undamaged by -- small caliber fire. I wonder if this will be modeled in CMBB?

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Caesar: Surely if the slit was that easily hit then it should be able to be knocked out easily with a 50 cal. A few hundred rounds of 50 Cal ammo pouring through the slot and ricocheting around would surely do more damage than a single small AP round [ 01-14-2002: Message edited by: Caesar ]<hr></blockquote> Unlike AP shots, .50 cal bullets are often fired in an arch and thus tend to land at an oblique angle pouring a "rain of fire" upon the target. It would be difficult to get a few hundred rounds into the pillboxes firing slit for this reason, as the rounds would tend to deflect off of the outer concrete. Obviously, this would not apply to closer range shots, which would be more level. But the problem then is getting the .50 cal unit that close without succumbing to the pillbox's fire.

I have seen minefields before stepping on them, and I'm not talking about daisychains, I'm talking about "Panzer meinen." It all has to do with the speed of the approach and (I believe) the type of terrain the mines are laid in.

So, can engineers use their satchel charges to clear roadblocks or barbed wire? I believe that this would be fairly quick and easy to do in RL. Haven't actually tried it, although it's (obviously) occurred to me.