StellarRat
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CMBN ranks way up there in my rankings. XCOM, Oblivion, Civ, DW, IL2 and the CM games have got a lot of play.
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What Lee said...is almost exactly my experience, except I can add S&T's (or was it SPI's?) Blitzkrieg from 1972, and it is the best WW2 sim/game experience for my money.
Wasn't Blitzkrieg an Avalon Hill game?
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Have you ensured the succession? Don't want you guys "doing a Jordan" on us and dying before the work's done, unless you leave enough notes and well-enough-trained heirs...
I knew that guy would bite the dust before he finished that damned series. I spent a whole year reading all those giant flipping tomes (which got progressively larger) only to have him kick the bucket before the ending! I remember telling my coworker, "He doesn't look too healthy. I bet he dies before we get the last book."
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Yes, all these claims about how drastically some of the bugs are affecting the outcomes of peoples games are completely overblown IMO.
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Actually, picking the best target out of a group of known targets is relatively simple AI programming. It can be done with weighting algorithms. The tricky part is picking a target when you don't have complete information.
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I don't think there are any bugs big enough to drastically alter the outcome of a game after they are fixed. If you use good tactics and don't have horrible luck things turn like you'd expect.
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Netflix is available everywhere if you know how to setup a VPN with a friend....Netflix not allowed in Oz
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Well, if you don't mind OLD Star Trek episodes, Netflix now has all of them except DS9 available to stream.I miss fresh Trek episodes so much /wimper -
I remember programming our computer game. The math doesn't work on a pixel for pixel basis. You have to compensate for the difference in the number of pixels across vs. down or all your circles end up oblong.
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You probably cost more than an M-36 now... :-)
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Using map edge is gamey. :-) (I would never do something like that, nudge, nudge, wink, wink...)Ahehm!I'm not testing much of anything at the mo', since I have just fun, but I just finished this battle with a total victory (not boasting at all, err):
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SPOILER AHED (so don't read it if you've not yet played it!)
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so here is another anecdote that may prove nothing but here is what happened to my foxy Shermans; observing the map at set up phase, I noticed there were some possible corridors of advance on the extreme sides of the map, and decided to try them out and check if there was a passage to exploit them; sure enough I wasn't going to advance down the road in a file astern, so I deployed the tanks on a broad line abreast instead, leap frogging them to advance; three of them advanced through the plugged field on the left I deemed covered by the hedgerows and trees, as I expected the Panther lurking somewhere on my right.
I was actually able to move Fast and Quick one tank of these three on the extreme left border of the map, unobserved: it looks as a very narrow passage with the tall hedgerow on its right, and behind that hedgerow is the farm close to the Barkmanns Corner; I believe it was around turn four or five (I have them recorded anyway) when suddenly this Sherman turned the hedgerow corner to discover you know what and explode it into flames I believe with a single shot and still moving!
This may prove nothing, since they were no more than ten meters apart, and it got it right on the side (no survivors): a lucky decision on my side to take that path, and another luck for the extremely precise and fast shot, but makes me think...:confused:
The rest of the battle was a stroll: I haven't lost one single tank, HT or man!
I never saw something like it in CMX1, but war is cahos, and from cahos creativity is born (Aristotle).
Cheers
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Re-read your original reply. You typo'ed. :-)What is LOL about selling to Pakistan? -
No, they have plenty of "original" games. The Dominions series is highly regarded by strategic fantasy players. I will say that I haven't heard a lot of good things about any of their other games. However, I do believe forum rules don't allow talking about the competition, so I expect this post will be locked soon.
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If you look at the Sherman 105 in the role the Isaeli's used it in, it is basically a tank destroyer in disguise. The 105 Sherman had no hope of withstanding a hit most of the main guns deployed against, but it did have a deadly main gun. It was basically mobile AT gun.The Israelis bought the Shermans in the 1950's so the M60 was a long way off. They did get M48's later that fought in '67 but as you say the price was right on the Shermans so they could get considerably more.The 105 came along in the 60's up until then they used a French copy of the Panther gun, ironically.
I always look at the Israeli experience as an example of how much of a sound design the M4 really was. It served up until the 1980's, 40 odd years after its debut. Of course by that time it was rather different to the ones in Normandy.
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You were sold to Pakistan!?!?! LOL... Anyway, I think you're just repeating what I said. It was used because there was a shortage of "real" tanks. For Third World countries it was probably just a good deal. I'm sure given the choice they would have much preferred M48's or something better.From the Vangard book on the M10 and 36"The M36 remained a viable tank killer well into the 1950s. During the Korean War crisis of 1950, a shortage developed of the M26 and M46 tanks. As a result, the M36 became one of the preferred armoured vehicles for MAP(Military Assistance Program) transfers."
I was also sold to Pakistan and members of NATO, France, Belgium, Italy and Turkey. It was still serving with the various forces in Yugoslavia in the 90's. In all case tho' it was pretending to be a tank not a TD.
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You're right. I forgot about Korea. But in Korea the US scrapped up all kinds of crap because they won't prepared for another war. I doubt the M36 was "preferred" it was probably just what they could get. The other countries probably had the M36 because they could pick them up cheap not because they were the best answer. I'm sure the Israeli's would have much preferred M60's instead of Sherman's with 105's crammed in, but the price was right on the Shermans. This is just a supposition though, I haven't done any research on weapon procurement for second and third world militaries. Although, it seems logical to me.M36s were used well after WWII by a number of countries, including Korea (where they were effective against Soviet built tanks), France, and Pakistan. -
You've nailed it.I mean really, do you think a GI entering a building to clear it, or rounding the corner of a hedgerow, would really take 7-9 seconds to drop down to a proper firing position and attain proper sight picture before firing his first shot on a German that pops up less than 20m in front of him, and then take another 3-5 seconds to fire off his next shot?
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If I was BFC I'd be on vacation too. CMBN is as close to a perfect release as they've ever had IMO. They deserve a vacation. Although, my understanding is that Charles has to be carried to a peaceful destination in his jar and can only truly experience life by "borrowing" the body of one of his coworkers temporary.
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Will we get their dreaded enemy the Space Lobsters to face off against them?The patch will introduce the Klingons. Kaplah! -
OK, look at it this way, if you see a bunch of guys running around in the open at point blank range or worse yet charging at you, are you going to try and save ammo or shoot like hell and try to get as many as possible (provided you have the courage to even stick you head out)? All the combat footage I've seen and everything I've read tells me that when provided with close visible targets infantry will pour in the maximum number of rounds possible and try to kill them all. Conversing ammo is not on the radar at that point. An examination of police shootings will bear this out too. Nearly all police shootings are at close range and the general tendency is to empty the weapon on the target. That's why people complain that their relative was shot 14 times, etc...
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I must be a 2 because I play in real time with no pauses. I take lots of casualties, but there's no point in trying to be perfect because that for the pixel pokers that have all day to play a one hour battle.
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You're EEE-BULL. ;-)Leave it to the French to miss it is unplayable. Sacrebleu! -
Well, as far as I know, moving tanks in WW II couldn't hit squat. Maybe I'll do some tests. I would imagine that the hit percentage moving against a hard target should be under 10% at anything over a couple hundred yards. I used to play this game called Tobruk and that was nice flat desert. If I remember the rules correctly, you couldn't even shoot the main weapon when you were moving and MG fire was reduced by half or something like that.
And, yes, yes, I know, just because a game says it's like that doesn't mean it's true, but I will say that that was very good game and very detailed for armored combat.
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It didn't. Discussions and testing of movement effects on gunnery and spotting were ongoing before release and continue now. It's just a more complicated problem than it seems, involving not just accuracy modifiers, but also the actual physical movement of the tank in the game world and AI behavior.
However, the OP's "proof" that accuracy while moving is flawed is itself worthless. Sherman crews were OK'd to fire on the move at targets less than 600m with the stabilizer, so two instances of a Sherman hitting a target at 400m are really not a problem taken on their own.
Well. OK'ed to fire on the move is one thing hitting something is quite another. Speed, type of ground, range, target movement, angle off... all make this a very complex problem. I'm sure some differential equations will fix it right up, LOL.... even WW II ships had problems hitting targets in rough seas.
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