Firefly

Vista has Direct X 10 amd 9.0x installed, but 9.0x doesn't contain everything that 9.0c needs. You can however remedy this by intalling 9.0c and it will install what's missing. I'd already donne this for other games before I reinstalled DiF, so it may be a factor. Having DirectX10 and 9.0C installed at the same time does not seem to cause any probelms, programs seem to know which they need.

Yes I'm on SP1. in fact I have been sunce before I re-installed DiF.

Well I don't lnow what I''m doing right or wrong, bit I've beeen able to play online camapigns and create online games agaimst the AI on my Vista 32 box. The only thing I did oit of the ordinary when I first logged on was to tell Widows Firewall to stop blocking content from the site.

1000 kills be damned, what's the record for Japanese Wound Badges? That's the one I'm going for.

Nah the AI pilor Rob Knight (aka Mace) would win it every time .

Uh...yes...I said so in the first post in this thread!! </font>

Some of the RAF medals can't even be won vy real life RAF pilots . The Military Cross is for Army officers nly, WW1 pilots could get it, but not WW2 pilots.

OK Brian, I've snt you the log.

When trying to create an online game or custom gmae I'm getting a DIF error with the description: Cannot find column [playerid] I'm then prestented with the game creation srreen showing my pilots, but no available aircraft. I can play camapigns with no problem and create and delete pilots. My in-game name is Steerpike, if that's any use .

Don't they have Guinness tents at American racetracks? Even so if there's anything as much fun as standing in the rain and losing your money, I've yet to find it.

OOTP 6 Spartan HoMM 3 (lifetime addiction) CMAK

Why don't you adopt the Florida system? It doesn't matter who votes and how often if you don't count the votes.

It's normally the other way round, play an infantry only battle via PBEM and see how small the movie turns are. Also I don't think many people here would think 'just 20 tanks per side' amounts to a small battle .

Or, step into the 'Pool........maybe. Noba. </font>

I shouldn't worry, most of 'em can't even muster a decent argument.

Very nice, but why are there no smoke and flames coming out of the turret? Mine always seem to have that.

Probably because they were classified as artillery and the AT regiments in Commonweatlh divisions were provided by the RA or RHA. </font>

Did you win?

I'm not sure FK, I remeber when SSI followed up Steel Panthers with Steel Panthers 2 using the same scale and suddenly everything on the map was within range, even the scenarios from the '70s and '80s. If you remember that a current CM map is probably only the size of a few hexes of an SP map (they were 50 metres per hex), I think you are probably looking at much larger maps, rather than just a bit bigger. If you limit it to mainly infantry bush wars, it might work,but once you get into NATO/WarsawPact territory I think you'll have problems. Also I prefer my wargames to be based on wars that actually happened, simply basing a game on what might have happened according to the experts ignores the frequency with which such experts have been wrong in the past. How many experts accurately predicted the nature of WW2? This is also ignoring the fact that WW3 would have probably gone nuclear within minutes, due to NATO's 'first use' policy and we'd have been fighting WW4 with bow and arrows.

Probably because they were classified as artillery and the AT regiments in Commonweatlh divisions were provided by the RA or RHA.

Oh, be quiet Boggs, the next thing you know Axe will be wanting a War of 1812 game.

Everybody's been wondering who was going to do Neverwinter Nights 2.

The have been a series of documentaries on British TV by Terry Jones (of Monty Python) fame, debunking some of the myths about medieval society, one of which was the view of medieval women being meek, defenceless creatures (which was basically invented by the Victorians), one example he quoted was a woman in her seventies, who successfully commanded the defence of her castle against a siege on behalf of the King in one of the civil wars/rebellions in England.

K-6 graders? Are they like K-9 in Dr Who? [ April 21, 2004, 11:42 AM: Message edited by: Firefly ]

I seem to recall from the CMBO days that German infantry tend to only use their panzerfausts at about a third of their maximum range. I'm not sure if that's still the case.