Pale

Ok, I can do that, maybe. Let's see, judging by the little pictures I can see you are all an ugly bunch, so why don't you try to redeem yourselves in my eyes with beautiful tactics in CMBO battle?

I get the feeling this is technically the real opponent finder thread, right? If so I'd like to play, please, thank you.

Hello, I was wondering where the cm player tournament or ladder thing was so I can always find an opponent, the opponent message board is usually pretty bare and I've learned it's not the best place to find a good opponent so where is it that all of you grogs are playing? Thanks, Pale

Yes perhaps it is silly but I also know the position of his mortars and his 150mm infantry gun! I can mortar those to death if I so desire but I was trying to show some restraint in consideration of the before mentioned FOW woes. I hope you can see that it's not so much an issue about the speculation of enemy positions as it is the abuse of dubiously acquired information. Oh well, maybe I'm just to formal with it all. IMHO valley of trouble is a small map with little room to vary your tactics, maybe you're just spoiled from the large maps that come with the full game. [This message has been edited by Pale (edited 02-09-2001).]

Hello, I've come across an interesting situation in a pbem and I'd like to know how other more experinced players on this forum view this particular action. It is a demo pbem in the Valley of Trouble scenario, I am playing as the ami attacker and my opponant is the german defender, now I'm sure everyone on this forum is familiar with the layout of this map with the two large hills dominating each sides setup zone. Quite naturally I set up my artillery spotters on the large hill under cover of tall pines, the rest of the unit placement is irrelevant as you will soon find out. Now my opponant just used the default computer setup, how do I know this you ask? Simple, because he had fog of war off. After the setup was complete and I went to issue orders for my first turn I noticed that all his units were visible to me, so I sent an e-mail telling him he forgot fog of war was off or it was some kind of bug. He then replies with an apalogy saying he left it off to observe the computer and forgot leaving it off when he set the game up. So we start the same map over again this time only with full fog of war. Now to be a gentlemen I set my units up in the exact same manor as before, and I think it was a stupid thing to do. At the start of this new pbem immediatley motar fire starts landing near my spotters even though they are hidden in the pines. Needless to say I suffer casualties from this, now here is what I need to know. Was I being naive about placing my units in the same position as before? It is only logical to put the spotters there and they were hidden from enemy los and to me at least it seems as though he's taking advantage of the previous setup in wich fog of war was disabled. I know a prepitory bombardment is sometimes acceptable but in most occasions I wait for visual contact with the enemy before I start dropping shells and I'm sure most others do too. So do you think his little trick was unacceptable? I'm tempted to call the match off right now or I can play his game and paste every patch of forest and building with my surviving 150 spotter even though I can't see the enemy hidden within. But that's not very much fun though now is it?

As I a matter of fact I'm having the exact same problem, care to play a demo pbem while we wait?

Hello, I'd like to play a demo game against someone, anyone. I have no side preference and I'm green too. And yes I posted in the opponent finder but I'm making double sure I get to fight a real human. Thank you in advance. Almost forgot my icq is: 27846457 [This message has been edited by Pale (edited 02-04-2001).]

First of all, I'm playing the demo and in the valley scenario there is a trp, I was wondering does that also help the AT guns accuracy, and if it doesn't why not? Secondly why can't I set waypoints for multiple units at once? like say a whole platoon, It gets tiresome plotting out the moves for an entire company. As mentioned before I only have the demo so I can't look it up in the manual. On a side note to BTS, next time I order a game can I give ya a little extra cash so you can ship it federal express or something, I've been waiting for 3 weeks, or maybe include a few more missions in your next demo! Thank you in advance.

I was just curious how much research bts used in this area because we all know many old veterans like to exaggerate just a bit or flat out lie. Before you flame me I realize not all vets do this, I know a few honest veterans and they refuse to talk about what happened during their service, but fanciful stories have great propaganda value. To think, who would join the army if they knew what war was really like? I was just wondering how bts figured out what actually happened because everyone exagerates and bend the numbers in their favor.