Jeremy Sadler

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Mine's the same problem. I wonder if it reads the opening 00005010 .wav from the CD for the opening movie?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Must be. However others have said they've got it to work. Ya got me... ------------------ "Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition."

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Pvt. Ryan: What are your legs? Steel springs. What are they gonna do? Haul me down the track. How fast can you run? Fast as a leopard. How fast are you gonna run? Fast as a leopard! Then let's see you do it!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Ah thanks Ryan, that's the quote. ------------------ "Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition."

If you've been wondering about how useful smoke is, I think I have the answer for you. Situation: 500pt Quickbattle small table, I'd mown down most of his attack when he landed this on me: (Click on pic for bigger version) <p align="center"> </p> And viewed from my one Panzer: <p align="center"> </p> What's more once the smoke cleared, and the Panzer ran out of HE shells, it started lobbing AP rounds - and started a forest fire on the hill: <p align="center"> </p> So remember people, smoke can be useful - especially in large quantities - and who needs a flamethrower with tanks around? ------------------ Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition. [This message has been edited by Jeremy Sadler (edited 01-02-2001).] [This message has been edited by Jeremy Sadler (edited 01-02-2001).]

My greatest experience has been with normal squads using their AT weapons. While playing a game the other night an enemy tank appeared on my flank and knocked out two tanks in quick succession, then tried to drive forward to get a third. Unfortunately for him, he drove right passed a hidden infantry unit, which promptly put a 'shrek up his ass. However most of my AT teams have been quite disappointing - however I think it's troop quality that is the big deal. Lower quality troops let fly earlier, and at long range all you're going to do is attract fire from every direction, including above. Buy Vets, place 'em well, and ambush. ------------------ "Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition."

One scenario (I don't recall which one) the sniper was in a foxhole forward of the main defense, and once I realised he was there (it was a scenario default set up and I actually missed him for three turns, only realised when I heard him shooting) I took special note. Brit infantry were advancing across the valley, and he systematically took down every AT team and arty spotter that came within his broad view. They're worth every penny. ------------------ "Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition."

If you're running Windows, just use its internal screen capture system - CTRL-PRINT SCREEN. This copies the screen into the clipboard. Then paste it into your favourite image editor (even Windows Paint will do) and edit, save, resize, whatever. ------------------ "Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition."

"What're ya legs?" "Steel springs!" "Where they gonna take ya?" "Down the track!" Pick the movie... ------------------ "Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition."

Being an Aussie, I'd love to see/hear an Aussie mod. I've checked out the sounds, and the Canadians appear to be a mix of English and French (they don't have their own sound files) so replacing them is out, which leaves replacing the English. I'd love to hear Aussie drawl voices though: "Cop that, ya bastard!" "Strewth!" "Run for it mate!" "Watch that tank mate!" "Bloody hell!" "Right lads, let's take 'em!" Tried recording my own voice, but I don't have the skill and software to edit these things well enough to fit into the game... plus they all sound like me (As an aside, I'd love to hear a South Park mod... takes away from the seriousness of the game but would be hilarious)

Definitely add my vote for this one. I know a small amount about the major Allied and Axis tanks, but the majority of tanks, support vehicles etc I have difficulty with and aren't into research details when trying to set up a game at 1 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Phoenix: Other than shore bombardment (and a bit inland) what purpose would they serve today? -snip- Other than transporting hundreds of Harpoons or lobing big ass shells at shore targets, I don't see it's purpose.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> To paraphrase, badly, someone somewhere: it's not the use of power, but the projection of power, that's important. With one (let alone two!) of those babies sitting off my coast, I'd be worried!

This is only a minor problem, but... While watching a movie if I stop it and back it up a bit, maybe change viewing angle, the sound starts to be rather "electronic" & fuzzy. I'll have to do another check, but IIRC the following turn it's OK again. As I said, only minor, but it is a little aggravating on the ears (especially at 2am in headphones so I don't wake the Mrs!) Anyone any thoughts? I'm runing W2K with SoundBlaster Live! Player ------------------ Jeremy Sadler Webmaster stargrunt.com http://www.stargrunt.com

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Bruno Weiss: BTS or anyone. What compression codecs are used to create the 00005010.wav file? That is the opening music leading to the little movie. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I don't see how having different compression codecs would affect what the game chooses to run as that theme. I've tried replacing the wav file with others, and never had any success - it loads the original, obviously off the CD. Is this a bug, BTS?

Greetings, I'm running a NVidia Riva TNT2 as well on Window 2000 Professional, and have the same problem. I find that everything works fine when first going into CM and playing a game, but once the game is over I start having that problem - white pixels being transparent. I've found ALT-TABing out to Windows and back fixes it, or exiting the game and starting again. ------------------ Jeremy Sadler Webmaster stargrunt.com http://www.stargrunt.com

I've converted an MP3 of the Great Escape theme perfectly, it's in the Wav directory (I can play it in Windows) but when I start up CM, I sitll get the same, original music. I don't know if this is tied in with anything or not. I guess this discussion would probably be better in the Tech Support forum. ------------------ Jeremy Sadler Webmaster stargrunt.com http://www.stargrunt.com

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>I've thought of using the scenerio editor, but you can't do a quick battle on a premade map. You'd have to buy the forces for both sides and it takes some of the fun ou of a game if you know the exact enemy force.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> This is something I'd really like - the ability to make a map, and then fight a quick battle on it. I like the element of "surprise" in not knowing what the enemy has (or, in fact, what you'll end up with). ------------------ Jeremy Sadler [This message has been edited by Jeremy Sadler (edited 12-29-2000).]