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    Diplo: "Spain is Lame" strategy, USA still a joke, Germans overated

    in Strategic Command 2 Blitzkrieg and Weapons and Warfare

    Posted

    Originally posted by jon_j_rambo:

    Well, we had another little fight of our own, called the Japs. Bottom Line, we won. We rebuilt the world, changed the world, everybody is getting onboard the USA way of life. Democracy, Capitalism, etc...well, save parts of the Middle East.

    If you're reading this, thank a teacher. If you're reading this in English, thank the US Military.

    -Legend

    :rolleyes:

    It's nice to see that some things never change.

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    System Requirements

    in DropTeam

    Posted

    It's a laptop.

    128 meg Radeon x700

    1.6Ghz Pentium M

    1 Gig RAM

    80Gig HD

    Omega 3.8.221 drivers

    I just recently formated so my comp is running pretty well.

    I was running my comp at 1400x1050 with most most of the boxes checked.

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    demo?

    in Strategic Command 2 Blitzkrieg and Weapons and Warfare

    Posted

    Originally posted by Moon:

    We have a firm demo policy at Battlefront and it hasn't changed for the past 5 years or so... we release the demo around the same time that the game is gold AND is beginning to ship. That's about 4-6 weeks after we open pre-orders. You do the math smile.gif

    Martin

    So you're saying that the game won't be out in December then?? Or are pre-orders already being accepted and I haven't noticed?
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    My HD came back from the dead...why?

    in Combat Mission - Tech Support

    Posted

    Ok this is what I got. IT's a western digital.

    Test Option: QUICK TEST

    Model Number: WDC WD800UE-00HCT0

    Serial Number: WD-WXE505295229

    Firmware Number: 900.D790

    Drive Type: IDE

    Capacity: 80.03 GB

    SMART Status: PASS

    Test Result: PASS

    Test Time: 09:51:51, September 11, 2005

    Test Option: EXTENDED TEST

    Model Number: WDC WD800UE-00HCT0

    Serial Number: WD-WXE505295229

    Firmware Number: 900.D790

    Drive Type: IDE

    Capacity: 80.03 GB

    SMART Status: PASS

    Test Result: FAIL

    Test Error Code: 08-

    Test Time: 18:40:11, September 11, 2005

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    Pic-ture! Pic-ture! Pic-ture! (chant to To-Ga To-Ga)

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

    Posted

    Originally posted by PseudoSimonds:

    </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Michael Dorosh:

    </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by juan_gigante:

    Whoa, Scipio. You use inches and meters? Won't combining the two cause the universe to implode? Come on, man! We forum members can't follow two distinct systems of measurement simultaneously! Next you'll be talking how many spans something is!

    That's actually de rigeur in Canada. I have no idea what 78 degrees Fahrenheit is, but also no idea how much I weigh in kilograms (can't be bothered to divide by 2.2). I was lucky to be brought up with the metric system in school, but still measure my waist and height in inches. </font>
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    My HD came back from the dead...why?

    in Combat Mission - Tech Support

    Posted

    It seems just fine now which I don't understand. So this morning I'm getting dressed and suddenly my computer starts making a strange sound. I can't really reproduce it, but I'm sure you know the sounds when your hard drive seems to be working a lot harder than it's supposed to be. Throw in some "clicking" and you've got it. Anyways so I go over to it and move the mouse because it's in the power saving mode. When the screen comes up all I see is a blue screen (which I think had text on it but I only saw it for a blink of a second) and then suddenly the comp restarts all by itself. So I'm like oh noes, this can't be good. And then so after the initial boot up information screen it goes to a different screen and says something like "disk failure." It's seems like it's testing something and then it switches to a new screen and one of the messages says "Operating System not Found". Of course I'm like, "OH ****!!! (no, not "oh noes!!") I tried to restart a couple times and just got the same message. So i turned the computer off and left it because i had to go to work. When I got home I was already to take the HD out and take it back to get it fixed but when I tried to boot up, the computer booted up as if nothing had ever happened!!

    Does anybody have any idea why this happened (or what exactly did happen?) The only thing I can think that may have triggered it was earlier this morning I dumped heaps of files. We're talking GIGABYTES here. Movies, iso's etc etc. Like maybe 10 or 12 gigs. Could that have set something off?

    I have no idea but I just dont want it to happen again. I'm hoping that it isn't a physical problem or something that just can't be rectified with a simple reformat.

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    Thinking outside the box - Do not flame!

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

    Posted

    I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Are you asking for a CM table top game a la Warhammer 40k? Or are you asking them to make a Warhammer computer game using the CMx2 engine?

    I would urge anybody against licensing anything to Games Work shop. That is unless you want your game broken down into a hundred different modules which they will then proceed to sell to you for the small fare of ONE BIIIILION DOLLARS! (queue Dr. Evil voice)

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    How about more Profanity?

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

    Posted

    Originally posted by Michael Dorosh:

    Curse words in the American Civil War (and this could be the first CMX2 release for all we know) were remarkably different from what we would recognize today. Napoleon Dynamite would have made Civil War soldiers ears bleed. :D Watch Audie Murphy and Bill Mauldin in The Red Badge of Courage sometimes and tell me if their language is particularly offensive to modern ears. Not even close.

    MD the Red Badge of Courage was not a war but a movie. I'm not sure how you can make a connection that because there was no swearing in a 1950's movie there was also no swearing in the Civil War. It's one of those "the medium is the message" sort of things. I wasn't around at the time but I'm fairly confident that there was no swearing in 1950's entertainment at all, never mind in a war film. Heck what show was it that showed married couples sleeping in seperate beds? Did all married couples really sleep in seperate beds back then? Each generation applies it's own values to history. Compare an early John Wayne war movie to Saving Private Ryan. Same war but remarkably different vocabulary. The only thing that has changed is our acceptance of swearing in a public medium (although these days in America sometimes I wonder).

    I did a search for **** on Dictionary.com and according to it, the term is actually quite old. I find it difficult to believe that soldiers of any era didn't sprinkle it liberally in their conversations.

    Word History: The obscenity **** is a very old word and has been considered shocking from the first, though it is seen in print much more often now than in the past. Its first known occurrence, in code because of its unacceptability, is in a poem composed in a mixture of Latin and English sometime before 1500. The poem, which satirizes the Carmelite friars of Cambridge, England, takes its title, “Flen flyys,” from the first words of its opening line, “Flen, flyys, and freris,” that is, “fleas, flies, and friars.” The line that contains **** reads “Non sunt in coeli, quia gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk.” The Latin words “Non sunt in coeli, quia,” mean “they [the friars] are not in heaven, since.” The code “gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk” is easily broken by simply substituting the preceding letter in the alphabet, keeping in mind differences in the alphabet and in spelling between then and now: i was then used for both i and j; v was used for both u and v; and vv was used for w. This yields “fvccant [a fake Latin form] vvivys of heli.” The whole thus reads in translation: “They are not in heaven because they **** wives of Ely [a town near Cambridge].
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    Keep PBEM!!!!!!!!!!

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

    Posted

    If PBEM is left out, which I seriously doubt it will be, I'm sure it will be for a technical reason that makes it impossible and not because the larger audience doesn't play PBEM. So there's basically nothing we can do but wait.

    I consider myself fairly "hardcore" (i peruse this site all the time and post a little less often.) But I am one of those people who don't play PBEM. Why? Well for one thing I don't have the patience for games that stretch out over weeks. Playing against the AI allows me to both, take all the time I want and at the same time play as much as I want. Also while I would enjoy a battle of wits against a human opponent, I really only enjoy that when I'm playing against my friends (bragging rights) and since none of my friends play the game im not really interested.

    Don't get me wrong-I hope to God they include it and if they don't I won't consider it a complete game.

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    Keep PBEM!!!!!!!!!!

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

    Posted

    Originally posted by Scipio:

    Well, I don't know how BFC figures out if CM is played more solo then PBEM. I nearly never play vs the AI. To win or lose vs a machine is just pointless for me. But well, I guess they know what they are talking about.

    I'm sure they've probably taken into account the number of total sales and compared it to the number of people registered on this forum. I'm just guessing but I'd say 20% would be an extremely generous percentage as to how many registered members play PBEM on a regular basis. Then compare that to the total number of units sold and you can see how they could possibly think that PBEM is not such a big of a factor as some of us might thing.

    (Not that it would be a good thing to take it out. I'm sure they will probably end up keeping it.)

    Will file saves really be that much bigger? Yes of course the graphics are much better but all that should be client based-only the calculations should have to be transmitted and there can't be that many more than with CMBO.

    Or am I totally wrong here? Maybe Steve has already stated otherwise and I missed it.

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