Hurricane

This reminds me of all those that would answer the first post with "Here, here it's about time..."

GREAT! Promptly added to my favourites.

And still you can easily penetrate the egg with a needle.

Shift-V will hide the vehicles, which makes it very easy to select the troops. I do this all the time, and its no hassle.

A minor bug, but on the 75mm Finnish artillery observer info screen it says "76mm off-map artillery". So which is it? 75mm or 76mm?

The Finnish manual says this (page 220): "Joillakin maastotyypeillä on visuaalinen esiintymismuoto, esim. ruoho, pensas. Näillä ei ole sinällään vaikutusta pelimoottoriin, vaan ne on lisätty visuaalisesti paremman ilmeen saavuttamiseksi". My translation: "Some terrain types have a visual display, for example grass, brush. These do not have any effect as such on the game engine, but are added for greater visual appearance."

CDV homepage is here... Works fine for me Jussi</font>

I bought the game yesterday, and was also very surprised by the box cover text. It certainly is misleading. Anyway, did I get it right if it works this way: * The printed manual is 88 pages english. The PDF extensions mentioned in this manual do not exist on the CD. * Instead, there is a 266-page full manual in Finnish on the CD. By the way, what is the web adress of CVD. cdv.de doesn't work, nor does cdv.com. :confused:

Very good point. Finnsh uses many extremely long words (just one example: tank = panssarivaunu), so a good translation is not enough. It would probably mean a redesign of the layout, too. And, as you mention, it would mean hell for MODders. But a localised box (in the case the game is sold on the store shelves) could actually be a very good bet, IMHO.

I also have to agree that Finns don´t want a localised version. As tero pointed out, it makes communication harder ("My PST gun was destroyed!" "-What? Do you mean AT gun???" "-I´ve no idea what you are talking about. My manual clearly says PST!"). My experience is that localised versions are just a pain in the ass. For example, many people have a Finnsh version of Windows, which means trouble when downloading all kinds of hotfixes and patches and when you search the net for advice. "What Explorer?" "-Did you mean Resurssienhallinta?"

You bastards! Yesterday I bought a new graphics card just to be able to have more and better mods. And I couldn´t even wait for my salary so I bought in with my credit card. And already I am thinking I was a fool who only bought a budget GeForce2 MX with 32 MB memory.

I guess this is standard practise in every army. When I was in the army we learned three simple rules of close assaulting (i.e. the last 20 meter charge to the enemy position when you lie prone behind cover): 1) put on bayonet 2) throw grenade 3) fire a short burst. And then run like hell and hope they still hide in their foxhole.

Damn, you are driving me crazy with these screenshots. I have an old lousy 8MB Voodoo II card and only low-res mods. I guess I will be headed for the PC store tomorrow...

In my opinion, crew survivability is just a bit too high. As you mentioned above, a penetration will often be disastrous for the crew inside. But still, most of the time 3 or 4 of the crew will bail out and run for safety. I can´t remember even one time when the whole crew would have been killed after a penetration.

Thanks man! Great list. I would say my number one bookmark from now on (well, after this forum).

I think we are missing one point here. We all agree that it is perfectly reasonable that anything could catch fire in CM. But would the road burn for 40 minutes? I don´t think so. If there were some large logs in the tile they would perhaps still be burning after 40 minutes in pouring rain, but that wouldn´t hinder access to the tile or create a large amount of smoke.

Defending against the computer is a walk in the park. I always (well, almost) play the attacking side when playing against the AI. Still it´s not very hard, but sometimes the AI can give you a challenge.

This seems reasonable. In the real world you could tell the difference between a green enemy and an elite enemy by the way they move, how fast they reload and so on, so you should get some indication of level, but not the 100% id you get now. It would be stupid to have the player find out this by himself (like counting seconds between reloads or command delays). I am really in favour of minimizing micromanagement, while still going for maximum realism.

But what about suppressive fire? The MG might not hit anything after a while, but the charging infantry might be of another opinion and panic more easily.

Yes, you just can´t say you have a long fix list and not post it here!

I searched around a bit on the forum, but didn´t find any answer to the question how frozen rivers and lakes will be treated in CM2. The best link I could find was this Frozen rivers What I really want to see are different levels of ice thickness, rivers not frozen at all even though there is snow and the possibility to blow holes in ice (and possibly drown any units on the ice).

Yes, we need more taunts! What about squads running out of ammo in the heat of the battle? Instead of just sitting there, they would start taunting enemies nearby and mooning in their general direction. Perhaps squads could have a taunt modifier, and if they are lucky, the enemy could brake or more often only be shocked. And of course everything would be in outrageous german and scottish accents.

Ahh, Fire in the East and Scorched Earth. Each turn took about two hours per side, and the map filled an entire room. I played against my brother, and still it took about a year to finish. Only played it once, but that was one great game.

Infantry can´t throw smoke. You´ll have to use artillery or mortars.

Happened to me too. I almost broke the CD when I by routine bent the manual to see if there was something in it.