Soddball
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You know full well that several of the units of the Italian army fought well and fought hard. They had inadequate supplies, almost no anti-tank weapons, and poor leadership.Originally posted by JasonC:Italians were "really good soldiers" if "really good" means "worst in the war", maybe, in the land of unhurt national pride where all children are above average. In the real world, they sucked at least as much as they do in CM. They never won a battle under their own command, and were smashed to atoms whenever they were in the main line of a major allied attack.
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To get the best from S&S, I use a covered arc and then I also 'target' the unit, whether I can see it or not. The 'unit memory' comes into play and you're more likely to gain a shot. If you have a unit with binoculars pointing at the target of S&S it works better too (I think).
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And you would hate to hear what the grogs have to say about that.Originally posted by CanadaGuy:I cannot believe that we missed it. I met Steve at a gamers convention and he said that it would actually be the first war, i.e. two cavemen, but it would take a long time to complete because they wanted to model each hair on the mammoth togas as accurately as possible.
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You're sitting in front of Steve's monitor? Then what the hell is the new game called? Don't waste your chance.
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The nations have special powers. For example, the Italians (or Garovingians, as we like to call them) cast balls of flaming pasta from their Punishment Catapults.
The Germans (or Horde) have Zerg Tanks which are OMG teH R0XOR.
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I would like to see CMX2 implement fire in the same way that The Sims did.
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Padd Lock?Originally posted by J Ruddy:I'm thinking of two words.
Whomever can guess what they are wins a free hotdog.
Baby Oil?
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Does that mean you'll stop posting for 20 minutes?
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Now this would be great.Originally posted by Melnibone:Benny Turbo button...when pressed all troops change into fancy dress and travel at 5 times normal speed for 2 turns....accompanied by the Benny Hill theme tune.
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ARARARHAHGRHGHHHH!!!! We'll miss you like a hole in the head. :mad: :mad:
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I think the caption said these are pre-alpha. So compare the pre-alpha horror shots of CM:BO to what we saw later.
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Dammit. I saw this and thought it was the CMX2 forum.
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If they don't look better than that I'm selling my shares in Matt's nightclub.
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Moral?
Or Morale?
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Patrick Bishop's "Fighter Boys" - covering The Battle of Britain.Originally posted by jacobs_ladder2:Just out of curiosity I thought I would see how you guys would answer a question posed in another (possibly less informed) forum.
What books, covering any and all aspects of WWII, should be considered "must haves"?
James Holland's "Fortress Malta".
Antony Beevor's "Stalingrad" and "Berlin 1945".
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Try getting pumped up before you play. Watch some Schwarzenegger films. Then play.
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Theoretically fine if you're not on a modem.Originally posted by LightningWar:I know some people hate Steam but honestly it has been great to me. It is also nice to be able to simply reinstall without having to search for a CD.
Online distribution isnt a bad option imo.
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This was worth an extra thread in a busy forum.
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Gpig, that cover art rocks.
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Nah, it wasn't that much time. Maybe 10 minutes total. And I've been saving up some extra time each day knowing that sooner, much sooner, than later someone would say something silly like this. So now that its happened, and I've responded, the time to respond to unreasonable nonsense is just about used upOriginally posted by eichenbaum:</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Battlefront.com:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />BFC, why are you guys wasting so much time debating people who are commenting on a game about which they know almost nothing?
Steve </font>
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How do you know that he has such possibilities in the scenario in question? </font>Originally posted by Sergei:</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Soddball:
Smoke to cover your approach, and 105mm or larger to suppress the infantry in the trenches.
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Smoke to cover your approach, and 105mm or larger to suppress the infantry in the trenches.
Worse units in any CM game?
in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps
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I noticed that you have managed to casually skip over with the two critical deficiences - armour and aircraft.
Italian tanks were atrocious. We don't need to go into details - you know them as well as I.
Some of their aircraft (MC202) were good but for the most part they were outclassed by everyone else in the field. They were being beaten over Malta by Hurricanes and Gladiators, both obsolete by 1941. Their medium bombers had insufficient payloads and inadequate protection.
Banging on about how many artillery tubes they fielded makes no difference. Warfare is about Combined Arms, as you well know. And saying they had parity with the Russians in artillery and MGs means nothing when they couldn't field a single good tank for the entire war and failed to achieve anything of any substance with their air force.