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I'll know BFC has made it into the big-leagues when Nvidia releases a new driver the week before a CM game publicly launches...and then a patched video driver the week after.

Lol, I wouldn't have done it to anyone with at least 99 posts. The fallback to the next line is not a bad idea...

The lutker brought up a good question...

Brings up the question whether speed matters to bogging...

Lol... Having played Bil in our MG AAR, I can only reiterate what good sport he is. A total gentleman with whom to exchange turns, and a pleasure to be involved with on a project. He's a professional, good-natured, flexible, and committed to making this game system be the best it can be. I'm -sure- that he meant no disrespect from his earlier post. The medium makes some statements come out differently than intended. He's also looked upon as the favorite. With that comes the burden of scrutiny and the folks who will root for the underdog. I cannot tell you how many times I revised my postings before I submitted them to my AAR thread, only to be dismayed when I read what I'd posted, be it an error of spelling, grammar, or interpretation. Official AAR's bring an incredible workload. Ken

Why the MOVE commands for the Panther? Would HUNT, FAST, or anything else be more or less useful?

This is hard to quantify. One of my regular pbem partners created a map 2km x 8km. It had a LOT of elevation changes, woods, water, and some buildings. Each side fielded about 3-4 battalions of infantry and tanks. I could play it, but not at 30fps. (Of course, all graphics are always maxed out. ) It would run in the teens, for fps. A lot depended on the camera angle. It eventually stopped working. (I think the pbem file sizes exceeded an in-game limit. Something about 2 to the power of 32.) I don't know if any hardware combo could run that. If the camera is at height 1, and facing the edge, sure 30fps is easy. If it's at height 4, and facing an 8km length of map, well, bog-city. There are soooo many variables... Ken

Hope? Hope is not needed while you field a fleet of jeeps filled with men who are, err, filled with zeal! Zeal filled men filled jeeps can drive you to the road to victory! Swarm him. Kidding aside, the M36 ambush is a nice work. You seem to have three set up in a good arc. One of them (at least) should have a shot, if the JT comes out to play. I'm not sure what they'll do against the frontal aspect of the JT. As always, optics and gun are always vulnerable, if nothing else.

Victory conditions??? This is about panache, elan, flair, savoir faire.

Kudos to the Jumbo! Deflecting/absorbing 75L70 shots is a pretty nice change for US armor.

Do any of your recon teams have demo charges?

15 seconds is a long time. In combat, or life and death, it is an eternity. Compare that with modern Abrams' reload times. (120mm fixed case, vs. 128mm two-part ammo.) 15 seconds doesn't seem too optimistic to me. Shrug. As for the AAR, well, you've got a BEAST!!! Use it as such. Ken

Wait until the Jeep is lined up with the tank and then bag them both with one shot!

Good point about the M36's being left. I'd lumped them with the M18's...don't know why...

What is interesting is that, to me, Bil's purchase was "better" than Baneman's. Bil had 10(?) AFVs to deal with a few Panthers and a bunch of infantry. That should be easily enough done. Add in Bil's extremely capable manner of researching his enemy's orbat, the ground, and the weapons used in the game (for instance, checking the reload times), and I would ordinarily give this one to Bil. Until the Jagdtiger came out to play. Now, the table is totally turned. One unit can change the game. As long as the gun and tracks stay operational, Baneman should win now that he's knocked out all the 90mm opposition. All that's left is some 76mm Jumbos. (I may have miscounted/misremembered what Bil had and what Bil lost. ) Just an opinionated observation, fwiw. Ken

Gah! I must've misread it. Perhaps the 128mm airburst got him?

Bil just posted another turn. He says he got the Jagdtiger's tank commander. Indeed, head out means head off...

Vengeance is nigh!!!

This is where the paper-thin armor of US TDs will be beneficial: that 128mm should go right through...

^^^ TL;DR. Soo... CMFB is going to be released on a 5 1/4" floppy??? Ken

Bravo!

The "bad" one has AMD Phenom II, 1090T, 8 GB ram, MSI R9 390 (8GB) gpu, (Gigabyte ud3h mobo), 500GB Samsung 850 evo ssd, 3 WD 1Tb spinners. Obviously, the cpu/mobo is the weak link. That's because I've been beefing up the rest of it in preparation for a new cpu/mobo combo. (Going to be i7/z170. That'll balance it out. I had always tried to keep an amd/amd rig, an intel/nvidia, and one that mixed and matched leftovers as the other two got upgraded. I'm abandoning that approach. ) Of note, the previous gpu was an HD6870 (1GB). With no ssd, and the 6870, it ran smoothly at 30 fps, all else maxed. (One other item to check would be pixel count on the monitor if specs match but laggies still occur. One guy could be on a 1080 while the other is trying to drive 4k.) There are some excellent guides posted around hereabouts which show tweaking nvidia and amd settings for cm. They work.

Performance related. I've been building gaming rigs for, well, too long. My best one was very expensive. I built it purely for high fps. The GPU had a cooling loop which I filled with unicorn blood (everyone knows it has the best thermodynamic properties for this purpose): the CPU was a hand-built, one-off, quantum processor which only worked when the wormhole was stable. My family had weekly "No food Thursday" so I could pay the electric bill when I turned it on. (Of course, due to the power issue, I built a Faraday cage around the house. Duh.) When I sat in front of that monitor, boy, could I tell how smooth the gameplay was. Far better than the other "normal" rigs I had. My wife didn't see the difference the insanely high fps made, but she wasn't trained to see it. (And, of course, only had a woman's eye.) 250 fps was far better than a pedestrian 60 fps. Really. I could tell. Yes, that's meant to express that there is psychology involved in how we process visual input. (Check how Crye came up with Multi-Cam.) I have spent a lot of time, money, and effort building gaming machines. I currently run 3 at home. In my opinion, consistent frame rate is far more important than maximum framerate. I run all my CM installs fully maxed, frequently filled with high-def mods. I have capped the fps at 30. I get consistent smoothness. When it flexed from 60 down to 30, yeah, I'd see/feel the lag. But a constant 30 is silky smooth. Would a constant 60 be smoother than a constant 30? Yeah, probably. But not so much that it would matter...for this game. For those with lagginess, try opening your GPU's control panel software and capping your fps. You may be pleasantly surprised at how well the game plays. Ken "won the lottery with that wife"

I think Baneman may have been riding on that Panther you hit. Nothing like rolling too high on a morale check. Ouch...

Yeah, the trail of fallen riders is often a good indicator of how close is too close to use them. Not sure about explosive disembarkation. Perhaps Baneman can tell us? But enough of that: no use crying of spilt milk. Mount an attack! Charge! Or something... Ken