Stixx

Yeah heard the name. Just a stupid bloody game that's all! This best game of football in the world just finished an hour ago... Bloody draw, gotta hate that!

I live in Oz and i have no idea what the hell your talkin about! I'd have to take a guess that you are from down south somewhere and are refering to that stupid blody Aerial ping pong? Stix

Hehe, yeah more @ss then class i'd say Jons I might not be good a maths but i'm a good guestimater <---Even if i can't spell it For interest this battle was the Cintheux-Totalize scenario. I still wonder what i plane was doing down that low. I think i'll just add it to the list of things that CM does one in a million times, this game never stops amazing me. Stix [ June 24, 2002, 11:40 PM: Message edited by: Stixx ]

Damn! You guys are my heros! Well at least we know what altitude the bloke was at. Still makes me wonder what he was doing there though? Maybe he was out of ammo and was keeping up foreign relations?

Ok i took the same screen shot with the LOS tool on to the same position the FB's shadow was. I spent a fair bit of time on it, i doubt it is out more than 1 meter. Now i'm sure there are some people out here smart enough to work out the height, with 1 side 380 meters the other side 372 meters with a 90 degree angle. What is the height? Stix

Ok, cheers CMplayer for that test, that's nice to know. None of my AA guns have tallied up a aircraft kill but this plane did not drop any ordanance on his pass. Actually i just checked and that area of map is terrain elevation 11, he continued over a path that took him over elevation 15 areas but that was the only place he was that low to the ground. I've never actually seen a label that says "Fighter-Bomber" before. Priest ya big girl! Stp ya bloody whinging! Ya said you would be playing on Saturday but ya never showed up!. Stix

Damnit, i didn't save that turn! I was in the middle of a great battle! I thought a screen shot would do! Guess i was wrong. I would hesitate a guess that the distance to the aircraft would be the same as the distance to the shadow. If an ifantry unit in a 2 story building fires at the ground below him is the height calculated? I suspect it would be the same for aircraft. Stix

I've never noticed a plane flying at different heights before, they always seem to fly through at a fixed "above" the games FOV. i.e. you could never actually see the end of the targetting line. That is what interested me with this one so much. Actually something else of interest is that none of my AA shells actually exploded near the aircraft. If you look closely you can see 3 shells inbound but none of them exploded until they hit the map edge. I always thought most of this stuff was very abstracted but this screen shot makes you think.... Stix

Well that is sort of what i'm getting at. I've never seen a plane modeled that "low" before. You are also correct about the "high noon" position.

I think those guys have loaded so many rounds there wouldn't be much more than a second difference in reload times. You will notice when shooting AP rounds that the time it takes to fire a round will vary, this is mainly i suspect from aiming adjucments. Stix

I took this screen shot of a FB in one of my recent games, by the looks of things the plane actually dived towards the ground. As you can see in the screen shot my AA guns are firing at a "Fighter-Bomber" that is only 60-80 meters above the ground. Has anyone seen this before? All the AA guns i've ever seen in the game seem to shoot "up" above your LOS at enemy planes, not this one though. Any ideas? Cheers, Stix

Think of it this way, the longer they work on it, the better it will be! Stix

That sounds interesting! What was the name of the Op?

As you well know it's possible to have MUCH bigger than 9,000 pt battles in CMBO

I can think of better places for it to go! Stix

G'Day Fionn. If you have got room you could add me to the bottom of your list. I expect CMBB will be well and truly out by the time we get around to a game. Thanks mate. Stix.

Just keep one thing in mind guys. Playing for money "could" get rather nasty, people accusing others of "fixing" a game etc. I wouldn't advise any of this betting. That's my view anyway. Stix

Like hell ya well!!! Your fightin me tonight!

27 AFV's? I think it was more like 37 AFV's! In 1 bloody rocket attack!!! I had tanks spread out for miles but every bloody round hit something!!! Bastard!!! I must say thouugh, Priest has the best armored Tactics i've ever seen!. When i first started playing him i used primarily Infantry and i just got stomped!. I started using armor a LOT more, i was buying over 5,000 pts of Armor and still gettin beaten! It took me 7-8 of these "HUGE" (20,000 combined points on maps over 2 X 2 km) battles to start getting used to Priests armor tactics... I still take out more of his tanks with AT guns then i ever do with armor. The bastard must train his gun crews himself! Anyway what was the point of this post? Hmmm, Dunno, must be time to leave then. Hooroo

I find it all rather amusing too Fionn and Peng, the struggle between good and evil I just don't know which one is which yet Honestley though, i don't understand what the big thing is with Fionn? Anyone care to enlighten me? He's proved to be a good tactician, is/was a CM tester and has a set of force selection guidelines. What's with all the Fionn this and Fionn that? Why is he so special and attracts so much attention? I really would like to hear the answers to these questions. Stix

There are some nice CMMC maps. You would have to delete town names and any grid references off the maps though. Stix

You just have to have a scenario from Rune in this! I've emailed him this thread. Stix

I'll test it with him edited: To fix new sig. [ May 14, 2002, 06:31 AM: Message edited by: Stixx ]

Ted's da man!

That is stunning! GREAT WORK!