Dave H

The CMAK movement glitch that aggravated me the most was on a long straight road that had a bridge crossing a substantial river. The map is Mountain River and the bridge extends a good distance past both edges of the river. Half of my "column" (using that term very loosely) of tanks, ACs and halftracks swerved off the road at the last moment to try driving across the water without using the bridge. In broad daylight. Unopposed. GRRRR!!! :mad: :mad: :mad: Fortunately this was in a wildly imbalanced assault QB. The half of my force that did use the bridge as planned were sufficient to hold the defenders back long enough for the others to blunder their way back to the end of the bridge and drive across it on the second try. On the second attempt I used way points every 50 meters or so and that worked - slowly. I'll never understand the logic that caused so many AFVs to veer off the perfectly straight road.

Forget suspending your disbelief because of some scientific impossibilities. My opinion is that Firefly and the movie Serenity feature some of the most vividly three-dimensional characters I've ever seen in any form of entertainment. The writing, particularly the dialog, is absolutely brilliant. Don't wait to buy the DVDs; go to YouTube right now and watch this 30 second video from the pilot episode to get a hint of the delightful sense of the fun. This was the very first time the audience sees the character Wash. Can anyone imagine another pretend starship pilot sitting at his console and acting like this? Mr. Sulu? Steve Zodiac? Even Han Solo takes it more seriously. You have a real treat in store. The tragedy is there were so few episodes.

Hi, my name is Dave and I'm a socialist in favor of a global government. I'm also sorry you beat me to the sig. Good catch on the "collectivist" with no direct vote or representation hilarity, comrade. :D

John, no problems. I was surprised my post of the video was the first one here. Maybe your name will attract more people to see it. Looking forward to George Clooney's new movie "The Men Who Stare At Goats"?

I ran out of shells on Round 12 with a 115,500 score. I also got bored with interpolating angles and velocities.

Watching this was fascinating. For one thing the quality of the image is for all intents perfect. The slugs that didn't penetrate the steel plate reminded me of fireworks exploding. I was amazed at how quickly the breaks appeared in a sheet of glass - spreading far faster than the bullet moves. It also shows some excellent examples of spalling. My only disappointment was the lack of video of a Finn's fist punching through the steel plate, but I guess at only 1 million FPS they just couldn't catch anything moving so quickly.

That's simply a hilarious statement about a movie with a total domestic gross of $28,212,337. That's roughly 4,400,000 tickets sold, mostly to guys who played Doom. Doom did almost $15.5 million at the box office in the first weekend, or about half a million less than the first weekend of Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Doom proceeded to lose over 70% of its audience in the first week and rolled over and sank out of sight. In case you ask, Doom's foreign gross was $27,774,984 for a worldwide box office of $55,987,321. Compare that with the Doom production budget of $60 million. If that makes Doom a smash hit, what does it make Waterworld, one of Hollywood's truly legendary bombs that did a worldwide box office of $264,218,220 on a $175 million production budget? :rolleyes:

First, the guys at Battlefront aren't personally interested in the Pacific theater. Second, anticipated US sales of a WW2 land-based wargame featuring troops from China, Japan and India would probably run in the hundreds of units for the grogs. No Germans = no mass sales. If the Japanese had Tigers, Panthers or possibly SS uniforms maybe it would be different. I've often wondered if there is much of a WW2 computer wargaming market in Japan and China and India. It seems like the number of potential players must be unbelievably huge. Maybe in those markets the American and German armies would be sales duds.

These corporate criminals are almost exactly like drug lords. They simply have so much ready cash available that they can bribe themselves out of just about any situation. They only become vulnerable like Madoff when their money disappears. When national governments return corporations to the financial risk-sharing entities they were created to be and strips away the fiction of the corporation as citizen then maybe there could be some accountability for the individuals committing the crimes. Although I think I already explained why this will not happen with the "bribe themselves out of anything" line, AKA campaign contributions.

You're talking about the product of an educational system that has produced a population in which a significant percentage believes the sun rotates around the earth, that the planet is only a few thousand years old, that Hawaii is not part of the US and that wealth trickles down from the rich to the poor. The American public could just as easily be convinced that New Zealand was responsible for 9/11 and that sheep are really terrifying weapons of mass destruction. Anyway the US media forgot about both Osama bin Laden and Afghanistan a long time ago - ancient history.

Your halftracks are for transporting your men to within walking distance of the Soviet position. You will lose them all plus your infantry if you drive right up to the enemy position. Halftracks are fatally allergic to AT rifles, heavy machine guns, light AA guns, hand grenades, Molotov cocktails, demolition charges, mortars and artillery. That's not even mentioning the Soviet armor that will ALL kill German halftracks with ease. Unload your men as close to the enemy position as you can manage while keeping the halftracks out of sight. Your panzergrenadiers will have to walk the rest of the way just like regular infantry, but they will thank you for not getting them roasted in a burning halftrack. :eek:

The man who was known as the most trusted man in America died tonight. http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/C/htmlC/cronkitewal/cronkitewal.htm For those who grew up in the sixties and seventies Walter Cronkite held a towering stature that nobody else will ever come close to matching. He was the original news anchorman who every other newsman tried to copy. Listening to him report the news was exactly like having your father or uncle or grandfather talking to you about what was going on in the world. Reading his reporting record is almost like reading the history of the 20'th Century. Perhaps it's fitting his death comes during the 40'th anniversary of the Apollo XI mission because reporting on the space program always appeared to be a particular delight for him. I just read that he was on the air for 27 of the 30 hours of coverage of the first moon landing.

CM and FoW are similar only as far as the units go. Once the game starts similarities end. Successful tactics in CM don't work in FoW because historical accuracy is irrelevant. Tactics that work in FoW because of super powers like the Truscott Trot and Tiger Ace are impossible in CM. FoW and CM are both set in WW2. There are no other similarities. I tried it once and got a good laugh at the rules and the national modifiers.

I think you'll find golf simulations with gridded terrain on the greens well before CMBO. An accurate lay of the land is at least as important when putting as it is when positioning combat units.

I don't think you'll find any magic combination of year/region/map that will change this situation in small QBs. Random terrain and random AI units will sometimes be in perfect synergy and you've had it. Other times you will face the worst possible units to fit the terrain and you can walk over the AI. If you know the terrain ahead of time you can improve your unit selections but not the AI's unless you specify a particular formation (Infantry, Armored, etc.) for the AI's force selection to match the terrain. That may help some to alleviate the one-sided battles. My #1 suggestion would be to try playing a QB against another player instead of the AI. I suspect your days of both total victories and total defeats will be over permanently. Do you PBEM?

But the shark in "Jaws" did actually eat Robert Shaw, right.

I respectfully disagree. I don't have any idea what you consider the "best" games but I don't think any game that has the slightest pretensions of realism allows the player to arbitrarily toggle real-world behavior on or off. Turning off bogging (and all the circumstances it represents) for WW2 armor is equivalent to allowing Napoleonic cavalry to charge for 20 miles or allowing sailing ships to move directly into the wind. It could be a game that's fun. Checkers can be fun. It sounds to me that you want your CM armor to be toggled to act more like a simple checker that always performs flawlessly than a complex machine like a tank. Would that be the "best" game? Not for me. The inclusion of real-life flaws in men and machines is what makes Combat Mission BY FAR the best wargame I've ever played in 35 years of gaming.

The visual of the beaten zone of a machine gun was absolutely fantastic, by far the clearest I've ever seen. The WP round for the 81 mm mortar created a much quicker cloud of smoke than expected. I did have a few issues with the film: I think the concrete in the film is seriously undermodeled. I don't believe the big flak towers or much of anything else could have possibly been built with this powdery stuff. Is the best use of infantry to have them stand tall and blast away with rifles at strafing aircraft? I wonder if the same people who made this film extolling the power of American infantry weapons made another training film demonstrating how the armor on US halftracks would protect soldiers from German machine guns. :mad: :mad:

If I could whip up six more weeks of winter just for you it would be my pleasure. Of course you could move to Minnesota or Canada or Finland and have winter all year long. I don't think the article mentioned if Gatorade was assuming full financial responsibility for any injuries suffered in this game. I imagine that insurance issues will stop this farce in its tracks before one of these long-ago athletes really gets himself hurt. OTOH, let's say this game comes off and draws a decent TV audience for some bizarre reason. What comes next on the Gatorade "Remaking History" series? Little League? Jarts? Going back 16 years to replay a high school game that was already played to completion once seems pretty ridiculous. Finishing a game in a tie hasn't always had such a negative stigma attached except to a handful of deep thinkers like Bear Bryant.

I think I saw this movie. Kurt Russell, Robin Williams. It wasn't very good. Americans will watch just about anything on TV so why not. It's a cheap way to fill several hours of airtime between the commercials.

Wow, I wonder how the guy sleeps nights with such a glaring lack of accomplishment in his life. Oh, you forgot to mention that he has written, directed and produced movies as well as acted in them. Of course that still doesn't make him a Combat Mission player now does it? In spite of this wasted and futile life he bravely goes on. Poor miserable Billy Bob. :rolleyes:

Don't be hypnotized by big explosions. The Darwin effect works extremely fast on insurgent forces - only the most brain-dead and/or suicidal would be caught anywhere near those rockets being fired. If anybody's there at all it's most likely the same poor uneducated teenaged boys who would be joining street gangs in the US. The real insurgents can be miles away while the US Army shoots off a couple of hundred thousand dollars worth of 155mm shells to stir up some dust and possibly kill a few juvenile delinquents. It's probably not even accomplishing that much. I think by now insurgents all over the world have a pretty accurate idea of the reaction time of American counterbattery fire. How far could a healthy 18 year old run in the minute or two after firing the last rocket before the first round falls, especially when he knows what's about to happen? When you know the super expensive, super accurate American artillery won't be scattering all over the countryside I imagine reaching a safe distance wouldn't be too difficult. Add a bicycle or motorbike and his margin of safety is multipied. This is a video of the US Army trying to swat flies with a sledgehammer. That's probably why it was made in the first place.

Of course the Peng thread should be subjugated to it's own minor forum in a dark corner, preferrably at the bottom of Hell itself or even Australia. Just not for the reason you have given. The real self indulgent, self righteous annoyance left the forum a few years ago. His name was MasterGoodale :mad::mad: and he made the MBT regulars look like the meekest and mildest of forum posters. Actually I think his rantings were beginning to give Seanachai an inferiority complex because MasterGoodale :mad::mad: never even pretended to make the slightest bit of sense.

And a Good Afternoon to you too Axemaggot! Has a glacier scraped Barrie off the face of the earth yet? :D:D:D:D I'm actually playing a CMAK PBEM right now after years of not playing. I still have CMBB too if you're up for a shootin' match sometime.

Do yourself a favor and save your breath. The 22% who rated GWB favorably and the 13% who rated his VP favorably have been telling us right here on this forum for over eight years how great they are. History has already showed they were completely wrong. Remember that you really can fool some of the people all of the time.