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So Im playing a 5000 assault against my room mate, me on defence. Im sure even a noob like him will smash me with 8600 points of tanks and arty, but hey, if it get's him into the game, fine. After about 10 turns, he says "This is stupid! I can't use my panther in the front to call indirect fire in from my Sturmtiger at the back of the map. I should just be4 able to lob shells over that hill and hit you." The only good responce that I could give him was "Well, if BTS didnt model it, it probably wasnt possible". But he is adamant that he should be able to do it. Now, Ive never heard of anyone using even SP guns for indirect fire from a mere 1800m away, but Im not really a grog, so I told him Id ask on here.... So, someone who knows what you're talkin about, I ask : Is it plausable to use SP guns or even tank guns to fire indirectly on something within the scope of a medium sized 5000 assault map?

Amen to that. Although, on top of the Vets dying out, I think that my generation, and the one after me are being influenced by the fact that schools dont really give a good world-view of the war, for one, and for two : Hollywood. Damn. I actually know people who have argued with me about the historical acuracy of the movie Pearl Harbor. Their reasoning : Pearl harbor really happened, this movie is called pearl harbor, so everything in the movie must be the way it happened. Bah.

Why not just look at the map in the scenario editor?

It's my opinion that some things will run faster with DX9 over 8. I have seen obvious improvements in No One Lives Forever 2, IL2 Sturmovik, and Battlefield 1942. I saw no real difference in M$ Combat Flight Sim 3 (but that game sucks anyways), and no difference in CMBO or CMBB, but neither of those are likely to be stretching a GF4 much anyways. It does NOT, unfortunately, do anything for the damn invisible text bug. Oh well... I dont suppose it should, but I was hoping somehow...

Yeah... me too... all I had to do was run my infantry up the left side and go in through the flank of the trees. I havnt tried it as germans yet tho...

I totally kicked butt 3 days after I got it. Then I practiced up real good untill I thought I was invincible. Then I got into a PBEM game and learned the meaning of humility. I have yet to get to a point against real people where I feel like Im better than just OK.

I ordered the game without playing the demo because it won an awward somewhere... loaded it up, played a QB, and after it was over (and I lost by a landslide) I thought... "eh... its ok. Nothing special." 20 hours and 15 straight QBs later I thought, "Eh... its ok." and passed out.

Actually, given the somewhat large scale of this game, if one carrier attacked another, Id assume that it was a duel between the carriers that lasted a couple of days, and involved the ships sending out bombing parties looking for each other as well as CAP on both sides... so I think that carriers should be able to sink each other, but that cruisers and BBs should only be able to counter attack a carrier if adjacent... after all, that WAS the big advantage of the carrier.

I noticed this statement in the FAQ on the official website : I wonder just how it is that strageic bombers can be used to attack air units... unless maybe it represents them bombing airfields?

Im sure its not a perfect simulation of what would have happened in real life (after all, the infantry dont leave little puddles behind in the game, I bet they did IRL), but I bets its a pretty close approximation. It IS an abstraction. Open terrain tiles arent REALY open. There would be little dips and random stumps and fences and stuff Im sure, and the squads areing runnning in a big line holding hands either. Im sure they're quite spread out to minimize the danger of shrapnel and such.

Holly crap! I go off for a couple of days and when I return I find a zillion freaking posts to dig through to find Sock Whatsit's pathetic attempt to cast aspersions on my courage! If you people put half the effort into solving world hunger that you did in this cancerous growth of a thread on the CM forums, I'd be a lot fatter.

Hey... arent you the poor schmoe who just parked a platoon of clueless cannon fodder on top of the hill, subsequently to be wiped out by a single round of 150mm death and damnation from my hummel? Dropped out of grad school, indeed. Im still here by the way wanker.

Also set things up so that the only angle you can be attacked from is within your (limited) arc of fire. Keyholing your tank between some heavy woods or a couple buildings. It helps a lot to keep those side shots from killin ya.

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It's SSN (Scum Sucking Newbie). That'd be your title, bucko! I am a Squarehead! No no no, scratch that. I am a... umm.. err.. JUST LOOK AT MY PROFILE, YOU NINNY!!! Now, about that game. I've played you once already. Have you forgotten? It was last July. If you'll be so kind as to post the result here, I'll gladly send you a setup. HOP TO IT!!!</font>