Erwin

I also really like the Silent Hunter sub series and the way you can promote as well as award medals. We'll never see it in CM2, but it is a great way to help you id with your pixeltruppen.

I have tried the 9v battery idea, but it's not strong enuff imo. Working on getting my car battery into the house... I think sending $ to a developer or a charity is a good idea. That would change the way people play the game immediately!

"Now, it is true we don't have flashing lights and big "BZZZZZT" sounds when you click on Support and can't connect. There's no laughing face icon instead of a "?" when the unit you select would be able to target it if C2 were there. We don't have Squads yell out "Oh for the love of God! If only the LT was here we'd keep on fighting!" Actually, I would find all of the above very helpful. Thanks...

"I play with a checkbook at my side. Every time I launch a Javelin, I send $40,000 to Lockheed Martin." LOL... my attitude towards attempts at "realism" precisely.

Federico: No I meant NOT real time. RT is tough if you are learning.

Thanks for the note... My 'display size.txt' file says 1920 1200 60, but I do NOT see that resolution in the OPTIONS menu. Aha, I thought. Check that accursed virtual BS store nonsense folder! And yes, there is another 'display size.txt' file there saying 0 0 0. Re-edited to 1920 1200 60, saved and reloaded the game. happily... But, no luck, I still do NOT see that resolution in the OPTIONS menu. Rechecked the Admin folder version of 'display size.txt', and it had REVERTED to 0 0 0. So, it seems like restarting the game somehow resets to default 0 0 0.

Great info. Thanks...

Always loved the Where Eagles Dare music by Ron Goodwin. One of the first movies I saw, I recall vast screen of a Leicester Sq theatre front row. Loud. Great movie too. So, how can one get that to run in CMSF?

To learn the game it may be best to NOT start at the hardest level and in real time. Suggest you pick an interesting scenario and play it vs AI in wego. Save often. When something goes wrong, restart the saved game and try different things. Do that a bunch of times and you will start to acquire an intuitive sense of how the game system works. When you are good at it, only then try the higher difficulty levels.

It would be great to have just one page explaining the doctrinal differences between nationalities. The make up of some of the units is strange. Like a couple NATO vehicles have no one to man the HMG when dismounted, leaving only a driver. Makes no sense since you'd thing they would want the support from the HMG. But, presumably there must be some logical thinking behind this. But, the CM manuals don't explain anything.

You make some xnt points wanyi.

I think it's a real problem for newbies who are not military folks for them to understand doctrine, tactics etc. CMSF is very unforgiving of errors that it must be very frustrating for the average gamer. So much rather useless detail in the manuals, but nothing on HOW to play, tactics etc.

I guess now I will have to actually PLAY the scenario and figure out what is reasonable lol.

Steve: You have these wonderful manuals packed with info, but not even a hint re doctrine re how to use the different nationalities properly. Any chance of even just a page on each to give us a clue of how best to use em? Newbies must be having a hard time, and it might help make the game more accessible.

Jon: It's the old dilemma between playing the game with assumptions as to what the designer intended, or trying to see it as a real life situation where (in this case) you may have 100 miles to go so you try and "act normally."

Thank you!

Thanks for the link re CM:ETO.

Thanks. Just curious: Are baked scenarios referring to the AI units, or would someone create baked orders for the blue side (say) even if the blue side was to be human controlled?

How can you make your unit choose to fire PPHE first if the unit also has HEDP?

I agree with you. SOME designers seem to expect you to assume a lot. I haven't played this scenario, but now I know the trick I imagine I can do fine. But, it shouldn't be a "trick." If you don't SEE any problems, what leads you assume there is an ambush? If a convoy stopped (for 10 minutes did someone say?) every time there is a concern for a threat, it would never get anywhere. I hope I am not maligning this designer (as it's a lot of work to design anything), but from what BillyR has said it sounds like the problem is similar to the hated CM1 problem of briefings that mislead.

I can just imagine an Israeli mod that enable the Syrians to crush the Israelis, and then have the Syrians buy hundreds of copies. What wonderful PR (not).

Thanks for all your work! Er... When will you have the Syrian OOB done so we can actually use this info?

Scuse my ignorance. What's "Baked" vs a regular scenario?

I tried lowering the resolution to 1920 1200 60 (from 2560x1600) but when I restarted, it didn't seem to have any effect. The in-game OPTIONS resolutions work, but they are too low resolution for my taste. Any ideas? Thanx...

"I had the impression that prior to the UK module, scoring often seemed to give the US a total victory practically by default, and I wanted to change that." Yes, thank you for finally giving us challenging scenarios. I had started to feel that I could play a typical CMSF game in my sleep with same old tactics, and the game would end early giving me a Total Victory no matter how much I sucked. You have made the game much better.