SpazManOught

Ah...good point, note to self..must use my brain more often. auto generating quick battles will solve this pet hate of mine.

Just started a PBEM game where a purchased a couple of anti tank and infantry guns, When I was presented with the map I found that it was not suited to these types of weapons. Does the lack of a map preview not annoy anyone else? I hear that CM:BB will solve this by allowing user generated maps to be used for quick battles, this will work but players will quickly become used to the best maps and they will then not be fun to play. What I would like to see in the next version is the ability to buy your units in the set-up phase, i.e. drag and drop from a purchase bar of some sorts. You could add in things like 1 extra point for foxholes, extra cost for dug in camoed tanks (i.e. extra hard to spot extra hard to kill +10% cost). You could even have the option of paying say 100 points to demolish a bridge on the map (if it had one) when on the defence. Ah well lets see if I can successfully use this infantry guns at a range not exceeding 50m.

As I hace not witnessed tanks in action i can only form my opions based on military history. In a book I am currently reading(TANKS, by Patrick Wright) an eye witness describes his first encounter with a tank in WW1. "They can chew up barbed wire and turn it into munitions. As they run they slash their tails and clear away trees, horses, howitzers, and anything else in the vicinity. They turn over on their backs and catch live shells in their caterpiller feet, and they can easily be adapted as submarines; in fact, most of them crossed the Channel in this guise. They loop the loop, travel forwards, sideways and backwards, not only with equal speed, but at the same time. They spin round like a top, only far more quickly, dig themselves in, bury themselves, scoop out a tunnel, and come out again ten miles away in half an hour" My question is if the British Mk1 tank could do this why can't my Shermans. Was it too hard to code the tunneling aspect? BTS please fix or do somefink.

The boxed games is the latest version. Just Uninstall and reinstall. You can tell that it's the current version because its says Version 1.12 on the main menu.

I heared that the latest date for release was early summer (Mac Gamer interview). June22 is around about the longest day of the year which is in the middle of summer. In Britain this is called Mid summers day, and some nutters go running around in the nude burning straw men or somefink, but I don't think thats got anything to do with CM:BB [ March 07, 2002, 02:55 PM: Message edited by: SpazManOught ]

Ok...Thanks for the info about bald fighter planes. When it comes to painting up tanks, is any kind of camo theory. Idealy you would want the tank blend in perfectly with the surrounding enviroment, but that would make you stick out when you moved. So I assume the paint schemes chosen were just good for breaking up the outline of the tank to make it harder to spot. So whats better zig zag's , splotches or nice pastel shades?

Just looking at the modelling contest and some of the Russian tanks we will get to play with in CM:BB. It seems to me that the only nation that went for camouflage in a big way were the Germans. Was this just because they were on the defence i.e. the allies need for friendly unit recognition is more important than the need for concealment. Did any of the nations of WWII do studies into camo technique? Is there a modern “Science” of camouflage?

I recently bought a Home networking kit with two network cards and a Hub (very cheap £45 for the boxed set). The hope was to get my ibook and win2000 machine to talk to each other nicely and to share the internet (I'm going to get a broadband connection soon and would really like to surf the net whilst watching TV in the livingroom so I thought i better get them talking now whilst I have the time). Well all I can say is that its much easier than i thought it was going to be. These are the stages I went through 1) with TCP/IP i managed to FTP files back and forth very easily. 2) Managed to get the Internet connection shared very very easily (Went to lots of web sites that either told you that it was easy but then provided no details at all or sites that just told you to do it plain wrong). 3) Managed to network them properly i.e sharing printers ect, but only after I downloaded a program called DAVE. Sorry if I have bored you but I just needed to tell someone. If anyone needs the details of how to do this I will gladly post them.

Two normal photographs are used for stereo-viewers normally taken from two cameras situated a specific distance apart. For an aerial photo to be of use you really only need two pieces of information. 1) The time of day and date (10.30 am in this case) 2) The latitude or height (or both) at which the picture was taken With this info I could work out the height of the tree's (from the length of the shadows cast) this would give some indication of the quality of these photos. The latitude seems to be missing from the photos but I can take a guess, is 20,000 the altitude? I'll break out my old aerial photography books to see if I can get you some figures for the height of those trees. Computers can crank out some amazing maps from photo's like this now. You can find out alot about using photo's here [ March 01, 2002, 07:46 PM: Message edited by: SpazManOught ]

The blocks of dark stuff are woods?forest. The shadows you see look more like either motion blur or errors during the manufacturing of the photo. They must be because the altitude of the plane was 20,000 (meter's/feet?) and the size of the shadow would suggest a tree hight of 2,000 meter's/feet (each shadow accounts for what? 10% of the width of the photo. There is a strong possibility that I'm wrong but it looks like its blured to me [ March 01, 2002, 06:00 PM: Message edited by: SpazManOught ]

So we should expect the game well before the 22 of June To find out some basic information about the seasons go here, doesn't have any information about speeding up the Earths orbit though Oh and the speed of the Earth around the sun is 107,305 Km/h. [ February 28, 2002, 10:09 PM: Message edited by: SpazManOught ]

Do you think the Somali troop s discussed unit cohesion at this kind of intellectual level....? Makes you think how much better modern European and Northern American Troops must be....than the rest of the world.

I hate applying for paid work!!! Christ now I have to apply for charity work too :eek: Lets see if I can knock something up for these scenario editors’ vacancies.

I've got a 1:35 scale model KV1B on my moniter sitting next to a 1:35 Panzer II. The KV looks huge in comparison, I thought they were in different scales until I stuck in the tank comanders.

I really cannot believe that any major company would entrust their main servers to Linux. If they do they must be completely mad. Just imagine some Merchant bank going... Director "So all our Oracle data just disappeared when the Linux server threw a fit?" IT Manager "Yeah, that's about the sum of it" Director "Who did we buy this Linux from any way and are they liable for our multi billion loses?" IT Manager "We bought it from some company called Turbo Linux. Even if they could be held liable they only have a staff of 4 and a turnover of £1.50p a year. So I don’t think we are gona recoup our money from that route" Director "Mr IT Manager! You’re sacked! You idiot" I should round this of with a conclusion but I just cant be arsed. Edited because I am an Idiot [ February 15, 2002, 08:11 PM: Message edited by: SpazManOught ]

D'oh, MS vs UNIX vs MAC.... this is crap 1) For the desktop you have MAC verses WIN2000 XP NT (the 98 ect versions should not be used in offices) in this situation the Mac should win, have any of you used a Mac? The only thing going against the Mac was its crap network support which has been sorted with MacOSX. But ultimately this is irrelevant as winNT has all the software and all the support including staff that know about it. Try advertising for Mac support staff and see how many applications you get from experienced users you get.... zip I tell ya. 2) Windows as a server.... give me a break.... what you need is a combination of dedicated software and hardware...and that means Unix...not Linux...I mean Unix. If you are running a web server then sure use Linux. But if it’s a business critical server then the hardware has to be sound, and that means a proper dedicated 64bit Unix server. The hardware is what is critical but the operating system helps. Our current Sun server has been up an running for 2 years straight.... never crashed...never been powered down and runs just as fine as the day it was taken outa the box, this is what you need from a server. All you Linux users should note that you use a poor copy of Unix on poor PC hardware, web servers is all that it is good for, no system admin will ever use Linux on a business critical system. I should round this of with a conclusion but I cannot be arsed.

D'oh, My bad.

I'm glad to hear that some tanks may get more than one set of skins, but I would like to suggest that this be extended to all vehicles. I know that the BTS guy's only have a limited amount of time so I would suggest that for some AFV's that the second (How about a 3rd or 4th set also) set of textures should just be a duplicate of the first. Reviewers of the game wont notice that anything is a miss so I don’t see it as being a problem, and then 1 month after the game is released we'll all have swanky multicolour AFV platoons.

Ok, so how much hacking is he/she gona get done with my 56k dial up connected for 30 mins three days a week? When you combine this advanced technology with my WinTV cards inspired trashing of my system files every time I use it requiring me to reinstall windows every weekend, and I can see this bad boy hacker getting some real action outa my machine. Do these hackers realy exist? Has any home user been hacked? not just recieved some lame VBA virus as an attachment. My work got that Nimda virus thing, brought down our email and web servers, productivity increased by 55% . The only other time the email server has gone down is when I set my email to auto reply. The next day a Unix server emailed me telling me one of my AT jobs had finished, I emailed the Unix machine saying that I had gone on holiday, the Unix machine emailed me back informing me that it was just a Unix machine and that I really shouldn't email it...I emailed back ect...ect...ect..ect...ect... [ 01-23-2002: Message edited by: SpazManOught ]</p>

Why would I want a Firewall. The only thing a hacker is gona find on my PC is CMBO as I do most of my work on my iBook which I never connect to the net, I have to reformat reinstall windows regularly anyway.

Sure you get straight roads in Europe. I even read somewhere that the longest straight road in Britain was 250m long and was called "The straight road". People would come from all over to marvel at is linear ness. The irony is that it runs up a hill and is slightly bent 3 dimensionally. One of the largest motorways in England has no straight sections at all and goes nowhere, the M25, don't know how long it is, about 150 miles I suppose, travels in one large loop around London.

Its a call to the driver. Had a problem years ago with some game getting the wrong memory size for my card, making the game look crappy, can't remember offhand what it was but it was sorted with a driver update.

An aluminium engine in 1941? maybe part alluminium,cylinder head and clutch housing, but I thought the engineering needed to make a good allu engine didn't come about until recently? Although I'm proberly wrong.

Hi VoidHawk, I loved the nights dawn trilogy....I was gona use the name RealityDysfunction at one point.