Sardaukar
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Sardaukar, before you blast someone for being troll-like, read your own post again. One attitude leads to another. And I doubt it was a fluke considering your reply to someone politely introducing you to the utility of the search function.
Cheers,
Trolls are who do not contribute anything, just troll. I am quite sure about correctness of my comments. Read the previous comments and see who contributed to thread and who did not.
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Sardaukar,
It is obvious that it is possible to take screenshots. Others have done so. You cannot. The fault is at your end.
To resolve your issue, regarding screenshots, it would be beneficial for you to post your computer specs. What OS are you using?
Anger will only lead you to the dark side.
Ken
Win 7 32 bit. Print Screen won't work. Simple as that. I asked why.
And how it is my fault, when it works in every other game I use? Care to explain me how I am wrong to query about it?
Note also, that I have been around quite a while, even from old BTS forum. So I appreciate if you spare me from "it's your fault".
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Sorry, I just remember this matter being raised and answered before. Searching for "Screenshot" in the CMBN forums should get you your answer quite quickly.
No problem.
I am just bit amazed that making screenshot is so complicated, considering it's importance in bug-reporting.
Usually, in any wargame, when you report a bug, programmers appreciate if you have screenshot of issue & save game.
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OK, have had some really strange things (IMHO) with Rhinos..but cannot take screenshots to explain..
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This may be helpful:
http://www.battlefront.com/community/showthread.php?t=97288&highlight=screenshot
Use Fraps or Irfanview.
Have fun,
Thomm
Thanks.
But it's really another counter-intuitive thing, if game like this doesn't support either in-game hotkeys for screen capture or basic Windows ability...
Screenshot is really important for bug reporting and I am amazed it has been made so difficult...
I was going to make a post about possible bug in movement of Rhino-equipped Sherman. I am not bothering if I have to do it by downloading external program and then figuring out how THAT program works.
Thanks about help, all constructive people.
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Try doing a search of the forum, you will find your answer.
How about, knowing how well the forum search tool works, if you'd just point me to answer, since you seem to know it.
Thanks for the help....
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Don't haz an angry Sardaukar,
I haven't been able to take screenshots either. I tried using FRAPS, Irfanview and Printscreen. They all turn out as black images.
That is crap...
There has to be a way, since I have seen screenshots in threads...
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Well...if I cannot take screenshot..I cannot explain the problem with picture. One pic is more than thousand words.
Now, If someone less-troll would point me to right solution, I'd be grateful.
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You must do whatever makes you happy. Are you still playing the CMBO v1.0?
This is what, the modular version 4 after release of CMSF..after multiple patches to game engine...
You are not contributing anything. I am asking why I cannot take screenshot.
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This game gets more strange day by day.
When I try to take PrintScreen from game (usual shift+PrintScreen), I get picture of my desktop. WTF? I never had any problems doing that with any other game with my ATI card.
Nice...as old CMx1 player, I am starting to be so happy I skipped few versions of "CMx2". I may skip all next "modules" too, this is both way too limited and clunky...
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Ok, scenario was Carbide Carbide and first time I was not able to breach the bocage with M4 Rhino. I restarted and now it works....go figure...
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Well, tank description says M4 xxxx (Rhino). I have driven it next to bocage, given move order directly into bocage...no joy.
I have full game, not demo.
Bit strange, have to see if I can get it to work.
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I cannot find how to use Rhino device. Logic would tell that you order tank to drive through bocage and it's slowly clear path. Doesn't seem to work for me. Am I missing something? Manual doesn't tell anything how to actually use it.
How long it'd take for Rhino-equipped tank to clear path? After 10 mins I gave up the scenario.
As old CMx1 player, I have trouble with UI too, dismayed that it still sucks like in CMSF (one reason I skipped that modern series totally). Amazed that it has not been changed at all. Totally counterintuitive, though mapping keys help a bit. Typical issue when programmers think they know better, not only related to gaming software.
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Great that seals it.
It couldn't possibly have been a glider from browning's HQ as they flew the Northern route which didn't go anywhere near Student's HQ.
Not that mistakes happened. But you have a point there.
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By the way, to throw in something about Antwerp and Schelde, even after shipping lanes were cleared, IIRC, Antwerp harbour facilities was able to operate only at 25% of max. capacity. Was still better than hauling supply from France, but it was under almost constant barrage of V-1s and arguably didn't really live up to it's perceived importance.
If it could have been used more effectively is another thing, though.
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This has been quite interesting discussion..and I have learned quite a lot.
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Yah think? General Gavin is what frustrated Market Garden.
XXX Corps advanced 87 km in 3 days, where they were held up by the uncaptured bridge at Nijmegen, rather than a Bridge to Far it was more like One Bridge Short.
A long and tenuous line of supply, "1 tank wide", could not be severed by the Germans and it took armour to destroy the lightly armed paratroopers in Arnhem / Oosterbeek, even then not. Trapped against the Rhine, out of ammo and with no real means to defend against armour, 20% of the British 1 Para Div were able to withdraw across the almost impassable obstacle.
If 10% of the German heavy armoured divisions escaping Falaise with none of their heavy equipment is a huge cock up what is this then?
Despite the perceived failure of the operation the German showing on the defence during Market Garden was pretty poor.
Armour Plate v Dennison Smocks , 75mm HV Guns v Gammon Bombs and PIATs and as stated above 20% of them got away and they lost most of Holland.
OK....now I have to think about reply why MGen Gavin and his merry men somehow botched Market Garden.
Answer may be in his brutally honest diary, saying he made a mistake to allocate capture of certain bridges to "least capable"of his regimental commanders.Not that leadership and communication failure within 1st AB not only allowed smashing of their own unit, but also Polish AB Brigade to boot.
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Rebuilding an Army around a leadership cadre who ran away? Good plan that one. No wonder they melted with the snow.
Not that those unit cadres escaping from Falaise pocket formed fighting units who destroyed and annihilated one of the elite divisions on Allied side, no sir.
Could not happen.
I hope you understand that 1st AB Division was never able to return to fighting.
"The battle of Arnhem exacted a heavy toll on the 1st Airborne Division from which it would never recover. Three quarters of the unit were missing when it returned to England, including two of the three brigade commanders, eight of the nine battalion commanders and 26 of the 30 infantry company commanders."
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Hasting's has a total hardon for the Whermacht. Anything he writes about to do with WWII has to be read with that firmly in mind.
I know.
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Why are you picking on Konev? It's true by the casualty counts Zhukov wasn't quite the butcher that the historians have made him out to be, but Konev was a pretty skilled commander. The Lvov-Sandomirz campaign is pretty much a classic armored operation: deception, operational maneuver groups, river crossings on the fly, etc. etc.
And to keep to topic, I bet there aren't many people in the world who were more responsible for removing Panther tanks from the German inventory, than Konev. 1st Ukrainian Front overran a lot of territory and, as noted above, when the Wehrmacht retreated it left expensive panzers along the route.
I said skilled.
I don't pick on Konev based on that, just on his ability to throw men into battle disregarding their lives. This exceeded even ability of Zhukov or Rokossovski to do it.
He said it so himself.
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Good grief! All that fuss and sweat about how the allies had a "relatively slow rate of advance in the autumn of 1944", allowed too many to escape, never managed an encirclement etc. and the only thing you think they could have done that would have made any difference was charge harder at Falaise! Well, call me unimpressed.
I thought you might at least have something to back up your original statement. I had hoped you might have offered some learned insight. But no it comes down to the allies should have closed the Falaise pocket more completely.
Sheesh.
Sheesh indeed.
See posts above from me and Michael Emrys.
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From my readings, it's hard for me to say what single act by one single commander could have changed anything. War is the province of chaos, and trying to manage an operation this big is like trying to balance a rubber hose on its tip. It speaks well of the managerial technique that it went as well as it did. The thing is, that to get it to run much better would require a lot of people at a lot of different levels of command to perform a lot better than they did. And SFAIK, most of them were already performing at or near the limits of their abilities. It's easy for us in our vantage point to say "So-and-so should have done this and that," but just how reasonable is it to assume that they actually could have. A lot of the time they were proceeding on at best educated guesswork where we enjoy relatively certain knowledge. Making decisions for us is easy because we have nothing riding on the outcome, which has been preordained anyway. But for those who are down in the pit, trying to sweat out some kind of plan and cut orders for the next day when you are already dog tired, it's not so easy.
Michael
I agree. It would have been expecting too much from commanders who were already performing, if not stellarly, still very well.
20/20 hindsight etc.
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy course; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt (Paris Sorbonne,1910)
I have just done that, which (I hope) doesn't take away from deeds of people who did it, but for historical argument.
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The sad news from the Allied perspective is that a lot of the escapees were from the leadership cadre. They were able to reform their old units or to raise new ones. Without those leaders, the German army would have been in an even worse bind for the rest of the war.
Michael
Exactly as above.
There is massive difference between rebuilding unit from start and rebuilding it from cadre.
And what Michael E. says here is what I was "arguing" about. I don't know if I could have been done, but it had dire consequences later in 1944.
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Falaise was the final chapter in the battle for Normandy.
The German Army lost 450,000 out of 1 mill or so deployed, 50k or so escaped the pocket.
The failure to trap that comparatively small number, less than 10% of the total losses, cannot be seen as a failure, particularly since they escaped without their equipment and those that did escape were not the front line troops who were further attrited in keeping the pocket open.
There are numerous reasons given for the pocket not being closed, many of which point to other operations that actually set the allies up better for what followed.
I think we have to agree to disagree, since IMHO those escaped troops were effectively used to rebuild decently effective combat units.
I do see your point too, but my meaning was that you don't give that sort of respite to enemy if you can avoid it.
To put it into US context, for example, it allowed Germans to rebuild many combat divisions around existing cadre, in sort of way USMC built couple of divisions around USMC Para & Raider battalions.
Airborne v. Regular Infantry
in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy
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Basically what Blackcat said.
Allied Airborne, Commando & Ranger units were volunteers and generally had better motivation & training.
These units were comparatively small (US/UK airborne div would be under half of manpower of regular infantry div. Similar was situation with e.g. Ranger battalions compared to line infantry battalions.
So well-trained & motivated, but majority were still untested in combat.
Not that SAS (and US OSS Jedburgh teams) do not belong to same category as airborne, UK commandos or Rangers, since they were special forces trained to fight in small groups behind enemy lines, usually in concert with intelligence & resistance efforts. Others were not special forces, which were even more rare and small in numbers.