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    Borg Spotting vs Borg ID'ing

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

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    Another thing.... Say you see a sniper team move into a small wooded area and you target it with a Sherman. Once you see that you have killed 2 guys you can stop targeting it. In CMX1 it could have been an entire squad but you would never know so you may keep pounding away at it for another turn wasting HE on a couple of dead guys.

    In fact in CMx1 there is a graphical bug in the unit info and from it you can tell that the entire unit is entirely killed or not.

    So if you see a unit entering the woods and after just two turns of shooting the unit info becomes all grey you can tell that it is dead already and probably was a small team like a spotter or light MG.

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    CM:BN Beta AAR/DAR Bois de Baugin - German side

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

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    Again, I can't speak to French farming history, but it would make sense to me that things followed a similar path as they did in the U.S., and that by the 1940s most Norman farmers would be using barbed wire where there wasn't an already standing bocage or stone wall to serve their enclosure needs.

    Good point, i said that because the high wooden fences are always evocative of american movies to me !

    You occasionnaly see them in Normandy in horses stud farms.

    My recommandation for maps designers would be to use them moderately and place bocage instead.

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    CM:BN Beta AAR/DAR Bois de Baugin - German side

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

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    Hi JonS,

    Nice report, thanks for the effort.

    What are the victory conditions of this scenario ?

    At first glance and unless i missed something, it seems to be a classical "take the flag" ala Cmx1 scenario type.

    Cmx2 brought a lot of finesse in the tactical side of the game and it would very nice to see how it plays in the battle of Normandy settings.

    While i understand the merits of showing an "old style" battle for those among us who never stopped playing the best ww2 game ever, CMx1, i also think it would be beneficial to show how the game has evolved in that aspect.

    And by the way, from the screenshots i find the normand countryside rather well represented in the map, but the omnipresence of wooden barriers is a very american touch. In France we more commonly use barbed wire enclosures for cattle, and they don't provide any cover against ennemy fire. No idea if they exist in the game.

    Best,

    TRL

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    Location of scenarios for both CMBB and CMAK

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

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    Originally posted by jonp:

    When I go to this site and try to download scenarios, all of them have an extension of .cmg

    From looking in my scenario directory, it should be .cme or .cmf

    Can someone explain this?

    The extension is different for CMAK and CMBB scenario files, and for battle and operations.

    Check that you put the downloaded scenario in the corresponding game scenario directory.

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