Teggy

GS, I think if people like GameSpot, and they're smart, they should pay for it or they'll lose it. People have been so spoiled by the free information available on the Internet, that when they are suddenly forced to pay for it, they act like they are getting a slap in the face. In fact, sites like GameSpot have writers, editors, designers just like a print magazine, but haven't been charging a price per "issue" and get nowhere near the ad revenue. What are they supposed to do? When IGN started their "Insider" section, I paid for it because I liked the information the site offers, and for goodness sake, it's $19.95 a year. I also pay $14.95 to hear all of the MLB games online. There are a lot of things on the Internet that I find of value, and therefore I don't mind paying for them. I hope other people start to understand this - they have to have noticed all the sites that have dropped off the map as time has passed.

And they would have survived longer if they stayed free?

wow, thanks so much for that quick reply. Pictures speak a thousand words...

So, I'm reading Ambrose's D-Day book, and have reached the part covering the initial glider missions. However, I'm not getting a good picture of what these things were all about. How did they come into being? How many people fit in them (it mentions them carrying jeeps sometimes)? How big of a landing strip did they need? If someone could offer a summary, I'd be grateful...

They need to add a status of "sleeping" for CM:BB Wouldn't that be great? A certain amount of noise might wake them up, and they'd have delay in waking, getting their rifles...

if you are using an e-mail client like outlook or eudora, you can actually just save as text right from the message using the program. Even if your opponent wrote a note with the message, CM will ignore everything outside the dotten lines.

thanks guys...

If I've moved a number of my units off my friendly map edge (empty mortars, crews, etc.) and I am later forced to surrender, have those units that have moved off the map effectively made it to a safe rear position, or will they still be counted as having surrendered?

Can someone explain to me how some of these matches end up with scores that don't add up to 100? I thought the scores had to add up to 100 in order to put the major/minor/tactical victory tag on.

It's command-shift-3 to take a screenshot on a mac. Pictures will show up on your hard drive numbered sequentially. Command-shift-4 will give you a cursor so you can specify a small area of the screen to get rather than the whole thing.

See, this is where my complete ignorance of much of the war (I'm learning as fast as I can!) comes into play. Thanks for the info. It would be great if they were modelled on-map and you could see 16 tiny rockets go firing off in quick succession, but I imagine they wouldn't have gotten that close to the action.

Forgive me if this is mentioned elsewhere, but I searched my little heart out and couldn't find any mention of it. I was watching an episode of "Battlefield" yesterday on the Russian invasion of Manchuria. They highlighted the M-13 rocket battery. I believe it the range listed would place it off-board, but will this be modelled in CMBB? BTW, this is what I'm talking about: m-13 rocket launcher [ February 27, 2002, 05:28 PM: Message edited by: Teggy ]

Strange, I reverted back to original graphics, reinstalled Tom's mod, and now it works. Needs some more work with houses and such, and there are some oddities among the road borders and what looks like stone that turns into bushes, but here it is:

aka_tom_w, I have the same crappy look on my computer (a desktop, tho), and I have a 32MB video card (G3 350). I also used MCM3, and I wonder what I am doing wrong. I do get nice fog, though. [ February 24, 2002, 02:33 PM: Message edited by: Teggy ]

That's just the VRAM for the built-in video. If you've got a free PCI slot you can buy a new video card. I believe they are suggesting 32MB of VRAM for CMBB. I picked up one of the new Radeon 7000s for around $100, but that's no good for you if you want to run OS X, and it has difficulty being installed in some beige G3s (the 8500 is one of these). But if you can use it, it is supposed to about match up with the full Radeon if you stay within 1024x768 and lower. Full Radeons are going for about $150 now. You can also get an Nvidia based card (GeForce), but I don't know much about them. You can get Voodoo cards cheap, but I wouldn't recommend it because they no longer have any support. [ February 22, 2002, 11:59 PM: Message edited by: Teggy ]