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    Le Grand Hameau - A movie AAR

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

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    Fantastic, Francis Ford Coppola would be proud :) Thanx for the time and effort

    Thanks,

    The truth is that I never edited a movie before. I did it with the trial version of Adobe Premiere and I learned to work with the software while doing the movie with the help of some video tutorials I found on Youtube.

    I still have 18 days until the end of the trial and if I have enough time I will do an other AAR before the trial ends. I had a great time doing the movie and glad that some people enjoy watching it.

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    Le Grand Hameau - A movie AAR

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

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    Le Grand Hameau is the third battle of the "Road to Montebourg Campaign". I call it a movie "AAR" but I did not mean to make the kind of serious or formal AAR for grogs. Instead I tried to make something which is more like a storytelling and above all to convey the great fun of playing CMBN. What you see in this "movie" was edited straight from the saves of the battle I was playing and is 100% what happened during the real game (no replayed saves to get better battle results) By choosing certain angles,cuts,camera movements and editing techniques I tried to make the AAR a bit cinematic and to tell the story of my CMBN battle with its cool moments and its many surprises.

    Many thanks to dieseltaylor for kindly checking the English text for spelling mistakes and some English language enhancements.

    Part One:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCTNyyy6gmo

    Part Two:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwMSU-3EiAA

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    Road to Montebourg

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

    Posted

    Khane

    It looks like you are making very good progress there. When I have no intel on enemy positions, I use my artillery to plot a strike in front of my advance. I wait until the barrage starts to fall and then I advance rapidly towards the strike zone. If there happen to be enemy troops there, then they'll be suppressed or killed by my artillery strike. Then I consolidate, form up and call in another strike. The 'little' 60mm mortars also come in very handy for pounding a hedgerow in front of my advance. They set up very quickly and as long as they have LoS, can start firing in as little as a minute.

    Thanks, I will try that.

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    Road to Montebourg

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

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    I have finished the first battle and I have 27 minutes more till the end of the second one and I have a great time: thank you very much to the designer of the campaign.

    Since CMBO I have always been very bad at using the artillery/mortars and I still suck at it in this battle. As you see on this screenshot two of my platoons and one Sherman have already reached the edge of Ecoqueneuville (the rest is right behind and ready to storm the village), I still did not use the Howitzer and mortars at this point of the battle and I do not know when and specially where to use them. I sent a spotter to the third level the tallest building and still I cannot see any enemy force/target that I should spend artillery shells on.

    I am not asking to be told the spots where I should use my artillery in this particular battle but more to understand what to do in such a situation where my troops are ready to storm a village and I have a huge amount of artillery shells at my disposition but no enemy is seen and no enemy position is known from pre-battle intel ? In such situations I am always worried to waste my shells by spreading them a bit everywhere hoping to hit something here or there or to concentrate on some spots that are maybe empty of enemy troops and find later, when I have no or far less arty left, a huge concentration of enemy targets that could be easily wiped with the shells I have wasted earlier on some empty spots. What is the best way to act in such a situation ?

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    Publishing game movie files on Youtube

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

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    Yesterday right after I installed Fraps, I played the "Cats Chasing Dogs" scenario. I had so many great moments playing the scenario that I decided to record and edit (my first time ever) a small movie to get an idea to how it looks when published on Youtube.

    I did not expect the picture to have the same quality like when playing or watching the movie file on my desktop but I find the resolution quite poor (unlike when playing it is difficult to see the German Pumas from the US point of view) and very blurry when watching full screen. I edited this small movie with Window Movie Maker and uploaded to Youtube using the "High quality video (NTSC)" from the WMM movie setting menu.

    Is there a better setting for publishing game movie files on Youtube and get a better resolution ?

    SPOILER xxxxxxxxxxx SPOILER xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx SPOILER xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

    If you did not play "Cats Chasing Dogs" scenario yet, this small movie let you discover some of the German forces positions in this scenarios and may spoil your gaming enjoyment.

    http://youtu.be/7xj2i-AHuh8

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    Tanks and low hedgerows

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

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    the low hedgerows are low enough for a tank to shoot over but in all other aspects the same as a high hedgerow (ie impenetrable unless blasting or rhinoing)

    Depending on how you look it it in-game the hedgerow looks punier that it actually is. I think they are supposed to be 5ft high and as thick as a high hedgerow.

    Thanks, that makes sense now.

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    First Impressions

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

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    Wonderful! I love it. This is the first time that I enjoy to play a game based on the CMx2 engine. I have purchased CMSF, played three or four scenarios but found no interest and stopped playing, later I tried the British module but it seems that the modern setting is not my cup of tea.

    There must be something in WW2 setting that makes the game more to my taste. Right at the first seconds of the first scenario I felt like I am back home; the demo of CMBN brought me back the fun and magic of the CMx1 games. I impatiently wait the full game and for someone to make the CMBN version of 'Valley of Trouble' and 'Chance Encounter'.

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    A Quick Battle AAR: Shermans vs Pz IVs, Not Your Fathers Combat Mission

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

    Posted

    Thanks, that makes sense now.

    Yeah, in Sth Korea we only get the froggie, but if I right click on it (in firefox) and select 'view image' it rather annoyingly opens up the image only in my screen. But if I then backspace, the image shows up in text as it should.

    This only works if I'm signed into imageshack, mind.

    I have already tried this but it does not work for me (and I am also signed into imageshack)

    How does this work for everyone

    This one works for me.

    Khane

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    Specs for running CM:N

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

    Posted

    Hi Khane, One thing you might look into is your power supply; i'm not sure if the 300W will be enough.

    Thanks, Lethaface. By pure coincidence I was searching the net this morning about the power supply issue and as usual there is a bit of controversy about how much is enough and how much is not necessary. From what I have read until now it seems that at least 450W is required for a rig like the one I want.

    What about the case? For the cooling issue, are there recommended dimensions and thickness of the case and is a second fan needed?

    In the list of the cases the store is selling there are some cases called "for PC" and others cases "for Work Station". What is the difference between a PC and a Work Station?

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    Specs for running CM:N

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

    Posted

    What store are you thinking of buying from?

    In Tel Aviv where I live, certainly at the same place where I purchased my previous computer. Their prices are fair, maybe not the cheapest but they are well known for their excellent and fast customers service. I bought my present rig on May 2006I and I called them once because of a technical problems: a technician arrived at my home the same day and solved the problem. During 3 years from the purchasing day they try to help you first by phone and if it does not help a technician comes to your home the same day or the day after, solves the problem there if he can and if not he takes the computer to repair. No need ever to bring the computer to them.

    Khane - Are you thinking of purchasing a Socket 1156 or a 1366 motherboard ?

    I entered the web site of the place from where I am going to purchase my computer (they have a page where you can build your own system like cyberpowerpc.com) I built two systems, one "budget" and the second more expensive:

    Budget rig:

    CPU: Intel i5 - 760 Core 2.8GHz

    Motherboard: P55 Intel WhiteSburg

    Memory: 4GB Kingston Dual Channel 2x 2048

    Video card: Gainward GeForce 460GTX 768 or 1GB ( $40 more for the 1GB)

    + WD 500GB Hard drive Caviar Blue + HEC case + Antec TruePower 300 W

    More expensive rig:

    CPU: Intel i7- 930 Quad 2.8GHz

    Motherboard: X58 Intel SmackOver

    Memory: 3GB Kingston Tri Channel

    Video card: Gainward GeForce 460GTX 1GB or 1GB

    + WD 500GB Hard drive Caviar Blue + HEC case + Antec TruePower 300 W

    The expensive rig cost $400 more than the budget. The price of the "budget" is a bit tight for me and to add $400 is quite a problem.

    The question is how much noticeable will be the difference between playing with the budget and expensive one? In which cases will the difference be really noticeable?

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    Specs for running CM:N

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

    Posted

    Schrullenhaft,

    Not being a computer geek ,most of the technical stuff about the difference between Socket 1156 or a 1366 motherboard , Core i7 8xx and Core i5 CPUs and i5 7xx CPUs and the rest is new to me and I will re-read it again. It is very important for me not to buy this new rig only according to what the computers store salesman recommends to me; I prefer to buy it one or two weeks later but not before I have a good understanding of what I purchase. I will not be able to connect to the Internet for the next couple of days but I will be back later. Thank you very much for the useful information.

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    Specs for running CM:N

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

    Posted

    Thank you guys for helping

    The weak point it's in the Graphics Card... too much CPU and not so high GPU.

    May be if you can save a bit in CPU, you can raise the power of your GPU to a more well balanced gaming computer.

    So if I cannot afford myself a Intel Core i7 Quad 2.80GHz + let say a GeForce 460GTX 1GB, then a Core i5 Intel 2.80GHz PCU + a GeForce 460GTX 1GB graphic card + 4BG memory will give me a better result/performance than the Intel Core i7 Quad 2.80GHz + GeForce 9500GT 1024MB + 3GB memory combo from my original post?

    By the way the brands avaible for the GTX 460 1GB in the two stores I visited where: Gigabyte, Gainward and Zotac. Is one among these brands more recommended than the two others?

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    Specs for running CM:N

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

    Posted

    Should be fine. D/L a Shock Force demo to be sure.

    When Shock Force came out in 2007 I played for a couple of months only and it ran great with the computer I had then and I still have today: GeForce 7600 GT, AMD Athalon 64 3500 2.21GHz , 2GB memory. But 3 years have past and I assume that the upcoming CM:Normandy will be more demanding from a graphic point of view that the original CM:SF.

    Since 2007 I almost did not play any new PC games so I have no experience with the newer games of today. Not long ago I downloaded the "Empire:Total War" demo and I could only play with the graphic set on "Low" (with a bit of lag). "Medium" is almost unplayable and the game does not even give me access to the "High" option and of course certainly not to "Very High". In 2007 I played other games of the Total War series ( Rome and Medieval II ) with the graphics on "High" with my present computer without problem. So I guess that my computer is quite out of date for some of today's games.

    Can I ask why the odd RAM gig number? Why not go to 4?

    I am not a PC geek and I have no idea. The proposal I received from the store has this "3GB Kingston Triple Channel" thing in it.

    A 9500GT will be enough for CM, but in other games it will be in the low end... for example good simulators to be released this year, like Storm of War: Battle of Britain.

    I don't play flight simulators. Apart the Strategic Command series and "Total War:Medieval II", CM:N will be the first game I purchase since CM:SF. I only spend very little of my spare time with gaming and when it happens I play almost these kind of games.

    you must jump into a 64bits operating system to handle properly any GB of Ram over 3Gb

    That's the link to the CPU specs. I guess that it is 64bits technology.

    http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=41447

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    Specs for running CM:N

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

    Posted

    I am going to purchase a new computer very soon. I would like to know if the following specs will be OK/enough to run most of the upcoming CM:Normandy scenarios properly ?

    Intel Corei7 Quad 2.80GHz

    MotherBoard: DX58SO Intel SmackOver

    GeForce 9500GT 1024MB DDR2

    Memory: Kingston 3x1024 1333MHz DDR3 3GB

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    IDF vs NATO

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

    Posted

    +1 for Yair #102

    All the barbaric/civilized (Arab/West) is complete nonsense. Barbaric and Civilized are both very loaded expressions and are reciprocally used by both sides. Each side declares that he only performs "civilized" actions like blowing up civilians in a bus or dropping bombs and rockets on other civilians.

    I have no idea what's in the minds of the Israeli political and military decision makers when they decide and order to drop bombs and rockets on civilian populated areas to reach armed fighters/terrorists hiding inside or in the minds of Palestinians who plan and order to blow up civilians in Tel Aviv. I guess that on both sides it is not from mere sadism or viciousness but simply a cold decision and as Yair wrote mostly through indifference.

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