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    Mission Briefings

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

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    Originally posted by Michael Dorosh:

    Don't know if this has been brought up in this new forum yet or not - will mission briefings now have graphics in them - maps, overlays, photos, other images...

    I was just remembering about the old "Panzer Elite" briefings : the player, before starting his mission, was briefed with a dynamic map, showing main objectives, axis of advance, etc. This "dynamic" aspect might not be very interesting and/or usefull, but there was an interesting aspect about these maps : they were based on the real 3D map (the map player had ingame), via the scenario editor. So, it may be not so difficult to add an accurate map in the briefing as it was automatically generated by the computer.

    Another solution would be to upload a map manually by the designer : scans of topo or historical maps could be really great too...

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    Will the blast wave make a comeback?

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

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    Let's consider the shockwaves more as a tool for the player, than an eye-candy thingy. ShW are usefull to spot small caliber rounds like mortar, falling on the battlefield...

    As in another thread, I mentionned the idea of a "toggle off/on" for the ShW. People who don't like it, or find it unrealistic can toggle it off. In an other hand, people who enjoy this feature, or have difficulty to locate a shelling might toggle it on.

    ...But be sure I'm ALL FOR IT TOO !!

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    To kick things off... a poll of sorts...

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

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    Don't change :

    1/ WEGO system

    2/ Intuitive scenario/map editor

    3/ Intuitive and easy-to-recall order system (one letter for each order)

    4/ possibility to mod vehicles, uniforms, terrain features

    5/ hardcoded 3D models (no freaky multi-turreted Panthers possible... :rolleyes: )

    Change (if possible) :

    1/ in a QB, possibility to see the map before purchasing units

    2/ more terrain tiles variety, in particular the possibility to recreate small rivers (less than 20m wide)

    3/ real mutliplayer mode (maybe up to 6 players ?)

    4/ toggle shockwaves off/on :cool:

    5/ allow the player to select specific ammo type for AFVs (HE, AP, Sm, WP...)

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    !! Newborn !!

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

    Posted

    Hi all,

    Just this little topic to share my deep joy with you. I'm very proud to announce to you the birth of my daughter, last Saturday.

    Héloïse (pronounce "Hello - Iz") is 53cm tall for 3.9 Kgs. Everything is all right, and her mother is fine too smile.gif

    Tomorrow, baby and her mother will come back home, I feel impatient ! :cool:

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    Potential aid to historical map making

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

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    Originally posted by Bonxa:

    You know you can tilt the view in Google Earth for a better grasp of the topography. Should make more sense in Italy than in the desert though. smile.gif

    While Google-earth-ing last night, I discovered that high-res satellite views were not so common for France, except the Paris region and some patches inland. Normandy is completelly blurred, except a small zone near Honfleur-Le Havre :(

    On the other hand, region of Napoli/Salerno is really neat.

    Do someone knows other high-res zones in Europe ?

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    WW Andrew Fox PzIV-J Mod

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

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    Originally posted by aragorn2002:

    I really hope you will do the same for the Pz V-series. Please...

    I did a complete set of CMBB whitewashed Panthers, if you're interested.

    Check out CMMODS, and do a search under "BG_Bogdan" designer's name.

    Hope it will suit your taste redface.gif

    (Edited to add that there's also a "from scratch" winterized Jagdpanther ;) )

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    Tularemia, Biological Warfare, and the Battle for Stalingrad

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

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    Hi,

    I did a little research on "Axis History forum"

    Wartime Use Against Germans

    While he was a graduate student at the Tomsk Medical Institute (1973-75), Alibek studied Soviet wartime medical records that strongly suggested that the Red Army had used tularemia as a weapon against German troops outside Stalingrad in 1942 (pages 29-31). Tularemia is a highly infectious disease that produces debilitating headaches, nausea and high fevers. If untreated, it can be lethal. It is also hard to extinguish, which makes it attractive to anyone trying to produce biological weapons.

    Alibek discovered that the "first victims of tularemia were German panzer troops, who fell ill in such large numbers during the late summer of 1942 that the Nazi campaign in southern Russia ground to a temporary halt." In addition, he relates, thousands of Russian soldiers and civilians living in the Volga region came down with the disease within a week of the initial German outbreak. Never before had there been such a widespread outbreak of the disease in Russia.

    Why had so many men first fallen sick with tularemia on the German side only? Furthermore, 70 percent of the Germans infected came down with a pneumonic form of the disease, which (Alibek reports) "could only have been caused by purposeful dissemination."

    Whereas there were ten thousand cases of tularemia reported in the Soviet Union in 1941, in the year 1942 -- when the battle of Stalingrad was at its height -- the number of cases soared to more than one hundred thousand. Then, in 1943, the incidence of the disease returned to ten thousand. The battle for Stalingrad raged from September 1942 until February 2, 1943, when Friedrich von Paulus, commander of the German Sixth Army, surrendered along with 91,000 officers and men (of whom only 6,000 survived Soviet captivity).

    Alibek became convinced that "Soviet troops must have sprayed tularemia at the Germans. A sudden change in the direction of the wind, or contaminated rodents passing through the lines, had infected our soldiers and the disease had then spread through the region."

    To his professor, a Soviet colonel named Aksyonenko, he explained that the evidence he had found "suggests that this epidemic was caused intentionally." Aksyonenko responded with a stern warning: "Please. I want you to do me a favor and forget you ever said what you just said. I will forget it, too ... Never mention to anyone else what you just told me."

    Some years later, an elderly Soviet lieutenant colonel who had worked during the war in the secret bacteriological weapons facility in Kirov told Alibek that a tularemia weapon had been developed there in 1941. He also left him "with no doubt that the weapon had been used." This same officer further suggested that an "outbreak of Q fever among German troops on leave in Crimea in 1943 was the result of another one of the [soviet] biological warfare agents" (p. 36).

    More informations and links here .

    Hope it helps smile.gif

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