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I've been reading a lot of these interesting posts about CMBO and am finding them fascinating (In conjunction with getting my head round the game) The question I have is that you have groups of units commanded by a HQ - and the nearby ones seem to get the appropriate bonuses from the HQ unit - but Tanks all seem to be treated individually.. Is there a way to give Tanks the bonuses from a HQ and to assign command to them - or are they all 'maverick' units just off out and about to 'do their own thing'?

I've been giving this Frankie? bloke's first person view realistic warfare thingy a go and it seems to make the game a lot more coherent.. How does everyone else play the game?

What exactly is 'hull down' and what is it for?

Cheers mate - it was just a thought!

I've played a few of the Scenerios and finally seem to be getting somewhere.. I've also set up some very unfair ones where I have total advantage - and I've learnt a lot over that as well.. What I thought WOULD be interesting would be to see a scenerio played by the computer against itself. This would probably be a good way to see different ways of thinking.. I also have a question about the AI. In an instance of a certain scenerio - say a Panzer driving down a road, when it takes fire from a Sherman from the left - does the Fuzzy logic make it do different things each time, or are there a few basic sets of actions it takes? Anyway, it seems to be a great game, and as I said, I'm slowly getting into it!

So, how long did it take you all to get your head round it and start playing useful battles?

Hi Y2k!

Cheers for that! Do you constantly rewind the battle (or is there even a need to?) Also, how intelligent are your troops? If you've stationed them somewhere will they take action - like pursuing or firing when you're not 'telling' them what to do? My biggest problem at the moment is 'losing' my bods - they're all over the place and It's hard to keep up - how long does it take until you can actually get the hang of co-ordinating them? Also - once they start legging it (out of panic or rout) can they be turned around and does cover actually provide cover?

After all that typing too

Hi all, Thanks for replying.. I've had a little look at the tips forum, but that is even too advanced for me at this stage. I played the tutorial out of the manual, and although I could see the general plan (Advance and show both tanks at once and attempt to flank the enemy) once the combat kicks off, it feels like you're not really in command.. Once my troops started getting fired at, loads panicked, ran round like morons and got shot. Some kept their heads down and I had no idea how to get them to move somewhere else, or return fire? Also, the Shermans didn't seem to want to try and use any cover and merrily blasted away (Seemingly confident they weren't going to get fired at - one was spectaculary wrong!) I couldn't work out how to use my Artillary spotter to actually direct artillary fire into the opposition, and I wanted my lads to harry the germans as they legged it into the woods - but again wasn't sure how to get them to hunt.. I won comfortably, but felt my troops seemingly random firing had more to do with it than I did! My second go at a map was the Walk into Paris one - the whole thing was hopelessly big and I had no idea of a strategy to defeat the enemy (Though I've sussed driving along LONG roads when there are big german tanks at one end and you're just in a titchy Sherman with seemingly half the range isn't a winner!!) Is this a game where you should just muck about for a week or two and then try and analyse it? Also, although you're allowed to whizz up and down the battlefield during the battle and rewind, because I'm not really sure what to look at I'm struggling to think this isn't just a gimmick and the temptation to view the whole thing from above is getting stronger.. Can someone offer hints/tips and an opinion on what I've said in this thread so far? Cheers guys!

We run the Infopop Forum on our website, and we tend to have performance problems after 20 pages - just wondering if you experience these problems too? Great forum tho!

I'm new to strategy games like this (Well, I used to play Western front on an Atari 400 around 20 years ago, but I'm not sure that counts!!) The whole thing looks a bit mental to me - but potentially a very good game! I was wondering if anyone had any hints or tips about to play and how to approach the game (I'm probably in the wrong forum for this?) Also, are there any other tutorials you can do? The manual doesn't seem to offer much in the way of tactics and operations - and I don't want to ruin a good game by trying to play it like Command and Conquer or something? Any help anyone could give would be MUCH appreciated! Cheers!