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A One Shot "Two-For" ... Through and Through ...
Mr Byte replied to BadgerDog's topic in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy
why cant my panthers do that? -
yeah but theres the thing, its not unusual in CMBN these kind kills are routine, this shot was about 900 m through trees at a hull down target while under fire (artillery rounds from a 105 landing all around.) It feels a lot like CMSF to me, all that's changed is the shape of the tanks but they are equally as lethal as a M1 or challenger. Panther 75 ---------- 97% at 500m, 65% at 750m, 35% at 1000m like I said two first shot kills at nearly 900m through trees at hull down targets while under fire makes a mockery of the above data really.....and yes they where my fireflys and thats not the only time I've seen this they were in the open not hull down with a bunch of trees in between and he wasn't underfire
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Tanks firing into trees?
Mr Byte replied to weapon2010's topic in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy
Whens the patch due...I have to try and finish one of my PBEMs before its out, this bug is the only thing keeping me in it right now...its like attack of the swarming Shermans!! -
Suggestions for improving Command Panel
Mr Byte replied to Niessuh's topic in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy
I LIKE IT!!!! Bf see to it will you -
An interesting observation in the unit info panel
Mr Byte replied to James's topic in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy
I was having trouble getting some squads to advance from a concealed wooded area When I went back and watched they were "Chatting" and "Horsing about" and one was "Snoozing"!! -
TacAI doesn't fire at surrendering soldiers?
Mr Byte replied to ClarkWGriswold's topic in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy
if you listen carefully the German is saying "look I washed for dinner" not "I surrender" -
It doesn't matter how loud you scream at the screen its usually too late
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I've noticed that both allies and axis tanks fire on the move....Is this correct? I thought the Axis tanks especially only fired stationary any grogs care to comment ps I should also say they are pretty accurate too on the move
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DEMO hangs when ENDing game
Mr Byte replied to Asmodeus's topic in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy
Same issue hangs on exit Operating System MS Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit SP1 CPU Intel Pentium E5300 @ 2.60GHz 40 °C Wolfdale 45nm Technology RAM 4.0GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 399MHz (5-5-5-18) Motherboard MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD MS-7392 (CPU1) 55 °C Graphics DELL 1905FP (1280x1024@60Hz) ATI Radeon HD 5670 Hard Drives 156GB Western Digital WDC WD1600AAJS-00B4A0 ATA Device (SATA) 37 °C 977GB SAMSUNG SAMSUNG HD103SI ATA Device (SATA) 29 °C 156GB FUJITSU MAXTOR STM3160211AS ATA Device (SATA) 37 °C Optical Drives HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH22NS40 ATA Device Audio AMD High Definition Audio Device -
Foxholes look like Chocolate Glazed Donuts
Mr Byte replied to Echo's topic in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy
if you listen carefully to the video AAR you can hear on of the soldiers complaining about sugar in his hair after he takes cover from the artillery -
What type of scenarios failed miserably?
Mr Byte replied to Plastic viking's topic in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy
all fair and true comments I'm not saying I dont agree with reinforcements or that they are not historically accurate but... its this kind of thing 2nd platoon at T+5 3rd platoon 2 tanks mortars and air support at T+15 AT elements AT T+25 because invariably it means in the scenario T+5 (finished your recon heres you a platoon to beef up your assault) T+15 (hehe you just discovered the deep entrenchments and hidden reserve hard points you need these now to defeat them) T+25 (here comes the armored counter attack better have these AT units and move them up fast) I know whenever I get armor or AT reinforcements I scour the map for the armored counter attack that I (now) know is coming I was doing a recon scenario in CMSF the other day when 20 mins in I suddenly get AT assets?? All I had found was entrenched infantry up until then Two mins later T55's are rolling toward me...but its ok I got the AT now... -
What type of scenarios failed miserably?
Mr Byte replied to Plastic viking's topic in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy
I have only one (purely from my point of view) thing to say I think that scenario designers in the past balance thing with reinforcements too much I know when I'm playing a scenario, lets say I'm trying to dislodge some enemy infantry and then suddenly I get some AT reinforcements I just know the enemy have just got or about to get tank support..its a bit of a realism buster for me, I would much rather have them at the start and have to position them just in case not knowing that the enemy will or wont get armor support rather than it be given away by the reinforcement schedule. Also I wonder at the reinforcements sometimes does every operation have its forces committed in such a piecemeal manner? -
Feature suggestion ..too late I know
Mr Byte replied to Mr Byte's topic in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy
yeah exactly! I dont know if this is a bit devisive I see it as a commander getting on the radio to HQ and asking for reinforcements, and as I said the actual arrival would be delayed. anyway its not going to happen but maybe sometime in the futre this could be added just another option for scenario designers. -
I was thinking that it would be good if in a scenario you could designate forces as reserves they would be off board and you could choose to activate them they would then enter as reinforcements after a random/designated delay but where these would differ from the normal reinforcemnets in a scenario is that activatoing them cost victory points this would probably only be useful in H2H play anyway just an idea
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Can the campaign released with CMBN be played two player?
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Sorry for posting here but.... Just popped by to see if there was any progress with Histwar Le Grognards but it seemed to have been pulled!?! what happened does anyone know?
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some thoughts for improvement (IMHO)
Mr Byte replied to Oddball_E8's topic in Combat Mission Shock Force 1
WOW who stood on your tractor? :eek: -
My Only Somewhat Major Issue With CMSF
Mr Byte replied to massive1974's topic in Combat Mission Shock Force 1
Wow I didn't realise they could see through houses or distinguish between innocent and insurgent....makes you wonder why the war in iraq and afgahinstan is still going -
My Only Somewhat Major Issue With CMSF
Mr Byte replied to massive1974's topic in Combat Mission Shock Force 1
For a no 'time limit' to work in the current game enviroment, spotting has to be altered. mostly when I start a scenario there is a bunch of ? appear as soon as I get LOS to the objective and this can be from waaaaaay off :eek: . for a 'no limit' time scenario only positive sightings should be shown thus forcing a player to approach and investigate ....carfully, rather than blast from distance those pesky ?'s I realise that not all the ?'s are actual units but I really not need a ? to make me wary that there is something there, I know there is thats why i'm playing the game!! at some of the ranges of the ?'s appearing I couldn't possibly have any kind of positive sighting. -
I still find vehicles not reacting to being hit by RPGs, they don't pop smoke or move just sit there while they are hit again and again until the're destroyed.
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Sorry i'm with Bulldog here, If the feature is in the game it should have been tested and passed. If you can blow a hole in a wall and pass through it that should have been tested. If it was what changed to break it? why wasn't it tested after code had been changed? I mean we are only talking about one thing here there was a lot of stuff not right with the release version surely some of it was known? and if it was then the game really shouldn't have been released if it wasn't...WHY!!
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CMSF won't start--HELP PLEASE
Mr Byte replied to Mr Byte's topic in Combat Mission: Shock Force Tech Support
Ok I have sorted this [long story cut short] I lost my HD about 2 months ago and when I got a new one installed it was designated 'I' not C something to do with plug and play and my already working card reader. However I needed a C drive to run some utilities I use for a PBEM game (their registration security looks for a file on the C drive and its hardcoded) So I renamed my external drive to C problem solved Now I have installed CMSF on my I drive but for some reason if it cannot see my external C drive it won't start up What had happened is that some how my external drive had been renamed to J once i realised this and re-renamed it back to C CMSF worked fine thanks for your response though -
I have been playing CMSF since release day with no problem what so ever right up to last night. Went to boot it up tonight and I get Shock force exe has encountered a problem and has to close error message I have uninstalled and reinstalled with no luck err HELP!!! To my knowledge nothing has changed on my system TIA