Sigurd

a bit off-topic, but what mod do you use to obtain these "medals", left and right from the main game console ? Definitely better than uniform grey !

target next allows you to pick another valid target, in sight and destroyable by the unit you're looking at it's an easy way to see what your unit can fire at it's functionnal in the demo what kind of artillery are you using ? if it's on board mortar, the unit or its hq commanding the unit (the mortar will have a brown line to this HQ if it's in command, balck if not) must have a line of sight to it, and not be hiding if it's a spotter (guy with binoculars in the game), you can target without line of sight, but with a time penalty and lesser accuracy hope this helps And welcome to the community ! [ November 18, 2002, 04:00 PM: Message edited by: Sigurd ]

I think an amno point of 20 mm represents a burst of 3 shots in CMBO, and two in CMBB There are two ways to check it : the hit probability is 2 times higher for a 20 mm gun than its equivalent (experience, muzzle speed) with bigger gun the blast value of german 20 mm is 4, for 37mm it's 3. Actually it's 4 for 2x20mm shells, 3 for 1x37 mm shell. Otherwise the 20 mm round would have more firepower than the 37mm... [ November 18, 2002, 03:51 PM: Message edited by: Sigurd ]

very good point !

I think it's one of the bug adressed in the patch (that was about tanker's uniforms causing the game to crash, when the crew abandonned the tank), maybe it prevents the tank crew outside their tank from looking so odd [ November 14, 2002, 10:02 AM: Message edited by: Sigurd ]

"when it's done" would answer BFC... Well, my best guess is in 2 weeks, but perhaps later if BFC needs to...

A new feature in the 1.01 patch can solve your problem : a unit moving to contact with a cover arc will stop only if an ennemy appears in the arc

hopelessly bumping...

Perhaps a BFC admin could give us the official policy concerning this matter...

Here's my problem : I have at home a Mac, and at work a PC laptop. I'd like to run CMBB on both models. It was possible with CMBO (both PC and Mac versions were provided on the same CD), but no more for CMBB : on the CD I bought from BFC there is only the Mac version. (only one version fits on the CD) So my question is : how can I play CMBB on both PC and Mac computers, without having to pay a second time ? I could imagine the following system : BFC (or CDV, as I live in europe) sends me the PC CD, and I pay only the postal service. To ask such a question, I assume the following : when I pay the 45 $ game licence, it's a personnal licence : I am allowed to play the game, independently from the platform, PC or Mac, or the given computer (if I had two macs, one at home, one at my holyday house, I could play on the two machines). It was the case with CMBO, I think it should be the same for CMBB What do you think ? I'm sometimes away from home (and from my desktop G4) with my laptop, I'd really enjoy continue my CMBB plays on the PC laptop !

BTW, have you ever encountered a female CM player ?... I don't see many on the board. I 'm sure somme of you could give sensible explanations of this phenomenon

Man, I'm impressed how the problems talked about on this forum, just a short while ago, are taken into consideration (as the "half-track seen as gun tractor" bug). Very reactive feed-back ! And we're Sunday ! Matt and Charles, do you never stop working ?... Or are you since too long completely addicted (or aCMilitated) to avoid WE work ?... [ November 10, 2002, 04:37 PM: Message edited by: Sigurd ]

As the Great Master Matt has said : "Be patient, it's coming, don't let the anger bring you on the dark side"

Perhaps some BFC admin could post the new 1.01 patch fixes list, so we won't bother them any more with bugs already / soon fixed.

I had the same setup time bug as your HMG : it was for a 75mm Inf gun. Anybody else who's seen this ?

BTW Matt hasn't told us yet what slowed BTS to relaease the patch I suspect the old "bug corrections patch which brings new bugs" issue, and therefore the only answer we'll probably get is "when the patch is stable"... Am I wrong ?...

Bullethead, perhaps you could add a paragraph for "move to contact". There was a big thread a week ago about the "move" in CMBB being like the "sneak" in CMBO. You don't semm to stress the "discretion" part of the move command (if there finally is one...)

yes, for those nasty barbed wires and roadblock it would be nice the pionniers could blow them off Or do they need bengalores for the wires, and special equipment out of CM cope for the roadblocks ?...

From Stacheldraht : I totally agree with you !! you took the words outta my mouth !! All my friends thought I was crazy when I spent 1,000 $ just for the monitor (19" Hi-res Sony) i know it is off-topic, but it's so good to know I'm not completely insane... Now i can spend hours playing CMBB without my eyes even noticing it [ November 03, 2002, 05:44 PM: Message edited by: Sigurd ]

From Tracer : Well, those friends were my age (at the time 20). I think u need specific conditions for people so young to have such sleeping anti-german feelings. In another case (so not for these north-east friends), it found an entire family which was not really german fan. Because the old aunt had created a really bad atmosphere, by repeating again and again old stories since ages, and taking every occasion to bash german stuff, whatever it is. So if u grow up in such an environment, maybe one can forge such prejudice. But here we enter the human psychological sphere, going further would be too much off topic I think... As you said, it is quite rare for younger people. Anyway, I see I'm not the only fool intending to go / having already gone visiting actual battlefields. But it's quite easier to go for a WE to Normandy from Paris than from the U.S. ! [ November 01, 2002, 09:08 PM: Message edited by: Sigurd ]

From Engel : Well I live in France. And I discovered that 2 of the friends I showed to CMBO were the kind of german-resenting people. It's sad to say, but some french people, otherwise quite sensible guys, have a strong anti-german feeling. Hopefully not many, the vast majority just don't care. Both of these friends are from north-east France (Metz), so perhaps their family had to go through particularly hard times in war period, I don't know. Anyway, when they saw me enjoying a realistic wargame where I could "review" from groud level that good placed MG42 cutting to pieces this GI's squad, they felt very uncomfortable. It wasn't politically correct for them to hear those Grenadiers shouting some militaristic orders ("Feuer frei" and so on) I knew however they could enjoy wargames, but the level of realism of CMBO was simply too much for them. But that sort of particular repulse is the exception (especially for 20 years old guys) It was quite a horrendous discovering for me, as I'm on the contrary the kind of "german-fan" (speaks fluently the language, studied and worked there several months, and liked it !) For my part, I was quite enjoyed to hear and understand some real german speaking in the game, and BTW it's a good way to acquire feedback from my pixelized soldiers (I was amazed to hear my AT pillbox saying "Da, feindliche Panzer !" in chance encounter, I knew they had the shermans in sight) From you nick, Engel, I suppose you live in Germany, so of course it wasn't a real matter for your friends to hear their native language in the game. To respond to Michael, the few others friends I talked from CMBO just didn't like the militaristic/militia aspect of the game. Old cardboard wargames could be seen as a kind of chess (with the hexes, the Attack/def values for each unit, etc.), but CMBO where you can see a "live" panther wasn't very "sane" for them. So now I stop making free advertising for BFC (sorry Steve !), and just say "wargames" when asked for my favorites video games or "what did you do all night to look as such a crap" when I arrive at 8:00 a.m. at work. Unless I have tested for some time the other guy to assure myself he's "WWII's grog compatible" Sigurd, closing the "hard times explaining this hobby " sub-thread [ November 01, 2002, 08:38 PM: Message edited by: Sigurd ]

From Steve : I can attest you are totally lucid. The few friends to whom I showed the CMBO demo on "chance encounter" disliked it pretty much. I almost lost some of them (including my girlfriend :eek: ), when they saw me extactic at moving around these StuGs, and they heard all these soldiers shouting in german "los los ! Feindliche Panzer, Feuer frei ! " (these german voices had really a big bad effect on them, a kind of physic repulse) They either thought I was friggin' pathetic, or worse, that I was the kind of disturbed guy admirer of the 3rd Reich dictatorship ! BTW I'm curious if I'm the lone on the forum having this problem. Being very interested on the WWII period ( who couldn't, when close familly was in the middle of the war storm ?) and getting information through lots of books on the period doesn't make you a nazi, on the contrary I'd say... I've always found myself having to explain that to people looking at my WWII book's collection. [ November 01, 2002, 07:20 PM: Message edited by: Sigurd ]

Stephen, I understand that too much micro-management can bother you, as i believe you are more interested by the "strategical" aspect of the game : " "What if" that platoon attacks bay this way of approcach". then the tactical implementation of this order is some mandatory thing to do, in order to see if your idea was right or not, through the (for me) rather realistic game-engine. Actually, it works in such a way for me. I experiment some tactics, and enjoy a lot all the feed-back the game gives me (the "result" of the experiment) : i can see which platoon routed and why, how was the penetration my tank made to that T-34,etc. Me too find the new care, demanded by the more "realistic" engine in CMBB, rather painful *if* you play >800 pts Scenarios or QB. Plotting "move sneak advance" in CMBB instead of CMBO can be very enjoyful in company-sized battles, as a true pain for 2 000 pts battles... In that latter case, i feel like a over-worked teacher with 700 dumb kids unable to advance under fire, if i don't carefully explain to each one individually how to do... So, to return to your post, just pick battles adapted to your style of play : instead of infantery or tanks slug-fest in the open (like yelnia stare), try closed-LOS small-sized battles, so the micro-management won't hurt you too much.

Was this bug already known / going to be fixed in the patch ? or a new one? Or is this not a bug?...

I encountered a different minor bug concerning Kill counts *SPOILER* * * * In the Maxdorf scenario, my Königstiger was awarded this in the kill screen : 2 T-34/85 M44s 3 T-34/85 M44s I guess the first lines states T-34 belonging to a platoon, and he second one independent T-34. The -under the hood- internal modell could for that reason handle differently those T-34, and count them as different types. I've got the saved game if BFC's interested in