eyelevel

Hi Cameroon, That was a very good explanation thank you for taking the time to do all that!! I will take heed of what you have described and try to put it into practice. Many many thanks again The two Chris's eh? lol Nice to meet you Chris

Thank you all very much for your hints and tips, I think alot of my trouble though and this is probably going to sound ridiculous but I only have a small Monitor 14/15 inch and if I am locked on in the view or just manually following in the 1st level viewpoint I kind of miss alot of things going on, but I will try the various suggestions and thanks again, I tried and still am in a generated battle just to see if I can get used to the viewing and playing of this game, and I am struggling a great deal, I can't understand the manual to well due to my understanding of things being weaker than most other peoples, and don't know the best way to approach a scenario. Take this generated battle I am in right now, all my troops are lined up on the edge of the map and all I see ahead of me roughly in the center of the map is a grey flag with a ? on it, now I understand that that means both sides are fighting to control that part of the map, that much I do know lol, but as for the approach I started off by dragging a box around lets say 6 units of Infantry and told them to start running to a point where there were some tree's and then left them there. I did the same with the next lot of units which inc infantry and two armoured vehicles, in the end of this process I had a line of all my troops behind the flag and the enemy was in control of it and a mass of them in a line like mine are, now I'm telling my troops to fire on a certain enemy and they do, but no-one is getting killed!, is this right, the scenario I generated is 60 turns as I love long battles, (even though I have no idea what I'm doing lol), so the gunfights are raging but so far one of my men is down and out, but although my men are firing like mad, the enemy look firmly in control, although the bottom left of the screen in the stats it say's that my morale is a certain percentage something like 95% but the flow of the battle is quite close indicating that the enemy has lost a few units. I hope you all follow me here and please forgive me if I sound stupid in my explanation but I don't find it too easy explaining things I love this game to bits but just wish I could really get into it, it does'nt help when I have to keep an eye on my forum website either as I want to play but can't as much as I want to!!! lol I really appreciate all the help I'm getting and I apologise if I don't answer straight away, but like I said I have a forum to look after too, but I will always come back and reply sooner or later. Cheers Eyelevel (Chris)

Thank you, gives me some idea of what other people use, I guess in a way it's a case of what you find best, although I just get lost all the time!, I've not played a game such as this before so it will take some getting used too! Many thanks though Eyelevel

Hi all, Well I finally have got this great great game!!! Now although I haven't even begun to scratch the surface I am finding it mightily hard to know how best to use the camera when viewing the 60 sec action. I know you can replay it as many times as you want to, but how do the rest of you view the action?, I mean I might have 20+ Soldiers, many tanks etc, and to lock the view onto each individual unit would take forever lol As great as it maybe to view the action in that way, I personally would find it rather tough going. So if anyone who is experienced with this game could give me some help and tips etc....I would be grateful. If I have the camera too far out I can't see the explosions and too far in and I find myself getting rather lost. Many thanks in advance Eyelevel (Chris)

Well there's no need for me to worry about the game taking over my life as I cannot work due to ill health etc..... so I have plenty of time on my hands and to be honest and I know most people won't think of me in the same light now I am saying this but I have a Mental Health problem and well, suffice it to say that my brain is not as it should be and its been like that from birth, so I like to get into games that will force me to try and think, its just that most times I need twice as long to think than most, there bet that's put people off wanting to play me by email LOL!! No but seriously I do struggle and need to keep my mind occupied, and this game sounds just the ticket, not forgetting the original too of course! Chris

Oh I most certainly will do that as I'm not going anywhere, apart from the Battlefield lol, and getting my troops slaughtered into the bargain!!! lol I will return. Chris (Eyelevel)

Hi Guys, Many thanks again for all you've said etc, and I shall take any offers up for play by email etc... I do love war games always have done and earlier someone mentioned that other games can be bought and played for a month or two and then no more, whereas this can be played and played and played with differing gameplay each time, just for me then!! as I have only a handful of games and it has to be said that I never really play them, not because I don't want to but because I guess I'm looking for something a bit special, thant will keep me hooked and it would have to be a very very top game to do that.......so roll on Friday! Chris

Well thank you all very much for your input into my questions!, its very much appreciated and I am now certain to get this game and even the original too, but I have to wait until Friday sadly! still it will come round soon enough. Once I have played a fair few games against the PC I would love to play against some of you if that's alright by you, only I have never played another human being at a Computer Game, I've always been stuck with the AI. I'm not a very experienced gamer and do struggle and know that by reading some of the posts on here that most of you if not all of you are very experienced so I expect to be slaughtered each time, if my offer of playing you comes true.lol Many many thanks again for all the friendly advice etc...and I shall be back once I have the game/s in my collection. Cheers (Eyelevel) Chris

Righty ho guys, many thanks I'll download the demos in the morning, cheers One final question for now, sorry! Er are there Naval Units in the game? I will return once I have bought this game as I am seriously tempted!!! especially after reading that thread Chris

Are you able to move soldiers etc...one by one or are they grouped together? Chris

Well I must say what a friendly bunch of people you are, as I've been to other games forums asking similar questions and not even 1 reply!, so many many thanks! I will get it then as I do like Chess for one thing, even though I'm totally useless at it lol But I have alway's liked War Games and can't wait to get my hands on it, shame that I won't get smooth large scale battles as I love that type of thing hence buying (Medieval Total War) and that was quite smooth but still you can't have everything I guess! this was a toss up between CMBB and Battlefield 1942, totally different I know but both War games, having played the demo of BF1942 I rapidly changed my focus to this game as BF was impossible to play. I only have dial up so downloading the demo would take 2 to 3 day's LOL Cheers guys Chris (Eyelevel) [ October 21, 2002, 05:59 PM: Message edited by: eyelevel ]

Hello Everyone, I have been reading some of the posts and am considering buying this game sometime this week, but 1 thread has kinda got me in a tizz a bit, the one about some games reviewer and his comments etc...whilst you all seem to say its a great game I am now a little unsure still, typical me actually! lol Is the game good, very good, excellent, or just plain awesome!? My system is: P3 850MHZ 512MB SDRAM GeForce 3 Ti 200 128MB DDR Soundblaster PCI 128 I would have thought my system would be ok, although I nearly always get jerky gameplay for some reason! Any prefferably persuasive comments to purchase this game would be gratefully received, as I could do with a long challenge over the coming Winter months!! lol So I need impressing, what I do worry about though is the point that was made by this certain reviewer that once you've made your choices etc..... you just sit back and have no control, I have played games where this has indeed been the case, so what sort of control do you have then? as I don't care for games that you can only do so much and then have to sit back and do nothing. Any help comments etc would be appreciated Thank you Eyelevel.