Dave M

Thanks guys, Mortors were hidden!!!!!! As far as the AI targeting my HQs does he recognize them berore a human opponent does? Thanks, Dave

Thank you all, Knowing that those 2 groups are more prone to open up far away will help and it is good if the new patch will help HQs not open up before their squads. Sorry about posting spoiler didn't know there was enough here to derive anything from unless you played. For those who think this is natural I just want you to picture 21 squads of men along the river all hidden in various terrain at least 10 -20 metrs in front of an HQ similarly hidden in all sorts of terrain and the whole Russian army firing at your HQs and not one squad discovered, despite same terrain, closer to them and of course more men to hide. That is a bug not real life simulation. Can't wait for that patch. Thanks, Dave [ November 11, 2002, 07:47 PM: Message edited by: Dave M ]

In one scenario despite my HQ having LOS of a target area and command lines (red) to the mortor units on the other side of the hill they would not fire. Not until I brought them out of their foxholes and put them in the open on the hill would they target. What's up? Secondly why can the computer concentrate fire on my unknown HQs while my units target std infantry? Is that an AI help? Dave

I recently played CMBB and beganwith the 1st scenario and worked forward. After playing a few scenarios I just wanted to know if when I am playing the AI are there any benefits programmed in that I should be aware of so that I am not frustrated over an attack or defense or I can know that my tactics will work on a human opponent as compared to athe computer. Some examples are as follows: In 'Borisovka Station' I had lost all my my AT guns except the 1 75mm gun I had hidden in the woods on the far left. The 6 remaining tanks moved toward the woods until it caused the gun to fire and deposed of it within seconds. Isn't it amazing that the tanks would expose their flanks to the city to rush over to a wooded area without infantry support. It had a small flag but it was 1 of 6 flags spread out over the map, with the large ones in the center of town. It was like they didn't have Fog of war and knew where to go. The biggest suprise came in 'Defense of Vakhne-Golubaya' where I set the German defenses on their side of the river. I felt I would bring the Russians in and masacre them as they crossed the Fords and bridge. I placed all the squads (hidden) in front of each crossing and backed them up with HMGs. The HQ units were scattered behind the squads hidden in trees, buildings and rocky ground (Foxholes). The amazing thing is that the AI ran the troops into the vacant side of the town on the other side of the river (compared to a slow move when I redid the game over holding both sides of the river, hidden as well), in both cases the AI should not have known where my men were and its tactics should have mirrored them. Secondly as they massed in the town I realized they began firing at my hidden units. Here is the crazy thing, the only hidden units being uncovered were my HMGs (Buildings primarily) and my HQs. When I looked at the map not one squad of men had been sited, only my HQs and HMGs. In 3 minutes I had lost 10 HQs and 3 HMGs and no squads. The terrain did not matter nor the ability of the HQ they were all spotted and killed in 3-5 minutes. This is a GAME flaw in my opinion, unless the game has been given special spotting privilidges in which case I will keep my men out of site until they can attack. Hope you can help Dave

I have been asked by Matt to post my problem here, so I will give it a go. Problem.. After I launch CMBB I get the title screen and some music. I click the mouse or keyboard and it goes black as though its loading. The pointer on the screen goes from 800x600 to a larger size while loading, you can actually see it increase in size. Then a white letter message comes up saying it requires a minimum of 800x600 resolution to play. If I hit any key or the mouse it closes and brings me back to the desktop. System: Pent III 500 MHz, 32 meg Annihilator 2 video card (Geforce 2) 256 meg of memory, 40 gig hard drive, soundcard is Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live xGamer. I can run CMBO and the demo fine. I have upgraded all my drivers for the video card, NVidea Chip set and Directx 8.1, still no luck. I have no idea what to do here. The installation seemed to work fine. I ran the install program and it never even asked me a question just completely installed and then closed out and put me into the desktop. I guess one question I have is during installation are you supposed to be asked questions and after it is finished shouldn't it launch the game or the help file or some document rather than just finish? Any help would be appreciated, I don't want to have to send this back. Thanks, Dave