BulletRat

If you've seen Band of Brothers (and who here hasn't), Carwood Lipton gets hit by one of these in the episode "Carentan" IIRC.

Damn, reckon I'll have to look this movie up - looks the goods!

Excellent! Think I can spare that much data.

Simple question - how big is the download? Here in the land of Oztraya our interweb is made up tin cans and bits of string and our internet companies give us maximum amounts of data we can download each month - in my case 12GB/month peak time (12pm-12am) and 24GB/month off peak time (12am-12pm). Hence, if the game is 10gigs or so in size I gotta wait till midnight rather than blowing my cap on it now.

Found it to be the other way myself, played through Busting the Bocage last night as Germans at difficulty level warrior and by the time I got down to 20 mins it was all over bar the shouting. Just had to keep pressing the go button and fast-forwarding through the minute until it finally ended. Tactical victory for what it's worth.

This one had me in tears, christ that's funny.

At a guess, start whatever scenario you wish to play (whoever is hosting) select 2 player TCP/IP - it will give you your IP Address, give the address to your mate, he selects join network game and punches in your IP - and if all is good and well with your firewalls and routers you should be blowing the crap out of each other in no time!

I was figuring that they used the CMx1 voices due to the rush to get this demo out the door - y'know, before the refresh monkeys did themselves an injury or somfink.

I want a house made out of whatever kind of wood the trees are in this game, they can take hit after hit of sherman and panzer fire and come back for seconds! Really though it's kind of comical when you have a Sherman on one side and a Panther on the other busily trying to nail each other and there's a bloody tree in the middle holding up the whole damn war! BTS fix or do somfink? Or is it hardcoded? That aside I'm enjoying the demo, outstanding graphics and detail - even the insides of the tanks are modeled! Still getting used to the controls (coming straight from CMx1) and the TacAI does some odd things. In one instance I ordered my guys to assault an enemy trench after having mortared it, they successfully took it and hunkered down, I brought up one of my tanks to have a go at the bocage I know some dirty krauts were hiding behind - the tank shot, hit the lip of the trench, and took out half of my squad! When I went down to eye-level with the tanks gun it was well clear of the trench - so no idea how it managed to hit it. Shortly after I ordered another squad to assault some foxholes that were cleared, they got to the foxholes, took a couple of shots from nearby bocage and instead of jumping right into that convenient cover decided to leg it back where they came from - taking more casualties on the way. All in all though, a good start.

I'd say the limiting factor would be your computers hardware, not the game engine itself?

Signing in. So... I hear there's sposed to be a new game released sometime soon(ish)?

...or as always happens, said robot vehicles will become self aware and seek revenge on their lazy human masters relaxing in air conditioned comfort and sinking ice cold beers. No good shall come of this!

It's snow!

Seconded, don't be downhearted if there are a few "elitist" bad eggs on this board - well meaning though they may be, getting out and spending some time in the real world would do wonders for their attitude. I'm more of a DoD2 player myself, and more recently BF2 - the latter very unrealistic of course, but damn good fun!

Heinz Guderian.

Pioneers kick arse at killing tanks, satchel charged blow the **** out of damn near anything. Useful little buggers, them engineers.

I reckon they'll make SURE it's in just get people to shut up!

Awesome dude! *rushes off to cmmods

Thanks for the comments guys It's running a 327 + 3 speed auto Richie - out of a '62 Impala apparently. I was hoping to park it in the base carpark Harry - if it's safe from careless or deliberate damage. I trust that army blokes have a good sense of self esteem and arn't going to key it out of spite - something I have seen regrettably, or rather seen the result of. Some people are just pathetic. If not, looks like it'll be the 'ole ute, bit hard to carry a computer on a motorbike.

Easily fixed. Don't reply.

Yep, can't keep my hands off it!

JasonC you may know a fair bit about the game but maybe you should work on your people skills a little more. As fas as I can see civdiv was asking a legitimate question - maybe a little frustrated and confused with the way the game works - hence the "attitude" appearance. Relax mate, take 5 mins out sheesh. Civdiv, play the game a bit more - just as a learning experience and be prepared to lose guys even where you don't think you will. You'll soon get an idea of what can and can't be done in the game - experiment a little, remember of course that if that HT was yours and the squad was a bunch of krauts I'm pretty sure you'd be happy you could see them! So don't give up on the game mate, it's the best WWII strat game bar-none that I have found yet - I'm far from the best player around and I've been playing CMBB since it came out, but every time I load up a map I usually learn a little more by the time the map is done. So don't take a loss personally, it's just the way the battle pans out sometimes. Hope that helps.

Sorry guys, aint funnin with ya but I literally have $0 in my account - actually, $3 in debit so until monday (when I can strangle my boss) I'll be kickin around home. If any of you lads are making the trip to pucka I may see yas there - and with a bit o luck the Impala might be regoed by then too, so it be cruising time!

****sake.... logged onto internet banking just now and find haven't been ****ing paid so now I haven't a bloody brassed rahzoo to me name. No beers for me tonight then I guess, have to catch you guys some other time - ****in pissed off! :mad: :mad: :mad:

Thought the commissars were political guys inserted into the ranks to "motivate" the troops... at gunpoint when necessary.