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I vaguely remember an earlier poster saying that you can reverse at an angle then FAST straight forward in the facing direction. It has sometimes worked for me. Good Luck unbogging... Richard

Maybe you can try to unit edit the Platoon/Company leaders to reduce leadership and morale modfications etc. to 0 so that the subordinate squads will become effectively "out of command"? Best, Richard

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One solution to premature unbuttoning may be a gamey one. You can unbutton a buttoned up tank in the last turn and then button it up again before hitting GO. I think that it takes the TacAI at least one turn to decide to unbutton on its own so this should take care of business. Presumably this can be repeated as needed. Perhaps someone can actually try to see whether this works or not though.

Thanks, Treeburst. I'm not really sure how a controlled test can be rigged to find out the answer to my question. Such an experiment would in any case have to be played out many times. My hunch is that in real life tree bursts in tall pine would be quite deadly and that the effect would be much less in scattered trees (as you mentioned). Just wondering whether any such differentiation is coded in by Battlefront or whether tree burst is tree burst no matter what. Can anyone at BFC throw light on this topic? Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. Richard

Would anyone happen to know whether the nature of the wooded terrain, whether tall pines, woods or scattered woods, affects the tree burst effect of heavy artillery? I don't have the strategy guide and so don't know whether this is mentioned in it or not. Many thanks in advance Richard

Many thanks, guys. Really helpful info and advice. If it is a matter of not enough VRAM on the machine (the think the one I have is the 333 MHZ one, not sure if it's the same as the "Wallstreet" --BTW why that name?) then I think I will just have to wait for the repaired powerbook to return or get a new ibook (almost worth it just to play the game!). Maybe in the meantime I can try loading CMBO instead. All best, Richard

Hi, I don't quite know how to search this forum but I imagine a similar question has been asked before. So apologies in advance for asking it again. Can anyone help with these two problems I encountered? Problem One: external monitor doesn't work-- I have installed CMBB on a PowerPC G3 powerbook (8MB videocard, 128MB RAM, 400 MHZ) and it worked wonderfully for a month. Then the screen went caput (my fault) and so as a quick fix I hooked up to a PC 17" monitor (Princeton Ultra 72) with a mirroring setup. This works really well for all normal computing (websurfing, wordprocessing) but does not work for loading up CMBB (from the same original installation). I set and reset the monitor resolution (including to 800 x 600) but to no avail. If I use screen default the splash screen loads off center to one side (I can read only "Battlefront.c" etc.) and the game does not load after that and a screen pops up saying "this game requires minimum 800 x 600 video display). If I set to 800 x600 then the splash screen is okay and I can access the inside panels, but not the maps (okay in edit more but not in map preview mode or in normal game play). The seems to be running at this time just fine though on the original G3 screen (which is mostly gone but still shows faint images); perhaps I just don't have the right driver for the external monitor? Any ideas how to fix this one? Problem 2--Game quits on another G3. Be that as it may, I need to ship off my broken G3 to be fixed or replaced and in the interim I have an older second generation Mac Powerbook G3, which aside from being a lot slower and having much less memory has the same screen size as the other. After installing CMBB this machine (after I found 1.2 GB on the hardrive) and manually selecting the 600x800 resolution I can load game and select scenario, make unit purchases .... but the game simply quits and reverts to the finder after that. I looked at my video driver (ATI RAGE 128) and it seems okay. Could it be a memory problem? I have about 200MB still free at present. Any ideas how to make Problem 2 go away? Most frustrating since it took an hour or two to install game on the older processor. Many thanks again, Richard