Valael

I don't mind the movies so much anymore. It was mostly when I played my first/second game and tried to do it WarCraft style...and then having all of my units run for their lives. Oh, and I tried BO -- The Chance Encounter map was great.. The other one completely kicked my butt.. heh

Well, I guess I wasn't trying hard enough. Actually, I think it was just stupidity screwing me up before. This time around, I used a little common sense. First, I used the advise above and used Contact for moving my support around (Which didn't seem to do me much good considering I didn't actually see anyone until I got them to where I wanted them to go) But this time, I didn't use my units as though they were one big unit/group. Instead I positioned each one individually. It was a blast to actually get somewhere in the game.. Just one question -- THere's no disadvantage to fastforwarding other than not seeing exactly what's going on, is there? I definently think I'm going to have to get this game -- as long as I can find it at one of the local retailers, heh. Ordering over the net is kind of out of the question with all this christmas stuff going on. Oh, and by the way, thanks for the replies. You probably convinced me to atleast give the retail a try. Just curious -- Does anyone know if Bestbuy, Babbages/Gamestop, or maybe even Wal Mart has been known to carry CMBB? [ December 20, 2002, 12:49 AM: Message edited by: Valael ]

Basically, I'm as new as one can get to war games. So here I was, reading PCGamer's CMBB review and thought to myself "I just have to try it." So I download the demo. I can't even beat the tutorial. I use the PDF file that came with it in hopes of getting somewhere. I follow it the best I can, but it seems as though my units will ALWAYS run once fired upon. And once they start running, it seems impossible to get them to turn around. On top of that, it seems as though my support units won't even fire. Anyone have any advice to maybe getting atleast somewhat decent at this? Or care to explain why my units have about as much courage as a toddler? Is CMBB just not meant to be a beginner's wargame?