General Bolt

Hopefully this is because the volunteers are going "this game is so ridiculusly great I'm not going to stop to write something. Must play more!" </font>

Well I am here, but I am not sure what you want me to say. JasonC has some analysis / opinions, other people have others. Play testing will determine whether it is a problem or not. Hunter </font>

Thanks much.

I did a conversion of a CMBO battle to a CMAK battle. Here's the problem: How do I transfer the breifing from one to the other without retyping? Andreas, This is your battle. Please hold up posting it until I send the breifings.

This reminds me of the "Dance of Death" routing subroutine in CM. Old thread on the subject

It will certainly be an issue. Generally fuel is used up after about 4 hrs of moving. This could be a hundred Kilometres or 1, depending on whether you are using a road and travelling, or advancing on the enemy through a muddy bog. Vehicles without fuel cannot move, and are at high risk of being abandoned. Hunter </font>

EULA sez you are allowed to make one copy of the CD. Then use the copy in the drive to protect the original from damage.

The fist maybe good at killing. But what if the fist then takes square 2 in the above example and the Allies take 4, 5, and 6. Line of Comm, line o supply are cut. The big question is how long (in CMC turns) can a cut off ME can continue to move? The ammo issue for supply is handled will be easy to see. How the POL supply issue is handled will be interesting - because POL is not taken into account in CMBB. Hunter, Will fuel be an issue for a cut off ME? How will that play out in the CMBB battle?

I would love to see an AAR or 2 of this game to see how it plays out. Will it be the fist of death as Jason talks about plowing along. Or somethink like Recc forces engaging. Then more and more MEs join the battle. With some of them adding to the center of the battle. And some MEs extending the flanks to prevent a surround/pincher type envelopment battle. Then one or both sides form the fist of death, with concentrated armor, to be used for the knock out punch. I think a fist of death without secure flanks could result in that group being cut off. CMBB has never taken fuel into account. Also I'd assume in order to resupply a ME that would need some time (a CMC turn or two) out of the firing line. So if this fist was continusously engaged they cound not get gas or bullets. Pulling an ME or two back for resupply while several other ME in the stack remain engaged could be tricky. Bottom line: Show us an AAR in any stage of game development would answer many of the questions on tactics in this thread.

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CMC is not a true campaign battle. It's divisional operations-only. But I'd bet with a fast machine it can be stretched to a corps level game. For a true campaign game we are waiting for the tie-in between CMC and SC2. Then we can go from whole war to platoon level in 3 easy clicks of the mouse.

48. Some where in So Cal

<chant> AAR AAR AAR </chant> Even if the AAR contains with some notes that state - "this is where we crashed". We'll take any news.

I was once standing right by a highway when a tumbleweed rolled across into the path of an oncoming bus. It was utterly obliterated - just snapped out of existence completely... quite chilling at the time. GaJ </font>

JoMc67, Here are some scenarios billed as Random Reinforcements. They are lotsa fun - ZILCH, ZERO, NADA historical value. Troops just keep coming from various sides. Strictly 2 player. Forest Frenzy was my favorite. If you get offended by "make believe" scenarios close your eyes tap your heels together and say "Its only a game, It's only a game."

Runyan99 very good points. So whether the SS were born evil or became evil in a culture of evil they were and did despicable acts. There can be no denial that by 1945 they were indeed evil. It’s just a mind game trying to determine its root cause. Why should any group that did such evil acts be defended in any way? Rationalization and justification are like masturbation. The only person getting ****ed is your self. And to take it to another level, if in the next 10 years Iran does develop nukes and pops a few over Israel, then like the 20's/30’s the world will have failed to stop them, just as the world failed to stop Hitler and his culture that bred Nazism and the holocaust. Is not the president of Iran’s rhetoric like the Nazi rhetoric and the book Mien Kampf? Or is it just harmless talk? That’s the determination the good world must make and the action they must take or not take...

Holy sore fingers Batman. A damn **** pile of typing when you could have just said. "Waiting makes me sad."

I did the DEP thingy in the FAQ. All is well. You people make my wife very angry!!

Downloaded fine. I did a copy/paste of the license key from the email to the window, so that was correct. I installed it everything seemed fine. I checked the box so it starts at completion of installation. NOTHING. No Enter key popup Clicked the Icon again - NOTHING. I never got the window to enter the lic key screen. I rebooted. Clicked the icon - NOTHING. I opened task manager to see if the game was not responding. Nothing showing in the Apps window of Task Manager. I read a little of the FAQ. Some thing about eLicense Control. ....which you’ll find under “Start -> Settings -> Control Pane->eLicense Control”. Or any other other options listed. I don't have an >eLicense Control function on my computer. What to do? What to do? Athlon 64 3500+, 512M RAM, Ge6600 Graphics, 30+ Gig of HD free space, XP with SP2.

25 years of AH, Kampfgruppe on a Commadore, the V for Victoy series on a MAC. She's learned to live with it. The other computer is occupied by the kids. I can do continuous monitoring of "My Space dot com." when I'm playing my games.

EDIT: Nothing to read here, move along. [ April 06, 2006, 04:50 PM: Message edited by: General Bolt ]

I don't think people at the general forum would enjoy it. They are all grape Nehi drinkers. [ March 13, 2006, 07:57 PM: Message edited by: General Bolt ]

What he said

Now that there are going to be sufficient copies of SC2, I'll order one today. CC, I was on dialup at the time. That's why your number is ahead of mine.

If I hold off untill CMC is ready will I get a discount on shipping?