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    Changing my nick??

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

    Posted

    "I know someone who named their

    dogs Hitler and Himmler"

    ....and I know of an Axolotl named

    Albert Speer, and a Guinea Pig named

    Gobbles (could be Goebbels?)....

    I blame the History Channel and that

    damn "World At War" series...

    A whole generation poisoned...pets

    saddled with the Names Of Evil Men...

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    To kick things off... a poll of sorts...

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

    Posted

    I played the CMBO demo for 6 months (amazed)

    before I needed to buy the Bundle Pack..

    Been playing CMBB ever since. Mostly Ops,

    and mostly by PBEM. Love it.

    I've spent of lot of happy hours with the Editor...

    getting Not Much Done.

    My Five:

    (1) Night combat needs all the obvious

    features: flares, CDL & AA searchlights,

    illumination rounds, light from nearby

    fires etc

    (2) Field Engineering is far too limited:

    needed are mine-clearing AFV's (plough, flail, snake); and bridging (by pontoon and

    AFV-launched bridge). Amphibious vehicles

    (and troop landing) are missed by almost

    everyone. The same goes for paratroops,

    and glider assaults, and prepared demolitions.

    Fortifications need a total revamp:

    "Like-A-Vehicle" the bunker, pillbox,

    trench, foxhole, sangar, gun pit, tunnel,

    fortified house, Polish basement,submarine

    pen etc - these should all be able to hold a certain number and type of units, including

    guns and fixed flamethrowers, and should

    come in heavy (prepared defence)and lighter versions.

    (3) PBEM.

    I'll still buy the damn thing even if,

    but I'd only be playing with myself :(

    (4) Operations.

    I love 'em. Whether company-sized or bigger,

    they can only benefit from the announced

    terrain and Editor improvements...20-battle

    Op in a medieval town, anyone?

    (5) Can I save this one, and then complain bitterly when you don't put it in the game?

    Cheers & Best Wishes,

    Matt

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    Returning vehicles

    in Combat Mission - Tips and Tricks

    Posted

    Macphail, you've never played

    any of the Operations? Really?

    It is true they can be grueling...

    me, I like gruel.

    The best of my current ones has

    been going 4 months...and that's

    at 2 PBEM turns a day...

    It's also fun to play vs the AI

    (the right Operation-eg you attack,

    the AI defends)and just chip away

    when you have a spare moment...

    Lots of cool things can happen in Ops...

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    Returning vehicles

    in Combat Mission - Tips and Tricks

    Posted

    Mindful of how annoying it must be for

    Those Who Know when the same questions

    are asked and answered a zillion times,

    I've been searching the forums to find

    out a couple of things about Ops...but

    cannot find the answers...

    Is there an archive, offsite or otherwise,

    beyond the 'Anthology of Useful Posts" ?

    that might answer questions like:

    (1)Do repaired vehicles only return in the

    battle following a Night battle?

    (2)Is the chance of a vehicle returning

    increased if its crew are exited off the

    map, or do they merely need to survive?

    (3)How do the different levels of supply

    actually function?

    Any assistance appreciated, and violent

    flaming meekly tolerated...

    cheers,

    Matt

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    Play-Them-Where-They-Lay

    in Combat Mission - Scenario Talk

    Posted

    Promised I'd post when the battle ended-

    Result:

    (1)the map scrolled towards the attacker's end

    by about 120m (variable across wide map).

    (2)the setup zones were adjusted so as to

    allow me to resupply SOME cut-off troops,

    but not many.

    I didn't have overwhelming force, and my

    opponent was close by in the contested area

    of the map(like 75m away with 7+ AFV)or

    else I believe I would have made even

    further inroads.

    After the next battle, I should be able to

    reach the rest of my cut-off troops, and

    they too will be resupplied (assuming the

    rest of the 18th Panzer Div doesn't show up).

    As far as I can see, using PWTL in this

    particular Op has made for a more realistic

    experience. I enjoyed the added challenge.

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    Brandenburgers

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

    Posted

    No photos, no maps, no dates, no names...

    except for assorted Fahnrichs and Leutnants

    with common names like Muller and Schwartz

    and their units not identified...oh, and

    Admiral Canaris is constantly dropping in

    to check on his boys...and Der Fuhrer sends

    them telegrams every so often...

    "Konrat really sounds like somebody who threw together some cool stuff on Brandenburgers,

    Order castles, GD tough guys - you know all the boy-hero stuff - and put himself in it as a teen hero."

    I concur...I wonder if his South African book

    is as flexible with the truth...both are in

    the non-fiction lists...

    "even Black Hawk Down is referred to a 'highly realistic' and close to documentary"

    how bizarre...but I know what you mean.

    In Von Konrat's case, however, what is being

    claimed is not 'close to documentary' but

    'this is what happened'....oh well, the

    book was only $AUD 2.00 smile.gif

    We live and learn...

    regards,

    Matt

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    Brandenburgers

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

    Posted

    So...have I got this right?

    (I am afraid I do not speak German

    'much well', but I get some of it)

    If all Brandenburger commanders are

    known, and Von Konrat's name does

    not appear, he either

    (1) changed his name after the war

    (2) adopted a nom-de-plume for his books

    (3) wasn't a Brandenburger.

    The last seems likely, but one would

    think that, given the book represents

    itself as non-fiction, that someone

    would have challenged this already...

    since 1970- if only because of the

    glaring errors of fact...and perhaps

    they have, before the rise of the

    internet...hence no online record...

    The publisher, Tandem, seems elusive,

    having gone (as publishers do) through

    various incarnations, including the

    Tandem-Universal Publishing Co.

    One would also think that a reputable

    publishing house, which Tandem seems to

    have been, would do a little basic fact-

    checking and editing...even my cat knows

    that the invasion of the Soviet Union

    took place in June, not July of '41...

    And I always thought Biggles was true smile.gif

    As you say, Dandelion, a good story is

    a good story...

    Thank you for your knowledge and time...

    Regards,

    Matt

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    Brandenburgers

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

    Posted

    Dandelion...

    I'm not remotely qualified to discuss

    German order of battle during WW2 (or

    any other war, for that matter) but

    I do enjoy a mystery:

    von Konrat, Georg

    PASSPORT TO TRUTH, Star 39603/W.H. Allen & Co., 1977, 1st thus. Originally published in hardcover in 1972. "Newly appointed to the Ovamboland hydro- electric station, Georg von Konrat and his eight-year-old daughter were plunged into an area of the world largely shrounded in secrecy--black South Africa. Within hours of his arrival, the everyday atrocities and brutalities forced themselves onto von Konrat's awareness. With no specific political leanings, his job brought him into immediate contact with a political system his conscience could not tolerate. Branded as a 'nigger lover', hunted like an animal, obstructed and intimidated by the police and security forces, von Konrat abruptly found himself living a nightmare in which life and death precariously balanced each other. Then, together with his daughter, he made a daring bid for freedom across a country where mortal danger lurked around every corner." Paperback, 241 pages. G-VG w/moderate general wear.

    $7.50

    [http://www.gusbooks.com/nonfic5.html]

    My copy of "Assault From Within" says

    'originally published in South Africa

    by Howard Timmins, 1970'

    The same Georg Von Konrat?

    A Google search on '115th Prussian Marine'

    gives us:

    "World War 2 Talk > German Special Forces

    you also have the 115th prussian marine stormtroopers who were trained to ...

    But there is also the 115th prussian marine btn led by Georg von Konrat and ...

    www.ww2talk.com/lofiversion/index.php/t653.html - 33k - Cached - Similar pages"

    Perhaps their source is...Mr Von Konrat

    hmmm...

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    Brandenburgers

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

    Posted

    A sideline:

    Before I posted my initial query,

    I searched the forum, and there is

    a brief thread about "German Marines"...

    Von Konrat's unit (he was the CO,

    supposedly the youngest captain

    in the German Army in 1941)was

    called the 115th Prussian Marine...

    this seems to have been the usual

    camouflage tactic to disguise the

    very secret and special nature of

    the unit...although they did intens-

    ively train him in amphibious ops...

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    Brandenburgers

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

    Posted

    Thanks very much, Dandelion...

    I was hoping to mine Von Konrat's book

    for scenario ideas, and to be fair to

    him, it's full of great stories...it

    just needs a good editor...

    I'm not at all averse to long posts

    and I may take you up on your kind offer

    in the future, if that's OK...

    Thanks,

    Matt

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    Play-Them-Where-They-Lay

    in Combat Mission - Scenario Talk

    Posted

    No_one wrote:

    "If it's an assualt operation,it may work,but you need to make sure to do it with "over-kill".What I mean by that is that you need to send alot of troops up to link back up,and hopefully the enemy will not be close by.You will have to completely affect the setup zones so as to regain ground.Understand what I am saying? "

    Yep. And it is an Assault Op...the battle

    (6th of 10)is almost over (we are in Extra Time)

    to be followed by a non-combat Night turn...I'll

    post when I see the setup zones...

    As Bannon DC makes clear, PWTL is just one

    face of a concept: play around with the game,

    and tailor rules to fit SPECIFIC scenarios.

    Years ago, when I spent all my time

    playing 'Duke Nukem 3D' (this was in

    the early Triassic era) my buddy and

    I used to play 'Angry Co-op'-which

    meant that you started the game in

    co-operative mode, kill all the

    Aliens, then turn on each other...

    the 'G' key in co-op mode enabled

    you to see the other guy's POV...

    now, when you're hunting each other,

    that can be a lot of fun...we both

    used tricks like looking at the

    ground as we ran along, so no back-

    round terrain features would ID

    our position...

    The point? it's your game now,

    have fun.

    [Alternate analogy: in chess, not

    everyone plays the en passant rule...

    you have to agree on it...]

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