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    Play-Them-Where-They-Lay

    in Combat Mission - Scenario Talk

    Posted

    Basically it's all about dealing with

    well-recognised problems with the CM

    Op system and the never-ending search

    for Realism and Fun -which are not

    always mutually exclusive...

    No doubt CMx2 will address some of

    these issues, and equally certainly

    We the Players will find new problems

    and ways to work around them.

    [end of speech, cue applause, catcalls]

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    Play-Them-Where-They-Lay

    in Combat Mission - Scenario Talk

    Posted

    To clarify (sorry, I'm doing too many

    things at once...got more windows than

    a greenhouse) I don't need to make the

    map scroll backwards in this situation...

    all troops,supplied or otherwise, are

    within the battle window;indeed, how

    could they not be.

    An interesting related point is that

    byallowing my opponent's Panzers to

    bypass my troops perhaps also means

    the battle window won't advance...

    again, I'm not sure if this is how

    it works, because the battle window

    is pretty big for this Op...

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    Play-Them-Where-They-Lay

    in Combat Mission - Scenario Talk

    Posted

    That's a good point, no_one...

    According to the CMBB manual, if the

    defender in an Advance or Assault Op

    can reach the enemy's map edge it's

    Game Over.

    I've never done it, so I dunno...

    When I said that I was trying to push

    the frontline to where my cut-off infantry

    is, I meant the area in which troops are

    supplied...my Forward Edge of the Battle

    Area, i.e that if I can link up with them,

    they will be resupplied.

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    Brandenburgers

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

    Posted

    Just picked up what looked like

    an interesting book about the

    German special forces-style

    Brandenburger Regiment (later

    a division)authored by someone

    who claims to have served with them:

    "Assault From Within" by Georg

    Von Konrat (Tandem, London, 1970)

    Begins with interesting account

    of his training and adoption of

    a Russian identity, but starts

    getting weird when Barbarossa starts...

    on July 22nd, 1941!

    The July dates are used across

    the next 10 pages or so...so it's

    not an easily explained typo.

    Then they get their Tiger tanks...

    in July 1941.

    Then they see long columns of

    Russian prisoners bound for the rear

    to join Gen. Vlasov's Free Russian

    Army...in July 1941.

    Then he has an encounter with an

    imperious officer from the 'Gross

    Deutschland Waffen-SS Division...'

    The book is represented on it's

    dust jacket as a work of non-fiction...

    "A valuable contribution to the secret

    history of the Second World War"

    -Book Exchange

    "Fascinating and sinister story"

    -Manchester Guardian

    etc etc

    Can anyone direct me to a better source

    on the Brandenburgers?

    thanks,

    Matt

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    Renaming .zip file extensions

    in Combat Mission - Tech Support

    Posted

    Redwolf- I agree, it's mostly not necessary...

    although on a really big Op the files can get

    past 2mb in size...

    Schrullenhaft- yes, renaming the .zip file

    extension IS the idea...but when I use the

    'rename' function in win 98 SE I get a file

    name like 'Blau1_001.zbr.zip' (to use your

    example) and this doesn't fool the virus

    filter...i.e I can't get rid of the .zip

    part via the rename function...my opponent

    thinks it's possible, but doesn't know how

    to do it...

    thanks,

    Matt

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    Renaming .zip file extensions

    in Combat Mission - Tech Support

    Posted

    A PBEM opponent has current trouble with his

    email provider: an anti-virus measure means

    that temporarily he cannot receive winzip

    files. Supposedly there is a way to rename

    .zip files so that they will slip under the

    radar, whereupon he will rename them and play

    the turn...

    I've tried this, can't make it work...

    Does anyone know how to do it?

    I'm running Win98 SE.

    Thanks,

    Matt

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    Play-Them-Where-They-Lay

    in Combat Mission - Scenario Talk

    Posted

    An example, Patrick, that might help

    to explain why some are interested in

    this idea:

    I'm currently playing a huge Op, in which

    my opponent's Panzers have broken through

    my gun line and advanced about a kilometre.

    Large amounts of my infantry (and a tank

    or three)were left behind in forested areas,

    from which they have been conducting hit-

    and-run attacks on German HT's and soft

    motor transport over the last 3 battles

    Just as actually would happen, they are

    running out of ammo (especially Molotovs).

    It would be unfair and unrealistic for me

    to be able to pull those troops back behind

    my own lines (magically passing through the

    German forces) just because the CM Op system

    allows me to.

    Therefore, I have launched a counter-attack

    to push the frontline to where my beleaguered

    infantry are...

    If one thinks of the first couple of months

    of Barbarossa (for example) where the Panzer

    Divs cut off huge amounts of Soviet troops

    that continued to fight on from the forests

    (see Paul Carell, 'Hitler's War on Russia'

    for several illuminating accounts) then this

    needs to be simulated...

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    How come the absence of motorcycle battalions?

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

    Posted

    One might say the same thing about the

    ubiquitous German halftracks: ie that

    they are too vulnerable to be used...

    (see various long-running debates on

    this forum, the most recent being in

    regard to JasonC's Kursk campaign)

    As the Soviet player, I have devoured

    hundreds of halftracks, when they are

    used foolishly by opponents...

    The real issue, IMHO, is one of map size

    (and this relates to soft motor transport

    as well)...on a big enough map you can

    use your transport effectively to switch

    troops rapidly from one area to another,

    stopping short of the actual 'hot' area

    and disembarking troops...

    This is not to say that MC troops did not

    in RL actually sieze bridges in 'hot' areas,

    or perform other very dangerous tasks...

    Like the horsed cavalry issue, this has been

    warmly debated a lot...

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    Play-Them-Where-They-Lay

    in Combat Mission - Scenario Talk

    Posted

    I seem to remember that this concept

    [voluntarily and honestly restricting

    the re-positioning of ones forces between

    battles in an Op]was recently discussed

    in some part of the Forums, but I can't

    find it...

    I'm interested to see what the consensus

    of opinion was...e.g are Night battles

    considered differently, should reins have

    to make their own way to the FEBA,

    and other questions...

    If someone can point me in the right direction

    it would be appreciated...

    thanks,

    Matt

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    Mods That Don't, Really Do.

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

    Posted

    In a previous post, I complained that

    some winter mods didn't seem to 'work'.

    Turns out that some mods, when extracted

    from their zips to the BMP folder, create

    new subfolders within the BMP folder, which

    are not read by (in my case) CMBB.exe and

    thus do not show up when you play.

    So...you need to make sure that the Modded

    BMP's are really in the BMP folder...

    I'm probably a lone babbling idiot, but

    thought I'd better post this solution in

    case someone else has the same problem.

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    Some Mods do, some Mods don't...

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

    Posted

    You're truly a prince, Junk2drive, but

    I've unintentionally misled you- I mentioned

    'Der Manstein Kommt' in passing to explain

    why I'm suddenly winterizing...

    I have a little thing I did in the editor

    for checking the effects of mods, and it has

    ALL vehicles available to BOTH sides (excluding Minor Powers) in Winter '42...and a few that are not; so my problem with HT's and some other mods

    is something else.

    Thanks, Matt

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    Some Mods do, some Mods don't...

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

    Posted

    Just got around to Winterizing my copy

    of CMBB using the excellent textures

    available at CMMODS...thanks people for

    all your hard work...

    Some Mods however, seem not to work...

    that is, they extract OK, but the vehicle

    itself doesn't change...

    Is this perhaps related to the presence

    of different options (tac numbers, stripes,

    red stars etc)within the zip?

    I dunno...any advice appreciated.

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