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  1. 3 hours ago, LtJoker said:

    I have a very simple question here. How do I check the line of sight from a point other than a unit's current location?

    I thought I did that by marking a waypoint and then hitting L for LOS, but that doesn't work, neither does T for targeting. I was somehow sure I had done this once, but I haven't played CM:BO in a while and I'm not 100% sure this was even a feature. Can anybody tell me if this ever worked and if so how, or am I missremembering things?

    Thank you

    I don't think that was ever a possibility. IIRC some recommended using the Rotate tool over the terrain and it would show you where a LOS could be blocked based on the contour of the line? Maybe that doesn't make sense...

  2. On 7/24/2020 at 12:22 PM, ray smith hargreaves said:

    Sadly my near neighbor and friend Edward Reiger  a sargeant in the begliet battalion reichsfuhrer ss passed away. He had many stories of his time in Russia, to the defence of Berlin and eventual breakout and surrender to Canadian units west of Berlin. He married a land army girl working next to his prisoner of war camp in Leicestershire and never returned to Germany.  

    An interesting story. Recently I watched the movie Keeper which is about a German POW in England, Bert Trautmann. He played in goal for Manchester City and married an English girl as in your story.

  3. On 4/6/2020 at 1:58 PM, Bubba883XL said:

    i've just purchased the game from GOG.Com and it comes with its own installer / game manager similiar to steam... i would assume the folders are still on the pc so you could still mod them i would think

    There is a second option and that is to download and install a local copy (they say no auto updates then but I cannot imagine any updates are coming).

    Then you can mod it using JSGME for example. Mods at http://cmx1mods.greenasjade.net/mods even though sometimes I have got error messages there.

  4. 3 hours ago, landser said:

    Over the weekend I dove in head first and played through three or four CMBB Operations. Good stuff. Running CMBB in 1920x1080 seems like witchcraft. But it all plays great, runs great.

    It brings back so many good memories, starting a battle or operation and seeing the map and reacting like "I remember this one!".

    It plays differently than CMx2 of course, and some things are missed as CMx2 spoiled me in some ways. Spotting, as mentioned, is the biggest difference for me. What I wouldn't give to transpose relative spotting in to CMx1!

    Command delay is a great feature I think, especially on the East Front, where it has a telling effect. I miss the more robust artillery mechanics from the newer games too.

    On the other hand, I like how you can plot indirect fire on areas of the map with no LOS. It was one of my first complaints when playing my first CMx2 game. In CMx1 you can drop rounds for instance anywhere, regardless of LOS. See a crossroads on the map that you want to shell? Have at it. Accuracy is affected as the fall of shot is unobserved perhaps. But it can be done. In CMx2 it's tied too strictly to LOS.

    A perfect example is an AT gun poking through a hedgerow on the other side of a field. You place a mortar in a hedge with LOS to the opposite one and call for fire. Round after round drops 5 feet short. You cannot place the fire just behind the hedge since you cannot see it. 

    Mortar fire for example should be allowed anywhere within the weapon's range, with of course accuracy penalties for unobserved fall of shot. As it is I can't shell that crossroads on my map because I can't see it through the copse of woods. But it's right there on my map! Can't I transmit co-ordinates or something, like over the radio?  Any object should be considered an aiming stake for indirect fire. Even if I know that place is full of enemy, I can't get mortar rounds in there unless I can see the spot. I can't lob rounds over that barn to hit troops behind it if the mortar squad or a spotter cannot see that ground. In CMx1 you can, with varying degrees of accuracy, and that's good in my view.

    Can anyone point me with a link to the best places to grab Operations for CMx1 games?

    See http://www.the-scenario-depot.com/ (scenario depot 2 so to say; 3 is for the newer games).

    Scenarios link near the top allows you to search for Battles or Operations with a ton of filtering criteria.

    Gerry

  5. 5 hours ago, KenMech said:

    Here you GerryCMBB, I am pack rat and have a hard time deleting anything :)

     

    KenMech

    CMBB xls.zip 269.9 kB · 0 downloads

    Ken: 

    I am glad you are a pack rat!

    Would you have them for CMAK and CMBO too?

    I am getting blank sheets by the way. When I select all and go to change to a black font I can see the data is there but when I actually change the font then it is a blank gray screen. I am using Excel 2019 so maybe a problem with old workbooks?

    Thanks again.

    Gerry

  6. Hello:

    I see this symbol and he seems to indicate a possible enemy unit, in this case a crew but it has been used for Infantry too. Using the gog version of the game. I did not have the original CMAK so I am wondering if this is a standard symbol or some graphics anomaly?

    Thanks.

    Italian.jpg

  7. On 7/12/2019 at 6:48 AM, Thewood1 said:

    I am assuming you saw I bought them on Gog.  They are fully patched.  Why not just go there and take a look?  I am not sure your point.

    Thanks for letting us know about gog. I just saw now in a comment that it is patched only to 1.03 which should be fine they say. I bought it. Thanks again.

    The reason I asked about patches was, if you see the other threads, people have trouble getting it patched depending on how they acquired the game.

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