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    Forgot how good these games are

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

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    On 6/23/2019 at 6:35 PM, Thewood1 said:

    I saw the comments about CMBB and CMAK available on gog.com for $6 each.  Thought, what the heck?  Bought them and was immediately reminded why I have such fond memories.  To me, they are much more of a joy to play than CM2.  CM2 has a lot going for it, but the slow pace of development and patches has soured me on them a little.  The refurbished CMBB and CMAK are a breath of fresh air, if you can get around the clunky mouse interface.

    The thing that really shocked me was the smoothness of running the game on a modern system.  Its glass smooth relative to CM2.  and the little dxcfg program  that gog includes with the game actually makes a very big difference in texture quality.  Is it the same level of graphics quality as CM2 game...absolutely not.  But the gog versions install with no hassle, no DRM keys, no errors, and stable as hell.

    I have an i7-8750 with a GFX 1070 and in a mid-sized game of CM2 its still a little choppy on mid-settings.  In CMBB and CMAK, it doesn't even tickle the fan on my laptop.  Again, it lacks a lot of the modern sophistication, but its a lot friendlier to my laptop.  And the scope of WW2 combat they cover is so much more than all the CM2 WW2 titles.  As more modules eventually come out for CMRT and maybe CMFI, I'll get drawn back to CM2.  But for now, I am going to hang with my old friends for a bit.

    Which version of CMAK did you get? Was it the fully patched 1.04 version? Thanks.

    The CMx1 games are still not available in the new Battlefront store.

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    Scenario Help

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

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    On 9/25/2018 at 10:06 AM, Blazing 88's said:

    Just stumbled upon your post...  I checked my backup and I have this zip file PDF collection of 'Poor Old Spike'  tests of various conditions in CMx1 games.  You may find it of interest as well as maybe find an answer to the 'HT move through scattered trees' question, not sure though.  Here is a dropbox link for the zip file, I will keep active for now: https://www.dropbox.com/s/x26llrcnuqfmq5a/PoorOldSpike_PDF.zip?dl=0

    Thanks. You gave me that link sometime ago! I found it helpful. For example I had a German infantry squad killed a T-34 with a grenade bundle or Panzerwurfmine - cannot recall. Spike showed the distance you needed to close to, to make this work. Thanks again.

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    Scenario Help

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

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    15+ Turns and it's a small map - from the StuG to the building it is only about 215m. So your idea seems very good. I was wondering what to do with the HT as it only has a 37mm gun so I thought they meant for you to tow the Gun somewhere.

    One of my problems always is how to know if you will have LOS from somewhere. So I have a MG34. I could move it through the scattered tress to the house I suppose as that is on a rise so I "should" have LOS to the village from there. How do you try and find places for things like MGs in a scenario like this.

    The HT can carry a team so I suppose I could carry the MG team in the HT to the house area?

    Is there any resource that tells you how fast HT move through scattered trees?

    Thanks very much.

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    Scenario Help

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

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    Hello:

    (I know that most CMx1 forums are fairly quiet these days so hope it is OK to post this here as well as on Blitz.)

    Not great at these games but I am still dabbling a bit with CMBB and was wondering if you could help me figure out how to approach Gefechtsaufklaerung as the attacking Germans.

    Here is the map. 

    I have an on-board IFH18 105mm artillery piece with HE and 3S. Plus I have an Sdkfz 251/10 command HT. There are scattered tress around the road in the setup area. The house on the right is on a rise. Also have a StuG IIIB.

    Do you leave the Gun in the setup area (best LOS is then when it is placed on the road in the setup area). Or do you tow it somewhere with the Sdkfz?

    I am struggling to see how to use these tools at my disposal. Any help much appreciated.

    Gerry

     

    Gefechtsaufklaerung.jpg

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    Install Problem - Graphics

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

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    6 hours ago, Schrullenhaft said:

    What are you comparing the 'open ground' terrain bitmaps to ? Here's a Youtube video of a CMBB game and I assume your terrain looks much like this ?:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRXnWeyqdQQ

    CM1 series games generally stretched out bitmaps for the ground and were often of lower quality. I'm not certain how much better they may look with mods of higher resolution replacements (and the performance effect they may have).

    Both your Asus ZenBook and the MS Surface Pro 3 utilize Intel video (CPU integrated), but of different generations. I don't have any machines that are running 3rd Generation or higher Intel integrated video and Windows 10, so I don't have the exact environment to compare. I might have one I can setup next week with an i3 3rd generation and see what kind of results I get with it (though it is an earlier generation compared to what you have with the MS Surface Pro 3).

    Thanks. Maybe mine doesn't look so bad then. I will try and add the terrain mod that I have on my Windows 7 computer. So please don't go setting up a test for me. I will play around with it. Thanks again.

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    Install Problem - Graphics

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

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    1 hour ago, GerryCMBB said:

    Can you remind me how to access  the license program/site so I can free up one install. Thanks.

    Ignore this as I figured it out.

    I installed it on the Surface Pro 3 + Windows 10, set to XP SP3 Compatibility, and got 1024 x 768 resolution. Good as I can see more of the map as compared to 800x600. BUT the terrain seems very power quality. The Open Ground terrain looks really poor. Any idea why this might me?

    (Didn't do anything with DLLs on this computer).

     

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    Can't alt tab successfully

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

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    48 minutes ago, IsaacLightning said:

    Basically the game runs very slow at first and I heard that alt tabbing and going back in fixes this. Problem is that tabbing back in makes the screen go all black for me, and I can't play. What do I do?

    I assume you left the game at the menu? What I found is I have to mouse over the bottom part of the screen where the buttons for Join Multiplayer, Exit, etc are. When you mouse over, the buttons come alive and you can click them.

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    CMAK vs CMBB Improvements

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

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    Hi: 

    I am not interested in the desert itself but I believe there is a mod for playing Western Front scenarios using the CMAK engine. So instead of getting the older CMBO I might be interested in getting CMAK. How did the game change going from CMBB to CMAK briefly? Or maybe you can point me to an article comparing them?

    Thanks.

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    Infantry Movement Bug?

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

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    Many on here probably laugh  at boardgames but if a minefield is cleared there, it is cleared. Just don't understand people defending something that is not working in a reasonable way. Surely the way forward for the games is to have cleared minefields work as such so that the player that tactically decided to clear them can now use them.

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