[MyIS] Buffpuff

Then he did a "fine" job in heat management

I used to split off scout teams (the 2 man teams) from a rifle squad. After watching Slim's tactics video I discovered that playing as the Germans that's probably not the best thing to do since you're stuck with a 6 man group that can't be split up again (such as a base of fire element and a maneuver/assault element). I'd have to watch the video again (not that I don't love to see Twiggy get dirty) but I'd hedge my bets in that his brother half squad had what you said with the majority of the grenades and the MP40.

I'll definitely be keeping an eye on it since this isn't the first time I've seen this happen. Maybe it's just a fluke. As for the MP40 assault element I would concur but if memory serves me correctly there was only one MP40 in Twiggy's original squad (and I used split teams in the beginning versus scout, assault, etc.). And as for taking out the ATG I'm still amazed I had to be right on top of him to take out that loader guy. Poor, brave soul. All his buddies had been piled against him several turns before this played out. I had moved up Twiggy and his overwatch squad to ensure that the AT gun was indeed out of action before moving my tanks up.

Shhh. Don't tell Steve. I think he has low tolerance for ignorance!

If it had happened for just a brief time I could say that sounds feasible. What has me scratching my head is the flip flopping back and forth. One minute he's blasting away with the MG42 like a good soldier and then switches to P38, back to MG42, back to P38, back to MG42. Not quite sure I understand. The movies are a turn in a campaign mission though. "MG42 challenged gunner boy" just didn't have the same ring to it for me

And I'll stop with this one since I've got more than enough video to show the peculiar behavior. Here Twiggy kills the AT gunner and then comes face to face with the loading crew. Like a deer caught in the headlights they look at each other before Twiggy mows 2 of the crew down with the MG42. You'll notice that he then switches back to the Walther P38 and then back to the MG42 again towards the end of the turn. On a side note you'll notice that Twiggy's helmet seems to come off at the very last second of the movie. I'm sorry to report that on the following turn Twiggy had been shot in the head. No more baseball for him... Twiggy's revenge before Valhalla

Point blank range See here's the thing that just has me scratching my head. I decided that since Twiggy (aka P38 gunner boy) wasn't going to be invited to the company baseball retreat that he needed to avenge for his inactions by becoming an action in of itself. So in the above movie I have him fast track it to the AT gun position. As you can see from the movie he had no issues whatsoever of sweeping that gun with the MG42 several times. That AT loader lives a charmed life is all I can say. But now the range is even closer and he's using the gun he should have been using the whole time. I'm just all confused now. This would have made for a heck of an AAR had I known it was going to turn out like this.

Initial switching to pistol Next turn target briefly Next turn target order Ok the range is close. Environment constricted...You be the jury on that one.

Being curious to see how long this would go I went to the next turn. I'm 12m away from the AT gun and I gave the squad a 15 second target briefly order. In the beginning of the turn the team leader immediately suffers a casualty leaving the MG42 gunner (who is still only using a Walther P38 at this point) and a rifleman armed with Kar98. Well my gunner is now cowering with his P38 out. I'm ready to literally insert my foot into this soldier's rectal area for switching to a pistol to begin with and then cowering because his actions just got the team leader killed. So while the gunner is cowering in the tall grass my lone rifleman does as he's told and shoots his rifle for the duration of the 15 second target briefly order. At the end of this target briefly order the rifleman chucks a grenade at the AT position and hits a home run after tossing it right on the money. The squad status drops from pinned to a normal range at around the 30 second mark. At the 36 second mark my gunner switches back to the MG42 gun that he should have been using the entire time. As luck would have it at the end of the 60 second turn my hero rifleman takes a round from somewhere to his right side. I'm down to just the gunner in that squad now. So after saving that video turn I decided to play the what if I do this game. So I changed the target briefly order to just a plain target order. My team leader bites it 2 seconds in to the turn but okay I can live with that. My gunner decides to toss a grenade 8 seconds in to it and misses by a LONG shot. Again I can live with that. He doesn't make the squad baseball retreat when this is over with. Still showing pinned status my rifleman goes into a kneeling position and is spotting. A rifle burst from a friendly squad to the rear makes him immediately go back to pinned. If I had friendlies shooting so close to me I'd probably do the same thing but yell watch what the hell you're shooting at. So 32 seconds now my gunner is no longer pinned and now begins to shoot with his P38 pistol. 35 seconds the pinned rifleman goes to a kneeling position and he starts shooting his rifle. And then at 39 seconds my gunner switches his P38 back to the MG42. It appears he's reloading it at this point (and the status shows that). 55 seconds into the turn he uses the MG42 while a building to our right collapses. From looking at the video I can only guess that my gunner farted in the direction of this building and it crumbled to the ground. Satisfying in a way that he has that power but if he has that power while in the world did he switch to his pistol for so long???!!!

I apologize if someone has brought this behavior up but while playing a campaign mission tonight I witnessed some "peculiar" behavior. So here's the setup: - Campaign: A Bloody Ride - Scenario: Pass and Destroy - Unit in question: German rifle squad that had been split into 2 fire teams I had maneuvered this particular squad up to 24m of a known AT gun after giving them a slow command in the previous turn. My orders were to target briefly for 30 seconds at the greyed out AT gun contact and then slow crawl to within 10m of the position and face to that contact icon with the hopes that if anything was left (I had spotted the loader in the previous turn but it appeared the remainder of the crew were casualties) the squad would take care of it. So for the first 18 seconds of the 30 second target briefly command my squad was doing what it was told and shooting at the contact with Kar98 rifles and the gunner manning the MG42. And then at 18 seconds my MG42 gunner switched to a Walther P38 pistol and continued firing at the AT contact. For the remainder of the turn the gunner kept the P38 pistol out. I had thought maybe the gunner had run out of 7.92mm ammo but I've checked. Ammo counter was at 354 rounds when he switched to the P38. So I am perplexed at this behavior. On a side note this squad had received a casualty to one rifleman (armed with Kar98) in the previous turn from an unknown contact. In my desire to keep the pressure on that AT lone loader gunner I pressed on this turn. I've saved the turn in question and can post a link if needed. Any ideas?

Marketing has always been a "funny" thing for me. Sure, food ads are great for when you're hungry. But I don't think I've ever watched a commercial or looked at an ad and said "Man I gotta have that". Ads are good at exposure but there are so many "free" ways to do that these nowadays that going heavy in the advertisement department doesn't make much sense to me other than like you said Steve in that you've got the money to burn in your profits. Obviously your big hitters have the budget for that sort of thing. On a side note Steve I'll say that saying No to Steam isn't a bad thing. If there was a lot of competition for this type of genre then maybe I would think differently. Word of mouth and I guess the word "tradition" has made the company we see today. And that's not a bad thing. I'll stop there before someone tells me to wipe some brown off a certain part of my anatomy.

I won't argue that point. On a personal note I like the fact that Battlefront has never gone the digital distribution route (aka Steam, Origin, Uplay, etc.). If anything it's kept the ignorant masses away from these forums for years. Imagine the gimme gimme-what the hell it's broken-where's my call of duty crowd to these forums. Not quite as special if you ask me. For those that put a little effort in researching then maybe their sights get trained on this place. It's been so long for me but I think a magazine PC gaming article is what drew my attention to Battlefront when they released CMBO back in 2000. Battlefront has never put the emphasis on marketing and relied on word of mouth more than anything. I'm sure Steve could chime in here and say they've saved COUNTLESS dollars in that particular decision. On top of that these games are, at least in my opinion, a niche market. Any so called wargamer who's interested in the genre should know about Combat Mission by now or have their head examined.

Being involved in law enforcement for 19 years I've learned a few things. Tons of patience and that ignorance is a way of life (almost like a lifestyle choice if you ask me) for quite a few people. The ignorance is easy to deal with in "educating" people on the way of things. Using DiplexHeated as an example it's a good opportunity to point people in the right direction. Yeah I know it's not easy to respond to the masses of the ignorant but plugging in a comment here and there (Hey you can get this game from www.battlefront.com) is a way to bring people over. I've already done it myself when someone asked "What game is this and where can I get it" (I'll not point out that the title of the video was Combat Mission Beyond Normandy gameplay...LOL!)

PC Gamer needs to take lessons. Their last issue had pages and pages of advertisement for Graphic Artist design/Computer gaming design universities and colleges. I felt like I had ordered a brochure to go back to college versus a magazine that talks about PC games. And they haven't given ya'll ANY love in quite some time.

Just Go With It (Jennifer Aniston....drool!!!) Billy Madison (Yes it's stupid but come on...If you don't pee your pants you ain't cool!!!) Big Daddy (Mediocre at best Steve. I'll give you this one) The Waterboy (Just so many lines in that one. And The Fonz plays the Coach...Come on Steve!!!) Grown Ups (Salma Hayek...To quote Wayne and Garth....SCHWING!!!) Happy Gilmore (The price is wrong *****! ) The Wedding Singer (Love Stinks...Yeah yeah!) You Don't Mess With the Zohan (OK Steve you got me on this one...Terrible movie) Jack and Jill (I'll give you half credit here Steve as seeing Adam dressed up in drag is "disturbing" on so many levels...But Al Pacino doing the Dunkin Chino...Priceless!!!) I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (Jessica Biel...SCHWING SCHWING!!!) That's My Boy (I'll give you another point for this one Steve. Bad movie) The Longest Yard (Given that it's a remake of Burt Reynolds I found it to be quite entertaining. One of his better movies in my book) Anger Management (Jack Nicholson..."I Feel Pretty". And "I said over easy!!!". Boo on you Steve!!!) Pixels (Growing up in the 80's I couldn't help but to be reminded of the so many days of going to the Mall to go to the Arcade) Grown Ups 2 (I'll give you 2 points for this one Steve. Some movies don't need a sequel. Grown Ups was one of them) Sorry for the off-topic commentary...Carry on!!!

I would agree with this. Part of the draw is immersing yourself in the role. Thinking of Silencing The Guns-Brecourt Manor scenario it was Lt. Winters who led that assault. With my CMBN luck I can see him as a casualty very quickly. Lol! Losing him is akin to a Campaign defeat. Now if it was Lt. Dike or Cpt. Sobel. I'd want to grant the player a magnimous victory!

My sentiments exactly. Now Armchair General needs to get off their duffs and give their review!

What I love about this place is "discovering" new scenarios, campaigns. I've had to skim over this thread to avoid the spoilers so that I can enjoy the fruits of your labor George. Thanks for the mod list. Your screenshots look so darn good!

An ambitious project, to say the very least. The good news is there's at least one scenario I can think of that's done already: Brecourt Manor. Being a fan of the the HBO series and the book, of course, I wouldn't mind contributing in some way. I've just started tackling making a campaign myself and I'm stumbling through scenario design by trial and error. Believe it or not the editor is pretty intuitive. I'm still struggling on finding a good way to edit elevations (versus editing every elevation point) but it's been fun taking on the challenge. Figuring out AI plans has been an exercise in frustration (when you screw it up) and triumph (figuring out what you screwed up and then fixing it).

Thanks for the links. And trust me in that I can relate to slow production rate. Part time job helps with the time aspect but it's the motivation that I have to constantly work on.

I'm sure it's in front of my nose and I keep looking left and right of it but I'll be darned if I can find this map in my CMBN data folder. Slim any chance you can PM me the .btt file for that map?

I know. I should have prefaced my post to acknowledge your family commitments. Forgive my eagerness to learn more.

Alright Slim it's coming up on 2 weeks. When do we get to see the video on using supporting weapons??

I'm ashamed to say I've never watched that movie.

First welcome to the forums Banjo. My post count is a bit misleading but I've been here since Combat Mission Beyond Overlord was released way back in 2000. The only reason I remember that is that CMBO almost caused me not to get married in July 2000 because as my wife said "You play WAY too much of that **** game". LOL! So welcome to the Brotherhood. I can't answer the MP question because I haven't done a PBEM (play by email) since Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin. I'm going to assume it's still 1v1 that can be played via email, Hotseat, or in real-time. As to the full campaign question yes there are several campaigns for CMFB as well as the other CM titles. There are also scenarios (alias Battles) galore for any of the CM titles. There's enough to keep you busy for quite awhile. The repository is being revamped but it's a good place to start if you wish to find extra scenarios or campaigns to play. As for interest in playing multiplayer I don't consider myself a beginner, per say, but I'm a beginner to CMFB if that meets your definition of a beginner. LOL! As I said before I haven't played a MP game in ages but I'll be more than glad to walk you through your first one. Who knows. Will you have beginners luck or will I smite your country of Norway and send you crying to Mommy that it burns!!! LOL! Feel free to PM me as, all joking aside, I'll be more than glad to show you the ropes of what I've picked up over the ages.