GreenAsJade

So.... do we bring back the band, and reinstate the OP's honour? Do we finally retire "It's been that way since CMSF"? GaJ

(just to be clear, I knew the reason... and I've seen it kill before. I've never had a dumb vehicle drive right up to a burning tank like that before though! I could have sworn I plotted a move to pass it by, maybe the muppet driver was thinking "ooo - a Shermie, at last I get to see one close up!")

LOL! That's something I can picture happening in real life! And here's the footage: GaJ

LOL. Actually, thankfully, that was quite a good turn for me, despite this little setback GaJ

... captured on film: GaJ

... on this topic: if you get a freeze with 1.7.3, can you send me the log file. Thanks! GaJ

PC is up to 1.7.3 now. It's definitely there: I can see it via the web access to dropbox. If you can't see it, maybe you're not syncing properly? H2H Helper - Administrative Assistance for playing CMBN with a real opponent Cheers, GaJ (If someone would be kind enough to do an update of those instructions for 1.7, that'd be awesomely gratefully accepted )

If you're experiencing the "Windows chat freeze" problem, can you give 1.7.3 Alpha a try ... now in the Dropbox. GaJ

Actually, you might want to grab 1.7.1, as per another recent thread...

Hah - I forgot to say: type "CMFI" in the "installation name" field! GaJ

Huh - I've found them behaving exactly as I'd expect. You can go across the grain, just like going across a row of fences. Which is what it is. You can't see out of them, except for the first row. I do appreciate that moving with the grain for a short distance can get messed up with action spots not being in the right row. But I'm pretty sure my guys just split up, some in one row, some in the neighboring, by leaping over. That makes realistic sense anyhow ... there's not much space in grape vine rows (at least in summer). GaJ

A note about some windows problems that seem to crop up from time to time... On Windows, sometimes people report that H2HH "freezes" when they click to chat. In fact, what happens is that for some reason Windows decides that the right place for the chat window is off the screen somewhere. I haven't been able to figure why this is happening, though I suspect something to do with multiple monitor use. Anyhow, for now the cure is "kill it and restart H2HH from the dos prompt like this: h2hh.exe reset-windows" This is mentioned in the FAQ. I haven't heard of this exact thing happening on a Mac (yet). For me, on a Mac, when H2HH is iconified, sometime the main window seems to end up off the screen. On the Mac that I have, this is easy to deal with: right click "show all windows" works. I'm sure I'll eventually figure it out and remedy.... GaJ

1.7.1 is supposed to: - Know about CMFI, so it automatically detects it and sets up correctly for it - Ensure that if you have a turn waiting, then a tab is visible with a waiting turn (IE no more "CMBN tab at the front with no games waiting, CMFI tab deselected but has games waiting). For the PC I think it's Beta: people have been using it, it seems fine. For the Mac, it's "Alpha": it's the first time I've built H2HH for the Mac, only me and Charles-Mac-Texas-Toast have run it that I know of. Visually it's not 100% perfect (the refresh button got squished by my version of the tools) but it seems to work GaJ

It's been a fascinating skim read about pistols. I was most interested, though, to read that this is the reason why my half-squad of inf that I sent to dispatch a tank crew failed so miserably! GaJ

Heh heh I'm working like mad on a Mac version that detects CMFI automatically. Just now, got a build working on my brand new Mac. Until recently I didn't know, myself, how to use the existing version with a Mac, because I didn't have one Now I do know: here's what you need to do... Install->Add Installation directory pointing to /Applications/CM Fortress Italy/Combat Mission Fortress Italy.app In the case of the Mac, it should be as simple as that - it was only Windows that got messed up big time by the Game Files going somewhere else completely different... GaJ Edit: if you want to use right-click to launch CMFI, you also have to do Game->Edit and point the "Application Name" to the same place.

That's got to be a bug... GaJ

I really wish the "How to get H2HH thread" would be made sticky. Anyhow: a reminder: the deal is send me a PM with your email address so I can add you to the sharelist for the H2HH Dropbox. Cheers, GaJ

Hi All, I've put an alpha version of H2HH 1.7.0 in the H2HH Dropbox share. This is supposed to: - Do the right thing with CMFI - Make sure that it never shows you a tab with no turn waiting, if there are any turns waiting in any tabs (I haven't yet figured out how to make the individual tabs highlight that they have a turn waiting). If you are the sort of person who doesn't mind trying things out even if they might not be quite right yet, it'd be great if you can give this a try. Thanks, GaJ

BFC thought they could eliminate the Borg, but resistance is obviously futile!

But I think it's going to be a long long time...

A funny thing about this one: the individual solider has run off, he's 200m away from the other guys, and well out of sight (they are back behind the buildings that he ran past to his death). So - he gets shot. All his buddies, safely 200m away behind the building, fall on the ground cowering GaJ

Ah - now I see what is staring us in the face. You need to point the install to a directory that _contains_ GameFiles, not to the GameFiles directory itself. I suspect that H2HH is trying to tell you this in the Log Window: it's probably saying something like Checking install at: D:\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\Battlefront\Combat Mission\Fortress Italy\Game Files Couldn't find the Incoming/Outgoing directories at: D:\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\Battlefront\Combat Mission\Fortress Italy\Game Files\Game Files\Incoming Email I know that's not the most obvious error message, but if you look closely you can see it's trying to tell you that its looking for Incoming Email inside Game Files inside the directory you pointed it to (which itself is Game Files). Not saying you'd work this out for yourself, just telling you how I'd work it out if you sent me an error log file In summary: when you do "Add Install", the directory that you tell it is the Installation Directory must be the one that _contains_ the Game Files directory that CMxx created Cheers, GaJ

Alvano Anvil: TOTALLY NOT H2H. This scenario is "recommended Allies vs AI". Is the AI really that bad? It seems to me that with all the equipment that the Axis are given as defender, the player could just "hit go" every turn and still win! The Allied briefing doesn't make this adequately clear. It should say "don't waste your time setting this up for H2H play". GaJ

I'm happy to give detailed help on a particular problem. Before I do, can we check whether this post that I made a little while back (over at WeBoB) helps? http://webandofbrothers.yuku.com/reply/145482/Problem-with-H2HH-with-CMFI#reply-145482 GaJ

I've seen stragglers and crawling off a bit before. For me this is new: in not one but two squads in one turn the whole squad is disobeying the move order that it has, and instead one man is *rushing* towards the enemy as far as he can go in the one minute. I'll send the file as requested... GaJ