stikkypixie
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Combat Mission 2 is what CMBB is called in europe, i have it too. I'll tell you how the box looks like so you can compare:
it's a DVD box, on it you see what looks like a American GI, pretending to be Russian, dragging a buddy away in front of a Panther (i think).
Don't worry there aren't any major differences:
You will need the CDV (publisher of CM in Europe) patches.
And the SS are called WG (because of German law).
You can still play multiplayer, PBEM with people with the American version.
Have fun!
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Jeez, a bullet will put you out of action. The effect will vary from person to person, but you will be out of action. There is a comparison made between a SMG hit and being hit with a sledgehammer.
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You could use gridded terrain mods, the replace the existing tiles, with tiles that have lines runnig across, which should help. Or if you don't like that you could try view 1.Originally posted by StefanHaines:Is there an easy way to see the various levels of elevation on map? Ive always found it difficult to tell where the little dips in the terrain are and sometimes this really messes me up.
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Yes with built in inaccuracies maybe.Originally posted by Kilroy Lurking:Talking about maps..
It would be nice if there was a way to generate a contour map (from the map editor?) showing main landmarks and ...contours. This would reduce all the "low level flying" round the map looking for dips and gullies etc. which on flatish open ground are so immportant. Such could also be included in the "Briefings" section of each scenario for added atmosphere.
Oh well maybe in the game whose name i will not mention out of fear of the FOUR.
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don't think that's going to happen, besides since there's nothing linking the scenario's it doesn't matter in what order you play them. IMHO i don't think you'll get more out of the game playing it chronolically.
Have fun, though!
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Nice trick thanks, i'll give it a try!Originally posted by Vergeltungswaffe:Randomly create a map in the scenario editor. Look at it, then import it for use in a QB.
The main benefit is you can make it any size you want.
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That's what i love about this forum:
CAN'T GET A DAMN STRAIGHT ANSWER FROM NO-ONE :mad:
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I keep all the PBEM files in folders with the name of the opponent, in my PBEM folder, even the ones with the plots. It's just nice to have them. Although i don't keep excel sheets of the games, i once did that for Freecell
.It had wins, loss, number of games played, and how many wins needed to reach a certain percentage (assuming you didn't lose one game of course). I just learned excel back then and thought i could put it to good use.
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I thought that was standard practice for all tank crews?The anecdote had the loader at the height of the barrage scrambling for an empty shell casing to urinate in! -
I put a everything on random because i know my like of creativity will make me play the map over and over again.
But thanks for the replies, now at least i know i haven't been missing anything
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Lately i've been trying play some QB's, with mixed results against the AI, but i always keep wondering about one thing, before the battle starts, you can select your units, but i find it a bit of guessing game because i don't know how the map will be like (i just put everything on random). SO is there a way?
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I would not do that, but I would like to watch the whole movie as a continuous sequence. I would do that. </font>Originally posted by dangerousdave:</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Michael Dorosh:
heh, we just had a thread about archiving old PBEM game results, and with one exception, all the posters who expressed an opinion on how useful it was admitted that they rarely, if ever, pull up saved PBEM files to look at them.
How many people would really sit down and pull up a full-game replay (all 100MB of it) anything more than occasionally?
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What always works of course, is giving them that speech from Shakespeare's Henry V.
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.[ January 26, 2004, 06:00 PM: Message edited by: stikkypixie ]
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Shame on you Mike, shame, shame, shame!
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Actually don't see the problem, if you watch the movie FIRST then plot orders (some PBEM turns are like that) the shouldn't be problem, you just send a movie to your opponent, who then watches it, plots his moves, send the movie, with his moves back to you, you watch the movie he saw, plot your moves, CM computes your moves, his moves, makes movie, etc...
But I can see how hard this can get to implement. The size of the files would also be a bit larger.
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Well what sort of game are you playing, if it was a QB, then you should pick more smoke, etc... Halftracks are also an option, if only mg's are bothering you.Originally posted by Little Pete:Well thats a fair point but if you're short on smoke dispensers??
I think i heard JasonC advocating a sort of leapfrog advance where each section gets pinned (but not broken) sequentially, allowing you to get close without many casualties but the defender uses up his ammo.
Incidently, do you know if there is a way to preview a map, before a QB.
I read somewhere that you should use your infantry to make contact with the enemy and let your armour finish it. Easier said then done though.
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Smoke! and pray...
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No need to be mad. Machine guns - other than the dedicated heavy German / US halftrack variants - rarely do any damage to aircrafts. </font>Originally posted by Bone_Vulture:</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Ogiwan:
I'm kinda mad that my T-34s don't have the AA MGs. Uhhh...cupola?
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Oh i'm sorry i didn't know you were looking for the EARLY war uniforms, my mistake.Originally posted by Axe2121:Hmmm. Maybe I'm being incredibly dense, but I only see the Soviet Crew and its winter counterpart. And under Soviet Crew it says: "This mod set replaces uniform textures for mid- and late-war Soviet AFV crews in CM:BB."
What am I missing? :confused:
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Yes he did, check at the database under designer-> astrocat
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click on the link "forum home" in the upper right corner of your screen. Then you will get a list of all the forums of battlefront including the opponent finder forum, good hunting!
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I finally managed to download most if not all of the mods available from AndrewTF, I think they're a great addition to CMBB, thanks Andrew, Thanks Astrocat for your time
And of course all the other modders out there!
[ January 23, 2004, 03:16 PM: Message edited by: stikkypixie ]
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Ah thanks Jason, i think i see the subtle difference, because i find it a bit odd, after the stories i've heard about Japanese rule, that the population would support them.Originally posted by JasonC:"Was indochina axis? Was Vietnam axis? I'm sorry i'm very ignorant about this, but i find this hard to believe"
Before the war Vietnam was French Indochina, occupied and administered by France. In 1940 France was conquered, and Vietnam was under Vichy control. The Japanese negotiated their way in, and the local administration, with no prospect of help from France itself, felt powerless to stop them. The Japanese stationed divisions in Hanoi and Saigon. They constructed large airbases around Saigon and stationed hundreds of planes there. De facto, they occupied the country. The French forces there were not at that time disarmed, but did not interfer with anything the Japanese wanted to do. This was before the war with the US (Japan had of course been at war with China for several years already).
At the time of Pearl Harbor the Japanese used the forces in Indochina to launch invasions of both Thailand and Malaysia, aiming eventually for Rangoon and Singapore. It was planes from Saigon that sank the Prince of Wales and the Repulse off the coast of Malaysia in the first days of the war.
Japanese land forces invaded Thailand soon after Pearl Harbor. The Thais initially fought against them. But they then made a deal, ceased their resistence, and joined the Japanese side. Their troops retained their arms as a result. They helped the Japanese make it to Burma, driving the British out.
The Japanese also went after Dutch controlled Indonesia, which is where the real prize of the whole southward grab was located - the oil. The Dutch administration faced the same occupied home country problems as the French in Indochina, but elected to fight with the Allies. But the fleet gathered to defend Java from invasion was hopelessly outclassed by the Japanese and quickly destroyed.
The native population of Indonesia welcomed the Japanese. The Thai authorities made their separate peace deal. Elsewhere throughout southeast Asia the Japanese spread their propaganda about a "Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere", peddling Asian racial pride against white imperialist outsiders. This was reasonably popular everywhere except the Philipines. (MacArthur promised Philipine independence after the war, in return for support during the war. Nationalist sentiment in the Philipines was therefore wholeheartedly pro US. The French weren't half as smart about Indochina).
At first. Experience of actual Japanese rule, however, left rather less enthusiasm for the idea by a few years later. Japan was transparently interested only in stripping the southern territories of raw materials and ruled with the hauteur they had previously shown in China.
In Indochina, nationalist resistence against the French continued, but the Japanese were not interested in losing their bases there. If they were smarter they might have put up a puppet government of their own and deposed the French. But they didn't want to complicate relations with Germany by making trouble with Vichy-Free French political issues and they didn't want to fight the French forces there, already paralyzed by diplomacy.
When Allied forces finally reached the country there was debate about what to do with the Japanese soldiers stationed there. If they were disarmed, it was feared the locals would have a nationalist uprising and might slaughter them and the French, both.
In a boneheaded move for long term politics that undoubtedly seemed expediant at the time, the Allies let the Japanese keep their weapons and even used them to police some of the locals. There were people in the OSS who saw this as stupid and said so (they had been working with Ho and the resistence during the war, trying to use them against the Japanese for intel etc), but their views did not prevail. One of them was assassinated by the Viet Minh right after the war.
De Gaulle wanted to keep the French empire together. US policy had been against that, but they let him have his way. So a couple of years after the war the French were fighting for the place, tainted by previous accomodation with the Japanese. The French seemed not to mind any sort of imperialism and to be willing to back anyone to keep the natives down, while also being too weak to hold the place themselves. It was not an auspicious political position from which to begin a guerilla war.
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China was partially German equipped and trained... Dunno if an MG34 alone decides which side you are on.Originally posted by Joachim:</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Abteilung:
Just because the thread is speaking about Axis minors, I had to throw in a plug for Siam / Indochina (sp?) / Vietnam. They were Axis, iirc.
On a side note, I didn't actually do the research to find this out until I saw the movie "We Were Soldiers" and noticed an MG.34. This was intentional, apparently and a direct result of being an Axis power. Heh. Kind of went a long way to explaining the events in the years that followed.
Guess the "minor" Asian countries were more concerned about getting the Allies out (France, Netherlands) than being Axis.
And I doubt Japan was still Axis after signing a non-aggression pact with the USSR in late '41. They had just some common enemies with the rest of the axis.
Gruß
Joachim </font>
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