Blazing 88's
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Are these the maps?
Monte Cassino_Master Maps_Files
If so i will leave the link active for a few days.
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Yes, I have had this happen both for and against my units, as luck would have it.
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On 9/4/2020 at 8:57 PM, pintere said:
If anyone still has this scenario it would be great if they could repost it
Playing this one was a ton of fun and unless this one gets uploaded to the scenario depot it may be lost forever!
Rossmann at Kodersdorf
I'll pin this here for a few days: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fG25Vio2a-tNoQlXjHevHu2P6DbWt3Ex/view?usp=sharing
Someone upload to depot please. Thanks!
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6 hours ago, Bulletpoint said:
WW2:
...Foxholes and trenches offer little protection.
I am doing a German campaign (CMRT, Iron, WEGO). A platoon of Grenadiers just captured a strip of a forest with multiple foxholes in it. The Grenadiers were performing buddy aid and forming up to move on when I noticed spotting rounds starting to fall around the area. I gave all platoon squads a quick move with hiding orders on a foxhole (what helped were the squads being split or not a full squad because of casualties).
When the barrage arrived all platoon squad members except a lone rifleman (caught running, pixels away from foxhole) survived the 45-sec or so barrage...
So I don't know what to think about the "foxholes and trenches offer little protection argument.", as my squads were all spit or had casualties making them a more compact unit, causing them to be able to all fit in the foxholes. This for sure helped save those virtual souls.
I am rather sure If I would have had full squads doing the same thing, I would have probably had half the platoon wiped out, as half the members or so would not get the protection of the foxhole during the barrage... just chiming in as this just happened to me.
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8 hours ago, Erwin said:
You got it. Enjoy...
D'oh... typo in my email address I gave you. I pm'd you with my correct email. Please send it to that address. Sorry about that.
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PM'd you Erwin as I would like a copy of it... thanks.
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EDIT.
This link does not seem to work as well. Darn. I can see why as it is the old Repository link.
https://www.combatmission.lesliesoftware.com/RedThunder/Scenarios/Eyes for the Corps1_1.html
Maybe Erwin has a copy?
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On 10/13/2020 at 12:52 PM, Dan Dare said:
If I recall correctly, this feature was on CMSF1 initial release and it was called "cocking" or something like that...
but what i really miss was the operation concept....that was pritty cool...really...a big pitty BF discarded it (start crying in solitude)
You are not alone I am sure.
For CMAK and CMBB I enjoyed the ROQC quick campaign generator that Rob O created (automated spreadsheet for campaign play through of a core unit, promotions, casualty tracking, etc). It would be great if some Excel guru could figure out how to make it work for CMx2 games.
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Fyi, link does nothing when I use it??? Thanks for the heads up though.
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On 9/18/2020 at 11:23 AM, Erwin said:
For years the modern CM games seemed to be teaching players that with sufficient ATGM's tank formations were about as vulnerable as the Italian steel coffins of WW2. Interesting that (yet again) BF has accurately predicted another facet of modern war - that the era of the tank (at least the tank that we kow today) may be over. Armor is great when fighting "colonial-type" wars against inferior oppos who do not possess sufficient high tech ATGM weapons. But from an economic and logistics POV, it is much cheaper to manufacture and transport large numbers of ATGM's than a single MBT. No MBT will survive multiple ATGM's overwhelming whatever ERA or other defenses it may possess. So, vs a peer enemy, the ATGM rules.
And I say the above as a tank lover. But, we have all also been in love with the dashing horse cavalryman and majestic battleships...
Done with a booming voice-over, explosions and mech parts flying through the air... THE TIME IS NOW FOR CM: BATTLETECH.
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I recognize that driver from somewhere!!.....
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Alright... I loaded a scenario into the editor and then exited the editor. I can now see the scenario list like normal, the scenario list is no longer invisible.
Yeah self!!
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I can't see any of the the scenario's /saves in my cmak scenario list for some reason. I can click on the blank area and a scenario will load up, I just don't have any idea what I am loading up until on the battlefield... strange.
EDIT: Ah yes, I re-installed Windows 7 on this laptop, CMAK was located on another drive... I assume I will need to re-install for the scenario list to become visible for me again? Luckly I did make a snap purchase of the CMx1 bundle package a several years ago (I just had to have a better digital backup of this series) and the price was right....
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Just going to bump /add a link to the convo.... CMx1 related.
nathan1776 since you still like CMx1, check these two campaign generators out. You may have fun using them with CMBB and CMAK (if you haven't already of course). -
On 3/3/2020 at 9:48 AM, z1812 said:
I agree that it is time for a new engine. However, releasing the the Allied and Russian Forces in a "pack" with existing maps, and relying on the community to provide scenarios and campaigns as suggested in this thread, might provide a income stream while working on the new engine.
There may be other "creative approaches" to using what is already available to create new products.
Just some vehicle /armor packs for earlier time periods and the modding /scenario creating community would take care of the rest.... (dreaming NA, France and Barbarossa).
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5 hours ago, Erwin said:
For some reason I hadn't seen this one. Like it. Thanks... Will try it out with CMBB.
Wonder if it can adapted for CM2.
Fyi, I noticed that there are two identical images (file info is the same) in the BMP folder of this pic. The linked pic is 11001.bmp. For it to work correctly, make a copy of 11001 and rename it 11002 for the second image and place it in the bmp folder as well.
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This was my favorite main screen fan art for CMBB... Worthy of the cover for the dvd case imo
Download link: CMBB MOD Main screen menu art
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I have it. I will keep the link active for a week or so.
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2 hours ago, Warts 'n' all said:
It wasn't a bore for the poor ****ers who died there. And your argument for BFC to concentrate future efforts on other theatres might carry more weight if you took that fact into account.
In game terms, never was meant for the real thing, spin it how you want....
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6 hours ago, danfrodo said:
...Then head for sunny N Africa. Then make new game engine. Then start back over again w Normandy. That's my dream for BFC.
This is my fear BEFORE they get to earlier time periods and theaters. I would be done with it all if that is the case (WWII wise)... starting the new engine with 'Boring'mandy and ignoring N. Africa and Barbarossa /Kursk AGAIN would really suck imo.
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On 12/15/2019 at 4:19 PM, danfrodo said:
hear hear! Less minor detail and more big picture stuff. like Barbarossa, Case Blue, Kursk time frameframes. Oh, and N Afrika.
.... Here finally start taking my money again BFC. It's been a while since I have purchased a WWII title. Passed on FB and have no interest in RT Berlin. I will probably get R2V eventually, but I would buy the ^^^ bold quoted editions in a heartbeat.
Other than R2V, I am as late in the war as I want to go with the other WWII titles sorry to say and jmo.
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Long, long ago, I put duct tape over top of the RTS button to prevent it from ever being used again...
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On 11/1/2018 at 10:03 AM, SimpleSimon said:
CMA2 sure buy, over here.
The games have more than enough tools at their disposal to be interesting. The issue is just lack of imagination and poor research. If you set some Grants and Panzers to fight over a 2kmx2km map of flat desert sure that's not very exciting. If people think that's how all or even most of the fighting in North Africa happened wellllll...
Avalon Hill - 'Tobruk' says HI! Loved that game.
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Not speaking for BornGinger, but maybe, like me, this person would have rather the time line went towards Kursk or Barbarossa instead?? Having said that I will more than likely purchase FnR to support BF. I am not really a fan of the last days battles though, but I will let the immersion decide that for me.