jimmy81

Is there anything specific I should say to them to get them to send it? Or should I just pester them until they comply?

I'm not sure whether to post this in the tech support forum or not because technically its not really a problem. I've just purchsed CMBB and I live in the UK so and I wouldn't mind getting hold of the patches from the CDV website, but after looking at the download sizes its around 100 MB altogether. I'm crap and I've got a Dialup connection so it will take me 3 years to download them and I share a house and I can't really hog the internet all day long. Does anyone know if CDV are able to send me a disk with all the patches on it or do I have to kill all my flatmates in order to download them? Has anyone tried asking at all or know anyone who has? I would appreciate anyones help!!!

Neither would a T-80 or a Challenger 2.

Reverse tends to be a very useful thing when you end up stumbling upon a situation where shot after shot takes out your nicely organised group of tanks. Especially true if your against tigers and you're using crappy American Shermans which seem to blow up if they hit a bump in the road. I used to send one in after the other or at least try to nail the attack after he took out the first tank, but if you're against proper armour there is very little you can do in a head to head if you're the allies. If you're the Germans then half the time you've got some massive firepower. Defending is easy, you just hide your tanks all over the place hull down like traps all over so when he gets close you nail him easy. If you lose one then its no big deal coz there is another in another position waiting for him to move a little further forward. Keep them safe and out of sight I say. Let the infantry fight until you can get close enough to blast them within kill range, by sneaking around to the sides or forcing them into engagments in another direction, then attacking from the rear. If you're fighting with crappy tanks closing the range just totally evens out the problems of armour penetration and you're probably going to have smaller, faster tanks. The problem is basically the terrain and approach points and if you can't hide them until they close the range you die horribly! That said, if you've got some big armour on your side then head to head is a good option. Until you meet the bigger tank round the next bend, and you lose your lead tank, then the next tank, then the next one..... :confused:

Well I've only had the game a week and I've already tried this senario and it's a bit hard. You get loads of infantry and some tanks (which would be useful if you could get them to cross the river!!!) plus lots of artillery. I've only tried it once and basically I used all my artillery on the top of the hill, hoping that it would get rid of pretty much everything there or at least kill many of the germans. I made my way with my infantry through the woods and across the river and directly up the road, using my tanks to knock out the wooden pillboxs and supressing the concrete ones. you have to set up their line of sight correctly from across the river so they can knock out most of the pillboxes. But again, like you, I made my way up and up until the last dip before the top of the fort and realised that there really is no way through with just the infantry. :eek: My artillery had destroyed all of the gun emplacements on top, just not the pillboxes and you can't supress or destroy them with the tanks from long range. After brief thought, I decided to go all Gallipoli on the fort and perhaps scare all the Nazi's off and get them running... and basically everyone died. It was like playing Total War or something like that with bodies everywhere. To be fair, the length of the level is putting me off playing it again for a while. I couldn't get to the top and ended up (though much caused by my first world war antics) with 1000 casualties! But I reckon the best way to do it is not go up via the obvious road and try a mountain assult from the sides or the rear. Oh for some Royal Marine Commando's!!!! Then you only have to deal with the pillboxes that face the rear and not slog it up the mountain losing men as you go. Also, you can then sneak the bazooka's close to the pillboxes and try and take them out by going up the hill that way. The only problem then I guess is time, but you should be able to get there with at least 10 turns to spare. You might have problems going through the town though! Is there any way of getting the tanks across? If you can then its easy as pie to get to the top, but without the tanks I can't do it. It seems pretty sad to have them for only a few hundred meters and then basically have them as redundent units. Then again, maybe that's the point!

Thanks for that. I tried disabling the Anti Viral Software and it worked! YAY! Still, I better not take it off any time in the future in case it wasn't anything to do with that and it was just pure luck. Cheers!

Hey, new here! I've just purchased CMBB and have tried installing it, but it won't work and is giving me no end of grief! Basically it begins to install and takes ages thrashing the DVD drive looking at the BMP.exe file until eventually it begins exstracting the BMP files using winRAR. once that's done it selects the WAV.exe and after doing the same again, instead of opening winRAR and exstracting the WAV files it cancels the installation and gives me a window asking me to insert installation disk#1 and a path name ( d: in this case). if I now click ok it tells me that the media device is not connected and basically that I can't install it. ???? If I then cancel the installation (the only option that I can do now) i find I don't have a DVD drive and that its just gone and I can't access the D: drive. This doesn't happen with any other program and I've never had a problem installing anything. I bought CMBO with CMBB and that installs fine and I have apsolutely no problems with that. I have tried emptying the TEMP folder in windows but that doesn't work and I've also tried to copy the setup.exe file to the harddrive but it gives me a message saying that the setup.exe file has been modified by an outside souce or something and so I can't copy it. I have also tried installing it in safe mode but it doesn't even open WinRAR doing that. I don't have anything running in my task bar apart from Norton Anti Virus and I'm about to try disabling that and see if it works...but I don't think its going to make any difference. Anyone have any advice? I'm having thoughts about the disk being corrupted. This is a brand new disk without a single mark on it. I'm using an 800 Duron with 512 Ram, I've got 12GB of space free and a DVD drive. I've got a Geforce 2 MX. (It's all crap I know! I need a new computer!) I'm running it on windows XP Professional. Enjoying CMBO by the way. it's great.