Nemesis Lead

Huh? On-map mortars are a MUST for the modern battlefield. We have plenty of space on the maps and mortars are heavily used by both sides. What better weapons for ATGM ambushes!

Here is a trick--on every turn unbutton and then rebutton your tanks. Your TCs will almost never be exposed. I can't remember the last time that I had a TC shot. It takes sharpshooters out of the game. That is why I never use them on the defense. Anyone who uses them against me will never kill one of my TCs. They actually have a more useful role as scouts if you are attacking. Slysniper--if you want to see something really neat, see how close an elite sharpshooter can get to enemy infantry by moving (not even sneaking) over open ground. You'll be shocked.

Phillip, Thank you for explaining this to the simple PoE. Clearly he does not care about the credibility of his sources, so long as they say what he wants them to say.

Guys, I subscribe to this magazine. It is a fairly new publication and I actually like it (although it does preach politics which I don't like). However--in the video game review section of this magazine....you would be hard pressed to see games that are not rated well. These guys are looking for advertisers and do not write balanced reviews. 87% is not a great score coming from the grade inflators at ACG.

One of the features I truly loved about CMX1 was that you could see (at the end of the game) all of the individual kills that each individual unit had. Especially in RT battle such as you have in CMSF.....it is hard to see who shot what. The end of game kill tally really helps tell the story of the battle. Guys like to brag about that infantry squad that killed 40 enemy and captured 10. The Panther than killed 12 T-34s and 3 armored cars, etc.. Any chance this will come back?

Funny--I had a couple M1A2s destroyed by T-55s at 100 meters. Frontal shots. That surprised me.

I had the same problem. Blast a down wall and then your men don't realize there is a hole there. Ruined a whole strategy. I also saw enemy tanks poke their cannons through a wall and shoot me. My return fire would just hit the wall. T-55s were killing M1's. Walls apparently will block fire but not cannon barrels or LOS.

I am playing a multiplayer game vs. MPisi. Here are the bugs so far. 1) Units will not fire on enemy. 2) Infantry will not dismount vehicles. 3) Game asks for your New PBEM password in two game files (you can't start game). 4) Some units (especially infantry) just ignore move commands. 5) Waypoint plotting very bad. Just an FYI Battlefront. [ August 03, 2007, 09:44 PM: Message edited by: Nemesis Lead ]

I am no expert on this, but I remember the Bradley being criticized because it could not stand up to a point blank 125mm APFDS cannon round (I have seen video of a Bradley being destroyed in testing--it was in one of those documentaries objecting to what appeared to be a boondoggle DoD project). Bradley armor is serious stuff. It is not 125mm proof, but I am not at all surprised that 30mm fire has no effect.

Regardless...cover (and distance) should make a difference.

I would love to pick my own units and have randomly generated maps. This combo makes for truly awesome human vs human games. Picking units allows players to develop their own doctrines and really experiment. More rigid interfaces are simply less fun as players cannot be unpredictable. They are also not as realistic as units rarely stick to their pre-war TOEs and cross attach until they have the forces needed to get the job done. I don't care that random maps are not realisitic looking. They adds variety and creates all sorts of cool tactical conundrums. Playing on the same maps over and over will get old.

Being an old infantry player in CMAK/CMBB.....I have been trying to use cover in CMSF. My guys are getting mowed down at shocking distances. It is as if they are not in cover at all. Does cover matter? Can we get the old "exposure" rules back?

Is there any way to see detailed unit information? Armor thickness and slope? Gun penetration? For example, I have no idea whether or not a Bradley or Striker can survive the fire from the 30mm cannon of a BMP-2. If not, can this be patched? Pretty please?

When I try to adjust artillery fire, I click on "adjust fire" and nothing happens. I believe that cancelling the fire mission does work, but if you adjust fire by cancelling and replotting, then it is as if you never plotted the original fire mission. Do others have this problem?

Thanks for the AAR! I hope a lot more of these come. Especially when 2 humans play....

Has anyone set up a website for coordinating multiplayer games (either PBEM or TCP/IP)? I have Shock Force and want to exchange fire with a real human! Anyone who wants to play.....my email is: jcsaoud AT yahoo DOT com [ July 30, 2007, 01:36 PM: Message edited by: Nemesis Lead ]

I am normally among BF's biggest fans. But I also launch products for a living. This ain't how you do it. I believe it is already the 28th in Asia.....

.....and I still cannot download the game. What gives Battlefront?

Will artillery be "cheaper" in CMSF QBs? In CMAK, CMBO, and CMBB, artillery was too expensive and was therefore not represented to the extent that it should have been in battles.

I'll take the Syrians. American equipment is not invulnarable and a crafty player should be able to punch holes in M1s.

Hi Spears! I am still around! I typically play PBEM on BoB and ExtremeGamers. Sadly, a new job has left me with little time to play. Spears and I used to lock horns TCP/IP on CombatMission.com which is now (sadly) defunct. Spears is a hell of a good player--very unpredictable, aggressive and a good user of combined arms tactics. I started fighting him, Walpurgis Nacht and Graves Registration back when I was a newb and they taught me many, nasty lessons! CombatMission.com had alot of incredible players--I have not seen a concentration of talent like that ever since. But to your point....I think in the last 6 months CM has started to die a bit. You see fewer and fewer games and folks take longer to complete them. The forums (including this one) do not have much chatter on them. When CMSF comes out......it may be another nail in the coffin. Too bad--I think the CM series is the best series of games ever.

The US is being really silly here. The 5.56mm round relies on high velocity to cause spalling to kill. When you cut the barrel length from 20 inches to 16 or 14 inches, you sacrifice about 20-25% of your velocity. The carbine is more handy in close quarters than a rifle, but it is now a far less potent weapon. But replace them with M14s? Bad idea. Ask the grunts if they want an M16 with 400 rounds or an M14 with 200 rounds (these combos weight the same). They will chose the former, not the latter. The best solution is to go back to a 5.56mm rifle with a 20 inch barrel. This is what the Marines use and they don't have the same complaints. Unless, of course, we can get those plasma rifles!

Guys, He got a college degree and was in infantry because he was in the ASTP program. This is an interesting story: When the US joined WW2, the US Army offered its most intelligent soldiers the opportunity to join ASTP. The deal was that these guys would go to college during the first part of their army tour. After the war, these college-educated soldiers would then be more effective in German and Japanese occupation roles. Keep in mind that had these guys not volunteered for ASTP, they would have CERTAINLY been assigned to rear-echelon jobs and would have never gotten near combat. Now comes the great irony. In 1944, US infantry losses in Normandy, the Hurtgen Forest, etc. were so severe that the US was lacking infantry replacements. There was also a hue and cry in the US about the least intelligent soldiers being deployed to the infantry (the Army largely used IQ and Aptitude tests to select branch). Hence, the US decided to cancel the ASTP program and to retrain all ASTP soldiers as infantry. Here is a link: http://www.astpww2.org/ So the gentleman writing the article was in college at the start of the war. He never dreamed he would be in combat. In fact, he thought it was great that he could get a college degree and almost certainly avoid combat. Then the ASTP program was cancelled and he was forced the infantry. In Europe, the veterans in the infantry often did not initially take well to the "college boys" and the author complains that often the ASTP soldiers were initially treated very poorly. While the gentleman often does not get his facts straight, his article gives one an excellent sense of what was bad about life in the combat infantry. Some of you guys should be ashamed of yourselves. If the guy was 70% incorrect and 30% correct, why not learn something from the 30% that is correct? Why would you personally attack this guy? [ December 18, 2006, 11:37 AM: Message edited by: Nemesis Lead ]

Sadly, that did not work for me. Does anyone know where else you can go to pick up CM TCP/IP games?

Thanks GJK. I installed the latest version of java and looked at my certificates. I don't see anything that indicates the proving grounds or webmaster is blocked. I also see nothing in my firewall. FYI, this worked for me a few weeks ago. Now.....it just says "Connecting to backpack.webmaster.com:7000,waiting for da" It will then just sit there for hours. Any other ideas?