Erik Springelkamp

Although it is quite a bit of work, it is also satisfactory to create order out of chaos and thus get to know your force.

I have good memories of the book. I read it while learning CMAK, and it was a great introduction into the context of the game. I received it together with the physical game media, so shipping was negligible at the time. It was totally different from what I expected: I thought it would be an expanded rule-book, but instead it was a large collection of vivid battle stories.

So these are the stock scenario's: Alvano Anvil Avanti!! Bad Day at Beach RED Beyond the Belice Biazzo Ridge Butera Station Casa Nostra Catch a Tiger Clearing the Niscemi Highway Fight at Vallebruca Gateway to Palermo Hot Mustard Lemon Hill Livorno Pride Ramparts of the Palikoi Ritirare!! The Battle for Borgo Cascino Can anybody point out some easy ones, suitable to start with? (Attacker side)

I have been away from CM a while. I have played a lot of Shock Force in the past, but although I pre-ordered the special edition of Normandy, the bocage didn't appeal to me. Now I saw Fortress Italy, and I am trying to get into it again, and I am looking for some easy scenario's, to get to know my forces, without being wiped out after a mistake. Something in the order of the 1st advanced campaign scenario. Call me lazy, but I do this for fun, not work :-)

So what makes the new headquarter a headquarter when it has the wrong Icon?

Having been away from CM for a while, I just acquired CMFI. Going through the tutorials. In Mission 3 of the Gela training campaign I have the pity remnants of my forces. Now my HQ has an ordinary infantry icon, and under the HQ icon there is a HQ team of three members. I assume my commander has died, and now the XO has become commander, and so his unit becomes HQ. But why don't the icons change? (Having only glanced at CMBN since I bought it when it came out, and being more familiar with CMSF and CMA I must say I am chocked at the amount of casualties that still give you a victory in these battles.)

@afreu: > It's an opinion No, it is an insult. @Paper Tiger: don't listen to afreu, his opinion has no value, just create your campaign for us.

> However, Iran is where the focus is right now, and it's understandable why. Yes? Why?

I don't think these nations would want to spoil their relations with Iran for the next century for some imperial crusade of the USA. There are a lot of Turkish people - related to the Azeris - in the North West of Iran.

> We need to hit them now, no messing around, hit them hard with every dirty trick we've got. Yes, you can't allow countries to be independent of the US. Kill them all.

Combat Mission is for the long term. It has a steady flow on buyers for years to come. And it is a niche market, lower prices will not suddenly attract large numbers of buyers. So I guess the price will be going down only slowly. If you insist to be cheap, you can save a bit on the base game.

You have to put the scenario in the gamefile\scenarios folder, by choosing the right directory when you save. Or you have to manually move the .btt file after you have created it, but that is cumbersome. Once you have a testfile in the scenarios folder, you can open, edit and overwrite it from the editor program. You can also open an existing scenario and save it under a new name, so you have an example of a complete scenario, that you can then change and play around with.

I suggest you just start playing with the scenario editor. Put some forces on the map, save, and start the scenario. Then read the documentation for details you don't understand.

Why were these files removed from the repository? It worries me, because I trusted the repository to be there when I would have to reinstall on a different computer.

You will have to try a few times. Sometimes a choose a larger force than I intend to use, and during setup I make a selection from the available forces. But that can lead to a crowded setup area. Fortunately the setup areas are out of sight, so the non used forces can stay there safely.

Dutch trucks are mostly DAF and Scania

That is improbable.

You can easily convert the bmp's to jpg's afterwards. (Irfanview has a good batch facility).

I suggest you try books.

Actually I play CMSF and CMA, and there they are called Billy_sp icons, but I saw recently a new mod with small icons for CMBN that will have the same favourable effect on stacking.

I use a mod with smaller icons and they stack closer to the units because of their size

I wonder how other people use the BRDM vehicle, that also appears in this scenario. It is very vulnerable to almost all kinds of fire, but when you dismount the passengers, it cannot fire its weapon. I have used remnant teams of one or two to remount the vehicle to get a working MG, or I bail out a driver from one BRDM and use it as a machine gunner into the next one, creating one operable vehicle from two useless ones.

No, you cannot.

But for the Italians the war ended much better than for the Germans. They must have done something right.

That was not specific to the a-bomb program though. For a long time every university or research institute had a 'computation chamber' with a lot of people doing computations as requested by professors. Even before the invention of mechanical calculators. They used large table books with logarithms and other functions in great accuracy.