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    Purchase and QB Bone

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

    Posted

    Dear Mr battlefront , may i suggest you to keep on producing the following bone instead of trying to explain why the fact of explaining something is difficult?.

    I thought i could disconnect a little from the forum, but if those we suppose to be responsible people begin to act as a young rascal with attention problem.....

    Focus Steve, focus on giving us another bone ;)

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    Purchase and QB Bone

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

    Posted

    Behave my dear Cid250. I could say that most of the time I´m pretty much agreed with your thoughts, but sorry this time....now i´m dying for a screenshot as the perfect complement to the thrilling-amazing-superb info Mr Steve is giving to us....

    I want to see the yanks coming, not just being told they will come

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    combat mission "Dream" (aka "Normandy")

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

    Posted

    Some question and thoughts:

    1.- should the casualties only be stabilized and not withdrawn?

    (i do not like to enter in further discussion that could imply moral little things, but as cmsf is designed nowadays, i continuously get amazed of how on heart had somebody removed my incapacitated soldiers from an almost surrounded position, and even more amazed i will get if that happens on a wwii scenario,...quite uncommon,...but sure 1st aid assistance was applied...)

    2.- as another feature that cmsf introduced and i think shall remain with small adjustment to the scenario: Will FFI, SOE, OSS, SAS, COMMANDOS (not acting as mere infantry), even "collaborateurs" operatives be present?

    (Skorzeny groups at the Bulge or Partisans when back to east?)

    ( i know that cmsf do not introduce special forces as all we know or thougth them migth be, but it has introduce spies and IDE, and although i see SAS and COMMANDOS as pure "elite", FFI operatives were nothing but a mere CMSF_spy_team with the capabilities of infantry, enginieers if you like)

    (For these "special/uncommon" forces i am thinking in that third module were the rare equipment will appear)

    (maybe too many "war-hazañas belicas" films and comics during my youth)

    3.- Variety 1....Will the uniformity of soldiers uniform and gears dissapear? (some of battlefront posts implies that yes and i assumed it so, cmsf is able to handle it on the reds and it is not a thing to kept while the vehicles have some minor variations that make then unique)

    4.- Variety 2....Will colour be historically portrayed? (hard to write that question from my point of view, without sounding irrespetuous, unsensible or lacking political correctness. And of course, i am not referring to the fact that germans shall be grey, british green and yanks blue for the reds being red when they finally arrive)

    5.- Variety 3....Will the other gender appear if by any chance you give us what point 2 suggests? :)

    6.- Variety 4....Will be a little more variety on how our brave guys lay dead?

    questions and thougths without end but enought for today....

    by the way, when will the dedicated cm ww2 forum be open?

    N.B.- poor english, sorry, but it is not my mother tongue, which reminds me of one joke:

    Papi, why is the language we speak called mother tongue?

    My dear son, cause we fathers have quite rarely the opportunity to use it.

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    Am I missing something with Campaigns?

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

    Posted

    >>Dear Mr Battlefront:

    Thank you for your answer but....sorry if I'm so persistent, but from my total ignorance about programming i think this matter is crucial, so .....[premise start] given that all the damage data is there in a saved game, and this info is related to an scenario, an both info (save game and scenario) at some stage are translated into the same tongue even if they initially have different format[premise end].....would it be possible to cross them both and generate a new scenario info? or would this cost you an undesired (by now) amount of time? is your approach to have permanent damage finally in so different to the above one?

    >>Dear Rocky: you can always throw a coin.... it is no good to be undecided

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    Am I missing something with Campaigns?

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

    Posted

    Dear Mr Battlefront

    before i lost the track of the post...

    one funny idea:

    is it feasible that a "save game" could be edited? or saved as a scenario?...if yes, i think the problem of permanent damage could be shorted easily, and the set up of "advance lines" too (by drawing set up zones till HQ units or sth similar)...

    of course would depend in your time cost evaluation that you make a kind of open campaign to deal with this option or just give the option to the gamers to manually create the arrival of reinforcements (a la QB style that you mentioned before) or the realization of meta campaings

    ...in my dreams i got refilling of ranks on existing units from the pool and even equipment to survived crews...downgrading the affected unit experience if applicable...just a dream

    so please Mr Battlefront, reply if it is feasible or not to save an ongoing scenario as a new scenario (real brew up?) and if it could be implemented easily...the rest could be discussed on a later stage

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    no pixeltruppen!!!

    in Combat Mission: Shock Force Tech Support

    Posted

    when playing the demo, i am suffering a strange issue: no soldiers are represented, not iven their icons or screen top edge indicator.

    vehicles are not affected by this, but no drivers or troops being carried are visible, in that case at least their icons are telling me that they are there. But when ordered to disembark even the icons dissapear, and i can see their moving path!!!!

    It happens with all kind of troops (brits, marines, us army and all of the red ones)

    I had ran my CMSF+Marines copy to check if i had mistakenly change something in my computer or vid card but everithing was ok. So it only happens with the demo.

    My system is:

    AMD Athlon XP 3200+

    2.2Ghz 1GB RAM

    NVIDIA GeForce 7800GS

    Please help....

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    a bit discontentment about target line

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

    Posted

    if the case is like you couldnt see from the center having your trooper out of a corner but sb else center could see your single soldier out of the corner then we are in a big problem someway shortable by a "3 point" LOS which could bring more calculations than the single center but quite less than calculation of each individual. Imagine you have a squad in line formation, the squad LOS could be calculted from a nbr of extreme points (4 to 1 extreme points depending of variables). those four extreme points would be calculated from an initial squad center "own unit sight" (much easier of calculate cause no obstruction should affect)or if the computer already manage this info by a direct calculation. Even it could be modeled in a way that if the unit is running or assaulting their extreme points selection is affected by the direction of the movement, simulating some... if the team is reduced to a two soldiers team then the nbr of points... if the unit is a tank then....etc.... i think the sleeping pills are taking strange effects on me today. ZZZZZZZZ

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    promotions & experience

    in Combat Mission Campaigns

    Posted

    will this be taken into account? let´s say that after 3 successful battles my regular pz grenadiers become veterans, is this possible?(hope so, because they for sure will become tired, so they need something to balance).

    next, if my batallion commander was kia, do i have the option to promote on spot one of my co commanders? (and so on trought the ranks).

    also, if i can save an OoB, will it be possible to save after one campain?, and then to be used for another? (i´m thinking on a kampfgruppe acting as a fire brigade without much time to rest and with just minor reinforcements to their damaged structure)

    and the last one, could i update individual units equipment? (changing those old pzIVe into pzIVf when they become available will improve my panzer btln even if i just change 1 per co)

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