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Prince of Eckmühl

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  1. Have you ever tried simply flattening the plant and then occupying it, rather than trying to "take" it?
  2. Yup, and all I've been able to think about regarding the subject is the failure of Koiosworks to use the correct color on the Panzer Command progress bar. Perhaps they're color-blind!
  3. I don't want you to get a big head, or anything, but you are WAY OVER MINIMUM SPECS for CMSF: http://www.battlefront.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage_bfc&product_id=162&category_id=9&manufacturer_id=0&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=26 Out of curiosity, I fired up the "Thin Black Line" scenario, just now, and my memory usage on an XP system was pushing 700mb when the scenario opened and there were only a few blue units deployed on the map. That level of memory usage suggests that playing the game on a 256MB system (the minimum memory spec) would cause the game to begin paging-out to the hard-drive. Were that to occur, the calculations phase would slow to a proverbial crawl. PoE (aka ivanmoe)
  4. I understand the technical aspect of the situation. But I have to point out that truly large scenarios could take a long, long time to resolve in CM1, on modest-hardware, as well. At that point, having waited fifteen-minutes, or so, for all the numbers to get crunched, players could fast forward the game through the sixty-seconds of graphics if they chose to do so. What I don't understand is why so many folks insist that decoupling the graphics from the computational phase makes for an inherently superior gaming experience. Or am I wrong in my belief that the results are the same. Do the two methods, blue-bar vs no-blue-bar actually generate different outcomes? BTW, I was sincere in my expression of support for WEGO players that were struggling with game-performance issues. They paid for a WEGO game and I think it was a stand-up move on your part to address the slow-down with a patch. Well done. PoE (aka ivanmoe)
  5. Why does it matter when the calculations are done in WEGO, before or during the graphics display, if the outcome is the same? I'm glad that the patch fixed the frame-rate problem for you WEGO players, BTW. I want you to be able to enjoy the game as much as I do playing it RT.
  6. CMSF:Israelis ought to be a priority, along with CMSF: Egyptians. The asymmetry in doctrine between the forces would make for very interesting tank battles, and, until the ATGMs appear, shootouts that might last for more than a few minutes.
  7. This was the first CMSF:Marines scenario that I played. The first go-round, my Abrams were slaughtered. The second time, I spread my platoons out across the width of the map, and then advanced the individual vehicles in overwatch fashion. In that second game, I had two vehicles mobility-K, but none were destroyed. It is indeed, all about tactics. PoE
  8. I honestly don't think of folks who reject RT as being essentially inferior gamers in any sense, whatsoever. The fact of the matter is I'm pretty damned old, and I know that some of you younger guys would probably outshine me in the "click and twitch" competition. But, that's really not what it's all about. Rather, I find the confusion and chaos of RT so compelling, as a computer-wargamer, as to be absolutely indispensable. I compensate for my inability to control everything before me with absolute precision by being more conservative in my tactics than some of you who might be playing WEGO. My maneuver takes place in segments during which teams are parceled out with this task or that. I move the different teams within the element, assign them other orders, and then move on to the next group. Things do get away from me in the larger scenarios, but I'm utterly sincere in suggesting that I take no quibble with the effect. That's as it shoud be. I have to admit that I sucked at it pretty hard when the game first came out, but I've improved immensely and can't imagine playing the game in any other mode. In that regard, I guess I've got a head-start on a lot of you guys. Then again, I've always been the adventurous sort. ;-) PoE (aka ivanmoe)
  9. Please continue to develop the RT mode of play. I've been on board for CMSF and the Marines module from the very beginning, and I've never played ten minutes of either in WEGO mode. In fact, I don't even know how to. There are a lot of "squeaky-wheels that are really negative about RT, but they don't necessarily represent the majority of folks who have purchased these two products. Some game engines are fine for IGOUGO, or WEGO, but this one really shines RT. Thanks and good luck with the future development of the CM2!
  10. Just wanted to update the ticket here in regards to 1.10 and the Marines module. Shadows continue to produce major jaggies with 8xxx cards and 175.19 drivers in WinXP SP2. Users can turn the shadows off with alt-W, but that's not really a fix.
  11. I've just had time to play "Bad Moon Rising," but the game looks and plays great. I wish it had been this polished when CMSF was released. Could of saved BF a lot of abuse!
  12. Something kinda funny/interesting. I've lived in my neighborhood for a while and have gotten to know virtually everyone in it, at least superficially. Without exception, everyone of the folks who has a "Obama '08" sign in their yard is a lawyer.
  13. s**t? Have you ever paused for a moment and contemplated the fact that your little commie heroes killed more of your own people than the Germans did? For that matter, the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe was at its core so evil and unbearable that the perps had to build a wall around the "liberated" to keep them from escaping to freedom. Or are you simply spouting Red-apologist propaganda out of fear that Putin's henchmen will put some Polonium 210 in your vodka?
  14. I ventured across this thread looking for information on the pre-order for the Marines module. I normally post in the Les Grognards forum. The quote goes with my handle, sort of a role-playing thing. And please don't insult our readers intelligence by comparing Napoleon to Putin, a guy who was an integral part of the greatest criminal enterprise in history, one of Stalin's heirs. PoE
  15. Actually, there's a mountain of it. Here's a good read: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/may/01/news.features11 And the woman who raised me from age 6 to 13 was a primary source. :| PoE
  16. If Russia (Putin) has a right to invade and "reincorporate" every area of Europe that contains ethnic Russians, then the Germans (Hitler) had every right to invade much of European Russia. Don't be misled. The same logic is in play here, and it's going to tear Europe apart. And don't think that it'll stop when the Ukraine and the Baltic States are overrun, either. Tens of millions of children were fathered by the Red Army as it raped its way across Eastern Europe, and they can all be issued "passports" as well. PoE
  17. The Vista "Game Center" (or whatever it's called) let's users select either DX9 or DX10 mode. Yeah, Vista is pretty heavy in the suckage department, but it's all that's available to a lot of folks, particularly those with laptops. Folks with desktops, new or old, can still buy an OEM copy from here: http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=368&name=Operating-Systems Forgive me if these points have already been made note of in the thread. PoE (aka ivanmoe)
  18. Hey, you want a good laugh? Email Steve and ask him how CMC will do, sales wise, if it has to be run on a legacy operating system.
  19. @MikeyD, Was there ever any work done to improve the CMAK desert-terrain textures? The ones that were included in the game always struck me as extraordinarily dull, and washed-out. I realize that it's the desert, after all, but it always struck me that a little TLC could have improved them considerably. PoE
  20. Now, there's a loser proposal. How many copies of this CMC package do you think that Battlefront will sell, anyway? I'd guess perhaps 10-20% of what CMBB sold, and they can't possibly do that well if they don't support what will become the dominant OS in the world over the coming year. I hate Vista, too, but its getting installed on millions of computers each month. BF can't afford to shrink their customer base one iota for a product with as limited appeal as CMC will likely have. They have to support Vista, or else. PoE
  21. Why did you post the above comments to this forum? There were certainly other options open to you, GD for instance, or the CMx1 forums. I don't play any of those titles, but I don't post messages in their dedicated forums bitching because I dislike turn-based computer games. Seriously, what's the deal? PoE </font>
  22. Why did you post the above comments to this forum? There were certainly other options open to you, GD for instance, or the CMx1 forums. I don't play any of those titles, but I don't post messages in their dedicated forums bitching because I dislike turn-based computer games. Seriously, what's the deal? PoE
  23. The reload rate isn't the same as the weapons rate of fire in the situation as described. It's just an element, a variable in the overall equation. What's rather more than problematic about the six-eight-ten-second proposition is that during the course of it all an AFV is depicted as moving out of turret-down position, coming to a full stop, acquiring a target, firing twice, and then reversing back to full-turret cover. If nothing else, time and space won't let you shoe-horn in that second shot. My honest opinion, PoE
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