Nietzsche

http://www.onwar.com/maps/wwii/westfront/brittany.htm "Forces of Patton's Third Army with elements of the US First Army on the left flank pressed into Brittany. The German forces fell back into designated ports to hold out, in one case up to the end of the war." I wonder what that "one case" was? Lorient?

...is regarded as a compleat waste of time, whereas work should be done on the next CMx WW2 game so...

Yes indeed. BMP-2's, six of them. Three on each side... I see... That would also explain why the smoke was all over the place...

I´m just about to finish a PBEM-game (red vs. red) with a friend. On the 4. or 5. turn the battlefield was beginning to cover up with thick black smoke. I asked him how he managed to get smoke with the two 82 mm mortars we both had. He said (between some very intresting curses) that he had ordered a plain two mortar, medium done, anti-personnel shelling immediatly... So there is smokegrenades, you just don't know when you get them. If you get them.

Thanks Cpl Steiner. I have to admit it took some serious thinking to get it right. It seems so easy at first, just a few "greater than" and "less than" values, but you can easily mess them up with hilarious results. Then again, I´ve never been good at math...

Like this example then? Enemy casualties 70% = points awarded if enemy casualties are over 70% Enemy condition 30% = points awarded if less than 30 % of enemies are in ”good shape”. Enemy Ammo 20% = points awarded if the enemy has less than 20% ammo left. Friendly casualties 70% = points awarded if own losses are less than 70%. Friendly condition 85% = points awarded if over 85% of own troops are healthy. Friendly ammo 80% = points awarded if over 80% of your own troops ammo are left. Did I get it right?

Thanks Cpl Steiner! I wish the manual would have been written better (=simplified for dummies like me) on this part. Well I'll get back to tweaking my scenario then so I and my PBEM-friend finally can start our first Shock Force PMEB-game...

I'm no Einstein at this... So if I put the "Enemy Casualties" threshold to let's say 70% and victory points 50 does that mean I get 50 points if I was able to cause casualties to 70% of my opponents troops? How about the "Frendly Casualties"? If I set the threshold also to 70% and 50 victory points does that mean I get 50 points if I suffer losses under 70% of my troops?

After I select QB, set the specs and push OK it just goes to the main window. Same thing with PBEM. After I´ve chosen Blue or red team, and I´ve given the password and clicked OK it throws me back to the main window.

I´m sure you guys have already tried all the quickbattles and sceanrios. Any suggestions for a balanced PMEB-battle?

Cool x 2! Just like when I ordered the CM Barbarossa to Berlin Strategy Guide. Good idea to have a warehouse in Irland.

If I pre-order where does the shipment come from? From USA? If so, I must pay a hefty toll here in Finland...

I gave it a shot along with my favourite CM PBEM-friend and we both found it to be a very bad rip-off... The PBEM-part was also very strange and with some very odd solutions. The only positive thing I could come up with is that the gun sounds sounded very nice and powerfull. I´ve constantly seekin for good CM-like games. This was not one of those. Don't waste your money, try the demo if there is one.

Now where did that orginal Intro music-thread go? Nevermind... Here's a thing I made some time ago. Orginally it was a plain bluesprogression using only the tones in A double harmonic major scale. I just chopped of the rest and inserted some strings and stuff... http://www.myspace.com/12barspastmidnight

How about something by "Tank"? For example "War Drags Ever On" from the "Honour And Blood"-album surely would set the mood up nicely. In fact, come to think of it, all the tracks sound more or less fitting... http://www.bnrmetal.com/groups/tank.htm

I once tried CM AK with full AA and a ATI-card and got them white boxes too. Haven't bothered to try with any AA since then. So it works now? (With a GF6800 and the latest drivers).

Well I would say that the keyquestion is: can it be done with the Combat Mission graphics? I have tons of ideas but have to discard those who just can't be done graphically. I draw with paper and pen as good as my three year old daughter so the only way I can make comics is this way. So it's just about three things: 1) A good idea (or even mediocre ideas like mine are). 2) Some screenshots. 3) Putting it all together with Photoshop (or any other software for that matter, I use Photoshop because I can't use anything else and won't bother to learn something new). I like the landscape layout because you can fit the whole story on one page. The portrait layout usually means that you have to scroll it down. That's about it, really. Feel free to ask any more specific questions. I'll answer if I can.

You mean doing the cartoons?

A russian tank? Why not? Klimenti Voroshilov does sound pretty strong to me. Or perhaps something German? Wirbelwind? My wife might have a more conventional name suggestion in mind though and she usually (always) gets what she wants... Buzy times ahead but I think I can commit to the one cartoon a week promise that I made as I'll be spending the most of my time with our three year old daughter. Luckily she goes to sleep at nine o'clock in the evening so that leaves me time to play CM and perhaps to make some cartoons. Let's see how the little guy settles in when he arrives at Casa De La Nietzsche...

Well aren't we all just a bunch of comedians here on this board? You guys all rock! Perhaps I might whip up a cartoon this weekend. Perhaps. Can´t blame you for being lazy. Nietzsche is a real pain to write. Should have gone with something short and easy, like "Mr. Crapbag". Or Nietz... Oh well, too late now.

Oh crap! You're right. Shows how dazed and confused I still was late last evening. He's of course born 8.11.2006, not 8.12.2006.

Thanks guys! I was somewhat unfocused late last night when I made this one. Feeling kinda uneasy for some reason. About 15 minutes after posting it here my wife told me the water broke... Today 8.12.2006 at 12:44 she gave birth to a lovely and healthy babyboy! I hope CM Shock Force will be ready by the time he turns 18 so he can kick his dads ass in a friendly game of CM SH...

Well this one didn't turn out so good. And it was, belive it or not, the hardest comic strip to make so far..