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  1. Ok, I've played and beaten more than a few 300 point battles which I enjoyed and am now curious as to what you'd suggest for a 600 point setup and purchase.

    The battle I had last night was interesting I had to take out antitank team, a tankette, a T-26, and somekind of light antitank cannon. These antitank guns seem to give me the most trouble and are usually set between trees at the end of the map waiting to surprise any tank that comes forward, I usually fire mortar at them with one of my two mortars and then shoot smoke out and attack it with my tank (panzer IVE) but there have been many times that I didn't spot them and there would go my tank-I'm usually creeping out from between some buildings for hills "shoot and shoot" to shoot another tank or supress infantry with my side guns. Can the front sheild (the reinforced front armor) really withstand fire from my tank-seems as if it can given the distance and when fired at directly in defense. Getting around them with infantry seems the ideal way but its usually too late for that.

    One of the battles I had a valley between me and the the defender down below the two hills there was no cover so I had to concentrate on finding all the long range fire and then I could work my way down with infantry advancing/hiding and then up the hill where the enemy was as I fired across from my hill with heavy support and screening from my tank and mortar. And though I managed to achieve a decent victory, this particular battle with its terrain I found to be somewhat difficult and at one point after losing my tank decided to go back to a previous save and rethink my placement.

  2. Fire is cover. Advance/hide. I see. I'll keep this in mind, next time I have no cover to take.

    Also, I have a lot to learn about world war II vehicle types and artillery. I just think in generic terms like large machine guns, SMGs, mortar, tanks, half-tracks etc. I don't want to be playing this like a WWII RTS action game-e.g. the latest clickfest "company of heros" where you are fighting all over the map or rather your "tanks" and "troops" are for you as you press the "attack" button and go to your HQ to instantly generate more and more of them. Believe it or not I hate these games I find very little depth in them -they're mostly to do with speed and quantity- and with little to wonder or learn about as to what might have been real applicable, practicable combat tactics and war strategies for those particular battles or likely WWII senarios. But anyway I really need to get familiar with is the specifics of these weapons and units, what exactly they are good against when to use them, their weaknesses and of course in this regard what secrets my opponent may have and how to be prepared to counter him.

  3. And why is this funny, Zalgiris? Who the **** are you laughing at? What if it were

    you he made that remark to when you where asking a question and didn't know how to setup a quick battle so you'd have a chance of winning, and you were instead making it so that you where out numbered and without the right equipment to win the battle? Would it be funny then?

    This is juvenile of you to gloat and laugh at something like this. I'm getting alittle fed up with this crap. Don't know if I'll stick around much longer. I thought this was one of the few mature forums.

    All I wanted is a jump start to get used to playing this game and learning the important tactics and I certainly don't need your help Zalgiris. I don't need your commentary on the advice jason just gave or an interpreter. I can take it from here, there's plenty of literature on this subject including the the strategy guide I downloaded. Anyway, its practice I need; applying what I read, trial and error.

  4. Also, let me add, I am aware of the squad formations around the HQ. I've read about them in the strategy guide and in a post of yours, JasonC, when you refered to the formation as a "blob" and drew a diagram consisting of Xs and Os, is this the general approach to keep them in a formation like this all setting out around the HQ on the same turn and following- after a minute later- the split squad and the LMG?

  5. Ok, that's it, JasonC, I won with a 97% victory. The first enemy spotted I believe by my halfsquad was a B-T5 tank-I did'nt want to encounter that first, remembering what you had said about my side and front guns being vulnerable on the Panzer IVE.

    Not knowing if I should withdraw and sneak around it somehow and save it for the right time or deal with staight away I chose the later I like to get the big jobs out of the way.

    So I prceeded to fire smoke and throw mortar-I chose to have my mortar guys ride the tank- at it while my tank went on to find away to flank it. There was a bit of a chase and eventually I nailed it twice with to good solid hit to the side-the nice thing is it never even shot at my tank- though there were breif moments where it came very close. Unfortunately though at one point my SPW 251/2 half-track bogged. I was going between trees

    and a house with it, but I was still able to use it, for it made it just far enough to have line of sight to shoot at infantry on the other side of the grove. Anyway I proceeded to advance my HQ and 2 mortar which I left slightly behind, below the hill and some infantry that I ended up needing to withdraw and hide further in the trees because of an MG in a building which was adjoining the victory point, and taking my tank around the woods used its MGs and advanced my infantry into the adjoining building to capture the victory point. lol, I captured it on the last turn. (30th)

    So, I now I have a question about what you told me to do when scouting. It is in the very beginning with you send that SMG half squad out and then the the heavy support on the next turn following right behind them and then to either side. I need some order here on how I deploy all these squads on recon. The question is I have all these infantry squads and to HQs. First do they all follow pretty much the same path directly behind the half-squad and MG and do I send them out one squad at a time each taking a turn or all together on the same turn towards the general covered direction of the scout-squad and artillery-in my case the tank and mortar units.

    Also if I have more than one HQ each devoted to a

    platoon of infantry and artillery do I divide them on the map so that say one group goes on one side of the map and the other takes care of the other side of the map (provided that is cover on both sides?) or say the other side of the road that is covered and each has its own scouting splits squad leading the way?

    I'm sure there's many ways of sending them all out but it seems important to me that I get them all out in a general orderly fashion. The way I did it in this quick battle is I took them, both platoons on one side of the map and I kept say to myself "now why am I doing this I should send the SPW platoon to the other side of the map. I guess I didn't because the terrain wasn't as good as far as cover goes and It was leading directly to where I'd expect to find the enemy.

  6. RaggedyMan (great name by the way), right now I just want to focus on quick battles and some of the published senarios. I have still alot to learn before I can play a good game with anyone here and it may take a while for me to get good at this since I don't have a whole lot of time-the main reason I came for advice here is so I could get right down to business with out wading through too much about what I already know.

    Though it would be instructive for me to play against some like you, even if it may be that I will lose inevitably.

    shmavis, I was ambigious about what you ment and at first I did in fact think you ment what you're now telling me but regardless as JC said its water under the bridge and he is now taken the time to give me alot of helpful advice. So, I thought that what you were implying was that the advice he was giving was so elementary -"square one"- as to not be worth writing about or reading in this forum.

    "Observations, JasonC. Nothing stupid."

    Rankorian, You are absolutely right, though he thinks this is whinning. I will nonetheless overlook it for now and concider the advice he's given me, the exact advice I was really only asking to begin with.

  7. Shmavis, read it anyways as you already have.Read it again. I'm sure it will be of some help to you. Though, everyone must know here in the forum what an expert you are at this game. Anyway I'm sure there's something you've missed or forgot along the way; maybe it'll get you out of some those bad playing habits.

    He seemed to have had a lot of fun and be able to exploit some good tactics with this basic quick battle setup, but you, you're too advanced for it?

    Maybe you should play against him in one of these battles, and I'm sure that would teach even you a good lesson.

  8. Ok, its all working with the battle type and parent division you've suggested; I'm able to buy a nicely balanced force and now I know what you mean by the %50 attack advantage-a nice 150 more points added to my 300.

    You have given me a lot to consider here-this time with a winning chance- I will keep it in mind and even refer to it now and then.

    I also want to experiment with the tank purchases options you've given me.

    One squad, which I got as elite, remained by the objective and spit out 150m fire into open, cutting them up as they ran from the woods the rest of the infantry flushed them from.

    Just when they thought they were "out of the woods" lol

  9. Yeah, jasonC, after reading your previous reply and concidering what you said it seems that maybe its not that these battles I was playing and losing were

    "impossible," as I so called them, but rather I just didn't know nearly enough about what I was doing to beat them or even make that judgement.

    And maybe if I wasn't conceited about it I'd have been able to see this instead of whinning in a way arrogant and blindly stupid: I know all about "what I'm doing and I'm clever enough so if I can't beat this its impossible!"

    Correct me if I'm wrong about this.

  10. Ok, JasonC, you want something from me? To apologize. Ok, I ask your pardon, JasonC, for if I seemed to be whinning too much.

    You want me to come back with a message all with nothing but praise for CM2, with a tone full of glory; how I keep winning ever game and don't need to bother anyone for advice but: "Just here to say JasonC that I have been reading all your posts and they have been of great insight to me and etc..." And you want me to say how I learned something while in battle and remember what you had said in such and such a paragraph and how I extrapolated from it my own tactic and ask you does my conclusion seem logical?

    Yes, I should just read and learn, apply, keep playing and be patient and of course stop in now and then to ask about a particular difficultly I am having in a specific battle I am playing give you the details and ask you or anyone else here what they think of this given stituation.

  11. First off, jason, your curtly calling me stupid right off the bat when you don't even know me was unwarranted and if you feel that strong a need to do so without making youself appear stupid: ("You are stupid, that's it your problem")

    I suggest you say it the correct way: you are stupid, that's your problem. I am certainly stupid even if I can't win these battles- do you remember when you first started playing CM? Bet you didn't know exactly what to do at first either.

    Furthermore, general have you gone off you rocker! Read my message over. I am not whining. No where in my message am I whining. Since when is asking for advice in a forum under "tips and tricks" considered whining.

    Now it was not my intention to get into a never ending, name calling argument. So let me just get a few things clear about the battles I was doing

    some I am convince - regardless of you stating that attackers get +%50- some where impossible-I doubt even you could have beat then. I seemed to be drawn a bad hand each time. You see -partly on your advice, jason, from a previous tread- I was setting up my battles with combined arms for both sides, 300 points and everything else was random. And that's where I most have gone wrong: just combined arms. So some of the time I wouldn't even get an MG and most of the time not even a tank. Yes my unites and HQs where high ranking but the Russians had far more than me and as someone said here the map was a very narrow strip.

    As for your advice, no wonder you think me stupid. I already know about such basic tactics, I must have read them in a million places and have been using them all along. They did not suffice in these situations.

    And no I do not take this game for a comic strip adventure or a cartoony RTS. I started playing this game because I thought it had real tactics where you plan things with a great amount of depth, not just a mouse clicking fest with a bunch or fictitious behaving tanks.

    Thank you, dieseltaylor, (hope I spelt it right) for reading through my message and understanding it and considering what might have been the problem in my given situation and not outright blaming me and falsely accusing me of whining.

  12. Can anyone give me some general advice for quick battles and attacking when playing as the axis. I always play as axis and am usually German and attacking and of course more often than not against the Russians who seem to have three times as many unites and everthing else they need to slaughter me. I keep having major defeats and have only had one or two wins one of which in I was defending as the Italians.

    I am playing "combined arms", "300 points", 30 turns, full fog with everthing else pretty much random. Trying to keep it small and simple

    My guys seem to have no balls-yes I keep my HQ with them. I move them little by little through whatever cover is available and when it comes time to face and fight or ambush they fall apart as soon as the russians start shooting, as though the russians are giants and regardless of the fact that they are covered by long range artilary and the enemy is suppressed they always shake, panic and break. Often though its seems my unites are surrounded and that there are 3 of their unites to my one.

    Also they never have enough cover to attack without exposing themselve at some point even midway sometimes when I'm reconing to their territory from one merger point of cover to the next through contact/hide.

    And another thing I noticed: why on earth do I have no line of sight where they do? and with this same unite(that supposedly has no line of sight)they are getting fired at and suppressed as though the russians could shoot though hills and what not?!

    "It's like I can see you but you can see me he he"

    I'd appreciate any practical advice on attacking with a small army with limited cover, from any of you who have played enough battles, who are seasoned veterans, because I know anyone can get lucky on occasion in this game just as I have a couple of times, even though I'd planned my moves.

  13. This question goes out to JasonC and anyone else who is thoroughly familiar with all or most the senarios in the Special Edition of CCBB. I'm wondering which of the senarios you concider to be most quintessential to the game as a whole, which best represents it and lets say if you could have only a dozen or so to play or recommend which would they be? Based on map and unites, situation and whatever else you may concider that would make these the most tactically instructive, challenging realistic or just play fun.

    I know one could say they are all good, they all have their place but and its a matter of mood or oppinion; nevertheless, I'm still wondering since there are so many which ones stand out the most to you.

    :)lets put it this way: say you had a friend we'll call him General P and he wanted to play this game but his time was limited and he could only play now and then and over the long stretch sporadically, indefinitely; which 3-6-12 games would you recommend to him.

    Don't limit your choice to the ones that are just easy to start with but also include the games that are always good no matter how much experience need for them. The senarios he'll want to work his way up to a victory. Which ones I ask will get him hooked enough to want more!

    Here's another senario lets say a time capsal was sent to mars and was to leave selected samples of "Combat mission II Barbarossa to berlin"... Only kidding :D Sorry I had to say that

    Anyway, you understand and thanks

  14. Your christmas list just got bigger? I hope you mean next christmas cause I doubt it will be out before this December.

    "such crap" is maybe to harsh for you but I'm only being honest and not any kissing butt which will not make it any better for you. You my friend ,are not the one working on it the one seeing and playing it as it all comes together.

    If you are content with viewing screenshots and videos, the promotional droppings of someone elses labor, all the power to you; as for me I am not interested and will not waste my time till I'm certain there's an actual game coming out that I'll be able to play in a week or so.

    Perhaps the whole point is I should be happy for the folks at battlefront. I am. redface.gif just as I would be for the Bill Gates and guy who's wife just had a baby. congradulations :rolleyes: ... now leave me alone so I can finish my game.

  15. So, the surprise is a game that you are working on that won't be out this month but...?? ( fouth quarter 2006. Maybe) and you have screenshots and a site for us to go to smile.gif:Dtongue.gif:( :mad: :mad:

    I don't get it. Why couldn't you say it was just another WWII RTS game you were working on with another developer, publisher whatever and show it to us then and there- why could he just say so in the interview: "we are in the process of working on "theatre of war" with 1C." You had many of us thinking it was a surprise release of a WWII turn based game that was to be released for download this month or a little after.

    And nobody here is admitting they are indeed surprised that the surprise is nothing...but more screenshots of a game that doesn't exsist.

    Its like "honey I've got a really great surprise for you, you're not going to believe this!, its just what you've wanted for so long now- which you'll find out about by the end of this month." She keeps asking him what it is but he says he can't tell her yet. She speculates is it a plasma!, a diamond ring!, a house at the cape!, an SUV! She envisions a humvee in the garage one morning at the end of that month.

    Month ends: "ok, here's the surprise: He then produces from his pocket a picture of a volkswagen rabbit from a magazine I am going to buy you a nice car like this because the one you have can't keep up with the others and is falling apart... once I get enough money which should be soon, maybe by the end of this year."

    Well back to ol' dated but dependable barbarossa to berlin.

  16. Thanks, again, JasonC, I just read both of your replies and I must say there is a wealth of plausible sollutions to this "puzzle".

    Also, I probably will take your advice on playing nonsenario quick battles with the computer to sharpen my tactics. And is there any way you can email me some of your savefiles from say a given senario so I can analyze where you attacked and with what HQ and unite type combinations at which turns?... or even just a few screenshots?...That would be a tremendous help I would think.

    In any case here is my email zhligw@yahoo.com

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