Cabe Booth

nice footage, i always liked the propaganda film of all the king tigers under review. Make you wonder how they lost that war. Oh yeah.......air superiority helps. i don't know if this is in you list because i have not got through them all yet, I didn't even know they had one of these running. But then of course i never checked. restored king tiger takes a stroll

very nice, I will review in a few. I love the glory of utube I have 6 pbem games going on and they all have decided to start emailing me today at the same time. I feel like a switchboard operator and I know it is off topic but if any of you have not played the scenario Sesto Imolese, do so a soon as possible. Play the Germans and you will have quite a bit of fun. well balanced map and the load out is fun as well. Has reinforcements that make you very happy. Germany vs NZ

It has been about 2 weeks but I am pretty sure the tiger went down with either rear turret penetration (no fire) or an engine hit that just knocked it out. There were some hits that caused internal flaking, and I can pretty much assume that was a rear turret hit, it may have just been crew casualties from flaking that got them out of the tank. The Panther died from full penetration to the rear, I do remember that. What would make this all clearer to me is if I could remember if greyhound load out with tungsten in late war battles. Seems to me that it wasn't. Basically I swarmed them and poked them to death like a bunch Lilliputians. I will say that iw was at extremely close range, this helped even more with the tiger bnot being able to traverse with my movement. AT all times it was very touch and go and had a great deal of luck. But If you know what you are doing and your opponent has told his tiger to blast away at some building with area fire, you can get away with murder for about 60 seconds. But you have to have a crystal ball to know that, but the swarm does work, just to many factors can screw it up. Hi John, I didn't know that that the big cats could traverse quickly in RL or that they slowed them down for the game. I thought they got the gun on target by rotating the tank with the turret towards the target to give it extra speed, but what do I know, most of my knowledge of tiger turret speed comes from watching Kelly's Heros over and over. Did you know that the best way to beat a tiger is to offer him a business deal involving Nazi gold stashed in a nearby bank?

Hi PseudoSimonds, the thread was titled "Cheating/Hacking re-visited" pretty recent in the forums here. I mentioned it above, but I am sure it got lost in the paragraphs I have no details on how to cheat, was just wondering if it was possible. With most games now days having to use punkbuster and screen shots to bust cheaters I didn't know if this game suffered from the same type of asshats that need to cheat. I was just asking if there were cheats, so I could be on the lookout for one. I think what I saw the other night was just a fanatic unit in action, because having read how most cheats operate, they wouldn't have enabled the unit to do what I saw. Only a great opponent with a fanatic unit could have pulled that stunt off and it was amazing enough to get me thinking until I got my answers from here and the thread I just mentioned. I love run-on sentences [ April 08, 2007, 07:48 AM: Message edited by: Cabe ]

done, just so done with this. He wasn't being an ass. Your right. and I have played over 40 PBEM games, but I guess that doesn't make me any less of a human slug and.... you know what it just doesn't matter anymore. This is just fricking ridiculous. [ April 08, 2007, 05:26 AM: Message edited by: Cabe ]

well just do a google image search for Internet tough guy magazine I will stick around, everyone has been extremely helpful or silent if they have no answer or advice. Most folks have been very welcoming and helpful in my attempts at modding and getting my head wrapped around the small points of the game's strategies. I did purchase the CMBB book for sale here and it is a wealth of info for both CMAK and CMBB, but sometimes there are things that fall through the cracks. In my other thread which was mentioned, I don't understand why asking why the generals didn't see it fit to give UK infantry AT capabilities was whining or insulting the game. I was assuming that it was historically correct, just amazing to discover. Wasn't like I was calling Churchill an idiot or anything. Just questioning the loadout. Like the possibility of there actually being UK troops with late war AT capabilities in another loadout, meaning mechanized, armor combined arms ect. I was thinking maybe they just were not available with the force selection we had chosen for the fight. Then suddenly I became Baldric in a room of bi-polar Blackackadders on meth. And my worry about the cheating thing was an amazing feat of bravery and and luck by a tank hunter squad running about 75 yards through Browning fire of 4 half tracks at less than 50 yards all the way up to the side of my firefly who never even got a chance to react and the in 3 second the projectiles slammed into the side of the tank... keblooey, the tankhunters never flinched, got pinned paniced...nada. all in less than a minute. As I write this I just realize I think I have seen my first example of a fanatic unit. add to the fact the guy is a damn good player and the prior game I played with him we really slugged it out as well to my loss, I had better luck in that game though, just not enough to avoid major defeat. I guess watching a fanatic unit operate would make one wonder if something fishy was going on, especially when it costs them their last tank.

I actually did do a test run one night against a panther a tiger and a stug. i took 2 fireflys, 3 greyhounds and 2 stuarts The fireflys got waxed going toe to toe while the greyhounds and stuart raced in the open past the Axis tanks As they passed, the guns of the 2 big cats couldn't keep up with the pace of the greyhounds, the stuarts got nailed. The stug had a hard time rotating of course. As the greyhounds made a pass they were able to immobilize the panther and then get behind a church, from there they popped the stug from the side at it was still rotating . When the big cats made a full trurret turn to my hidden location I took the greyhounds and swept around on both sides of the church. The axis tanks both starting tracking the first greyhound in view so it got assssploded. The other 2 made it and since the panther couldn't move it was even slower to rotate with the greyhound. Long story short the greyhound were able to take out 2 big cats and a stug, but they needed distraction and luck. ........and very close range When trying this in PBEM with 3 stuart V against a panther I had buildings make me slow to turn and make my pass while German panzerfausts were firing out of ever window. Only stuart made it to the panther, fired got track hit that did nothing at a range of aroun 10 feet. Then the magic panther gun made the stuart go to heaven with grandpa a good swarm of cheap stuarts, staghound or greyhound is an excellent backup, but the timing has to be perfect, the presence of AT infantry hiding around the tank doesn't help at all either. Its a gamble like all buying strategies.

oh, sorry. I was under such heavy fire. i didn't know where it was coming from all the time.....cuz I am a noob. Which means everything is new and exciting to me, and at times confusing and for some reason....abusive? But I am sorry Kingfish, I didn't know for sure if you were after me or not. Sorry if I indicated any offense towards you by mistake But thank you. Hey, let's all play some games or do some modding! Who's with me? cricket.

Ok, Personal attacks and just plain arrogance. Stunning for a bunch adults. One last time. Never said I was an expert. Only asked if it was possible and made sure not to ask how to do it even if it was possible. Didn't accuse anyone of doing it. Just saw a one SINGLE unit do something suspicious, which I knew was was probably just good game play, which would be why I worded my original post the way I did. Asked for my own knowledge. Don't understand all the hostility. Why you insist on implying things abut me personally and what my intentions were no matter how I explain myself only leads me to believe you are just out for a fight. I am becoming more and more aware that these forums are not the place to ask simple questions. And no matter how you try to "Bill O'Reilly" the hell out of it, it still was just a new guy asking a question. It was a simple query to educate myself on the possibilities and the response has been way over the top and completely unfortunate. Thank you Paul for answering my question. It is nice to see someone in the thread that offers an actual response. Seriously. Thank you. Now as to becoming an asshole.... I don't understand when I started or how I have become the target of such a label. I have tried to be polite and ask questions as to why I am getting read the riot act, but it seems that everyone just has nothing better to do today. But I do. Goodbye.

all good stuff. Thanks all. All I have to do now is make it through my current PBEM games with my old buying habits. One already went down last night horribly, so only a few more to go.

Well, in most PBEM games I choose to play UK. I guess because as people have stated it does make one more careful and explore strategy. Mu knowledge of UK units was pretty much limited to thier names before I started playing this game. I have always been more of a ww2 plane buff than a ground unit scholar. Have learned much in doing so, and yes it can get frustrating when best laid plans still don't stop the axis beast. One of my big mistakes and definitely a learning experience was to purchase some "green" armor units. This just made them worthless. I and that isn't an understatement. My opponent went with stugs which gave him more units and I can bet you that he gave them at least "regular" veterancy. Even without the benefit of a turret they have cleaned me up. I also, spent money on some crack 17 pounders wich is a mistake I continue to make. I guess I keep gambling on flat open terrain and getting burned. Having read what you all have to say I am sure my next battle will go a bit better against the Axis. I am interested to experiment with the valentine and variations of churchills. The fireflys might be put on the back burner for a few battles, unless we have a lot of points to spend. But all in all I will never buy anything below a "regular" AFV again. Thanks all.

well the question wasn't posed as if I am frustrated and losing all the time. I am doing quite well and the learning curve is steep on the tactics built into this great game. My question was only to see if there was a hacker community. I saw one thing happen during a game last night that seemed way out of line with what I normally see under same conditions. I would elaborate, but out of politeness and my own ignorance I wouldn't want my opponent to think I was accusing him of cheating by reading this posts. Hence why I asked if it was possible or if I just suck. Probably just because I didn't understand it. That's why I posed the question the way I did. It was just very possible that I was sucking giant you know what's and just getting my butt treated in a n improper fashion by a damn good player. But as in all games there are those that have tweaks and little hacks. Tell me differently and I will shut up. It was a simple question. I didn't ask how to cheat, just if it was possible. A couple of thing here though confuse me. I know this is a tight community and people kid and joke, and I can take a good jab in jest as much as the next guy. Type doesn't give one the benefit of vocal inflection, so when someone comes back with a statement that I suck I tend to think he is trying to flame me and that is why I had to ask if he was attempting to do so or just joking with me. I was under the assumption that he was, but also felt a inkling of hostility. Whining? Whining? Wow. You guys have a low threshold on getting asked a simple question. Maybe you should look at some of my other posts. Heck maybe you should look at the whole start of this post before I became the "whiner". As to whether I did a search looking for an answer, I did and came up with the answer that yes, people do and can cheat. I had just seen something weird that gave me pause and wondered that if since that first thread about cheating in CM some new exploits had been found. I was tired last night which is nobody's problem but mine and didn't notice how recent the post was. See the thread "Cheating/Hacking re-visited". All that being said, I still find it amazing that some people find it their job to respond to forum posts that annoy them. Doing everyone a favor as if the post makes some sort of repetitive annoying sound like car alarm going off in your neighborhood at 4 am and you are the hero that goes and yanks the battery cable out. Last time I checked, my writing has been silent font, polite and not demanding a response. My usual response to a thread I have no answer for or don't want to answer is... well to just move on. Not pop in and say "you suck" "Grow up" and so on . But hey, that's my way of avoiding long winded worthless threads like this one. JasonC gave me a very long and helpful response in regard to another question I had. To go from that to "So far you whine a lot. Hope you grow up someday." is effing ridiculous and yes pretty G-damn abusive. If you can't see that then well.... I don't know what to think. Far as I am concerned I am over this and will refrain from responding in a way that would get a flame war going here, which I would hope most people in this forum are way above. And honestly have not seen in any threads so far which makes this whole situation even more perplexing. As to my initial question? The only thing I learned was to avoid asking questions in a g-dman "tips and tricks" forum... because evidently that pisses people off and makes you a target for snarky comments and personal attacks. I did ask if he was joking, what I got was way over the top. All in all I am quite surprised the tone of all this has taken. I really enjoyed waking up first thing to read this thread. Have a nice day.

2 posts now you have been somewhat abusive. Hoping you are kidding around

don't explain how someone would cheat, just let me know. Do people use exploits? and if so, what are the signs or symptoms? I am having a game right now that has some pretty amazing feats by my opponent. He may just be really good and i suck. or..........

well i am getting rolled over right now and all my crack inf can do is run away, from a couple of stugs. My green firefly just looks at the gun as it crosses its field of fire and the at guns are not getting any angles cuz he is staying in over watch positions. I am kinda screwed now if the plane came back.....

meeting engagement, i think my big problem is that though my at and troops are crack, i went green with my firefly's to get more of them. should have bought a Churchill with thick armor and some valetines...... never tried them, hows the armor?

yes, i actually killed a pzIIIj in my current game with a PIAT, but he is out of ammo. The my mustange dropped a bomb and blew up 2 more pIII's and a kublewagon and god knows what else. have not seen the plane come back in a long time, would be nice to get those 5 strafing runs I was promised. (the move of the bombing run is a hoot if you want to see it. All my at guns I keep having to ferry around the map and can never get a good angle to fire without getting waxed during setup time, what is a really good UK/US at weapon that can handle stugs and medium armor and even have a chance of giving a big cat a bad gun, track or shock it? Is the 6 pounder a very mobile gun? I know it can give a tiger a knock on the head and can be moved by a jeep or Universal carrier, but dang, getting the angle with out being spotted b4 setting up. I have also used flamethrowers to my advantage. I really need o buy more piats and fast moving transports. The archer is nice gun, but it doesn't hide very well, the Achilles packs a whallop, but just like a wolverine like to explode on contact with pillows and small furry woodland creatures. Right now my only armor unit left is a firefly, and he is a freaking green unit trying to deal with 3 stugs on over watch. i have at gun 17 pounders set up, but they get no love and moving them is a biatch and then the setup time (5 mins). is the a really mobile AT or AA gun that can be pushed and keep itself a low profile?

i am just suprised the lack of at satchels or sticky bombs..... anything.... on late war UK troops

What is the advantage of grouping tanks into platoons or group with a CO? I know they get the bonuses of a commander, but I have lost my CO tank before and and then my other tank were out of command. Does this mean I lose a lot of control of thier actions? On the other hand, would it just be better/ cheaper to buy veteran or crack individual units? Or is the crack tank platoon the best way to go? I have used mainly individual purchases, only played a few scenarios with tanks grouped. Can someone clarify or point me to a thread?

I have noticed that in late war battles my UK infantry selections have not AT capability. Unless they come with a PIAT squad. How do Iuse the inf against a a tank. Seems that when my armor and At are wiped out or otherwise occupied my infantry are at the mercy of the most lumbersome of tanks. Is there no way to assault a tank using UK 44 rifle squads? Or do Ihave to use the PIAT? Seems to me that there would be some selection in late war that could deal with a tank if it could get close enough. Am I just not looking in the right spot when selecting my troops or am I limited to what I see?

I had it occur in crete on high terrain, don't know if that counts as desert?

yes, I use them and they are great, was looking for a WW version though.

Wondering if we could get someone to crank out a winter archer and a WW sherman M4. i have tried converting GEMs shermans to CMak but the bmp are so dissimilar at times. I am sure I can get the Sherman working, but I am so swamped with RL right now. thanks! I sleep now

all i did was post in these forums, i am playing 6 opponents right now. Go to the top of the forums here and scroll down to opponent finder forums. and post in the forum for the language you speak. I am playing against people from all over the world, so language is not a barrier when you are handing out or receiving an ass whoopin' you can also just email the person that is looking for a game. There are many there right now. Many folks play multiple games at once, so even if you see that someone else has already responded to a post, I wouldn't sweat it. Go ahead and ask them, sometimes people flake out on them or are slow to email thier turns.

I know I read about this somewhere, maybe in my CMBB book I have here. But I did a search here and couldn't get anything. How is hand to hand combat represented in the game? I know it has to be and when trying to run up and clobber an enemy...what is the move order to ensure it happens? I have around 6 or 7 mortar squad without ammo and I really need them in the fight holding off some troops getting into my perimeter. I made one run into a building to start mixing it up, instead he stopped right on the enemy and they just well.... sort of hung out in the building together until her was shot to death. But in another game I saw a guys squad march into a house I had a flamethrower in and heard the thunk as he was rifle butted. The was even a wave where the guy said "take that you @$$!!&*!!!!" and my unit was dead. So can I get a clarification and a "how to" on hand to hand combat?