Sven Dufva

YES! Filing a ticket and receiving a download link to a re-packaged .rar file helped! Now the game is finally downloaded, installed and activated on my hard drive. Many thanks to the BF staff!

Yeah, go ahead. Rub it in. (7 hours 47 minutes to go at 65 kb/s) I hope that Citrix's every CEO's wives get their periods this instant.

21 hours and 4,1G downloaded until crash. Again. Enough of this. edit: a ticket sent

Finland, monday afternoon and the download speed doesn't exceed 65 kb/s as it didn't yesterday either (100 Mb/s connection). I was initially using Firefox but changing into IE isn't showing any improvement. I'll give this one more shot but if this download gets aborted again, I'll try again in a week.

I've noticed that the troops are well hidden as long as they don't open fire. After that they draw everybody's attention and casualties start piling up. There is though an effective way of minimizing casualties for the defending side. Give every squad in a platoon a minimal covering arc and place them behind the bocage. Once the enemy is close (~50 meters) remove the arcs and let the squads open fire with everything they got for 10-15 seconds. Break contact, fall back ~20 meters from the bocage and re-issue the arcs. Your troops can't be spotted through the vegetation at that distance and the enemy will lose the LOS. Retake your positions and lose the arcs again if/when necessary. This way a platoon can cut down an advancing company within minutes with only slight casualties without mortars or artillery, required no enemy tanks are involved. Just finished playing through the german campaign and managed to frustrate every enemy counter-attack with these tactics. Lost 26 KIA, 32 WIA and 2 light vehicles. The best game EVER!

From 1:29 and onwards. I really hate you.

Must you all download at the same time? I'm getting a meagre 40-50 kb/s and the timer shows the download to be ready after 7-9 hours. There are people on VACATION at the moment ready to waste... errr... commit themselves to ... err... Oh well, I might just leave the line open during the rest of the night. Prepairing for a hasty breakfast.

Sent 1 minute ago. Get back to work!

You don't need all of your force to win this battle. Scouts, snipers, 2 platoons of infantry and 2 tanks is really all you need. And of course choppers and arty. The rest of your troops you can keep hidden as a reserve out of the troubles way. I you wish, I can send you a detailed AAR using RT and iron skill level. Casualties 3 dead, 11 wounded, one LAV. No cheating.

There it was, a brand new hardcopy of "CMSF: Marines" lying underneath my mail slot as I opened the door. A happy day!

A minor issue, but I noticed in the last mission in the USMC campaign that the enemy artillery shells were landing on their targets from behind my troops, as if their batteries were located in my rear area. And vice versa.

Now you're just being cruel.

Surprisingly, they DID stop and let the SS chew up the nationalist uprising in Warsaw 1944.

Yes that we do know, but I was referring to the time the Russians got they marching orders to enter Georgia through the Roki tunnel. Was it before or after the Georgian artillery barrage on South Ossetia? Arranging a spontaneous nocturnal motor march into a neighbouring country during senior commands off-duty hours and reaching the outskirts of Tskhinvali on friday afternoon 8.8. 14 hours later seems like a remarkable feat. I just don't buy it, to be frank.

Did you ask about it from the Russian troops you met in Gori?

Is there any confirmation anywhere that the Russians had already crossed the border before the Georgian response? Shaakasvili did mention it when he was interwieved in the CNN 8.8..

What is the average marching speed of an armoured column consisting of 150 armoured vehicles plus the necessary supply trucks, including the time used in giving marching orders and such? From the Rok tunnel at the Georgian border, leading to north Ossetia, it is roughly 50 km to Tskhinvali where heavy fighting is taking place. Looking at the Google Earth I found the closest Russian military base in Mozdok, which is by road about 200 km from the Georgian border. Do they have a staging area for their armoured battalions closer to the border or did they cover 250 km in less than 12 hours? The president of Georgia told in the CNN news they reacted first when they heard the Russian forces were already enroute. When Soviet Union invaded Afganistan on christmas day to avoid an immediate international wave of protests, Russia starting a war in the beginning of olympic games wouldn't surprise me. I just need to get the timetable confirmed.

Place your troops so they can neither be seen or fired at from behind the bridges, but still cover every possible route inside the village with overlapping target arcs. Remember also your mortar assets. A bridge filled with charging soldiers is swept clean within seconds with 81mm airbursts (line-2-light-quick). EDIT. Forgot to add: In order to minimize casualties use first floors for fighting, 2nd and 3rd floors and roofs for observation. [ April 16, 2008, 01:56 PM: Message edited by: Sven Dufva ]

I use breaching charges and BLAST command. First I arrange an adequate fire support group of 2-3 MG teams hosing down the building I'm about to take. Then I send an infantry group beside the building wall by QUICK, followed by BLAST to enter the first floor. Sweeping up the second and the third floor works brilliantly with BLAST as well.

CORRECTION: No it doesn't work. I had installed the path in a wrong folder so obviously the first shotcut was pointing to the 1.0 version of the game. No wonder the solution didn't make any sense... EDIT: Got the Securom patch and now the game works just fine. [ March 27, 2008, 11:07 AM: Message edited by: Sven Dufva ]

Yes, I just got the game and found a solution that worked at least for me. 1. Install the game and allow the program to install the CMSF shortcut on your desktop. 2. Install the Paradox 1.07 patch and allow it also to install the CMSF shortcut on your desktop. Now you should have two shortcuts to CMSF, the first one named "Combat Mission Shock Force" and the second one "CM Shock Force". The game starts well with the former, but not with the latter. Go figure. M EDIT: I also disabled DAEMON tools and any excisting virtual drive I had before installing the game. I didn't reboot, though.