Lt Belenko
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We call it "crunchies" in CMBN-speak.
Is the sound from running over dead cows a crunchy or is that a squishy?
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Speaking of breaching a hedge row. It is a little known fact, on rainy days it was much easier for a rhino-tank to plow thru a hedge row when the ground was softer. However after the Sun was shining for a few days the ground would get very hard. That is why the GI tankers always cursed those - Sunny Breaches.
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Still some debate about timings etc so guess BFC might not post screenshots till the final effect is agreed.
Go ahead and post a screenie even if it is not working perfect. Inquiring minds want to know.
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In the game, can the Shermans with rhinos plow thru the hedgerows and alter the landscape. I'd really like to see a screen capture of before and after of this.
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I can't imagine what you'd want to swap out. Perhaps replace CM:BN 'sand' terrain art with CMSF sand. But buildings, faces, uniforms, and most-everything else I can think of would be incompatible. New models all mapping differently.
Who's grass mod is that?
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Was in for CMx1. Some of the funnest/gamey battles were reinforcements entering from all sides at various time intervals. Not too realistic, but loads of fun.
I have zero CMSF scenario editor time, so cant answer if its in for CMBN.
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Delays are caused by the 90-90 Rule of Software Development.
The first 90% takes 90% of the time and the last 10% takes the other 90% of the time.
I think BFC learned their lesson of unfinished SW with the premature release of CMSF. We will mumble, gripe, and bitch about the delays, but we will will much prefer a finished product...especially if it comes in a tin box.
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.... and ask for the eta on the next module.
BEST ANSWER AWARD
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For example, you can make a Sherman pink and sound like a mockingbird, but you can't give it the 120mm gun of a modern Abrams tank. Clear?
Sounds like a scene from a really bad John Waters movie.
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In no particular order:
- Quit my job
- Fill the fridge with beer.
- Have a doctor with the surgical skills to separate my fingers from the mouse and keyboard, all lined up.
- Quit my job
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Does "Men Missing" mean POWs? If so, where did the two American men missing come from?
Atomized. Teeny Tiny Bits.
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The screen capture of the M8. It has markings 7A 758 and HQ16.
Are there individual markings for each tank in a battle?
Or will all tanks of the same type have the same markings based on the skin and or mod?
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All these screen shots and the AARs remind me of 3rd grade show and tell. Some kid brings in something really cool and you ask to see it. They reply "You see with your eyes not with your hands."
Stomping feet and holding breath until I get to touch the game.
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Does the game model the trajectory of shell fragments and take into account intervening armour on infantry? It does on vehicles. So, if it does on infantry, missing that piece of helmet will increase the casualty rate.
So Schultz, where did you get hit?
Right where the helmet would have been if BFC had designed the damn thing correctly.
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Tim Allen : When I walk into that (Sears) Craftsman tool department, my nipples get rock-hard!
When I think about operational level on top of CMx2 , my nipples get rock-hard!
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Good stuff in this thread
T....But they also had a self-defeating casualty replacement system that could turn a veteran unit back into a green one after a couple of engagements.Are you saying, in real life, a 6 man squad or 60 man company of vets is a better fighting force than a 10 man squad or 100 man company of 60%vet/40%green. I don't get it. Care to elaborate?
How did the other armies replace troops after extended combat?
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Excitement builds: I have dug out my dogeared copy of "Six Armies in Normandy" and am rereading.
but only two armies will be represented in the initial release.
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Maybe they had far more pressing matters to deal with.
More pressing than nuclear meltdown. What might that be?
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As they were struggling to get power to the plant to get the cooling water pumps going and when they were dropping water from the helos I kept thinking:
How difficult is it to helo in five or ten 50KW generators?
How difficult is it to helo in ten or twenty 6-inch pumps with 10,000 feet of hose to go from the ocean to the plants?
Why the long delays?
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Its something of a danger to try to extrapolate one incident into a 'pattern'.
For example, I've got a savegame saved just as a tank dual is about to start. Each time I restart at that point I'm at the mercy of the laws of chance.
First time through my M10 got its shot off first and got a good penetration. Enemy Stug bails.
restart: the Stug go its shot off that glanced off my gun mantlet.
restart: M10 got holed first shot, the ammo explodes and everyone immediately dies in an inferno.
restart: lots of shots traded, misses, partial penetrations, and popped smoke on both side.
The only pattern I'm seeing is that there is no pattern. Except that each incident is entirely logical seen as individuals.
Are you using a 6 sided die or a D&D 10 sided die? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/10-sided_dice_250.jpg
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That's only two. Who are the other eight?
Exactly the answer I was looking for.
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I remember reading an article in the Avalon Hill magazine "The General" about Panzer Blitz scenario 10-Kursk.
This battle had the 3 boards lined up end to end. There was a small Russian blocking force on the 1st map, an empty map, followed by a tank force on the final board. The scenario was originally designed with a block (X) as part of the Russian blocking force.
Placing it at a point on the road that passed thru the trees (green lines), would basically make the game unwinnable for the Germans just by forcing them to climb a hill. Remember how climbing a hill was next to impossible in that game.
The scenario was redesigned without the X on the OOB cards - and made the battle more playable. Check your PBlitz Scenario cards if you have the X you have a first printing.
Bottomline: An improperly designed scenario or map can make a battle no fun at all.
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Correct in assuming that the first module will cover all Commonwealth forces including the Poles??
Are we talking Rommel's Asparagus here?
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There are 10 types of people that understand binary.
Those that do, and those that don't.
American Bocage Tactics
in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy
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Great link. A level or two up provided many more documents.
http://www.cgsc.edu/carl/contentdm/home.htm
Infantry field manual 1944
http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/p4013coll9&CISOPTR=743&CISOBOX=1&REC=3