decimated550

hey i'll take you up on it! which title do you want to play?

Hello it's December 2023 been over a year since i had a CW game and i'm ready for another . I'll have a relatively slow file return, maybe 3-4 a week? I can do the attacking. Hope to hear soon. company or battalion sized, let's have plenty of artillery support. Maybe pick a game size which allows for a full company and lots of supporting teams

hello do you want to play a Cold War match? up for a small to medium size game

wow maybe the Soviets should have attacked in 1979, against our overmatched and underfunded forces. They could have had both germanys under their control the M1 M2 M109 AH64 were still in testing

Same problem with the M106s, i'd run them to the end of the map furthest away thinking maybe the minimum range was too long, but it's bugged. Interesting about the bug report, is there a list of all problems with Combat Mission Cold war that we can give to the developers? Is there a final date this can be done or is it ongoing? do we file them with you personally? thanks in advance

Hello, i'm returning to combat misssion after about half a decade or more away, so let's do this. I have cold war, but don't know how to play PBEM on this new CM2 engine, it was easy on CM1. Would like a small match, hope to hear from one of you soon, thanks. J

Hello everyone, Decimated from We Band of Brothers. hopefully soon i'll get a good home scanner and am willing to pay about $1000 for it from the same supplier which my company uses for their copier/scanners. If i do that, one of my first projects is to scan the CMBB manual and post it somewhere. At work i have the full version of acrobat and i can text it.

I love to play Jane's IAF and Microprose's M1 Tank Platoon 2 (both from 1998) . But since getting a new computer last year I cannot play them anymore. I don't know how to mess with a virtual machine, so I paid fifty dollars and bought 2nd hand the same old computer that i long ago used to play those titles on. Sure i have an extra computer and the space it takes up, and it is a clumsy workaround, but that's my advice to get your obsolete games back in play.

fascinating - though a google search of the title turned up nothing. How were you able to access that report? Were you in military aviation too? That is me at 22 years old, with my jet 83-023. The 23rd f15C built in 1983.

Thanks for liking them, or the last one anyway. I know the average age of Combat Mission players his higher than the twichy ADD crowd of first person shooters. But i'm in the younger end of the CM scale (at 35!!, i might be the youngest in my CM club). SO the heavy metal might not be everyone's favorite! Here's another light hearted that i'm sure you sir should like. Not a music video, unless you count the famous sound effect at the very end. And no smash cuts = - )

I think one effect of a Building is a diminished ability to use anti-tank weapons. Heavy Woods seems to have the same effect, as you'd expect from the obstructions of walls and trees.

Has anyone heard of the American deserters to North Korea? Decades ago at least three US soldiers crossed the DMZ seeking a new beginning. They were all military misfits, and instead of serving out their enlistment years, made this stunning choice. They became celebrities, starring in North Korean war films as corrupt American commanders, and engrossing themselves in NK culture. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_in_North_Korea http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMNrbh61jKk

I read the book MiG Pilot a years ago, one of the few i've read in one sitting. It was that good...the heartbreaking choices...Belenko's love for Russia, yet hatred for the Soviet system...the stupid wastefulness of its military bureaucracy, in which the base personnel were detailed to paint the fading leaves green so that a visiting dignitary could be impressed...the gallant Japanese thwarting the Soviet's attempts to bring back their man...as a former US Air Force crew chief (F15s) i was totally engrossed by the details of the analysis of the MiG-25s strengths, weakness, and vastly different Russian approach to engineering. I rarely read fiction, because the stuff of real life is so much better.

This video was made on request by a fellow club member who also played the Total War campaign. He had a funny situation in which he surrounded and attacked two immobilized tanks with every single weapon in the Battlefront arsenal. It took him 12 turns to do it! He provided his password and files, most of the narrative captions, and told me to put it together! First song is unknown to me, and the second song which comes in about 3 minutes is "Life of An American Fireman" from '02... 1902 that is.

The scenario designer of Total War gave us plenty of rocket and huge caliber artillery FOs to smash each other with. That's the closest I've been to an ICBM exchange. Metallica's 1989 song opening their album ...And Justice For All really gets that during- and post-nuclear swing going

Vehicles and tanks racing from their assembly areas in the Total War Round 1 seemed to be to be racing each other...so I used my favorite "driving fast" song.

In CM, you've got lots of shells rocking, lots of vehicles rollin', so I thought it normal to use a song that talks about rocking and rollin'. This comes from the album I've Got the Rock'n'Rolls Again, 1981. The game: "Total War" map and campaign by Cranky. My opponent was Dapickaxe.

Hey all, I bought CMBB in about 2005 and joined the club webandofbrothers about a year later. The single player was good enough but the club brought it to the next level, a bunch of real good sports let me tell ya. This year 2013, I learned how to use Fraps to capture the game action, Windows Movie Maker to edit and finalize, upload to YouTube, then link to the club site. I did a few "normal" videos, showing some cool aspect of a scenario. Then i got the idea of laying music over it, to amp up the experience - i mean, war games are cool, and music is cool, why not fuse the two? The music I use is mainly hard rock and metal, as its violent energy is similar to a well-planned assault. Here, for my amusement and I hope yours, are some music videos. I have a stack of songs and ideas for more, which I might tend to put out about once a month (real life as you know gets in the way). Thanks for watching. And if anyone wants to use this space for loading Fraps game capture videos, then all the better. I'm available for advice on how to do it, as a few months' experience for me is enough to get the basics of it

As for infantry advancing against guns, i just played and won a a small scenario. My infantry company , after taking heavy losses and losing their only tank, then overtook a pak 75, a 150mm, and a smaller infantry gun, all with infantry support. (of course, being their leader, i get some of the credit too). Some ways i did it, and generally speaking: - area fire with overwatch units - area fire with advancing units - simultaneous attacks from divergent angles. Guns take a long time to rotate; this is the best way to pin the crews. - Get the business over with in a hurry, though with a sound plan. Real life commanders and units have well-rehearsed reactions for many contingencies. - Long-range exchanges while you ponder moves will fail. A poor unit can still do well in an advantage situation (i.e. dug in, or ambush) but only a good unit can overcome an overmatch such as men versus guns. - Do it in at least company strength, so that your company commander following behind can rally units and take over when platoon HQ units get wiped out. - Targetted fire may not work, as the unit will lose sight and stop firing. - You'll probably lose more than half the time, as infantry was never made to take guns in the open. It seldom worked in the US Civil War, and won't in the XX Century. [ April 12, 2008, 07:52 PM: Message edited by: decimated550 ]

John - I found out how to do that - i'm building a pretty cool factory area scenario, and the germs will be at a disadvantage numerically againt the attacking soviets, and i wondered how to emplace guns that would not be picked off in the few non-built up squares (trees, etc). And i tried it and it worked - guns are now sitting in rubble and factories!

Hello, I sent you an email an hour ago but now my registation is approved on this forum. Just to say again I would like to help with your QB - gimmie a line when you can. Julius