Narses

I play small Ger units in Italy usually with small villages with a mix of Ger inf (1 plt), extra MG's, oncall 81's and a few antitk units with 2 to 3 pzs or Stugs and maybe a towed light weapon like a 2 cm or an inf how and/or maybe a 5 or 7.5 cm AT gun. The US or Allied side always has 2 mech plts in carriers, arty, maybe a couple M5's or M8's and then 4 or 5 tks. Hellcats never seem to do too well especially mixing it up with inf and handheld pzfaust or pzschrecks. In addition the terrain is usually a bit hilly and if I get a hit in the first couple of rds I normally get the win. Btw, I hope many of you have seen the great programs "Tank Overhaul" on the Military Channel (USA). I recently watched the one on the "Hellcat" where they actually found its 86 yr old former cdr. Also watched the one on the Panther and Comet.

Despite using Shift+Q I cannot seem to eliminate all those plyr aides ( 'Knocked-Out', 'Abandomed', "Damaged'. etc.). What gives. Those are really annoying and cover up the screen so I have difficulty seeing some units.

I very much agree with you. The quote is way overblown ! MTB's were not that important. But I hope this game has the German S-boote. They scored some successes: 101 merchant ships sunk (213,000 tons), 12 DD's sunk, 11 Minesweepers, and 8 LST's. There most spectacular succes was in Apr 44 at Lyme Bay (Slapton Sands) where they attacked a large D-Day landing sinking 2 LST's and damaging 2 and causing over 700 deaths as I recall. If this sim doesn't have S-boote forget it.

Thanks. Yeah, the license code on the order email for the "bundle" was for CMBB ONLY and I thought it was for the the "bundle." You are right there was a second license code not on the email but on the back of CMAK manual.

Another issue. My license code does not work and www.license.net would not accept the offline license patch I tried. Background: I have CMBB with the $5 Vista patch loaded since July. Just a few days ago I ordered (8/31) the whole CMBB/CMAK bundle CD's as I decided for convenience I wanted the CD's. I only attempted to load the CMAK CD since, as I said above, I have CMBB w/ Vista patch on my PC already. I then put in the license number provided. When I looked at the number I did see it said for CMBB but I'm assuming that's because I bought the bundle of both games. What do I do. Thanks

OK it finally loaded, after I cleaned it & tried a different tray. That's odd, I don't think it was the cleaning as it looked perfectly clean.

Oh, OK I found it.

Thanks. Will try that. Btw, where do I find "UAC"? I've been looking in Control Panel but haven't found yet.

I ordered the bundle of CMBB and AK on 8/29/2009 and received it yesterday Sept 3. I ordered the CD's although I had previously downloaded the $5 V1.04 for CMBB and it works perfectly on my Vista. I just decided I might as well have the CD's for greater convenience. Yesterday I immediately put the CMAK cd in and the logo came up with selections "Install" and "Exit." I clicked on "Install" and in the tray I get "CMAK Not Responding." I repeated this 3 times and get the same response. I can only get out by selecting "Ctl+Alt+Delete." What is going on ??????????

Thanks, appreciate your reply.

Maybe I've missed this in the manual but what are the keys for in game screenshots? Want to entice a couple friends to buy TOW2.

Are the Battle Generator instructions online in the game as well as in the manual. I can't seem to find it although I see the Mission Editor online.

Oh, OK I get it. Thanks 'Sneaksie.'

How about some of those very late WW2 Italian AFV for a "what if" scenario or two: - P26/40 100 built in 43 and 44. A 75/34 main gun and 26 tons, 60mm frt turret armor - Semovente armed with the same 75/34 and another with the 105/25 - Semovente armed with a 75/46 Italian antiaircraft gun

I recommend a couple books on the Italians: - Ian Walker's "Iron Hulls, Iron Hearts" cover the history of the Italian armored and motorized forces and is very good. - Patty Griffiths "World War II Desert Tactics" (Osprey Elite Series) is also very good not only on the Italians but the British and German. Griffiths says "What the stereotype (of the Italians) concealed was the renaissance in Italian military competence that followed almost immediately after Beda Fomm in Feb 41. " He talks about organizational reforms and reinforcements in artillery, tanks motor transport and training. A major problem initially in Africa was the fact there was a huge infantry army supported by only 1 weak arm bde. Also there was a lack of company grade officers as well as NCO's. Then followed the arrival of "Ariete" (armd), "Trento"(mech) and "Trieste"(mech) to Africa. All veteran units originally blooded in the Spanish Civil War. Later came "Littorio" armd div and "Folgore" parachute div. Finally "Centauro" armd div. At Bir el Gubi (19 Nov 41) the Italians repulsed the 22nd Armd Bde and the Brits lost half their tanks. Then at the same place on Dec 4 the 'Giovani Fascisti' mech recon group beat off several attacks by 11th Indian Bde. Griffiths further relates good Italian performances with Rommel at Gazala and Alamein. The previous comment about Italian Gen Meese is correct says Griffith and he adds Meese had a good record on the Russian front. My readings indicate the Italian artillery troops were very good although some of their equipment was WW1. In addition the armd, motorized and parachute units were quite good, again despite some seriously bad equipment issues. This extended to the Italian Air Force and Navy. In particular the Navy excelled at special "small boat" units and frogmen the "MAS" guys. \

I extracted the Mission Editor folder patch to TOW2 and although in the game folder it now has a new date (8/6) for the Mission Editor the game still shows only 1.1.0 not 1.1.0a and "Battles" does not light up. I tried restaring the PC as well but still the game doesn't show its updated to 1.1.0a. What is wrong.

I'm still pissed as the battlefront folks tell me I cannot get access to the editor or any other items outside the basic game with my new Vista. Frankly that killed TOW for me. If they can fix CMBB and AK for Vista why not the "full Monty" for TOW1 ?????????

I really like Steven Pressfield and grabbed KR up. Despite some factual errors about diesel engines in Ger panzers I thought it OK. Pressfield is really an expert in ancient military history. Read his"Gates of Fire" and others of that genre. Great stuff. Also try Victor Davis Hansen if you like ancient warfare. I can hardly pull myself away from Miedieval II but I love WW2 tank action in CMBB. AK and Pz Elite. I'm trying TOW and TOW 2 but I'm still unhappy I can't get the TOW editor in Vista. Narses

Great news. I'm happily playing CMBB on my Vista and will download CMAK upgrade as soon as possible. I frankly like the simplicity of these games and the ease of use of the editors. Thanks again for the upgrades.

Can someone help me on this CMBB Vista download. I've got CMBB loaded with 1.3 in my Vista PC. I downloaded the 1.4 Vista patch but I don't know how to extract a compressed file. When I try to extract it says something like "Compressed files were unable to locate the specified directory." I did specify the directory C:\Program Files\CMBB ??

How do you download this Vista fix patch? It doesn't seem to self-extract? I tried changing the path to C:\Program Files (x86)\Battlefield\Theater of War 2\Mission Editor and I get this msg, " Compressed files were unable to create the specified directory." Thanx anyone!

OK, just getting started on my Vista64 PC. Where is the "Battle Generator" mentioned on pg 66 of the manual ? It says to try and use the file MissionGen.exe. The only file I see is MissionGen.exe.config. Where is the "Editor." I get a map editor but there is nothing in the folders that I can click on other than the editor document to get started to create a mission & place units. I had the same huge disappointment with TOW being told after the fact there is no editor if you use Vista. Great.

I forgot an important point. You have to unplug the 8800GT card and run off the onboard video accelerator. Pretty easy to do. But the easiest way as someone here said is to get an older PC. I've just acquired a 2004 Gateway and all CM's run fine on it.

I stumbled on a way to play CMBO, AK & BB on a Vista with a Nvidia8800GT. I simply bought myself a 15 pin cable and attached it to the video in connection (Blue) in the tower bypassing the 8800GT. To my amazement it works perfectly.

I recently had to dump my 5 yr old PC for a new PC w/ quad processors and naturally got Vista. Also a Nvidia 8800GT card. Only CMBO plays not BB or AK. I tried resetting the PC for Windows XP but that didn't work either. What the heck is going on when BO plays not the others. I'm not that impressed with TOW (it sure looks nice but doesn't play as nicely as the CM games do) and would like AK & BB to be playable as I'm sure thousands of others would. Will Battlefront address this ?????????