RogCBrand
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I can see a day where the retail store is a thing of the past and all of our shopping is done in the home with a delivery service.
I am much at that stage myself it is rare I go to the shops, even for groceries.
The same with me- I consider shopping in a store to be cruel and inhuman punishment! Especially when it comes to birthday and Christmas shopping, I'd lose my mind if I couldn't do it on my computer at home!
Not being stuck behind some moron who is standing in the middle of an aisle, talking on their cell phone, with no consideration for those trying to get through, or listening to spoiled brats scream at the top of their lungs to get their way, or stand in line to check out, only to see all the other lines moving quickly, while yours is at a stand still... the withering of retail stores may mean lost jobs, but I can't feel bad about that!
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I concur. I flew on Aluminum Overcast a few years ago. Some of the best money I ever spent, and I've never once regretted it. It really is a once in a lifetime experience that I'll never, ever forget.
Same here! I got to fly in Nine 'O' Nine- in the back of my mind was the question of how safe it was going up in an ancient WW2 bomber, without the modern emergency exits, etc., but getting the chance to fly in a B-17 was worth it and I'd love to go up again! I figure you're still in more danger just driving to the airport than going up in one!
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It sounds like the Brits are getting hit with postage fees the way Americans are being gouged by "luggage fees" on airlines here! In bad economic times it's not like people have loads of money to spend on all these fees!!!
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Steve, I think this situation is very much like when a wife is physically abused by her husband and she calls the police, but when they arrive, she changes her mind and gets mad at the police for arresting her abusive husband.
It's the "I'm allowed to say anything about my guy, but you have no right to say anything." syndrome.
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Mythbusters need to take this on!
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I think the main problem here is senility, I mean, most average players of CMx1 must by now be over 200 years old at LEAST, surely? Maybe the old-timers are just finding it a little difficult to adapt, you can't teach and old dog new tricks and all that.
"Depends" are the way to go! No more worrying about geezer-bladder and having to rush off to the bathroom every 10 minutes and breaking the flow of the game!
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BFC had a Sherman melted down and turned into steel boxes. So it's 30 tons divided by box weight.
That would be pretty cool!!!
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Indeed!
I am not sure that there are levels within levels for the bocage. So the bocage is either a big bocage or the smaller one. So the time it takes to destroy one might just be a constant rather than saying "This bocage has 9000hp and this one has 7456" within the same tile.
That is a good point. It real life, each piece of bocage would be different- not some standard. For a game, there's got to be a bit of abstraction, but in real life they could find some good weak spots in tough places, yet in some there might not be anyplace that would be easier to get through. The combination of various plants of various ages, thickness, steepness of the banks, height, etc. would all vary to some degree.
In the game I figure that if they get a good average for the time it took to break through, that's good enough.
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Do the math:
53feet long X 96inch high X 102 inch wide {size of 18 wheeler} / 6inches X 8inches X 2inches{per box} + a little more = whole freaking pile
64,872
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Well historically, American troops would take off their socks, slip the demo charges into them with the fuse hanging out and coat them with axle grease that is conveniently laying around all over Normandy. This would create a perfect "sticky bomb", and many sockless Joe's.
Of course, it was quickly stopped when the Germans complained that it was a major violation of the Geneva Convention, as those socks, worn for days or weeks, in warm, damp conditions, were somewhere between a bio and chem weapon.
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It was just a coincidence. It happened to be a WW2 French Meth lab that blew up during the battle...
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Maybe they dropped some equipment and the sergeant is telling them to run back and get it?
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I'm in the middle of Grand Jury duty- every Wednesday for 3 months! So, I'll be sitting in a little room, listening to the details of cases dealing with Meth addicts, thieves, child molesters, etc. and I'll have a really hard time focusing on the cases instead of drifting off to CMBN land!
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We already covered that. Though the date was a bit off!
Yeah, that's the problem with those prophesies! They're too hard to decipher until AFTER the event has occurred!
Still, if Nostradamus had seen visions of CMBN, I'm sure he was forever depressed, knowing he'd never get the chance to play it!
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Best thing is, the Demo didn't work for me but the Full Version does! It's so nice to actually be able to get the game to run!!!
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Good call .... 33% and counting ....
Nostradamus predicted all the major events in history, so of course the release of CMBN had to be in there!
It's been something like 8 years since CMAK came out so this really is a major event!
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Behold the vision of Nostradamus!!!
"Nostradamus prophesied in Century 10, Quatrain 67: "combattre la mission au-delà de Normandie" shall rise from the battlefront on the day of the second full moon of Spring in the year of the "laden bin" collapsing.
Thus it must be a release date of May 17th."
http://www.battlefront.com/community/showpost.php?p=1255507&postcount=36
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I used FlashGet and it took no time. That's the way to go- everyone downloading is helping everyone else download and so everyone gets it faster.
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I've followed all the suggestions on here- including things like turning off my Avast AV before installing and playing, I've tried installing in the default position, Programx86, and so many other options.
I've spent hours just trying to get the thing to play- I've got so many games and they all work without a problem. I just can't think of even one more thing I could try...
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I've followed all the advice here and anything else I could think of but when I choose to play, the splash screen comes up the music plays then it closes down and says there's a problem.
Windows 7 64 bit
ATI Radeon 3000
CMSF works fine on my machine.
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Funny dont remember sewers being in CMBB. So probably a good Idea not to put them in the new game.
They were extremely abstracted- your guys, at some point would "disappear", then depending on the distance they were traveling- only in urban areas- they would randomly pop out- though there was a chance of them never making it out!
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Interesting. I didnt think it would be possible. I would think that so much of WW2 history would be scrutinized that it would be hard to take liberties to make history, fiction. (Maybe I'm too much the purist)
Or is this what they call "faction"?
How do Sharra's books read? Or at least, how does "Steel Wave" read?
Sharra follows in his father's footsteps- he did Killer Angels, which was made into the big Gettysburg movie. They take all the major facts, but speculate on things the leaders might have said and done, that haven't been recorded and add in some fictional ordinary men to put you into the action at all the best times and places- but doing a fairly good job of feeling like it's sticking true to history.
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Pah Napoleon Bonaparte uniform? I wouldn't been seen dead in that! No i like to strut around in my Imperial Japanese Navy, Admirals Uniform.
LOL! keirei!
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What do you mean, "make"?
Have you checked out half of the people that post here?
Crazy would be the polite term.
Are you insinuating that just because half the people here wear Napoleon Bonaparte uniforms and have dreams of conquering Europe, they are not quite sane?
Missing Steel boxes -UK members please read.
in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy
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I imagine General Chaos was also a very picky eater as a child- pushing his food around the plate and whining that it was too hot, then after playing with it for an hour, complaining that it was cold, that one food was touching another, that there was too much of what he didn't like or too little of what he liked.
I'm glad I don't work in a job that requires dealing with customers, as I'd end up going Postal! Even when the complainers are a tiny minority, the self-pity, drama and energy they put into it makes one drown out a thousand pleased customers!