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This may just have been the nicest thing anyone's ever said about my videos! Thank you! Just released the second part of the battle with the last part coming up in a week. (Don't worry, I won't be spamming here every week.)

Yeah, it takes quite a while to make a video, which is why I am only releasing video of 10 minutes of gameplay per week. Leaves me time to do other stuff as well.

Adding in my two cents here in the form of this: Basically I am playing a short PBEM game with a friend and documenting the game, dividing it into 10 minute segments of real-time gameplay to make editing easier. The video has my cheesy voice doing commentary and shows both the top-down map view of the battle as it progresses as well as snippets of closeups whenever something noteworthy happens. I'm posting more wargaming stuff (mostly combat mission games) every wednesday if I can edit the materian in time so feel free to check out the other videos if you like Combat Mission 2 as well as Black Sea.

Howdy! Wonder if anyone still reads this old nook of the forums...? Oh well! A friend of mine and I dusted off a bunch of scenarios and operations we found in the repository and I decided to start documenting them as we play. So far we've played 3 battles and I've had time to edit and upload one, with the other two still in the works. You can find the video (and future videos as they become available) here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMlwRIGughJ8o4pEI57SklD0OcTnEKIt9 Feel free to send suggestions, feedback and other ideas my way! Also, we are planning to do something similar with CM:BS at some point in the future as well! WHAM out!

Just started a bew PBEM battle with a friend, so new pics are coming in a steady drip. I'll add a small box at the end of the posts that contains a short english version of each post, so you non-Finns can get a rough idea of what's happening. *EDIT: Added the english translations to both of the blog posts for this latest battle. Hope you enjoy.

Thanks! I am considering adding the text in both finnish and english (maybe two blogs, side-by-side, who knows). Will have to see when my next game starts.

Hey everyone, this thread is shameless self-promotion, so move along if you dislike that. Since I know that there are quite a few Finnish fans of the Combat Mission series, I began to write my battle diaries in finnish. You can find my first posts, for a small incomplete battle, here: http://cmwham.blogspot.fi/ I intend to do more and already have a PBEM game planned, which I intend to document in the blog. So in short: if you like to read Finnish text and see pretty pictures of Combat Mission Black Sea and Combat Mission Barbarossa to Berlin, step right up! Regards WHAM

Hi everyone! A friend of mine and I played 2 bigger games in the last couple of days, and we realized that killing the latest T-90 or the Abrams seems next to impossible. Now I am wondering if this is caused by player error or if these tanks truly are so hard to kill. Below are short descriptions of two battles we had with tanks in them. T-90 We played a quick battle, with me defending 3 towns as Ukrainian infantry, armed with copious amounts of artillery support, RPG's and ATGM's. My opponents had to cross one of 3 bridges to attack my towns, and I also placed plenty of AT mines near the bridges. He picked his force out of almost pure T-72 and T-90 mix, totalling almost 20 tanks, with only a handful of infantry. The mines did nothing, as his tanks simply rolled over them without a single detonation. Artillery was completely useless, for obvious reasons, against moving armor, managing only to immobilize a couple of vehicles. The ATGM's did nothing, save for killing 2 of his Tunguska's. The MBT's used smoke, APS and reactive armor to survive all ATGM hits. Additionally, the tanks identified the ATGM launch sites with pinpoint accuracy, killing the ATGM units before they could retreat after firing. Finally, as the tanks rolled into the towns, I managed to score a handful of hits with RPG's at close range, eventually destroying a few of the tanks, but the MBT's simply blew my troops out of their buildings and hideouts with concentrated cannon fire whenever my troops opened fire. I tried keeping my troops in "hide" -mode, but the tanks seemed to spot them relatively easily despite this. In the end I had to surrender in order to avoid complete annihilation of my defenders. Abrams We played one of the pre-made battles, cannot remember the name of it, but it's the one in which US forces must attack Russian forces, crossing fields, then a river and finally occupying a town at the edge of the map. My attacking US forces had a number of Bradleys and about a dozen Abrams tanks, as well as artillery and air support and drones. The defending Russians had well-hidden T-90's, Tunguskas and plenty of mechanized infantry with BMP-3's. At the start of the battle I put the drones in the air and immediately got my eyes on one of the T-90's hiding in some trees. An advancing Abrams swiveled around and single-shotted the T-90 before the poor Russian crew had even a chance to realize they had been spotted. With a combination of drones spotting Russian vehicles hiding in trees and between buildings, and a spotter dropping excalibur precision shells on them, and the advancing MBT's killing anything that dared move, I was able to advance almost completely unopposed to about halfway across the map. Only the enemy AA was being effective, downing one of my drones and both of my Apaches with ease (this was carelessness on my part, I did not identify the source of the AA launches and failed to order the heli's to retreat). I lost 2 Abrams tanks to carelessness, as I had advanced through enemy positions, thinking they were neutralized, when in fact scattered infantry armed with RPG's was still present. The infantry managed to score penetrating hits on the rear of the Abrams tanks. Bradleys and infantry cleared out the trees and I was able to continue. At around this time I was reinforced with a further 8 (!) Abrams tanks and a dozen Bradleys. As in the previous battle, the Abrams were well protected from ATGM's by reactive armor and APS, which resulted in zero ATGM hits on the tanks. Enemy T-90's only managed to get off one or two shots before perforated by the Abrams cannon fire, and most of the time the advancing Abrams tanks were able to spot and kill the T-90's before they even spotted the advancing tanks. In the end, I pretty much wiped the map clean of Russian forces, while suffering only the 2 destroyed Abrams tanks, 3 damaged tanks and a handful of damaged or destroyed Bradleys. The scattered survivors surrendered. -------------------------------- With these two battles the score seems clear: tanks are immensely effective, at least until they are forced to enter a dense urban environment. What is the correct way to kill MBT's? ATGM's and even close range RPG shots seem to be well handled by the APS and reactive armor, so these tanks seem almost impervious to attack (as, I am sure, was intended in their design).

Hello! New to the forums, veteran of the older Combat mission games. I'm having a spot of trouble with the Combat mission Shock Force (Paradox version) and was hoping that someone has an idea as per what to do. I have already installed the latest update, and when i check for updates, the website tells me that the game is up to date. The the terrain texture changes to black a certain distance from the camera. By fiddling with the graphics settings (ALL of them, altering the 3D Texture quality has yielded minor results) I've sometimes managed to make the distance of the normally drawn terrain texture to cover most of the first campaining mission map. On other occasions, the distance is about ten meters. The distance to the black texture also changes some times when moving the camera around. (I tried to get a screenshot, but print screen + paint shop pro gives me a black image altogether) Any ideas? If you guys need any more info about anything, ask away. I got this game to work on my old PC, loved it, and would now like to get it working again. Any and all help is extremely welcome. Hardware: GeForce 8800GT 3Gb RAM (DDR2 800Mhz) Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 Asus P5K Motherboard OS: Vista Ultimate 32bit Thank you, in advance, for all replies. -WHAM