LUCASWILLEN05

Hi Everyone!
 
You guys are like the seagulls in 'Finding Nemo'....
 

 
... I support that.
 
 
 
GAME? GAME? GAME? GAME? GAME? GAME? GAME? GAME? GAME?

This is getting interesting.
I had this once in CMSF, a enemy tank behind some trees and my own tank hit those trees 5 or 6 times...

Now with CMBN and all those big trees this could be a issue.
I mean, we can destroy building, fences, walls and the terrain can be damaged...and then we have trees that resist 10 HE shells from a Panther...

If its only down to locating stray unskinned models etc., we can do that a lot quicker once we all get a copy and start playing with it
 
Also, its 01:29 GMT+1 so, is it done today?

Release tomorrow yiss? Good Battlefront.

One possibility they could choose would be a future Korean war involving the Chinese and possibly even the Russians siding with North Korea, Dense terrain, winter weather, urban combat. Korea has it all. Scenario is most likely o start with a North Korean invasion unless someone dreams up a really plausible reason for the West to invade the north (eg nuclear weapons, noocons in the White House)
 
Or they could return to the Middle East but this time it is a genral war involving Isreal, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the Gulf States, Iran, stae sponsred groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah, ISIS, the United States, NATO and possibly Russia.

Bunch of ravenous hyenas - go read the manual - yes, from end-to-end.
 
Might find a typo.
 
Should keep you (us?) busy for at least a day. Or two....

Sorry, what I meant by 1943 was summer of 43 to late spring 44. I think that is how BF is breaking it up. Mid year to mid year.

You'd be excellent as a highly paid consultant: asked to come up with one solution, you suggest three things we already know ...

I am, the best consultant.

The ability to call up Battlefront and make irrational demands, and the power to dictate game settings.  Also being hired as a highly paid consultant.  

I would be suspicious that this plton is actuallly bait for hidden AT guns. Assault guns or tanks. So first I would scou the area and establish that this was not the case. Them I would move the tanks to within 500 - 600m of the enemy position. Use them t create a basr of fire along with one rifle platoon. The ther two rifle platos will employ fire and movement tactics to assist in suppressing the enemy and move them into close assault positions. If the Germans have not retreated or surrendered then close assaullt thei positions. Move the tnks and the firest rifle pltoon up quickly from the fire support base to support the final attack and exploit success.

There is a joke about a Polish soldier who finds an old bottle on the banks of the Vistula. When he opens it, surew enough out pops a genie wqho grants the Pole the traditional three wishes.
 
"For my first wish," says the Pole "I would like the Chinese Army to invade Poland".
 
Months later, the invasion over the genie returns to grant the sencod wish
 
"For my secondwish," says the Pole "I would like the Chinese Army to invade Poland.
 
Months later, the invasion over the genie returns to grant the third wish
 
"For my third wish," says the Pole "I would like the Chinese Army to invade Poland.
 
By this time the genie is curious and asks why the Pole keeps asking for the same thing each time, thus wasting his wishes.
 
"But don't you see," says the Pole " For the Chinese army to ivade Poland three times they must pass through Russia six times!"

There is a joke about a Polish soldier who finds an old bottle on the banks of the Vistula. When he opens it, surew enough out pops a genie wqho grants the Pole the traditional three wishes.
 
"For my first wish," says the Pole "I would like the Chinese Army to invade Poland".
 
Months later, the invasion over the genie returns to grant the sencod wish
 
"For my secondwish," says the Pole "I would like the Chinese Army to invade Poland.
 
Months later, the invasion over the genie returns to grant the third wish
 
"For my third wish," says the Pole "I would like the Chinese Army to invade Poland.
 
By this time the genie is curious and asks why the Pole keeps asking for the same thing each time, thus wasting his wishes.
 
"But don't you see," says the Pole " For the Chinese army to ivade Poland three times they must pass through Russia six times!"

There is a joke about a Polish soldier who finds an old bottle on the banks of the Vistula. When he opens it, surew enough out pops a genie wqho grants the Pole the traditional three wishes.
 
"For my first wish," says the Pole "I would like the Chinese Army to invade Poland".
 
Months later, the invasion over the genie returns to grant the sencod wish
 
"For my secondwish," says the Pole "I would like the Chinese Army to invade Poland.
 
Months later, the invasion over the genie returns to grant the third wish
 
"For my third wish," says the Pole "I would like the Chinese Army to invade Poland.
 
By this time the genie is curious and asks why the Pole keeps asking for the same thing each time, thus wasting his wishes.
 
"But don't you see," says the Pole " For the Chinese army to ivade Poland three times they must pass through Russia six times!"

There is a joke about a Polish soldier who finds an old bottle on the banks of the Vistula. When he opens it, surew enough out pops a genie wqho grants the Pole the traditional three wishes.
 
"For my first wish," says the Pole "I would like the Chinese Army to invade Poland".
 
Months later, the invasion over the genie returns to grant the sencod wish
 
"For my secondwish," says the Pole "I would like the Chinese Army to invade Poland.
 
Months later, the invasion over the genie returns to grant the third wish
 
"For my third wish," says the Pole "I would like the Chinese Army to invade Poland.
 
By this time the genie is curious and asks why the Pole keeps asking for the same thing each time, thus wasting his wishes.
 
"But don't you see," says the Pole " For the Chinese army to ivade Poland three times they must pass through Russia six times!"

No choice for poland? Poland is the future of eastern europe. Should be first module.

He did put something of his own in response to Ian's post. It just got caught up inside the quote box. Have a compare of Ian's post and Lucas' reply. Note the last line in Lucas'.
 
I do not like the markup in this board. It is too difficult to break up a block and address things point by point and too easy to lose the termination of a quote section without good indication that you have. I've looked for a markup help page but not found one and would be happy if someone could point me that way.

Yeah. Even 'just' mist/fog is constantly varying. One minute the viz might be 20m, then 30 seconds later it's 100m . . . but only to the NW. etc. I'd really like to see Los limits varying up and down randomly over quite short time cycles.

Would it be possible for BF to develop a program routine that would allow weather to change during a battle? This might work by the scenario designer steeing a percentage chance for weather to change with branching options enabled.
 
To take a simple example the game could start off as foggy. After a specified amount of time there will be a 40% chance the weather remains this way but a 60% chance every ten minutes that the fog will become mist. Once this happens there will be a 70% chance every fifteen minutes that the mist will clear. Once that happens there will b a 50% chance that the weather is clear. oherwise it wil be overcast. If overcast there will be a 60% chance of precipitation.

Does it rain constantly for three or four hours though. Probably not usually in the real world environment. It would be more realistic if we could vary the type of precipittion or have it stop raining altogether, go to just overcast and a bit later start rainin again. For clear weather to become overcast and then styart raining/snowing as appropriate. For mist and fog to evenually clear etc. In short for the game weather system o mimic the real word environment (pardon the expressio  ) a little more realsticly than is possble at present but obviously within certain realistic perameters.

Lets remember 'weather' isn't just weather. Its spotting distance, hit probability, ground conditions, light levels, even fatigue factors. If most of those parameters are pre-calculated for each action square at startup to allow for continuous gameplay then altering them significantly during gameplay would throw the whole game into confusion. Bear in mind I don't have a clue how the game actually operates under the hood, myself. 

I also don't have a clue about the innards of CM but I doubt that any of these things you mentioned are pre-calculated.
 
Spotting distance depends on who you are, stance and terrain - changes often.
Hit probability - we don't have that.
Ground conditions - change over time.
Light levels - also change. Set up a QB at dawn and wait a while to see the sun come up
Fatigue - depends on ground conditions -> see above.
 
Maps can be played with any kind of weather so nothing seems hard-coded. My guess is that it is technically feasible.

Indeed there would be effects on ground condions, the ability to hit and spot, fatigue. I suspect much of that will already be coded in. Changing groud conditions such as deeper snow or worse mud might not be however. These things are more likely to be relevant in our longer games lasting 2 - 4 hours. Howwever I suspect a lot of coding might be required to get this right.

Not that I count but I agree with 7thGalaxy on going with generic fronts. This is really getting confusing the way it's going. IMHO.