J Bennett
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48 minutes ago, chuckdyke said:
Quantity is a quality in its own right. Sherman 76 mm and T34/85 in the latter part of WW2. Single German Cat? attack it with a platoon. Against the AI it is easy, had three T34/85 against two Tiger1 in a recent game. Lost one T34 and the AI lost the two Tigers. Against a human player it would be different.
"Quantity is quality" I've always said that too. You are are so right. A lot of Shermans and T-34's got destroyed but in the end they prevailed. Like the elephant that got ate up by ants. I like this thread. A lot of good stuff .
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On 7/7/2021 at 3:30 AM, Warts 'n' all said:
Whilst the Tommies, Kiwis, Ozzies, and Sikhs etc stood and watched presumably.
They wern't needed. The Yanks handled everything very well. Also Monty was pleased.
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On 7/7/2021 at 11:12 AM, Probus said:
A few years ago a couple of guys had an M18 Hellcat (they collected old military equipment) They restored it and and had a range to fire the cannon, One day they were firing the cannon and it blew up. and killed them both. At least in a Stuart you might live if the gun blows up, well maybe not the guy loading but I will always take a Stuart over anything. It was the best tank ever.
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it worked! Thanks very much
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I purchased and downloaded the .rar file but when winrar tries to open it, I get "file is in unknown format or damaged" Is there something I did wrong. I have many CMx2 winrar files on my hard drive for the various games and they all open fine with winrar except this one. it appears the downloaded file finished, 2,862,622 KB file. Maybe data getting corrupted by bad packets.. not sure.
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I'm very excited about this new business deal. Seems like It bodes well for the future of COMBAT MISSION variants and
expansions for years to come. Sincere Congratulations Battlefront!
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I'm very excited about this new historical model. Maybe late this year, We can hope.
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1 hour ago, BluecherForward said:
Without Lend-Lease the Soviets would have lost - regardless of a Second Front.
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Um that's true but does not nullify my post. It in fact strengthens the position that the war was decided in the East. The Western Allies knew it was crucial
to keep the Soviets in the war or Europe would never be liberated.
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We need a new Barborossa mod more than Africa. Even if there had been no second front the Soviets still would have prevailed
and got to Berlin to knock out the Third Reich. As an American no amount of bias is great enough to deny this fact. The war was won in the East.
Everything else was just a sideshow.
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I recall a game I played where a Panzer Mk IV managed to get surrounded in a little villa by Russian SMG squads.
The crew bailed out and were defiantly popping away with their Walther pistols.only to be quickly cut down by a hail of ppsh fire.
I wish I had recorded a movie of that. it was kind of amusing,... I think i digressed off topic.
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20 minutes ago, BletchleyGeek said:
Not sure if there was a revision (since BFC doesn't produce comprehensive changelogs) but I have noticed that the shaders in CMFI now look better on my NVIDIA card (with the latest drivers). Lighting effects over surfaces are softer and more pleasing to
the eyemy eyes.I very recently "upgraded" from an ATI 7800 series card to a NVIDIA GTX 1060 . I used to have shaders turned off or on low and also the other settings at "better" or "improved" to get good frame rates. Now I max everything . It looks great. FPS varies greatly on "Huge" scenarios or maps from high teens to 50's and higher depending on where i put the camera. But for the most part its mid 30's. Thats a big step up for me.
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3 hours ago, Pascucci said:
I can't even play the new expansion if I wanted to. I'd have to purchase the V4 quality of life update. Most companies refer to performance and quality of life updates with minor gameplay modifications as patches. I paid $60 for the game when released, for some reason I expected performance updates to be covered in that price. Again I will restate that the forums being so slow is not a good sign, in general, of a healthy community. I used to see CM referred to all of the time elsewhere as well, I rarely here it mentioned now. Overall I wouldn't take the current situation as a good sign. I fully realize this will be taken as a crap opinion by many here, but I decided to give it anyways. I literally grew up on the CM v1 games, quite liked v2 early on as well and bought both Normandy and Italy soon after they came out, but I'm really disappointed in the current direction.
Few companies I have seen support their games as much as Battlefront does. They have done many free patches and V4 was pretty much a game overhaul and I have not seen any other companies do that . If you have please tell. They hardly need my defense but the BF team makes quality products with a small team of people. Seems pretty amazing to me what they have been able to do. Its written in a certain book that a worker is worthy of his wages . There is only so much you can get for free, you've got to pay to play. As for the community being slow or unhealthy, that seems to be a subjective thing and a matter of opinion. I;ve been here occasionally putting in my 2 cents or passively reading it for years. I bet it will be here for more years.
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Fire and rubble means we get more fire and rubble damage effects? And BF has cleverly named the new module to accentuate this fact. I like that.
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I like the Canadians, which we already had, but I like them.
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Yes thanks playtesters! If it were not for them I could not be enjoying Rome to Victory right now.
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On 10/16/2019 at 7:00 AM, Wicky said:
Try https://www.fraps.com or Bandicam if playing on a PC.
This is what I use. Captured many fun moments of combat.
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On 1/8/2019 at 6:31 PM, Erwin said:
I apologize. I had replied to this thread and didn't realize it is an old thread. I want to withdraw my remarks, I dont want to make anyone mad. Thanks
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Very interesting video. I remember from my non-illustrious military experience, we were issued the M-16A1 in my day. We were told immediately to never carry it by the carrying handle. Thats the military for you. I dont know if it's true but my Drill Instructors told us the M-16 was based on a Mattel toy rifle. Maybe that's why it had the rather pointless carrying handle. I happen to be the proud owner of an M1 rifle I got through the CMP program. It seems to me it could have and maybe should have been used in the "ready" position, since it is semi-automatic with an 8 round clip. Also you can get really good at reloading it fast. When empty the clip ejects and you insert another one quickly as I 'm sure you all know.
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What if the troops were conscientious objectors? Naturally then they would be hesitant to shoot at others. Another possibility is they had very low morale, actually they were thinking about surrendering. Now I ask you. If you want to surrender you probably dont want to shoot at the troops you might be surrendering to in a few minutes.
Another possibility is these men are hungry. They are saving their ammo for edible game to shoot. Humans are not a clean animal to eat, also there was not much cannibalism in WW2.
There are of course more reasons why men won't shoot at the enemy troops, but I suppose that would just be more speculating .
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22 hours ago, Warts 'n' all said:
J is your middle name Gordon by any chance?
No sir it isn't.
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On 9/15/2019 at 1:37 PM, Michael Emrys said:
AAAARGH!!! I hope not. RT is a non-starter for me.
Michael
I would be more in favor of dumping RT in favor of WEGO only . Por Favor
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This module looks exciting . Thanks Battlefront for all your hard work and dedication, I truly admire it. I will be buying this module as soon as it gets released.
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Maybe off topic and I suppose for CM bigger is always better for screen size.
But for me my monitor does double duty I also use for Flight simulators: IL2 Sturmovik and DCS world so I would not want a bigger screen than about 32 inches.
It seems to me anything bigger than that and I run the risk of my cockpit being BIGGER than a real life cockpit. Just thought I would throw that out. I know I just made
everyone's day LOL.
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I just hope the patch does not contain T-rats. Those things were just abysmally terrible. However, if MRE's are in it, it will be good to
go. I would much rather eat MRE's
BS changes to reflect 2022
in Combat Mission Black Sea
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"I don't agree with you. But the difference of opinion will probably remain academic. " Field Marshall Von Runstedt to Rommel in the movie "The Desert Fox" starring James Mason as Rommel. Anyway, I am breaking from my custom of only buying WW2 based CM games. As a Ukrainian or Russian field commander might have said in recent years: "Gentlemen, in today's training we will simulate a hypothetical invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Army" Well since this is now real war I am going to purchase "CM Black Sea" because it is somehow more interesting now.