undercovergeek

I want to echo Wodins sentiments - i bought the game as a filler before CM:N wanting to familiarise myself with the UI and the camera controls, over the last 2 days (having only really got into it in the last week) it has become for me a great game, a sit back, and say - well, i cant believe that just happened great game - very immersive, very tense and the best thing about it is every time i click the 'go' button (only wego for me, only way to play the game!!!) i think this is going to be freaking awesome as CM:N

so without wishing to poke a hornets nest - have you a rough idea of the release times for the 'other 2'!

no, i try and avoid these things but clicked on the wrong one again, and i know its a very select club and im not welcome, hell i feel guilty for posting

is this a proper Peng Challenge thread? i occassionally get lost and blunder into them to find some very strange folks insulting each other until the post count reaches 300 and then they all start again - but.......... womanly flesh in a PCT? - i thought you had all transcended the need for such things and were more......... spiritual and superior to the wants of the rest of us.

Man what a long week!!! Still everybody kind of went quiet waiting for the news - good plan, unless youve opted for a weekend treat??

cool - thanks for your quick replies - number 1 has come about because last time i played i gave a platoon the following orders - quick move round a corner and into the end of an alley i knew an enemy squad was running into from the other side of the building, and gave them the target arc of down the alleyway relative to where they were standing before they set off - off goes the platoon, round the corner, everyone sets up at the end of the alley, sure enough in come the enemy squad, but the target arc is now off angle by about 20 degrees, the cone extends down the alley but crosses into a building leaving half of the alley uncovered at the end, and the whole platoon promptly faced this cones direction and waited and waited and waited, yet just out of the corner of their eyes they could see 5 enemy troops happily lobbing grenades at them but would not break the target arc to return fire - sigh, my fault

Forgive me if already asked, and indeed if this is so just point me in the right direction, however, i would appreciate a little help with the following:- 1. Is it better to actually give my troops a fire arc and point them where i want or just move them to the right area and let them pick for themselves 2. I know its not a FPS but is there a way to simulate coming to the corner of a building and peeping round the corner - the two times ive tried so far resulted in falling short of the corner or running into the middle of the street! 3. The 3 man MG units - are they best attached to a platoon to actually kill people with or at the end of a street or on a roof suppressing everything they can see? 3b. Does the MG still get used if i dont actually deploy it but just have the guys mobile? 3c. And if i go for the roof option, can he see over the top ledge of the building if i deploy him and he lies down 4. Approaching an enemy on the roof of a building - i have tried 2 ways, working my way to the foot of the building and actually giving a direct target order to shoot the little fella when hes seen and entering the building and bursting out of the top and shooting at him there - this has usually cost me a pixel troop or 2 and wondered if advisable doctrine was to stay downstairs and shoot at the roof Had the game a month or 2 now but this is the first time ive had chance to get stuck in - great game, well and truly impressed even if it was just a practice for CM:Ns UI - thanks for any help

im with Roadiemullet - shes my queen too and i should be allowed to call her what i like, i damn well pay for her houses and cars and planes and boats and trains and 'business' trips to Australia and New Zealand!! Coupled with that - this is probably the freshest source of whingeing about a release date and getting people to maybe even suggest a date might happen in this thread - and i want to find this gem, this nugget of info, and it ought not to be buried in rubbish about the Dutch air force (snigger) or the Queen. And wheres our damn forum???? Damn Afghans get one, mutter, mutter , mutter

My best searching skills could not ilicit the hidden treasure of an answer - does buddy aid happen automatically or do i need to assign someone to it?

bought the basic package - brilliant - just what i was looking for - ive only played 3 turns but im zoomed in, im wego-ing and im wincing at the casualties i just took on the bridge - very immersive - excellent - didnt think modern combat would do it for me but its excellent - and has stoked the CM:N fires all the more - one question - i can only ever get my camera angle to be behind and above my forces - some screen shots i have seen here seem to be basically on the floor behind the troops - i can never seem to get the camera that low to the ground - any advice?

thanks for everyones advice - im trying to weigh up whether it really is about buying the game and playing it and enjoying it, or im mistakenly thinking that this is as close as im going to get to CM:N until CM:N is released and im trying to justify it that way!!! Im not a HUGE fan of modern combat, but its not necessarily about that - i am a HUGE fan of squad based combat and tactics and this is clearly the best example of that - no worries i suppose im just asking the community to be my conscience while i impatiently wait for CM:N...... I take it your not going the original way of Matrix by suggesting that one cannot buy CM:N until youve bought CMBO and played it like with War in the Pacific?

Its been many many moons since i played CMBO and disappeared from the gaming world for CMBB and CMAK - and cant say that the original CMSF grabbed me - but now with the onset of CM:N i cant tell you what the prospect of playing CMSF in a WW2 enviroment is doing to me - i have watched band of brothers again, watch SPR again - im ready for some Corentan action anyday now - BUT should i play CMSF to get used to the mechanics - im a very conservative player it will be a WEGO job zoomed all the way in (similar to the guy doing the 'best moments from CMSF' thread, play the turn over and over again for all the dramatic diaramas and theatre you miss without taking the time to study the turn, anyway..........) and wondered if having only experienced Ye Olde CMBO i should use my last unspent Christmas funds on CMSF and the free marines module?

thankyou - sorry to have pestered - just looking forward to the game and sighting some troops for the first time

ahem..... begging your pardon sir, but could i just jab you about any infantry pics, any at all, an arm maybe.... even?

ooo if youre in the mood for quick replies - any infantry pics in the pipeline - im spanish and dont celebrate Christmas til 6th Jan so need my own set of bones and pics! and mrs undercover didnt get her pics for Divali!!! and any other fake reasons for more pics i can think of

looks great, i cant believe the difference between CMBO and this, BTW any infantry pics yet?

thanks for all replies - a dedicated graphics card it is andx as much ram as poss

no ram or graphics card essentials?

Ive searched, believe me ive searched the forums, and im sorry if its already been addressed - for the 'up-and-coming CM:N' is there a very rough guide to minimum specs - im going laptop shopping soon and it is essentially to play WitP AE on and CM:N Any help gratefully received