DLaurier
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Anyone using a cheat will find himself alone in the CM universe with nobody to play with except himself.
Do you realy want to spend your life playing with yourself?
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Just when you thought it was safe to go into the sewers again
If Axe is badbeer, he can face me and my dancing panzerjagers in a pbem match
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So I sent three platoons across a bridge...
As you can see, they seem to have missunderstood my orders.
So has anyone else seen troops bunching up under bridges?
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Just get rune to do it. He's expert in causing player misery.
Michael
Rune has competition.
I wanna make the map that gives HIM nightmares
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I may incorporate something like that into it.
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I'm trying to design a map so awfull that it will give players and their pixeltruppen nightmares for years.
Any suggestions?
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Until now all of the Quick Battles I've played have been meeting engagements. Using random maps has meant that most of the time there are two or three victory locations, usually one near each player. However, my most recent game is another story. This time I chose an attack (Americans on Defense and the Germans on offense). This is the map that was chosen, with my setup zone shown in blue:
Someone please tell me how in the hell I'm supposed to defend a victory location that is clear on the other side of the map. Additionally, let's say someone chooses, oh, some anti-tank guns for their defense (since Germans tend to, y'know, use tanks). What the heck kind of defense can I put up with that small of a setup zone? You certainly can't place any effective defense with a setup zone that small, and towing around a bunch of AT guns is probably not going to happen when you've got wide open lanes of fire that are just ripe for a Panther or Tiger to pick you off as you move.
Is this seriously how quick battles on these maps are supposed to work, or is there some serious flaw here that was overlooked? I can't imagine that this scenario is going to be anything remotely resembling fun.
Find a way.
Thats what the gods created infantry for.
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I'm enjoying it
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4eODo-WfUs
Has anyone else seen this?
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The thing I wonder about is whether France could have won the war in 1939. If France had launched a major offensive into Germany in September of 1939 maybe a lot of subsequent misery could have been avoided.
Agreed.
A november or december '39, joint Franco/Anglo assult into the Rhine and Rhur basins area, would have seen Hitler scrambling for clean underwear pretty fast.
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I've seen some double penetrations (ooer) but only on halftracks.
I almost dated a girl who was into that... errr ummm... yeah.
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Hitler had exactly zero grasp of economics. He also failed to build a strategic reserve of materials (oil, coal, iron, grain, etc) He allowed his racial fantasys to drive his policys, and he used slave labour.
He also ignored his generals.
Hitler was a believer though, and a fanatic who believed his own claims. He did not totaly abandon reality untill late 1942... but the war was already lost at that point.
Goering was a corrupt hedonist who understood power.
He was a pragmatic man who just wanted to sleep with a different gaggle of girls every nite, and pass out drunk afterwards.
Hitler wanted to be a crusading pope for protestant and catholic alike.
He was a pious and sanctamonious, moralizing prude. He also micromanaged everything.
Goering just wanted to party his face off like Calligula, and leave the day-to-day administration to people who actualy cared to get out of bed before noon.
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Grenadier Franz Albrecht after stopping a large American attack
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Here is my solution to getting a German victory in WW2.
As Hitler's plane approaches the runway at Orly, a seagull flys into the windscreen and impales the pilot with it's beak. The plane crashes, and Hitler is killed instantly.
The Hitler jig is never filmed.
Churchill finds Goering a much easyer person to negotiate with, (Two fat hedonists with delusions of superiority) and England is brought onside.
The racial policys are scrapped because they interfere with Goering's personal agenda.
He wants a gypsy to supply his heroin, a jew to treat his syphylis, and a slav to serve his caviar and bratwurst. Plus the Ukranians look better in Motorized infantry uniforms than in striped pajamas... and since all the gay men are in Dachau, there is nobody to MC at the Kabarett.
With no wastefull Battle of Britain, Goering has nothing to distract him from the holy crusade against godless communism.
By the end of 1941, crowds in Moscow are chanting "Heil Goering".
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Certainly it is fun to pretend the Germans could pull an endless string of miracles out of their arses... but the sad fact is that the moment they invaded Russia, they lost the war.
Getting Hitler out of the way might have saved them the degree of defeat they suffered, but even a Chancelor Guderian or Chancelor Rommel couldn't produce oil and coal from thin air.
If the July plotters had struck in 1941, they might have been able to convince England to make peace... but even this couldn't stop the Heer from running into that wall in Russia called "over extended supply lines". Nor could it make Russian winters any less cold.
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And some more (sorry for spamming the images, but it's a pain to upload them so it's easier to do it in one go
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Nice pics.
I like.
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It came today.
My full game disk was waiting at the post office. My girlfreind asked if she was ever gonna see me again.
I assured her I would be normal eventualy... but I WAS gonna instal and play this game.
I like it.
It's not a CMx1 game... but it still has a lot of the same features.
It's got better graphics, and better animations.
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I downloaded the demo to play with while I wait for my full game to arrive.
It's obviously NOT CMx1.
It's not CMBB or CMAK, and certainly isnt CMBO.
It's a whole new engine, and it takes some getting used to.
Personaly I'm finding the demo fun.
The new interface takes some getting used to, and the units handle differently... but it is, after all, a different game.
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Thats pretty much what I do... but my guns get pancaked pretty quickly anyway. I've noticed that my tanks tend to go wandering off in all directions, my B1-Bis actualy spins around to face away from the enemy whenever I look away from it.
I'll look at those mods
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French campaign, Third mission.
4 75mm guns.
3 infantry squads in trenches.
6 bridges.
An infinite number of German zerg rushes.
Reinforcements start with fragile tanks that shed tracks if you look at them funny. Only the B1-Bis has any survivability, the rest tend to die on contact.
Further reinforcements are infantry.
5 tries - 5 defeats.
Anyone have any suggestions?
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Hey Ken,
I still play both CMBB & CMAK and could use another opponent ( im only playing Johnny Canuck now )...How about 600-700 point QBs.
fresh meat
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The new computer is hooked up.
The game is ordered (prepaid credit card).
My girlfreind says I am grinning like a blithering idiot.
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I have the new computer.
I just ordered the game.
I am a happy camper.
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I finaly have a computer that will play this game.
Its hard to play.
I like that
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I've searched-CAN'T FIND HOW TO PLACE MINES!
in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy
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The term "mine" refers to a minefeild... an area already emplaced with mines. Not to a box of mines awaiting placement.
You cannot load them into any vehicle for transport to a threatened sector.
You cannot deploy them under fire.
You cannot relocate them as needed.
You can only deploy them during the setup phase, but after that they are considered placed and immovable.
You have to guess where they will do the most good, and set them there before the action begins... and if you guess wrong, oh well.