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    Beginner tutorials

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

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    Get used to getting beat-up...

    It's all an educational adventure. Crap, I've read tons o' books (mil hist generally, unit hist some), but that doesn't necessarily translate 1-1 to what you'll find in the game. Close, but not 100%. But then what is?

    Got my arse handed to me in a play-by-email vs an unmentioned person in the New Zealand military. What they practice I tried to play. Professional vs amateur. If you find one, they are the BEST opponents ever... You want real combined-arms instruction.. play a real military person in Play-By-EMail.

    It pays to:
    - Play "realistic/smart" for the period (WWII vs modern are VERY different), gamey tactics from other games might leave you wondering WTF?)
    - Educate yourself about what the period platforms are capable of (AFVs, arty, infantry squads) -- in WWII, a game year can mean a total change of tactics, especially against the Russkies in CMRT :) )
    - "You aren't as good as you think you are" - some scenario creators are EVIL, and have already thought out all those advance route routes you think are ingenious... prepare to be decimated in the real Roman sense.

    All that being said, there is little I have spent as much money on, and have enjoyed less than the entire Battlefront series of games...
    CMBO, CMAK, CMBB, etc, etc. Started on the Windows platform way back, then got 'smart' and switched to MacOs. And bought everything I had again, 'cause it's that good. Through (almost) all the current titles (I'm a WWII guy), the most valuable dollars I have ever spent.
     

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    Battlefront Forum meme glossary

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

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    On 1/19/2023 at 11:21 AM, The_Capt said:

    - “Peng Thread” , a nonsensical effort that set back progress of human civilization by about 50 years.  Filled with the worst  refuse and villainy that the CM community has to offer.

    And don't forget, the Peng thread was infamous for crashing the Forums when the sheer volume of posts in a single thread would bring the server to its knees. We had to institute a "watch number"... when it got to that many, a new thread was started in its place.

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    I don't think I can go back to playing against the AI

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

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    Plenty of room for both types. Some of the designers do bang-up jobs of scripting and are very challenging, but then again, against a devious human mind can be frustrating/enjoyable.

    Aeons ago, during CMAK, there was a player (apologies, but who it was escapes me) who used the gamiest, sheer genius maneuver I can recall to mask his attack. Moving across the desert caused dust trails. Rather than telegraph his avenues of advance, he took a couple of his lightest, fastest pieces of armor and ran them back and forth across the map in front of the rest of the attacking force. A dust cloud effectively masked all his early movement. L'audace, toujours l'audace...

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    Modern or WWII?

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

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    Let's see...  CMBO, CMBB, CMAK - aah, the good ol' days of 3 blocky pixeltruppen marching along, the Cesspool and its rather unique wit. And getting massacred in VoT that first time...

    Then CMBN + all the adds, CMFI + all the adds, CMRT + all the adds, CMFB -- I play these as time permits.

    Also own CMBS, CMCW - not that I'm into modern where tech seems to rule the battlefield, but 'cause I want to support the brain trust.

    Would still love to see an updated CMAK, or early WWII title.

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    Drawing streets

    in CM2 Scenario and Mod Tips

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    I think MikeyD has a point.  🙂

    I did the same thing on a map I'm working on. Rotated the underlying real-world an arbitrary number of degrees until the majority of the roads were more or less 0, 45, or 90 (ish) degrees, then some later "road sculpting" to minimize the zig-zags.

    Later put some artificial terrain in place that make your road turns logical.

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    Game size outrageous in upgrade 4.0 ?

    in CM2 General Tech Support

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    Yes, the installed games are big. But then again, what's a terabyte drive cost nowadays?

    On my mac I've a 2TB drive, and used 486GB... with CMBN, CMBS, CMCW, CMFB, CMFI, and CMRT (about 75GB, not counting the maps I'm working on), but I'm less than 30% full...

    I use Crossover to support a Windows game... , counting the Crossover support, that 60GB by itself...

    Cool stuff (i.e., graphics heavy) takes space.

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    A logic problem

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by herr_oberst

    20 hours ago, ratdeath said:

    My problem is that behind every door is a CM family I want to play but can't really choose one at the moment. Almost tempted to take the backdoor to yesterday and install CMBB!

    Oh the good ol' days... and quite possibly the gamiest move ever conceived by man...

    In CMAK, on a dry desert map, buy 2 or 3 of the fastest tracked vehicles your side allows.  In front of your advancing forces, run those vehicles back and forth to create a dust cloud the width of the map...

    Your opponent has no idea how much of what you have advancing.  Sheer genius!!!

     

    Quantum that!  :)

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    COMBAT GAMING ADDICTION EBOOK

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

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    So... watch the drivel on Netflix, or Amazon, or Disney+, or <name your service>, or play CM?  Still waaay less expensive, and a ton more fun.

    Time is time, choose where you'll spend it. So its 19F outside? I'm not on the bike trail -- too much ice this time of year, so my second most enjoyable thing is CM (other than a good Jameson -- Jameson Orange with a Cream Soda mixer - it's an alcoholic Dreamsicle, stoopid good).

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    The Schizophrenia of the Tac AI

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

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    6 hours ago, Jabble said:

      It could work just the same way for the AI side so no imbalance there.

    But while you as a player could tailor a certain squad's, or a set of squads, 'react' behavior according to your instincts or plan, choosing to be cautious or charging forward losses irrelevant, how is the tac AI going to make the same decision on setting the 'react' posture for its planned moves?

    Some type of algorithm, which I assume is already in place when the tac AI chooses between the slow--fast movement spectrum for its pixeltruppen.

    One of the things I've always liked about the CM titles is the lack of precise control once you get far enough down the command chain. That 'randomness' keeps the same scenario from playing the same every time.

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