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I came, I saw, I pre-ordered. Let's see, that would make for a CMBO pre-order, CMBB pre-order, CMAK pre-order, CMBN pre-order, CMCW pre-order, CMFI pre-order... hell, anything in the 'historic' timeframe gets a pre-order (sorry, just not into the new tech warfare), and I can honestly say that I've never been let down by the Battlefront crew. Even bought twice on two titles (PC and Mac), because I have seen the light and gone Mac OS X, and had to switch the titles I was playing at the time. Zeit für Rock'n'Roll. (if the translation sucks, I blame Babelfish).

That water looks like it might be a pointy bit to deal with. One aircraft, two platoons of tanks for tank riders, SMG-equipped (maybe?) riders for those tanks, a good swath of infantry to advance in the woods and built up areas, and all the arty you can muster. The map should look like a pock-marked moonscape once your arty is used up.

Check Spitfire's recommendations. In terms of OS or hardware, I (with my great sample size of 1) haven't seen any issues with following the CM upgrade stream as the updates occurred. In terms of OS, started out on Lion, through ML, then on to Mavericks. As for PC or Mac, it a personal preference. Built my own PCs since the 80286 days until about a year and a half ago. AMD and/or Intel. Then switched to a Mac Mini for 6 months, then built a "Hackintosh" when the Mini couldn't run "School of Hard Knocks" well enough to suit me. Personally, I've had far far fewer issues with the Mac platform than Windows. But YMMV, so I'm not saying which is better for you, just which works better for me.

Yeah, I know, water, "she's a flat... like a pan-cake". But the map I'm working on has several streams (4) running downhill (from 130m to 95m or so) in a valley. So since I can't have water, I'll need some combination of terrain tiles and/or vegetation to suggest the presence of water. And rather than invent the wheel again, I thought I'd ask first to see what others might have some up with for a similar situation. Thanks in advance.

Hmm, long spears... a bunch of native beaters to drive the Tiger from cover... and some 'fodder' for the Tiger to maul while the spears do their work.

Yes, yes, yes!!! We want the 'Space Lobsters of Doom' expansion. We've been waiting for about 13 years, 11 months, 28 days. When will it be ready???

Well, you can't make a patch until you have a fixed reference point to patch to. So, once MG was 'done', and the reference point fixed, the patch generation could begin in earnest. And, since MG was done, it was time to release, to give the value to the people who had already paid (us pre-orderers), or those who were waiting to buy. Why should Battlefront delay the revenue recognition if the MG product was ready? Waiting for a short period of time for something free should not cause undue consternation. Battlefront could just as easily say "no back-patching", and then where would you be?

No worries about the winning or losing. Sometimes it just takes that one moment special moment to make a game worth playing. An attack that actually works like you planned it, or on defense, the desperate fast move to get a panzerschrek guy in place moments before an allied tank passes by (he made it by 4 seconds, and took out the tank).

Oh the fun days of Curly, Larry and Moe. Earliest memories: my precious Tiger, locked in at view level 1, attacking the town, and then the Hellcats appeared up on the hill. Ouchies.

Nah, the Mini's have one, it's just small -- learn all kinds of things when you swap the Apple HDD for an SSD.

At those settings I had that scenario load in 51 seconds +/- 2 seconds (Mark 1 Eyeball used for measurement).

I always wondered how they modeled those Panther turrets in CMGL, now we know.

Truth. What is the count so far? I admit, I've lost count myself, but imagine that Bil is a tad bit miffed at the rate at which those gunners are getting dropped.

I'm staring at a release on Monday, and we've spent the last week or two going through the same exercise. QA finds an issue, determine the severity, haggle over the severity (sometimes), and either fix, or it goes on the 'known defects' list for the next update. The closer to the release date, the bigger an issue has to be to actually call a halt. On the positive side, my DL of MG took 8 minutes, the license entry worked fine, although I couldn't launch immediately. Had to quit, then restart. All is well now. I sense that my review of the final release documentation at work due Monday will not get done until the wee hours Sunday night.

Run Forrest, er Pete, Run!!!

Give it up Michael... The aliens came, they snatched you up on that night long ago, and started their experiments. Two minutes later, they decided that there was not intelligent life on this earth worth studying, re-deposited you in your corn field, and they ain't coming back!

What was the range on those PIAT shots? Looks like a helluva shot to score 2 hits.

The Navy Yard is more "military offices" than a "military base". When I took a Boy Scout crew there for a tour a few years ago (of the Navy Yard computer systems), if I recall correctly, the only armed people I saw were the guards at the gate. Once inside the buildings, it was essentially the same as any other office building where folks in their 40's and 50's work.

Oh wonderful, so we have been playing with quantum entangled morale all along?

Cripes, that WW is a real meat chopper. Now if it would only slew the turret a tad while it fires off a volley, that could get really ugly for the recipients. Great videos by the way. Thanks for posting those, much more fun than just still shots.

First thing I do with a download is run it through Time Machine on the Mac (HDD backup) -- you do backup your machine don't you? Then I burn a disc to backup again. When the real disc arrives, it goes straight into a steel case. Never had an issue that I couldn't resurrect an install from one of those sources.

Aw shucks, you mean it ain't moobeelwaggin' ?

Nooooo, don't reverse straight away from the JgPz, you gotta get outside the 10 degree barrel swing and make it move or I fear that last Cromwell is toast.

Agreed. I consistently have to remind myself to displace my MGs occasionally. If I've targeted them specifically, I try to leave them in that spot not more than 3 minutes. If I have three MG teams, I try to have two firing at a time as the other *should* be busy relocating (if I remember to move them out). Once the moved team is again engaged, another team moves, round robin style.

Enough of the big picture yammering. We want to know the details. Back on post #60 you said: "Sigh. I'll correct her later, when the time is right." We can only hope that those corrections involve a good spanking. Then you said (ever so slightly edited for brevity): "I try to give ... Big overhead shots ... and ... closeups. I'm actually ... giving ... varied delays..." We await you upcoming image postings.