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While the original format does not, newer variations do. So, CM uses a version of .bmp files that do support transparency but many editors do not support saving to that format. Sounds like @sbobovyc has pointed @weta_nz to a solution.

Do you have plans to upload to the scenario depot? If not please consider it.

There was fish? I never got any fish.

LOL what @sburke said - give up on RT, stop putting lies into your own head and watch a real news source. You are confusing political disagreement with disunity. It is hard for people who are encouraged to view dissent as disloyalty to understand it but we in the free world disagree about lots of stuff but we agree on much more and when the chips are down we help each other out. You quote various examples of bad things happening during disasters - there is always some jackass taking advantage - those are small potatoes. You don't understand the level that people cooperate and help each other out in times of trouble. Volunteers from all over the place and from other countries come to help out if the disaster is big enough. Plus, you are conflating two things - social collapse and government collapse. I highly doubt that citizens of the US or Russia would suffer from social collapse (Russians are too tough and Americans are to community minded). Governments are another matter.

People have already linked the videos I would have. I will only add don't worry about watching videos on tactics from CMFI they still apply to CMBN. Even though there are large differences from WW2 and Modern conflicts you will still likely learn useful things from the CMSF videos too. They might not be directly applied but the goals and steps will still be valid.

Oh yes I missed that additional details.

Hee hee. Same here but differ reaction. I'm about to turn 50 but I have kept up well and am still a professional programer and up to date with tech. Self taught from the start so kept right on doing it. Done mobile device and web dev plus multiple new programing languages. Just cause we are older doesn't mean we cannot keep up. And yeah those whankers not paying attention are a pain. But us old guys can own and learn a smartphone and have the discipline to pay attention to the world around us. Back to the OP yeah it would be nice to know by name and not just date what is in our list. But since the store doesn't work that way I have a file with all my keys saved away.

Not a bad idea. To solve your immediate problem you could withdraw tanks with damaged main guns. That's probably what would happen in RL. Note: yeah I'm not doing that either

Each family gets better at this but frankly even if during testing, if as an example, I was happy with the results out in the real world people would likely not be. I have three thoughts on this. One, just choose something and go. Two do the above a dozen times and save the files away. Next month play them . Three, ask someone here to setup a game. Even send them a screen shot of what you want in a force and let them set that up and pick the opfor. Bounus: Four use the auto pick and quickly review it it if looks goofy press select again. If you don't look too closely there will still be surprises. The amount of point advantage to the attacker. Probe has the least and I think assault the most but I am not sure. I really only play probes against humans. In this game they way we fight it is very hard for the defense to come out on top. Probe is the best chance that the defender has to be able to win. Correct.

But, there is no logical way that NATO should be viewed as a threat to anyone. The fact that people believe that it threatens them is due to Putin's propoganda. So, saying "see people think NATO is a threat" is not evidence that it actually is it is only evidence that there are people who have been sucked into the propoganda. It is a laughable circular argument that proves nothing other than it would be good to counter that propoganda with some facts and perhaps some counter propoganda.

Ah I see what you meant. It is definitely not a game breaker and not a limitation persay. The design intent is to make the game behave like real life as much as possible. In real life the tank commander gives fire orders based on what they can see. They do not have the God's eye view that we have. I don't think that they will ever offer switches to pick ammo. The crew picks the appropriate ammo already. Smoke is a different target command but HE, AP, HEAT, APDS, etc is likely always going to be picked by the tac AI. Just my opinion of course.

No, and yes. There is no general roe that say don't damage property but the secenario designer can set an objective to be preserve. If they do that you loose points if you damage buildings on the objective.

I'm on mobile only so I cannot give you the link to the discussions about targeting limitations with buildings. If some one else has them, I have posted them before, they might come along and share them. I have a couple of comments and then depending on how this thread goes over the weekend I can add some more. I am not 100% sure what you are asking vs telling so forgive me if my comments miss the mark, let me know what I am missing: We usually call it area targeting. Tanks will use HE ammo automatically for area targeting, along with the MGs. Bocage will not be destroyed by direct fire HE. Artillery won't either but that is an engine limitation. In your secenario I would expect that you could target just infront of the bocage, not the wall, not the first story of the building (duh, wall blocks LOS), maybe the second story (see thread about issues with targeting buildings with partial Los in links I have not provided:-), you should be able to target the top floor of the building. Yes, shells targeted to the bocage will frequently travel through and strike the wall and then, once the wall is destroyed, the building.

Wow, OK. Oddly enough I feel very relaxed about your post. I knew this kind of self important whining was the likely out come so I guess I was ready for it. In a phrase you reap what you sew. I kept my sarcasm to a minimum but your self righteous ranting, name calling and ignoring of basic facts probably deserved more. Which others delivered. I had been thinking perhaps that the fact that you didn't respond to my post might have meant you actually thought about a few things. LOL I guess not. You really seem to have issues man. I hope you find some inner peace.

Oops I just realized you were referring to an ammo carrying team not a bren or universal carrier.

Oh actually vehicles have ammo that is acquireable. If you load a squad into a truck (or split off a team to get into a carrier or jeep) they can use the acquire command to load up on ammo. That works regardless of the command structure.

And they have to remain in proximity to each other. I believe within two action squares (16m) because you cannot use a command to move ammo between the squads what will happen is when a member of the squad without spare ammo runs out of ammo in their weapon they will automatically borrow a new clip from the close by squad and resume firing. Then when that clip is empty they will borrow another one. etc. So, they will never stock up on spare ammo.

If you hover over a member's name or icon on the left hand side of the thread the Ignore User command appears in the middle of the dark footer in the popup. There is a place on your profile page where you can manage your ignore list as well.

Sounds interesting. Do you need to give them a move command and the pause or is just the pause all by itself enough?

IMHO it is best to ignore all posts from people that post wacky stuff like that (also the haters too). You cannot get your time back from reading crazy conspiracy theories and nor can you get your time back from doing the work to debunk that sh*t either. Life is precious, use your time to live it instead of dealing with crazy. My ignore list is not very long but my enjoyment of these forums is much higher when I don't have to read their stuff.

I would not want to be standing around watching - just in case someone wants to complete the spare.

You cannot. All that you can do is edit them and delete the content but the message stays. Also you can only edit your posts for a limited time after you post them.

No you totally made the wrong choice and should buy CMBN too. Not what you wanted to here? I'm only kidding. The great thing about what BFC is doing is they upgrade older games with features as they improve the newer games. We just had a grand upgrade of all the titles at once (previously the upgrades came out staged) so right now all the games (OK the release of CMFI is delayed) are at the same feature level. So, no there are no different game play or mechanics that will make a difference. CMFB covers a time period later than CMBN so there are equipment differences. CMBN has modules and packs so it has a lot more content. As for maps they keep getting better and better. Some of the maps in CMBN are a bit flat but that is not a function of the game, engine, editor but a function of the map makers are getting better.

Awesome thanks. That should cover me for the day.

Care to share? You can post a drop box link here. Send me a PM for other ways to share. Whatever works. If it needs a password don't for get to say so. There have been and probably still are ways to get a team member to wonder off. Many of these bugs have been squashed as they have been found but they still come up from time to time. When that happens along with a embark or dismount order it will hang up the vehicle as well as the squad and remove the ability to cancel or adjust orders to boot. Yuck.