A Canadian Cat
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Yep v flips 180 degrees. I use it a lot to flip between my guys and the enemy's view of things. I did not know you can <CTRL> click on the map to move the camera though - I'll be using that next time I play. Learn something new every day.
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Wow that is dramatic! At first I thought you were talking about in our PBEM game - since it is raining:)
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I'm in the middle of two PBEM's and me and my opponents agreed to patch up to the new version halfway through the games. In both games I'm hearing planes and rockets throughout the whole turn and in one game I get a fatal error when I hit the red button and in the other game it makes it to the save screen but when I hit save everything just freezes
Bummer. I too have had games that did not upgrade to the new patch. My solution is to simply play each game all the way through with the version I started it with. You can have multiple versions of the game installed no problem. Right now I have the 1.01 patch and the 1.1 CW version installed next to each other. I still have a game going using the 1.01 version and several going with the new one.
I have had opponents upgrade games before and so far most of them did upgrade OK but not all of them. In one case I had the same screaming airplane / rocket sounds and they lasted about 70s or so and then all was well.
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From what I have observed in game the soldier's condition can persist at one of these levels:
OK / Cautious / Nervous / Rattled / Broken
When bad things happen your men can temporarily become Shaken or Panic. When they are Shaken or Panic they will not accept your orders until they settle down - to one of the persistent states. I have not seen men change to a better state only worse. Sometime becoming Shaken has no lasting effect but Panic pretty much always does. The temporary states of Shaken and Panic last for varying periods of time and how much effect they have on troops persistent state also varies. I have seen guys get to broken pretty fast and I have seen them become shaken repeatedly and only become Rattled. Troop training, motivation, leadership and command and control seem to be factored in along with just how bad things are for them.
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That's odd because it was my good experience with bridges in Huzzar that lead me to believe that this was a map issue. I read about people having trouble with bridges and that those issues were fixed in the patch. So, when my friend and I played Huzzar with the 1.01 patch I did not expect any problems crossing bridges and indeed there were none. I was pleased that things worked so well.
Then when testing Pete's new map and did the same way point plotting I did in Huzzar (follow along the path the unit will be going on at level 2 or 3 plotting way points) failed so badly I assumed it was a map design issue. Sorry Pete!
The odd thing is other people have tested Pete's map and do not see my issues. I don't get it:(
@barrage thanks again for the tip. I have been using it for crossing bridges and dealing with narrow city streets. I am much happier now.
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I'd like to get a consensus (if that's even possible) on how to handle them.
He He He
Option 1 is to just leave the base there as it is.I would vote for option 1.
In the event that you do not get consensus then option 3 looks good:D
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Thanks to everyone. I have a much clearer idea of purchasing now.... and Ian, a surprising and very helpful addition to the thread. I suspected that the 'combined arms' route was the way to go, but I just wasn't too sure considering the size of the battle.
It was all part of my SYOPS plan...
I also like getting a good balance of forces, but at the same time I don't want to end up purchasing in a ridiculously un-historical manner.Indeed - lots of room for mixing and stay in bounds for historical formations. My first few games I was armor light and those games ended badly - I would loose the armor battle and then my infantry would die to HE. Then I went way the other way but that did not work either. I would win the armor battle but my infantry screen would be stripped. Eventually my tanks would succumb one by one to close assaults or rocket AT weapons. There defiantly is a happy medium there some where.
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From the scenario Bloody St. Omer Capelle I finally took the tower after assaulting it four times. As you can see it cost me a lot of men - the successful squads gave buddy aid to them all. And that was the end of my attack - no one had any desire to keep going after that. Lost the game in the end too:(
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Hey, don't help him - he's talking about the game we are about to start:D
Oh, hell I'll throw in my 2 cents too...
1) Should I purchase a whole battalion formation 'as is', or is it far better to use a 'combined arms' approach and delete a few companies to add specialised single units and vehicles?So far I have never bought a whole battalion as is - except for some large scale tests but that don't really count. My experience with QBs that combined arms are the way to go but I tend to be armor heavy.
Humm perhaps I shouldn't be telling you this stuff...
2) When purchasing vehicles such as tanks should I attach them as individual units to my existing battalion, or add them as a completely separate formation? What are the advantages/disadvantages of the two approaches.In a small scale battle I have done this - attached a couple of tanks to the platoon of infantry. But not in a large battle like this. I usually buy an infantry battalion and an armor battalion and then strip then down to get the balance I want between armor and infantry. Then I might tweak things with a single vehicle or four here and there. For example I have bought a Stug based assault gun battalion (stripped down to a single company) and then added two Panthers to the company. While I like Stugs it is nice to have a few Panthers around too. Also I have bought a single truck and attached it to a company just so I can strip it of extra ammo during setup - gamey I know:)
3) What is the main difference between panzer grenadiers and fusiliers, in game terms?I'm glad someone else answered this cause I had no idea.
4) Any other purchasing advice for a large battle would be helpful.I hope that my questions are not considered as cheating - I'm just overwhelmed by the purchasing choices.
Certainly not cheating - great questions.
My only other advice is think about the plan you would use for the map you are on with a combined tank and infantry operation and then think about where you want artillery support during that plan and pick up a few howitzer batteries and or mortars to help you make that happen.
Also consider breaching. Is there bocage to deal with - what about walled compounds. Then depending on need add breach teams.
Looking forward to this.
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Excellent - I really like having your mods installed. Thanks again.
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(If anyone knows a better file hosting place that doesn't require registration, I'll be delighted to hear it!)
Drop box. You would have to register and then you can put file in a public folder and share URLs to them (like above) but those of us downloading do not have to register.
Recommending drop box to others give you additional space. So, if you go that way tell them I recommended Drop box to you by registering via this link http://db.tt/IzQN7r4
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Friggin awesome. You guys add so much value to the game it's hard to express the appreciation. Can't wait to see these on the repository.
+1 to that
I hope I'm not putting in any spoilers, but the more observant among you will notice Tanks has found a way to circumvent/eliminate the dreaded building 'base.' How cool is that?!The looked sooo nice I did not even notice the absence of the building bases. Very cool!
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Something I think I noticed since the 1.1 patch: I see this when positioning infantry in buildings. While at view level 3 (approx, I scroll up and down with the mouse wheel as I see fit) I click on the building I want them to enter and they actually end up in the building closer to the camera even though that building is off camera. I have to delete the last way point and reposition the camera away from the other building and try again.
Could this be the same thing? I try to click on the woods near the end of the bridge and instead it thinks I am clicking on the ford under the camera. The suggestion offered by @Barrage works because now you are clicking to place way points more under the camera.
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Interesting. I learned something. Was it always like this? I could have sworn you used to have to click the endpoint.
It was always like that. I too spend the first year clicking on the white circle or triangle only found out just before the CW release that you can also hit the movement line.
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Interesting suggestions. What you *can* do now is select the entire company and give move orders to it. Once you have the entire unit selected pay attention to which icon is flashing because it is the one you are plotting the move orders for. Plot your series of move orders where you would like that unit to go and all the rest of the selected units will plot parallel moves.
I have done this with platoon sized units often and company sized units rarely never with more than that but the game does not care how many units there are.
It helps especially during setup.
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I don't know if this will help... I had trouble placing waypoints along the bank of a river. The problem was solved by rotating the view point until I could look almost straight down on the bank.
That worked perfectly! Thanks. I usually work at view 1, 2 or 3 and when I do that with these bridges I can repeat it. But go to view 7 and it works. I don't have to go that high for t to work. I am so pleased. Thanks - a new trick for the tool box.
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One of my squads heading into the smoke:
I thought I was being clever heading into the side of my opponent's smoke screen. My hope was that when the smoke cleared they would be right on his flank or better yet behind his advance across a near by open field. Boy was I wrong. His tank and HTs did not go through the field at all but instead they turned and came right towards these poor guys. Once the smoke cleared they were totally surrounded and did not last long.
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That was my first concern too. I assure you that my way points were placed in locations that were not inaccessible. There is plenty of space around the bridge that is accessible to tanks and I cannot select those as way points. Or more accurately it looks like I can place a way point at the cursor but instead the way point jumps back into the water.
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Oh then I'm in for a long wait - to bad:(
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A friend and I are currently about to embark on a really large battle using Pete Wenman's recently posted 2km by 2km map. I quite like the map but during testing I had trouble getting stuff to cross the bridges sensibility. I could not plot way points to just the other side of the bridge and then move left or right into the woods the way points would drop into the water. I cracked open Huzzar! and looked at the way the bridges were mapped and compared.
Based on what I saw I tweaked the bridges in Pete's map and things improved slightly. With the vanilla map I had to set way points 100m away from the bridge to prevent the odd double back into the water problem. With my tweaks now I can get the tanks to cross the bridge with way point much closer < 30m or so. But for the life of me I cannot get tanks to cross the bridge and then fan out left and right. What ends up happening is the way point I click in the woods doubles back and drops in the water.
I set a way point on my side of the bridge. Then one on the other side of the bridge - which ends up in the middle of the bridge. I can fiddle and get one near the other side of the bridge. Then I set a way point in the woods at the place where the green arrow is located. That way point ends up in the water (but I cannot even see it):
The tank ends up swimming:
Here is what the map looks like (tweaked from Pete's original):
I also though that the fords could be causing the confusion but the same problems happen at the other bridges too - where there are no fords next to the bridge. In the area about 60m around the bridge ends I cannot get my tanks to do sensible things - they keep being drawn back to the water.
I am looking for help - any advice on how to tweak the map to solve this problem?
Pete's original map can be found in the repository here: http://www.battlefront.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=314&func=fileinfo&id=1921
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You set your lone BS arc, as there is no more armored covered arc's and hope for the best as they plop AT rifle grenades at Panthers at 100m.
One thing I do is split off the AT team and give them a tighter cover arc so they don't go shooting at targets to far away. It helps.
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BTW, next is the Churchill VII, and then,...the Jagdpanther!
Awesome work - I cannot wait to play with the Churchil. Is the King Tiger up there on your list. A friend of mine and I are about to start a huge PBEM battle which will feature Churchills and King Tigers prominently. I would love to capture screen shots featuring you mods:)
I know you work on your own schedule - which is good. Never hurts to ask though:D
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I didn't set any objectives - it was up to them to determine victory - *except* for making each sides entire force a 1000pt DESTROY obj. That way they'd get at least some objective sense of how much damage they'd inflicted on each other.
Interest peaked. I thought a destroy unit objective was an all or nothing thing based on destroying a specific target unit. Do I have that wrong? Must read manual - oh the pain, the pain.
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I assume you would need a 3rd party to set up the scenario, correct? Unless you and your opponent are ok with knowing each other's purchases. I recall people doing this with the CMx1 games too.
In general I could see a 3rd party being used but we will not be. If the German player chooses first then the allied player will not accidentally see the German force selection. We are working with a high level of trust. I have known my opponent for over 15 years. Plus, as the saying goes I can punch him I real life:)
New file at the Repository: 2k x 2k Norman Countryside (2012-04-04)
in CM Normandy Maps and Mods
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Yes, my friend and I are currently playing a 12 000 point QB on this map now. There are a huge number of tanks running around on it. We are making notes as we go in order to write an AAR after that we plan to post.