timmyc69

We think this scenario to be INCOMPATIBLE with the 3.0 upgrade. Both my opponent and myself have had trouble loading it about 1/3rd of the way through the battle. It "hangs" at 26% loading. My opponent also tells me that he has had the same problem with a different opponent as well. Not sure what is up with the scenario. I wondered if one or both of us didn't have enough RAM but I have 8Gigs. Perhaps the file is too large? And being corrupted in transit and we need to send it via Convoy instead of normal email? In any regard it is a "rarity" in our experience and we can only wonder if it is related to the upgrade 3.0 and/or the 3.11 patch? Anyone else ever see a crash at the 26% point of loading? In any scenario? Thanks. CORRECTION TO THE TITLE OF THIS POST: The name of the battle is "Block Busting in Bokruisk" (Ignore the "village" in the title of the post). I don't know where it came from but it is not in the list of battles in my CMRT. I will have to write my opponent and ask him where he got this scenario. Sorry for any confusion.

This is great...I am learning more and more each day and with each battle. My opponents are tough old vets and not pulling any punches, but I guess one has to "earn his stripes":o But I AM learning...from doing...and from the experience and tips from astute players like you and the others...thanks so much. My folder of "tips" and useful posts is growing by leaps and bounds.

I will give up trying and use your method...thanks

I appreciate so comprehensive an answer. My bad about the manual and rifle grenades. I have a printed copy and the print is teeny. I blew though the encyclopedia and noticed all the rifles and should have seen the note on the Rifle Grenade. And I will have to pay closer attention to the Weapons Panels in the game as well. Thanks again...MOST HELPFUL.

Have scoured both manuals, the Encyclopedia of Weapons, and the FAQs and can not find the range of: Grenades, Rifle Grenades, and Bazookas. I have found the range for PZSchrecks and PZfausts. I also tried searching this forum and, of course, no matter how I search for subjects, I get the error message that my search is UNDER the three word limit and is too short?! Three are too short, so are four, five and six...just what is the trick? Anyway I would really like to know how close a unit has to be to throw a grenade or fire a rifle grenade. Also the range of a US Bazooka. The Encyclopedia describes the BZ but does not give a range. I am also assuming that grenades are maybe ONLY thrown when a unit is given an assault command and gets close enough to do so. Thanks

I didn't have the stupid FLock key ON...I should have realized this because when I first started playing CM, I couldn't get the F keys to work as a shortcut to the command menus...and I realized it was because the FLock was off...when off the keys function with, of course, MS keys...the F10 on my MS keyboard is "spell check." I think I was lucky that this old feeble brain even made the connection. Worked fine. Took a shot, it saved as a bmp, I used Thumbs to open it, save it as a jpeg and then I used Thumbs edit functions to improve the visual quality and it printed the map reasonably well in B&W.... Once again THANKS FOR ALL THE TIPS...if I hadn't screwed up the FLock I would have downloaded, installed, and took a screenshot with about ten minutes of you telling to do download FRAPS etc. I think you guys who monitor this forum are "miracle makers"...whoever you are I hope you are making a lot of money in life:)

Still out of luck. The procedure for using FRAPS seems a snap but didn't work for me. I allowed the default save folder...C:Fraps/Screenshots, and I accepted the default HOT KEY F10 but when I had the game open and the map on the screen and hit the F10 key...and then minimized to the desktop, and looked into the fraps folder....no .bmp file. I went to help and the help is no help at all for screenshots...just a simple explanation of the options on hotkey and folder for saving... So once again something simple...is not. I must be doing something wrong but damned if I can figure out what.

Thank you so much. I am off to find FRAPS...I can use Thumbs to refine a photo but I appreciated the suggestion of paint and also below some told me that they use GIMP. I am surprised that if GIMP works by just opening and pasting I don't know why my Thumbs program won't do that...it always did...thank you again... BTW...I mostly want to take screen shots to print out the overhead Map View of a battle...even if they come out small they were always useful in planning out a strategy...but if I catch some cool shot during a game, I will share...once I get the procedure down.

and got nothing except this post which isn't about HOW to take them. Though I think in perusing the forum months ago that I DID come upon a thread about the difficulties of taking one? And didn't save it. All I know is that for years I have been taking screenshots by hitting the PrtScn button and then going into an imaging program like Paint or Thumbs or even MS Word...and hitting "paste" and up comes the shot. When I do this now when a CM screen is displayed, all I get when I paste is a shot of my desktop. I COULD do it in the old Classic CM on with XP OS> Clearly there is some way to do this because I have seen the screenshots some of you have posted in this thread. So what am I doing wrong? I do believe, with no exaggeration, that in all my years of "computing" this is the first time I have tried to take and print screenshots that I could not do it. What is the trick? And my apologies if this is covered somewhere, but I have very bad luck searching these forums. To wit: If I use one word I get a message that my search quest is too short...and maddeningly, if I type in "how to take screen shot" I STILL GET a message that my quest in UNDER the minimum search limit...so I have resort to bothering you all....BTW I loved the screenshot of woman in the window disrobing...I think it was in response to someone asking why the close view of a squad was looking up. You guys are too funny.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!! TO YOU ALL...In the words of Pvt. Gomer Pyle. I am sorry that I didn't respond sooner. I forgot to "subscribe" to the post so I would get notified of responses. This is a very "rich" and sensible answers and suggestions and I very much appreciate it. I am going to take all the advice and in particular setting up a practice game and both trying all the possible maneuvers and practicing it. As stated, my first experience was likely a disaster of proportions unusual for even others who have been caught going through the hole...why? because not only did the get half shot up in the turn of the blast (by going through the hole) but on the followup turn by my opponent, he had so much firepower...both mortar fire and machine gun fire trained on the area of the opening, that what was left of both the engineers with the charges and the Engineer HQ unit also exposed after the blast were also annihilated...I mean that there was NOTHING left but the juice. Once again, you guys have come through. I don't think I will make that mistake again.

I recently came here to the forum to search for the subject "Blast Command" and found a number of posts. Sorry to say I tried the suggestions and got creamed. The question posed by others, not me, I just found the post, was "How to avoid blowing a hole through bocage and NOT HAVE THE MEN FOLLOW THROUGH THE HOLE." There were a couple of suggestions...one was to be sure to direct the "blast" OVER the hedgerow to the square beyond the bocage square. And the other was to try to move ALONG (parallel) to the hedge BUT fire the Blast perpendicular to to it alone the path. I tried to do the latter...i.e. I gave my engineers a move order along the hedge but when I tried to add a "blast" command, the colored blast line aligned itself to the same direction that my lads were walking along side the hedge....well that didn't look right to me so I cancelled those orders.... And I tried the other method of just blasting across one square beyond the hedge square. I should have tested the technique in a practice game...but I was confident that I understood the tip. Bad move....first neither myself nor my opponent even SAW THE BLAST in the replay, but I also noticed in the aftermath that my engineers used FOUR of the 8 satchel charges that they had been carrying, and a squad of engineers and Engineer HQ unit next to them all ran through the hole and all but two men got shot, like in a slaughter by mg fire on the other side. It HAD been my plan to just blow the hole and then split squads alternating cover fire and assaulting hopefully getting to the trenches that I failed to subdue with mortar fire. Now there is no hope of winning this PBEM game...I not only have a pinned engineer squad (what's left of it) in the open, but what's left of the HQ squad..total disaster. They will all be dead in the incoming turn, out of mortar shells, and have nothing to blow holes with anymore...no smoke, and have to try assaulting through a couple of the narrow mouse holes in just two places...across the open. NOW I would like to take a lesson from this disaster but HOW? I tried both the tactics suggested and neither worked. Granted I may have not carried them out the right way....SO.... Who knows how to blow a hole and NOT run through it?:confused: Thanks.

You are VERY CORRECT Vanir...when I tried to start a new battle and selected it, the first choice it gave me was 2 player Email and the default was ELITE...which is what my last loaded Pbem game is. So you were correct...untested by you or not. I will go back and load up another PBEM I have going and do the same thing, exit and they open a new battle and see if it, too, matches what I know to be the level we are playing....but I am sure that the result will be the same. You are correct. As to the other reply...perhaps when I have more experience with the game I will be able to recognized the levels by the various differences...thanks again.

If your opponent sets up a PBEM game how can you tell what level of play he chose...I know just ask him...not supposed to be secret, but really. Is there any place when in a turn where you can check that? Truth...I set up a game and forgot what setting I chose. One game I know was BASIC but I think the second that I set up was Warrior. I suppose "forgetting" is a bad sign...but nevertheless, I would have thought there would be a way for either player to check the level of play setting. Thanks.

He got out before me and was going into a landscape architecture program as I already had before I got drafted. When I saw a CA address I thought, It might be possible. He may have gotten his degree and headed to the sun and money...nice of you to reply. I ought to just do a search on one of the Veteran sites...thanks for this and the tips.

The one I tried was called: Night of the Cannons...