dodger6118

Has the squad marksmen completely lost all sense of self preservation in v1.01? I've noticed he has a frightening habit of standing in the middle of a road attempting to take on overwhelming forces for little to no gain. In fact it seems that after the patch, in my experience, he now seems to only shoot from the standing position. For example.. I was fast moving the squad to a farm house to get them in some cover. I had two other squads providing covering fire which, more or less, seemed to be working within reason. All of a sudden, John Rambo has own self armed with nothing more than a bolt action springfield, decides he's going to stop in the middle of the road and engage two sandbagged MG positions. He actually managed to survive around 45 seconds, largely due to the aforementioned covering fire. The rest of his squad, quite wisely, continued running on to the house and all except Pvt. Rambo made it. This sort of thing seems to be happening a lot after the patch. That and like I said, I've also noticed he no longer seems interested in shooting from cover. thoughts?

Grrr... stupid settings and their lack of HTML being on... take 2.

Barkmann the beast... 66 Combat victories plus what would've been 13 Tank kills had the gunner had a few more seconds to pull the trigger in the following picture. -Dodger <a href="http://s29.photobucket.com/albums/c263/dodger6118/?action=view&current=Barkmann.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c263/dodger6118/Barkmann.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

Sorry, the original thumb didn't blow up large enough to read. 66 combat victories 1 M4a3 (75mm) Early 2 M4a3 Sherman 1 M4a1 Sherman Mid 3 M4a3 (76mm) Early 2 M4a1 Sherman Late 2 M4 Sherman Late 4 M3 Halftrack (the majority of the infantry kills) 1 M3a1 Halftrack 1 M4a3 Sherman Rhino -dodger

My first attempt at Barkmann's Corner, set to Veteran. Excellent map for those wanting to play with ambush tactics! I'm putting together a mini-AAR to be posted later. -Dodger

Well it seems we've completely wrecked the german server on worthplaying cause its locked and I'm stuck with filefuchtory and their blistering 50kbps speeds. Takes me back to when I dl'd the first Demo over a decade ago... I was getting about the same.

Wodin, the US link isn't a complete file, thats the problem. Look at file size.. its about 200mb short.

I'm guessing the german mirror is overloaded. After clicking the link, it just hangs. Filefactory... well lets just say it might be quicker for me to drive to Steve's house and ask for a hard copy of the demo.

The error message is: "CRC Failed in CMBN_Demo Setup-1d.bin Unexpected end of Archive" 3rd attempt

Thanks Steve! I'll keep plugging away at it. Any chance of just dropping it as a torrent?

Downloaded from the US mirror... twice. (yeah I know I'm not supposed to try to) Don't do it, the files are corrupted from the US mirror.

So far the "worthplaying" site is far faster. I'm getting 2.3Mb/sec from them and only about 50-70Kb/sec from the "filefactory". I've installed it... and its gorgeous. I'm going to try the US training mission at max settings. I'm running... I7 920 quad 13gb DDR3 ram Win7 Home 2xnvidia 9800's SLI'd

"maybe they are being extra specially careful this time to ensure the released product is as stable as can be." In a far more extreme example, I'm sure the folks making Duke Nukem have been thinking the same thing. We haven't even seen a demo yet. I'm betting it'll be closer to July 4th than May 15th for a release. The lack of a demo really concerns me since if its as close to done as they say it is, a demo should've been out weeks ago.

Thanks Moon!

In anticipation of CMBN I loaded up SF and... can't find my Key. I've searched my email for the key to no avail. Is there anywhere I can contact that would have a record of the purchase? I bought it back when it released and I do specifically remember getting it via download as its the first game I had ever purchased that way. Any help would be great, hope I'm not SOL. :eek:

it seems to me that there would be too many variables to put into any easily explained percentage. Troop morale, whether they're on the defensive or offensive, is it a last stand situation? etc. 15% of a platoon seems pretty low though, what is that? 1-2 guys per squad went down? Doesn't seem like a day at the beach but I don't think it'd send a platoon into a route.

Paramedic here. The reason the wounded are lying face down or on their side is due to the normal guarding reaction from pain. Think about it, any time you've ever gotten hurt and it REALLY hurt, you tripod over and guard the area with your body. You'd only lie on your back if you were rolled there or about to die. You stop feeling the pain, your body begins going numb and you roll over and sometimes try to sit up to give yourself a better airway and help with your breathing. I guess in short... it makes sense to me.

I apologize. I will endeavor in the future to follow along in the witty banter and bad puns of my constituents. The good thing is, my apparent rectal-cranial inversion appears to be only a passing condition brought upon by endless tales of frivolity. I've been here before, a looooong long time ago. Back when CMBO was new and shiny. I agree though, not the best returning post. Is what it is.

I second the motion for tacos... mmmm... tacos. OP is an idiot. Aside from the fact that no Judge would even consider the suit (gf is a special prosecutor for my county and confirms this by maniacal laughter) but we'd be putting the very company who creates these wonderful games... games so good that you yourself took time off of work for... completely out of business. Buy a box of tissues and maybe spend the time waiting with a good book and a nice cup of coffee. Make that decaf, you seem a bit tense.