Dynaman216
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There is no command to exaggerate the contours in CM2 (all the titles since Afrika Corps are CM2).
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23 hours ago, weapon2010 said:
complete outside the box thinking here , perhaps naval or air combat game?
I would love, LOVE, LOVE! to see a Flight Commander 3 someday.
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AI may replace programmers someday, but today is most certainly not that day. I've tried AI code generation to help me a couple of times when internet search was coming up with wrong answers - the AI came up with exactly the same wrong answers, it just was more assertive in the incorrect answers it gave. To put it another way, AI for programming at least, is currently nothing more than a fancy internet search algorithm.
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5 hours ago, Raging Al said:
It’s almost like Steve cracked open the door and threw in a grenade!
He knew EXACTLY what he was doing with that PS that started this whole conversation. I know it was be "Space Lobsters From Vietnam in the Pacific Theater of North Africa" that will be released.
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On 2/1/2024 at 6:39 PM, Vacillator said:
Pershings were classed as mediums I think, so I'm not sure why they were in 'heavy' companies unless simply to distinguish them from Sherman companies. Someone with more knowledge will be along shortly I'm sure.
What I read is that it was a bit of psychology. They called them Heavies so the troops would have more confidence in them versus the big cats they came up against.
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My guess - an icon showing gaps in bocage and doorways on buildings so you don't have to get down in the weeds to find them. Yeah, almost certainly not correct but it would make urban battles and bocage fights so much less frustrating.
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What all of those don't have that CM does is 3D WeGo with replay. No other game seems to want to even attempt it.
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I'm guessing here but I think the time it would take to combine CMFB and CMBN would just about exactly equal the time required to add the missing Commonwealth units into CMFB as a module. Plus if CMFB is not practically nearly ready to be released on Steam this month then things are going badly.
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Or reread the 2023 (and 2022) bones. Has anything from 2023 seen the light of day besides the Steam releases?
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18 hours ago, Raptor341 said:
"Combat Mission Blitzkrieg 1939-1940" for roadmap 2024. I can dream, right?
Yup, in this case for just about 13 months.
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It is a game I play to have fun, if my (or my oppo) are not having fun it is time to stop playing that scenario.
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Frontal attacks were more common since, in general, an opponent that allowed themselves to be flanked didn't last very long.
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From what I have read in WWII the Russians and Germans pretty much ran a unit into the ground and then took it out to reorganize. Though just as often they left it in combat and put another fresh unit right beside it. The US did the Replacement pool and kept feeding new guys into existing units without normally doing any reorganization as such. Switching around experienced NCOs and Officers was about it. There were still other times when sub-units where mixed together too though.
Long story short - just about anything and everything was done at some point by every army.
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The 85, 82, and 90% figures are such that they would not be reorganized. That is pretty much "full" strength for a unit that has been in any kind of battle. Even in western armies it would take getting down to 65% strength or so before being reorganized. Even at the 65% or so more likely new leaders would be chosen if needed and the Repple Depple would send in replacements (for the US). Perhaps not even taking the unit(s) out of the line.
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It certainly happened, three times in a row. It was years ago (soon after first release of RT so maybe fixed since then).
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2 hours ago, Vanir Ausf B said:
Nah. Outbound fire ignores all vegetation within a small radius of the shooter, on the x and y axes. IIRC it's 8 meters, but don't quote me.
I've had a tank hit trees in adjacent grid square, or is this for mortars and indirect fire weapons? I don't think I ever remember them hitting something in the firing location.
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Ethernet cables can be up to 300 feet before needing a repeater. Amazon has some very good ones in 100 foot length (get more than you think you need, hiding the excess is normally fairly easy but not having enough is always a pain).
I ran my cables under through an airduct down to the basement (a hole just big enough to push a cable through the side) then up through another duct so the cable is not laying on the floor. I also used a cheap switch ($20 or so) to allow 4 devices to hook up to the switch.
At my mother's that was not an option so I used ethernet over coax since she had coax outlets near where she wanted the PC and the other one was where the cable box is. The power line connectors also work well most of the time but when they don't work they are garbage (something to do with how the house wiring is done, I have had them work really well and really badly on different days - then switched to the coax version that works great all the time and is much faster, as fast as my internet signal)
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The Fistful of Tows miniatures rules lists the M48A3 as being in service till the mid/late seventies. I do not see it listing where they are though, I'm guessing it was mostly in National Guard units stateside. As for actual ability to penetrate T55 tanks there almost has to be data from the middle eastern wars to go on.
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I have a 5 year mid-range machine with 16K ram and an rtx-2070 (says the nvidia control panel, been so long I forgot) and the Steam version of CMBN runs fine. You machine sounds a heck of a lot more beefy then mine so it has to be somewhere in the drivers.
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In the short term almost certainly not (and indeed would most likely hurt). CM is, from a programming standpoint, a one man band. For this to work other programmers would need to be brought on board and until they are up to speed they would take up Brain Jar Guys time. After about a year or so though... (that is if enough money is coming in to justify keeping the new coder(s))
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You can probably run all of the CM titles (try the demos) but the size of a scenario may make your machine go too slowly to be playable. I stay away from the larger scenarios myself and I have a somewhat newer machine.
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I'm surprised there is a PC out there otherwise able to play CM that does not have an audio device of some kind. That is as strange a setup as I can imagine. No speakers I can understand but I was not aware a PC was made in the last 20+ years without audio output.
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I just got back up and running with CM and tried WTII again. It says it will not work with Java 1.8 and needs 1.7 (win10). Is the new build of WTII working with 1.8 or is that something unique to my machine?
The year to come - 2024 (Part 2)
in Combat Mission - General Discussion
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The problem with simulating drones in X years is we are still very early in the cycle. Will thousands of small drones work or will they be readily countered by thousands of the opponent's small drones. Will larger armed drones work or will a small drone take them out (or make them so expensive to be very limited). Will ground defenses be improved now that drones are becoming more of a threat and if so what will that do? All guesses at this point.