necramonium
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So, i finally decided to get the Market Garden module, their are not allot of downloads in the MG download section, not many skins and such.
So who can recommend me the best mods for MG?
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Yes, would love to do a Oosterbeek map, but someone really needs to help me with fixing the problem i can't seem to be able to fix!
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The different background ambience is ported from MoHaa by me, thought.
I also used a mohaa background ambience in my Normany ambience mod. It's sad actually that we don't get WW2 games anymore, MOH,Cod and BF both went the modern warfare way and since than the first person shooter world has become saturated with modern warfare first person shooters.
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H2H is if you wanna play against someone else.
I played the map but i found that the paratroopers really are a bunch of pussies. they take a little bit of fire and already run with their tails between their legs.
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Ok, i'm done with this map, it just wont work! And they have enough room to get across that bridge, is there anyone who is willing to fix this for me?
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Sounds good, gonna try it, just a tip, add a screenshot or two of the map when submitting it, it can make someone decide to download it or not allot more. And also add a read-me file for people who don't know how to install the map.
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The first 'wave' of enemies is combined arms, infantry with tanks, (stug and infantry tanks), they move without any trouble across the bridge. But than some vehicles just tend to stay in the next reinforcement waves, even if they are the same vehicle as that attacked in the first wave.
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I have a really strange situation, i have set up my german troops to attack through various A.I plans, but than one group sits still in the setup area, its mostly only vehicles.
I removed all the A.I plans and put all the troops in one plan, still some vehicles just sit around in the setup area, while the infantry of the same company moves out to its objectives! What the hell is going on?
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May i ask how you got palmtrees?
All this map needs is the pacific theatre uniforms and some Japanese and we got a new module.
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And once again the community makes the game better looking.
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Nice to see people are enjoying this simple mod, made it mostly for myself but thought, lets just release it for everyone. This mod could not have be simpler, i just used the grey smoke already available in the game. I tried modifying it myself, but when saved, it would not be used correctly by the game for some reason, even though it was saved in the same quality and preferences as the stock files.
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Those are houses more prominent in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, they were present in Arnhem, but not as much as in A'dam and R'dam, as you can see here, it's mostly large houses that were present around the bridge area:
But that area was kinda special when it comes to dutch architecture, just like Nijmegen, it was a beautiful town but got destroyed almost to the ground during WW2.
I have btw discovered the movie Theirs is the Glory, this was shot in 1945, not so long after the real battle in the ruins! With some actual soldiers who survived the battle.
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Great work, sir! When it comes to building an embankment for the bridge, note that if you use Paved or Cobblestone ground type, it seems to create a sharper embankment.
I had trouble with the embankment, because in real life it's a embankment were ships would load/unload their shipments. It's not really possible to recreate this in the game, here is a good example of the embankment:
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This is what i got so far, it was not easy trying to replicate this map to the real thing mostly because of the bridge. Here are some images from the map so far!
On this last one you can see what i had to do to make sure the bridge does not sink into the terrain, had to make one tile stuck right in the air.
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As soon as i started working it's indeed very difficult to re-create the bridge area, mainly because the bridge goes in land where there is room under the bridge, i managed to replicate this a bit by elevating the ground after some tiles. And of course i have to use the railroad steel bridge, seeing thats the only one similar like the real bridge...
And to the question why it was so devastated, during the battle for Arnhem both sides bombed the crap out of it.
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Seeing the Market Garden module is still far away, but we already have the Commonwealth module, i am planning to make a map based on the terrible fight that took place in Arnhem, The Netherlands during operation Market Garden, mostly situated around the battle John Frost and his men fought for the bridge, made famously in the war movie A Bridge Too Far:
Nowadays, the bridge is named after John Frost:
This is a very good website (mostly in dutch so will supply it in google translate) that shows allot about Market Garden but also some background information about the movie A Bridge Too Far, like where they recorded the scenes and such:
Many people don't realize it but downtown Arnhem was completely destroyed after the battle:
R.H.
Phantom (attached to: 2nd Parachute Battalion)
1st Parachute Brigade
"I had to return to ARNHEM the pull was too strong, by various means I returned what I saw was utter devastation, its fine old buildings destroyed but what of the people? (It was not until later I read of the evacuation, the lootings, the starvation winter). I went to the areas where I had fought and was captured I went into a broken house and what I saw made me weep. I wept for my friends, for the magnificent Dutch people, even maybe for the Germans. In one corner of a room lay what I thought was two bundles of rags, they were uniforms British and German, to my horror bones stuck out of them still partly covered in putrefied flesh. I had arrived in hell!
I made my way to OOSTERBEEK the same there. I slept that night as best I could in a destroyed house. I could not take any more so with my brain filled with these ghastly images I left eventually getting back to the UK. I vowed (like so many others) to return which I have many times."
"I also have a hatred of the Germans which showed itself in 1985. With my wife I came for two weeks holiday, early July staying at the Dreyeroord Hotel (The Whitehouse) in Oosterbeek. Many of the boat-trips had not started so we took the one to Westerbouwing. On it were a party of what turned out to be German veterans. I got into conversation asking if they were Wehrmacht or S.S. This was the end of the meeting until one of them grinned. I exploded, I was 19 years old again, I picked him up by his coat and had him half way over the deckrail before I was stopped. When it was all over 4 Germans were stretched out cold. I was a little bruised myself. No charges where brought."
Full story: http://www.marketgarden.com/2010/UK/veterans/rh.html
Some of the soldiers on the German side were veterans from the Eastern front in Russia, even they have stated that the urban fighting that took place inside Arnhem was more brutal and horrible than over in Russia:
Alfred Ringsdorf
Truppen - Fuhrer
Waffen SS
"The fighting in and around the houses of Arnhem are very hard to describe, they were even more horrifying then what we had experienced before in Russia."
"When the battle at the Bridge was over I was standing in front of a damaged building with red bricks near the bridge. Suddenly a large group of British soldiers came marching by. An officer with a stick in his hand called an order and the group turned their faces towards me while the officer saluted me. I saluted him back as appreciation for the honour they presented me. They must have recognized me because we had taken them prisoner some time before.
I was completely surprised and could do no less then admire their spirit. These para's were the elite of the British Army....."
Full story: http://www.marketgarden.com/2010/UK/veterans/ringsdorf.html
Erwin Heck
Lieutenant
Unterfuhrer Schule Arnheim
Suddenly we found ourselves surrounded by British forces. The fighting was terrible and the closer we got to Oosterbeek the harder the fighting became. Advance became difficult because of the wooded terrain.
Once arriving at Oosterbeek we fought man to man, house to house and in some occasions we occupied one floor of a house and the enemy another. In many occasions we just had to fight with pistols because of this man to man situations. We did not get any rest.
Full story: http://www.marketgarden.com/2010/UK/veterans/heck.html
Horst Weber
Kompagnie-Trupp-Fuhrer
1ste Bat.
We never expected to be able to recapture the bridge. It was our artillery that beat the Para's in the end. Not long after the surrender of the remaining British forces at the bridge we marched to Elst. I later heard that the Bridge was bombed in October. Bombed by the Allied Air Force. The allies destroyed the Bridge that they had fought so hard over and defended with their own blood. The war continued for seven months and caused a lot of destruction and suffering to the Dutch civilians.
We as German soldiers of that time can do nothing else then ask to be forgiven.
Full story: http://www.marketgarden.com/2010/UK/veterans/weber.html
More veteran memories here:
http://www.marketgarden.com (Click Topics - Veterans Memories)
I myself have been to Arnhem and it's surrounding places allot seeing as a kid my parents always took me to Arnhem for vacation (i live in The Netherlands if you not had figured that out by now). It's still amazing to think what a brutal war has raged there when you walked through the area's where it happened, i also been in the Eusebius Church, one of the few big buildings that survived the battle.
We got a tour around the church, the tour leader told us his father who lived closed to the church as a small boy heard bombers flying over, explosions were heard and than heard a sound he never had forgotten in his whole life, the tower got hit and the enormous clock tower bell came fallen down with a indescribable noise, i have seen this bell as it was still in the church in the year 2000, there was a giant crack on one side of the bell. My grandmother has lived through Market Garden in Nijmegen, also a town that got hit heavily (mostly because of a misplaced bombardment from the allied side), she lived as a young teenage girl mostly back than in a air-raid bunker. She still has trouble talking about that period, but sometimes she mentions some revelations, like a V2 bomb that hit the city, and when the town was free of Germans and the allied soldiers who came in the town, she said she got a orange from a well known officer, i can't remember if she told it was Montgomery or Patton.
I happen to have a small map that shows where everybody was located during the battle for the Arnhem bridge (see attachment). This can become very useful in making this map.
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I always set them up, in defense and offense, to ambush enemy tanks from behind a building, like this:
Like set them up behind a building so they view the enemy tank coming towards you in either 10 o'clock or 2 o'clock.
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Looking good so far, i also had the issue of the game going low res when taking screenshots, it works normally in like Fraps.
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I would be nice to have a certain terrain type on only like the west side of the map, would make my Omaha beach map look allot better.
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Rolf @ the video beginning of Sdkfz vs. Daimler where the guy get's shot dead on by the shell and keeps walking. X-D
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Yeah, don't know why, it's still up though, even though it seems the screenshot supplied was gone:
http://www.battlefront.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=314&func=fileinfo&id=2165
Btw, 366 downloads on the file and just one rate and no comment?
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I believe they are already on full ammo, strange... Will look at it.
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Battlefront should hire Aris for sure for the game, they don't seem to have the time to make their models extra nice like Aris does!
And don't worry about him! It's July, vacation time!
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*UPDATE*
The ai plan was indeed the problem causing this, now it all stays in its place!
My biggest gripe: the timer!!
in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy
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Something that has been bugging me since i played Battle For Normandy that rips the fun completely out of the game is that damn timer! :mad:
Just when you are to win the round, almost have that final objective in your grasp, TIME UP! Sorry, you were only giving one hour to complete this mission, WW2 is lost because you only got a hour!
Is there a way to disable the timer? A trainer or something, it just keeps me out of playing this game as it should! If you are going for a realistic RTS, why add a timer, those battles we re-enact sometimes took days!