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aargh. Tried it (Well CMBO) and got same strife as OP. Tried various compatibility, screen resolution changes but no joy. It wasn't even slow fps - it was no fps. Frame - wait 10 secs, another frame. Not a problem for me at the moment because I have old win7 and xp; but there will come a time when hard disks die. It would be good if this can be got to work. See if Schullen.... on tech can solve - maybe post in CMBN tech forum as the dust is gathering here. Good luck.

I was reading that although the US training and text book approach was using BAR and the Garands for squads to give cover, in practice it was found a wide slowly advancing skirmish line was better. Any views?

War ended by Treaty of Ghent December 24th 1814. But the last signficant battle was the invasion of New Orleans from January 1815 to about June 1815. The Americans were helped by a bunch of pirates.

And the Sheriff of Oosterbeek

I am impressed at the amount of work that goes into this scenario making - well done.

Poor old Brits ! By the way - there's a full 37 turn 1812 War scenario in AGEOD's "Wars in America" or BOA2 game - and two shorter scenarios for the Great Lakes scrap in 1813 (24 turns) and New Orleans 1814-1815 (6 turns). It went on until 1815 because British General Packenham didn't know peace was signed on 24th December 1814. I guess the internet must have been down. AGEOD games are virtually free these days - I got the American Civil War, Wars in America and WW1 game in a 3 game pack retail in UK store Game last week for a 3 for £10 offer. I bought 3 sets of them to give to pals in the forlorn hope they might be interested in wargames. "Bunch of tossers wargamers." Oh what the hell. I tried.

Thanks John, just read it surfing old forums too - as so often your posts have enthusiasm and information.

@Streety Agreed - I have a few old XP laptops just to play old games. You can pick them up pretty cheaply if you don't already have some. Of course there's always that sickening feeling every time you start up - knowing that there are only two types of hard disk - those that have crashed, and those that are going to crash.

Q1. Who wrote this ? Q2. When ? "I've been wargaming since age twelve when I got Avalon Hill's Tactics II for Christmas. If it had hexes, squares or required a protractor and measuring tape I played it. Whether on a map on a table top, on a sand table or on the floor, I played it. I've pushed cardboard, lead and plastic for almost 34 years, in everything from man-to-man combat to grand strategy, and spent over eleven years as a professional military analyst for Hughes and Rockwell. In that time I became convinced that nothing could ever equal, successively, board wargaming, then wargaming with miniatures. I tried computer gaming (SSI's Red Lightning) and hated it. Things looked bleak, for wargaming period was in dire trouble, when out of the blue I learned about two new developments, Panzer Elite, a deeply immersive you-are-there individual and platoon level armor sim, and Combat Mission, which found me while reading a Panzer Elite review, via the now famous banner--"the battalion's ready!" Combat Mission is immersive, terrifyingly so, but it is the immersion that comes from bearing the crushing responsibilities of a battlefield commander (up to battalion level) dealing with men under fire, men who are far more fond of their hides than in seizing the objective one day, but who fight to the last man the next. It is an experience of carefully nursing green troops to the objective, taking casualties all the while, only to have the big attack collapse when all seems destined for success. It is screaming with frustration because fire support is late in coming; it is cringing as fighter bombers roll in on the target while you pray fervently they don't drop on your troops. Combat Mission is discovering too late that you forgot to shift fire, meaning you are now shelling your own troops. It is the triumph of a well-executed ambush, the sharpshooter's kill of a Tiger commander and the grenade dropped from the upper floor into a Hellcat driving past the window. It is the shattering blast of a K-killed tank, the whoosh of a flamethrower, the crack of high velocity guns, the roaring crump of artillery fire and the heaving of the earth that goes with it. It is the ripping sound of MG-42s firing, answered by the chugging bursts of the .50 cal MG. It is the sound of the sky ripping apart under Nebelwerfer and battleship fire. It is the sound of orders given in the language of the men fighting; their screams of pain when hit and dying. It is of vistas so beautiful they take your breath away, and scenes of devastation which practically make you gag."

We lost. Cribbed from wiki: "The War of 1812 was a 32-month military conflict between the United States on the one side, and on the other Great Britain, its colonies and its Indian allies in North America. The outcome resolved many issues which remained from the American War of Independence, but involved no boundary changes. The United States declared war in 1812 for several reasons, including trade restrictions brought about by Britain's continuing war with France, the impressment of American merchant sailors into the Royal Navy, British support of American Indian tribes against American expansion, outrage over insults to national honor after humiliations on the high seas, and possible American interest in annexing Canada.[3] The war was fought in three principal theatres. Firstly, at sea, warships and privateers of both sides attacked each other's merchant ships, while the British blockaded the Atlantic coast of the U.S. and mounted large-scale raids in the later stages of the war. Secondly, both land and naval battles were fought on the American–Canadian frontier, which ran along the Great Lakes, the Saint Lawrence River and the northern end of Lake Champlain. Thirdly, the American South and Gulf Coast also saw major land battles in which the American forces defeated Britain's Indian allies and repulsed a British invasion force at New Orleans. Both sides invaded each other's territory, but these invasions were unsuccessful or made temporary by the Treaty of Ghent, which restored all occupied territory to its pre-war owner. With the majority of its army and naval forces tied down in Europe fighting the Napoleonic Wars until 1814, the British at first used a defensive strategy, repelling multiple American invasions of the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada. However, the Americans gained control over Lake Erie in 1813, seized parts of western Ontario, and ended the prospect of an Indian confederacy and an independent Indian state in the Midwest under British sponsorship. In September 1814, a British force invaded and occupied eastern Maine, which they would hold for the duration of the war. In the Southwest, General Andrew Jackson destroyed the military strength of the Creek nation at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814. With the defeat of Napoleon in 1814 on April 6, the British adopted a more aggressive strategy, sending in three large invasion armies. The British victory at the Battle of Bladensburg in August 1814 allowed them to capture and burn Washington, D.C. American victories in September 1814 and January 1815 repulsed all three British invasions in New York, Baltimore and New Orleans. In the United States, victories at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815 and in the Battle of Baltimore of 1814 (which inspired the lyrics of the American national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner") produced a sense of euphoria over a "second war of independence" against Britain.[citation needed] Peace brought an "Era of Good Feelings" to the U.S. in which partisan animosity nearly vanished. Canada also emerged from the war with a heightened sense of national feeling and solidarity, as it celebrated its defeat of multiple invasions. Battles such as the Battle of Queenston Heights and the Battle of Crysler's Farm became iconic for English-speaking Canadians. In Canada, especially Ontario, memory of the war retains national significance, as the invasions were largely perceived by Canadians as an annexation attempt by the United States. In Canada, numerous ceremonies took place in 2012 to remember the war, offer historical lessons and celebrate 200 years of peace between Canada and the United States.[4] The war is scarcely remembered in Britain today, as it regarded the conflict as sideshow to the much larger Napoleonic Wars raging in Europe. As such it welcomed an era of peaceful relations and trade with the United States.

Not legend I think. From Canada's Historic Places: "News of the declaration of War reaches Fort George, Upper Canada. Contemporary accounts mention that American officers from Fort Niagara were dinner guests at Fort George when news of the American declaration of war arrived. Thomas Clark, a Queenston merchant and business associate of John Jacob Astor, had received the news from a Mr. Vosburgh the previous day. After hearing the shocking news, the assembly continued their meal. Following toasts to both King George and President Madison, the Americans returned to their fort in peace. An American newspaper account noted that "several American gentlemen were there on a visit who were treated very politely by the Governor," namely Major-General Isaac Brock. The news of war was very unwelcome on both sides of the Niagara River. "

What happened to random map generation like CMx1?

I'm glad you found that because it was my feeling too.

Don't young scamp me - I've been wargaming since the 1960s. (Friendly smiley thing except I don't know how to do them - must be an age thing).

So that's a yes then. Thanks guys. Edit: And fighting at night just isn't gentlemanly behaviour anyway.

Paid troll, now there's a career that didn't exist before t'internet. Michael's drinking hat solution is the way forward for me. I now have two laptops in front of me, one playing CMBO the other CMBN and I can drink at the same time.

How do you do control/left click without putting your drink down? Also tried it on a laptop touchpad?

If fog and smoke don't display properly are they still effective in the visibility calculations? I'm being lazy because I could try this myself I suppose. Win 7 seems to work OK otherwise for me for CMBO/CMBB/CMAK.

UI Fire up CMx1 - there's a nice little box of arrows - doesn't take up much screen space yet you can get anywhere with a few taps on a laptop touchpad or with a mouse - without needing to flail around to the screen corners and edges. Reduces the chance of spilling your glass of champagne.

Yeah, and it doesn't run on this chrome book thingy I'm playing with now either. Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?

Reading is boring now. I didn't even know there was a manual with CMBN - which might explain why I prefer CMBO where I have a real printed manual with proper size type (says it was written by Steve and Martin), 50 included missions, a quick battle generator that works, a unit detail and armour penetration encyclopedia just by pressing ENTER on a unit, units that make suicide charges at me, and it runs on a crappy laptop. I'm with the kids on this one - it just ain't fun.

They went with songs to the battle, they were young. Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow. They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted, They fell with their faces to the foe. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them.

Well this thread reminded me I had a copy of Panzer Elite which I never really played. So I dug it out and installed it on a Windows8 laptop.

Were these the same terrorists that blew up the King David's hotel killing about 90 people?

Perhaps we could have an adaptive AI that is so sneaky that however good you are it will up its game. You will never win.