Hessian deserter
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I have played a lot of scenarios on sunny mornings between 0500-0800. For that time of day and year, June-July it appears correct.,or at least close enough for me. Interesting subject,I had been curious about time zones.
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Happy Thanksgiving BFC team. From another 11 year player of the CM series....
Rave on Rave on Rave on
Buddy Holly 1937-1959
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Farm Animals....Cows,Pigs.and a bunch of old Hens..that would remind me of our beloved forum....
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The other reason i had a problem with this feature was I had the "Toggle show all move paths" "alt p" turned off,when I was still learning the sim. So I could not see all of the move commands that I would mistakenly issue after double clicking on an HQ unit.
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Thanks for the link.....My credit card wants the DVD and many of those fine books from rzm.............
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Just hit the backspace key to cancel the movement order if you accidenttly double click on any HQ unit.....It took me a while to figure this out. After going through the same problems you experienced. I was starting to think my units had minds of thier own, LOL
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I like the the flame, muzzle flash,and tracer mod's.............
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Addictive indeed. A couple Saturday's ago I started a battle at 8:00 p.m.........and finished it .....11 hours and 3 caffienated soda's later at 7:00 a.m. Sunday.
This sim has so much depth and dynanacisim ,so it does not become mundane. If you can master it you will feel like Napoleon and Peyton Manning all rolled into one,because CMBN has more math in it than was in Einstien's brain!..........What a fun way to learn math!!!!!!!!!!!!
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These videos have made me start using the zoom and wide keys.. Just another Kool feature of this Battlefeild Simulator.
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I like the song "99 Luft'ballon's".....
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I find the AI usually takes a pretty good toll on my unit's. AI arty can be very accurate and make your units dissolve like melted butter.
I kike to try and perform a "ruse" whenever possible on AI unit's [tanks in particular] where I distract an AI unit in one direction and attack it from another,so that it does not see me coming. I recently had a Panther Back up into within 60 meters of an 8 man squad with 7 grenades. I ordered the squad to quick move to the Panther. Since the Panther was looking to it's front it did not see my squad approaching it from the rear. it took 4 grenades to destroy the Panther. It did manage to turn it's turrent around and kill 2 members of my squad before it's crew bailed out and got in a gunfight with my squad! I learned later in this same battle though, that trying that same type of Infantry/tank grenade attack on the front or sides of the tank can be suicidal!
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How bout a free ride in an actual King Tiger Tank!
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Thanks for the Video. That Arty was very accurate and devastating!
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On rare occaisions,I have switched the Icons to the off position,for maybe a turn or two in wego,if I am wanting a more unobstructed view of a particular unit. I probably do it more often in replay mode than in live time.
I also prefer the period based icon mod. They seem to me to be less clutery looking than the stock icons. I just wrote the legends for the period based icons on the inside cover of the Game manual. Before long you will have them all memorized.
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I have been Google'ing some of the new weapons listed in the CW module to learn more about them. I learned the Browning pistol held 13 rounds and is still in use today by many different Government's with varied applications. It is quite a Brute!
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This is a good example of BFC's attention to detail. They could have just put the FJ label on a Heer unit and been done with it. Instead they want to do it RIGHT...Major Kudos BFC.
Those words "Arnhem module",have brought GOOOOOOse bumps on my arms this morning!!!!
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Welcome to CM world......I have been playing it since it's release and I still seem to learn something new every time I play it. Once you start getting a handle on it's complexities, then it's rewards really start to shine.
When I bought my first Avalon Hill board game as a teenager back in the mid 70's. I could not envision something as cool as CMBN! from the year 2011!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Mega Thanks, BFC. team!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...........Looking forward to playing the multitude of new missions that will be the result of having access to these new units in the upcoming Commonwealth pack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!......Here comes "Steve a Claus"........
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I just finished watching part 15...Brilliant. It is as if those WW2 Sgt rock comic books I read in the 1960's have been brought to life with this mocumentary! Thank you and Danke Shorn I learned a great deal from watcing these episodes.
It's a hit ,put it on Cable after Pawn Stars!
I was hoping CMBN would gain legendary status. This mocumentary I feel is proof that it is well on it's way to achieving that goal. Maybe next they will be using CMBN at West Point and other military academy's as a training aid!
Bravo and shine on
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What's with all this hostility? I pointed out that I think the doco you linked to is rubbish, and you come back with "Judge JonS," "blind faith," accusations of ADD, and all the rest of this nonsense? Do you have some personal involvement in the production of the doco, or are you just embarrassed to be called out for promoting rubbish? I gave up after 3 parts because watching it was making me dumber. I understand that they're somewhat limited in what footage is available, but the section on the Churchill was just awful. The maps are uniformly appaling, but worst of all was the analysis offered which is juvenile and highy confused at best and flat out wrong at worst.
Books and journal articles - the good ones - are better than docos. For starters they have the time and space to explore and develop coherent lines of argument, and they have references so you can - and I do - check for yourself whether the author is telling porkies.
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I know full well that authors get things wrong, and their analysis can be flaky. That's why you won't find anything by Irving, Ambrose, or Kurowski in my library, and it's also why you'll find my books liberally littered with marginal notes.
PROTIP: critically assessing things is important. Claiming docos are 'teh bezt!!!1!' because they go well with popcorn and a 20oz bucket of coke isn't very compelling.
Well I enjoyed the documentary.I think your complaints about it were overstated and innaccurate, with a large dose of smartass trown in. I think your opinion is rubbish. You have your opinion,I have mine.
No I did not produce the doco myself. I just have problems when it comes to dealing with what I percieve as a tactless,know-it-all smartass'es who never have anything good to say about anything . Your'e not one of those are you?
Excuse me for suggesting the WW2 doco. I will not do it again. I am sure some of the more tactfull members of the forum may have appreiciated it.
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Probably not, which is why tv docos are pretty much a waste of time. Some are 'better,' some are 'worse,' none are 'good.' You're probably better off watching them with the sound off.
You mean apart from the lack of date, and them having the wrong forces in the wrong locations and moving in the wrong directions? Apart from that; nothing.
Books and journal articles.
Miaow
I've heard that libraries and e-books are both good solutions to the two issues you raise.
I have an entire walk in closet that I have converted into a library for ww2 books. So I have read hundreds of them. And yes many of them have inaccuracies,
just like the doco's. Unless someone has been living under a rock somewhere they would realize this. What makes you think ww2 books or books in general are the Gospel or true. Especially the book that talks about the illigetiment baby you mentioned in your first reply to my post. Sounds like blind faith to me.
I would suggest in the future you watch something in it's entirety before playing "Judge JonS" with it. You only watched 3 parts out of 11. So that makes me wonder about the duration of your attention span.
Another good ww2 documentary that came out recently was the Patton 360 series. Let me guess,I bet you could nit pick that series to death also.
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I suggest you try books.
I did not realize WW2 books were error free either? but thanks for letting me know that.
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The maps in it, though, make the baby Jebus cry.
And the pictures and badly desynchronised to the audio. The description of the Churchill is illustrated with pictures of Crusaders, Matildas, and Centurions ...
LOL,Would you like some cheese with your whine? and could you name me some WW2 documentaries that do not have the types of innaccurate footage. you described in your rant? To one degree or another they are in every ww2 documentary I have ever seen. Just what exactly was your problem with the maps? The snide remark you made with regards to it made me wonder if you are just having a bad day?
Please suggest to the members some better quality WW2 documentaries that we can critique. You sound like quite the expert.
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:oOppppss I just found the Callipes in the manual. I had just never seen them in any of the battles I have so far played so I did not know they were already included.
Use onmap guns in WEGO
in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy
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Would a small circular targeting arc keep the mortar units from firing their Mortar's? Or just their small Arms?....