Seedorf81

Yes, you evaded. But did you survive?

Stele, Yes, since a few days. Saw this mod-scenario (Operation Neptune it is called, I believe), and it requires IFA3LITE. Just played this small single scenario, but the mod is pretty good. Gives a nice WW2-feel and with the astounding possibilities in ARMA3 (The maps, the way vehicles can cook off, the unbelievable freedom of movement, the multitude of vehicles and weapons and much more) it's fun to play. Be it that I only play single-player so far, I do not know how it works out in multi-play.

Hello, haven't been playing CM a lot lately. Didn't visit the Forum as much as I used to. Bought ARMA3 in stead of Final Blitzkrieg (No schwimmwagen!!) and no regrets so far, I must confess. But Combat Mission was, and is, also a beautiful game and the itch to get goin' again gets bigger by the day. The announcements about the new game engine keep me from buying Final Blitzkrieg, because if I buy a new game, I would very much like to have the new game engine version. But it seems to me that there is a strange absence of Battlefront-messages/notifications/remarks lately. They're not gone, are they? (Proud owner of Overlord, Barbarossa, Normandy, Commonwealth, Market Garden, Black Sea.)

Hey, I'm already excited! This DAR will bring the forum back to life, I reckon.. BTW, to be brutally honest: out of spite that there is still no schwimmwagen, I didn't (and do not) buy CMFB.

If you go on with this, BF should remove all German (or German sounding) names from the US and UK and Canadian and Polish and Russian forces because there is probably someone on this planet that thinks it's saddening to him.

Heinrich505, maybe Corel Paintshop offers you the possibilities to highlight your screenshots, but that is a bit like saying that the availability of paint made Rembrandt a great painter. Imho you can take credit for these beautiful pictures. They're stunning.

Heinrich505, it looks to me that your pictures are the best and most realistic that I've ever seen on the entire Forum. I'm in awe. Could you describe the specs of your computer?

Thanks John, Interesting and helpful!

Hey, you 90 mm complainers, we - the "why the f*&k isn't the schwimmwagen in CMFB" moaners - were first!

I love the sound of falling snow..

I don't feel that Waclaw is "raining on my parade" with his comments, and I certainly do not see why a little criticism should make him a troll. One of the first threads I saw when joining this forum, was about the very firm defence that some forum members immediately put up for BF when the latter is criticised. As a newbie I did not participate in that fierce discussion, but I did wonder why it was there. I've been a member now for some years, and I think that sometimes some members react very defensively when another member says something negative about BF and or it's products. As long as people are decent I think they should be able to make comments without being labelled a troll or being accused of raining on (almost) everyone's parade..

I thought it was a Rorschach picture, only saw eight naked very sexy girls..

Ahead of the totally unexpected surprise release of Fortress Italy, a few years ago (while I was waiting in vain for Commonwealth, I believe), there was the same mysterious and seemingly unending waiting game that BF seems to play right now. They wouldn't dare do something like that again, would they? Not coming out with Final Blitzkrieg, but with something like "Kim Jong-Un's Offensive"?? Anyway, if FB eventually arrives, BF has had enough time to include a schwimmwagen or two..

Exciting, like to give it a try.

Probably an idea from one of Hitler's generals, being fed up with having to tell his Fuhrer he hadn't enough men. Now he could honestly say that he had "men in big numbers".

I do not have Red Thunder, but these Kohlenklau winter Mods are indeed stunning.

This is brilliant. Again. Yeah, saw the white smoke. Couldn't see anything on the wheels and tracks, but after scrutinizing it seems you blurred them a little to make a "moving" motion in a still picture? Or do I need new glasses?

AKD, How can I get this Mod? Still need to email?

Final Blitzkrieg could very well appear this week. Why? Well, I endured months and months of doubt and indecision whether to buy Black Sea or wait for FB or, when finally something arrived, go for the Battlepack. The latter disappointed a bit because it would force me to buy the Vehiclepack also. So, wait for FB, then. A bit. And a bit longer.. And some more.. I cracked, couldn't help myself, wanted to play something new, and I bought Black Sea this weekend. So, with my luck, Final Blitzkrieg will arrive within days..

I agree that this thread almost goes haywire.. Please people, stay civil. It's just a game.. Still, two remarks: 1. If one dismisses training and training manuals as being representative for "actual practice", how can a test be representative for the actual (gunners = dead) gameplay? 2. Could it be that there is a difference in the death rate of Sdkfz gunners when playing against AI (I never played against a human yet) and when playing against human? Might that explain why some of us see the problem, while others don't?

, The pair still had to be alive when I was serving in the Dutch Army in the early Eighties! I always wondered how they would get the food so horrible..

That ain't no reasonable argument.. I can just as easy state: The fact that we've yet to see "I was an Army cook (or Army administrator or Army grave digger or Army dentist or whatever)" in bookstores might also be a clue as to how vulnerable these guys were. And to how so few of them survived the war.

Yes, and if the exposure of Sdkfz251 gunners is correct, why don't get the men on German and Allied AAvehicles the same near 100% killrate? They seem to survive unbelievable amounts of enemy fire if you compare it to the Sdkfz251. And some of those AAboys are as exposed, or even more so, as the Sdkfz gunners. I use the US M15 a lot (love this piece of kit) at ranges that do not differ very much from the Sdkfz251's! But they can last the entire game.. Unfortunately, this is one of those things that most likely won't be changed by BF. We think it is not good, they think it is, end of discussion.

To be honest, my complaint isn't substantiated by any test. It's based on hours and hours (I own CMBN from the beginning) of playing the game. I play German and US a lot, Commonwealth less, but as far as I know I use the same play style for everyone. And with US/Canadian/British/Polish halftracks I never experienced the hair raising horror that the kill rate of Sdkfzgunners gave me. Over and over again. After some time one does try to be oh so carefull with those Sdkfz-thinghy's, but even with the greatest precautions those gunners get one in the head. The title of this thread shows that I'm not the only one who thinks it's a Sdkfz problem, it specifically mentions the Hanomag. No other halftracks.

I am very, very, very glad that BF allows us "poor people" to play CM with relative obsolete computers. Recently I changed my Geforce 220 (talk about obsolete!) into a GeForce 610 on a 2,4 Ghz processor. So still not an up-to-date PC, but the Black Sea demo works fine (except for the fact that I can't get a win over those mechanized Russki's ), which I think is beautiful. No immediate need to buy a 1500 euro new computer in order to keep having fun with a game. With a lot of other games my financial capabilities lag those of the desired new versions PC specs. This is why, in spite of schwimmwagen, sdkfz gunners, and those horrible waiting times for new releases, I still LOVE BF.