Glubokii Boy

Yes...I guess that i have noticed that to some degree but i have always been under the understanding that the individual windows in buildings indeed made a difference. 
The men seems to align to the windows pretty well though. 
A german squad on the bottom floor with one window in what i would call 'a bunch'...

A germans squad on the second floor with multiple windows

Using a full squad on the same floor may not be all that common...Here is one squad split into two...one section on each floor.

Bottom floor has 1 window top flooor has several.
 

I agree with this. Unless you personally feel that you neccesarely have to use the stock templates for briefing graphics...Forgett about it ! nobody else cares if you are using your own graphics in the briefing maps, pictures etc...
As long as they provide the neccesary information.
Personally i have never used anything other then windows paint when designing these map...Never had a complaint so far...
 

I agree with this. Unless you personally feel that you neccesarely have to use the stock templates for briefing graphics...Forgett about it ! nobody else cares if you are using your own graphics in the briefing maps, pictures etc...
As long as they provide the neccesary information.
Personally i have never used anything other then windows paint when designing these map...Never had a complaint so far...
 

I can't find previous similar posts I've made on the various threads of this nature over the years but every time somebody mentions this I say something along the lines of - forget pi$$ing about in Photoshop or anything like that.  PowerPoint and Paint do it for me - see below for examples of graphics produced using this method across three CM game titles:




 

What a beatiful morning....

 

A head to head version is in my dropbox if you want to test it.
Here's the link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/wgux74ohcjix8sp/Tank Battle of Lisow HTH.btt?dl=0

With a game like CM it is possible. Its just a lot more work than most people are willing to give for little feedback and little real activity on anything they make.

The CM2 victory point options give the designer enough options to allow a 1 platoon vs Battalion (to create an absurd example) scenario to be balanced at the end game screen. However, there aren't enough testers and not any sort of data collection to allow designers to move to that goal. FGM is maybe the closest thing the CM community has that would allow that.

Me too...😎
Designing attacking AI scenarios is unfortunatelly the most difficult thing to do though. It is doable...but certainly difficult.  The severe lack of such scenarios is sort of a proof of this. If  Commanderski is up for a challange though...Go ahead and give it a try. 
I would play it...

The AI needs work...YES !
But i can see two sides to this problem...
 
1 As primarely a H2H player then yes the small unit behavior may be the most important to fix.
2. As primarely a single player i would considder the 'overall' AI performance (one or two levels up from single units) to be far more important to improve. Having larger parts
of the AI force be able to co-odinate several units and different weapons in a clever way as well as use the terrain better is in huge needs of improvements imo.
 
The fastest and easiest way to achive point 2 imo is to let a human (scenario designer) 'help' the AI when designing the scenario via improved scripting tools.
 
 
 
 
 

I just uploaded my scenario Tank Battle of Lisow and the Lisow master map to the Scenario Depot. The master map is free of units, objectives, setup zones, etc... so you can use it or adjust it as you like. 

What a beatiful morning....

 

What a beatiful morning....

 

The new link is up.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pebo81649f0hzzq/Tank Battle of Lisow.btt?dl=0

What a beatiful morning....

 

What a beatiful morning....

 

What a beatiful morning....

 

What a beatiful morning....

 

A scenario covering this is already avaliable - carious at malinava - 
Made by George Mc i belive...Its a very good scenario.

A scenario covering this is already avaliable - carious at malinava - 
Made by George Mc i belive...Its a very good scenario.

A scenario covering this is already avaliable - carious at malinava - 
Made by George Mc i belive...Its a very good scenario.

I would say that pretty much the entire Normandy theatre is open for a redo....Many things have been improved or added since the first Normandy game got released.
To name a few IIRC...
- Flamethrowers
- updates to handheld AT weapons
- Doubeling the number of AI groups and AI order slots
- Triggers
- The later modules and the vehicle pack added a pretty impressive amount of new equipment (and formations i belive).
These changes/improvements will allow for a very different set of scenarios compared to the original release even if they cover more or less the same topics..
I hope to see much more from Normandy...😎
 
 

My scenario is ready to be play tested by anyone who is interested.  Due to the amount of tanks to keep track of it's basically tank vs tank with the exception of some Soviet dismounted infantry in the village. I have the battle set for an hour an ten minutes but has run shorter than that. Maybe because I've played it umpteen times checking things out...😀
You don't need the log4 mod as that area isn't in this battle but may be in future scenarios and is nice to look at when looking over the map.
This is my first scenario so it's not too complicated but is a good slug fest with Tigers, King Tigers and T-34/85's.  Germans vs Soviet AI.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jueajatbm41x8w6/Tank Battle of Lisow.btt?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pztxi9tpgcovwrn/log4.brz?dl=0