Ultradave

CMBO at my local game war-game store. I grew up with board war-games starting with AH Tactics II, Bismark and Midway, and 1:1200 WW2 naval miniatures. As I got older (I'm 57 now btw) my board gaming got to be less and less but I still stopped in at a local game store. When CMBO came out I had been visiting the local game store and the owner suggested it to me.

Personally I don't begrudge the price of these games and modules. Each one is less than the cost of a nice dinner out. But I figure the cost/HrPlayingTime is well worth the expenditure. Having done my share of software development (scientific programming) I am sympathetic to the amount of work that goes into finishing a good product.

Nice to know I"m not alone!

I spend a fair amount of time with Steam and Iron and with Command. Command seems basically the next evolution of Harpoon, which I've played from the beginning on computer and also with metal ships and paper, along with ww2 naval miniatures and Seapower II/III and Seekrieg. Good games and much more in the simulator mode - updated computerized versions of the paper/miniatures games.

While watching someone's YouTube video of CM, catch yourself moving the mouse to rotate the image to see what is off to the left or right? Please tell me I'm not the only one :-)

What I did is this (I think - I'm at work right now) The root folder was /Dropbox Then I have separate folders in dropbox for each of my opponents. I share out those. You should be able to keep things the way they are for the root designation but unshare the middle level folder, and then share the opponent 1 folder and opponent 2 folder with each of your opponents separately. You might need to edit game in CMH to make sure the correct directories are still set for each game. I *think* that will work. Dave

Pm sent. I have it all set up - just need an email to send you the dropbox link.

Only 2 right now. Kind of slow right now and could use maybe one more. Usually I have about 4 going. 24? wow. Even if I was fully retired I don't think I could handle that.

Waiting patiently for the enemy. I'll try to do better when I figure out a place to put the images to reference them.

It took a while after my Army days to STOP doing that. It also took me a while to decide that a camping vacation would be a good idea.

I just bought and downloaded it yesterday and am playing through the tutorial campaign figuring it's a good way to get familiar with what's in there. Answer: Yes, it is worth the money. But then I've felt all CM titles have been well worth the money.

That'd be called a crater. :-)

And I imagine in the Soviet army of WW2 there weren't a huge number of those guys, making it even more important to get him.

I lugged around a PRC-77 for a couple years and it was something like 15 lbs. That was bad enough crammed into a backpack. You'll hear them nicknamed phonetically (as in add an i in the middle and a k at the end and call them....) (don't want to get censored). But that thing looks uuuuuugly. The PRC-77 was an updated version of the 25 that they carried in Vietnam so imagine the weight was similar. (he says without looking anything up :-) )

As a balance to the long download/complaint thread, I'd just like to say thanks for what looks like another great release. Already downloaded and checked out a few scenarios (haven't had time to play yet but just started up a few scenarios to take a peek). And thanks to Battlefront for returning and staying with the Mac platform. Not trying to start any platform wars at all. I use a MacBook Pro for reasons completely unrelated to gaming, so I'm happy that CM works great on the Mac again, and thanks to Phil for his troubleshooting in the past. BF always provided great value in my opinion so keep up the good work. Dave (entirely satisfied customer).

I use an HP RPN scientific calculator (HP20 I think) at work and still have an old HP15C that still works just fine.

That's a good question. I'm assuming that since you can call an airstrike on a spot, like the edge of a treelike, that they wouldn't actually have to see an enemy target to engage, but I could be wrong.

Slightly off topic... from a Murphy's Law thing our division commander in the 82d sent out long ago (and probably a very old joke) but that won't stop me: "Remember, tracers point both ways"

I thought that's what number 1 was. Or it's pretty close, unless of course your guys are prone and can only see the 20 stalks of tall grass in front of them, or the little bugs in the ground as they hug it. :-)

But that's no different than firing at something you can clearly see - a normal on call fire mission. TRPs only save you the time to compute the data and send it to the guns. They aren't zeroed in and there's a good chance you might have to adjust from a TRP - in fact that's a lot more likely than calling a FFE on a TRP (the bad guys rarely oblige you by walking over your TRP location :-) ) (nothing here applies to firing at unspotted locations - just replying to the last comment)

OK, perhaps I oversimplify. But my artillery experience dates to the days of charts and darts and firing sticks however, well before GPS, computer fire controls and all those cool things that are taken for granted now :-). I'm really not THAT far removed in my experience and techniques from those in WW2. But even without good maps (which was a fairly common experience for me too), presuming I can figure out where I am to some reasonable level of accuracy (enough that I know I'm not calling fire down on my head), if I can see the edge of the woods and presumably somehow call fire on it, I can call fire 400m into the woods just as well. Granted, I can't see to adjust and walk it on to the target, but maybe all I'm trying to do is keep everyone's head down so I can move (I suspect they are in there somewhere and want to suppress them so I can move)

Yes, being an ex-artilleryman, it does frustrate me that I cannot call artillery on a map coordinate that I don't have a LOS to with an observer (if I could I'd be happy with possibly some degradation of accuracy because this is WW2 not present day, so no adjustment is possible). If I have a map - I can hit it with artillery, without having a TRP. The TRP just makes it quicker because the battery will have already done the calculations.

The links to the downloads are here: http://www.thefewgoodmen.com/home/downloads/ Expand the CMBN SW-MG Then expand the CMBN+CW-MG Campaigns under that and you'll find links to both the Allied and German versions.

I don't know about restrictions. I use area fire against any position where I think it is likely there may be enemy. That also includes plotting artillery missions against likely enemy positions, regardless of whether there is a spotted or semi-spotted icon there or not. In real life that's what we'd do - plot fires on every location that the enemy is likely to use. You need that fire to hopefully pin down or disrupt any enemy who might be there and would disrupt your next movement if not suppressed. I can't see waiting to shoot until I actually id something (presuming of course that anything in front of me is known to be enemy). Or worse, until the first spot I get is my own tank going up in flames. Dave