Ultradave

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

There was a CMBO scenario you were supposed to play this way. Dispersed paratroopers trying to take a village objective, but you could only tab between units at viewpoint one to play. (honor system). It was incredibly difficult.

I ran the tryme program and it worked on my W7 Parallels on my MacBook Pro. But H2HH works fine for me. Just thought I'd chime in in case it helps. Dave

It started up for me, and allowed my to attempt to find my CM installation. It didn't think much of me pointing to the Mac executable :-) But it did run and looked normal. I guess that's good news and bad news.

Close. Not sure what Iris Intel graphics is. Mine is: MacBook Pro 15", 2.4 GHz Core i7 (MacBookPro8,2) 16GB RAM Intel HD Graphics 3000(512MB) + AMD Radeon HD 6770M(1GB) OS X 10.9

I could be an extra data point probably. I use a Mac for CM but have W7 installed in Parallels Desktop so I could certainly download H2HH and fiddle with it, as long as you don't need me to try to run CM. I have Dropbox on the W7 virtual machine also. I'm very computer literate - Mac, Windows, Linux so have at it if you think I can help. I have plenty of time starting today. Dave

A little off topic but a funny story about the movie "A Bridge too Far". I had read the book long before the movie came out, however, in 1977, I had just graduated from Airborne School at Fort Benning Georgia and was then sent to Fort Riley Kansas for a short time before going to the 82d. While at Fort Riley, a bunch of us went to see the movie when it premiered. Of course, being newly minted paratroopers and familiar with the story (most of us anyway) we loved it. Leaving the theater there was a chorus of people talking about how they didn't like the movie. I overheard one tell another, "Because we got the ^&$#^& kicked out of us." Yeah, well, guess what pal. I've always thought the movie was great. I'm amazed that even with the huge all star cast, many of the big name actors bore a striking resemblance to the real people they portrayed. And the movie pretty much followed the course of the book as it moved from place to place.

Another good one I thought of - a little on the dry side but good is All American, All the Way - Phil Nordyke. subtitle is a combat history of the 82d airborne. i've found descriptions of a few of the scenarios in FI, MG in this.

I thought it was good for the first person accounts. Flavor.

Finally a plug for Cornelius Ryan's books. With MG just released, a read of A Bridge Too Far is well worth the time. Well written and it's an edge of your seat read as it skips from group to group - can't put it down because you have to see what is going to happen next with the next chapter. Citizen Soldier by Stephen Ambrose is also good and covers the breakout from the Normandy beachhead to the German border.

dYes. I play everything on my MacBook Pro. Which btw is almost 2 yrs old and the battery is still at 98% total capacity. Longer than the removable batteries ever lasted. Usually had to by a new one of those at 366 days. MacBook Pro, late 2011 2.4GHz core i7 - 4 cores 16GB RAM AMD Radeon HD 6770M - 1GB 750GB hard drive I should note that I need this computer for my research work but it runs CM just great. No problems at all. I can run any map at the highest graphics settings.

Having fired a few 90mm recoilless rifle rounds in my younger days (yeah, I've been around a while), I'm not surprised by the effect on the nearby troops if they were in a room with it. My reaction from those was along the lines of "holy crap if it's that bad on the firing end I'd hate to get hit by it." Panzerschreck is 88mm so I'd assume the effect to be very similar.

Yes, Phil, it's definitely noticeable. Much better panning, and gone completely are the flickering shadows (they were most noticeable on early morning - long shadows scenarios). Great job. MacBook Pro, 16GB RAM, 1GB video.

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If that game was a LP record I would have worn out the grooves. Really enjoyed it and there was nothing else like it except maybe the ASL board game. For me, CM and all the modules provide me with more than I can handle right now so I think I've moved on. I also spend time on OOTP baseball and my new obsession Command: Modern Naval Air Operations. I'm a long time Harpoon player, both miniatures and computer, so Command is a welcome new addition. A few really really good simulations can quickly eat up a lot of my time.

And, Battlefront just got all us Mac users back on board after a long dry spell No idea how much of the sales that is - probably fairly small percentage. But we are enthusiastically embracing CM after being starved.

Maybe that's a complaint from long time players going back to CMBO. If I recall, both came on the same CD back then. But then I lost track for a long time as the Mac wasn't supported. Happy camper now!!

There's also a preference you can check to allow any executables (System Preferences/Security and Privacy/ General ). I have that set that way to allow all. I know where my software comes from and since I use this computer also for work using software from national labs (not on the recognized developer list at Apple :-) ), I got tired of having to remembering to ctrl click. Personal preference as to how much security you want.

So true. Before I retired we had software that was written originally in the early 60s by my predecessors to do radiation analysis (dose rates through shielding). Originally ran on an IBM 360 mainframe. Then Apollo workstations (pseudo unix) then HP-UX, then SGI(Unix), then Windows server, and then added Linux to boot. Along the way the capabilities and lines of code expanded a couple orders of magnitude. We used to joke occasionally after fixing some bug - "Well that's the last bug" Of course we'd find something else the next week. Still being used and supported.

I feel for you. My wife and I returned about a year and a half ago from living and working in England for 3 years. We became big rugby fans. Enjoyed the national teams and our local Barrow Raiders (Rugby League). Six Nations was always exciting.

There don't appear to be any flickering shadows at all (MacBook Pro) Great improvement in graphics, especially in bigger maps, and also early mornings with long shadows. Great job!

Break MY tank will ya'. Well take this!!!