Ultradave

There was one scenario in CM:BO where you had an airborne unit (forget the size - Co(-) or Plt(+). You were supposed to play though by just going unit to unit on elevation 1, and somehow manage to attack an objective. It was very hard and very disorienting.

Here is also a link to a nice step by step of how to set everything up with H2HH and dropbox. Works great and makes things very easy. http://www.theblitz.org/message_boards/showthread.php?tid=61497

120mm stabilized tank gun firing APDS to do something about invincible Panthers? (yes, Javelins would also be nice)

Gee I kind of like it. I think it's add to the "you are there" feeling. YMMV of course.

Yes we did. Russians won. Took a whole semester in college back around 1977 or 78. The highlight was 6 or 8 Russian armored corps stuck surrounded on frozen Lake Ladoga trying to relieve Leningrad. They eventually sank. Our German playing opponents were gleeful.

If it was me I'd set all the options on their lowest settings and then work up from there, one step at a time, and see if you get to a good quality with acceptable performance. Only change one setting at a time, and only by one step. The graphics are pretty nice quality even at their lowest settings. Shaders are Alt-R from the game screen and shadows are Alt-W. (hotkeys). They are toggles and you'll get a small message in white at the top of the screen. Shaders to me a personal preference. I think some scenarios look better and some don't, depending on the terrain, with shaders on, so you won't really be missing much without them, if it helps performance. Hope that helps. I have a Mac but mine is quite a bit higher spec so my actual experience with the game has been great.

Getting back to the performance discussion. I've used Onyx now for a number of years. It has lots of handy maintenance routines bundled into a useful interface - unix scripts, permissions, cleanups etc. And it's free. Versions are available for every reasonably current version of OS X. Quite handy and I use it every two weeks or so, and don't have any issues with my computer (MacBook Pro 15", 4 GB RAM, 1GB Graphics). And my computer is pretty loaded up. Besides CMBN/CW/FI/SF I have numerous unix programs (for research work), Parallels Desktop with virtual machines for Window and Linux (also for work). I can't recall ever getting equivalent of the annoying message "Windows has performed an illegal instruction.... OK?" - and when you click ok, the computer crashes and/or reboots. The worst I've had is a program becoming unresponsive and then force quitting it. I use Chrome for my browser, mostly because it seems a bit faster. Dave

Our biggest tabletop efforts - SPI's War in the East. Took a whole semester in college, 3 Russian and 2 German players. Luckily one of the guys had a private dorm room so we had it set up where the roomate would have been (this was a long time ago). 25mm Napoleonics. Massive battles in a conference room on 6ftx24ft tables. Awesome

Played lots of diplomacy, both in person and online (Usenet days).

Mostly turn based. I've tried real time for a couple small scenarios where it's easy to keep track of what's going on. So used the turn based from CMBO years, I stick with that.

And if you need a third, I'm your man. Whatever you like.

I tried them too and had the same issue - a very quiet battlefield.

Another one to increase the average. I'm 56, recently took early retirement. You'd think I'd have tons of time, but I decided to go back to school to keep busy (and it has kept me VERY busy). Started gaming with Avalon Hill's Tactics II, Blitzkrieg, Bismark, Midway and moved on to many others. Also played a lot of naval miniatures (WWII, 1:1200 using Seapower and Seekrieg). Dave

After purchasing the Mac version, running through the tutorial campaign and a couple of small scenarios, I feel ready to provide someone with some target practice in a PBEM game :-) Since I'm new to SF I'd prefer a small to medium game, and would prefer to play US as that's all I've played myself so far, but I'm not adamant about that. I have H2HH and dropbox. Dave

Agree with that. The biggest changes will be the soldiers and equipment for the Italian theater. If you are tired of slogging your way through bocage, it could offer a more open terrain break :-)

20 Battles. (two are variants of one of them - one vs AI, H2H and variant) 3 campaigns Basic training campaign Advanced training campaign

Can't wait for that :-) Any recommendations on must have mods like sound files, etc? I see that there are many. Also, recommendations on how to handle the mods for the various versions (NATO, Marines, British) or can they coexist reasonably well?

Just purchased and downloaded. And once again a thank you to the Mac team. I had tried the demo a while back using Parallels Desktop and the experience was not good enough. Runs fantastic on my MacBook Pro and no issues at all with installation and licensing. Great job!

I just tried running on my new (6 month old) MacBook Pro with the graphics settings set to automatic switching, which from the way I read Battlefront's Mac info means that it will NOT switch to my 1GB graphics card but will use the Intel on board graphics (for non Mac people this is a way to save battery life when the high end graphics are not needed). I opened up a couple of scenarios and they looked just fine. No issues moving around the map and to my eye everything looked the same. Hope this helps you. The built in graphics are 384MB shared.

Finally finished - looking forward to the fun (and fitting it in with CMBN/CW, CMFI, and oh, yes, the rest of my life)

I'm happy that it's here for Mac OS, but man what a slow download - and I have a pretty fast internet connection. It'll get there eventually. :-)

Spoken like a true artilleryman. Infantry - Queen of Battle Artillery - King of Battle Armor - who knows (my roommate went armor and I went artillery so I jest)

Going back a couple of posts, a LAAW has backblast but no where near what a Bazooka had. Just don't stand behind it. Way back in my Army days I fired a 90mm recoilless rifle, and Holy #$$^,the blast from that would have gutted the inside of a small building. (it's like a bazooka on steroids).

Another Murphy's Law: Tracers work both ways.

We only do what is asked for. And we can't see you. :-) Dave (ex - Fire Direction Officer, 2/321FA, 82d Abn)