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    uncam: Combat Mission campaign extractor

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

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    On 2/8/2023 at 9:45 AM, Paper Tiger said:

    I just burned out after CMBN Market Garden, I guess. Even before starting the maps, the RESEARCH that was required to make a campaign like the three I made for CMBN was a massive undertaking. I'm going to take it VERY slowly but yes, I plan to make some new content. I doubt very much I'll ever make anything like 'The Road to Nijmegen' again because some of the missions in that featured an entire reinforced battalion and that exceeds my pain threshold for RTS. I can DO it but I miss so much of the action in RT because I'm too focused on what platoon X is doing and that's a lot of the fun in CM for me. I like to get the camera down to ground level and see the action from my pixel troops' POV rather than the God view.

    I expect you'll see campaigns with reinforced company sized actions and a few smaller reinforced platoon missions to change the pace from me. But there's quite a lot changed with regards to AI scripting - more groups is always going to result in better AI plans but the triggers were relatively new when I last played and I didn't see much need for them. I'd like to see what some of the other guys have doe with the new scripting and see if it's better.

    Oh that’s fantastic news. I have played though so many of your campaign missions. They are definitely my favourite. I finished Road to Montebourg twice and regularly replay. Scottish corridor and Market Garden I have started several times and really loved too (waiting for a computer upgrade/Engine 5 to revisit). 
     

    i haven’t tried any of your CMSF campaigns. Before I do, are you planning on revisiting?

     

    Thank you so much for the literally countless hours of entertainment you have given me. 

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    Annual look at the year to come - 2023

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    I’d also like to know the LAV-AT bug story. I was one who reported it and found out it had been reported a long time earlier. It is far removed from shell casings - it has a significant impact on scenarios where the vehicle is present (and there are a few). How come it has taken so long to fix (and maybe still not fixed now, unclear if current patch has fixed)?

    From this customer’s perspective, more focus on significant bug fixing would be appreciated, together with greater clarity as to whether it is a confirmed bug and whether it has been reported and eventually accepted/fixed waiting for next patch. If there is a way that we can help with that it would also be interesting to know. 

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    2022 Mid Year Update

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    New current game engine version to make better use of current computers  I’m hoping that will make playing on my MacBook Air (particularly CMCW, which I have given up on given can’t see key terrain features on maps) better. Not just faster but more detail too.   

    Introduce pbem ++ and tournament system to macs 

    Completely new combat mission game. 

    CMCW British forces. 
     

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    A few wee questions about potentially missing features

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    1 hour ago, Artkin said:

    Try clicking the line instead of the point :)

    I would like a hotkey to directly select the last waypoint (end point) of the selected unit. So much less hassle than trying to select either the line or the waypoint marker itself (particularly as the selecting arrow seems to be a pixel or two off, so you can’t use the very tip of the selector to select the waypoint marker). Frustrating at the moment. 

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    How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?

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    20 minutes ago, Hapless said:

    Good find man, this is really interesting!

    Haven't gotten all the way through yet, but when he starts talking about what they did when they reached Hostomel, it's so fascinating to listen to someone describing the blunt end of a battle drill army.

    "We came off the helicopter so we made a horseshoe formation- because that's the drill."
    "The commander told us to hold a position, so we dug in- because that's the drill."

    Drills are not tactics, but they're easier to teach and judge. To train a platoon attack, go through the checklist from the manual, tick the boxes, training complete, well done, schedule again the next time the qualification comes up.

    Free play exercises- where you *use* drills to practice tactics- aren't just harder to pull off effectively, but harder to justify in a budget because you can't be certain of the result. When you've got 3 platoons to qualify and a limited time to do it in, it's difficult to explain how you spent x hours on an exercise where all one of those platoons does is sit there, or where another one gets wiped out and the other is the only one that passed.

    I don't think I've ever seen anything from the RU side approaching a free-play kind of exercise. Things like Zapad are most operational/strategic and the filmed chunks are clearly just highly scripted demonstrations. Certainly nothing like the NTC.

    I don't mean to imply that drills are useless- everyone learns drills and they *should* learn drills, but when you can't use the building-blocks to make a coherent effort, or your drills fall apart because war is a kaleidoscope of chaos, confusion, uncertainty and stress in a way that exercises aren't then you sit on an airfield for a week getting pulverised by air and artillery.

    I'm over-exaggerating a little, but I do think there is a drills vs tactics tension we're seeing play out at the tactical level.

    Or, you know,... seeing a battle drill army that has been ticking off that it's been doing it's drills properly for the last 20 years and selling off the ammo allocation for vodka...

    I watched the first section. I just cannot get my head around them not being told of the operation. I really struggle to believe that. Everything that flows from that - not getting correct equipment, no briefing and practice of seizing an airfield, etc etc. Could this just be something they were told to say to interrogators?  

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