niall78
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24 minutes ago, TheVulture said:
This I can definitely agree with. Just because Russian troll farms try and push certain talking points, or try to stir up and magnify disagreements in general, it doesn't automatically follow that they are creating problems that didn't exist before. Or even that they have much effect at all.
Britain joining the EU created (economic) winners and losers, and leaving the EU also creates winners and losers. Telling people who are genuinely better of personally for leaving the EU that they only think that because they've been fooled by Russian trolls is...odd. And for some people, the sovereignty issue *is* important and would still be a decisive factor even if they thought the country as a whole would be worse off. There have always been people who thought that, before the UK joined the EU, the whole time we were in, and during Brexit.
I don't agree with them in the slightest: I'm very pro UK being in the EU, and don't give a fig about nationalism and sovereignty vs the EU. But I can accept that others genuinely have different opinions for valid reasons that I just don't happen to share.
To dismiss the whole of Brexit as a result of Russian interference is to ignore that Britain really is very divided in attitudes to Europe and the EU in particular.
The EU didn't even figure in polls in the UK about things bothering the public. Came in after the top ten concerns in the years before the Brexit vote.
Once the troll farms went to work that changed dramatically. This worked by specifically targeting lower education voters and voters that leaned towards conspiracy theories. With the results seen.
The UK's own reports showed there was no loss of sovereignty in the EU - it was all just bullsh1t.
You get the same "loss" of sovereignty joining any international organisation - the UN, NATO, etc.
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46 minutes ago, Cpl Steiner said:
I doubt a 60+ resident of a Northeast coastal town whose economy was devastated by EU fishing quotas cares a damn what Putin thinks, if they even use social media. The idea that Russia caused Brexit is pretty ridiculous.
UK fishing fleet sold its quotas to EU fleets over a twenty year period - it wasn't taken from them. It made a small percentage of them rich while hobbling the industry.
Better to blame the 'bad' EU though. Like most Putin talking points it takes two minutes of research to disprove.
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1 hour ago, Cpl Steiner said:
Wow, just read this. As a Brit who voted for Brexit, I think maybe Steve should stick to military matters as this is pretty insulting and frankly bat **** crazy. My reason for voting Brexit, for the record, is that I believe in democracy and the EU is profoundly undemocratic. We got rid of a king in the 1600s because he was overruling our parliament. The EU over the passed decades has imposed thousands of laws on the UK we had to accept by treaty obligation. It was always about democracy and sovereignty for me and many others, not stupidity, irrationality, or Russian manipulation.
All far right taking points amplified by Putin's social media hit squad in the UK.
Funny how they went after the most easily swayed in the population with their propaganda so the rest of the country couldn't see the crazy stuff they were posting and react to it.
Anyway you are out of the "anti-democratic" EU and straight into the anti-democratic pacific partnership. You didn't even get a vote on that.
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2 minutes ago, chuckdyke said:
Never mind a US Republican President guaranteed the integrity of the Ukraine for exchange of the nuclear weapons that country possessed. If the US renege on its guarantees it will be just about as credible as China or Russia. But without doubt the Republican party should be aware of this.
Are they involved with taking Russian money like the Conservatives in the UK?
Brexit was built on Putin's cash and disinformation. A cheap way to destabilise the EU and wreck the UK.
Has he got fingers in the political/media system in the States?
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Worrying article in the Guardian this morning.
Lot of moaning here about German weapons and the like but this is pure fifth column action by the usual suspects in the US.
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11 hours ago, dan/california said:
If there one thing I do not hold against Germany it is taking Russian gas while it was available. Cutting off that supply any sooner than the Russians did would have been a net negative for the overarching goal of Ukraine winning the war. I would simply point out that while that was a necessity, Germany was paying for the Russian side of the war up until the day the pipelines got blown. Furthermore decades of previous gas payments built the entire army that invaded Ukraine. The checks they are writing Ukraine ought to reflect that.
Have to jump in on that one.
As the gas was sold on the world market the whole planet benefited from the Russian supplies dampening down the market price of such gas. When the Russian supply is cut Europe buys its gas elsewhere and the global price spirals effecting everyone. So everyone worldwide that uses gas helped build the Russian army.
Same way we are all still benefiting from Saudi oil worldwide and other nasty regimes even if our countries don't buy directly from them. It's a pity that Western democratic countries are dependant on any crappy regime for any natural resource but we are. Fuel, rare earth metals, you name it we buy it and in the process support despotic countries that work to undermine us at any opportunity.
It's a problem all democracies have built up over decades and it really isn't the responsibility of one or two democracies to take all the flak for that situation developing.
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I have a reoccurring problem in both CMRT and CMSF2. In both games I was playing a campaign. Multiple missions into these campaigns in both titles the current save game when loaded crashed to desktop. Save games further back would also crash. Far enough back and a game might load but a save off that game would also crash making further campaign progress impossible.
When the crashes start occuring I'm already well into the campaigns with dozens of saves marking the way. Both games run perfectly to the point the game starts crashing loading a save game.
I've unloaded all mods for CMRT but this hasn't helped. I've got a completely vanilla CMSF2. Both games are fully upgraded.
I haven't played a campaign in CMBN or CMFI in a while to know if I have the same issue in these titles.
Has anyone else experienced this issue before?
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On 9/30/2018 at 2:54 PM, Sublime said:
I think Cooper woulda $hit a brick at yankee know how - IIRC he was a thru and thru southerner.
Jokes aside youre right and Stephen Ambrose used to be the worst in books for that. I remember distinctly the Ambrose craze in the late 90s. It also sucked because I was only 13 or 14 but loved history and was pretty aware that Ambrose minimized every other Allies achievements versus the US on Germans; and I felt that he insulted the memory of a lot of men by either exagerrating or deflating the quality and numbers of the Germans facing US troops to whatever suited his narrative better. Of course try telling some grown up thats not into history but just read Citizen Soldiers that you think he.s a moron cuz x y and z lol no one is willing to take you seriously or if they do theyre not gonna allow a teenager to one up them amd will deny it regardless. Sigh. The days before I could argue with someone, challenge them to put money on some obscure bs, and then whip out my phone and google my free 5 bucks
I'd have grave doubts calling Ambrose a historian. I had the misfortune to purchase his book on the development of the North American railways and found it truly atrocious. Even my layman's knowledge knew what I was reading was bad history - which a few quick web searches confirmed.
Anyone reading his WW2 books should remember Albert Blithe. This guy would write anything without any fact checking. I don't have time to research if the facts in books I'm reading are actually real or just the authors make-believe facts. Dreadful stuff to waste money on when there is so much quality well written well researched history on the market these days.
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1 hour ago, Dr.Fusselpulli said:
What? CM: Fulda Gap? When?
September.
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Thread title says it all. CMSF is not available to download from the 'my account' of the website. It's a 2007 order. Does that matter? I thought I read something on the website about orders recorded since 2008.
Anyone any ideas how I get CMSF available to download from the 'my account' section?
Thanks in advance for all replies.
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Select the unit, select a move order and then put your movement way-point on a vehicle. If there is room in the vehicle you'll see the mouse icon change to show the embark icon. Click and your troops will move to the vehicle and embark.
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7 minutes ago, LUCASWILLEN05 said:
On balance I personally regard it as good if a unit close to the enemy and under heavy fire bugs out in the event it breaks evn if the unit is under heavy fire. In such circumstances those guys would probably want to get out of there o somewhere a bit safer. In a tabletop miniatures game we might have a mechanism for panic. I remember one set of Vietnam rules I played years ago. When a unit panicked you rolled a six sided dice with results someting like this:
1 - 2 Panic Fire. Unit shoots with a very hefty negative modifier at nearest enemy
3 - 4 Panic Freeze Unit remains in position and does nothing at all until rallied
5 - 6 Panic Run. Unit runs away from enemy to nearest alternative cover
Maybe there is a similar mechanic at work now in 4.0
In many table-top or board-games broken troops are simply removed from play completely. Broken is the same as a KIA for all intents and purposes.
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I'm playing a lot of campaigns against the AI with 4.0 in CMFI, CMBS and CMRT and I'm just not seeing any new extraordinary behaviour over 3.0.
Badly panicked troops and crews have always had a bad time when they've 'broken' in an engagement under any version. If anything playing the new Russian CMBS campaign last night I was amazed at the staying power of Ukrainian infantry in fixed positions under incredible artillery and direct fire.
If anything panic and morale is grossly overstated in CM due to the time compression factors that make the game enjoyable/playable.
On a side note I've been gaming for thirty plus years at this stage. Any system I've dabbled with - table-top, board-game or computer game - when troops break under fire and panic it is usually game over for that unit.
Opinions - of course - are like .........
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Thank you for updating this old campaign of yours Dragonwynn.
I didn't notice many of your 'huge number of mistakes' playing though this a couple of times. I always thought it was a great effort.
Hopefully the enhanced AI plans will make my next playthrough as interesting as when I first attempted it all those years ago.
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On 02/05/2017 at 3:36 PM, Erwin said:
This should provide access to a comprehensive set of all CMFI scenarios and campaigns to date (along with same from other titles).
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B0HhNCJWAbKmcUF0VHRERzdvYTA
Thanks Erwin. This is a great resource for CM players. I try to grab scenarios and especially campaigns as soon as they get released but even I was missing a good few of both.
Hopefully this thread is kept updated and attached to all the relevant game family mod forums.
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Just got this last night and am half an hour into the first Russian campaign mission. Loving it so far.
Great work on these 'battle packs' BF. A must buy for me as I love campaigns. Hopefully we'll see lots more of these packs rolled out for all the titles over the next few years.
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1 minute ago, Erwin said:
The two game systems appeal to completely different markets. CM is ultra realistic almost to the point of being unplayable - or at least it feels like hard work and requires a lot of cerebral thought. Graviteam market doesn't emphasize realism, but moment to moment wrist twitchers and thrill seekers.
Graviteam games are more 'realistic' Company of Heroes style RTS games. CM is a simulation type game.
Tried Graviteam many times and could never get into it. Controls were nearly incomprehensible, graphics were a bit whiff when zoomed out to actually play the game, ToE seemed limited and battles didn't seem to play out the way I'd have thought - as an above poster said infantry are next to useless.
These are personal experiences. I'm delighted if others loved it. I'd much rather play CM or other games to get my tactics fix though. RTS games leave me completely cold.
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Not many Sherman variants had a rotating .50cal ring on them. Would the early version Shermans with a rotating .50cal ring even be involved at the Normandy stages of the war?
Early Italy maybe. Information about what exact variants the .50cal ring was fitted to is hard to find which is strange.
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Thank you dragonwynn. Will be firing this up tonight for the first time. I'm a massive fan of your other efforts. If this one is as good I'm in for a treat.
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Always found the Heuman Lock Bridge to be nearly impossible without horrific losses in any case.
Anyone ever post an AAR of their success in this mission? I'd be interested to see how it is done. Even the change of the pillbox from concrete to timber didn't really help me.
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8 minutes ago, Baneman said:
No active subreddit ? That's a damn poor show !
You have identified a major shortcoming of Combat Mission. Go ye forth and create one then - we will all be grateful.
I had to look up what a 'subreddit' was.
Now that I have I can see how having CM on a subreddit would massively increase my enjoyment of the game.
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6 minutes ago, Mark_McLeod said:
ya thats a good point, its a tough decision for sure, because what im most looking foward too is new maps and how the cities look but on both of them the cities and towns look similar.
I wouldn't get too hung up on the 'quality' of the scenarios or campaigns. The maps and AI are better in the newer releases but the quality is still good for the older stuff. The engine is near identical in both. In my opinion the early campaigns and scenarios supplied with the original CMBN are better for 'learning' the basics of the game system than the newer titles.
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Just replying to the war-gaming part of your post KlKitchens.
As a tactical battle 'simulator' the CM series has no competitor. It is simply light years ahead of anything else on the market. It is the dream of us old hex and chit gamers when we first realised the potential of computers for our hobby decades ago. It's ASL brought to life. It's simply a war-gaming grogs dream game system.
It is simply amazing what this system can offer. Platoon through to multi-battalion sized fights with a historically accurate ToE covering a multitude of nations and combat formations. Every man, bullet and shell tracked in-game. Morale, leadership and communication all tracked in-game. It doesn't get better than this for the war-gamer.
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If I was buying the series in stages I'd go with the CMBN big bundle. The amount of content is staggering. You would be getting series bang for you money.
The game engine is the same in all titles - baring CMFI for the moment. So it really comes down to what WW2 battles you have an interest in the most.
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Probably an attempt to extort more money from the EU. That's the level these guys are at - base level grifters.