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Sure there is. But on the other hand, every second man of the company is now dead or mutilated, the screams of wounded friends and the smell of blood and burnt flesh fills the battlefield. Probably some HQ units suffered casualties too. The situation as you described it sounds to me like it was Pyrrhic victory, wich was described by Pyhrrus like that: "Another such victory and I come back to Epirus alone" or "If we are victorious in one more battle with the Romans, we shall be utterly ruined." I justed wanted to point out in my previous post that one option doesnt necessarily rule out the other.

How about both? The morale drop for losing half of its men could be evened out by the morale increase for successfully completing its mission.

He wanted to make sure the platoon commander gets killed first, so he can inspire his subordinate units with his bravery! I also liked the part where his girlfriend said that she would rather lick own toe than play CMBN. He should make video of that and upload it.

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I want some kind of concrete texture/road tile, so we dont have to make parking lots like this anymore: Sure you could use the gravel texture for parking lots, but then you have the problem that textures that are not road tiles fade into each other at the edges.

Combat Mission: A Painful Romance Combat Mission: Dinner With Destiny

With that pricing policy BFC would actually have to pay me for playing their games .

Well, the Gaussian Distribution loves everyone . But from a statistical point of view your age group isnt the main target group of Combat Mission (and mine is neither).

I think BFCs games arent unusually expansive. CMBN costs like 50$ IIRC wich is a normal price for a computer game of the simulation genre. We recently had a thead on how old everybody here is and it turned out that the average CMx2 player is male and in his mid 40s. Most people that age can easily afford a game that costs 50$. The cost barrier you are talking about is probably mostly a problem for pocket-money dependent teenagers in my experience (i am 23 now) and that is a group that appearantly isnt playing CM anyways.

Combat Mission: Caspian Carnage Combat Mission: Chernobyl Zombie Apocalypse

Looks a bit like they would be wearing a Niqab: And is that paratrooper on the right wearing gloves?

IIRC WinRar ocassionally asks users if they like to pay 30$ for the full version of WinRar. However you can just click "no" and continue the using the test version (wich is in fact a full version, the test version just asks you regularly if you want to "donate" 30$ to the makers of WinRar. That is the only difference AFAIK).

Combat Mission: Vlad gone Mad Combat Mission: Looting Putin Combat Mission: Obamas Drama Combat Mission: Russian Roulette (alluding to the threat of the conflict between the US and Russia becoming a nuclear one) Out of the more serious suggestions, i like "Combat Mission: Azov to Tblisi", "Combat Mission: Ossetian Assault" and "Combat Mission: Caspian Ghost". Especially "CM Caspian Ghost". BTW IMO CM Black Sea is already a good name.

In fact you dont need to completely reload it. Just install the latest patch (1.21b IIRC) that adds a new .exe file and then patch your game up to the latest version (1.32). Alternatively you could keep a safety copy of the all the .exe files in an encrypted archive so AVG cant see them. Both are not ideal solutions, but still better than reloading the game every time AVG deletes the .exes. You could also just get a different anti-virus software. I recommend you Kaspersky, i had used this one for many years before i started to use cheaper AVG.

I sent you a PM with my email adress.

I like number 2 & 3.

Love the ships in the background. However the large aircraft carrier doesnt really fit into the crete scenario afaik (i could be wrong though) and the ship on the far left looks like a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser to me. It would be really cool if you could replace them with some images of recongnizable german/allied WW2 ships. Most ships of that time had B&W-ish camo schemes, so nobody would notice it if you take an old photo. You could other wise just use a low-quality pic of the historical ship you want to depict, this would also help to hide the B&W colors. You could also try to add a smoke plum coming from the exhausts of the ships using the alpha mask. German destroyers:

I have the same problem. +1 for somebodys advice on how to fix it.

IMO you are just going need to change the names of the files.

Yeah, thanks

Probably, yes. An inaccurate but useful method to roughly estimate you vehicles AT effectiveness is to compare the lenght & size of their gun barrels with those of the enemy tanks. The longer the gun, the bigger the calibre, the larger is the amount of kinetic energy of the projectile and accordingly the penetration power. However because kinetic energy is calculated by E=mv²*(1/2), the speed of the projectile is more important than its mass. A longer barrel usually means a higher muzzle velocity. (Weapons that fire HEAT ammo are an excepion to the rule) So, if you want to outgun an enemy armourd force, the rule of the thumb is choose tanks that either have a longer gun than the enemys or wich have a longer gun & and a larger calibre than those of your foe. A larger calibre but a significantly shorter barrel would usually be a bad choice. If you match 57 mm Pz-IIIs vs. 75mm Shermans wich both have roughly equally long barrels, the Pz. IIIs are outgunned by the Shermans.

IIRC the sky colour is not defined in the terrain images. What you need to do in order to make the northern terrain disappear in game is to open the 'mountains north.bmp' and the others in photoshop and there select channels->alpha1. Then you just paint the part of the terrain you want to disappear in black. Grey areas will fade out (use this if smooth edges are required). If you dont have photoshop or something similar i can make them for you.

Talking about LOS: Steel Armour - Blaze Of War has a cool feature. If you click on a certain vehicle or infantry unit and the click on the "LOS-check" button, all areas the unit has LOS onto are highlighted in, erm, purple IIRC. It looks a bit like the target armour command does in CMx2 2.0.

That is already the case when you play Iron mode. Friendly units are not spotted by other friendlies at all if they arent within C2 or directly have eyes on each other.

I volunteer! Your Zaywiya (i guess i ve never spelled that towns name correctly ever since i heard of it) Uprising campaign was great.