kensal
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Hey Fuser, could you fit a few tins of sardines and corned beef on the front of that Sherman ?
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Thanks to you all
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I work with a mac so cannot open .brz files (I think). Can anyone tell me what the filenames are for Fallschirmjager uniforms are? I guessed at
smod_german_luftwaffe_airborne_soldier_uniform.bmp
but that doesn't seem to work.
Thanks,
Kensal
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Lol, yes, Dutch asphalt is known to be badly (VERY BADLY aligned) comparing to german one (which isn't perfect either..), go figure, dutch decided to add a white line along the road, which complicated everything quite a bit more , so I decided to remove it for now,...(not that wasn't easy before,...). Did that answer your question? XD
ah, I see. I was thinking in real life as opposed to game terms. Yes I had heard about the white line issue in the game
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Mo for Movember!
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Thanks guys, nice to know these mods are welcomed.
Well, let's go on,...lots of work to do,...no time to chat
As soon as I knew this was to be included I wanted to know how would it look like ingame, since it is a pure classic in CM history, so,...ladies and gentlemen, for the first time in CMX2' s short but intense history, the amazing Hellcat,..(umm, modded BTW, standing on a new DUTCH ASPHALT PACK
(BOTH, in Beta stage, the latter intended to be for personal use only, sorry).
Dutch asphalt. Just out of interest is there a qualitative and observable difference between Dutch and say German asphalt
The Hellcat looks wonderful. Particularly on Dutch asphalt
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My interest in this is ever since CMBN came out, HT's in general have been like swiss cheese to any type of fire almost at pretty good distances. Not just for the gunner but for the passengers also. And it has been said the ballistics and armor factors are very correct in this game.
if these type of units provided such little protection, why even continue building them during the war. The steel could be cut back and the transportation lightened to have made it more mobile.
Is it just because most of the units on the game are packing AP rounds and this is something that was happening at the end of the war and the units were more resilant to most infantry fire from the earlier war period or is there something else off.
I know the squad leader series sure seem to make HT's hard to penetrate unless you had a large cal. MG and were with a pretty close in range while velocity was still high in the round. Close combat series also
And even in the cmX1 series, they manage to take more punishment.
So what happened that is more correct and is proving HT's to be a wasted source of materials by all nations that were using them by this point of the war, because trucks with tracks would serve their function better for what they are worth anymore if the game protrays them correct.
The reason for having armoured transport for infantry was to make the more mobile and, while mobile, safer than in alternative transport. Whatever armament and whatever period of the war you look at, you would be better off in a HT than a lorry.
And the question of the quality of armour protection for armoured vehicles continues to this day - it was a live issue for UK troops using armoured landrovers and apcs in Afghanistan and issue for the Abrams in Iraq, one or two of which I believe may have been penetrated by RPGs. There is always a trade off between armour and mobility.
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Not stating the obvious, but wasn't the son bridge partially blown at the north end as part of the german retreat from Normandy, and the Allies had to build a baily bridge.
Also the railway bridge at Arnhem was blown.
"After Generaloberst. Student, the German commander in this area, orders its demolition the bridges over the wilhelmina canal at Best was also destroyed.
The destroyed draw bridge over the Wilhelminacanal at Breugel a few miles past Son. This bridge was already destroyed by the Germans on September 13.
Also the bridges at Best were destroyed by the Germans a couple of day’s later".
Just some examples of blown bridges in Market Garden.
Yes but I think the point being made is that the preparation work undertaken by engineers to ready a large bridge for demolition might take many hours and in the case of say the Nijmegen or Arnhem road bridges, days. Therefore not something that needs or should be modelled in a game lasting two hours
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It's named "portrait luftwaffe airborne infantry", Kensal.
Thanks, very kind of you.
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Mord's war ravaged faces don't seem to work in MG.
Can anyone also tell me what the appropriate name should be for portraits for German paras in MG? The default portraits seem to be missing for these and I would like to use Mord's Luftwaffe portraits for these as a stopgap.
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I would agree with most of the recent comments about the relative rarity of 'hand to hand' combat. It probably happened in urban fights but perhaps mostly by accident i.e. running into cover in the wrong house or jumping into the wrong slit trench and even then most people were still probably killed by small arms.
British soldiers with bayonets on generally used them on enemy casualties they were passing "just to make sure". Not good if you were wounded and unable to move
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well there's a very easy solution. If you insist on using your half-tracks to close with the enemy, make sure you've got the buggers buttoned up - as you would do with your tank commanders.
Then consider why the Germans developed the remotely operated top mg for the late stugs and hetzers.... which I love btw.
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Including master maps in MG is genius. This saves sooo much time if you want to make a scenario. Crop out the part you need and wolla! I am close to finishing my first MG scenario thanks to that.
Pete, you truly are a mapmaker extraordinaire :cool:
Ow, and JonS, your pdf with the detailed description how to make a scenario is invaluable. Really good work!
This game just got a lot better.
Yep it a lovely surprise to see the scenario PDF in there. No excuse for anyone now!
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I've just read enuf military history to keep my red-blooded male cred going and use of smoke is rarely mentioned. And when it is mentioned, it seems only in cases where it's a very windy day and so commanders are discouraged from ever bothering with it again.
It may be that the use of smoke isn't mentioned much because it may not seem a detail worth mentioning in a history book.
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I use smoke rounds as often as I can in these games and usually to good effect. I really don't understand why smoke was so rarely used in the war. I also wonder if I'm possibly taking away some of the historical accuracy and thus taking away some of the challenge of the game (not that it's not still tough to win!). Thanks for any input!
What makes you think it was used rarely?
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I just had a peak round the inter web and found this - a reference to a stielgranate for 50mm pak
"It may also be of interest that there was a 5cm Stielgranate 42 available for use with the 5cm PaK 38. Similar to the 3.7cm Stielgranate, this was also an AT round with the ability to penetrate 180mm of plate. However it was a different shape due to the tail needing to fit over the 5cm's muzzle brake. The recommended maximum engagement range was 150m.
(p196, German Artillery of WW2, Ian V. Hogg)
Apparently Stielgranaten were also available for firing from the captured 47mm AT guns employed by the Germans, both Czech and French"
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Atleast for the 37mm it is not a bug, it is a 150mm spigot HEAT round (the warhead is outside of the barrel)
I have taken out a lot of tanks with those rounds.
Not sure about the 50mm PAK having spigot rounds, that is news to me and I'm unsure if they existed. Need to do some googling. (apparently they've been in since vanilla CMBN since the manual picture shows 150mm HEAT rounds for it)
EDIT: (Quick googling resulted in no hits about a stielgranate for the Pak38 and I don't see anything resembling it in ammo charts. Paging resident grognards)
Oh good I do hope it's not a bug and we can fire these things!! I never they existed.
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I have been testing some of Marco's new silhouettes and I noticed while doing this that the 37mm and 50mm Paks are carrying 150mm heat ammunition. A couple of screenies (unmodded)
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I think the decals look good but I feel that they are a luxury. You produce mods for your own pleasure so you must go with how you feel about it first but you are also doing it for the community at large (and that is hugely appreciated).
My guess is (and I am willing to be corrected) that more people would prefer to have more vehicles modded without decals rather than have fewer vehicles modded but with decals, particularly given the numbers of new vehicles coming out in GL and MG and in future packs etc.
your mods are without doubt the gold standard for vehicles so I think there is always going to be a great deal of demand for what you produce and that is said without diminishing anyone else's work.
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Have you looked at the manual about the requirement to 'anchor' the bridges correctly. It seemed fairly technical to me and perhaps it just takes a bit of time to get it right rather than there being a problem
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The following post has been made voluntarily and under no compunction or duress.
- I do not throw beer cans in the house.
- I do not leave piles of garbage on the floor.
- I am not a beer guzzling alcoholic.
- I do not think of any interaction with my wife, or anything about her, as being a "chore".
- When I lose my games I get pissy.
- I will not try to protect my browser with a password.
Ken
Very good....
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I doubt that, and if it had been he wouldn't have understood it, would he?
Mind you, I doubt that more of a small minority of people on this site would understand the term. Some of the English, a few Aussies perhaps, maybe the odd-kiwi (yes, Aussies, I know you are going to say all Kiwis are odd, so settle down), possibly one or two Septics, though they probably think we are talking about baseball and so miss the point completely.
Be that as it may, I am far from convinced that Giap was as good a general as he was a politician, and to compare him to Slim, Patton et al. is to compare apples with oranges.
Well I did not say it was invented for him. If you wish to be pedantic, I would have better expressed myself by saying it could have been invented for him. Since he is dead the fact that he would not have understood the expression himself is perhaps neither here nor there.
I certainly would not compare to the military figures you mention in your email, and I haven't done so - I agree it would be an apples and oranges comparison. Nevertheless he was still a great man - in an entirely neutral sense - I do not intend you to understand that there is any hero worship or approval here, but simply as an objective comment. He was after all a key figure in the successful insurgencies / wars against France and the US (in the broadest sense that the two countries withdrew from Vietnam in consequence), and he fought successfully against the Japanese.
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For those interested, Giap died just a few days ago.
Michael
the phrase "he had a good innings" seems to have been invented for him.....a great man
Aris CW Vehicles Mods Thread
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I love a challenge - how long to find a photo of tank packing foodstuffs. Maybe a pig carcass. I'll look to Kelly's Heroes for inspiration!