zinzan

Whew mousie is a good handle, you are popping up all over the place with new threads.   You are asking a ton of questions and they are good, but the problem is they are far too broad to get a decent answer in a forum context.  Combat Mission is not a game you truly "master", but the good tactics are something you can learn and apply.  What you need is some detailed tutorial information demonstrating various aspects of the game and the tactics to handle it.  You may still not always win, but you'll at least put up a good fight.  So here you go. 
  This is a really good series.  Search youtube and you'll find a lot more.
 
 

Don't take it so hard.  My career is in IT and after some 30 + years.. trivial would be an upgrade.   

As a beta-tester, I'm ready to relate some gaming news: my wife has now totally blocked me out of the Bejeweled high score screen, with over a dozen million point games. My best is half that. "Incredible" 
 
 
 
 
Oh, you thought it'd be CM game related? Pesky ND...

The Victory calculations for CM2 many times make little sense (compared to CM1).  In CM1, one could sense much more accurately if one was winning or losing.  In CM2, one can end a battle in terrible shape, but win a Total Victory, or believe one has met all Victory conditions and find that one has a Loss.  Sometimes, the difference between a loss and a big Win is a single man surviving.  
To stay sane, recommend that you judge your own performance and not worry too much what the game's Results page says.  However this can be more problematic in Campaigns where one may have to win to progress to the next mission.

I recall one scenario where my pixeltruppen were repeatedly hit with mortar strikes over the course of the most miserable hour I have probably ever experienced in any "game".
Every single time I would gather up my shattered troops & think to myself "well at least there'll be no more mortars"... at which point my newly concentrated troops would get hit again by a new round of mortar strikes.
Eventually, after losing a **** load of my men crossing a bridge & getting hit by hidden machine guns, I managed to outflank the enemy position & launch my final assault.
The few remaining men, backed up with the last of my tanks, managed to capture a decent chunk of the enemy hill before the shear impossibility of the task I had set them broke them & they fled back off the hill.
At that point, my handful of wounded, shell shocked survivors were greeted with the news that they had apparently won a "TOTAL VICTORY".
As I surveyed the bloody & burnt mess that this disgusting game had resulted in I felt no joy, not one bit of joy at all, in the misery of my "victory".
 
 
 

"So, for our school science fair project we're going to compare how video game genres affect success in life. For this we will be playing various games through out the school year. Then we shall record the success rate of our existence out of a 100 percent."
You're a genius, Erwin.

you may have to revisit that not doing drugs thing if you want to understand this. 

What in the h*ll are you talking about?
 
I went on Steam and then they said go away, and then some comments were deleted, then Combat Mission, then you don't own your games, then EULA stuff...then I passed the bong.
This is like a an acid trip where I didn't get any.
EDITED: Yes, I know, I mixed my drug metaphors but it seemed to fit into the gibberish theme this thread evokes.
EDITED: I do not condone drug use except on days ending with sunsets.
EDITED: I don't do drugs. I can barely do mornings.
Mord.

Regarding Dunkirk, I wonder whether no one realized how quickly the Cockleshell navy of civilian boats could complete the evacuation.  Once the Allies were pinned at Dunkirk and the Kriegsmarine was effective at disrupting Royal Navy beach side operations, I think the Luftwaffe thought it had more time to marshal bombs and organize aircraft flight missions.  Then the civilian evacuation support stole a march on the German plans and left the beaches empty when the Luftwaffe was ready.  It was very chaotic for all sides involved.

Oh goody! Now I get to mock Elvis until the end of time.

Michael

Jelly-fish was a known menace in the frozen hills of "the Bulge".

This is not a pixeltruppen planning problem. It is, instead, the implementation of the pixeltruppen peeing procedure.
See, after a long ride in a halftrack, with bullets pinging off the armor, and poor Hans getting nailed while manning the machinegun, every pixeltruppen was imbued with the need to urgently urinate. So, they hopped out and peed. Of course, with your gridded terrain mod, you've blocked the "yellow snow" terrain change. (This is somewhat related to the "browning of the shorts" mod when your troops' morale plummets.)
As soon as their bladders are emptied, they'll charge forth. Give 'em a moment.
 

I got a hurricane heading in this week. Any chance the SF2 demo comes out so may last words with power for a while will be "damn it, that didn't work". :) :) :)
For those closer to the storm get ready to get out or hunker down real tight.

+1. Can't much argue with that as a player. As a historian—albeit an amateur one—I do have a problem with the player having better control of his subordinates than any RL officer could hope to have.
Michael

One word: Star Citizen.
As far as CMSF2, well, I know I've been busy. I can't say on what, exactly. But, there is a possibility that I've found a bug...a crushing bug...and that I've nurtured it, sequestered it, and kept it away from BFC's prying eyes. The day Steve announces on the internal private channels that CMSF2 is about to go live the next day...I may reveal this bug. The delay will be...delicious.
Bwah.
Bwah, hah.
Bwah, hah, hah!!!!
(These are the things that amuse me. )
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
C'mon: it -was- kinda funny.

Point taken.

So you real problem isn’t the icon, but rather your age.   For me that seems to be more and more common....😫

But not all of your points?

You can find the Scenario Depot, Proving Grounds and Mods here:
http://www.thefewgoodmen.com/
 
 

question is determining if they are being shot at or they just notice fire but it is directed at someone else.  Hunting up on an enemy who is targeting someone else might become problematic.

Very true, coming from other RTS titles i started playing CM in real time but once i tried turn based i never looked back.

+ 1.      To be fair you sometimes have a good point.  Sometimes............... 

Actually, in this case, the car manufacturer has come out and said 'yes, actually our cars are not meant to drive themselves off a cliff'. So they will fix that issue and that's what we are patiently waiting for. Meanwhile, it's still fun to drive the car in places where there are no cliffs.
There ARE issues with 4.0. But even I don't think they make the game unplayable - and I'm one of the worst nitpickers on this forum.

That is cool. I never knew that either.