StieliAlpha

Hi John Eh, you would not, just by chance, know some place to buy 1/400 WW1 pilots? Once I have seen them on EBay, but never found again. And I am still not happy with my first few sets of Wings of War planes. Planes without pilots simply don't look right. ?

Eh, try to fight climate change? Though this may be a very challenging and out-of reach target.

Guys, want to see a T72 toppling over? Unfortunately only in Russian, with German subtitles, but I had to share this: http://www.spiegel.de/video/video-1671456.html

Nice memories, indeed. But do you really want to go back to that? A short while ago, I reinstalled Mech Commander for very much the same reason and was utterly disappointed. I should better have let it rest in peace...

Well, I remember one day Well, I remember one day, when we packing stuff to move from one appartement to another. We packed my games and I had to tell a story about every box I touched. I think, she understood.

Yesyesyes, that sounds familiar. As far as board games are concerned, I am even asked to get rid of an old one, before I buy a new one. Now, how can THAT ever work? ?

Ahhh, THAT sounds good! My wife calls me a "Nerd". I like your understanding way better, of course. :-)

Yep, exactly the same with me. The strange thing is: We seem to like it and are proud of it! What does that tell about us? ?

Sale? Only when hell freezes!

I don't think it's pointless to send the file. The annoying thing is, that vehicles can get stuck in really stupid situations. In one of my cases, plotted a move from A to B. Unfortunately, there was a corner of a house in the way. But the driver followed a straight pass, right into the wall. In another case, a Pz IV got caught in a wall, just by turning in place. Our brilliant AI should be smart enough to avoid such collisions. Bur then, I remember in the good ol'e Commandos, you could order a truck to drive over friendly troops right in front of it. Or order troops to rest in front of a moving train and they would not move. Compared to this title from the 90's, CM is miles ahead. ?

Well, at least I managed to salvage some ammo before the half track was blown apart.

I used to do 300m Rifle shooting as a sport for quite some time and would say: Hitting a moving target on 100m, under stress and combat conditions is veeeery difficult.

I would call that a bug, indeed. In another thread, I reported some examples of vehicles getting stuck in buildings, walls and hedges. Unfortunately, I had no save game files. But I support Ian's advise. Try to give simple orders, like Move and Reverse, for a while. Very much to Ian's surprise, I managed to free at least one half track from a building. Did not help much, though. Thereafter it was caught in a square of (the same) building and hedges. It could only wait for a Sherman, to deliver the "Coupe de Grace". Think of it as " **** happens".

Thank you, Sir. Hm, boxes seem appropriate for an engineer, but I guess I'll better use old fashioned letters this time: :-)

Yep, nice to see that "****" happens everywhere. ? ?????? Eh, what?

I think, I explained myself sufficiently and I do not see a reason to apologise for anything, but I am tempted to say: "Yes, yes." Let's look forward to constructive discussions in other threads. ?????

Eh, I used an emoticon. But you are right. It is difficult to show emotions in texting. Business wise, I try to avoid that completely. And then people say, that my correspondence is too cold, factual, engineer like. Well, I guess one can't do it right for everybody.

I have to second Bulletpoint in a way: Three hits at ranges over 170m are strange. Under all circumstances. But then: I consider 100m as the maximum reasonable range. And all too often, my guys seem to hit nothing at that range. I don't buy the "targeting" argument. With just 6 shots and such a slow rate of fire, there is not much of a targeting benefit.

Well, remember the gunner at Omaha Beach. Unfortunate things happen...

Once again: Try Matrix Games. They have a huge range of all sorts and varieties. But stick to the best: Combat Mission. ?

Where did you get this knowledge from? ?

Yep, I fully agree.

See above, my friend.

I know, I know. That was supposed to be a joke. I recall 100m as minimum altitude for special forces, which fits nicely to your 200 to 500 feet range and is certainly nothing for "ordinary" WW2 paras.

Well, a friend of mine was engineer in the Bundeswehr. He said, they could not completely clear minefields, which they laid just days before, even with a mine laying plan at hand. So, clear an enemies minefield quickly and under combat conditions? I don't believe that is possible. Not at this game scale.