lsailer
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I seem to recall some flak about the British Press pushing hard for Monty to replace Eisenhower, and stuff like that. There was, I think, some efforts by Churchill to get the British Press to "quiet down" because they were sowing descent among the Allies (just as Hitler often hoped?)
Wasn't the entire northern flank of the Bulge temporarily assigned to the British for a month or so?
Lastly, US Army historians were often tasked with writing the history of US units in a battle, so they would only mention involved Commonwealth units in a peripheral sort of way. I imagine the Official Commonwealth history of the Battle of the Bulge is likewise alanted from the opposite direction.
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Not that I am out of scenarios. I've hardly started.
But it might be interesting to do scenarios set in Poland or France early in the war. Are there any?
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Focuses on Red Ball Express
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You probably all follow this guy on youtube already, but anyway...
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On 12/17/2019 at 10:40 PM, Warts 'n' all said:
Bilko tended to get repeated every ten years or so here in Limeyland.
There is also a 1996 movie version with Steve Martin. For historical completeness, I went to school with Steve Martin.
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I haven't tried this, but it seems like it should work.
Move the directory to any place you choose. Then go back to the original location and create a shortcut or symbolic link or whatever your OS calls it with the original name, pointing at the one in the new location.
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How about Sgt. Bilko?
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An "accurate" modeling of "surrender" would be too depressing. Your truppen would have to shoot too many of them, or worse yet, you would sometimes have to personally order your troops to shoot prisoners.
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I seem to recall the Germans had declared that bad weather would prevent any channel crossing.
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In my dialect, usually "cherry on top". I always pictured ice cream with some whipped cream on top of that.
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As I suppose most of you know, Chess and Go use various time control algorithms to keep things moving along at the desired rate.
Do people use something similar for Combat Mission games? It seems to me that this would better model the company/platoon/squad level leader being under constant time pressure.
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This thread reminded me of one morning in about 1967, in Irvine California. I heard the sound of distant aircraft. As the volume increased, it got loud enough---really loud--- to draw me outside to see what was what. Several waves of Japanese Zeros were passing almost directly overhead.
Surprise!
My memory wants to say there were hundreds, but I bet it was a lot fewer than that.
I later learned they were T-6 Texans painted to look like Zeros. They were eventually shipped to Hawaii for the movie Tora! Tora! Tora!
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CM3 pre-release?
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Red Thunder: Road to Paris?
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"Sociology" is a subject matter, not a method. Some sociologists use scientific methods, some do not.
A common reason that the "hard" sciences seem to be more scientific is that the problems studied are often easier, measurement more accurate and precise, and the subject doesn't change so rapidly over time.
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Could you have a mod file in Data/z that is incompatible with the upgrade? If that were true, you could try moving Data/z to some temp location such a your Desktop. Restart and see if problem has gone away.
just a guess. I have little experience here.
lee
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Your reasoning seems sound to me. Pick the theater that appeals to you, and start there. If you use eventually play all the scenarios you care about, then re-analyze and pick another edition.
One thing to add is human opponents. If you play other humans, then the number of relevant scenarios more or less becomes infinite.
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I don't watch the replays. However, my Battalion Commander watches it once, and the platoon leaders and squad leaders each might watch it, typically.
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Whatever the botanical details, there could be a taller than a man crop. Maybe a taller than a tank crop, too (like hops, or even sunflowers).
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I needed a paper manual for CMBN. Battlefront Support offered me one for $18.
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Just guessing, but I don't think corn is a common crop outside of the Americas.
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Making a movie is not built in to Combat Mission.
- You need some third party video capture software.
- You turn off all the stuff you don't want to see, such as unit icons.
- You replay each turn several times as you capture the pieces of video you want.
- You save those small video snippets in files organized so that you can easily find them again.
- Then you need more third party software to assemble the clips into a movie, add text or voice, special effects, title, credits, etc.
Playing Combat Mission is a hobby. Making Combat Mission videos is a whole separate hobby.
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So, in this example from the image, what if team A is at the far left end of the line, and so needs to move to within 20m of the ordered smoke destination? Would they move closer so they can throw? Or is the face command always from team A?
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Keeping in mind I am a total noob here.
How do people feel about "experiments" to test ideas in a throwaway game before you try them in a PBEM game? Like, "I wonder if my mortars can destroy that footbridge if the enemy tries to cross it?" So, create a separate game and try to blow up the bridge? Once you know, you can use the result in the PBEM game. You could use that for finding tricky keyhole/hulldown positions too, maybe.
The Advantages and Negatives of Opening Up
in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy
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I would be nice if the tac AI would have a commander pop his head out and take a peek when the situation suggests it. Then we could all complain about how often they get shot.