WimO
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6 hours ago, Warts 'n' all said:
Have you checked the "My Attachments" section of your profile? You might have exceeded your limit.
Ahh, I see! Didn't know that. Yes, I'm at my limit. Is that a 'forever' limit or is it a daily, weekly or some such thing? If permanent, I'd have to remove some earlier pics if I want to upload some new ones. Thanks for the tip.
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The foregoing are not the whole of my changes but I was unable to upload Part II even after decreasing file sizes. Will try again tomorrow.
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Some screen grabs of the changes I made when overhauling Rokko's great scenario "Bloody Buron" .
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And the last ones.
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More screen grabs of opening moves of the battle.
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Here are some screen grabs from the open moves of playing my overhaul of the nicely done Bloody Buron map and scenario. As just stated, the existing scenario is already nicely done. I modified it to satisfy my personal interpretation of events, terrain, OOBs and deployments. The most significant change is that the elevation contours use an accurate 5 metre map from a French website and not the inaccurate contours on the WWII 1:25,000 maps. The latter misguided the Canadians during the assault as well. In the final phase they were to occupy a high point north of Buron but when they got there, they found that it did not exist.
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3 hours ago, Falaise said:
as soon as i finish it i send it to you !
Bonjour Falaise. Merci beaucoup. Je suis impatient d'y voir.
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On 11/28/2021 at 6:08 AM, Falaise said:
@WimO's work is amazing, the cards are superb and amazing realism
The small details sometimes let me think that he is lying and that he is not a Dutchman living in Canada but a resident of Saint Lô or Cherbourg with a fine knowledge of his territory.
La fière
watched her masteur map on Pont hebert, she's crazy !
Pont Hebert under heavy bombardment seen from Le Coquet
The map is so precise that I made a scenario where the goal for these 2 paras( @JM Stuffmod) is to find a farm for a meeting with the resistance, that without compass, it is broken (see top right) using the stars and aerial photo!!!
well done and thank you Kandu for your great work
Thank you for your kind words. I would love to play with your scenario.
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I am totally onboard with Ithikial's last comment. I also 'fix' some units in place for historical reasons. I recognize that it is impossible to always please all player's preferences. My earlier comment about how to release units by going into the editor was 'tongue in cheek' as personally I am not interested in doing so and ... as was noted by others above ... you could really screw up the scenario. But then maybe someone who does that, does not mind the results. As always ... to each his own.
Kudos to you, Ithikial.
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Understood. So if you don't like that a given scenario has locked-in the deployments in a scenario you want to play, it's really very easy to change it to your liking as follows:
1. Open the Scenario Editor
2. Load the scenario
3. Select 'Map' from the selection box at the top left.
4. Select the 'down' arrow from the options list to bring up the second page of the options list
5. Select 'Setup Zones' - This will bring up the map
6. On the map paint a coloured set-up zone around the 'locked-in' unit/s you want to release
7. Save the scenario as 'old scenario name.ALT'.
Done. Easy as that. Then play and be happy. Everyone to their own likes and dislikes.
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I have been creating a series of scenarios covering a portion of the 82nd Airborne's experience in Normandy from June 6th through 10th, 1944. The goal is to complete a series of 16 scenarios plus variants. Currently #1 through #7 plus #11 and #16 have been completed. The last one is a 'what if?' scenario but the others are all historical. There is a mix of single and multi-player versions. All are posted at FGM's Scenario Warehouse.
The project was stimulated by my playing another designer's 'Amfreville' scenario. This was extremely well done and was adapted to CMBN's diagnonal/orthogonal map reality distorting system. I have an obsession with creating better fit maps and decided to do so with Amfreville and two related la Fiere Causeway scenarios, similar to what I did with the scenario 'Bloody Buron' with my 'Bloody Buron Overhaul'. Falaise's 22.5 degree roads have been a tremendous help in eliminating the saw tooth effect from roads that run in non-diagonal or non-orthogonal directions. Once I got started the map grew way larger than originally planned, stretching from Les Landes in the west, across Cauquigny and the La Fiere causeway, to the railroad crossing east of La Fiere on the road to St. Mere Eglise. Like my huge master map Pont Hebert to Les Hautes Vents, all of my maps are use accurate 5 meter contour maps from a web site in France and aerial photos of the landscape make in the 1950's before most of the bocage, apple orchards, farms and communities changed too much.
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You could contact me (Kandu) at woud89@gmail.com and I can DropBox them to you, and more.
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In respect of both points of view. Experienced scenario designers have thoughtful reasons for making certain items immovable during setup. This is more likely to occur in historical scenarios and thus presents players with an historical challenge. I can also understand the wish to have more flexibility during deployment, especially in H2H games, having recently played an SP game H2H as the underdog with almost no deployment options.
The solution is really fairly simple. If I, or you, don't like the deployment zones or options presented in a scenario, then load it into the Scenario Editor and modify it, remembering to rename modified version when saving to something like ... version '#'.
Cheers,
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Hello Bram:
Seven years after you first posted regarding the creation of your scenario about de slag bij Overloon, I am wondering where, if at all, it might be possible for me to get a copy of that scenario or whatever particulars you have completed. As an Amsterdam born Dutch-Canadian I am interested in the Canadian activities in WWII in Nederland. My father-in-law (Scots-Canadian now in his 90's) was in the Canadian Black Watch in Nederland during WWII in '44-'45.
I have also contributed a few scenarios and mods, most recently 'Bloody Buron Overhaul'.
Thank you in advance. (In ieder geval, bedankt al vast.)
Wim Oudshoorn (a.k.a. Kandu)
Bloody Buron Overhaul - What was 'overhauled'?
in CM Normandy Maps and Mods
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Thank you for the advice and assistance folks.