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    Advice on embarking / disembarking

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

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    @CombatintmanIn the game at the moment but in the editor would be interesting too.

    @BulletpointThat sounds easy, my attempts have obviously been poorly executed 😉.  For b however sounds like it must be at the end point of the transport's move, so perhaps I was getting a little too ambitious in wanting the loaded transport to start moving again in the same turn?  Anyway, if at first you don't succeed...  Thanks, will try again.

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    Advice on embarking / disembarking

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

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    Apologies if this has been discussed before but I couldn't find it.

    Is there a foolproof way in one turn to get:

    a) a transport to arrive at a set location and drop off their passengers, which then move into cover or whatever else they may be ordered to do?  My attempts at ordering a dismount based on the last waypoint for the transport didn't seem to work as the orders were for two seperate units.

    b) get passengers to meet a moving (but I suppose paused for disembarkation) transport and hop on board, after which the transport continues on its way?

    I imagine pauses can do some of this but if you don't know exactly where everyone is going to be it gets a bit tricky.

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    Lucky Strike's Mods: Hedgerow Hell

    in CM Normandy Maps and Mods

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    12 hours ago, Lucky_Strike said:

    I’m loathe to release lots of small packs as I don’t want to get into too many versions floating around confusing folks.

    Understood and perfectly sensible.

    Talking of crops, while walking the dogs yesterday in beautiful Somerset I was reminded of your excellent work while having to force my way through a field of 8 foot high maize (yes, grown right over the footpath).  I wondered whether tall crops like maize, sunflowers etc. have been or will be included in any CM games?  Don't think I've seen any but I only have BN and RT so far - they would of course not be out of place in either of those...

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    Exciting news about Battlefront and Slitherine

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

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    15 hours ago, Lethaface said:

    100-99,9999=0,0001
    0,0001*7.800.000.000 = 780.000

    7.800 just didn't feel right 😉

    (lol I ain't no math grog)

    After some head scratching (I ain't no math grog either) and contemplation of the importance of what was a notional precentage from Steve anyway, I feel obliged to return to the above calculation :).

    Steve said '99.9999% of the world's population would find Combat Mission "not fun"'

    That means 0.0001% would find it fun.  0.0001% of 7.8 billion is 7800.  The % makes all the difference, well 2 zeros difference to be precise.

    @Lethaface I think your version misses the % as it calculates the number out of 100 and then mulitiplies by the 7.8 billion?

    Of course being a notional figure it matters not, so apologies to those who may have fallen into a deep sleep whilst reading this.

     

     

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    Exciting news about Battlefront and Slitherine

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Vacilllator

    39 minutes ago, ASL Veteran said:

    Is it just me or did the forums just change?  The layout looks different and the ability to edit a post seems to have dropped to less than a minute after posting or something.

    Yes there was an 'update' and the board was down for a short while.  Not sure what it did though...

    Ahh, thanks akd - the ubiqitous 3 dots arrives at the forum, plus a few visual changes.

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    Screenshot / Print Screen

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

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    Thanks everyone.  Have been away in deepest darkest Devon for a week on a campsite with no electric (😮).  As I have an Nvidia card I tried the Nvidia game overlay (not Shadowplay but came with the card nevertheless).

    Here's an attempt in RT with Winter Mod on (but not on the panzers however):

    1887219841_DesktopScreenshot2020_08.15-21_21_09.58(2).thumb.png.421a924131ddb89827bba6fc4aa59a1d.png

    Caption of course would have been "Hauptsturmfuhrer, I don't like this yellow snow."

    Anyway it's a start, might need to see if I can tweak settings or use movie mode, whatever that is 😉.

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    Exciting news about Battlefront and Slitherine

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

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    3 hours ago, Battlefront.com said:

    probably 99.9999% of the world's population would find Combat Mission "not fun".

    I hope you're wrong about that Steve as it means only 7800 people might buy CM games, unless of course they are torturing themselves with things they don't find fun 😉.  You do of course have certain corporate customers who may not be allowed to admit to having fun.

    More seriously (but not much more), I'm happy to be one of the 0.0001% that finds CM fun.  But as a fairly recent arrival it's more than just fun for me at the moment, more of an obsession...

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    Installing Battle Pack

    in CM Normandy Maps and Mods

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    Bit of a late reply here, and hope you got it sorted already, but just a thought, have you got the other expansions metioned in the notes for the battle pack, copied below?

    Battle Pack 1 for CMBN requires all three previous expansions (Commonwealth Forces, Market Garden, and Vehicle Pack) for full functionality of the content.

     

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    Screenshot / Print Screen

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

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    5 minutes ago, Warts 'n' all said:

    You will need some kind of screen capture, or video software. Hopefully the forumites who know about these things and have their own favourites will be along to help you shortly.

    Thanks, thought so but it's been many years since I used anything like Fraps - PrintScreen always worked in recent times.  Anyway, will wait for more advice from the said forumites.

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    Any tactical level boardgames played by CM owners?

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

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    7 hours ago, Hister said:

    I got Silent Victory, D-Day at Peleliu and The Doolittle Raid. Only opened Silent Victory - my wife have given a green light to open that one and that one alone as a reward to me for cleaning up the garage. There are two more day -long things I will do around the house and for each I get to open another game. Fun, useful arrangement, haha. Also makes the whole arrival more valuable due to accumulated positive tension.

    There's nothing quite like opening a wargame box and sifting through the contents.  Even if you have to earn it first, but as you say it can be enhanced by having to wait.  Enjoy it and let us know how you get on with the games 😉

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    Exciting news about Battlefront and Slitherine

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

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    3 hours ago, Alchenar said:

     In 2020 it's been unacceptable to require players to read a manual to understand how the game works for about 20 years.

    As if having another birthday this week wasn't enough, you have reminded me again of my advancing years - I actually like having manuals for these games 😉.  Having said that, I come here if I want answers to a lot of questions which come up.

    Oh, and I played the demo for my first CM game (RT) without reading the manual, that was interesting but I still bought the game just afterwards.

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    19 Pics of the Canadians in Normandy

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

    Posted · Edited by Vacilllator
    Added a bit

    On 8/4/2020 at 6:51 AM, John Kettler said:

    Welcome aboard!

    Thanks John, appreciate it.  And it's great to be here.

    Might have to get a Kindle version of the Zamulin book, looks well worth an English tenner 🙂.  A question - does it agree with the recently posted (perhaps by you?) Kursk aerial photography paper which I managed to get a copy of?  That paper was a turnaround of major proportions for me, even though I could hardly make out what was in the aerial photographs on my laptop 😉 and had to take the author's word for it.

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