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    Snow? I saw snow?

    in Combat Mission Red Thunder

    Posted · Edited by Vacilllator

    9 hours ago, John1966 said:

    Did it melt?

    Well the first time I loaded up a QB with snow was just to check it was there.  However I liked the modded snow, with whistling wind, so much I am now playing a QB on a huge map with it on.  It doesn't melt but my panzers seem to bog a lot.  All have managed to free themselves so far...

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    Snow? I saw snow?

    in Combat Mission Red Thunder

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    59 minutes ago, mjkerner said:

    Vacillator, you certain you don't have a helmet mod?  There are no textures of any sort in the original brz's for snow--ground, vehicles, uniforms, or helmets. There are several mods for snow on those items, though.

    I wondered about that and didn't think I had, but on checking just now I have a folder in Z called 'Mod1' and inside it has lots of Winter mod stuff.  Thanks for clearing that one up!

    4 hours ago, t34577685 said:

    yes,the weather can choose snow

    also ground can choose snow,but the ground texture missed ,just waiting for the dlc to let the ground become white.

    Having the mod presumably explains why I actually got deep white snow on the ground as well?

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    Snow? I saw snow?

    in Combat Mission Red Thunder

    Posted · Edited by Vacilllator

    2 hours ago, Bubba883XL said:

    Is there snow in red thunder all ready? Did a quick battle the other night and saw the option for snow...

    I can confirm that it's there, just tried it to make sure.  I had deep snow on the ground and heavy snow falling, even though it was June 🙂.  Rather nicely some of the troops even had whitewashed helmets.

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    New patches are now available for all Game Engine 4 titles except......

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

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    6 minutes ago, Overwatch said:

    I am running CM on my Mac and I don't see a version for it is there one coming or is it included in the newest Big bundle download CMBN

    I'm on PC but I think all of the CM2 stuff (if not earlier) and patches included, has Mac versions.  For example the CMBN big bundle patch has the Mac version as the first download file.  Hope I'm helping here...

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    Any tactical level boardgames played by CM owners?

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

    Posted

    Avalon Hill's Advanced Squad Leader was the last board game I played, quite a while ago.  Excellent game but rather heavy on the rules (there was a massive folder full of them).  I used 1/300th scale metal tanks on the boards, looked good.   Of course there is no Avalon Hill any more...  A very good attempt at converting most of it to PC has been made by Peter Fisla, called Tigers on the Hunt.  It's like a board game on your PC, and you don't need to consult the rule book every 5 minutes.  But you said you don't want PC games 😁.  If you did, I'd recommend Combat Mission.

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    My epic Stug III fail

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

    Posted

    On 7/28/2020 at 4:18 PM, John1966 said:

    Find myself playing a scenario as the defender where I was expecting "some tanks". Turned out to be the entire 7th Armoured Division by the look of it but hey-ho. We like the challenge.

    @John 1966 this is Holy Ground right, as per the other posts we exchanged?  I put my Stugs behind the walled farm as well, but a lot of the Cromwells never made it that far thanks to my stalwart infantry, so I didn't have the same issue.  And at the end I was able to manueouver the Stugs across to the other flank and take out the last two pieces of pesky Allied armour.  Great stuff and kudos to the scenario designer CW (I would link but not sure which user to link to)!

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    CW Holy Ground: doors that aren´t doors

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

    Posted

    Got a bit of success with the Stugs and the same with the ATGs but less so.  Was running out of infantry AT ammo by the end so I was glad to still have the Stugs hanging around - they actually finished the battle for me.

    Just thought, I didn't comment on the subject of the original post.  I didn't notice blocked doors in the towers or other buildings.  Perhaps I was lucky to chose the direction or time so that it didn't matter.

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    CW Holy Ground: doors that aren´t doors

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

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    31 minutes ago, John1966 said:

    I just played this and it was not my idea of a fair fight. "Some tanks", indeed.

    Bizarrely ended up with a tactical victory. Not sure how. Must have been the target rich environment. The infantry claimed eight Cromwells (and assorted other things with rivets). Unfortunately the big guns only claimed one.

    Played it recently myself.  Starting off thinking it was not an easy fight.  It wasn't.  However, getting meagre resources into place and dealing out sufficient damage was a great experience.  Infantry AT weapons saved my day to be sure 😉

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    Battlefront Poll Updated

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

    Posted

    I would have thought BFC will have looked at the numbers/value of sales for WW2 and modern titles and will be roughly guided by that (including MoD type customers of course).  I'd love to see the figures but not sure they will want to disclose...

    Anyway you can probably guess what my preference would be (already registered in the poll), but I may dabble my toes in the modern stuff at some point...

    As a fairly new arrival I am of course already presented with more content than I can shake a stick at 😉.

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    Medic / buddy aid

    in Combat Mission Red Thunder

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    Just thought I'd pop back and confirm that I have now witnessed medic / buddy aid behaviour.  Probably it was happpening all along, because for some strange reason I was looking at the icons in the middle panel expecting one or more to display 'medic' when actually it appears in the status text for the individual troops at the bottom left of the screen. For example a radio man suddenly went from 'spotting' to 'medic'.  So it seems my observation was to blame 🙃.

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    Hey Elvis, Buddy Holly's got nuttin' on you!

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

    Posted

    2 hours ago, mjkerner said:

    I know, I know, wrong Elvis.  But still, it is my humble yet (I'm sure you'll agree) expert opinion that you are the perfect voice of, and face for, BFC. Seriously! You have great communication skills dealing this somewhat, at times, hinky crowd.

    Just a shout out appropo of nothing, except maybe this alcoholic beverage I'm holding.

     

     

    +1 from me, both to Elvis and the beverage 😉

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    Spotting in the shadows

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Vacilllator

    32 minutes ago, Warts 'n' all said:

    I think that Dartford Mick and the Tax Dodgers had something to say about staying in the shadows. Although they were probably talking about Kentish heathland, rather than Norman bocage.

    @Warts 'n' all Strangely I know more about Normandy than I do about Kent, and have been there more often too.  History drives geography eh?

    Actually looking at the title of my post again, it could be misconstrued out of the right context 😉

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