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Just saw this Phil, great idea. You got me watching youtube videos like this one: Witness the long poring and discussions over rules - oh the joys of ASL . Anyway, the usual offer of testing applies it it helps, even if I have to play against your good self .

Okay, well Good Luck .

Partly as feedback for Nigel, I wonder why that is, as it worked okay for me? Was also quite quick on my recently upgraded 650 Mbps fibre service .

Love it . Totaly agree. Now what incident was that ? Some of these things need a bit of development though and might not be an easy East Front add-on (i.e. Japanese/Chinese).

Or don't wish to be misidentified by drones?

Some minor (and obvious) ones come to mind: Spending ages to set up unit moves (including splitting teams), only to later inadvertently select everyone via the HQ and reset everyone's moves to parallel the HQ. Definitely not good in a PBEM . Wrongly interpreting what a 'westerly wind' means in relation to the in-game 'compass/not a compass'. My smoke screen was good, but quickly headed off in the wrong direction . And a very early one when I first got CMRT (my introduction to CM). I thought a large force of (obviously superior ) Tiger IIs and Panthers could advance across open fields and successfully slug it out with IS2s in the overlooking woods. Wrong, even if a big factor was main gun / gunsight damage, occasionally questioned here on the forum. If anyone would like to replicate my initial ineptitude the scenario was 'Gog and Magog' which is great. I later re-visited it much more successfully but armed with too much intel due to my earlier attempt. A recent PBEM one where I set all of my units to 'hide' ready to ambush, and watched as my skilled opponent drove his T34s straight past my hiding units without being engaged. Seems I was a little sloppy at unhiding and/or setting arcs. And just for laughs, thinking I could smoothly direct a convoy of KG Peiper panzers across a bridge .

The OP was related to SP/Wego, but in my most current PBEM I don't think I'm giving away too much to say that it's probably over 90% split. Reserves (hopefully well out of harm's way) are unsplit. I think my opponents do similar things, but it's not always easy to tell. When I first got CM (Red Thunder) it was the least of my concerns and outside of my understanding of the game . Having said that it may also be one of those things that you never really know how much of a difference it makes?

Yes I agree with that as well, although oddly I have both scenarios in my downloads folder, plus I've already lost a PBEM in Happy New Year Major Bake.

Great advice, which I've learned the hard way. Wish you'd told me this before . Currently doing this in Normandy - hiding in foxholes initially, followed by moving right next to bocage ready for the fight (I also have to credit @WimO for advice on this). The hide function is interesting for vehicles too, turning off noisy engines it seems.

2v2 is a mystery to me, but I know you have a liking for the MMP experience. Okay, well 4MP .

Now that's wierd. I swear when I typed the last message the header text was black, now it's white. Anyhoo, I agree with your comment.

I think if you like the 'bigger' scale of running the whole East Front (or large sections of it if you prefer), this might be for you. Also if you don't care about the old counter boardgame presentation (no criticism from me here, not sure what else you could do on that scale). As I didn't get far I assume logistics is a big factor and I love logistics, but not in 109 minutes of game play . For me the discovery very shortly afterwards of CM (years later than I now would have liked) meant that my purchase of War in the East was not money well-spent. But CM is I think more my preferred scale.

Huh? Looks the same to me? Or is that blue header slightly darker, hmmm .

@BFCElvis is the man to ask. Although he is busy elsewhere I'm sure he'll be along soon.

Got some examples of that? I can't find any like that in a quick search (but it was quick ). EDIT: As an afterthought I'll copy @Bootie in, as he will know the answer and the reason if so. Sorry Bootie .

Erm, some time later.... did you get hooked up with an opponent? Hope so. Sounds like you were thinking of Quick Battle PBEM?

No worries, I probably would too. Have chosen Intel procesors for a while and Nvidia graphics. No real issues and good performance, including the Asus ROG laptop sat in front of me now. It has been great over the last couple of years.

There is that. I used to play a lot of much smaller scale Talonsoft stuff (East Front etc.) but even that sometimes had 3 hour turns. Think I should re-visit WITE though. As for Sniper Elite, it's a 'little' unrealistic but great fun at times and makes a nice change every now and then. Give me a shout if you fancy a PBEM when the FB add-on comes out (or even something before).

Think I'm missing something as it is my kind of thing, but... I bought it on Steam round about December 2019. I have 109 minutes played . A big reason for sure is that I started playing CM a few months later and now I do little else (with odd excursions into Sniper Elite 3 and 4 - recently completed - and now 5 is out, waiting for a sale).

Yeah that's a good shout. Is there any difference to that percentage depending on who you put on the deck? You said scouts - I imagine they're the best (except perhaps for FOs but I don't think you'd want them on there) compared to other types of unit? At La Fiere in CMBN as you say, I don't have that as an option but I think they wouldn't last long anyway given the small arms fire coming in.

This is a bit variable, sometimes it works well - I'm currently two-thirds of the way across La Fiere Causeway and my panzers (such as they are) have all buttoned. If I was one of the tank commanders I might have ordered reverse by now. Worse is to come .

No, always black and white, even in the dark years. Different times are upon us now.

I was perhaps the only one in the City Hall at that gig with hair down my back. Not a hint of anyone being bothered, which was great. The same could not be said out on the streets most of the time...

Good luck in your efforts my friend .

Ah okay I get ya. I did slightly misunderstand, must try to read things more carefully .