Vacillator
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7 minutes ago, Battlefront.com said:
This indicates that they expect to have friendly air cover
Or don't wish to be misidentified by drones?
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Some minor (and obvious) ones come to mind:
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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
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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
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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.
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And just for laughs, thinking I could smoothly direct a convoy of KG Peiper panzers across a bridge
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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
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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
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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.
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4 hours ago, Artkin said:
You can use this with extreme success in your PBEMs.
Great advice, which I've learned the hard way. Wish you'd told me this before
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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.
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2v2 is a mystery to me, but I know you have a liking for the MMP experience. Okay, well 4MP
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2 minutes ago, Artkin said:
Looks like the text went white instead of the black
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.
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4 hours ago, Artkin said:
Well now you've convinced me; I'm interested.
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
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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.
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3 hours ago, Artkin said:
What the heck, stop playing with the forum graphics!
Huh? Looks the same to me? Or is that blue header slightly darker, hmmm
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15 hours ago, Gary R Lukas said:
why are there some scenarios on Booties CM IV that you Can't Download
Got some examples of that? I can't find any like that in a quick search (but it was quick
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EDIT: As an afterthought I'll copy @Bootie in, as he will know the answer and the reason if so. Sorry Bootie
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Erm, some time later.... did you get hooked up with an opponent? Hope so. Sounds like you were thinking of Quick Battle PBEM?
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3 hours ago, waffelmann said:
Meehhh....I took an Intel...
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.
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1 hour ago, Modernrocco said:
War in the East always intimated me abet with its grandiosity
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).
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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
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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).
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16 hours ago, chuckdyke said:
put scouts on the engine deck
16 hours ago, chuckdyke said:Spotting ability of the AFV goes up by 30%
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.
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3 minutes ago, Codreanu said:
when their tank starts getting peppered with fire they immediately close the hatches
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
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12 minutes ago, Warts 'n' all said:
wearing a red and white striped shirt
No, always black and white, even in the dark years. Different times are upon us now.
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9 hours ago, Warts 'n' all said:
I still had enough hair to "Spike"
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...
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Good luck in your efforts my friend
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1 minute ago, Artkin said:
Kinda sorta
Ah okay I get ya. I did slightly misunderstand, must try to read things more carefully
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7 hours ago, Glubokii Boy said:
What you can not do is to load two different maps (or sections of maps) at the same time and combine them into a larger one.
@Artkin I may have misunderstood your Stalingrad map work, but I thought you were adding multiple maps together? Okay maybe that's not two maps loaded at the same time, but it looked like it acheived the 'combine them into a larger one' part?
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1 hour ago, kohlenklau said:
I took the summer off from CM.
Welcome back Phil
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No arguments from me on any of that
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What will be the next CM Eastern front game?
in Combat Mission Red Thunder
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Love it
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Totaly agree. Now what incident was that
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Some of these things need a bit of development though and might not be an easy East Front add-on (i.e. Japanese/Chinese).