Vacillator
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1 minute ago, kohlenklau said:
Now the CMRT ITALY MOD has an Italian war song...
Excellent Phil, will look forward to hearing it - I'll have to switch my own RT music back on first though
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If you click Options on the first screen, there's then a list of options which includes Music On/Off - is your switched to Off?
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1 minute ago, Glubokii Boy said:
Designing attacking AI scenarios is unfortunatelly the most difficult thing to do
I'm certainly no expert but yes. There is at least one in our midst who can work such magic @George MC. I was reminded of this when assaulted by very fast-moving AI T34s in a recent work
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7 minutes ago, Commanderski said:
with the amount of Soviet forces it might be too easy
With the amount (and quality) of German forces it might not be. That's why I'd like to try. Anyway, great work
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14 minutes ago, womble said:
any human player taking over from the AI would often find themselves with a surfeit of riches in terms of their available forces,
For H2H you may be right, although I really would like to try the excellent Battle of Lisow as the defender vs AI at some point if the Germans had some AI Plans. I'm aware that some might say 'open up the editor and add some' and I have no defense against this. To me this one is a little on the large side to contemplate H2H but I might propose it and see
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No spoilers were involved in the posting of this
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Looking good Phil, nice work. I like the grey green icons
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I think we should see what @theforger and @Commanderski say as they are very good, recent examples.
At first glance adding a simple briefing to the 'other side' in each scenario does not seem too onerous, but to do this for each of 35 battles in Rollbahn D I suppose it all adds up.
In the Battle of Lisow the 'other side' is on the defensive in carefully placed positions, but I imagine most of the units can be shifted around in setup zones - you might not of course know where the enemy is likely to appear. So a limited form of H2H is possible?
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3 minutes ago, Kevin2k said:
1946 edition is what I stick with
Me too for planes (with the huge and excellent BAT mods), although I did buy Tank Crew and don't regret that even though time spent on it is miniscule compared to CM. I actually wanted to get inside a tank and fight for a change, and my old version of the good but long-ago abandoned T34 vs Tiger wasn't enough. I also thought it would be good to support the development of a 'tank series' but not a lot has happened in that sense, so my contribution unsurprisingly has not had that much impact
. There are however some fine user-made scenarios out there.
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10 hours ago, Aragorn2002 said:
I would buy the often mentioned Space Lobsters, just to keep Battlefrint in business.
As soon as pre-order is announced, I'll be all over it
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I would like to help keep BFC in business, although I suspect my contribution won't help too much. However, every little helps, as a certain UK supermarket chain likes to keep saying...
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6 hours ago, Falaise said:
ah ah I made the mistake of doing the same thing as the first time without exposing my crews to the cold and the penalty is terrible!!!
while I had lost my 1st tank after an hour, there I am the first to have suffered the loss of several tanks
The battle is terrible and my big cats hiss like demons, there is a lot of torn hair....I was enjoying version 1 so am still rumbling along to finish it. However @Commanderski did warn me that version 2 is a lot tougher
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As my better half sometimes exclaims, '**** the bed!'. Doesn't mean anyone has literally done that of course
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EDIT: the censor does not allow the four letter word starting with 's' and ending with 't', with an 'h' and an 'i' in between. LOL.
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I think my first WW2 campaign was the KG Peiper one from FB, which was challenging but a lot of fun. Whether this counts as 'smaller and easier' I'm not sure.
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9 hours ago, Aragorn2002 said:
RT battlepack
Agreed, this will be very good. But I'll also buy the others, plus perhaps the Super Super Modern Bundle...
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18 minutes ago, Redwolf said:
No, this is a "charles-free" product, so no programming on the engine will be done. Charles is hopefully busy with engine v5 this year.
+1. A battle pack won't introduce anything new hardware-wise as far as I know.
A big hello to Charles but not sure he's on the forum much (and I'm not sure of his username as you can see)? If only he knew what he was missing
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21 hours ago, Commanderski said:
The new link is up.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pebo81649f0hzzq/Tank Battle of Lisow.btt?dl=0
Thanks, after spending the last 22 hours without power that will give me something exciting to do
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14 minutes ago, MOS:96B2P said:
I occasionally forget about this rule and end up yelling unkind words at my computer screen....
Good post, mental note taken, probably soon to be forgotten with the same result as yours
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5 hours ago, Falaise said:
pixel tankers grumbled that in I asked them to do the recce on foot in the snow
Yes that's a good idea which I neglected to do, partly due to being worried that my precious crews would not return to their vehicles. But of course if losing one or two means saving a few panzers obviously it's worth it. A reflection of RL practice too if I remember the stories of Wittman and Carius correctly...
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3 hours ago, Aragorn2002 said:
Hi Commanderski. I can't download your Lisow battle. Seems to be removed from Dropbox?
On 2/2/2022 at 12:57 AM, Commanderski said:i took the scenario out of the drop box for some upgrades and adjustments.
New version is on its way, old one removed in the meantime.
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16 minutes ago, Commanderski said:
I thought about adding some infantry in but they wouldn't last long
In this battle I'm sure you're right, but I like to have infantry as eyes in front of the panzers. Next scenario?
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On 2/2/2022 at 10:31 AM, Falaise said:
had my first tank losses in the area of the cemetery
Hmmm, mine are in the fields on the other side of the village, but I'd best not add any spoilers. In any case I'm happy that I've cleared a lot of the hiding Bolsheviks (as far as I know), onwards to victory. I have never maneuvred so many Tigers and also the artillery on hand is very nice. I am however feeling a bit 'naked' without infantry support, old habits die hard...
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Yes, I'm ready to download. I assume that's a bayonet on the shouldered rifle? First blood may inadvertently come from that
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4 hours ago, IMHO said:
Crawl exhaust the infantry pretty quickly and tired infantry is easier to spot. So don't crawl too far a distance - break it down to several hops with a rest between them. Keep a spotting team in hide position till it recovers before unhiding.
Good advice, something I don't forget but which I never seem to get quite right
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4 hours ago, Rinaldi said:
I've applied all over England and Wales and now am waiting to hear back
Okay, well the very best of luck to you my friend.
And thanks for the update to the AAR, great work again.
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5 minutes ago, IanL said:
But if you buy both you end up with duplicate CMSF2 base games then
As I understand it, Steam drops items you already have, so in my basket up there, it has dropped the SF2 and BS base games from the first two bundles as I had them in the Super Bundle already. So no duplication.
Cant overwrite save files bug
in CM2 General Tech Support
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This doesn't happen with a direct BFC install, at least not for me with most other titles. So I imagine it's something to do with the Steam setup?
Realise this doesn't help, but happy to bump up the issue.