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Under MacOS 12.4you can install by right-clicking the package file. After trying to verify it then allows you to open the file (i.e. run the installer). At some point then you have to enter the admin password to continue.

Thanks for trying to keep up with that! I wonder when Apple will stop fooling around with their OSs …

For the map-makers: Histomap is a great source of historical maps of Berlin, overlayed on a current map (with adjustable opacity): http://histomapberlin.de/histomap/de/index.html I used this to check on some maps that came with the game and which have, um, "disappointing" errors … like a Thälmannplatz in April 1945 and a Leipziger Platz modelled pretty well … only to be then labeled Potsdamer Platz (I live not far from that place, so I noticed it immediately). Yes, I know, I can iron this out myself if I like to … I confess that initially I was also disappointed about the buildings and street schema, but that was only until I tried to improve on that myself and saw what a huge task it would be to create better maps. And I realize that a better-looking map is not necessarily a better map in the game context.

Yes, there is a problem with the dialogs, probably a clash between the JRE and the MacOS dialog system - looks like the JRE is trying to access an outdated dialog system library. Ian is already looking into it.

No, I tried that. Continuing in PM. Thanks for responding!

I experience a problem with WTII since recently, on MacOS 11.5.1 (the trouble may have started with the upgrade from 11.4, though I think it started before the update). What happens is this: WTII starts without problems and reads & updates the situation perfectly. The trouble is that WTII does not show any menu items, neiter from the menu bar icon nor from its regular menus. All Finder menus are also dead. I can change to other apps via Dock or open app windows, which also restores Finder menus. As it is, I cannot refresh manually and I can only quit WTII through Force Quit. Has anyone had similar problems, and maybe even a way out of them?

I would like to see this as an option, but mainly as a part of an extended sandbox mode - free play without limitations, with access to all kinds of reinforcements during play, as a training environment for newbies - just to try out things.

We tried again with a new 1st e-mail, and this time it worked. Probably a corrupted mail file on the first attempt.

That would be splendid. I attached the incoming file to my original post.

I have a weird thing in a 2-player e-mail game right now (Mac on my side, Windows at opponent, map Meet Large Open (water) QB-258). I received the 1st mail from my opponent and I am taken, as expected, to the Purchase Unit screen for my side. I buy units as I please, keeping inside the points and rarity points limits. When I click OK to complete the purchase the CMBN screen vanishes (Desktop visible or just black) for a few seconds and then … I am back in the Purchase Units screen, with no units purchased. I can repeat the process any number of times (well, to be honest I tried only 3 times). Any idea what could have caused this? I tried several times, with and without restarting the game, same result on each attempt. Something seems to be broken, but what? Folder permissions look good, 1 other mail game I am running and some solo QBs work as expected. Whose Turn Is It is active but I cannot imagine what it could contribute to the problem. CMBN Hope Lutz Swifty 001.ema

No prior enemy contact. But Green and tired, that is a factor I missed before and that probably accounts for the delay. There have been several nasty indicators that I must pay more attention to unit experience and status. Yes, I do that sometimes. I used an HMG for the purpose, in a keyhole position aligned to the building behind the wall.

I believe that on "normal" blast actions this would be an excellent procedure and it would definitely have worked on a lot of hedgerows I had the pleasure to puncture, but one thing that puzzled me was when I got them to blast at all (a different segment of the same wall) they took more than 1 complete turn (about 90 seconds) to blast. They spent one complete turn apparently doing nothing (sorting their stuff and doing calculations, I do not doubt), and then again taking 30 secs into the next turn until the blast went off. Maybe they felt crowded because other units were sitting very close by …

Ah, good point, thank you! I always wondered how to keep them on this side of the wall.

Along … I'll try that, too. And I thought I knew a bit about blasting …

So I played around a bit, and lo' and behold, not in this same place but a few metres down the wall they can. They fall prone for about 90 seconds ("one GO and a half") and then blast away and create a very neat, straight and rectangular gap – pure precision blasting. I appreciate their dedication to good craftsmenship and accept the delay . All in all, still a noob, I love the game and the community and I feel reassured in last year's decision to get rid of ASL.

Ah, elevation … that could be the case, the wall sits on the ridge of a hill. Live and learn. It is the large compound in map "Attk Small Town QB-013" and I thought I'd take a shortcut. I definitely checked the command and the colour of the move segment before GO. Yes, Blast is weird. Among other things because it is a movement. I have blasted a few things in my life (civic application only, though) but I never felt the urge to look at the other side before the dust had settled for good. Thanks again!

Yes, that's the way I have been using it, with different distances. In fact I don't know how I would point the move to the wall itself, as I am bound to the grid. And blasting worked fine in every other scenario or QB I tried it.

Thanks! Bummer if your plan depends on that break-in . I tried several ways to give the command (orthogonal, oblique, short segment, long segment), after the next GO the first move segment (which was meant to be the blast) was always converted to a Quick move. Well, it was a dreary and slogging QB anyway, so I'll just quit. If I know it is a common problem I'll live with it and prepare a plan B (B for bug) in future fights in which I might feel a desire to blow something up. I think there are historic references of walls that turned out to be un-blow-uppable.

I'm looking for an explanation … maybe someone has seen something similar and knows why. In a QB I ordered a US Scout team, equipped with 2 demolition charges, up to a high stone wall, to pause (for others to come up) and to blast through the wall. Precisely when the pause ended they got up and ran off around the enclosed space, as if trying to check on the wall from the other side before they did anything. I treble-checked, the order indeed was Blast. Any ideas? Video here.

Great, thanks a lot! I was about to start something like that myself, but this saves a lot of time which I can use excellently to get beaten again and again

Exactly my feelings I believe it was "2019 Rural Farmland 2m" - the file is there in QB maps folder but funnily enough I do not see it in the scenario editor. I guess, though, that it was not a problem with the map as I played it again with more success. BTW, is there anything like a "map atlas", i. e. a visual overview of existing maps?

OBA = off-board artillery, i. e. not on the map. Yes, I tried to add trucks, halftracks etc. with "supply" in their name, and they all came with ammo for their own inherent weapons only. Seems ammo supply is "organic to the formation" or "none".

From a noob, a noob question: When I purchase units for a Quick Battle, some "single vehicles" and guns come with very little ammunition. When I buy formations, some units (like mortar or MG teams) come with an ammo bearer. Is there a an equivalent option when I buy a single unit? In other words: Is there a way I can buy some more ammo for my lone infantry gun or SPG/SPH? And: Is it correct that the QB purchases under the "Artillery" category are exclusively OBA? I see that I can buy, for example, a Priest battery/vehicle either from the Formations/Artillery, from the Formations/Armor or from the Single Vehicle/Armor categories. In the first case the vehicle/battery is OBA, in the 2nd & 3rd onboard. (The assumption is supported by the fact that I cannot add onboard teams/vehicles to "Artillery" formations.) It is a steep and exceedingly joyous learning curve …

Good point. I'd like to see a similar choice of targets/rules of engagement for the snipers … but maybe they have more intelligence built-in than I give them credit for. But it would be nice to be able to tell them, for example, "go for tank crews only".

Perfect. Thanks a lot! … and since the community works for free, also much cheaper than BF fixing QB plausibility .