Lieutenant Ash

High bocage can appear in most of the CM games if the map was created in CMBN then hex edited across to another title, but it doesn't block vehicle movement like it does in CMBN. Below is a screenshot of a BN map in 'coldwar' with the high bocage in the background.

Who stole my barn? Anyway the french got there first

Next new weapon? https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/thermonator-proves-americans-idea-of-self-defence-is-increasingly-unhinged/ar-AA1nvWUU?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=NMTS&cvid=8f26b13f6ae840c095bf6b23ae0fb6e8&ei=124

Welcome to the community. Combat mission is the only series of games I still play on a regular basis, in my later years, still not bored of it yet! Regarding your armoured car query, not sure, could be a an accidental omission by the developer or possibly something to do with unit availability at certain dates. Have you tried changing the date of the quick battle to see if that makes a difference? Anyway I'm sure someone with more knowledge will be along to answer at some point.

Roasty Toasty

Don't think the Scheldt estuary clearing operations have been touched on yet, these are in the timeframe of Final Blitzkrieg (autumn 1944). Shame we didn't get any amphibious vehicles like the 'Buffalo' in the expansion.

Play CM on 'basic training' skill level. Seriously though, to still be a battlefield simulator you cannot ignore the drone problem, how to incorporate this and still have a fun game I don't know.

Thanks for the reply. Looks like anything was possible then, it will be interesting to see how they are deployed in game (assuming they make it in).

So as far as I can tell from the above video, during the timeframe of the module (late seventies) the swingfire atgms were under the control of the Royal Artillery, which makes me wonder how they would have been employed in action? Keep them togeather as a larger unit or split them up and dole them out to various other units.

Checked the 'scenario depot' and the author of the scenario is listed as 'Bootie', hope this helps.

Link for 'All in one' mod pack is in this post.

Pleasant for the operator, very suboptimal for the target

If we get the ability to shoot atgm's around corners (swingfire) I'll be pleasantly suprised.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/technology/cutting-edge-tech-gives-uk-soldiers-high-probability-of-shooting-down-deadly-drones/ar-BB1jrHWN?ocid=socialshare&pc=NMTS&cvid=65d90f9565674ec79b3a0b0c1f1fe4dc&ei=160 Just spotted this, might be relevant to the drone discussion.

The Matilda mk2, 'queen of the desert', pretty much the early wars equilivant of the tiger at least in terms of its armour, still had a crap gun though.

When CMSF was first released (2007?) I played the first couple of missions, then put the game back on the shelf, where it remained until the marines module was released. The game seemed very different to CM1, almost 'bare bones' in lacking features which were standard in the older games, also it was 'buggy'. I decided to give it another try when 'marines' was released and I loved it, there had obviously been a lot of post release development going on between the two releases, and it has only got better over the years since (there are still a few things that CM1 did better in my opinion). But onwards and upwards to CM3!

First heard of CM1 while lurking on a 'close combat' forum in '99', people were talking about this 3d strategy game in development. When they said it was turn based I thought not for me, it was only later in autumn 2000 that I read a review of CMBO in a magazine (something like 'pc strategy gamer' I think it was called) where they explained the 'wego' system that I thought I would give it a go. After playing the demo I immediately ordered the game (first ever online purchase) and played nothing else for the next 18 months, until 'Rome total war' turned my head. I found the forums at the same time I bought the game, it was a good source of mods and user made missions, there were some actual WW2 vets on the forum back then which was fascinating to read. Anyway I have bought most of the game series as they were released over the years and still play on a regular basis, the only game I've played that this is true of.

Good ideas, I've often thought there should be some mechanism built in that assigned appropriate units to the various AI plans, for example if the plan is just set up and ambush without further movement orders then units like AT guns, heavy m/c guns on screen mortars etc are assigned to it (along with foxholes. trenches. mines and bunkers -hopefully manned- etc). Meanwhile AI plans which contain movement orders would receive the tanks, halftracks, APC's etc. infantry would assigned to both.

Yes, not wishing to repeat myself, but the fact that many people have written off quick battles against the computer as pointless, when it should be a viable way of playing the game in single player (it will never be as good as a well thought out scenario) means the system needs more work.

Which demonstrates why the quick battle system needs further development. Probably won't happen with the present engine, it would have already happened by now, so hope for improvements in CM3.

There is an option for 'automatic' unit selection and you can set the type of force such as 'infantry only' or 'armor only' or 'mix' (mixture of infantry and armor) but it really is pot luck what the computer will pick. Sometimes the force selection is ok, other times you get some weird picks (though I believe this has improved since the early days of CM2).

Not aware of any guide for QB's v the AI, I play a fair few though so these are my observations for what their worth. The A.I. for QB's is 'one size fits all', so all weapon systems from tanks to heavy A.T. guns, are treated the same, regardless, so you will see things like bunkers or immovable guns plonked at the back of the map because the game put them in a AI group with movement orders. For that reason its usually best to avoid anything that cannot move. For the same reason things like mortars and infantry guns are best kept off map (otherwise quite often you will see these being dragged into the assault by their crews) . It is possible to get a reasonable quick battle against the a.i. if you bare the systems limitations in mind when purchasing units for the opposition. I never let the computer choose its own units. In my opinion the qb system needs an overall when we get to CM3.

Better ingame pic (with bayonet mod), old pic deleted.

Yeah, mine isn't the best pic due to the light conditions in the scenario, but the weapon details are greatly improved over stock textures. I applied your textures over a modded .Mdr file (By kohlenklau) which gives the rifle a bayonet, they seem to work togeather well enough. Thanks for putting the work in on this mod.

Mod in game (CMFB)