ALBY

Have you tried re-shade ? Perhaps you should try and see for yourself. Other than that, have a great life. I’m thru with Q&A.

I spend way more time in the drivers seats and in the foxholes with my teams. The eye candy combined with mods are just way more enjoyable than the stock game. I don’t know what else to say. More time with the troops means more detail for me as commander. I often pick up sound contacts or find a LOS I would have missed if I wasn’t engrossed in the movie.

I like watching the movies much more, and I find more detail this way. So i would say yes.

I’m suprised nobody has mentioned re-shade yet. @jheinrichk has some fantastic pics and vids that highlight his re-shade settings and I think it improves the game play quite a bit.

howdy friends Lately, I have been experimenting with 2 things in the editor to help balance forces and address these issues. Totally obvious things that I have recently reminded myself of. 1. Curating weapons, loadouts and upgrading or downgrading vehicles or infantry. Scarce ammo and green gunners can detune vehicles and create difficult command choices. 2. Using weather to limit visibility and drone/thermal sights. @Artkin has a point imo. Although I did not get it when he offered me a match as a rank noob. I understand the game dynamics a little better and I get ‘it’ a little more now. However, I think you have to have design your games so that they require as few ‘non-enforceable’ game rules as possible. If it can built into the game within the constraints we have, then it should be. There are many iterations of force and weather combinations that can even up forces and provide good gameplay. where I am at now is that I do prefer CMBS and experimenting with ‘modern problems’. I also value the creativity and ingenuity of my PBEM oppo and my attitude is that I can fight or recover from any challenge, if it’s interesting, so I tend go with few rules other than to not bomb setup zones in ME. I have been prejudiced lately against super strong or upgraded vehicles. auto-cannons are vexing me lately. We all have our favorites. lol. I think we all need to be as flexible as possible, especially in CMBS as we will be making our own fun until they revamp another modern title for us. PS, I appreciate my PBEM oppo and playing the AI is not satisfying imo.

I still play CMBS in PBEM and there are some cool aspects of modern warfare you can model in CMBS. but I agree with not updating right now. More to the point, CMBS should probably be replaced with a commercial version of CM pro with Petruvians and Denovians and with n the weapons set spanning CMCW thru CMSF2 & CMBS.

I had fun. Let’s do another one.

I only play PBEM and tournaments and there is only one casualty I care about! replaying turns to get better luck does actually seem like a Groundhog Day type of hell. these are just pixeltruppen and they will gladly give their little digital lives for me and the glory…

I still have my holiday tournament games showing in there.

I am a war criminal in that I fire on surrendering troops until I can’t or the troops won’t do it. I’ve been burned by the Lone Wolf Rambo super trooper one time too many!

yes. 3 or 4 have seen this message so far. its a slitherine issue, not a you issue...

Thank you !!

ok. this is a new one. driving to the finish in my CW GT game. in between turns, I get this message when trying to log in. @BFCElvis sorry for the distortion, it's Re-Shade misbehaving.

Wow. 2/3 or your tournament games are shot ?! Terrible maybe next tournament slitherine can look at our history when assigning oppo. Assign those that play regularly against others who play regularly. Maybe the starting ladder could/should reflect prior tournament play and the noobs have to work their way up into the group of reliable players. Ratdeath, I hope the games you do have going are fun and enjoyable. remember… winning a combat mission tournament and $4 will get you a latte at Starbucks… the most important thing is to have fun. The tournaments get you games with some excellent players you would not otherwise get to PBEM and I love them for this reason.

Both probus and I got our abrams. My recovery was like grand theft auto. What was left of the crew jumped in under fire and left the area at a high rate of speed. Made me watching the movie. Another spectacular moment was probus shooting a tree and obliterating an entire squad with splinters. Never seen that before. This is not CMBS with airburst munitions…. So I choked on my coffee watching them all die at once this morning. We are both gettin after it. Fun times !! This is why I enter the tournaments.

The final US reinforcement into the Russian far objective would totally crush any serious advance past mitteleshenbach. What a hose job !! I never got to play them as they arrived just as we stopped, but I would have parked them on the objective and they would have been hell to dislodge in 15 minutes with a shot up MRB. I had sent my red air back to attack this objective with cluster but the timing was not do-able.

Not Gamey. The TTS were designed to shoot thru smoke and out spot enemy armor. It’s a revolutionary gun site attached to a standard issue USGI metal coffin.

I rushed my Motor infantry thru the covered advance, took heavy losses at that opening, but did get a big part of that company out from under the blue guns up on that hill. So, I felt that I could have stormed mittelshenbach and taken it. I was a little lucky as my MIG’s were dropping cluster right on his blue tank concentrations and i put the cluster arty right on mitteleshenbach from turn 5, on a light max mission and it was very unhealthy for his infantry to be there. I attritted my oppo firepower down pretty significantly which made the rush do-able. I made the right choice to send ALL the air at minute 5 because once the Tunguskas arrived, things would have been different for blue air. All my aircraft, both sides, aircraft scored kills. My oppo did not pre plan CAS or fires. And he never got them off. We stopped at minute 30.

Let’s all remember why we do these tournaments. We enjoy playing combat mission. So don’t let the scores get you down. I just want to play some CM!!

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Score wise, it’s easy to get a ZERO for Soviets as their objectives are terrain based. The leaders after this round will be those that have the no-show bonus. I fought hard for my measly 829 points. But we had to quit at minute 30 due to time constraints.

I did a lot or iracing back when I was driving and one of the things they did to clean up their races and sort out the riff raff was to require licenses. I’m not sure what the CM equivalent would be. However, we are at least gaining a track record and data that can be used to refine the match ups. Good luck fixing this friends.

I must say, I love the scenario valley of ashes, but there is a lot do and not a lot of time. I think it’s one of the slower playing scenarios due to size and the number of commands required each turn. It’s likely too big for a tournament where the majority of players are so uncommitted.

The scoresheet for this tournament on the slitherine site is interesting. It appears that number one received two surrenders and that probably 12 or 13 games will not even start. Of the games that are going, very few are going to finish without ceasefires. I reckon most of the field will be eliminated from overall contention by either no shows or slow play.

Howdy friend. Your analogy is flawed. Russia is an aggressor. Israel is not. Israel is besieging a military target that is firing rockets and hiding an army. Whether the Gazans are human shields or not is on Hamas. The entirety of Gaza is a weapons free zone for targeting and it will all be legal. Hamas broke every rule of war in their attack. They must all die We all feel bad when we have to shoot a rabid dog. But obviously, Israel cannot be expected to live next to baby murderers. War is hell, But it’s much worse if you lose. We’ve seen this movie before. Don’t awaken your giant of an enemy and fill them with a terrible resolve. Delenda est Carthago.