ALBY
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Cargol and I have some issues.
1. Slitherine sent him a PBEM file from a non tournament game for my US turn 5 I think. It was my second actual minute. I have turn 4 in my slitherine box now. I guess I can re-play it ? Weird.
2. My Russian Turn is on Turn 3 and has a password and I have yet to play a Russian turn nor did I set a password.
I also have my timed out round 1 files in my box. I timed out as advised per this thread.
I am traveling and this resort has internet that is a little spotty and I keep losing connection.
My normal PBEM games are all working fine.
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The MRB and FSE are in the formation editor. I’m curious in CM terms, what formation is recommended for use as a the recon echelon ?
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This is not as easy as it looks. One of my PBEM opponents is shooting up my MRB as I write this. My addition to the topic here is that the ‘psychological’ aspect of CM is HUGE!
I am taking losses and it is causing me to slow or change plans which you cannot do with the Soviets.
failing forward I guess. At least my opponent is having fun with the target practice.
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I’m not jumping to conclusions, but…
My opponent was regular and exhibited a good understanding of the game, and he is winning big. He had been playing multiple turns per day. I have reached out via slitherine mail. It might just be he’s on vacation. We are pretty far along. Maybe 2/3. This is what has me curious about the integrity of the tournament because This is the last oppo I would expect to ghost me.
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Fantastic work gentleman !
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My opponent is MIA for several days now. He has been fast and regular up to now. The scores don’t appear to be moving either.
Is everything ok with the tournament ?
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Roger that. Thanks MeatEtr
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My files are not saving ! I’ve redone the turns several times, hit the OK and they just won’t upload or close.
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I am only seeing turns on 1/2 my mirror ? Is that normal ? I thought this match was mirrored and I actually left the Ivan password blank as instructed
I am on US turn 5. I have not yet deployed the rooskies
I don’t think my opponent is on the forum here.
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Yep. We tried that, and tried running off the integrated graphics as well.
thanks for your suggestion!!
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I am helping a friend move into a ‘new to him’ machine. Unfortunately he is not super tech savvy. I’ve built a few machines for my kids but I am really not that savvy either.
All titles except CMCW can launch from the new machine with no issues. He has the whole series except CMFI. Again, they all work perfectly except CW.
Cold War will not launch. Period. Blue circle spins for half a second then nothing. It has been activated successfully many times.
thus far we have:
*installed all windows updates
*used several different services to unzip the files including winrar and 7zip.
*Turned off windows defender and reinstalled CW (numerous times)
*rolled back Nvidia driver and rolled it forward again. It’s an older Quadra NVS GPU. It’s running 385.12. Rolled back from 389.08. Just installed 392.68 and that does not work either
*Reinstalled directx
*tried turning off Realtek audio and launching
the machine is Lenovo T530. Machine was lightly used EBay special and runs great. Frankly, I was shocked. CMBS runs fast and beautifuL on it. Basically it is a business machine with a GPU. It’s old enough that Nvidia no longer supports the GPU, so the drivers are ancient.
*win 10 pro
*i7 3250M
*nvidia NVS 5400m GPU
*8gb ramCMCW and all the other titles were all installed and working on other machines. I believe CMCW may still be active on his backup computer but does not run well as the backup machine has integrated graphics.
there is a long-standing ticket active with battlefront and after some initial impressive weekend service he is still about 8 days into a service ticket with no solution yet identified.
has anyone in the community experienced this or have a suggested fix.
thank you
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Necro-posting here.
In a recent huge battalion sized CMBS PBEM, I had four mounted spotters in bfist and all the X0 hiding together in a solid building and I could target with just about any spotter on any drone footprint. had three drones up I think, one eagle and two ravens. The spotters could precision target on their own drone footprint and area target on any drone footprint. The BFIST could also area target on any drone footprint. I think this was because the XO were sharing spots.
I never knew what that little PDA symbol really meant until this one particular game. I had a lot of indirect assets and a lot of fun in that PBEM.
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See you all on the battlefield…
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Great work! I found your video super informative.
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Every once in a while I watch a vehicle or team make a thrilling (stupid) charge into enemy territory and I realize that what I thought was a face command was actually a suicidal movement command.
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Some other important factors.
the tanker and the two IFV attackers are all fanatic conscripts. I was fast moving them up in concert from different angles because all my tanks are dead and this was my last chance to try and gang up and Swiss cheese this challenger with the auto-cannons. It’s a timed attack and The point was to get a flank shot on one side or the other.
it’s a no win scenario for a tanker. I’m sure the conscripts were baffled.
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I’ve got room for an opponent or two if anyone is looking for a game .
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I’m thinking it’s the conscripts ? It’s so frustrating to be in the squad with them, watching them fuss with the thing and then the rocket flies off and misses
on at least one shot, a mortar round caused the conscripts to lose their spot and they missed a tank.
They are being shot off rooftops and it’s generally not good to to miss as airbursting rounds are typically sent back as a thank you.
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He has a fair point about body armor.
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I lose too many guys unnecessarily. I don’t like that.
when I play the AI, I try to hold myself to very low casualties.
when I H2H against a human ? There is only one casualty I care about.
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If your point is that it’s Swiss, ok, granted. The fit and finish on those guns will be awesome.
but US and NATO will issue so I consider it a US weapon.
we saw this before with the SCAR, the XM25, PS90… list goes on.
but it will not dethrone AR15 and 5.56 anytime soon
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.308 has been our heavy round for years. It’s a ballistic twin for 30-06. Lots of rem 700 in .308 in the us armed forces.
our snipers really like .300 win mag, which is an elk round but also works for tangos. The big Barrett guns in .50 and .338 are really heavy and basically crew served
those are more anti material.
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Sorry to bark at you.
I can’t believe we just had a caliber war. What is this , 1990?!
im not disagreeing that a bigger round with more ass wouldn’t be ‘better’. But the reality is they we are wedded to 5.56 for many reasons, most of which are not performance related. And people get carried away with ballistics and caliber wars. You need SAPI plates to stop a 5.56 and they are expensive and I’m not sure all of Ivan’s guys get them.
we are lucky because our trained soldiers can hit at 300 or 500 yards but ivan can’t hit **** with his 5.45 at that range. US small arms are way better.
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My range cards for 30.06 and 5.56
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I somehow have 6520 points in round 2 on the slitherine scorebord ? I’ve played 1 minute of one match and have not fired my weapons.
Something is not right here.