ALBY

Anodai was my opponent in round 2. Our pbem started late. Then he would send several turns/day, and sometimes he would go a week without giving any news.
He is a good player, tactically aggressive. Beware he is without morale: I saw his guys take money and watches from the corpses of my poor murdered pixeltruppen, I have proof.

Finished off the two games with Alwaysfish this morning.  Big shout out to him for some good fights and for cranking out the turns from across the pond with me over the past 2.5 days as we were at about 30 minutes left on the game clocks on Monday afternoon.  I'm retired so I have the time but he might be fired because I think he has a job!

Ah! Ah ! I have the gold cup for one day (I have one or 2 turns left on the American side)! 🏆
I was really less of a tactician than my opponent Anodai. On the Syrian side I didn't know how to detonate the IED when the Strykers had gathered on it... I read the manual too late 😫 While Anodai managed to destroy one of my vehicles with his IED 😥 From the start he eliminated all my trapped Gi's in 2 turns😭. He managed to keep a squad alive that harassed me for the rest of the game. For round 3, would it be possible to send a court order prohibiting him from approaching a computer, and a summons from the International Criminal Tribunal for war crimes (prisoners shot, I have evidence)🏛️  and no i'm not a bad loser.

Hi all,
Just wanted to say hello and I hope I get to play some PBEM against some of you when I get better.
I'm a huge history fan, and also a fan of Graviteam Tactics: Mius Front, but it never quite did what I wanted. Games like Gates of Hell: Ostfront, looked gorgeous but were tactically shallow experiences that in no way represented the battles I've read about in books. The closest I could get was warg ames like War in the East 2, which still were fairly abstract. 
I found out about these games a few weeks ago and...Well, with the Steam sale I've purchased CM:BS, CM:SF2 and CM:BN, plus all the respective DLCs. I've been wanting games like these for years. Can't wait to start building the hours. I've clocked up 30 hours in two weeks which, for me as a 37 year old with a job and girlfriend, is fairly extreme.
 
Cannot believe I didn't try them sooner. 
 
Nice to meet you all

Congratulations @BFCElvis for besting me in overall points in our games. You were an excellent opponent in every way and both of these games were fantastic. 
 
my uncons just couldn’t get it done. I know some folks like playing with frustratingly underarmed and incompetent pixeltruppen, but that’s not my style.  The match began with a nice massacre ambush as your guys materialized on my gun sites in turn 1. But, then as things moved on,  My IED gunner was lit up trying to light the IED, and that was disappointing. He had two strykers in front of his IED.  I tried my luck with long range rpg shots and using a technical blockade on the bridge to slow your advance and that did not work out very well. Uncons have sh*t marksmanship. Once the rpg gunners were out of ammo it was time to run and hide the points. And run and hide we did. I was backed up into the last hidey holes on the back of the map. 
 
once I realized how fragile the uncons truly are, my US strategy was to kill them all, and I nearly did, leaving only two alive. But only after Elvis used his uncons to brilliantly overrun my scouts, killing almost all of them. When the rescue platoon arrived, I was seeing red and we decided to ‘do the whole village’ and despite heavy losses we went house to house and killed almost every damn dirty uncon we could lay our gunsites on.  
 
I did not think I would like this scenario but ended up enjoying it immensely. 
 
@BFCElvis did a great job commanding those uncons. 

I have no idea whether the type of tree has a direct influence on the likelihood of collision from IDF. We *do* know that the foliage cover does depend on the type of tree, the location and the season, at least in terms of LOS (and in a way divorced from the physical representation of the same). Since that's true, it wouldn't surprise me if there was an influence on premature detonation, but I don't really know how easy it would be to produce a definitive answer there.

...and yes, buildings differ. It's not as simple as "modular buildings good, independent buildings bad", it depends on the footprint of the modular building, as well as the specific independent building represented, both of which depend on the location represented (read: game title - CMSF concrete buildings are built very differently from the mostly wooden huts in CMRT).

Nah. Outbound fire ignores all vegetation within a small radius of the shooter, on the x and y axes. IIRC it's 8 meters, but don't quote me.

Rifle ballistics would appeal to me much more than a SMG were I a pixeltruppen. Personally, I would rather be farther away plinking with mosin than fighting Germans house to house with my pistol caliber sub gun. 
 

Congratulations @BFCElvis for besting me in overall points in our games. You were an excellent opponent in every way and both of these games were fantastic. 
 
my uncons just couldn’t get it done. I know some folks like playing with frustratingly underarmed and incompetent pixeltruppen, but that’s not my style.  The match began with a nice massacre ambush as your guys materialized on my gun sites in turn 1. But, then as things moved on,  My IED gunner was lit up trying to light the IED, and that was disappointing. He had two strykers in front of his IED.  I tried my luck with long range rpg shots and using a technical blockade on the bridge to slow your advance and that did not work out very well. Uncons have sh*t marksmanship. Once the rpg gunners were out of ammo it was time to run and hide the points. And run and hide we did. I was backed up into the last hidey holes on the back of the map. 
 
once I realized how fragile the uncons truly are, my US strategy was to kill them all, and I nearly did, leaving only two alive. But only after Elvis used his uncons to brilliantly overrun my scouts, killing almost all of them. When the rescue platoon arrived, I was seeing red and we decided to ‘do the whole village’ and despite heavy losses we went house to house and killed almost every damn dirty uncon we could lay our gunsites on.  
 
I did not think I would like this scenario but ended up enjoying it immensely. 
 
@BFCElvis did a great job commanding those uncons. 

Roger that. My old *** got mugged by a pack of mangy uncons. I’m sure you are seeing what I am trying to do with my Americans ?  Not sure that worked.
I am really quite bad at commanding uncons. They have no skills, no marksmanship, low ammo and really nothing but big brass balls.  Yours OTOH, did quite well in CQB so I just learned a nuanced lesson with them. 
 
I still predict a lot of death before this is over.  It is my sincere desire to now kill everyone in this town.

Elvis killed a guy !  You better lay low. 

Ha! I drew Elvis for the next round !!
Prepare to die my friend !

Hi All, 
First post here, I'm a 44-year gamer who plays a bit of everything but my main interest is anything WW2. I've been playing Gary Grigbsy War in the East, Steel Division, Panzer Corp, Hell Let Loose, and pretty much anything related to WW2.
Took me until 2 weeks ago to actually hear about Combat Mission (probably did but never took note). I took the plunge and picked up Battle for Normandy and have already clocked up 120 hours and barely seemed to have scratched the surface. 
I am so amazed at how low profile this game is considering how addictive and rewarding it appears. I am already installing mods and now pay little interest in graphics, UI, and presentation. It really takes me back to a golden age when you actually bought a good game, book, or film and indulged yourself in it, and keep going back to it! 

Well not really.  The point is that spotting in a button vehicle in combat conditions is much harder than the average Sunday driver.  As to the two separate vehicles, sure it is anecdotally possible that a T34 will spot where a T72 did not but this is not a reliable data set to draw anything from.  We have run a lot of spotting tests Will a lot of vehicles and every time we do, posting excel sheet results we wind up with the same conclusion - CM spotting may not be perfect but it is also pretty accurate and consistent.
Then someone comes along and has an experienced where “CM spotting is broken” and we do this all over again.  Then people will toss different vehicles into the mix without any context - what was the T34 spotting?  Under what conditions?  We have had this same discussion about a thousand times in the last 23 years.  
How is that for redundancy?  

@ALBY @Erwin @Splinty
My post over this one might interest you too. 

I got this machine around thanksgiving last year:
https://www.msi.com/Laptop/GF63-Thin-10UX
It has been playing CM on all the modern titles and biggest maps/scenarios with reshade and has yet to puke. 
I got mine for under $500 so watch for sales. I have built 3 gaming computers over the years and this one is not as fast as a desktop. It has a low end Nvidia GTX1650 mobile processor but it has zero issues running CM. It does all my other chores well too.  If you are looking to hit the easy button, this machine is legit. 

@darzininkas
Not visited since last July though...

shoving in all armor at one location enforce made sense to me.  i was surprised that a break thru did not succeed despite not a single unit appeared to back up when everything started exploding.  wish i could get CMCW on my faster pc to open the saved game files to publish a video of these turns (i had to do these turns on a laptop on the road).  here are some pics tho

LOLOL this is a war against trees which are very dangerous and must be felled, blasted or otherwise eliminated. 

I think you already got in contact with the official reporting 'system' @BFCElvis😉
Perhaps the 'Who's turn is it' interfered with the PBEM++ functionality? @IanL wrote that AFAIK (as in wrote the code). Maybe he can theorize about it with some more evidence/knowledge.

We were unfortunate in this battle... Anyway it was fun, to this point we arrived... I also don't like the mirror system for the reason explained before, and also for the lack of surprise about enemy force composition.. I think future tournaments should consider the possibility to play maybe an attck map with US, an attack map with Soviets and a meeting engagement with random side. That would surely be better, unless there is the possibility to select force composition at start.

At the end of my last video I promised to upload the bits of the conversation that @domfluff and I had and that didn't make it into the video, as a podcast. That's up now. Also included is an extra bit that we recorded later, where we answer some of the questions that were frequently asked in the comment section.
So, if you've got a long commute ahead of you, or it's your turn to do the dishes, or there is some other reason why you can't play CM.... here you go 😉.
 
 

See you all on the battlefield…