Peterk Posted March 2, 2003 Share Posted March 2, 2003 Question to anyone in the know... As everyone knows many of the key small battles in the East involved river crossings, bridge defenses. Those also happen to be some of my favorite things to play out. Is there any chance of getting such battles with the current map pack??? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterk Posted March 2, 2003 Share Posted March 2, 2003 Also, in case anyone wants to try it out...I just got word that Biltaid will soon be available for download at Scooby's CMBB Page 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biltong Posted March 2, 2003 Author Share Posted March 2, 2003 Originally posted by Peterk: Also, in case anyone wants to try it out...I just got word that Biltaid will soon be available for download at ... Way to Go!! Pk 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benpark Posted March 2, 2003 Share Posted March 2, 2003 Hmm...link down? It isn't working for me. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StereoMike Posted March 2, 2003 Share Posted March 2, 2003 Try this one instead. I think PeterK had a http:// too much in his link. Scoobys I can't seem to find Biltaid there yet though. [ March 02, 2003, 04:12 PM: Message edited by: StereoMike ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterk Posted March 2, 2003 Share Posted March 2, 2003 I e-mailed Scooby already. I only announced when he told me it was up but I can't find it either (even deep in the bowels of his server ). Hey, congrats everyone! We now have more replies here than those damned Pengers have in their thread!!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benpark Posted March 2, 2003 Share Posted March 2, 2003 I was the first to grab it on Biltong's site!! Thanks again, this is going to make my decade. Peter, are you going to make an announcement on a seperate thread? I think a lot of people are going to be pretty excited about this... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSulo Posted March 2, 2003 Share Posted March 2, 2003 I just sent an email to Peterk, regarding some hosting about some java stuff he has cooked up, or something like that... *hint* *hint* I can't believe Scooby beat me to it! The world is ending!... What was that URL again... oh right: http://w1.211.telia.com/~u21117402/biltong/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StereoMike Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 Downloaded it. Tried it. Did not work. Installed newest version of Java(1.4.1). Still did not work. I got i quite obscure error-message that i can't seem to figure out: D:\games\biltaid>C:\Program\Java\j2re1.4.1_02\bin\java -classpath jprintf.jar;jc alendar.jar;resources;classes cmbbcampaign.CMBBAidUi Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Unknown Source) at utl.jci.jcitable.JciTable.class$(JciTable.java:66) at utl.jci.jcitable.JciTable.<init>(JciTable.java:312) at cmbbcampaign.BattleGroupTable.<init>(BattleGroupTable.java:34) at cmbbcampaign.CMBBAidUi.buildFrame(CMBBAidUi.java:601) at cmbbcampaign.CMBBAidUi.<init>(CMBBAidUi.java:128) at cmbbcampaign.CMBBAidUi.main(CMBBAidUi.java:1304) Caused by: java.util.MissingResourceException: Can't find bundle for base name u tl.JciDateResErr, locale sv_SE at java.util.ResourceBundle.throwMissingResourceException(Unknown Source ) at java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundleImpl(Unknown Source) at java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundle(Unknown Source) at utl.utl.utlresourcemgr.UtlResMgr.<init>(UtlResMgr.java:38) at utl.jci.jcidate.JciDatetimeFormatter.<clinit>(JciDatetimeFormatter.ja va:24) ... 8 more Any idea what might be wrong here? Missing resource is what sticks out of that error-message i think. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterk Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 Hi Stereo Mike, I think you unzipped the files without telling zip to use directory information. It's in the readme, but unfortuantely the readme is IN the zip so it might have been too late at that point to be of any help. The quick way to tell if you did it right? Check in the directory that you copied the zip file to. Do you have a handful of directories and a handful of files there? Good, you did it right. Do you have a few hundred .class files in there? You unzipped it wrong. Delete everything except the zip and start over but this time extract keeping directory info. Hope this helps. Keep me posted. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StereoMike Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 I did zip it up with directories as i have four of them in the biltaid directory: bak, classes, resources and src. [Edit: Edited to point out that i can count to four] [ March 02, 2003, 05:13 PM: Message edited by: StereoMike ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterk Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 > Peter, are you going to make an announcement on > a seperate thread? I think a lot of people are > going to be pretty excited about this... I think we'll just keep it in here for now and see if the first few people like it and are able to get it going. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterk Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 Stereo Mike just helped me find a problem that people outside of US/Canada/UK will probably have. I don't want to do a patch just for this so I'm posting the fix here.... 1. Go to the directory where you unzipped the file and then descend to the resources/utl directory. 2. There's on file in there that has a "_en.properties" at the end of its name. Take the "_en" away so it looks more like the other files. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StereoMike Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 [Edit: Posted the solution at the same time as PeterK, no need for two messages.] [ March 02, 2003, 05:29 PM: Message edited by: StereoMike ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benpark Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 Just started it up-everything seems fine. It looks great, in fact! I'll let you know if there are any quirks I run into. This will be the first BCR game I have embarked upon-I don't know whether I would have been able to undertake it without Biltaid (I love the name-sounds medicine-ey). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sublime Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 Alrighty then, here we go... quick question If some of my squads hit 25 experience points therefore becoming veterans.. how do I model this? Obviously I cant buy an entire veteran company... and if I buy a veteran platoon it may be off as well, as other squads in the platoon may not be veterans or even close. Also if I did this (by each platoon) then another problem would be that I would lose my heavy weapons platoon from buying the regular company... Any takers? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterk Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 Yeah, it's a tough one. You have to compromise a bit. If you have enough points to do it you can try this. Buy your company at the average level, then buy your veteran platoon. At the start of the game you move one platoon from the original company off the map - your veteran platoon takes their place in the company. But usually, you won't have enough leeway point-wise to get away with it, so I think most people just buy a company at the average level for all 3 companies. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterk Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 A quick message for anyone who downloaded Biltaid today. I just fooled around with it tonight (as a user..playing my own campaign...yay!!!) and I noticed a pretty massive bug. Basically you can't get a 2nd battle generated. Sooo.....use it to generate one battle, enter your results and then SAVE your campaign. DON'T hit advance! I know what it is and I'll have a patch out for this and one other problem before I go to bed tonight. Apologies...I should have caught this one. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterk Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 <Sigh> First patch already. I just sent out Biltaid v1.0.1 a few minutes ago. If you're using the earlier one, be on the lookout for 2 bugs which I fixed: 1) The earlier version doesn't run properly out of the box on computers whose locale is not set to something that has english as the primary language...so basically anyone outside of US, Canada, England, Australia...The work-around is pretty trvial and is posted in an earlier message. 2) If you're loading a saved file for your first battle, enter your results and advance to the next battle - if an immediate counterattack/followup is not generated, then there is a very good chance (depends on your favor from the first battle) that you won't be able to succesfully generate any more battles. Hopefully the patch (version 1.0.1) will be posted soon. If you can't get it off the sites and absolutely want to play it, you can send me a quick message to get an e-mail delivery. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
History Buff Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 Originally posted by Sublime: Alrighty then, here we go... quick question If some of my squads hit 25 experience points therefore becoming veterans.. how do I model this? Obviously I cant buy an entire veteran company... and if I buy a veteran platoon it may be off as well, as other squads in the platoon may not be veterans or even close. Also if I did this (by each platoon) then another problem would be that I would lose my heavy weapons platoon from buying the regular company... Any takers? What I do is load a new scenario. Buy my men and generate a random map in the scenario editor. Delete all flags and deployment zones. Then load a QB and import the map and units from the file. Easy as. Comp takes care of the rest. If some of my men gain or lose exp. I just change the individual exp for the unit in the scenario editor and repeat the process over. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
History Buff Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 What happened with the Pure Armor battle(s)? - difficult by the sounds of it. Defence should be reasonably easy? Biltong [/QB]I WAS defending! But I was steam rolled by two platoons of T-34's. No chance when your main guns are 50 mm and 75 mm. (Alright maybe the 75 mm, maybe). I say ditch pure armour. It's not really realistic having tanks prance around the front lines without some inf in support. At least with the inf. I can hide and throw tonnes of explosives on em! My hate list..... -T34's -Artillery Barrages -Assaulting a force double yours in size at night in a blizzard. -Having to face a battallion of Inf of low quality and unfit who are assaulting you in a blizard. The AI is stupid they never reach you. -Pure Armour Battles -That stupid Battallion Commander who sent me to assault a soviet position at night in a blizzard. Yeah, I'm having fun 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
History Buff Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 Originally posted by Peterk: [QB] Also, in case anyone wants to try it out...I just got word that Biltaid will soon be available for download at How do you get this to work on a Mac? :confused: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seahawk-vfa201 Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 Originally posted by History Buff: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Peterk: [QB] Also, in case anyone wants to try it out...I just got word that Biltaid will soon be available for download at How do you get this to work on a Mac? :confused: </font> 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Olesen Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 Peterk, I ran a small test and came up with an immediate suggestion: I selected File > New > Default and found that I could not edit my own experience. It was set at Normal and I use Green. I then tried setting up a custom campaign, and found that I had to enter all the units manually. It would be useful to have the ability to either import the default unit set during the custom campaign setup, or edit the player setting. Or both You might well want to change the player setting inside a campaign between battles. Actually, Biltong suggests somewhere in his mass of rules that you can, if you prefer, change your battle group during a campaign. Within reasonable limits ofc. Would it throw the program completely off to allow editing of the battle group units during a campaign? [ March 03, 2003, 05:34 AM: Message edited by: Robert Olesen ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterk Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 It was on my to-do list. Tip - if you start off as Regular and you really are Green, "someone" will come by to visit you after only a few battles anyways to set things right! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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