Remo Posted January 22, 2001 Share Posted January 22, 2001 After toying with CM for a week since receiving it, starting and aborting a lot of scenarios because I had no idea what I was doing, I finally played through my first complete game. The result? A Major Victory for the Allies (i.e., me) against the computer. Yay! It was a tiny, 10-turn game (I forget the name) holding a crossroads with a minefield and roadblock vs. Axis advance. What did I learn? That the manual is right--split squads don't do nearly as well as full squads. I split one squad to do recon in the forest on my left flank. They discovered German troops moving up from that direction, too, just as I suspected. But I failed to withdraw them once they'd made contact. The lead half-squad got cut to pieces and eliminated, and the other half panicked and routed. I'll know better next time. Otherwise it went pretty well. My other squads and machineguns managed to hold off (and actually beat back) the German assault, killing a couple of halftracks in the process. One squad spent most of the game exchanging fire with a German squad in the woods (same squad that capped my scouts). They held firm, but lost three men to the German fire--and the Germans wound up less than 50 meters from my routed half-squad (who had recovered!) and found themselves taking fire from them as well. My two squads were at 90 degree from one another relative to the Germans, so I had hopes of eliminating them but after the battle I saw that they hadn't taken a single casualty and were ready to kill bears with their bare hands! I had full Fog of War on in this scenario. A question: if there is _no_ fog of war (as the manual says is useful for beginning players to learn what they're doing) I assume that hiding and ambushes are a waste of effort, yes? And once a bazooka or panzerschreck team is out of ammo, what's the best thing to do with them? Retreat them? Use them as scouts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wild Bill Wilder Posted January 23, 2001 Share Posted January 23, 2001 Just like the "Remo" in the movie..."The Adventure Begins!" Congratulations. If you are a whooper and a hollerer as I am, I'm sure the portals shook with shouts of triumph! They surely do at my house...along with the moans of defeat Wild Bill ------------------ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remo Posted January 24, 2001 Author Share Posted January 24, 2001 "Just like Remo in the movie...." I prefer to think of as just like Remo in the novels. The movie had it's moments but was overall pretty bad. The novels are great fun. I fought my second battle (Allies charging the ridge occupied by "friendlies" according to my superiors) to a draw. Learned from that one too. I have to get my FO up to the front lines much faster; he spent much too much time out of LOS of any enemies. I also wasted some artillery on flushing bad guys from cover, instead of waiting until I _knew_ where they were to hammer them. (Even so, I saw just how devastating an artillery barrage can be on unlucky troops. I eliminated three squads with artillery.) Looking at the screen and suddenly realizing that that gray blob there (not far from one of my squads) is German armor was a horrifying moment. Fortunately, I had a bazooka team handy and they smoked it before it could do any damage. The REAL HORROR was installing CM on my wife's computer (850mhz CPU vs my 166mhz dinosaur) for use when she's not using it. The difference in performance was amazing. The trees actually look like, well, trees instead of abstract art. The camera pans and zooms with smooth motion instead of jerkily. And the scenery overall is more detailed and realistic. Nonetheless, my computer where I'll spend most of my playing time. It isn't as pretty or as fast, but I don't have to fight for time to play on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawkmek Posted January 24, 2001 Share Posted January 24, 2001 Remo, you gotta get the mods loaded on your wife's machine and con her out of it someway. 850MHz!!! She doesn't need that. All my wife does is log on to work and check email on hers. As I said, load up some mods and bask in the glory. Once you go 'mod', the maps are closer to God. Out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remo Posted January 25, 2001 Author Share Posted January 25, 2001 Yeah, my wife's machine is 850mhz, but it runs Windows ME, so while the graphics look great, I have troubles that weren't apparent immediately. Mouse troubles. Fer instance, in the after-action reports, the mouse vanishes so I can't click back to the map OR exit. If I minimize the program, I can bring it back (with wonky colors) but trying to return to the map crashes the program completely. I may be able to get that straightened out, but it's definitely a strike against the faster machine. Mine is way slower, but more stable. I'm not about to con her out of it. She put up with the oldest, slowest computer for two years before we replaced it only a few months ago. Now it's my turn to play catch-up. And its not like I can't use hers--it's the family games computer in addition to being her email/usenet machine, which is why we sprang for 850mhz--but she gets first dibs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coralsaw Posted January 25, 2001 Share Posted January 25, 2001 Originally posted by Remo: Fer instance, in the after-action reports, the mouse vanishes so I can't click back to the map OR exit. Not sure if it will help you pal, but I had a similar problem in Win2K. I fixed it by going to "Settings-ControlPanel-Mouse", and setting in one of the options there, "Pointer Refresh Rate" to "slow". This worked like a charm... Oh, and welcome to the CM community. Regards ------------------ My squads are regular, must be the fibre in the musli... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coralsaw Posted January 25, 2001 Share Posted January 25, 2001 Double post, sorry... [This message has been edited by coralsaw (edited 01-25-2001).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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