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markgreyam: Mar 10, 2008; Talk to the mittens.

If anyone is interested all the Battle Academy stuff is 75% currently as part of the Bundle Stars sale thing

https://www.bundlestars.com/en/games?search=Battle%20Academy

# ? Mar 25, 2017 20:33

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# ? Apr 23, 2024 19:13

Yooper: Apr 30, 2012

CMANO just released a bunch of new scenarios including a Mercenary Mission Set ala Strike Commander.

http://www.warfaresims.com/?p=4440

The Cuban Missile Crisis one looks pretty interesting too.

# ? Mar 27, 2017 15:57

Squiggle: Sep 29, 2002; I don't think she likes the special sauce, Rick.

Which reminds me: is that Community Pack curated in some way beyond "post a link to your scenario here and I will include it?"

I've admired the quality of the few I've played, but wasn't sure if I was just getting lucky or if there's some sort of quality control.

# ? Mar 27, 2017 22:05

bgreman: Oct 8, 2005; ASK ME ABOUT STICKING WITH A YEARS-LONG LETS PLAY OF THE MOST COMPLICATED SPACE SIMULATION GAME INVENTED, PLAYING BOTH SIDES, AND SPENDING HOURS GOING ABOVE AND BEYOND TO ENSURE INTERNET STRANGERS ENJOY THEMSELVES

Hi, my name is bgreman and I have an addiction. I am now addicted to CMANO.

Not so much playing it as watching videos of it, which is strange, as I have never really been able to get into watching videos of others playing games.

# ? Mar 27, 2017 22:57

Yooper: Apr 30, 2012

bgreman posted:

Hi, my name is bgreman and I have an addiction. I am now addicted to CMANO.

Not so much playing it as watching videos of it, which is strange, as I have never really been able to get into watching videos of others playing games.

Rock on man. I've been getting into it quite a bit lately myself. No videos as of yet, but today I did a statistical analysis of 1970's era US sub technology in relation to hunting soviet nuclear submarines.

Yah, it's an odd addiction we have isn't it?

# ? Mar 27, 2017 23:55

skooma512: Feb 8, 2012; You couldn't grok my race car, but you dug the roadside blur.

Afghanistan '11 is really fun. Just wish it was cheaper but that's grog games.

It's hard too, and that's probably the point. I didn't realize healing troops required supply in the FOB. So I was in this death spiral where my PP (the game's currency) was constantly in the negative because of injured troops, I couldn't resupply because the chinooks kept getting shot at on the way over, and the Taliban just keep coming. It doesn't help that even special forces in general cannot defeat taliban militias and Apaches have a lot of trouble killing technicals.

# ? Mar 28, 2017 00:43

markgreyam: Mar 10, 2008; Talk to the mittens.

bgreman posted:

Not so much playing it as watching videos of it, which is strange, as I have never really been able to get into watching videos of others playing games.

It's weirdly compelling to watch, isn't it? Also I'd like to genuinely know more about your years long complex space sim Let's Play.

Edit: Okay never mind turns out it's still going and your post history gave me the link I needed.

# ? Mar 28, 2017 08:02

ZombieLenin: Sep 6, 2009; "Democracy for the insignificant minority, democracy for the rich--that is the democracy of capitalist society." VI Lenin

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When can we have War in The Pacific AE using the CMNAO engine? Soon please.

skooma512 posted:

Afghanistan '11 is really fun.

I do not believe this. This is literally unbelievable to given my experience with Vietnam 65.

Yooper posted:

He set down his Rush Limbaugh coffee mug and let out a resigned sigh. First they'd convinced him to add "artwork" to the hexes. Well, we didn't need artwork when I designed boardgames for SPI, he thought. It wasn't anger that ran through him but disdain, disdain for those who would never be satisfied at the effort he put into modernizing the user interface of his games. Would they ever know how hard he thought on the best possible layout? No. No he decided, they wouldn't. What would do better than every button in a line? It was like his DVORAK keyboard. Perfect.

At that he pushed himself back from his desk and ran his gnarled coders fingers through his rich gray beard. Someone told him to get his games on Steam. Hah. Not likely. He thought back to Prodigy, AOL, and even that colossus that was Compuserve. What did Steam have on any of those giants of the original internet. He liked that age better. Usenet just felt... proper.

Pangs of hunger rumbled through him. He glanced up at the rust streaked shelves and wondered if it was all worth it. Maybe he would do that price increase.

At that he stood. His knees cracked. He set off to open another can of Fancy Feast. "God," he said under his breath, "I hope there's some savory salmon left."

This is good, but it was even better when I read it in a heavy peninsular accent. :worship:

ZombieLenin fucked around with this message at 15:30 on Mar 28, 2017

# ? Mar 28, 2017 15:22

ZombieLenin: Sep 6, 2009; "Democracy for the insignificant minority, democracy for the rich--that is the democracy of capitalist society." VI Lenin

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Edit.

Double post

# ? Mar 28, 2017 15:25

HerpicleOmnicron5: May 31, 2013; How did this smug dummkopf ever make general?

bgreman posted:

Not so much playing it as watching videos of it, which is strange, as I have never really been able to get into watching videos of others playing games.

On that note, I'll be doing my real-time streamed playthrough of the 24hr scenario 'Yankee Team' next Wednesday, 5th of April. Don't know when I'll kick it off yet. Will probably do a test playthrough of Yankee Team on the weekend.

# ? Mar 28, 2017 18:32

ZombieLenin: Sep 6, 2009; "Democracy for the insignificant minority, democracy for the rich--that is the democracy of capitalist society." VI Lenin

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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:

On that note, I'll be doing my real-time streamed playthrough of the 24hr scenario 'Yankee Team' next Wednesday, 5th of April. Don't know when I'll kick it off yet. Will probably do a test playthrough of Yankee Team on the weekend.

So I just read about a dude on twitch doing a 24 gaming session who dropped dead...

I mention this only as a way to emphasize the following: I enjoy sleep way to much to ever be down with playing anything for 24 hours in real time.

# ? Mar 28, 2017 21:05

HerpicleOmnicron5: May 31, 2013; How did this smug dummkopf ever make general?

ZombieLenin posted:

So I just read about a dude on twitch doing a 24 gaming session who dropped dead...

I mention this only as a way to emphasize the following: I enjoy sleep way to much to ever be down with playing anything for 24 hours in real time.

It's things like this and Silent Hunter in real time that make me truly appreciate sleep. Also, not enough happens in CMANO minute by minute for me to have to be at my desk all that time so I probably won't kill myself doing it.

# ? Mar 28, 2017 21:11

Tetraptous: Nov 11, 2004; Dynamic instability during transition.

ZombieLenin posted:

I do not believe this. This is literally unbelievable to given my experience with Vietnam 65.

I liked Vietnam 65?
:shrug:

Seems pretty polarizing, although many of the negative reviews seem to come from people who didn't really give it enough of a chance to get past the simple seeming first impression. I wouldn't really call it a grog game, though; it's barely even a wargame.

# ? Mar 28, 2017 21:37

Yooper: Apr 30, 2012

It's happening.

A Strike Commander meets CMANO Let's Play. You are the executives of a PMC and call the shots. I run it in CMANO. What could possibly go wrong?

Strike Command : The Commandering

# ? Mar 29, 2017 15:43

fuf: Sep 12, 2004; haha

Anyone know what's going on here? It looks like there should be more options visible to the right and below but I can't resize the window.

# ? Mar 29, 2017 17:47

glynnenstein: Feb 18, 2014

fuf posted:

Anyone know what's going on here? It looks like there should be more options visible to the right and below but I can't resize the window.

I've read that deleting the command.ini file fixes it.

# ? Mar 29, 2017 18:05

fuf: Sep 12, 2004; haha

Thanks, that worked

# ? Mar 29, 2017 18:24

fuf: Sep 12, 2004; haha

Sorry, another Command question:

Just now I had a jet on a patrol mission and I wanted to redirect it to engage a couple of planes that popped up outside the patrol area. I added a new "Air Intercept" mission with the two planes as targets, then took my jet off the patrol mission and assigned it to the new strike mission.

Instead of moving to engage the planes his status changed to "RTB (Mission Over)" and he flew all the way home and wasn't available for hours. I tried getting him to engage manually with F1 but he was determined to RTB.

What should I have done instead? I guess I could have moved the patrol mission reference points to encompass the new targets but I wanted to keep other planes in the original area.

e: also, is there a way to see a plane on the ground's status and "Time to ready" without having to scroll over to its airbase and clicking the "aircraft" button? I wish that info was on the mission editor screen.

fuf fucked around with this message at 19:01 on Mar 29, 2017

# ? Mar 29, 2017 18:51

Phi230: Feb 2, 2016; by Fluffdaddy

You should have just micromanaged the plane

# ? Mar 29, 2017 19:28

pthighs: Jun 21, 2013; Pillbug

There's also a checkbox in the mission editor to allow planes to engage targets outside of the patrol area.

But yes, at some level you need to micro sometimes - there are limits to what can be accomplished with the mission system.

# ? Mar 29, 2017 20:03

Dark_Swordmaster: Oct 31, 2011

Doing the first tutorial and the CAP F-16s are flying into AA if you just give them a zone. Is there a way to cut parts out with another zone or something to make them not fly over AA emplacements? They don't give a gently caress and just fly blindly into the known you'll-get-shot-down zone.

# ? Mar 29, 2017 21:46

Stairmaster: Jun 8, 2012

You can make zones concave or convex.

# ? Mar 29, 2017 21:50

Dark_Swordmaster: Oct 31, 2011

Well I was hoping to blanket the whole area and then cut out a no fly zone in the middle but I can probably do some creative point placement. It's just a bit of a pain as I figured the pilots would be smarter than that.

# ? Mar 29, 2017 21:51

HerpicleOmnicron5: May 31, 2013; How did this smug dummkopf ever make general?

Dark_Swordmaster posted:

Well I was hoping to blanket the whole area and then cut out a no fly zone in the middle but I can probably do some creative point placement. It's just a bit of a pain as I figured the pilots would be smarter than that.

Better to set the patrol zone outside of AA range and use a target prosecution zone over the area.

# ? Mar 29, 2017 22:09

Baloogan: Dec 5, 2004; Fun Shoe

gonna be a new ~cmano standalone~

http://www.matrixgames.com/products/product.asp?gid=693

with:

a 12 scenario US - Chinese world war 3 campaign! (+4 non campaign scenarios too)

NEW! Communications disruption by network/cyber attack or any other arbitrary factor: Isolated units realistically limit their tactical awareness to only what they themselves can detect and engage, and are completely on their parent side of control. Say goodbye to Borg-view of the battlefield!
NEW! Cargo, landing and airdrop operations. Load mobile forces on ships, aircraft and even submarines, and unload them on any suitable point on the battlefield. Platforms are realistically limited by volume, weight and crew on what they can transport.
NEW! Comprehensive damage model for aircraft. Aircraft may be shot down outright or receive damage that will still allow them to limp back home. Different aircraft can absorb different punishment on their fuselage, cockpit and engines. Depending on the amount of damage received a plane may be "mission killed" if its repairs take so long that it misses the fight.
NEW! Advanced weapons for the new age of war. Tactical EMP weapons, railguns, high-energy lasers and more!

# ? Mar 30, 2017 15:07

gizmojumpjet: Feb 21, 2006; Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.; Grimey Drawer

Baloogan posted:

Very exciting

Those words are very exciting!

# ? Mar 30, 2017 15:23

gradenko_2000: Oct 5, 2010; HELL SERPENT; Lipstick Apathy

Baloogs putting in more marketing engagement than Matrix Games.

# ? Mar 30, 2017 15:25

Phi230: Feb 2, 2016; by Fluffdaddy

Baloogan posted:

gonna be a new ~cmano standalone~

http://www.matrixgames.com/products/product.asp?gid=693

with:

a 12 scenario US - Chinese world war 3 campaign! (+4 non campaign scenarios too)

NEW! Communications disruption by network/cyber attack or any other arbitrary factor: Isolated units realistically limit their tactical awareness to only what they themselves can detect and engage, and are completely on their parent side of control. Say goodbye to Borg-view of the battlefield!
NEW! Cargo, landing and airdrop operations. Load mobile forces on ships, aircraft and even submarines, and unload them on any suitable point on the battlefield. Platforms are realistically limited by volume, weight and crew on what they can transport.
NEW! Comprehensive damage model for aircraft. Aircraft may be shot down outright or receive damage that will still allow them to limp back home. Different aircraft can absorb different punishment on their fuselage, cockpit and engines. Depending on the amount of damage received a plane may be "mission killed" if its repairs take so long that it misses the fight.
NEW! Advanced weapons for the new age of war. Tactical EMP weapons, railguns, high-energy lasers and more!

When

# ? Mar 30, 2017 15:34

corn in the bible: Jun 5, 2004; Oh no oh god it's all true!

Baloogan posted:

gonna be a new ~cmano standalone~

http://www.matrixgames.com/products/product.asp?gid=693

with:

a 12 scenario US - Chinese world war 3 campaign! (+4 non campaign scenarios too)

NEW! Communications disruption by network/cyber attack or any other arbitrary factor: Isolated units realistically limit their tactical awareness to only what they themselves can detect and engage, and are completely on their parent side of control. Say goodbye to Borg-view of the battlefield!
NEW! Cargo, landing and airdrop operations. Load mobile forces on ships, aircraft and even submarines, and unload them on any suitable point on the battlefield. Platforms are realistically limited by volume, weight and crew on what they can transport.
NEW! Comprehensive damage model for aircraft. Aircraft may be shot down outright or receive damage that will still allow them to limp back home. Different aircraft can absorb different punishment on their fuselage, cockpit and engines. Depending on the amount of damage received a plane may be "mission killed" if its repairs take so long that it misses the fight.
NEW! Advanced weapons for the new age of war. Tactical EMP weapons, railguns, high-energy lasers and more!

This is gonna be Trumps

# ? Mar 30, 2017 15:37

Happy Hedonist: Jan 18, 2009

Lasers and railguns!

# ? Mar 30, 2017 15:51

Zamboni Apocalypse: Dec 29, 2009

I wanna shoot a railgun projectile that's a laser discoball.

poo poo, I want to shoot *canister shot* of laser discoballs.

:pcgaming:

# ? Mar 30, 2017 17:31

Dandywalken: Feb 11, 2014

Sounds fantastic. The aviation damage parts in particular. Also will be interesting to see how effective a ship mounted railgun is. Against other ships in particular :getin:

# ? Mar 30, 2017 17:40

Phi230: Feb 2, 2016; by Fluffdaddy

Baloogan make ground combat

# ? Mar 30, 2017 17:48

Davin Valkri: Apr 8, 2011; Maybe you're weighing the moral pros and cons but let me assure you that OH MY GOD
SHOOT ME IN THE GODDAMNED FACE
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!

Dandywalken posted:

Sounds fantastic. The aviation damage parts in particular. Also will be interesting to see how effective a ship mounted railgun is. Against other ships in particular

Just make sure it doesn't miss by half a klick.

# ? Mar 30, 2017 18:05

Dandywalken: Feb 11, 2014

That's a valid point. Wonder what the time of flight would be to max range, and if theres a possibility of some precision capabilities for rounds if conditions aren't too extreme.

I imagine we'll see alot of laser CIWS too, or at least the introduction of it.

# ? Mar 30, 2017 18:10

ZombieLenin: Sep 6, 2009; "Democracy for the insignificant minority, democracy for the rich--that is the democracy of capitalist society." VI Lenin

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Phi230 posted:

Baloogan make ground combat

Make WiPAE 2 with your engine (and this ground combat engine). Thanks.

# ? Mar 30, 2017 18:51

Caconym: Feb 12, 2013

ZombieLenin posted:

Make WiPAE 2 with your engine (and this ground combat engine). Thanks.

Want.
But the whole world, not just the Pacific.

# ? Mar 30, 2017 18:56

Tetraptous: Nov 11, 2004; Dynamic instability during transition.

Fantastic news!

Since the new scenarios can be played inside of vanilla CMANO, is it safe to assume some or all of these new features are coming to the base game? Or are things like the new cargo operations done somehow through scenario script trickery?

EDIT: Not to say that I'm not buying it either way. :homebrew: