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I have Dell D600 that I use to play older games. I have all the CC games installed, with the exception primarily of the re-releases from Matrix. I just tried to install Last Stand Arnhem, and I get the same behavior that I get with Longest Day and Wacht am Rhein. When starting a game, usually within 5 minutes the gameplay crawls to a standstill, the mouse movement is slow and jerky, and I have to escape from the game and kill it with Task Manager.

What is even odder is that for about 5 minutes after the whole computer is just slow and clunky. Running this under Windows XP SP3. I have no problems with Modern Combat, or any of the old SSI/Atomic games. Problem is I tried this on another laptop and got the same results. However my brother claims it runs fine for him in Windows 7.

Each game was fully patched to the latest version, and the problem still continues. Has anyone else encountered this issue with the Matrix re-releases where the game just stops functioning like I described?

One problem I have with small maps is that when you are move onto a new map and the enemy is defending, often your space allowed to deploy is simply too small and confined. What ends up happening is your armor/guns/vehicles are way too easily destroyed by enemy guns or hidden tanks. Larger maps tend to insure much more movement.

Disadvantage to a really large map is if you have no armor, the game can move very slowly. I have had maps where my forces were weakened to the point I could not really move much. As the enemy just sat there as well the game was never ending.

However on a smaller map this is less often the case as you have a more defined area where the enemy may be located.

Personally I can tolerate a small map so long as I do not deploy in a space that easily allows the enemy to pick off half my team within 30 seconds. On a certain CC5 mod I am currently playing, this happens to be the case and it is very frustrating to say the least.

I think it comes down to small maps = good for infantry, large maps = good for armor. Armor on a small map is just pointless some as there is no place to move.

What is it that determines whether you completely remove the enemy from the map, or they call a cease fire? Quite frustrating at times when one enemy battle group holds a key map that prevents any movement of other groups. Sometimes it is frustrating because it seems like I have moved across and covered most of the map ready to completely win, then all of a sudden game ends and I have to replay the map the next day. Other maps, they are completely removed allowing me to move to the next map.

I have not read the Guardian's piece yet, but have seen the news about this here in the U.S. Suffice to say that the story itself was a very legitimate news story, and the obvious solution was to have never had these religious messages imprinted, especially here in the U.S. We are a secular nation, with a clearly defined separation of church and state. We are also a nation of immigrants constituting more ethnicity, cultures, AND religions than anywhere else. So thus the first question is did the inscriptions provide for Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Confucius, Wicca, Atheist, Zoroastrian, and others? Were the messages Catholic? Mormon? Lutheran? Baptist? Amish? Point is that putting in evangelical messages was not simply inappropriate, it was illegal and unconstitutional. I can't speak for the other nations involved, but here in the U.S. there simply is no room for the promotion of any religion, belief or faith. This was as much an affront to our ideas and values as it was to Muslims in Afghanistan.

Even more it is a grand embarrassment in the war of messages. How can we say this is NOT a religious conflict, that this has nothing to do with religion?

But, having the media report negative news can also be quite positive. It reaffirms our belief in freedom and liberty, here including freedom of the press. Believe me when I say having the Guardian write this piece is a hell of a lot better than having the Taliban come across this themselves and be the ones announcing this.

I just had to chime in my two cents. I could not agree more with the sentiment that since the early days they have done absolutely nothing with the AI, and worse the pathing! How ironic I see this just after exiting a game due to utter frustration with the pathing.

For whatever reason I just had the worst games. I was playing the Gold/Juno mod as Germans. I had an isolated force that was low on fuel and ammo, with two tanks left. I have just about won the map, thus able to move my force back for resupply. First tank inexplicably backs up out into the street going the opposite direction of where I want it to go. Since it is backing out, rear exposed, it is no problem for the Sherman down the street I wanted to out maneuver. Next tank dies as I need to rush it forward fast, instead it sits and spins, goes off in the wrong direction into a hedge and looses a track. Thus the Firefly had easy pickings.

This is CC5....5 games and never an improvement with either AI or path finding. My biggest complaint towards Matrix is they essentially have done nothing more than re-released games with mods built in for more than I paid for the original. I understand their price is going to be higher simply because the market is so damn small now for these games. But...a certain company that supposedly works on these games has done nothing either to improve the AI or pathing as well. You would think with some nice government funding this would improve somewhat. Well, there is a reason I got sick of CCMT quickly.

But, as for CC2 it would be nice to see an updated game, specifically with updated maps! I don't care too much for the current ABTF mods as they simply use converted maps which I find outdated.

I thought Close Combat Modern Tactics was CC6 wasn't it? Or is there an another unreleased title in the works beyond CCMT?

I would like to create my own custom mod for CC5 that would give me two things; maps and forces of my choosing. In order to do this I was thinking I could just mix and match components from other mods available. Essentially I want to add later force pools with a mix of maps found in CC5, Juno/Gold, and Utah. Now to do this I need to know where to begin essentially by understanding what the different files contain. Now I can easily assume I need to replace/modify the following:

1.) Force pools
2.) Graphics for force pools...do I simply replace Tanks.azp, Wrecks.azp, and Guns.azp?
3.) Map index

Now if I copy say the FP's (force pools) from say the Vet/Ardennes mod, then of course I would have to have the graphics for the vehicles. I would also want to add in the way in which these vehicles operate (i.e. I like the 2cm German vehicles and how they fire, along with the Sherman Calliope. Now if this is a simple matter of pulling certain number of files from this mod, and simply replacing then fine. But I would need to know which files.

Second part is the maps. There are certain maps in each game/mod that I have always enjoyed, and always hated. I would like to have a game where it contains all of my maps that I truly enjoy. So looking through the folder of files in any given mod I see Index.mpi, with a list of map names. If a given mod's strategic map has 20 maps, with a Index.mpi listing 20 map names, should it suffice to simply replace the names? Is this simply the file names minus the extension?

Lastly, if I wanted to use VetBob's strategic map, but alter it somewhat, where do I find this file? How or what would I use to edit it?

This is EXACTLY what I needed! Thanks!

Funny thing is though I opened it up to edit, and spent off and on about 3 hours plus adding, removing, modifying etc..Then I jumped up to do a quick vacuum of the floor before came over, forget to save, and managed to blow the circuit when I turned on the vacuum. So of course 3+ hours of unsaved work all gone. There is a lesson there about saving or something, but damn if I can figure out what that lesson is :)

Now if only we had a map editor as simplistic as the one Heroes of Might and Magic 2-4 had, or even Blitzkrieg.

I would like to change the availability of weapons CC5 and some of it's mods. I have currently VetBoB loaded up, and I want to make available some weapons that have 0 availability , so essentially I want to edit the number of certain weapons available in the force pool. I did some looking around and found QClone, but I do not know where to start.

For example, in VetBoB grand campaign I have limited to no Sherman 105s in several of my teams, yet they are listed though. I would like to change it so when I start a campaign I have 5-6 available for requisition.

I just got CC WAR installed on a Dell Latitude D600, 2GB RAM, 1.7Ghz CPU, ATI Mobility 9000, XP SP3. I have every CC game installed, and aside from the horrible bugs I get with CCMT, all games run just perfectly. Until now.

When I load up a map, after 3-5 minutes the game just bogs down to an incredibly horrid performance level. Eventually it is such a slow crawl to just move the mouse that I have to exit. Going through the game menus is equally slow, so I know it is not just the map I was on. Exit game, reload and everything is fine until I load up another map and the same problem occurs. I am kicking myself for paying $40 for what is essentially a mod to CC4, but at the time I just felt like blowing some money. Now considering the game will not play, I am really frustrated.


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