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By the early 2000s I discovered a game called Close Combat IV, then CC5, re-releases...I had no idea then that 15 years later I will still play Close Combat. Since in real life I'm not an Army officer (in fact I'm not a soldier at all) I realized that this game offered me a way to satisfy my passion for military and history. A kind of intellectual masturbation, if you want Smile

no, I'm kidding.
I joined this website in 2005 and, although I had few posts on the forum, I downloaded GREAT mods and I thank their creators and Mooxe for making it possible.

This year I took my interest in military history to a new level by creating a site - www.worldwar2-battles.com - that I wanted to present in brief the battles in each theater of operations of WW2. My site offers just a big picture of the battles, it's not intended for detailed descriptions. I would like to hear your opinions to know if my work has reached its goal and, of course, I hope you will enjoy it. Since it's new I had no feedback so far but you can break the ice by commenting on my site or here.

PS. Mooxe, I feel embarrassed advertising it as the author (I don't know - should I?) but the community on this forum deserves to know and appreciate it or not. If there is a problem , let me know.

I wanted to say that the Germans crossed at Dinant, not on main bridge but on a pontoon bridge. In current version there is only the main bridge with explosives, so on this map I saw no action in my campaign after I hit the bridge by chance (I even didn't know about explosives) with a few mortar rounds.

From what a saw in your future map it's good that in the new version will be an improvised bridge in north but I think for the game would be better a pontoon bridge with possibility for vehicle to cross. Otherwise, will be hard for AI and even for human player to cross on this map without bringing armour on the other shore.

Okinawa was one of my favorite mods in CC5. Is this conversion compatible with the latest 5.50.14b TLD patch ?

I just installed this mod and it looks great. I want to edit the campaign file in Battle group 'base' battle plans and I don't know who are the ALLIES and who is the AXIS in campaign file because in alsteam and axsteams they are reversed from normal TLD. Tejszd, could you help me?

@sammaartens I know you posted this question a few months ago but if can be of any help I give you this answer: I had the same problem with some mods and I solved this by downloading the maps not from CoI section (where some maps seems missing) but from CC3 section where you have all the maps. Download even individual maps because some aren't included in main package. For me this worked, I hope will work for you too.

I guess basically an exe file is not too heavily modified, I expect just a few lines, the rest is unknown for non-matrix people like me and you. I tried to play a converted CC3 mod to CoI with the new 3.60 exe and it works ! Basically I replaced the mod's exe file with Coi exe file. You can do the same and benefit of the latest patch in your old cc3 converted mods.

But there is something annoying me...how can I change AI player name in mods cuz I don't know a Manstein general in Japanese army if I play Pacific war e.g. Thanks

I have CoI with the latest patch - 3.60. I installed many mods with swap utility but I don't know if these conversions of CC3 mods to CoI have latest patch (3.60) also included. Most of the mods have their own exe. and ccr. files so if they don't have latest patch (which includes serious improuvements like vehicle pathing) then I can't play mods with the latest patch. So I ask you guys who make conversions what do you know about this matter ?

I use the latest patche and about AI who uses all Air strikes available to it: well, I had a different experience. But I will say more after finishing the current campaign.

Frankly speaking, I do not play other games outside of Close Combat. I do not have enough time and Close Combat pretty much meet my expectations. With increasing number of air strikes in Campaign.txt file I believe that the game is pretty accurate historically. But my question was related to AI, about how AI could be determined to use all allocated air strikes. I have a hard time understanding why it not use air raids as effective as artillery, for example (I think AI is using very effective artillery in Wacht am Rhein). Maybe a programmer who worked on the project could give more information Smile

This is an old problem of CC. Historically, air strikes were a decisive factor in Allied victory. This is not well represented in the game. I'm not a follower of the solution with foward observers like in some mods. An improvement in W.a.R. is editing campaign.txt. I increased the number of air strikes at 10 per day (more seems impossible). The problem is that in games of 15 minutes AI use only occasionally air strikes. And it's not all related to weather. If you create a battle by putting the options clear weather and air support, you will be surprised to see that air support is not used by AI despite possible targets as tanks or infantry shooting in his troops. Do you have any IDEA how could be AI determined to use all allocated air strikes ? Rolling Eyes

Thanks to all who responded to me. When so many people answered the same thing I think must have understood something. I never used txt files with excel but it is very simple indeed. I did not click to the left on the bottom so I missed some pages from the Workbook but I've found them finally. I downloaded platoon_michael's workbook and it's very good. Platoon_michael, you have my respect for that. I wish you all a good day (or night...) ! Wink

Hi everyone ! Here is my latest trouble. It was easy to modify older versions such as CC 4 or 5 but the new Wacht am Rhein is more difficult to change as the TXT files can not be modified with QClone. Thus it is more difficult to trace information on page and errors may occur more easily. Another problem: W.a.R. Data Workbook has not Teams.txt and Vehicles.txt files. I miss the old adb files from CC 5 ! Do you have ideas how it could be easier ?


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