Friday Update, February 24, 2012

[planespotter]

Originally Posted by Sutts

They are probably intended for the BoM. But when the sequel comes out we can use them to create "what if" scenarios in CloD. Lots of people like that kind of thing.

True, there is a lot of peoples doing great land / air battles already in CoD, such as the Operation Sealion missions by H which is British vs German forces in an invasion of Britain scenario. I have all these missions, and love all the tank busting, train busting, port smashing, bridge busting, sandbag busting >

I would love to drive around in these missions in a tank just for the fun of playing from a different angle...trying to get around an AT gun and maybe then jump into an Erpro 210 Zerstorers to take it out for me....then back into the tank so I can get through...sort of thing.

PS

http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.ph...ml#Post3482704

September 26, S-tag +4, 1230 hrs GMT

Elements of the 10th Panzer and Liebstandarte SS Adolf Hitler have fought their way out of the Denton Pocket. Rather than retreating South toward the main German force at Folkestone, they have taken British forces by surprise and escaped north toward Canterbury. The 1st and 2nd Canadian Divisions were in the process of reinforcing their southern front, and German armour was able to drive through a gap in British lines at Gorsely Wood. Panzer IIs and IIIs of the 10th Panzer and Stugs of the Leibstandarte SSAH, backed by motorised troops of the XXXXI Army Corps, have radioed to Berlin that they have captured the Canterbury train station and are pushing on the center of the city. They are however, totally cut off from German supply lines. In an act of bluff and bravado, Adolf Hitler broadcasts to the British people, "Germany wants peace with Britain," he thunders, "But your leaders have brought war to the very streets of English villages and cities, and the German flag now flies from the spires of Canterbury Cathedral. London is next! The nations of Britain and Germany are not natural enemies. I call on Britain to surrender and avoid an inevitable and terrible fate!" After a conference with Churchill, Dowding orders all remaining 11 Group squadrons withdrawn north to preserve them for the defence of London. Churchill convenes an emergency session of the War Cabinet.

Erpro 210 over Canterbury




Chieftains and AT guns at the train station are overwhelmed




64 Squadron fights back



10th Panzer closes on the city center

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by nearmiss

The ground vehicles are fine with me, except I don't know how we apply them in the Battle of Britain.

Where were there ground battles?

This feature probably won't be seen for some time, but it doesn't really matter when its released as even the COD map has areas on the map that had some considerable land battles. I'm sure after the SDK is released and people have modeled a number of ships, the developers and modders have added further aircraft, etc etc, someone will build a very complex land, sea, and air campaign set somewhere around Normandy maybe in June of 1944.

[Richie]

Originally Posted by Chivas

This feature probably won't be seen for some time, but it doesn't really matter when its released as even the COD map has areas on the map that had some considerable land battles. I'm sure after the SDK is released and people have modeled a number of ships, the developers and modders have added further aircraft, etc etc, someone will build a very complex land, sea, and air campaign set somewhere around Normandy maybe in June of 1944.

Battle Of France!!

For some reason the most popular server online never has one going. Spit VS 109s does and I don't see why all of you chuckle heads don't migrate once and a while!!!

[GF_Mastiff]

good job! 2 more weeks for sure

[Richie]

Originally Posted by nearmiss

The ground vehicles are fine with me, except I don't know how we apply them in the Battle of Britain.

Where were there ground battles?

Remember the beginning of the movie. Yes we've got a big chunk of France to squable over. This is where your tanks half tracks trucks and cars come into play big time. Lots of people tend to forget France. Maybe because us bad guys won it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUv52...ature=youtu.be

[zapatista]

Originally Posted by nearmiss

The ground vehicles are fine with me, except I don't know how we apply them in the Battle of Britain.

Where were there ground battles?

some examples :]
- germans used mobile flack units on train wagons in france
- some tanks were stationed in various positions near the south coast, in order to repel a possible invasion force. currently no need to have them moving, but destroying them could create points for the attacker
- BoM will be land based with a major land battle component, this obviously is their main purpose of now working on this element
- landing your damaged spitfire in a field, walking to a nearby vehicle and taking control of it to drive back to the nearest airfield is now almost possible
- user created missions on the current BoB maps have already included scenarios where the germans succesfully landed troops on brittish soil, in that fictional scenario having control of ground vehicles is already usefull
- giving initial limited access to these new features before their main implementation in BoM, will allow bug reports and fine tuning of that elemnt and start generating interrest for it from a wider user base
- etc..

[Insuber]

Originally Posted by mazex

So much negative thinking here that I get all tired sometimes...

Last week I listened to a seminar by Kjell Enehager, a Swedish golf/athlete trainer that has gone professional management seminar speaker. He had an interesting story about when he trained a Swedish tennis player who never really made it (he has trained a lot of more famous golfers after that). He was playing Ivan Lendl who was a junior then at the same level in a training game. At the end of the training Ivan always liked to do ten serves each... Ivan did one ace in his ten serves and the Swedish player that I dont even remember the name of did nine aces and only missed one serve. After the game Kjell talked to them both about the training and their thoughts. The Swedish guy said he was thinking about what he did wrong with that one missed serve. Lendl at the other hand did not think about the nine missed serves but what he did right with the only serve he did put in the corner... A few years later he was number one in the world, and the Swedish guy that I don't remember the name of had quit playing....

Long way of saying that maybe the glass could be half full after all? Lets give these guys that we obvoiusly beleive in (we are here after all) some slack...

/mazex

Very good story, I will recycle it ... thank you.

[tomandre81]

Might aswell sell my joystick

[Grifo]

Originally Posted by tomandre81

Might aswell sell my joystick

Good difficulty balance would be a must

[Pudfark]

Originally Posted by tomandre81

Might aswell sell my joystick

Seems like you might get more for it...by swapping it for a steering wheel.
On a serious note...I feel your pain. Salute Sir