Artillery tests (cmbb)

[Poor Old Spike]

I ran a few tests,the pics are self-explanatory but feel free to comment..

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/arty1.jpg



http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/trp-arty.jpg



http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/trp-df.jpg



http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/scat1.jpg



http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/scat2.jpg



http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/scat3.jpg



http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/scat4.jpg



http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/fireplan.jpg



http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/scatnorm.jpg



http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/scatwide2.jpg



http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/art-tks.jpg

[mangus2000]

Nice post Spike!

[Poor Old Spike]

Thanks mate there's plenty more to come, just tell me if I'm spamming too much and I'll cut down ;)
Oh and how are the pics quality, too bright, too dark or what?
They look okay on my monitor but I'd like to know if they look alright on other peoples monitors too.
And if you think they're too big let me know. They're 800 pixels wide at the moment, I did try shrinking them to about 600 but it seems to mess up the quality, so I'm having to leave them at 800 as standard for the time being..

[John Osborne]

Thanks mate there's plenty more to come, just tell me if I'm spamming too much and I'll cut down ;)
Oh and how are the pics quality, too bright, too dark or what?
They look okay on my monitor but I'd like to know if they look alright on other peoples monitors too.
And if you think they're too big let me know. They're 800 pixels wide at the moment, I did try shrinking them to about 600 but it seems to mess up the quality, so I'm having to leave them at 800 as standard for the time being..
Nice information to know. Will help me out later. The size of the pictures and the resloution was good. Is there going to be other test done like aircraft use and effectiveness against targets/

John

[Nemesis Lead]

Excellent post

[Poor Old Spike]

JOHN OSBORNE QUOTE - Is there going to be other test done like aircraft use and effectiveness against targets?
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Hmm.. planes in CM have a mind of their own, only appearing during a game when they feel like it, and its therefore hard to pin them down in tests to get hard data..
Planes in CM are like Babe Ruth who said "When I hit, I hit big, and when I miss I miss big"..
In other words CM planes are very much a hit or miss affair.
Based on experience, I'd estimate that a plane has a 50-50 chance of damaging the enemy in some way during a game by routing a bunch of infantry or damaging or killing a tank or two, nothing is guaranteed.
And sometimes he'll even hurt his own side.
"Congratulations, nice bomb run" an opponent once said to me after he'd just lost several tanks on a hilltop.
"Er.. I didn't buy any planes" I replied, "it was your own plane that bombed you".
Personally I rarely buy planes beause of their unreliabilty, give me an extra tank instead any time..
I do however nearly always buy a light flak gun in case the enemy has planes around, they never seem to shoot one down but I like to think they at least put the pilot off enough to mess up his accuracy..

PS - oops I should have put this in an "Aircraft" topic, I'll go and start an Aircraft thread with it now ;)

[Palantir]

Now we're talking useful tactical information. :)