<t> To be more clear, in my original post I was not so much talking about heavy artillery as mortars. I routinely loose medium tanks (Pz III, Pz IV) to 82mm mortar fire. I don't discount that a direct hit on a tank would likely damage or kill it. I do suggest that the odds of this happening in a ...

<t> I find that in many PCOF games, my only tank losses are due to artillery. Even an 81 or 82mm mortar appears to be pretty dangerous. I know that in Matrix's Steel Panthers it is very rare to have a tank killed by artillery. A direct hit on top of a tank or vehicle should be fairly rare except in ...

<t> Wish list addition (if it's not already in here someplace)<br/>
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Ability to click on spotted enemy unit and have some indication of what friendly units are can see it. <br/>
When I click on one of my units, only enemy units it can see appear on the map. I would like a toggle or something ...

<r> Thanks Erik,<br/>
I know 'friendly fire' did (and does) happen. I'll give the Stukas another chance at glory. I do look forward to occasionally seeing the Sturmoviks attacking the Soviet forces in the future.<br/>
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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins<br/>
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Air strikes in ...

<t> I am also (meaning running the beta) Playing a campaign, twice now the only major losses I've had were due to my own Stukas. I've since decided they are more a liability than an asset and won't "buy" them. I have had them kill enemy forces too, so they don't bomb my friendly forces all the time ...

I have downloaded and installed the latest public beta. On a whim I hit the "check for update" button on the main screen. It says there is an update available. Do I trust it, or will it 'update' me back to the older version (pre-beta)?

<t> I was on campaign battle 3 of a randomly generated one. Doing pretty well until the 'hand of God' struck. About 1/3 of my tanks all died. The graphic looked like what I'd expect for rocket fire and the audio sounded different than when I've used my own artillery & mortars, but the message said ...

I have the beta running. Question - when I run the "check for updates" it says there is a newer version of PCOF. If I let it run, will it simply remove my beta and put it back to where I started? I hesitate to 'update' until I know it's truely and update (as in improvement).

<t> I'm curious what people prefer to use in HCE for patrol zone sizes when operating a CVN strike group against the Soviets. You want your Tomcats to be patroling far enough out to detect and destroy long range bombers (backfires, etc) before they get to launch range. You need to have your inner ...

<t> Warhorse - How do you force active sonobuoys in HCE? I take manual control and lay patters of the passive ones (time consuming, but pays off at times). Guess I need to re-visit the rulebook! The other problem is that with the formation as you go out from center more and more area exists. Each ...

<t> I don't know if I'm just having a run of bad luck or if I'm doing something wrong. I have recently started playing HCE again and am finding that my ASW screen of task forces seem to usually find submarines the hard way (i.e. torpedoes inbound). In the last few days this has happened several ...

<t> I have always found HCE updates very confusing - can someone please point me to the latest HCE patch and databse updates? There are a whole load of data bases over on Harpgamer, but it is not clear (to me anyway) what is the 'officia' one. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place or something...<br ...

$50 is simply too much to spend on a gamble. I got burned with WITP which turned out to be too big a monster for my likeing so am leary about plopping down that kind of money now. Demo??? I want to test drive before I buy!

I'm aware that WPO has its origin with WITP. I have played WITP and it's just too big and complicated for me. What I am wondering is if WPO is more in scope like UV - more or less limited rather than covering the entire Pacific ocean.

<t> Well, I got it to work! I tried it on my home PC and it loaded without any issues. First thing this morning at work I rebooted my laptop (I tend to just leave it on and plugged in when not here) and the editor worked as expected.<br/>
Now to have some fun (and hopefully not screw something up ...

Thanks anyway Herman. I could certainly use some professional help (in more ways than one probably [8|])

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: hermanhum<br/>
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Hit the Browse button.<br/>
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It might ask you, "Do you want to link to a different data file?" Answer Yes.<br/>
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Then, it opens up a window browser. You need to point it to pfData2005.mdb file. This is usually found in your ...

<t> To Noxious: The program sees 2 MDB files, one gives me an error & the other loads but appears blank. See my reply to Herman above. Further ideas are helpful, and don't worry about insulting my intelligence, when it comes to some PC stuff.. well... I'm not sure I have any [:(]<br/>
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Thanks ...

<t> Hi Herman & thanks for the response, my screen looks like that except that I have "BlankDB_Pleaseimport in the DB name space.&nbsp; The rest looks identical to the screenshot you posted above.<br/>
I've never been able to get the scenario editor to work on this laptop either, it starts but ...

<t> I'm doing something wrong I think (which is no surprise). Loaded up the runtime access program, and started the DB editor - It says it has loaded a database, but nothing is there - blank where you put in the info. I'll keep trying, I have no familiarity with Acess so that may well be my problem ...