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Forum: WinSPWW2 March 15th, 2024, 01:58 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 229
Posted By Mobhack
Re: "Just Curious" about something else

The game is built on the premise that the currenly selected unit is the "live" one.

The poster may have had difficulty selecting a target for the next selected unit in a mess of wrecks perhaps?....
Forum: WinSPWW2 March 15th, 2024, 04:53 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 621
Posted By Mobhack
Re: Just Curious

Just some stuff I picked up on reading the occasional "what if Spain threw in thier lot with the nazis" sort of threads that appear from time to time on the alternative history forum.

Basically...
Forum: WinSPWW2 March 14th, 2024, 05:49 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 621
Posted By Mobhack
Re: Just Curious

If Spain were to overtly side with the Axis, they would immediately lose thier major source of imported foodstuffs. Which the axis could not cover for as they had thier own problems with a lack of...
Forum: WinSPWW2 March 5th, 2024, 03:27 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 439
Posted By Mobhack
Re: Fortification and crewed guns

Passengers of bunkers cannot fire, the bunker does that with its own weapons like an APC would.

There are 'shelter bunkers' with no weapons or only a carbine, we added those because some scenario...
Forum: WinSPWW2 March 3rd, 2024, 08:56 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 744
Posted By Mobhack
Re: MobhackingandExcelling

No need to fixate on the 222 since it is the only user of Weapon Class 19 and that is doing precisely what it is meant to do. Which is act as a limited firer at low altitude aircraft classes. Its for...
Forum: WinSPWW2 March 2nd, 2024, 06:18 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 709
Posted By Mobhack
Re: Bugs in WW2 and SPMBT

If you want to play a game with that sort of micro detailed trivia, there are plenty of "squad" level shooters out there that differentiate between revolvers and pistols etc, and hand grenade A vs B...
Forum: WinSPWW2 March 2nd, 2024, 05:28 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 495
Posted By Mobhack
Re: One feature request...

No it cant be selectable since it would be a case of putting in new code for a dialogue box instead of a simple inline DOS string routine in thousands of different places in the code. And also...
Forum: WinSPWW2 February 25th, 2024, 06:21 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 744
Posted By Mobhack
Re: MobhackingandExcelling

from the mobhack help:



It is a weapon class designed really for use in MBT, that was carried over when MBT was converted to WW2 way back. It's meant for usage on post war APCs really. It is...
Forum: WinSPMBT February 19th, 2024, 10:00 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 511
Posted By Mobhack
Re: Text problem on copied map

Its been a long while, but I think that pasting a section with map text does not work well. There is (if I recollect correctly) a "clear map text" function that zeroes all ythe strings and you...
Forum: TO&Es February 16th, 2024, 07:00 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 411
Posted By Mobhack
Re: Stug III's are expensive.

Moved to the appropriate thread

- Turreted things are cheaper (forget how much) then thier counterparts
- Stugs have good frontal armour, both turreted and hull, P4s have 5 armour max with the...
Forum: WinSPMBT February 11th, 2024, 09:20 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 856
Posted By Mobhack
Re: Bring the battleships back? AGAIN!

There was a scenario up around Iceland in the old naval DOS wargame "Harpoon" that gave the NATO side a surface action group with a couple of Iowa battleships as the core. Plus a carrier strike group...
Forum: WinSPWW2 February 11th, 2024, 08:41 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 871
Posted By Mobhack
Re: Free Elevation tanks

Not at all, you are in any case heading waay off the beaten track into the usual "how many angels can dance on a pinhead" sort of territory with that sort of micro detailed discussion that only...
Forum: WinSPWW2 February 11th, 2024, 07:37 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 871
Posted By Mobhack
Re: Free Elevation tanks

A stabiliser valur of 1 is a tiny little data advantage that gives a very small benefit if the firer has moved a hex or 2, and really is only useful if ou want to move your tank while staying locked...
Forum: WinSPWW2 February 10th, 2024, 01:33 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 871
Posted By Mobhack
Re: Free Elevation tanks

Technically, we could give the UK shoulder guided guns a stabiliser vaue of 1. Because the inter-war regulars pracised shooting on the move a lot, and the shoulder rig was supposed to make tracking a...
Forum: WinSPMBT February 5th, 2024, 12:51 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 656
Posted By Mobhack
Re: Messed up purchase screen

The purchase screen will stop the purchasing when you reach 0 flights - and likely returned the end user to the first page of his buy, showing A0. He would then need to page down to see his recent...
Forum: TO&Es February 4th, 2024, 07:40 AM
Replies: 44
Sticky: The UAV Club
Views: 10,531
Posted By Mobhack
Re: The UAV Club

Oh - an embedded advert by the presenter?.

Easily skipped over.

1) note that your presenter is in "advertising" mode
2) immediately pause your youtube video
3) now use the mouse to browse...
Forum: TO&Es February 3rd, 2024, 06:33 AM
Replies: 44
Sticky: The UAV Club
Views: 10,531
Posted By Mobhack
Re: The UAV Club

Youtube - annd many news sites - are only watchable if you have an ad blocker installed.

I have:
-Privacy Badger
-uBlock Origin
-NoScript
-Disable HTML5 Autoplay

installed in my Firefox...
Forum: WinSPWW2 January 28th, 2024, 03:07 AM
Replies: 21
Views: 1,196
Posted By Mobhack
Re: Horsies and motorcycles

looking at the UK OOB, the current limber costs you 10 points and the Morris 15cwt truck is also 10 points - who would actually buy a limber when there is a truck for the same cost?

Therefore...
Forum: WinSPMBT January 26th, 2024, 09:34 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 401
Posted By Mobhack
Re: SU-152 Swiveling Gun?

You dont check those files - since there arent any, it is inbuilt game data in the EXE
Forum: WinSPMBT January 26th, 2024, 08:38 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 401
Posted By Mobhack
Re: SU-152 Swiveling Gun?

The frontal arc for SPGs is rather large - 45 degrees or so, and if it is in that arc then it usually does not turn to face the target much.

However if it is firing "over the shoulder" and not...
Forum: TO&Es January 23rd, 2024, 09:21 PM
Replies: 129
Views: 9,923
Posted By Mobhack
Re: Question about Ukraine OOB...

Ah, so they have reinvented the Matilda Hedgehog, then?:D
Forum: WinSPWW2 January 6th, 2024, 07:49 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 422
Posted By Mobhack
Re: Is this a corruption?

Spcn data is out of date, and will be there as cruft left over when the new file naming was applied (SPWW2scn/SPMBTscn as appropriate) a year or 3 back. The updaters dont delete the old files, they...
Forum: WinSPWW2 December 31st, 2023, 11:47 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 1,247
Posted By Mobhack
Re: Tactics, Time and Steel Panthers

Also the 60mm mortar is really only good for suppression not killing. Also the AI will frequently attempt counter-battery on them so even if they don't hit a thing they reduce the AIs indirect fire...
Forum: WinSPWW2 December 30th, 2023, 08:54 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 1,247
Posted By Mobhack
Re: Tactics, Time and Steel Panthers

Well, as suggsted - if you are a slow" player then simply extending time available may well do it for you- in either or both of maneuvering to the approach and also in preparing the contact line with...
Forum: WinSPMBT December 21st, 2023, 08:17 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 925
Posted By Mobhack
Re: Game lesson / Life Lesson

Standard buy for me is a few support HMG sections in WW2, since the AI then likes tank riders. Used to hose down any clusters of tanks and watch the damaged infantry fall off them...

Also, since...
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