 |
|
Do you use Gridded Terrain mod - Printable Version +- Forums (https://www.theblitz.club/message_boards) +-- Forum: The Firing Line (https://www.theblitz.club/message_boards/forumdisplay.php?fid=1) +--- Forum: Combat Mission (https://www.theblitz.club/message_boards/forumdisplay.php?fid=10) +--- Thread: Do you use Gridded Terrain mod (/showthread.php?tid=35616) Pages:
1
2
|
Do you use Gridded Terrain mod - Elltee - 06-23-2006 I have noticed on some screen shots on various CM sites that people use gridded terrain (which I believe is a mod) - this seriously reveals those little folds of cover in the terrain that otherwise you can spend ages looking for. Does anyone use this when playing or is it considered 'gamey'. To my mind I wouldn't use it as finding those areas myself where I can approach hidden from view etc is part of the skill of the game. On the other hand if there is widespread use of this mod am I disadvantaging myself. RE: Do you use Gridded Terrain mod - Der Kuenstler - 06-23-2006 I use it - to me it's just a quicker way of gathering the same information anyone else could get by panning at eye level. I don't see it as gamey. In real life you would have shadows from trees cast across folds in the land which the game doesn't depict. Actually I use it as much for estimating distances (20m tiles) as for folds in the land. RE: Do you use Gridded Terrain mod - Copper - 06-23-2006 I dont use it as I think it spoils the look of the game, however I dont consider it to be Gamey, its just like switching the trees off. Anyway, unless you play at level 1 for the whole game everything else is gamey! RE: Do you use Gridded Terrain mod - Rico (FGM) - 06-23-2006 I also gridded terrain for open snow, grass and some desert terrain...don't consider it gamery... still doesn't help me do better...LOL Interesting comment from Geordie -- come to think of it, I also just about only play at levels 1 or 2... more fun that way. Very often set tres at max as well -- much more atmospheric. RE: Do you use Gridded Terrain mod - Elltee - 06-23-2006 Right - thats ok then - I may use it on snow where it is more difficult to pick up on the changes - as for level 1 only I sometimes do this when playing vs AI + level 2 if you get in a 2 storey building - it actually makes it quite fun. I also sometimes only watch the playbacks from the Co's point of view. Then anything that happens out of sight you only find out about when giving the next set of orders RE: Do you use Gridded Terrain mod - Rico (FGM) - 06-23-2006 Elltee Wrote:I also sometimes only watch the playbacks from the Co's point of view. Then anything that happens out of sight you only find out about when giving the next set of orders That's pretty hardcore...LOL RE: Do you use Gridded Terrain mod - Corsair - 06-24-2006 I often played solo using Franko's True Combat Rules - must still be on my disk somewhere -, where you play at level 1 and can only rotate view around your units, except level 2 if they are in a 2 stories building or 3 if up in a church... HQs, Arty spotters with binos and tanks with optics can use zoom x 8. It makes the game very different and gives the AI a chance... To find your way around, you print or make a pic of the map at game start. Played with small scenarios, I find it challenging and lots of fun. RE: Do you use Gridded Terrain mod - Waleed - 06-24-2006 Where can you get the gridded mod? ...my wife (callsign Whitecave) is playing on a huge gentle slopes snow map, and is finding LOS's very difficult 
RE: Do you use Gridded Terrain mod - Der Kuenstler - 06-24-2006 Go to CMMODS and search for "gridded." RE: Do you use Gridded Terrain mod - Elltee - 06-24-2006 Elltee Wrote: I also sometimes only watch the playbacks from the Co's point of view. Then anything that happens out of sight you only find out about when giving the next set of orders Rico Wrote: That's pretty hardcore...LOL Eltee writes - well I only do that if its a small map QB and the CO has a pretty good line of sight over the map and where necessary I move him around - jeeps/kubels are handy for this. |
){kind=link}