September Screenshots

[louie raider]

shaving your knuckles again, Norb?

... there's a joke in there somewhere... too lazy to find it...

[Jubal Early]

Wow ! The screenshots are awesome.B) It looks so good You guys are doing a great job , It will be a dream of a game. Im going crazy with worry about my old rig being able to handle it:unsure: my wife will kill me if I have to buy a new one.
At present I have Pentium 4 with 2 G of Ram and a Geforce 5200 card. I can run TC2M with CMP 3 installed with full draw distance with everything except units on High and play huge battles with no slowdown . Sorry to go a bit off topic with my fist post but im pulling whats left of my hair out worrying as im really looking forward to this.

[norb]

I'm trying to get in as many options as possible to run on as many as possible, won't really be sure until we are through though.

[norb]

Louie Raider wrote:

shaving your knuckles again, Norb?

... there's a joke in there somewhere... too lazy to find it...

Ha! No, slipped while using one of those scrapers. Did a good job on two fingers.

[louie raider]

norb wrote:

Ha! No, slipped while using one of those scrapers. Did a good job on two fingers.

stiches, mein Freund. lay a couple in there and count it as Karma telling you to take a break for a few days. if it were me, that's what i'd do.

[Chamberlain]

Wow is all I can say !!!!!

Also, Fantastic, Awesome, Unbelievable :cheer: :cheer:

I also hope my 2 Gig Dual Processor can handle the intense battles !!!!

Did I say the screenshots look Fantastic, awesome, Unbelievable ? :cheer: :cheer:

Thanks for sharing these screenshots, can't wait until the release !!!!! :cheer: :cheer:

Chamberlain

[Tacloban]

Man those look great! I'm going to have to think up a really good excuse for upgrading my laptop to run this beast.

The battle lines looking absolutely amazingly real (at least, from reenacting photos and such). Can't wait.

[GShock]

There indeed seems a great display of increased quality when compared to TC2M and it's autoevident that an enormous amount of time and effort has been put to deliver a polished new version.

On the graphical side one of the things i dont like of TC2M is how soldiers fall down dead. They basically fall down from a live soldier who keeps shooting...so essentially you don't see a soldier die, you just see a corpse falling down from a live soldier. I think the best thing to do would be to actually kill that soldier and let a new one spawn in the back of the unit as replacement.

We surely can't manouver the formation, meaning we can't do anything about the ranks and the files. Wheel, Formation is good enough already but by resizing the regiments this is something we could use to make units fit one next to the other when shooting from multiple regiments. We could really use stacking limits so that the regiment is an entity and not just a graphical representation where soldiers pass onto one another and generals or couriers just pass through like the obstacle was a ghost.

A manual solution when picking targets could be useful, also, to at least choose whether you want to shoot artillery or shoot infantry if not really manually being able to target individual regiments.

Finally, again, i really hope something is done about artillery casualties which in TC2M are totally nihil. My personal tests have proven there's something NOT working in the arty files though i was unable to find out exactly what. It's impossible to finetune the csv files if regiments can't be displayed in full numbers and that's something modders need.

If i judge good a full hit killing 20 soldiers how can i count the kills if i don't see 20 corpses down? Yet to see 20 corpses i should also see a regiment of 600 soldiers, while right now, 20 (more or less) is the number displayed, showing those 600.

Finally, documentation of SDK is paramount. A great deal of power lies in TC2M SDK but not everything is easily understandable. I take it with the increased experience of the TC2M modders and an even more detailed documentation, this engine will be able to make coffee!

Keep up with the good work, the SS show the game is meeting all of our hopes and expectations (long way walked from the hard times in a garage eh? lol)

[JC Edwards]

Howdy, General.

Hello, my boys. Virginia has arrived!

General Pickett presents
his compliments...
and asks to "parler" with
the commanding general, "s'il vous plaît".

Hey, George.

General.

Good Lord, what is that smell?

That's me. Ain't it lovely?

He got it off a dead Frenchman.

- Good evening to you, James.
- Hey, Lo.

I did not get it off a dead Frenchman.

I bought it in a store
in Richmond with Sally.
It did have a French name,
but Miss Corbert likes it.

Excuse me.

Gentlemen? Colonel Fremantle?

Allow me to introduce
Major General George Pickett.

General Pickett,
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Fremantle...
of Her Majesty's venerable
and elite Cold Stream Guards...

Britain's military attach"é"
to the Confederacy...
and, you might say,
the eyes and ears of Queen Victoria.

Hardly, sir. I'm merely an observer
and your humble guest.

The fame of your regiment
has preceded you.

General Pickett here
is our ranking strategist.

The First Corps Army of Northern Virginia.
We refer all our deeper questions to him.

They do. They do indeed.

His record at West Point
is still the talk of both armies.

You know I consider it unbecoming
to a soldier, all this book learning.

- Book learning ain't for gentlemen, right George?
- Nor that either.

He graduated last in his class. Dead last.
Quite a feat, considering his classmates.

The Yankees got all the smart ones.
Look where it's got them.

Let me present my commanders.

Each one of these chaps, as you might say,
commands a brigade of mine.

Now this fellow here, this is Lo Armistead.
Lo! That's short for Lothario.

The lover!

This here is Richard Brooke Garnett.
You'll pardon his limp.
He got kicked by his horse the other day.

That fellow there...
That's Jim Kemper.

You note the shifty eye,
the hand in the pocket.

He's not even a West Pointer,
so watch him.
He's a politician from Virginia.
Jimmy's only here for the votes.

I was Speaker of the House in Virginia.

As a matter of fact, I'd like to talk to you
about some political matters.

You know the Queen, don't you?

What I need to know
and tell my folks back home is:

When are you going to do something...
about that damn Yankee blockade
out there on the water?

Can you tell me something about that?

Have you heard any news of old Winfield?
Old Winnie boy?

Hancock? Oh, yeah.

Well, how's he doing?

You're gonna find out.

He's got the Second Corps.
He's headed this way. Probably run
into him in the next few days.

I wish I could see him again.

I haven't seen him since before the war.
Never thought it would last this long.

Me neither, Lo.

I sure would like to talk
to old Hancock again.
One more time.

Well, why not?

You wouldn't mind?

Hell, no.

I mean, really.

Do you think it would be proper?
You know, ethical?

When the time comes, and he's close...
just send a messenger over
under a flag of truce and go on over.

Ain't nothing to it.

Last time I saw him was in California.

Right when the war was beginning...
the night before we all left
to go fight against each other.

Old friends off to war.

Lo, How's your brigade?

I've never seen troops anywhere
so ready for a brawl.

I've got to give the old man credit.
A lot of credit for that.

Who else could've held
this army together for so long?

Remember what they used to say
about him.....
When he first took command?
They called him "Old Granny."

Lord, what damn fools we were.

Now when he passes...
the boys hush as if they had seen
an angel of the Lord.

Have you ever seen anything like that?

No. I can't say I have.

It's amazing what one honest man can do.

One honest man and a cause.

I don't think on that too much anymore.

I guess my only cause is victory.

This war comes as a nightmare.
You pick your nightmare side.

Then you put your head down and win.

Old gloomy Pete!


You see, Colonel...

The government derives its power
from the consent of the people.

Every government, everywhere.

Let me make this very plain to you, sir.

We do not consent
and we will never consent.

And what you've got to do is,
you've got to go back over there...

to your Parliament and you've got
to make it very plain to them.

You've got to tell them
that what we're fighting for here...
is the freedom from what we consider
to be the rule of a foreign power.

I mean, that's all we want.
That's what this war is all about.

Now we established this country
in the first place...

with very strong state governments...
just for that very reason.

I mean, let me put it to you this way.

My home is in Virginia.

The government of my home is home.

Virginia would not allow itself
to be ruled...
by some king over there in London.

It's not about to let itself be ruled
by some president in Washington.

Virginia, by God, sir,
is going to be run by Virginians.

Oh, my. The Cause.

Actually, Jimmy, I got a pair of kings.

And it's all for the Yankees.

The damn money-grubbing Yankees.

I mean, those damn fools,
they don't get the message.

Always the darkies.
Nothing but the darkies.

You know, Jim...

Sit down. I think that my idea...
my analogy of a gentlemen's club
is fair enough. It's clear enough.

Colonel, think on it now.

Suppose that we all joined a club,
a gentlemen's club.

After a time, several of the members
began to intrude themselves...
into our private lives, our home lives.

Began telling us
what we could and couldn't do.

Well, then, wouldn't any one of us
have the right to resign?

I mean, just resign.

That's what we did.

That's what I did and now these people
are telling us we don't have that right.

Well, I got to hand it to you George.

You certainly do have a talent
for trivializing the momentous...

and complicating the obvious.