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TCP/IP Games Setup FAQ - HELP
Posted by: Sulla on Sunday, November 16, 2008 - 12:08 PM
Following on with FAQ's and re-posting of help articles, here is an old and still very much valid article written by Brad Ashe (aka Gunner) All of us at one time or another have had those pesky disconnections before, during or after playing a game. Nothing is more frustrating given the amount of time you waste replaying a scenario. Especially if you were winning or being beaten! It can even lead to claims of disconnecting on purpose. So, how does a person overcome the disconnect blues? The solution is close at hand. This is much the same and the procedure is just as easy for CC3 4 and 5. (I have included examples for Versions 3 & 5) but applies to CC 3 thru to CoI, WAR etc
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Tactical Field Manual Or Tactics Never Grow Old
Posted by: Sulla on Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 02:09 PM
	The following is an article posted on the old CSO site in 2003 by CSO_Gaskin, we have dozens of articles like this on using maps, mods and tools etc, we are now going to re-post them along with a plethora of new content from current modders and map makers etc. Hope you enjoy them and find them useful. Sulla "To succeed at any realistic warfare simulation, you need a comprehensive knowledge of the most effective tactics and methods that can be applied. Luck is also a major factor, but that cannot be taught over the internet, and skill is another fundamental requirement for victory, but that should come after gaining tactical knowledge and spending time practicising it. Therefore, This guide is prepared with the intention of bettering the skill of all CSO members and giving a good, in-depth range of strategies that can be applied when the circumstance calls for it."
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CSO New Look Site and Forums
Posted by: Sulla on Thursday, November 06, 2008 - 02:54 PM
CSO has a new look to the site and a new look to the forums. This is the start of a major re-build of the site and all contents. We are aiming for a complete and much more user friendly CC resource. We are looking for any help anyone whats to give with articles, [AAR's] Reviews, News Items, Mods, New Downloads, Interviews and much more. We are also looking for new input into the site, so feel free to comment or add your opinion. The site is a community site for, about and by the community! Please let us know what you think of the new look site!
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Urgent - Server Fees / Donations
Posted by: Sulla on Thursday, October 30, 2008 - 10:29 PM
	Hia All, We are still $102 from paying the server fees this month! It’s a few days at most before the server is taken down. TBH now I am unable to pay for the server myself, trying to find the funds each month is unreal. I am currently redesigning the site and trying to get CSO ready to take it into the next 10 years. I am leaving it to the community, if there is only room now for one site, then I will let this site die which will please many people. I am not going to beg for help to keep a 10 year old site online. Those who know me, know my financial situation and other stuff, which is too personal to go into here. Cheers - Sulla - aka Shaun
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Close Combat - Wacht am Rhein Has Gone Gold
Posted by: Sulla on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 10:19 AM
Matrix Games and Strategy 3 Tactics announce that their remake of the Close Combat series take on Battle of the Bulge Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein has gone gold! Gamers will soon have the chance to enjoy the improved and expanded remake of this classic title complete with tons of new art, a new grand campaign, and much more!
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Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein Preview
Posted by: Sulla on Thursday, September 11, 2008 - 09:37 AM
	Strategy 3 Tactics Jim Martin attended GenCon this year and I took the opportunity to chat with him about his latest project,Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein. As the name suggests, the game will cover the Battle of the Bulge during the bitter winter of 1944/1945.Focusing primarily on US and German forces, this real-time tactical game has been heavily modified from the original Close Combat IV and V games.
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CSO Contest - Uniform - Service ??
Posted by: Sulla on Monday, September 08, 2008 - 11:16 AM
This is a new weekly part of the CSO site. We will be posting pictures of various WW2 unit uniforms and patches from all countries and services. See how well you know your WW2 infantry and other units. We are starting of with a relatively easy couple, so if you feel you know the answer post in the forum. Good Luck!
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CoI - New MMCC3 campaign - Operation Mars
Posted by: schrecken on Sunday, September 07, 2008 - 08:28 PM
	A new MMCC3 campaign is available for Cross of Iron. Battle through the Frigid conditions west of Moscow in late 1942. Server is live now on Port 2109 Check it out here: CoI Downloads
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CSO Site News - Updates - New Sections
Posted by: Sulla on Sunday, September 07, 2008 - 01:40 PM
Well after some time in hiatus, its time for CSO to come out and start doing what its always done best and thats evolve and grow with the community. First off, the Forums, CSO Main site and CC Wiki are all now back on line. The gallery is also now running. In the next few weeks we will be giving the site a new look, this will depend a lot on user input from you! We have already got a thread going on how the site should look and what people would like to see so visit the forums and check it out. First off we need to fix much of what has been let slide, the downloads badly need updating and checking and a lot of files already uploaded need linking in. Here are some of the ideas we are looking at. A lot more oganised H2H play, getting touranments going and using various mods and various CC versions, Mooxe over at TH/CSS has already agreed to use TH as the way of recording standings and who is up there ;) Regular articles on units and vehicles from history, to become a regular series. Please as this is YOUR site, comment and let us know what you would like! if there is any problem then please email myself or any of the admins or mods! What content would you like to see? - Sulla
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Forums Back Online
Posted by: Sulla on Monday, September 01, 2008 - 09:57 PM
	The forums are now back online, its taken all weekend and a not unstressed time at that, but we are now back up and running. We now have all latest patches, all passwords and other items changed, in fact everything has been pretty much secured. That said, if somone wants to hack your site, they can, you can just do the best you can! We lost around 400 users and 3 months of posts, but given the fact that they hacker had deleted all our users after sending them the almost obligatory porn email so we are lucky to have about 7500 users back in the DB. We also now have daily server backups running so things like this will be much simpler to fix in the future! Again, apologies to anyone who was caught or who was offended by the illicit hacked mailout! The forums are here: http://www.closecombat.org/forums/ Sorry for the delay and downtime guys! Cheers - Sulla
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Forums Hacked - False Message Sent - Forums Down
Posted by: Sulla on Saturday, August 30, 2008 - 04:33 PM
Despite running the very latest version of VBulletin, our forums have been hacked. [AGAIN] I am taking the forums down until the problem is fixed and any issues resolved. In the past the finger has been pointed at CSO for not running the latest updates etc. This has now happened despite running the very latest updates on the software running on the site. Whoever is so set on hacking CSO, please get a life, this is getting old very fast! Another item the person/persons did was delete the forum user database. We are working on it and will get things back up and running as soon as possible, once the forums are secured. This points out the nature of online life and the people out there lurking and waiting to do damage, this is not limited to websites, but your own pc's so please ensure you have Firewalls and other AV etc running. For all our loyal users and for all those who have emailed their support, a huge thanks. To all our users I can only apologise for these morons who think this kind of thing is funny or get whatever it is they get from doing this! Regards - Sulla
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New OIC For CSO
Posted by: Sulla on Friday, August 29, 2008 - 09:24 AM
	Hia Guys, well things at CSO are a changing lol. We will soon have a new look site and fixing many annoying issues with the site. I would like to welcome a new hand firmly on the rudder of CSO, CSO_Talorgan, most of you will know him from way back when on CSO, SSI and other forums. He has already been a huge help as have many others and I would like to welcome him and wish him luck in running the CSO website!
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New Mods Uploaded
Posted by: Sulla on Tuesday, August 05, 2008 - 11:13 PM
A big thanks to the guys, we are getting back up and running. Many mods and maps have been uploaded, some have already been linked in such as Commonwealth Summer for CoI and others. Also Mafi has been a huge help and we will soon have the files linked and and ready for download. Expect updates and site news on a much more frequent basis now ;) - Sulla
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CSO Downloads Now Back Online
Posted by: Sulla on Wednesday, April 02, 2008 - 08:03 AM
	The downloads on CSO are now back online on the new server and all links changed to reflect the new server. There are still some files missing and others that need adding, but 95% are now up and running. Please let us know if you find anything not working and please let us know if we are missing any actual files or downloads.
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Australia First Country To Ban Close Combat
Posted by: Sulla on Tuesday, April 01, 2008 - 01:27 PM
Comment by Sulla: In a major move an Australian Politician has pushed for Close Combat to be banned, resulting in a total ban in Australia of Close Combat. While games like Grand Theft Auto and many others are fine Close Combat an 11 year old wargame has been banned from sale. This is strange given the fact that at various times the Australian government has used Close Combat as a training tool and continue to use Games like VBS2 and Steel Beasts as army training tools. If these games are so addictive and so dangerous then surely using them for training the military has to be of similar danger? If the good Cr is talking in terms of wargames, realism and RSI as well as the problem of game addiction then surely his own countries government is putting his own military at risk of said RSI and addiction? Obviously this is fine as long as the good Cr gets his publicity! I personally think he should stick his neck in and get back under his shell and leave the good people of Australia alone. I lived in Australia for many years and the only thing that every Australian had to say about their own politicians (such luminaries as Keating and Howard) was that they were sick and tired of the huge salaries, never ending pensions and endemic corruption in their politicians, far more so than in any other western country and many Aussies have lived abroad and are far from insular! Now Read On for the actual article: By Stephen Hutcheon, Louisa Hearn and David Braithwaite - April 1, 2008 - Gold Coast Mayor and former Olympian Cr Ron Clarke is claiming the credit for stopping the Australian re-release of Close Combat a computer game that its critics say incites addiction and Carpal tunnel syndrome. The game was refused classification by the Federal Government's Classification Review Board earlier this week. This means the game cannot be imported, sold, demonstrated or hired in this country, making Australia the only country in the world where the game has been banned. New versions of the game was due to be released worldwide in the near future. Read on for the rest of the article.
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New Articles Up On Info Site
Posted by: Sulla on Monday, March 31, 2008 - 08:27 AM
	We have several new articles up on the new info site and also are in the process of adding in extra background info on mmany subjects that interest us wargamers and CC fanatics. Diary of a Mod - JIMRM2, we also have The Glorious Virtual World of CC Maps . Expect many many more news items and articles in the very near future. We have also started adding background info into the site for items such as Battle of the Bulge etc. We are looking for all military info and CC info to be added. Expect some interesting insights into what went on behind the scenes at Atomic when creating CC and much more about our favourite series! We are also in the process of adding intergration between all 3 seperate sites, so you will have one unified login for all 3 sites, Vbulletin forums, Postnuke CMS and Info Portal so stay tuned!
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CSO Info Portal Now Online
Posted by: Sulla on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 08:14 AM
We have set up a new portal part of CSO to act as a repository of all things and info CC. This is a place the community can update mod info, update maps, list maps and mods etc. Essentially, we are aiming for a total portal with everything the community knows about CC, The Vesrions, AI, Mods, Mod makers, Maps, Map makers, History, Clans, Ladders, Tools, History of modding, in fact everything CC. This is a total community project and will rely on your input. We are looking for 1 or 2 people who can admin the site as sysops, editing entries where needed, fixing incorrect info etc. We have all the information as a community, lets actually get that informaton down in a very searchable, and usuable way. You can find the portal here: CSO Close Combat Info Portal. This is for you the community to build, so feel free, go ahead and have fun. Anyone who wants to act as a sysop, please contact me or any of the admins. Cheers - Sulla
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CSO Is Back
Posted by: Sulla on Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 07:37 AM
	Many of you will have noticed and some may not have noticed but that CSO has been very stale for a very long time. A lack of news, lack of articles and all the community that went around the site have been left pretty much to their own devices on and off for way too long. Well for some of you this will be very good news as CSO is back and there will be large amounts of news, articles, AAR's and much more. News on upcoming mods, features on who is who in the CC community, contests, news on what is happening now and in the future with CC, both old and new engine versions as well as casting some light on what has gone before, a peak behind the scenes! We will also be giving the site a new look and all and every comment is welcome on how to make the site and forums etc better! - Sulla
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Close Combat Modern Tactics official patch/expansion released
Posted by: schrecken on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 09:56 PM
Semper fi, Marine! Plenty of New Units and Air Support assets available in this new update!Matrix Games and Strategy 3 Tactics are thrilled to announce the first update for the modern incarnation of the immensely popular Close Combat series, Close Combat ? Modern Tactics, is now available for download. This hefty new update includes plenty of new units both on the ground and in the air in addition a number of other tweaks and AI improvements.
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Bulletin: CSO Downloads Now Warmed up with a Shot
Posted by: Sulla on Tuesday, January 08, 2008 - 08:58 PM
	The downloads section has been dug out of the snowbank and warmed up with a few shots of brandy and is back up and running!Please report ANY problems or issues you may find and a happy new year! Sulla EDIT: The site is now up and open for new registrations. This had been off for some time due to various site problems! We are getting there slowly guys!
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CSO DL Section Found Dead In Snowbank
Posted by: High_Command on Tuesday, January 08, 2008 - 02:24 PM
It was like after gaining 15 lbs on the holidays after too much turkey and eggnog (Not together) the CSO DL section already under PHP meltdown went outside like a drunk to pee in the snow and was found dead in the snow the next morning. Thankfully as it happens the Christmas tree collection by the city dump was coming soon anyhow, so well chuck it in there and start off fresh. Yeah, I tired the cute approach, but there's no way around it, the DL's section is dead. But thats fixable and the fact is were taking the opportunity to look at revamping a few things since the time involved is a big enough chunk to merit this. I personally feel its an opportunity to make things better than before! Until we get things sorted here for DL's, I forward DL seekers to the Close Combat Series website where Mooxe is more than happy to help in our time of need! (And will no doubt remind me!) Hey, after 12 years we just need a facelift on the old bitch! CSO_Sbufkle
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Bulletin: New mod for CC5 by vonPatt
Posted by: schrecken on Thursday, November 01, 2007 - 07:11 PM
	This Mod has been created to correct some small problems and improve others features, and, in H2H, to give BOTH players the chance to achieve Victory. This is because in the standard game it is not required for the American player to conquer almost all the maps in order of obtain a degree of victory, and so when in H2H both the players are at the same level of experience, for the German player is impossible to compete at least for a minor victory. The modifications is to make this possible, although this is a game and so is fictional, it has been made without loosing sight of history, giving to the German teams more AT power and to the American side the upper hand in hardware. created by vonPatt Available in the CCV downloads section Downloads
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First To Fight Revisited Blog

Posted by: High_Command on Wednesday, July 25, 2007 - 10:52 AM

Sbufkle dusts off the CSO Blog section and looks at CLOSE COMBAT FIRST TO FIGHT, in his own special way!

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Bulletin: An open invitation to the Close Combat Community

Posted by: Beeblebrox on Monday, September 04, 2006 - 07:11 PM

<b>New Maps for the re-release of Close Combat</b>

The opportunity is now available for CC Community contributions of new Maps for the forthcoming re-release of Close Combat. We are pleased to be able to offer this to the CC Map Making Community who have been instrumental in keeping Close Combat alive, and allow them to participate in the efforts to progress and assist with the future of Close Combat

A new Grand Campaign is going to be created, and the new Maps will be used in ?Sets? which will constitute new Operations for the production. Each Map will be used in a historical battle scenario, and each Map set will be used in a historical Operation.

In brief, what we are looking for are new Maps based on the Eastern Front, in Sets of 3 ~ 4 ideally, with a consistent style and theme within a Set. Map sets produced with high quality artwork and close attention to map-coding detail will be given preference toward inclusion in the production.

Anyone can submit Maps, and should accept and follow the following Terms: Please read them carefully so that there will be no confusion or misunderstanding. If you have any questions, please contact us at the e-mail addresses given below. Please read on for more details...

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VOTE ON FORUM LAYOUT!!

Posted by: CSO_Sbufkle on Monday, June 05, 2006 - 07:50 AM

About 2 months ago, the CSO forums modified its structure so that the mod related forums were made into sub forums. As seen on the graphic in the right, you have to click on the particular under a particular version of CC to go to a mod forum.

I have had both PM & e-mails commenting about this change. Recently a few posts as well commenting negatively about this new layout. Some prefer the new layout, some seem to want the old 'super forum' listing everything on one simple page.

I know bring the vote to those most important, THE ONES THAT USE THE FORUM.

Simply vote what you prefer IN THIS FORUM THREAD.

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New Modding Help Section! CCIMages Templates Released!

Posted by: CSO_Sbufkle on Friday, June 02, 2006 - 12:07 PM

In continuing effort to help the CC community prosper, the CSO has begun a 'how to' modding section. This isn't something that can be set up completely overnight, but we are working towards getting it as sold as possible!

To start things off, I have released my CC3 CCImages templates & also have set up a CSO hosted web section all about the CC3 CCIMages file & the templates of mine you can use to make new images for this file.

For more, please READ ON!

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Wind Tower Series of Maps Released

Posted by: CSO_Sbufkle on Friday, May 12, 2006 - 09:11 AM

I have released 12 more maps for the CC Community, these from the 'Wind Tower' series.

For more... please read on!

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DJ Reviews THE FFL

Posted by: CSO_Sbufkle on Thursday, May 04, 2006 - 07:43 AM

FFL Club Review: by CSO CC DJ

   Dom, Manoi, Moloch...names most people are quite familiar with. The FFL Club is home to these and many other dedicated Close Combat talents.

   FFL stands for "Froggies Fighter League" - and in reference to the Forces Françaises Libres (Free French forces of WWII). The clan was founded by FFL_Kklinkk in 1998 following the huge success of Close Combat 3. FFL quickly became the biggest and the only (at that time) French CC clan.

   For more, please READ ON.....

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MMCC3 Blog

Posted by: CSO_Sbufkle on Monday, May 01, 2006 - 07:25 AM

This Mondays blog deals with MMCC3, something I think the CC community needs to look at again!

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO SEE BLOG!

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Modding Guide DL Section Added

Posted by: CSO_Sbufkle on Thursday, April 27, 2006 - 12:11 PM

The CSO has added a Modding Guides available for downloads in the Utilities section of the DL area. Currently 14 guides have been uploaded. Currently all 14 of these are CC2 guides, 13 of which from the famous Mafi. Mafi's guides are all in zipped PDF forms & are great quality. (Do we expect any less from this guy? ;) ) Look for more guides for different versions of CC to come!

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