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CCView Program

CCView Screen shot

CCView works with the game Close Combat and allows you to view and track changes to the core combat units within your Company.

CCView allows you to create a campaign history file and update it with the latest battle results. Updating the campaign history allows you to track soldier attribute changes, view soldiers killed during the battle, view core replacements, and view soldiers that were rotated out due to force reductions. In addition, you can view changes to the Command Hierarchy, view campaign statistics such as the current core strength and the number of friendly/enemy kills, and track all of the core units killed on both sides during the course of the campaign.

Core units are those teams that will be present in the next campaign battle if they survive the current battle. Close Combat sometimes uses temporary units during certain campaign battles, with these units being present only for that particular battle. CCView cannot display any information on temporary units.

CCView extracts information on the core units from the AlUnits and AxUnits files within the Close Combat\Games\Myob directory. This file contains information on the core units that survived the previous battle. Note that CCView will not be able to display information on core unit replacements that are added at the start of a battle and killed during that battle because these units never show up in the A*Units files.

How to Create a Campaign History

When you start a campaign history, CCView reads the A*Units files and displays the current condition of the American and German Companies. Historical information is available once the campaign history is updated. You can create and track a campaign history while you are playing campaign battles or you can load a series of existing campaign battle replays and track the course of the campaign. As CCView is dependent upon the state of the A*Units files, it is important to know when these files get updated. These files are updated at the following times:

• During the placement phase of a Campaign Battle.
• At the conclusion of a Campaign Battle.
• At the start of a Campaign Battle replay.

When you create a campaign history you will need to locate the AlUnits file and select it within the file-open dialog box.

How to Update a Campaign History

• Killed / Incapacitated soldiers.
• Replacement soldiers who survived this latest battle.
• Soldiers who were rotated out due to force reductions.
• Changes to the soldier attributes, combat record and decorations. Note that combat skills do not change during the course of a campaign.

If you are playing a series of Campaign battles you can update the campaign history at the conclusion of the latest battle, or at the start of the next battle. You can also load a saved campaign battle to get access to the campaign state from the previous battle, perform the update, and then abort the campaign battle. If you are tracking the campaign history from a series of saved Campaign battle replays you can do the following:

1. Load and start the first replay within Close Combat.
2. Run CCView and create (and optionally save) the campaign history file.
3. Switch back to Close Combat and abort the battle.
4. Load and run the next Campaign battle replay. Allow the replay to progress to a point where enemy units are spotted.
5. Switch to CCView and select the File menu option: Update to update the campaign history. You then have the option of performing a Save or Save As on this updated campaign history.
6. Repeat steps 3-5 for each saved replay.

If you happen to miss an update, the history will become inaccurate and soldiers may show as having been improperly killed or rotated-out. Subsequent correct battle sequence updates will be accurate.

You can save each campaign history update into a different Campaign file through the use of the File/Save As menu option. This will allow you to open and view the state of your Company after each campaign battle.