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I've checked the search under screenshots but couldn't find any posts on how to actually make one. How is it done. This is one great game. Patrick

Iggi, You ask about personal experience. I'm a photojournalist and back in 1989 during the last coup attempt against the Aquino gov't, rebel rangers took over the Makati business district. So you had a classic urban close combat action here. I was on a rooftop with a squad of SWAT soldiers from the Philippine Constabulary (PC). Our position came under heavy sniper fire and the PC were returning fire (3 or 4 out of the 12 there). To make a long story short (I have a full account at: wirephoto.com/lucero) after we suffered one wounded (me) and one dead (PC) our building got hit by a 57mm recoilless rifle. The building felt like it got hit by an earthquake and the dust rose like a fog it seemed. The PC panic and they literally bugged out in 2 seconds flat, with one of them screaming "we're going to be by mortars, get out!" The rebel rangers in control of Makati eventually surrendered a few days later but if the gov't hadn't negotiated the peace and decided to go in with troops to take them out it would have been bloodier for the gov't. The rebs would have fought till they ran out of ammo or to the last man. Morale on the gov't side wasn't very high from what I could see and mostly were in positions to contain the rebs and although they were firing on the rebs during the hottest part of the fighting in the end the rebs in Makati suffered no casualties but the dead and wounded from the gov't troops and especially civilians were over 150. So to answer your question from my little experience espirit de corps would be a deciding factor on whether a unit stands and fight even under direct fire from a tank or recoiless rifle fire! Patrick

Steve, Thanks for the advice, will look forward to the voodoo 4 when it comes out. I've got a beige G3 which doesn't come with a video card just 2 MB's of VRAM which I upgraded to 6MB. Only from the B/W Macs and onwards do the stock Macs come with a video card. Judging from the screen shots that various members post on their web sites I didn't see much of a difference in image quality over what I have in my Mac. As far as frame rates goes, well still looks fine to me but then again I have nothing to compare with and I will admit ignorance on that! I'm sold on getting my Mac upgraded. Patrick

The English langauage is pretty dynamic and keeps on changing as do they all. Passing a smiley here or there is another example of how our language is evolving over the internet. Aside from graphical statements we also have to suffer through all the shortcuts like llRC; ROFL; IMHO; IMO ETC. ETC. Is it good for the language despite the bastardization? Well that's a mute question and we can look at the French and their attempts to keeping their language pure by not allowing "bleu jeans" and such in their vocabulary. In other words you can try and stop people from using smiley's, but in most cases laws that aren't enforced get ignored by the general public. Besides the French bureaucrats in the Ministry of Art and Culture spend too much time wanking in public places to actually know what they are doing. BTW are they selling videos of your toilet cam? all best Patrick

Mr Peng, Simon Fox and Moriarity, This is one of the funniedt posts I've seen and there's been quite a few over the months I've been reading. Me thinks you all are intellectuals of sorts. I didn't know they were allowed in this BB. Patrick

I'm not running a video card in my Mac just 6mb's of vram. The graphics in the game are a bit blocky but the units move smoothly. I guess according to what BTS replied that a videeo card will make a vast difference. Will look into the new Voodoo 4 card as that I believe will fit into my Mac's pci slot. Many thanks for the feedback and also interesting to see who's got Macs out there. Regards, Patrick

After reading the thread on PC video cards I'm wondering how much of a difference there is for us Mac users? I'm using a G3/233 w/160 mb's ram and w/6mb's of video ram, that's it and CM plays and looks good enough for me. Anyone out there with an upgraded video card in their Mac to give an opinion?

Many thanks will carry on from there. best Patrick

Cross of Iron is one of my top 10 war movie picks and the Russian tanks and equipment were from the Yugoslavian army.

I've finally taken the plunge to play my first email game ever and I have received a problem in the current 2nd turn opening his file. WE are playing the Riesburg scenario with myself as the axis and my opponent as the allied forces. On loading his 2 turn file I receive a dialog box for the allied password to enable the game. I don't recall seeing that on his 1st file. Anyway I can't get pass the password dialog box to continue the game. Any suggestions?

Yeah that's right when the Marines were heading towards the gulf they stopped in Subic Bay, Philippines. I was photographing the arrival of the task force when they Marines landed for PR purposes and to check all their heavy equipment on land before heading onwards to the Gulf. The M60-A3's were all equiped with reactive armor.

From pounds to Burma being a Pacific isle? Burma is in SE Asia and borders the Indian and South China Sea. It's a beautiful country stuck in time about 50 years ago with an idiotic military tyranny in goverment. A 25 pounder is a field gun that was also used as a direct fire weapon in a AT role against the Africa Korp, and I think it was an 86mm.

Well when you go into the options of CCIV and click english for the german AI the voices are the same as used in CCIII. Atomic canabalized the russian english soundtracks and used that for CCIV.

As a newbie from way out in Asia its been interesting to read all these comments on ccIV. Out here the counterfitters already have CCIV for sale. From what I've seen of the game it appears to play well and none of the tanks spin around like dervishes when given a command. When the real game comes out I will buy just for the sake of supporting the manufactuers efforts. Hopefully Atomic will get American English on their soundtrack and not accented Russian English. I've also not had any problems giving commands to multiple units to fire on single or multiple targets. Possibly the pirated cds are better than the demos. Yes I know piracy is bad, but often times you can't get the games being sold in the states out here and the only alternative is HBO. Patrick