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  1. My personal cheat is to play quick battles where my side has +40%. It sounds awful, but I just cannot stomach a fair fight where 100s of my guys are dying. So instead I make my victory inevitable but I am trying to minimize loses. Then every dead guy hurts and somehow it feels more realistic. At least that's what I tell myself
  2. As a kiwi myself I can tell you that "like spots on a knife" refers to spotting, a popular way of smoking pot in NZ using a knife blade, and that it's also called blading or doing blades, which is kinda similar to 'Blade Runner'.
  3. He's fantastic. He's one of the few WW2 authors I feel I could spend an evening with, and wouldn't need to invent an excuse to escape back to normal people. He's not pompous, he's not lost in fantasy. He has empathy and he has perspective and balance. I've read all his books and probably enjoyed the one on the Spanish civil war the most. I never really saw an anti-soviet bias, but he mentions rape in most of his books and I think his personal feeling is the suffering of women by rape is a horror of war that doesn't get enough attention, so he focuses some time on it. And he doesn't attempt to excuse the horrific Red Army rape statistics by talking at great length about the reasons a soviet soldier might think it was warranted. Which I think is the right thing, just as he doesn't try to excuse other atrocities by giving the criminal's POV.
  4. Paper Tiger - I played most of your CMSF missions and campaigns and always thought you were pretty awesome. This one though....it's the next level. Best CMxanything games I've played. I only hope I have enough guys left to see all the maps. Nice one!
  5. Would love to see a user controlled LOD distance. Editing a 'use at own risk' config file to do it would be fine. I think my machine could draw out a lot further.
  6. I'm bumping this to maybe help sales. I assumed this was going to be lower quality than CMSF but I got it a week ago anyway after finishing the CMSF campaigns. High quality, great missions, great briefings, well balanced, utterly brutal and a completely different feel. Tremendous fun.
  7. I'm 35. I wasn't a wargamer or a ww2 grog, but I got sucked into CM a decade ago because of the gameplay, and now I'm both. A decade ago I was in New Zealand. Now I live in Noo Yawk and have a perfect little 6 month old boy. Time flies!
  8. I was hoping Fionn's ban would be lifted and he'd be wheeled out to do some AARs and call Steve and Jason rude names.
  9. I got a tactical defeat as well, after I called a ceasefire with 20 minutes left. I'd already suffered 34 casualties and didn't feel I could take the rest of the central block without a whole lot more, since my Apaches were out of ammo. My boys had seen enough horror for one day. So I wussed out, dug in and called for reinforcements! Brutal stuff, but great fun. Thanks paper tiger
  10. I'm been reborn into CMSF after discovering patches + packs + this mission = totally awesome. Glad to hear others are finding it hard. I'm starting my second attempt after I lost too many troops for my conscience to let me continue.
  11. I grabbed this today ... and then realised I'd actually grabbed the wrong book. I got Eagle and the Rising Sun by Alan Schom instead. Not a good start Also got Guadalcanal by Richard B. Frank.
  12. Many years ago I got good advice from this forum on books, so... I’m looking for a book/books on the pacific war, and I was hoping someone could recommend one for me. I’d like it to be in the same style as Erickson’s Road to Stalingrad and Road to Berlin – strategic and operational level, sensible writing without hyperbole, lots on the Japanese side of things. OR operational/tactical stuff in the style of Glantz - detailed, factual, dispassionate. Clinical strategy grog stuff rather than gung-ho popular history that “recreates” the events. Any suggestions?
  13. Thanks, I appreciate the help. I know hypothetical "what if" WW2 discussions are as rare and exciting as indigestion. So in summary... Politically: never going to happen Technically: difficult but very possible Effect: probably not huge by winter 42
  14. Was there any possibility for UK & commonwealth troops to fight in numbers on the eastern front? I just want to get a sense if it was possible but rejected, extremely difficult and rejected, or simply impossible. It’s in response to this Russian chap who feels belatedly aggrieved:
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