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There is a new WW2 Forum, with at the moment, quite a distinct British bias. You can find it at: http://www.wwiiforum.com/ I have no connection with it, save being a member - just wanted to flag it up.

I have some CMBB pages on my website at: http://battlefieldsww2.50megs.com/combat_mission.htm

Despite only (I say, 'only') being in my late 30s, my dad served in WW2 with 24th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery. He was in North Africa, and then Italy, serving at Anzio, on the Gothic Line and in the Po Battle. His memoirs of Anzio are on the BBC website at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/U519153

Despite only (I say, 'only') being in my late 30s, my dad served in WW2 with 24th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery. He was in North Africa, and then Italy, serving at Anzio, on the Gothic Line and in the Po Battle. His memoirs of Anzio are on the BBC website at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/U519153

Despite only (I say, 'only') being in my late 30s, my dad served in WW2 with 24th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery. He was in North Africa, and then Italy, serving at Anzio, on the Gothic Line and in the Po Battle. His memoirs of Anzio are on the BBC website at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/U519153

Hi Ropey - I was out in Italy this may. There is a report of my visit on my website. I will be going back with a veteran for the Cassino anniversaries next May - where will you be?

Thanks to 'Rune' my father appears as 'Lieut Reed', one of the British Arty spotters, in the 'Brits at Anzio' scenario. He kindly put him in there as I sent him some info for the scenario, and my Dad served with 24th Field Regt RA in this action.

I am only in the early stages of playing CMAK, but I noticed in the 'Brits at Anzio' scenario, that the mod of a British soldier with a Vickers HMG actually shows him with a US Browning water-cooled version HMG. Is this an error, will it be corrected - or has it already been done so somewhere?

Dear old Canterbury let me down - so I had to go over to Sussex to get a copy. Just in time for Christmas... at least I'll have some time to play it! Thanks for all your help, guys.

Personally I am lookimng forward to seeing if the 2 pdr gun is well represented in the early Desert War scenarios, and how well the designers have let the 6 pounder AT gun perform against German tanks from 42/43 onwards, and whether 44+ ones will have the APDS rounds. Otherwise I fear a repitition of the tabletop desert games I played in the 70s and 80s where British Armour gets creamed time and again... and the whole thing becomes a little boring as German mechanical failure etc cannot be factored into a game at this level.

Thanks for the pointers - seems my local GAME here in Kent must be the only one without any copies... or there are too many CM fanatics in this area!

I have been trying to get it for days; none of the PC Games shops have it, and Amazon estimate they cannot ship copies until after Christmas! Is there no distribution in the UK? Any UK members of this forum got a copy? If so, where from!!! :eek:

That's me - only too pleased to help. My father would be pleased to think he was forever part of a computer game - little would he have realised such a thing in his foxhole at Anzio 59 years ago. Pleased to say he is alive and well, and good for his age at 84! Looking forward to the scenario!

Just to add that I would agree these are an excellent resource; I have a full set of them, and often refer to them. They are getting rarer and rarer now, with no sign of a possible reprint, so I would recommend you buy them when you can. The chapters in each of them entitled 'what it was really like' always makes good reading.

Nice bibliography - most useful. Eric Linklater's 1950s book on the Italian campaign is also good for the British side of things; there have been several reprints and it is widely available on the second-hand market.