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Erik Springelkamp

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About Erik Springelkamp

  • Birthday 07/22/1955

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    Groningen, NL

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    Groningen, The Netherlands
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  1. Not quite the same, but Reise, Reise might ring a bell for non-German speakers
  2. Today I was busy re-installing all my old CM games in Steam, transferring keys from BF to Matrix to Steam. I run them on a laptop, and because of my old eyes my laptop displays default 1920x1080 at 125%, but this gives very bad rendering especially of the UI text. Going to the CM.exe properties -> compatibility tab -> change DPS settings -> ignore system scaling, gets rid of the bad character display in the UI caused by the 125%, but it makes the text too small for my old eyes. So I edit display.txt to "1366 768 0" (choose a resolution that is possible in your windows display settings, otherwise it doesn't work). Now I have decent quality graphics with large UI text. I had done this successfully for CMSF2, CMRT and CMBS, but when I tried to do it with CMBN, I got a video driver error at start, because I had forgotten to modify the cm.exe properties, and the video card couldn't find a valid resolution. Just posted this here so it may help some other poor soul.
  3. I have been playing the Combat Mission games for many years since the early 2000's, but a few years ago I drifted off to other games (more grand strategy, like the AGEOD games, and non-wargame types). However I want to try a new run into this game. I haven't followed the developments over the last couple of years, but now I bought the general version 4 update. I own CMBN, CMFI and CMRT, with their modules (and CMSF, but that one is a bit dated now, and I have played much more of it than of the newer games). I am looking for a campaign to play, as I love the story part of a campaign. I don't want to pick a very hard campaign, as I want some leeway to pick up the gaming skills again. And I have no idea how the balance has shifted through patches and upgrades. Are there people here who can recommend a campaign? It can be a stock campaign or one from the repository.
  4. This was last month happening in front of my house, remembrance of the liberation of Groningen, start of the 4-day battle here on April 13, 1945.
  5. On the thin plated turret cover: I was looking at the shape, and that shape is very much like stealth planes/ships/vehicles. And the new Russian AFV's have radar targeting devices. Could it be that they decrease the radar signature of the turret with a tin plate profile around the actual hardware because they assume radar might become an important device? Just a weird idea by somebody who doesn't know anything about modern tanks.
  6. Whether they had a right to do it doesn't change the description of what happened.
  7. Russia being morally wrong or right doesn't change the analysis. One may argue that the Kiev Ukrainians had good reasons to move away from Russia, but one cannot call that destabilizing Europe by Russia. It is a destabilization by Kiev, that was encouraged by the EU and the US. After that analysis one can start to argue why this destabilization may be worth it. When I were a Kiev Ukrainian I would probably support this destabilization, because I probably wouldn't have liked the status quo.
  8. Putin is not destabilizing Europe, he is trying to sabotage a move of the Ukraine to NATO/EU. Ukraine has always been part of the Russian sphere of influence (with only short interruptions during crises), so if anything is destabilizing Europe it is a move from Ukraine towards the West. Of course there are all kind of issues regarding the way this movement has developed and about the ways Russia is trying to prevent this movement, but it was the movement that destabilised the situation. But apart form the Ukraine, there is nothing wrong with the stability in Europe. (Southern Caucasus cannot be really be called Europe, if anybody can give a good definition of Europe anyway).
  9. This video probably expresses a popular sentiment in Russia: Я Русский Оккупант | I'm a Russian Occupant (in the options you can turn on English subtitles)
  10. You may retract your number of 25 million, especially after having compared Alexey with holocaust deniers. That was really impolite.
  11. Hover your mouse over the name on any screen. That will give you that info in a popup.
  12. Nah, I believe the Crusades were the result of too much fighting spirit at the time. Power was displayed by fighting, and it caused too much destruction locally, so the Church redirected some of that energy elsewhere. (no harvest, no church taxes). Even here, in Frisia, where there were no Counts or higher authority then village bosses, those who could afford it built a ship to sail to the Mediterranean to go and fight and prove their courage. Otherwise those village bosses were campaigning each summer against each other. At the second half of the 13th century so much silver had been spent on those crusades, that they couldn't afford to import food during bad harvest years, while during the centuries before there was usually enough money available. If they had just wanted the luxury items, they could have bought those with all that money easily.
  13. When I click on your name, I see your profile, and this message on top.
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