Avwriter

Did none of you people bother to read the information posted on the official page for the patch? You had fair warning. It clearly states, "Due to the changes in this patch, older save games will not work. You will have to restart any in-progress campaigns/battles." You had the option to finish your current mission or campaign prior to installing the patch.

You can press the space bar to pause at any time. WHile paused you can examine the battlefield and plan move for your forces. You can even issue multiple orders while the game is paused, and they will be carreid out when you unpause. Its not really turn based, but it does give you time to think. This may be what you were talking about.

Got mine, North Carolina. Was a little dissapointed that the manual is black and white.

Has anyone here received the confrimation email that their copy has shipped?

[ May 08, 2007, 04:22 PM: Message edited by: Avwriter ]

"Well that makes sense. Has anybody noticed what the differences are ? Apart from the mentioned even playing field (which is how i like it) have you noticed that the enemy also get an advantage in numbers and re-enforcements etc in the campaigns?" I don't think so. As far as I can tell, the only difference between the levels is in the variable damage inflicted by the weapons of each side. The numbers of troops on each side stay the same, and as far as I can tell the "intelligence" of the AI also stays the same as well.

The Russian for rat is "krysa."

I understand that, but this is the closest thing I have seen. Apparantly the term was used pretty commonly after the war. In the course of my surfing, I did find a glossary of WWII slag on one Russian site, but no mention of the Stug there.

Okay, I spent a little time over at the Russian TOW site. There are some links there to historical reference materials in Russian, which eventually led me to an academic article on the history of the Stug III. This may not be what you are looking for, but it mentioned that a large number of these guns were captured by the Soviets at the end of the war, and that "until the early 1990s, they were referred to by the name "Artshturm" (Артштурм in Cyrillic). Apparantly, the term originated from an incorrect translation of the German word "Sturmgeschütz." In case someone is interested, here is a link to the article: http://armor.kiev.ua/Tanks/WWII/StugIII/1/stug3_1.php

The DVD does not need to be in the drive. Registration works is identically to the downloaded version.

For what it's worth, the Russian word for elephant is "slon."

Oh, my. Looks like the Pygmies left the Bentley dealership and headed over to Toyota. Alas, still no tricycles. .

If you are speaking of the general class of weapon, as opposed to a specific gun (i.e. the Stug III), the Russians used the acronym SAU (САУ in russian letters). It stood for "Самоходные артиллерийские установки" which literally means "self-propelled artillery pieces."

"Moon, I don't know how you are able to keep from losing your marbles. It's been like a bunch of pygmies storming a Bentley dealership screaming for tricycles in here lately." Benpark, that is hysterical. I just have to ask, did you hear that somewhere, or did you make it up yourself?

You gotta love the detail, right down to the serial number on the side.