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    Wiggum15 reacted to Lacroix in Random Thought and suggestion   
    Urban battles seem to be much more fun and settle with the game better (timeframe) ,at least to me. somehow,specially if you are playing the maps where there are few ww2 buildings and lots of tall new buildings ,it brings new atmosphere ,different from the ww2 one
    those stripes on the road or lines are also a huge flavor/immersion factor imo (representing world in 2000+ ad)
    it throws you into the world of today where 'fancy' new stuff and sounds of aircraft immerse you into the differnt kind of war
    use of engineers or tanks to blow up the walls (tunguska aswell)  also comes to mind
    destruction of town (or picture after the battle) is also much more appealing 
    must admit that i appreciate BS more than before,cos i started playing urban maps
     
     
    Tldr or suggestion : Play urban maps more  (pbem or multiplayer generally), its fun
     
    too bad there are no civilians,but ok,i guess world is not perfect
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    Wiggum15 got a reaction from Steven482 in Brief overview of where CM is headed   
    But with Upgrade 4.0 still using the outdated CMx2 engine i doubt we will see much improvement in key areas.
    Instead on focusing on keeping the old car driving through the addition of a new oil filter, a spoiler and new tires it would be time to move on and invest into a new car.
    If money or know-how is the problem...well there is kickstarter, i think we all would support you.

    Another thing i dont like is that we now have it Official, the bulge game will only include "minor" changes.
    No new trench/foxhole system. No significant gameplay enhancements, no fix for long standing technical issues.

    Sorry, iam disappointed !
    (But thanks for the heads-up Steve)
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    Wiggum15 reacted to sburke in Brief overview of where CM is headed   
    My apologies then, I didn't think you were that sensitive. To be fair though it isn't simply name calling when an expression like that is used for someone who has on 3 occasions (so far) attempted to friend me. After the 2nd time was denied one would have thought you would have gotten the message.  I assumed perhaps incorrectly that this behavior combined with the blatantly passive aggressive nature of your postings was indicative of some sort of psychological need.
     
    Again my apologies if I am simply misunderstanding issues you may have communicating in what I assume is a second language to you.  If that is the case I would suggest maybe taking some time to review the responses you have received as it may be your perception of how one expresses themselves to a native English speaker may be off by a bit.
     
    edit - correction I see you sent a 4th request just now.  Sorry, this one will be denied as well.  You know this is now bordering on stalking.  Maybe I should file a complaint.
     
    2nd edit - wow, really?  You "upped" my post.  That is just a bit too weird you know.
     
     
    Wiggum15 sent you a friend request Sent Today, 10:25 AM
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    Wiggum15 got a reaction from LukeFF in Brief overview of where CM is headed   
    Really...
    Can you tell me whats aggressive about the sentence:
    "Who said its only about the hide command ? Its more about Spotters' posture overall."
     

    Now thats what i call aggressive and insulting.
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    Wiggum15 got a reaction from Busso in Brief overview of where CM is headed   
    Really...
    Can you tell me whats aggressive about the sentence:
    "Who said its only about the hide command ? Its more about Spotters' posture overall."
     

    Now thats what i call aggressive and insulting.
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    Wiggum15 reacted to womble in Brief overview of where CM is headed   
    He doesn't.
     
     
    Ignore him. He was quiet for a long time, then people started feeding him again. Unfed trolls depart. Fed ones hang around. Stop feeding him and his irrelevancies will diminish.
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    Wiggum15 got a reaction from A Canadian Cat - was IanL in Today is my lucky day :D   
    Sorry but no one in his right mind would spent 3500€ for a desktop pc (+ the money for you to build it).
    "using only the best components available"...you mean all the greatly overpriced stuff nobody actually need ?
    I actually doubt his new pc will be that much better then the old one...
    He could have just updated his old one for 500€ and would have a killer pc.
    What did he say, what will he do with his pc...casual pc stuff and gaming ?
    Did you recommend him to spent less money initially but he refused ?
     
    Sounds like you had a hard time spending all 3500€ on just one desktop pc, you could have build 3 killer high-end machines with that money...
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    Wiggum15 got a reaction from General Jack Ripper in Is it me?   
    I would Say that 90% of CMBS comes from SF and 90% of all other WW2 titles comes from CMBN... It's called recycling old stuff for a new full price game.
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    Wiggum15 reacted to Wiggum15 in Today is my lucky day :D   
    No, i dont.
    If you hate everyone who is not 100% happy with CMx2 thats your problem.
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    Wiggum15 reacted to Wiggum15 in Today is my lucky day :D   
    What kind of question is that ?
    Sorry, why are you all so aggressive or abusive towards me and/or vote my posts down + put me on ignore list ?
    What did i do you `?
    Nothing !
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    Wiggum15 got a reaction from sburke in Today is my lucky day :D   
    No, i dont.
    If you hate everyone who is not 100% happy with CMx2 thats your problem.
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    Wiggum15 got a reaction from E4Grunt in Today is my lucky day :D   
    What kind of question is that ?
    Sorry, why are you all so aggressive or abusive towards me and/or vote my posts down + put me on ignore list ?
    What did i do you `?
    Nothing !
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    Wiggum15 reacted to Wiggum15 in Today is my lucky day :D   
    Dude why are you so aggressive toward me ?
    This is a discussion board and if you start a thread boasting about the 3500€ PC you build for someone then expect questions regarding the sense behind this and the hardware used.
    Oh wait, i forgot...this is the sunshine happiness feel-good  place where no one ask any critical questions...sorry.
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    Wiggum15 got a reaction from A Canadian Cat - was IanL in Vehicle Panic behavior is really BAD   
    mikeCK, you will soon notice that most people here think that panicking soldiers should go total nuts, starting to run towards enemy tanks while taking Selfies and throwing away their weapons...
    Or even better, maybe they should just shoot their comrades...that would be irrational too.
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    Wiggum15 got a reaction from Aurelius in Today is my lucky day :D   
    No, i dont.
    If you hate everyone who is not 100% happy with CMx2 thats your problem.
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    Wiggum15 reacted to db_zero in Brief overview of where CM is headed   
    Any chance that in the future or ver 4.0 will actually use all available cores in a CPU? From what I understand no game/sim uses more than 4 cores and you have processors with 6 or 8 cores available.
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    Wiggum15 got a reaction from cool breeze in Brief overview of where CM is headed   
    But with Upgrade 4.0 still using the outdated CMx2 engine i doubt we will see much improvement in key areas.
    Instead on focusing on keeping the old car driving through the addition of a new oil filter, a spoiler and new tires it would be time to move on and invest into a new car.
    If money or know-how is the problem...well there is kickstarter, i think we all would support you.

    Another thing i dont like is that we now have it Official, the bulge game will only include "minor" changes.
    No new trench/foxhole system. No significant gameplay enhancements, no fix for long standing technical issues.

    Sorry, iam disappointed !
    (But thanks for the heads-up Steve)
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    Wiggum15 reacted to agusto in Today is my lucky day :D   
    I have a small 1 man business where i offer diverse IT services for my customers, and occasionally i build custom machines to the specifications of my customers. Like 4 months ago, i built a PC for a customer with a very large wallet: the budget was 3500€ (~4000$) and i built him a true 1337 machine, using only the best components available on the market. He was so happy with his new PC that he gave me his "old one" as a gift. When he brought me his "old" PC, i only took a quick look inside and i saw some dust, 4 physically small RAM chips, a tiny CPU fan and a graphics card of which i couldnt determine the model because it had its panel ripped off. I thought what i got was the usual used PC: 7 years old, Win XP, 4 x 1GB DDR RAM, Intel Pentium 2, and a GeForce 7000 series graphics card or something like that.
     
    Today i was looking through my stockpile of used PCs because i needed some spare parts, and i took a closer look at the PC i got as a gift 4 months ago. It turned out it' s much better than i thought: 4 x 4 = 16 GB DDR3 1333MHz RAM chips, a 3,5 GHz I-7 2700K with 4 physical cores and 4 virtual cores (8 cores in total), a 750 watt PSU and a GeForce GTX 580. That' s some really good stuff actually. Togather with the mainboard and the tower that' s gaming grade hardware probably worth about 1300€  (1500$) . I would have never bought such expensive components for myself, but i think i will probably add an SSD + a new CPU cooler to the package and use it as my new gaming PC . I am really happy right now, my business isnt going particularily well and i hadnt planned on getting a new PC anytime soon .
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    Wiggum15 reacted to Wiggum15 in Today is my lucky day :D   
    Sorry but no one in his right mind would spent 3500€ for a desktop pc (+ the money for you to build it).
    "using only the best components available"...you mean all the greatly overpriced stuff nobody actually need ?
    I actually doubt his new pc will be that much better then the old one...
    He could have just updated his old one for 500€ and would have a killer pc.
    What did he say, what will he do with his pc...casual pc stuff and gaming ?
    Did you recommend him to spent less money initially but he refused ?
     
    Sounds like you had a hard time spending all 3500€ on just one desktop pc, you could have build 3 killer high-end machines with that money...
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    Wiggum15 reacted to John Kettler in Bugging Hitler's Soldiers   
    sburke,
     
    My reply is very long, but much of it is supporting quotes!
     
    There is a world of difference between attacking a port doing almost exclusively logistics, as opposed to one in which 5000 ships are involved, carrying ~133,000 men in the landing force, never mind the following administrative landings. Had V-2s been raining down while the primary stores and personnel preparation and loading were going on, inflicting random mass casualties on formations which had trained for months or even years, there is no way that wouldn't have been immensely disruptive and likely considerably destructive. Here is an excellent piece showing the disposition of the staging areas for the units participating in D-Day. Mind, this presumes targeting for the V-2 other than/in addition to London. Considering the Germans had been attacking Channel ports since early in the war, and that U-Boat attrition was very high by the time D-Day was in the offing, hitting the ports which were so vital to England's survival as reception points for food and fuel, not to mention personnel and every sort of military stores, made considerable sense.  Nor, I think, do you really comprehend the scale of fatalities the V-2s directed against Antwerp inflicted. 

    Antwerp as an Indicator of What Could've Happened in the Embarkation and Assembly Areas
     
    http://www.v2rocket.com/start/chapters/antwerp.html
     
    (Fair Use)
     
    Many people tend to associate the V-weapon campaign as one directed only against England; however, Antwerp was the recipient of even more V-2s than London, resulting in more than 30,000 killed or injured.
     
    So I'm not accused of cherry picking the data, I deliberately included the last few sentences in the next quote.
     
     In the port of Antwerp itself, despite the bombardment, a constant flow of ships was still delivering supplies for the Allied war effort. Thousands of dock workers unloaded the ships in the midst of the raining V-weapon attacks. One ship was sunk (by a direct V-2 hit) and 16 others were damaged at some point, the Kruisschans lock was damaged, several marshaling yards were hit and the Hoboken petroleum installations were hit twice. Even so, the bombardment never seriously affected the functionality of the harbor. There were some casualties but, it never took very long for repairs to be made to these installations.
     
    Or you get things happening like this. Bolding is mine.

    Teniers Square
       On November 27, a terrible incident occurred at a major road junction near the Central Station. Teniers Plaats (Square) was the busiest intersection in town (as it still is today). Military policemen were always regulating the heavy traffic for an Allied convoy passing through the square.
     
       It was on the main north-south axis for the supply columns. From the docks, American troops were heading south to the US supply bases near Liege and British columns were heading north to the front lines in Holland. There were four tram lines crossing the square in both directions, plus there were many autos and pedestrians moving throughout the busy intersection.
       "I often went there after lunch to watch the military activity..." said Charles Ostyn. "and the British MP, right there in the middle, regulating and directing both military and civilian traffic. On very busy days there were two MP's."
     
       A V-2 came down at ten minutes past noon and exploded in the middle of all this activity. A British convoy was moving through the intersection and was caught in the blast. This particular rocket was believed to have exploded just above ground possibly having struck the overhead tram lines just where the traffic policemen stood. A city water main burst, water bubbling up from the ground. Soon, the whole square was filled with water.
     
       "I heard and saw this explosion from a short distance away while riding in the back of an open truck and approached the scene about 2 hours later," Ostyn remembered. "There was water running everywhere and the whole place was cordoned off and guarded by U.S. soldiers. There was a massive crowd of onlookers and many people with bandages on their heads walking around. It must have hit something above ground first because no crater was ever found."
     
       The result was total devastation. The water began to pool on the street. Floating on the water were dismembered corpses, various body parts, clothing and large amounts of debris. Several of the vehicles in the convoy exploded or caught on fire, their occupants lay burning. The glass windows of the passing trams near the intersection were all shattered causing injuries to those riding on the trams.
     
       One of the MP's was completely disintegrated and the charred body of another was found sometime later on the roof of a nearby hotel, about 60 meters away. Soon, the story of the unfortunate MP who was blown to bits was infamous among the locals. In all, the dead were 126 (26 were American & British soldiers) and another 309 injured.
      There was also the matter of the catastrophe when a large cinema was hit while nearly full. Bolding is mine.

    The Rex Cinema
     
       On the first day of the German Ardennes offensive, December 16, 1944, the worst disaster occurred. The "Rex" Cinema on avenue De Keyserlei was packed full of people in middle of the afternoon, nearly 1200 seats were occupied, all watching the featured movie. At 15.20 hrs the audience suddenly glimpsed a split-second flash of light cutting through the dark theater, followed by the balcony and ceiling crashing down during a deafening boom. A V-2 rocket had impacted directly on top of the cinema.
     
       Charles Ostyn happened to be near the cinema that day and would later learn of a personal tragedy in his life caused by this particular rocket attack.
     
       "December 16, 1944, is a day I can never forget. It all really sank in on us after the massacre at the Rex Cinema..." said Ostyn. He told about his feelings at that time: "I still remember that Saturday as if it were yesterday. I had walked past the theater about 20 minutes before the impact - to think, at that very moment a V-2 was being tanked-up by members of the SS Werfer Battery 500 in Holland, it being destined to kill all those people in one blinding instant."
     
       The destruction was total. Afterwards, many people were found still sitting in their seats, stone dead. For more than a week the Allied authorities worked to clear the rubble. Later, many of the bodies were laid out at the city zoo for identification. The death toll was 567 casualties to soldiers and civilians, 291 injured and 11 buildings were destroyed. 296 of the dead & 194 of the injured were U.S., British, & Canadian soldiers. This was the single highest death total from one rocket attack during the war in Europe.

      You can read the summary for yourself, but the V-2 campaign never amounted to more than 155 rockets a month, but averaged, by eyeball estimate, around 100 or so, taking into account one month with 42, one with 58 and another with 59. According to the info at the site, the Germans had many more rockets, but were jammed up in being able to launch them by fuel bottlenecks with alcohol and LOX.
     
    Building on What Antwerp V-2 Attacks Show: What a Real Spanner in the Works Looks Like!
     
    In light of what I've provided, both directly and indirectly, are you still sticking to your argument that had Hitler gotten the V-2s online and in quantity (not, say, the 5 missiles/day of Antwerp) in time to hit the D-Day buildup, embarkation and subsequent activities as a side effect, if you will, of attacking England's vital ports that it wouldn't have thoroughly disrupted possibly the most intricate military operation ever seen to that date, together with inflicting enormous casualties to men and materiel? Offhand, I see no way such a campaign wouldn't have been devastating. That neck of the woods was the very definition of target rich environment, and the immense randomness of the V-2 impacts would've exerted enormous leverage because of the cascading effects from so many suddenly appearing points of disruption, destruction and casualties (fires, flooding, road and rail blockage/destruction, hits on docks, warehouses and shipping, power, water and gas outages--dead and wounded by the tens or hundreds from a given impact in a high density target zone). And I'm talking primary effects only, not factoring in the raft of secondary explosions from all that sort of material in its vast array. Invasion planning (and troop morale) never envisioned such things, let alone a variety of air attack against which there was no defense whatsoever.
     
    How do you keep a practically bottomlessly intricate operation viable when whole formations are there one moment, but damaged or even gone the next? A DIV HQ here, a radio signals unit there, AA gunners someplace else, an ordnance company (scarce armorers and such) standing by, an FA battalion on the march, the motor pool for a transportation company, a water supply unit, a field hospital (more scarce personnel) an overflowing waterproofing station, field kitchens and mess units. What about photo interpreters, cartographers and weather forecasters? Vast mounds of ordnance, POL in bulk or in jerry cans, rations, parts for, well, everything damaged or destroyed; medical supplies, uniforms, boots, radio parts (fragile vacuum tubes and crystals), commo wire, welding sets, delicate, aircraft instruments and instrument test stations, printing presses--damaged, destroyed or rendered useless, maybe invisibly, by a hit. And the vital paperwork without which no organization large or small can function? Turned to confetti, burned, water soaked or blown all over the place, together with the typewriters. What if the central invasion map distribution point gets hit?
     
    Every single man, every crate has a designated place in the coming battle and timing for getting aboard ship, else he or it wouldn't be there in the planning docs to begin with, in a buildup so transportation intensive it cut directly into British civilian food supplies. Put one scarce LST out of business and that alone can have divisional level impact, if not higher. Hit an ammo ship and you could significantly damage a port crammed with ships and men, causing untold havoc and destruction. Knock out a crane or two and screw up an AD's whole loading plan. Try running cranes if a V-2 hit knocks out the power. Naturally, we don't wish to contemplate a hit on a loaded troop transport! A destroyer nest hit could open up the invasion armada to E-boat attack (Slapton Sands for what even a few torpedo hits could do), or one on a battleship or cruiser make it useless for the invasion fire support.
     
    Consequences of That Spanner
     
    I can iterate this endlessly, but I'm talking Clausewitzian friction on crystal meth; the death of a thousand cuts (more like stabs and slashes), the holing and tearing of unit, logistical and administrative and logistical cohesion in an organization strained to the breaking point and that desperately needs every drop of blood, every organ, bone, sinew and fiber in order to succeed. Remember, even the spares were planned for in advance, and no one ever contemplated the embarkation areas would be attacked like that, generating losses never anticipated by the planners who had been at it for years. As it was, Ike almost called off the invasion without having to deal, before and during with the kinds of chaos and destruction I'm, I believe, reasonably positing. 
     
    Childress,
     
    I make no objection to your statement, but items from the bugging came out decades prior to those transcripts.
     
    https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol11no1/html/v11i1a11p_0001.htm
     
            The Mare's Nest by David Irving. Book review by Edwin R. Walker  
    CIA HISTORICAL REVIEW PROGRAM
    RELEASE IN FULL
    18 SEPT 95
    OFFICIAL USE ONLY
    Modern intelligence has to do with the painstaking collection and analysis of fact, the exercise of judgment, and clear and quick presentation. It is not simply what serious journalists would always produce if they had time: it is something more rigorous, continuous, and above all operational-that is to say, related to something that somebody wants to do or may be forced to do.
    -The Economist of London, commenting on the retirement of Sir Kenneth Strong (1 Oct. '66, p. 20).
     
    INTELLIGENCE IN RECENT PUBLIC LITERATURE
    The V-Weapons
    THE MARE'S NEST. By David Irving. (Boston: Little, Brown, 1965. 320 pp. $6.95.)
    THE BATTLE OF THE V-WEAPONS, 1944-1945. By Basil Collier. (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1964. New York: William Morrow. 1965. 192 pp. $5. )
     
    We'll skip the second book in this discussion for the following reasons:
     
    Confronted by a really good book and an outstandingly bad one, a reviewer has the clear duty to warn against the latter. Let me begin, therefore, by advising you that The Battle of the V-Weapons is to be avoided as the plague. It is a shoddy, ill-conceived, inadequately researched, badly written piece of journalistic rubbish which is as near to being a non-book as anything to be found in a cloth binding.
     
    After blisteringly disposed of the first book, Edwin Walker launches into his most astute review of the now disgraced for later Holocaust denail David Irving's assessment of how matters V waffen were learned of, reacted to (or not) and played out and how screwed up British S&T intelligence was, starting with the minor fact there wasn't any organized effort at all!  But let's look at what got picked up and reported in Irving's 1964 book, which I read circa 1970, shall we? Bolding is mine.
     
    Hard on the heels of Dr. Jones' assessment came the "Oslo Report," an anonymous letter to the British naval attaché in Norway which told of several new weapons under development at Peenemünde, among them long-range rockets. Subsequent developments proved the Oslo Report to be pure gold, but British intelligence did not take the rocket (the ultimate V-2) seriously until March 1943 when one captured German general mentioned it to another in a well-bugged room.
     
    That would be Ritter Von Thoma, whose name I've seen a bunch of times as being one whose discussions were bugged and quite revelatory. David Irving's reporting on such matters need to be taken in deadly earnest, because he discovered ULTRA while researching the book under discussion. That shocking story is at the Mare's Nest Wiki. 
     
    Additionally, though I don't recall the book titles, there have been similar reports of bugging derived information regarding what captured U-boat skippers had to say. "Silent Otto" Kretschmer, one of Germany's top U-boat aces, was quite indiscreet in talking with other captured German officers.
     
    Regards,
     
    John Kettler
     
     
     
     
     
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    Wiggum15 reacted to John Kettler in Bugging Hitler's Soldiers   
    JonS,
     
    I find your math, or maths as your usage has it, I believe, quite remarkable. No shortage when only a month after the war started food imports dropped from 55 million tons of food to 12 million? And look at what was rationed. The information here is  self-contradictory when it comes to fish (in any event, only 30% as much fish was harvested vs pre War), but the general pattern is quite clear. Note, too  the ration sample presented is for an adult for a week. For orientation purposes, here in the States a healthy (in the medical sense) meat portion in a single meal is 3 oz, which is 3/4 of the British ration of ham and bacon for a week. How about I make it official? Below is a wartime Ministry of Information film Rationing in Britain. 
     

     
    Obviously, these rations are nothing like (thank goodness) what the citizens of Leningrad went through, but they directly and materially influenced the very development of the British populace. This academic paper (unsure of what level it corresponds to) offers a good look at many aspects of rationing.
     
    sburke,
     
    The premise was that the Germans managed to get the V-2 operational in time to hit the embarkation ports and surrounds in the context of vengeance and interdiction--without knowing about D-Day. The Germans planned on 36 launches a day (surge mode) from one V-2 assembly, fueling and launch complex alone, with a sustainable rate, based on on-site and brought in LOX production of the order of 8/day per bunker = 24, as opposed to an average of 100/month in the Antwerp case. That should serve to give you some idea of what I'm talking about. The Allies detected and smashed the bunkers, but Dornberger had wanted mobile launchers from the beginning. One of the eight main missile storage sites was operational in February of '44, and half by July '44. Had all that effort and time not gone into the giant V-2 bunker complexes, the infrastructure for mobile launchers could've been in place long before then. The unraveling of the V-2 effort started with the raids on Peenemünde and went downhill thereafter, but if you read the accounts, it took a great deal of effort to  so much as properly ID the V-2 as a missile, gather various oddments of data, retrieve samples from wayward birds and do much else. There were epic rows because an eminent scientist didn't see the blob on the aerials as a threat, dug in his heels and stonewalled efforts to address the threat for months. The smashing of "P" after they finally got past him completely unhinged German missile production, forcing the move to Nordhausen and causing who knows how many months of delays. The Germans had the estimated capability to launch 350 V-2s/week, with surge rate of 100/day, but that's hard to do without the missiles. In 175 days, Antwerp took 107 V-2 hits "in the heart of the city" (whatever that means, but most landed in the greater area, which suffices for my thought model of strikes hitting randomly in the huge target arrays on the South Coast of England) of 1700+ launched. That's only 17 days of launches at the scale of use I'm referring to against the ports. I'd further point out that German fuel and missile shortages were far less in May of '44 than they were in September '44, owing to the far better shape of both German manufacturing and supply lines from not having been so heavily bombed. The United States Strategic Bombing Survey report on Crossbow makes sobering reading:
     
    f. Potential rate of fire. It thus appears that except for unforeseen defects in the weapon itself, the launching of rockets against England from France could have been begun in June 1944 at a sustained rate of fire of 200 to 350 rockets per week, or a possible maximum of 100 per day, and was planned to begin at about that time had no bombing of Peenemunde, Watten, Wizerns or of the supply system occurred.
     
    c. Lt. Gen. Dornberger, in charge of V-2 development at Peeneraunde, (Reference 16) states that "to start the operation" there were to be three firing units (abteilungen), one fixed and two motorized.
    Each motorized unit would fire 27 rockets daily and the fixed unit "twice that many" - a total of 108 daily. Speer (Reference 12A) gives launching plans as 80 to 100 daily. These are fairly early plans and conform reasonably well to Hitler's figure of 3,000 per month. A report
    (Reference 11) on the supply organization for the French launching sites states that the "target" was to launch 30 rockets per day, and provides an estimate of the sustained effort envisaged in January 1944. This program, however, was for dispersed launching sites and did not include
    the "large site" at Wizernes, which alone would have been capable of assembling and launching 50 to 90 rockets in 24 hours had it been completed. (Reference 1).
     
    Elsewhere, it notes Dornberger said the "P" attacks cost two months on the missile development. No word on what it did to missile production.
     
    Under Costs, we learn what the Crossbow effort amounted to in men and planes:
     
    In addition, 7,810 Allied lives were lost, of which 1,950 were aircrew. The equivalent[*] of 498 aircraft was lost, including 399 four-engined bombers. 
     
    Had the Germans been able to get the V-2 program up and running in time, I submit it would've/could've been very ugly in the staging and embarkation areas. Before, during and after D-Day.
     
    Glad you had a great birthday!
     
    Regards,
     
    John Kettler

    P.S.

    Almost forgot to mention that in researching his book Vengeance! chronicling his own field work and archival discoveries about German V-weapon sites in France, British missile engineer Philip Henshall unearthed a real stunner: the plans for a kind of V-2 stretch with a payload of radioactive sand and the on-site facilities to produce it close to the launch facilities. I leave it to you to think about what even one of those German dirty bombs could've done.
  22. Downvote
    Wiggum15 got a reaction from J Bennett in Brief overview of where CM is headed   
    But with Upgrade 4.0 still using the outdated CMx2 engine i doubt we will see much improvement in key areas.
    Instead on focusing on keeping the old car driving through the addition of a new oil filter, a spoiler and new tires it would be time to move on and invest into a new car.
    If money or know-how is the problem...well there is kickstarter, i think we all would support you.

    Another thing i dont like is that we now have it Official, the bulge game will only include "minor" changes.
    No new trench/foxhole system. No significant gameplay enhancements, no fix for long standing technical issues.

    Sorry, iam disappointed !
    (But thanks for the heads-up Steve)
  23. Downvote
    Wiggum15 got a reaction from Macisle in Brief overview of where CM is headed   
    But with Upgrade 4.0 still using the outdated CMx2 engine i doubt we will see much improvement in key areas.
    Instead on focusing on keeping the old car driving through the addition of a new oil filter, a spoiler and new tires it would be time to move on and invest into a new car.
    If money or know-how is the problem...well there is kickstarter, i think we all would support you.

    Another thing i dont like is that we now have it Official, the bulge game will only include "minor" changes.
    No new trench/foxhole system. No significant gameplay enhancements, no fix for long standing technical issues.

    Sorry, iam disappointed !
    (But thanks for the heads-up Steve)
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    Wiggum15 reacted to waclaw in Brief overview of where CM is headed   
    I understand, but write what you want to improve in version 4.0 (something from this list wishes) - eg. add beautiful explosions, change the UI, etc. - These are much more important than the information about new modules - bought CMBN, CMA, CMRT, CMSF, CMFI, CMBS and all modules - I have plenty of scenarios to play - now more interested in the mechanics and graphics - ie version 4.0   - Many of the players are in such a situation (recently deleted threads) - give us some hope!
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    Wiggum15 got a reaction from Mace in Brief overview of where CM is headed   
    What playtesting ?
    The scenarios are not updated at all.

    And what miracle ?
    No matter of CMBN, CMFI or CMRT, it the same game essentially. So how should a engine "upgrade" with a few additional features be a miracle ?
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