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Stuka.

Because he's l337.

I'm not personally interested but I'd love to read a review when you're done.

I've had no contact from "The Enigma" since 09 March. He's my Moltke bridge oppo - anyone heard from him?

I reckon Hitler would go in with a quick flurry but would punch himself out pretty quick. Stalin would probably get a broken nose, black eye etc but once he got over the shock he'd rip rip Hitler a new one. Sounds familiar somehow.

JasonC, let me answer this again - in hope of me learning more. Would it really have matted to the WE if they HAD fired 10X more ammo? Your calculations seem to be predicated on the upper edge being the amount of ammo available. Whereas ISTM that the WE can afford to shoot off more or less what they want. There were no hold ups while ammo stocks were re-filled. So a purely attritionist doctrine in this won't be calculable as an upper shells-fireable isn't really an issue.

Thats wargame thinking. You have to fight another day. The US had the lowest rate of casualties didn't they? Must have been a fluke huh? If those 25 pdr shells were replaced with 105mm shells, perhaps the battle would have been different? I am surprised that Jason has not jumped on that fact. </font>

Thats wargame thinking. You have to fight another day. The US had the lowest rate of casualties didn't they? Must have been a fluke huh? </font>

Yes, and none of these factors are present in the current scenario. JasonC, I agree with your general approach which I think is manouverist within an attritionist wrapper, and I think that is what the CW commanders were doing in the scenario highlighted. Therefore I feel the CW CO actions in this engagement where scaled, right and proper. TBH I don't really know what Lewis's point is, apart from yar-boo-sucks.

Define a "waste of arty". If you have the shells and can fire them, they won't be missed and will save a life - would you count it as a "waste"? Bear in mind by this time the CW had been at war for 5 years. Casualty lists in newspapers had lost their inital sparkle. Any HE fired which stopped MG bullets coming back were welcome. Would you as CO have fired less?

Spotting some redundancy here...

The thing is it isn't 200-500 shells getting a casualty. It's the shells landed achieving the objective. The objective in this case was a breakthrough in the lines; which was achieved. During that breakthrough the enemy had a certain amount captured, a certain amount wounded a certain amount KIA. You yourself list the end which it achieves and then re-state 200-500 per casualty. It wasn't that ratio pre casualty which was the important statistic. It was that ratio per casualty + (percentage of PoW) + Delay of reinforcements + lack of comms + etc etc.

3% in a bit over a day is a hell of a lot. Plus it did it's main job of breaking the rest & isolating them from the rear. Hence the 1,115 PW.

There's also the often stated fact that casualties in CM are all people at the sharp end. You don't see the mile after mile of tail; Hospitals, transport, ammo runners, arty batteries etc etc. What you see is the raw bloody edge. So if you read X battalion took 15% casualties you need to bear in mind that up, what, 70% (dependant on country) of the battalion wasn't directly fighting. 15% is half the men actually in combat. I don't know how the poor bastards did it.

Kingfish - is it ok to ceasefire a game?

Mate - that's the most unlucky thing I've heard of in CM. You generally don't have to ensure pioneers don't chuck charges as it usually takes a lot for them to throw them. You just got lucky.

Finished Highlanders. We're at a point in Wet Triangle where we should ceasefire - is this OK or do we have to be bitterenders?

BFC could offer server space for file transfer. At a small fee of course. FTP to the centeral repository & FTP down the other side. Voila - PBAT. Just please don't jump on this revenue stream to exclude customers (*cough - me*) from using their own space.

I think it is a bug, and it would be better if people didn't know about, since then they couldn't abuse it. </font>

I wouldn't really say it was a bug but people do need to know about it. Which is my way of saying "bump" for the saturday crowd.

securityguard, did you know about the exploit or were you just using good sense?

By continuing and getting a higher score. I'm not saying anyone would necessarily do it but in some form of ladder play I could see where it might happen.

That in a PBEM, if your opponent has ceasefired, you can ceasefire then look at the "autosave" of the turn which will show you the end results of the game. You could then return to his previously sent turn, not ceasefire, do your turn & be informed on where his units were. I emailed Matt about this and he said it was not a bug as the game was over by then. However I do feel like it's open to abuse. Just make sure ceasefires are agreed before either party initiates them with people you don't know/trust.

Yep I would. Maybe not CM3 or 4, expansion packs etc.

Coolio. Why not park a truck or something at the bottom of the map, select it & tab to lock it, then take your pic? This would put the map in the same position each time.