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  1. I don't know you fella but good luck. I had a 3 day total memory loss after concussion when I was a kid. Apparently I was perfectly normal (OK OK) for the 3 days then it was like I woke up while I was walking with my mum.

    It's a bit scary.

    If you can remember your old email address I'd guess Martin (moon) might be able to find your old account.

    FWIW I remember a discussion of that "flames to the sky on a bridge" issue in CM:BB but I don't know whether it was your image I saw it on.

    Nevertheless there may be someone who remembers the thread where such things were discussed, or the nickname the issue got so you could find a thread you contributed to.

    Hope you find something.

  2. I think most people tend to sit behind their MG screen rather than going out to meet the enemy. I think this is sub-optimal for as:

    - you don’t get enough info on the enemies disposition

    - you tend to get pinned in place and defeated in detail

    - all you can see of the enemy is what they want you to see (usually guns, unfriendly lot)

    I split off a portion – like a quarter – of my infantry, those with the most short range and AT weapons, and go forward in a sparse line with them sticking to as much cover as possible.

    You'll usually lose the ones directly in front of the schwerpunkt but generally people don’t attack along a broad line and the ones missed get to play around in the enemies back yard where there tends to be nice tasty morsels like FOs, COs, mortars, IGs - all the stuff that suits hitting at long range and isn’t as good up close.

    So either your opponent end up splitting off a big enough security detail to find these guys and be sure of killing them, or you manage to remove a lot of his firepower advantage.

    What normally happens is they send a few AFVs to try and find your guys. You'll win a few, lose a few and definitely disrupt his time-table.

    While the forward skirmishers have been disrupting things you’ve got enough info to move men around. Of the remaining line I tend to leave 50% where they are and concentrate the rest where I know the enemy is coming.

    You want every arm shooting at every arm of the attacker. If you manage that and don’t have swathes of unengaged men then cover advantage should negate numeric advantage enough to hopefully give you the win.

  3. While Britain may well have continued to fight guerilla style if invaded, the real consequence would have been a vastly more difficult logistical issue for the US in terms of getting back to the European continent. So, BOB was decisive even though very few men were involved

    The invasion in N Africa was direct from the US, but it was tiny compared to Normandy and against dubious quality French opposition. Probably, N. Africa would have had to be the main US build-up area and the main invasion would probably then be via S. of France or Italy.

    I doubt the US would have entered the war had the UK sued for peace - which is much more realistic than an actual sea borne invasion - if we'd lost the Battle of the Atlantic.

  4. The Battle of the Atlantic.

    Knock Britain out, you also take Australia, NZ, India and possibly Canada. America would still have fought the Japanese but that would probably be a separate conflict.

    If Britain had to sue for peace there would have been zero appetite to re-join the war, meaning all the garrisons would have been tiny - even the stupid amount in Norway could have made a difference somewhere.

    Germany & Russia would have still been a huge war, which I think the Germans would have won - no Western front, no "adventure" in NA and no razing of its cities from the air and probably different timing for Barbarossa.

    Also no lend-lease to the Soviets.

    A very different conflict and a very, very different world.

  5. Steam is good, I think. One thing I'm less than pleased with is it seems to be feature-creeping. It now saves saves in the cloud, which I don't see the point of. I'm not going to be playing games on two machines and, for the fraction of the user base that will or will lose their saves, they're inflicting a system and bandwidth overhead on everybody.

    But you can turn it off. So I have.

    FWIW, I think the PC resurgence may be more to do with the current console generation being >5 years old.

  6. Hi guys

    Advice needed, a friend wants to have a QB via PBEM. Only problem is I have never played QB's.

    Therefore, I have no idea what would make a good QB. Could you guys suggest some parameters I should choose in the QB generator please?

    Battle type,size,length,month,year,force purchase, environment weather etc...

    all suggestions welcome

    cheers

    Huge open map, medium forces, standard rarity, clear weather.

  7. If we are going to have Royal Tigers, (I believe the Allies only fought them in Normandy, hence the Royal prefix) will their be an animation of it grinding to a halt, as its final drive sheers? A rather depressed driver could then dismount, shaking his head sadly, followed shortly by the rest of the crew, a look of stoical resignation on their grimy faces (well, they would be used to spending long periods of time waiting for the recovery crews!)

    Yes, and you can hear the radio operator teaching himself French from a book to pass the time.

    He's getting quite good.

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