Huron

Indeed, the effect is some strangely haunted and haunting pictures, especially those with dead bodies or the children milling through the streets. I kept waiting for that picture with the lonesome Red Army soldier staring down at the victims of an artillrry barrage or the one where people have dug up the frozen ground and are queing for drinking water. Maybe they couldn't locate the exact spots where those pictures were taken, though. Now I'm just waiting to see who'll make the first comment about those other, ahem, interesting pictures on the Biertijd site... :-)

Hmm, don't know about train rides, Coe, but maybe you're thinking of a quote about it being only a day's march between the western and eastern fronts? It's a comment made by a battalion commander as Wenck's 12th Army sets off eastward from the Elbe river to rescue Busse's 9th Army from the encirclement near Halbe. "In einem Fussmarch von einem Tag von der West- zur Ostfront! Wer hätte daran einmal gedacht? Es sagt alles über unsere Lage!" (from the diary of Peter Rettich in the Reichhelm archive) The quote is found in Antony Beevor's "Berlin - The Downfall 1945". I only have that book in Swedish, so don't quote me on the exact English translation used (hopefully someone can provide it), but the diary entry means: "From the west front to the east front in a day's march! Who would have thought so once? It says everything about our situation!"

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The HQ's are setting the ambush for the squads. Have the HQ set up one or more ambush markers, and target the marker(s) with the squads under it's command and hide. Ambush markers set very close is also a way to make sure your troops hold their fire. They're less likely to reveal themselves and waste ammo on spotted targets several hundred meters away.

Yes, Cpl Carrot, I'm pretty much of the same cautious nature myself, actually, and racing an armour platoon into the village is easier in hindsight, knowing you had more tanks than Redwolf. I'm still stuck with the demo here in Europe, so don't know much about CMBB yet, but this has got me thinking about using armour more aggressivly than in CMBO. The Yelnia Stare scenario is a point in case in the extreme, but still. The brittleness of infantry will take some re-learning, also in the aggressive use of tanks. [ September 29, 2002, 01:45 PM: Message edited by: Huron ]

Thanks to both of you for the time and effort of posting pics and AAR. I came to late to follow it live, but always find AAR's interesting. Cpl Carrot, during the set up phase, did you contemplate sending a tank platoon with mounted infantry racing straight for the village? With the rest of a inf company catching up as fast as possible. From the overview pics it looks like the Axis had a better view of the village, and maybe even a shorter distance, so it would have been quite a risk. But having two tank platoons, maybe one could have been worth to gamble with. It's always easy to second-guess when you have the facts ( ) and not playing blind, so I'm just asking, curious of your thoughts on how such a gamble would have paid off. One could assume you'd have a greater chance of securing the large VL than than Redwolf (looks like a better covered approach to it for inf), so messing up the approach to the supposed priamry targets for the Axis (village/small VL's) could have been worthwhile. And yes, I can just feel the agony of ending up face to face with a Pz IV/70 in a T-34, uff. Great series of pics, Redwolf.

Buddy Tool, I'm going to put on Manowar's "Battle Hymns" when I fire up the CMBB demo. Ahh, can't wait... Sound the charge, into glory ride! Huron PS. Oh, right, about pre-order. Yes, yes, I'm pro-pre-order. DS.

Hello there, E-mail sent. I've been away from PBEMing a bit, but a team/cooperative game sounds like great fun. Huron

I just did a quick test with MadMatts method and didn't notice any pause for the vehicle with more waypoints. Only thing was, that it's sometimes hard to get a straight line when using several waypoints, so there was a very small pause for the unit when changing direction a little. Something totally unrelated but funny happened, though. One M8 was bogged down near the map edge at the end of it's movement orders, wile reversing. To my suprise, it continued to roll and finally went off the map all by itself. Huron [This message has been edited by Huron (edited 09-06-2000).]

I'm shamelessly bumping my own question, to do my little bit in helping the board get back on track and bury the Peiper affair deeper down where it belongs. Huron

Thanks for the update, BTS. It made me remember a thing I've meant to ask for a time and now seems lika a good opportunity. Steve said: "I too am looking forward to TCP/IP because I can probably crank out 2-3 turns before one or the other has to wash dishes or something else 'pressing'". Okay, it sounds like you can save the game in progress with TCP/IP. (I thought that would be the case) But what about opening a PBEM file with TCP/IP and vice versa? When you save a game of PBEM (not hitting the Go or Done) and reload the file later, I've noticed that there's the grayed out option of playing it as a TCP/IP game, besides Hotseat and e-mail. It has made me believe the different forms of multiplayer will be interchangable. Can you confirm this, Steve? It would be great to know, for then it wouldn't look so daunting starting one of the longer scenarios or an operation as a PBEM game, if you knew you could continue and finish it in a matter of days over the Internet, eventually. Thanks. Daveman said: "As clumsy as email is, it's great for those who can play for awhile each day w/o making a big commitment." Funny how we look different on things. On my part, I see PBEM as a big commitment, over an extended period of time. TCP/IP would suit me better, I think, because I can find an opponent who's willing to play and finish a scenario in a day or two. Then I can do something else until the multiplayer mood strikes me again. There's no day to day commitment. TCP/IP will be great. Then I can seriously start convincing a few of my fellow gamers that we should take up CM in our LAN parties, even if it's just two-player. They're not wargamers, but are always interested in a good game, so a quick head to head-challange will be the bait to get them hooked. Regards Goran Malm

Ops, sorry about that, had the "respond via e-mail" disabled, which appearantly hides the adress. Thanks, all, I'll get in touch with you right away. Zaffod, I was looking for blind games, so maybe we can play another scenario? Ah, right, an e-mail is coming. Huron

Hi, I finally got my copy a few days ago, and now I'm looking for a couple of opponents for blind PBEM games. I haven't played any of the scenarios yet, except for the training ones, so feel free to pick any one scenario and side that might interest you, but you haven't got around to playing yet. Myself, I'd like to play "Chambois" as the avenging Poles. I hope there's somebody out there wanting to teach them a lesson again. My e-mail adress is in the profile. Until later Huron

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