The Vyrdolak

You ever notice how Soviet and post-Soviet leaders alternate between bald and fully-coifed? Lenin ( Stalin (H) Kruschev ( Brezhnev (H) Andropov ( Chernenko (H) Gorbachev ( Yeltsin (H) Putin ( It's uncanny.

I haven't been able to eat Cornish hen since I saw that film.

I thought Maximilian of Bavaria was granted the Electorship of the Palatinate as a reward for staying loyal to the Emperor in the 30YW, when the hereditary Elector Frederick was put under the Imperial ban?

Never mind, there are plenty of archived posts on this subject.

My video card seems to be on the way out. When I tried to start CMBB this morning the screen developed a green wash and the mouse froze; when I rebooted it was set to 16bit 640x480, and the desktop went off the screen's edge. What are some cards to avoid? All Radeons? (I'm not using a desktop). TIA

Looks like a converted Matilda to me.

I haven't played ASL since about 1993 or so. After Avalon Hill closed up shop, Rex Martin did his doctoral dissertation on "The Rise and Fall of Carboard Wargamingin the 1970s" [approximate title] at the University of Pennsyvlania. I found an abbreviated version on the web at one point, but I can't find the bookmark. His master's thesis, which I got to look at a hardcopy of when I used to playtest there on Wednesday nights, was on the Russo-Uberfinn war.

Obviously, they're going to issue it to officer candidates; after viewing the multimedia presentation on the Battle of Crete and maybe doing a bit of reading, they will be paired off and given a set of scenarios (training exercises) to play and learn how to deal with some of the tactical problems encountered during the campaign. Good on ya, Battlefront!

Isn't that a winter camo pattern? Who cuts their grass in the winter? (Just kidding, it's beautiful)

Naval Postgraduate School site http://library.nps.navy.mil/home/mapcollection.htm

One of the best sources for something like that is the Wsst Point Atlas of Military History series. I would be surprised if they don't have a volume on the AIW.

Jeremy Black, Col. John R. Elting, and (Sir?) David Chandler are all excellent. Eltings Arm's Around a Throne does get a bit deep into the minutiae of La Grand Armee, maybe not what you're looking for.

OK so how did British Guardsmen (Grenadiers, Coldstream, etc) end up with bearskins? [/QB]</font>

The map doesn't look like the way I pictured the 2D map back in the day, but ASL - Hube's Pocket is very exciting.

Long before Napoleonic times. Before, even, Marlbourgh. Grenadiers were always assault troops. In their earliest form the carried... wait for it... grenades. </font>

Actually I think King George III would have been very put out if he had known there were German colonies in North America. At the time of the Revolutionary War, most of the Germans on this side of the Atlantic were troops hired by the British.</font>

A port of the SL scenario Sweep for Bor Toum Bridge.

So that "braaaaaapppp" sound isn't an MP40?

Does this have a "lutefisk" option? </font>

Here are some more choice Russian phrases, use at your own risk. (Don't access this site from your work computer, either) http://nerve.com/regulars/quickies/slanguage/russian/

Microsoft Backup comes with Windows, but you will have to save up to a file on the HD unless you have a second drive or a zip, CDR/CDRW or tape drive.

I had a crash (disk became non-bootable, although it had been f'ing up for about a month beforehand), and have firsthand knowledge of two other people at work this happened to, plus anecdotes of others. I think it is a new virus, although I can't find anything recent at Symantec or Kaspersky specifically about this. I lost two years' worth of files in 1997 despite having a tape backup installed (too little capacity, too much trouble); since then, I am religious about backing up. I didn't lose any files this time, I slaved the old drive and copied everyting off of it (including the virus, presumably...)

Do you have to manually count your Kampfgruppe's losses at game end? It sounds pretty time-consuming to me.

Jews made up 10% of Poland's prewar population, so roughly 11% of the remaining 90% were killed (assuming 100% mortality among the Jews, which isn't far off).

I think it was roughly 80% / 20% East/West, both in total casualties and in division months (# of divisions * months in action). Can't find the exact citation, sorry.