The Vyrdolak
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I haven't been able to eat Cornish hen since I saw that film.Originally posted by tecumseh:Stalin's hair was very impressive, perhaps second only to the mighty-maned Chuikov, who probably looked like Eraserhead in october 42.
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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?Originally posted by Joachim:And the ancestors of the Bavarian kings were in fact Counts of the Palatinate long before they inherited Bavaria.
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Never mind, there are plenty of archived posts on this subject.
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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
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Looks like a converted Matilda to me.Originally posted by flamingknives:Are those PzIV tracks under that thing?
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I haven't played ASL since about 1993 or so.Originally posted by Richie:Or should that read 'bored' games...
Man... I used to play ASL religiously. I haven't played in years.
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.
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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.Originally posted by With Clusters:I'm still curious as to how this will be utilized. I know, for 'educational' purposes, which is cool. But educating who, exactly? Will every soldier get the disc the first day of boot camp?
Good on ya, Battlefront!
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Isn't that a winter camo pattern? Who cuts their grass in the winter?
(Just kidding, it's beautiful)
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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.Originally posted by Hans:I'm collecting material to produce (For the upcoming CMAK) a number of 1948-1956 scenarios on the Arab Israel conflict.
My major difficulty is finding maps of battles, especially the '48 ones at the Kibbutzs. Do you have sources that give maps/diagrams of those and the Egyptian drive up from the South?
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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.Originally posted by Screeny:OK OK OK hold that train and thought for a second.....etcetcetc....so does any one knows a good book on all of this but then of the Napoleonic Era?? There are many books about Napie but I don't want to end up with an Biograpy descriping his breakfast ritual
. So A good readable yet thorough book on the basic principle, tactics, strategies, unit types, doctrines, ToE, OoB's etcetcetc of that era for the beginner...Thanx in Advance
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OK so how did British Guardsmen (Grenadiers, Coldstream, etc) end up with bearskins? [/QB]</font>Originally posted by gibsonm:</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Zaraath:
grenadiers from Catholic countries (France, Austria) tended to wear bearskins, while mitre caps were worn by Protestant armies (Great Britain, Brandenburg-Prussia).
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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.Originally posted by MrSpkr:I did several from the old Cross of Iron game (pre-ASL) and Squad Leader. SL5 -- Hill 621 is one I am particularly proud of. All of them are available at the Scenario Depot.
Steve
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Long before Napoleonic times. Before, even, Marlbourgh. Grenadiers were always assault troops. In their earliest form the carried... wait for it... grenades. </font>Originally posted by Berlichtingen:</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by John D Salt:
Both honorifics hark back to Napoleonic times...
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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>Originally posted by Dave H:</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Florian Gross:
I think I heard this in my history course in school. I was quite sure about it, because there were german colonies in the US
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A port of the SL scenario Sweep for Bor Toum Bridge.Originally posted by Midnight Warrior:I'd like to see scenario conversions of the the old AH game, Tobruk.
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So that "braaaaaapppp" sound isn't an MP40?Originally posted by tracer:Yeah, they are fun to listen to, but man that dude needs a laxative bad
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Does this have a "lutefisk" option?Originally posted by mike_the_wino:Originally posted by ParaBellum
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr /> Guess I have to upgrade first in order to finnish that mod.
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Here are some more choice Russian phrases, use at your own risk. (Don't access this site from yourOriginally posted by Terence:It [suka] means bitch and saying it in any context to a Russian woman would be a bad idea.
Russians seem to take the obscenities in their language more seriously than we do. Being an American who doesn't know better is not a very good excuse, either.
work computer, either)
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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.Originally posted by Sitting Duck:Probably should get some backup software...it's saved my life more than once!
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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.Originally posted by Slater_SS:ok ok this isnt really important to any of you here but I need somewhere to moan. I just had crash on my pc two weeks ago ( First ever on this PC) and so I 've lost close to 700mb of mods maps patches for both CMBO and CMBB
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...)
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Do you have to manually count your Kampfgruppe's losses at game end? It sounds pretty time-consuming to me.Originally posted by Biltong:Biltong’s Campaign Rules
If you have any questions - post in this thread and I or one of the old hands will answer you within a day or 2.
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Jews made up 10% of Poland's prewar population,Originally posted by Lord Dragon:Firefly,remember that most of the 5.3 million
were Polish Jews, gassed by the Nazi's.
so roughly 11% of the remaining 90% were killed
(assuming 100% mortality among the Jews, which
isn't far off).
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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 exactOriginally posted by Lumbergh:Glantz has some totalled numbers ("When Titans Clashed").
citation, sorry.
Hitler vs. Stalin
in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin
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Lenin (
Stalin (H)
Kruschev (
Brezhnev (H)
Andropov (
Chernenko (H)
Gorbachev (
Yeltsin (H)
Putin (
It's uncanny.