jhaberfellner

Hi, This might be a little off topic so let me start off by saying "mea culpa". I recently finished a couple of books I found interesting. They were "The Biltzkrieg Era and The German General Staff" by Larry H. Addington and "Supplying War" by Martin van Creveld. I was just wondering what people thought of these books and if anyone could recommend any additional reading on the topic of logisitics. Thanks.

Hi, This is sort of off topic, but are there any good accounts of the Polish Campaign? I have the Zaloga/Madej book but this tells the story from the Polish side only. Are there any good acounts that tell the story from both sides? Just Curious.

I have a dumb question and I'm kind of shaky on the facts so please forgive me if I've got wrong. Wasn't one of the changes for 1.12 tougher pillboxes? Aren't pillboxes modeled as stationary vehicles? Maybe the problem occured as a result of this change and not a change to the close assault code.

Hi, Just to add more fuel to the fire, Bruce Gudmundson in "Stormtroop Tactics 1914-1918" says that the splitting of squads was practiced in the German Army in WWI, and gives a couple of examples from after action reports. He further claims that this practice was common in the German army in WWII with squads splitting to form "pincers". In "Infantry Tactics" by John A. English several examples of allied squads ( mainly in the pacific ) being split into individual fire teams are cited. This may not be appropriate to CM's scale, but it doesn't seem to have been all that uncommon a practice. Thanks.

If you have ever read Werner Adamczyk's (sp?) book "Feuer" he mentions an incident where his battery ( he was a gunner on a sFH 18 ) was ordered to fire, indirectly, armor piercing shells at advancing tanks. He mentions that he thought that this was a stupid thing to do, but later heard that his battery had knocked out three enemy tanks. This incident happened during the summer of 1941 in Russia. Anyway, just thought I would throw this weird tidbit into this thread since you were discussing the effects of artillery on tanks earlier. Thanks.

Hi, Microsoft has no plans to get DirectX 6 working on NT 4.0. NT 4.0 machines are stuck with DirectX 3 - i.e. no AGP memory. DirectX 5, which allows AGP memory, is for Windows 95 OSR 2.1 and Windows 98 only. AGP and VPE were the big changes between DirectX 3 and DirectX5. Neither of these features work on NT 4.0. On the bright side DirectX 6 will work, or least is supposed to work, with Windows 2000 ( previously NT 5.0 ) and Windows 9x, allowing the use of AGP memory on both these platforms. If I've made any errors here, corrections would be appreciated.