peter tilbury

The Luftwaffe pilots interviewed in the programme, were far from confident. They seemed to suggest that they were on to a loser from the off, many bemoaning the casulties they were forced to sustain.

All I can say is that the German documentary was fairly forthright in stating that the invasion was a sham. It is so long ago now that I can't recall the sources. It certainly hit my conception of the BoB for six, although I am still a little sceptical. Didn't Napoleon aim for a "window of superiority" in the Channel to get his troops across and almost pulled it off, Nelson dutifully following the excursions of the French fleet, but luckily informing the Admirality which in turn fortuiously picked up the French fleet on its way to the Spanish coastline. Was such an attempted deception something that Hitler could have pondered or were communications by that time so far advanced that a bluff of this nature would not have worked?

In a programme lat year here on GErman TV it was put forward that Hitler was not seriously considering a landing in the first place, but played out an elaborate build-up - stockpiling, troop movements and air campaign to deflect from the real next focus of agression - the Soviet Union. Can't quite buy it myself, but this may be simply because it would put the backs-against-the-wall effort of Britain into a rather dimmer light.

Side topic here. Combat Mission 1 has just been released for retail sale here in Germany - surprise to me but it shows the potential of the quality format since it's internet sales outlet days. Steel Beasts seems to going the same way

There is a story, told in the „World at War“ series I believe of three of the Normandy beachheads being the answers to clues in same Times crossword shortly before the off, and the compiler being brought in for questioning, in case it were a coded message for German intelligence. It turned out to be a complete coincidence!

I had a plane loiter and make two passes. I have a slightly different question however. Is there any way of directing air attacks. I had one game where airpower obliterated the house that was going to cause me trouble, i.e. I could not have chosen the target better myself,and in the other game, the one in which two passes were made the strikes took place well away from the action and served as far as I could see little purpose.

I had a plane loiter and make two passes. I have a slightly different question however. Is there any way of directing air attacks. I had one game where airpower obliterated the house that was going to cause me trouble, i.e. I could not have chosen the target better myself,and in the other game, the one in which two passes were made the strikes took place well away from the action and served as far as I could see little purpose.

Is it possible for a crew to return to an abandonned gun, or is the gun considered destroyed?

Is anybody out there playing this game?