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  1. Hey Wacky, I think you would a agree if it was a map with a hills, more trees and buildngs our mobile force could possibly take out those 4 Panthers from the side or rear while our Zook teams took care of the StuGs. It would be a fine challenge but this guy took care of that threat by having such a wide-open map with little or no cover. Pity! BTW I used smoke cover to take out 2 StuGs and capture one flag before doing a ceasefire knowing something was terribly wrong with the setup.

    RW

  2. <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>I still think Wittman was killed by a rocket from a British

    Hurricane Franko. And so did his old gunner, Bobby Woll.

    -Head <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

    Bobby Woll was not in Tiger 007 the day it was knocked out. He was given command of his own Tiger Tank in August '44; was wounded and was fit for duty in March '45 and fought on to the end of the war. After the war he became an electrician and recently died in 1996.

    RW

  3. I think there are a few excellent "Villars Bocage" scenarios with Michael Wittman. I could be wrong, but from what I have seen on other posts is that poor Michael does not survive often.

    From watching the recent documentary on Michael Wittman this man used a lot of intuition and "gut" feeling on where his opponent would be and this led to a lot of his successes; something a great game like CM cannot portray.

    RW

  4. I also had a tankfest on a really huge map.

    What was interesting in my battle was my PBEM opponent winning one end of the map and I the other. It now became a "long" battle with long range tank duels instead of the usual "wide" map with shorter range tank duels.

    Something I can look forward to with CM2.

    Just hope QBs in CM2 will allow for setups on the longer ends of the map smile.gif

    RW

  5. When I was in Hamburg on vacation and playing a hotseat game of CM I picked off a Ostwind at 200 metres with a Piat which I earlier kept moaning how bad shots they are.

    He did have his CO nearby which helped.

    This game sure does have its surprises smile.gif

    RW

  6. I just got back from France visiting Normandy and the Musee Des Blindes Tank Museum in Saumur.

    In July Saumur holds a Carrousel where you can get to see a King Tiger, Panther and others crank up their engines and actually move around a large infield!

    I plan to go next year myself.

    So with the Tank Fest in Bovington cancelled Saumur is the place to go smile.gif

    http://www.musee-des-blindes.asso.fr/blindes/som.htm

    RW

  7. I noticed when I run Bazooka and Piat Anti-tank teams the piat Teams quickly become tired while the Zook teams can go a bit longer before tiring.

    Is the piat and ammo that much heavier to cause the teams to tire faster than their Bazooka team counterparts (or maybe they are just not in better shape). smile.gif

  8. I got this info sent to me by email:

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    Platinum award for Sudden Strike-

    End of February, CDV Software received the highly

    acclaimed Platinum Award of VUD for 200 000 sold

    copies of the RTS-game Sudden Strike in Germany,

    Austria and Switzerland.

    "Having received this award shortly before the

    release of the official add-on Sudden Strike Forever,

    on the 6th of April 2001, underlines the importance

    of this award to us and is at the same time a huge

    motivation to continue on the road for success also

    for Sudden Strike Part II, "Claudia Rieflin, PR Director

    for CDV Software, explains. "The background that this

    high-demanding RTS-game proved to be a blockbuster put

    many critics right."

    Link:

    http://www.suddenstrike.com/english/news

    end quote.

    With the Sudden Strike success in Europe I was wondering how well CM did in sales over in Europe since it is a far superior game in my estimination?

    RW

  9. I had my bout with Trojans two weeks ago. I now have the T Innoculate free virus scanner which is constantly updated and is very good at getting rid of viruses and worms.

    Also, Zone Alarm which was recommended to me on the CM chat has helped to keep my computer free of these nasty viruses smile.gif

    RW

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