ARCHANGEL

Flame throwers only have a few squirts in them. I may be off here, but I think it is something really low like nine seconds worth. It has been thirty years since I touched one, but I remember it being heavy, bulky, cumbersome and short on staying power (ammo). That is why tanks were outiftted as flame throwing vehicles, because they could haul around all that heavy, specially treated gas. Later, APC's were so equipped and were called ZIPPO's, after the commonly used cigarette lighters that so many soldiers carried. Both the Sherman version and later the M113 APC(1960's-70's) were special targets of the enemy...and they made one hell of a sight when they blew up.

HEAR ! HEAR !!! and then some...!!!

Mike, Charles, Thank you... I don't know what happened today, but I deleted everything and downloaded again and all was perfect in CM-land. In fact, as opposed to actually doing client work, I just did CE ...now I have to stay late and do the client stuff....but it was worth it... Thanks Again...

Download was a breeze, everything seemed fine...when I click on the little tank to begin I get a black screen and hear the "plink" sound that Window's gives when something is wrong...the problem is, I can't see what the box is that window's is trying to show me...hitting mouse left just causes more plinking. Even C,A,D won't help...have to shut down at the minitower and re-boot. Dell 300 desktop, voodoo 2, 128 RAM, hard drive not even close to full, nothing running in the background. Anyone have any ideas on 1) what went wrong and 2) how to fix it???

Fionn, This is for real, man. Over here we hugely get business news from a cable channel called CNBC..(it is also a bit international too, tho). They are right on and I am only aware of one hoax that was pulled on them...and this ain't it. I may have been mistaken about DOOM, but the game they showed in the story looked like Doom or something akin to it...since I am not up to speed on the various games like that, I must have missed the actual game they mentioned. None-the-less, they DO have this gear and it IS going to be for sale soon enough...personally, I can live with out it...(especially in CM), but I can see a future where this will be yet another aspect of game/sim creation and an additional cost to harware buyers.

Yesterday I was watching the business news, as I usually do, when I saw part of a rather intersting story. An company in Tel Aviv has develpoed a card you install in the computer that somehow makes you think you are smelling what ever is triggered on the screen. For instance, if you click on an icon of a strawberry, you will get that smell. That is wild enough, BUT...they expect to add smells like musty hallways to Doom etc. Imagine the smells of the firefight in CM... MY own war experiences have long since lead me to think that if more people had been in a real firefight they might be less combative in real life...BUT, that aside...think of the possiblilites for CM...the buring tanks, the charred flesh, the cordite, the sweat, the sweet smell of the blood ....all on your computer for $90.00 And we haven't even addressed the potential from video pron with smells....no more scrath n' sniff for that crowd... Anyway, just keeping you all advised of the latest in innovative computer tech. [This message has been edited by ARCHANGEL (edited 05-04-2000).]

Actually, I have done that, though not by design. I was playing LD the other day and was doing very well. The Germans were massing on the US left (I was the US) and had all the armor in the center on the road when the TD's arrived. ALL the German armor was killed in two turns, with the loss of one TD. The German infantry still came on along the left side in the woods...I had one platoon holding there and it was doing quite well but I did re-enforce it with one squad from the TD group. On the US right side I had the Germans well covered and began a counter attack at about turn 20 or so. This lead to one squad getting cutoff near that little flagged house on the right side. They did panic but couldnt run far. I sent along their Platoon Leader and one squad to support them. After a few turns they were back in the fight and holding agsainst a German counter-attack...which failed. Interestingly, I had THREE rifle squads panic during the entire game...ultimately they all returned to the action, but I had never had that many freak out before. Luckily my troop dispositions were sufficient to hold the line. [This message has been edited by ARCHANGEL (edited 05-03-2000).]

Mirage 2k, You also have 60mm mortars to use against that 88. About 40% of the time one of my 60mm's knocks out that left side 88 within the first six or so turns. I would also agree with Simon Fox, you can put some smoke in front of that 88 and move on the town...the 88 has a bit of a limit on what he can shoot, re: LOS.

Moon, Shirker, That was REALLLLLLY funny...

To the ANZAC fallen, SALUTE. Archangel

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Username: Happy BDAY you old fart. Ill be 40 (I only act 14)in a few weeks (hopefully wasted and playing CM at that date) so don't feel bad. I was jogging and saw a yard sale that had most of those titles you mentioned. Also old playboys and origional GI Joes (sans Kung Foo grip) and a long ranger and tonto in the boxes!. As I didnt have my wallet, the jog turned into an all out sprint to get home, get money and get back there. Well when I got back, all that was left was a naked GIJoe. Someone had bought up everything for 20 bucks cause it had started raining. Those senior citizens had no clue. Lewis<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Lewis, Actually turning fifty is easy. I began being a crumedgeon when I was about 38, now at fifty, I can offically become one. Luckily I look younger than that and I am still in pretty serious shape. The thing is, as you have already discovered for yourself, I don't feel fifty, but I do feel somewhat liberated...and I will sell my company later this year and retire...so I have nothing to bitch about... Come to think of it tho, the serious flatulance began at 49.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Ted: Was Johnny Cloud the American Indian P-51 pilot? I haven’t thought of that comic in, what, decades. I wonder if kids in other countries had their own Sgt. Rock comic books?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Yes, Capt. Johnny Cloud was the P-51 jock. If memory serves (and it usually does despite the old fart comment ), Sgt Rock, Gunner & Sarge, Our Army at War were earlier than the others...obviously, I was born in 1950 and I remember reading these when I was still pretty young, like five or six...I seem to recall Sgt Fury being when I was around ten or so,(1960 for those of you who are math challanged ) But it may have been a little earlier. I also recall a real burst of war comics in the early sixties, but by about 1963 I had discovered other things worth my interest. I haven't looked on Ebay because I don't want to know how much money was thrown away when these were all disposed of. I kept them beautifully stacked and clean, etc., even after I had lost interest in reading and collecting them. For baseball cards, I had Topps from about 1954 thru the year Yaz was a rookie. (sigh!) Thanks to all of you for your kind wishes... Now, back to being a bad boy for the day... Cheers...

Funny you should mention that SS, I was just thinking about Sgt. Rock, Sgt. Fury, Melle. Marie, Johnny Cloud, Gunner & Sarge, The Haunted Tank, Our Army At War, et al. Of course, I was thinking about it in terms of today being my 50th birthday and how I wish my Mother hadn't thrown them away when I went to college. Now I am off to very hedonistically celebrate.

Darryl: I was referring to the U boat.

I am a lawyer. If you post an idea in a public forum then you generally cannot claim it as something more than just that... a public posting. I understand your caution but it is misplaced and inappropriate.

Coincedently..... Interestingly enough, yesterday the History Channel (US) had a special about this flick. They had two historians, the director, several cast members...and most importantly, a German U-boat CO and a CMM from a US sub. The director stated, uncatagorically that his goal was to show the viewers what WW2 sub combat was like. The two historians, when asked if the movie was more "Hollywood than history" stated that the movie was more "history than Hollywood". The two actual sub vets said the movie had little realism and was more Hollywood. The German CO was emphatic in that...the US vet was also. Amongst the complaints...the depth charge pattern (as previously stated by Titian), the number of charges, the damage to the boat...(special note...subs aren't riveted...they are welded), the combat scenes were considered inaccurate as well. The host was amused that the vets disagreed with the historians. I was amused too, but I suspect, for different reasons. Jon Bon Jovi is startlingly inarticulate.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by iggi: Hey ARCHANGEL, did you ever go by the name Capt Comel? Did you ever run a Max2 Heaven site?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Nope! I don't even know what Max2Heaven site would be. Archangel was my personal radio call sign in Vietnam.

Allan, Pre-war US sub doctrine included using sonar to fire at surface ships. It was pretty inaccurate. When the war began there were sub skippers who were releived for using this technique because it had been abandoned. They were considered to be not "aggressive" enough. I would doubt whether there were submerged to submerged, sonar guided kills during the war. As Mark IV pointed out, surface yes, that is a matter or record.

Hopefully I am not missing something here,not having read the locked thread, but I use "delaying" and minor retrograde movements in LD whenever I play it as the US. I also use them as the Germans in CE and R-burg. They aren't very hard to do in the beta, so I expect that the final, with all its wonderful improvements, will make them evan better. (Archangel now dons Nomax flight suit in the event of flame filled attacks)

Allan, "S" class subs were reasonably primitive since they were old designs. Many of the subs in the Philipines when the war began were S class. Although they did a decent and extremely brave job with them, they were reasonably quickly pulled back to be used as training subs and the more modern subs were put into service. S class boats only fired four torps forward and one aft. Reloads were slow and difficult. I can't say for sure wheather a few were equiped with radar but I am not aware of it and I am reasonably up to speed on US subs of that era. Since I don't plan to see how Hollywood goes to war (a tad cynical from having spent time in that business years ago), if you want a hard answer, please tell me the circumstances of the use of the radar. The only radar I am aware of (fielded in 1942 on subs) was aircraft detection radar ( it was primitive stuff too). I don't recall surface radars being used until later in the war...I will look up the dates if you wish. Radar that showed targets underwater, to the best of my recollection, was not available during the war...at all. Gen'l Info: S class subs Displacement: 903 surface 1230 submerged Size: 261x21x13 (feet) Power: 2 dielsel & 2 electric engines Speed: Max surface 14.5/11 submerged (limited duration) Depth: 200 feet test depth (could usualuly go to 250 or so in actuality) Range: surface 8000nm at 10 knots Torpedo's: 4 fore, 1 aft, 12 total and 1 four inch deck gun. Other classes in use at the time were: Barracuda, Narwhal, P and Salmon (all were older, like the S class, tho each of these was much bigger than an S class) All were eventually replaced by the T class Fleet Submarine beginning in mid-to-late 1942.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Ol' Blood & Guts: Ha! Speaking of which... I'm not an expert on historical engagements in CM's scale, but take for instance, the 40 turns (minutes) in CE. Would an engagement of that size really only last for 40 minutes? On the other hand, I guess it would, because it can be played out in less time. But it seems to me that there wouldn't always be that mad rush to contact. You know, alot of sitting around and waiting. Or is that the time in-between engagements in Operations? These are just some of the things I sit around thinking about in my spare time, and believe me, I've got a lot of it! <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> B&G, From my own experience only, MOST of the firefights I was in (against the NVA) lasted less than an hour. Not all, but most...An example, the Invasion of Cambodia..five fights on one day...none for the next two...two more the next day, and so on... There were exceptions...at the seige of AnLoc (where we were the beseiged) we fought nearly every day for a few months...tho that "fighting" may be anything from a probe to an all out attack against us with NVA armor support. Then there is the arty to consider...shelled every day, or thereabouts. (If memory serves after all these years) My own opinion is that a commander takes his objective as best he can...sometimes that is with some rapidity, other times it is with more caution. Obviously it depends on his force mix and the force mix he is facing, plus terrain, weather, etc. But keep in mind that in the CM context we are usually employing units that are part of a more general organization, even if it is locally a "tidying" operation or in response to a breakthrough of varying size. If you don't take Reisburg quickly, then an envelopment a few miles away by another part of your Division may fail...(or any number of other related actions in your part of the war)

RE: Grease Guns....I had a bit of experience with the M-3....it worked quite well, even in wet conditions...it was a tad heavy...all that 45 ammo...

Smaragdadler, Thanks very much for that interesting post. I am a little bit involved in the art world. The general consensus of opinion(that I have read or heard) is that the Russian's finally got the Amber Room at the end of the war but have never admitted it. As I write this they are trying to raise funds to replicate it. On the other hand, the Runssians say that the Nazi's took it and it is either hidden or was destroyed. It is quite interesting to ponder it's fate. Maybe we will never know. I am off to visit the links you posted. Thanks again...

Kverdon, What is anti-aliasing ?? I too would like to see a link or something,if you know of one, for the same reason as von Shrad. Thanks Very Much...

Hey Coe, The goal is to be harder to spot. IMO, this works well in CM.