guachi
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My first thought qwhen I looked at it was that it was a Wespe. After looking up some info I think it IS a Wespe.
A Marder III (built in the 38(t)chassis) has four large road wheels and no return rollers. A Wespe (built on the Pz II chassis) has five medium sized rpad wheels and three return rollers.
In addition, notice the opening in the superstructure to allow the gun to elevate. A Marder III doesn't have this opening as it is unnecessary for a tank destroyer. But the opening IS necessary for self propelled artillery to elevate its gun.
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CM2: Barbarossa to Berlin has nice alliteration and conveys the scope of the combat. This only works if the Finns aren't included.
How about:
CM2: War in the East
CM3: The Deadly Boot (only works for Italy) or Sirocco for the desert part
Jason
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Combat Mission fan = Combat Missionary??
Jason
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Soon!
The general format of what I am writing:
Question?
Short answer
link to relevant discussion on this forum
Doing this keeps my answers short, which is especially useful for really involved question (i.e. dead bodies)
Jason
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ha ha ha ha ha!
....'tis funny.Jason
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Sounds way cool Peter!
I look forward to seeing the movies!
Jason
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I feel like I'm in highschool boasting about how my highschool is better than yours.
Jason
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Men's basketball US
Women's basketball US
Women's soccer US
Women's hockey US
American football US
(America might not have the best baseball team in the world so I didn't include it. So many of the great players are not Americans...)
You can't just discount three entire sports because your country isn't any good in them!!
In that case you can't include rugby, field hockey, volleyball, men's soccer, and any other team sport America isn't anty good in!! [Country boasting mode on] Which country's economy grew at 7.3% in 1999Q4? Which country has an unemployment rate under 4.5%? Which country has a per capita GDP 87% higher than NZ?[Country boasting mode off]
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Which leader was it who said never to reinforce failure?
My mind seems to think it was Frederick the Great, but I'm not sure. Certainly a wise policy whoever said it.
Jason
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Lorak and I were discussing this in the chat area yesterday, which is why he posted the question. The only answer given previously about split squad firepower was kind of vague.
Remember: The firepower numbers given in the unit screen DO NOT always equal the firepower number that appears when you target an enemy unit.
Take two squads that are otherwise equal in everything but experience. Target an enemy unit equidistant from your two squads. Notice that the firepower numbers ae not equal.
Jason
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If BTS hadn't made the release announcement a few days ago, I was going to post an April fool's message as well. It was going to be from "Bigge Tyme Sopht Wear" and it was going to say that the game had gone gold.
OB&G wins, though!
That was pretty funny.
Jason
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Is TAO2's AI as pathetic as TAO's is.
It was SO easy to break the combat formulas down and then grind the AI into paste.
Jason
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I hate to add more verbiage to this topic but...
One place I would LOVE a unit screen is at the beginning of a battle. Certainly, a scenario designer could list all the units and other info in the scenario briefing, but I would like one in game.
I jsut find it a hassle organizing my forces before deployment. I would love to be able to see a list of the units available with experience listed and a 'jump to' button or something.
There was a thread awhile ago about what the first thing we do in a scenario is. I do the same thing that some others do; I put my units into little piles. This always takes a few minutes and is nothing but a hassle. A unit info screen with a 'jump to' might solve this problem.
Of course, the inclusion of a screen like this may encourage people to aske for more and then where do you stop?
Jason
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1942 1943 1944
183.9 199.6 222.5 US
7.7 8.9 6.4 Germany
The above numbers are millions of metric tons of fuel available including imports and synthetic production. Unfortunately, I don't have figures for other nations, but the above figures show that the Germans were clearly outmatched in their ability to move equpment and men. No wonder the Germans left equipment where it was when units were transferred. They simply couldn't afford to move it all.
The Americans NEEDED all that fuel as I can't think of any combat (outside of some sub warfare) that ocurred within 1,000 miles of any American state.
Jason
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There is a thread entitled After CM1... posted to just yesterday (March 30th) that I posted five or so links to some threads about future versions. The answers others gave above are correct, though...
I can understand not wanting to use the search function to search through 37,000+ threads...but not to look at a thread that is only a day old...
About Lend-Lease. In addition to all the transportation, the US also shipped large quantities of food and clothing to the Soviet Union. Not particularly sexy things, but vital nonetheless.
2,000 locomotives
11,000 rail wagons
3,000,000 tons of gasoline
540,000 tons of rails
51,000 jeeps
375,000 trucks
15,000,000 (!) pairs of boots
Jason - must get FAQ done to save my sanity.
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From the "why only three men per squad?" section of the FAQ.
http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/Forum1/HTML/000044.html
http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/Forum1/HTML/000034.html
http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/Forum1/HTML/000223.html
http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/Forum1/HTML/000324.html
These are some REALLY old discussions. The oldest is over a year old.
Some basic reasons:
Not enough CPU power (not for most people, anyway)
The soldier's individual locations aren't currently tracked. If all men were represented, individual soldier location/behavior would need to be tracked (like CC). Coding nightmare! Massive LOS calculations!
If all soldiers were represented it would be massive screen clutter. As Steve has said, "UI nightmare"
Jason - If only I could get a paying job hunting down links...
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I know that I haven't come within 500 miles (800km for the non-Yanks) of the beta, so you can be pretty much assured that the AAR is of the beta demo.
Jason
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I became interested in WWII at the age of four. Loved all the planes and tanks and stuff.
Got the American Heritage Picture History of WWII as a gift when I was five. the book is, like, 600 pages long and is a 'coffee table' sized book. Tough reading and brutal pictures for a five year-old! One of the very first pictures is of a person liberated from a concentration camp. I don't even need to open the book to know what the picture looks like. It took me two years to finish that book... and it is still sitting on my bookshelf behind me.
Jason
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You rang?
http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/Forum1/HTML/000312.html
For a quick BTS description of unit experience
http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/Forum1/HTML/000731.html has a very involved account of 20mx20m tiles as well as a longer description of experience
And last is a very funny description by Fionn. Check it out, you'll
when you read it http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/Forum1/HTML/000974.html Jason - some say 'links' and think of golf, I think of urls
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Especially Canadians, who, if I'm not mistaken, have a sterling record of serving in UN military missions.
Can any Canadian fill me in on their UN involvement?
Jason
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Based on the economy, I think the US was the clear victor. War production made the US economy boom and what better place to wage war than on someone else's soil.
America had almost no civilian casualties and almost no property damage. By the end of the war, America's GDP was almost half of the world's total!!
Even now US GDP is massive. If you just took Federal government expenditures, they would be equal to the entire GDP of Germany (third largest economy in the world)
Jason
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According to my World Almanac 1993:
WWI - Battle deaths 53,513
Other deaths - 63,195
Wound not mortal - 204,002
WWII - Battle deaths - 292,131
Other deaths - 115,185
Wounds not mortal - 670,846
Vietnam - Wounds not mortal 153,303
Jason
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Check out http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/Forum1/HTML/001165.html for a long, involved thread about the amount of information (or lack thereof) the game gives you. The thread in question started right after the beta was released.
The replies in this thread show that most of us have become very comfortable with the amount of info the game gives us.
What a difference a few months make...Jason
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[Double post]
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Madmatt, CMHQ access question/solution
in Combat Mission Archive #2 (2000)
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When I go tho CMHQ, I usually do it when I read a post by Madmatt that there has been an update. This means that I am also reading this forum, so I just let the page load in the background while I continue reading. That way, I don't care how long it takes CMHQ to load.
I just did a test and CMHQ loads in 15-20 seconds on my 56K.
Jason