Speedy

It is my belief as well that most if not all German AFVs were petrol driven. I know for certain that the Panther had a petrol driven Maybach engine. I am to lazy to go check up on the rest, maybe someone else can.

A question Major Tom, why is Iraq the enemy?

HaHaHa Maus, That brings back fond memories of my childhood....

Looks like it's time to go visit CoolColJ

So thats at about 0630. Whats the 0 stand for?

How can you play Aussie Rules without the Bombers

Too the best of my knowledge it will be strictly on-line sales.

In my opinion this bloke is the really smug one

Cheer up Matt we all still love you P.S.- could you please say the P word again, I just love it when you say that word, and it must have at least 3 !s'

To the earlier BTS post about CM2 Axis unit nationality, will you be including Hiwis ( I certainly hope so ). Now back to the topic at hand although I myself am quite happy with the proposed course of CM releases I must add that I disagree somewhat with some of the negative comments about the PTOs' suitability for CM. Most of you seem to be concentrating on the island hopping campaigns, for Americans I realise this is understandable. However the island hopping campaigns were in reality only a very small percentage of the overall fighting in the PTO. I myself do not believe the island hopping campaigns would be very suitable for CM for many of the reasons already expressed above. However the other campaigns such as PNG, Guadalcanal, Burma etc I would find very interesting these are areas where the fighting went on for quite extended periods of time and both sides fought both offensive and defensive battles. Also it is interesting to look at the timescale of the various campaigns, each Island hopping battle usually lasted only a week or two, whereas PNG campaign lasted over a year ( in itself longer than the entire scope of CM1 ). Then you have Burma which lasted most of the war and has been stated earlier was the only place where the allies were still on the strategic defensive in 1944. Personally I would love to play the initial campaign in Papua New Guinea. This campaign had relativly small numbers of troops, ( do not quote me on this as I don't have any refrences on hand ) I believe it was 1 Jap Regiment v 2 Battalions of Oz Militia, with the Australians conducting a fighting withdrawal acoss the Owan Stanley mountains. Oh well thats enough of my rambling, just incase you have become as confused as myself reading this I reiterate I want to see all of ETO done before PTO is attempted Speedy

Just been doing some figuring, I my timezone is +9.30 GMT I think that means the chats are at 11.30 am here, will try and drop in then to see if I am right.

Just to add a bit more to DesertFoxs' answer, he was later shot and killed while escaping from a POW camp. P.S.- Uncle Joe do I get any points for that

The number of scenarios is unlimited as it will contain a scenario editor/builder.

Europe would be more interesting for me, airfares from Australia to London are only one or two hundred dollars more than to LA. The only problem for both destinations is finding an airline that lets you smoke.

As well as Italy/Sicily I also believe it will contain Yugoslavia, Greece, Crete, Syria, and hopefully the fighting in Eastern Africa.

This is amazing, it was on telly here in Oz a couple of months ago.

Steve are you sure you don't work for the Gestapo?

Whats a bloke with NZ in their name doing talking about goats and not sheep?

Madmatt I am dissapointed, where is the POO! ?

Way back when I was 16 my biggest worries were having enough money for the Friday and Saturday night pissups, and enduring the subsequent hangovers.

Waaaaaaaaa Blubabluba, wheres my dummie? waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

The PC wargame i have spent the most time with would have to be the original Steel Panthers. Also from a few years back I had a lot of fun with Command HQ. Going even further back to the dark ages of the C64 I quite enjoyed the SSG games Carriers at War and Battlefront.

Aacooper:- Just read a book on D-Day, in an engagement inland from sword beach. The attack was against a fortified German position called "Hillman" made by 'A'Company of the 1st Suffolks, 8th INF BDE, 3rd INF DIV. The account comes from several people who took part in the action. The position had two barbed wire fences around it with mines between them. One team advance and blew a hole in the first fence with Bangalores, then a section of Royal Engineers went in and cleared a path through the mines, now another Bangalore team went in and blew up the second fence. One of the Engineers, Sapper Richard Ellis, recalls in the book "We were told to tape a path through the minefield, where we came under machine-gun fire. I led the way into the minefield at the crouch and dived behid a small mound; the mg rounds were bouncing of it and the third man of our team was hit in the chest. After lying there for a while I began to ease forward........". Just thought I would put this in so you can see that sometimes mineclearing was done under fire.

Hand raised, but only for the original Squad Leader and gamettes

Strange said junior on first post now doesn't. Anyway I've finally made it to the hallowed halls of the verbally parsimonious.