Kurtz

Disapperaring prisoners!? Sound more like South America than Western Europe to me... The Horror! The Horror!!!

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by TZEENCH: Its when the crew sits by with marsh melows and hot dogs talking how the day went right? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> And suddenly, one of the marshmallows catch fire.....

A Sherman 75 putting a HE round through the front slit of the german pillbox with the 75 mm gun. Oh, by the way, the Sherman was moving a couple of hundred meters away.

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The "missing bodies" have of course been abducted by evil aliens! The Horror! The Horror!! So much for all that talk about CPU-power!

Ehhh...you´re not referring to the movie "Ilse, she-wolf of the SS"???

Auto...automobile... Ilse, she-wolf of the SS, streched out on the hood of a Sd Kfz 231!!!

Wouldn´t it be nice to be able to issue pause commands between movement waypoints? This way you could stop, survey the terrain and then move on, perhaps faster (hunt to a hulldown position - pause 15s - move fast to another position).

"...the enigmatic Kurtz, the embodiment of decay, corruption and exploitation..." Well, it just seemed to fit!

All info about you is stored in the BBS (username, pwd, profile). If you use cookies you don´t have to type username/pwd when you use that particular computer but you should be able to make posts without a cookie, that´s what I´m doing right now.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Moon: You cannot order your units into known minefields<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I guess we'll have to wait for CM2 for this feature... That is, if we play as the Russians...

Why should it really take a year? Because it´ll take at least a year before you get bored with the previous versions!

Late May...hmmm..I´ll probably have it in June...SCHOOL´S OUT FOR SUMMER!!! SCHOOL´S OUT FOR EVER!!!!!

Heretic!!! Thou shalt no other game have besides Combat Mission!

Was the German 13 mm MG ever used on the ground or just in fighter aircrafts?

Good idea, but you forgot the most important one: When will the game be released? (just kidding.. )

Is it possible to lose playing the Germans in Riesberg against the AI!? I must try that sometime.

But my attorney, it seemed, had not made it. He wanted more. "Back the tape up!" he yelled. "I need it again!" "Let it roll" he screamed. "Just as high as the ****er can go! And when it comes to that fantastic note where the rabbit bites its own head off, I want you to throw that radio into the tub with me."

I saw that Jon Sowden was courios about what "minutes" and "seconds" are but I didn´t find his email.. A minute is 1/60 of a degree and a second is 1/60 of a minute (1/3600 of a degree)

I think there are different kinds of EMP effects. One is created by a nuclear blast high in the atmosphere (>100km?). This creates an EMP that will cover *extremely* large areas. There is also ways of creating non-nuclear EMP-like effects near the ground but I don´t remember how it was done. This method demands a more precise mean of delivery as the area of effect is much smaller. (I´m listening to Japan´s song Communist China right now. )

I know, it´s hard not to be aware of the upcoming threat but from there it´s a long way (at least for me) to start shelling a road because you know from previous experience that three Hellcats will appear soon. Well, as long as those who pursue this tactic just use it against the AI I guess it´s how they like to play.

Couldn´t calling in arty on a empty hill or keeping your limited AFV resorces back be considered somewhat "gamey" ? Especially with the limited resources the German has....

Fionn, wholesale destruction of cities and villages by artillery or bombs, and the subsequent killing of everyone in them, is a regrettable consequences of military operations whereas selective killing of the inhabitants is murder. Ain´t war hell!?

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Germanboy: ...if they did not surrender before we started on a house, they never got a chance afterwards." Not being familiar with the intricacies of city fighting, I would think this is not acceptable. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Fighting in urban areas don´t give you much time to consider if you should take POW:s or not, if you are to clear a building you just continue throwing grenades and shooting at everything that even looks suspicious until the entire building is secured. I don´t think this is a moral problem, it´s like if the enemy surrenders while your artillery grenades are still on their way, there is not much to do about it. And there is a strong possibility that you won´t even see if the enemy tries to surrender because of the smoke and dust created by the combat. (After having breached a wall, thrown a grenade inside and done a bit of shooting, visibility is close to zero). **** happens...

There was a significant difference between US and UK bombing techniques, at least in the first years of the war; UK Bomber Command mainly bombed residential areas at night in order to break the morale of the German people while the US mainly did "precision" (well, by WWII standards at least ) bombing of industries during daylight. From what I´ve read Churchill tried to persuade "Bomber" Harris to switch to industrial targets but he was convinced that his method was the correct one. IIRC, at the Nuremberg Trials, no Germans were accused of bombing civilians in the UK since this could draw the world´s attention to Dresden/Hamburg. Regarding Hiroshima/Nagasaki: There was a rising need to show the Soviet that the US had The Bomb, remember that the old friendship between the Allies was fading away in the later stages of the War. It was also a opportunity to test 2 different kinds of nuclear weapons on real targets (that had not been much bombed earlier). So in the context of a rising cold war it may be explainable. But I´m not convinced by the theories saying that it would have cost millions of lives to invade Japan. According to some sources, the Japanese had tried to open negotiations with the US regarding a Japanese surrender. But to say to the public that you have used nuclear weapons on Japan to scare the Soviets...nah..I dont think that would be a good idea. What is accepted as the truth changes, archives are declassified, the political need for a certain view disappears and so forth. A-bombs as the only way to make Japan surrender was the truth during the cold war but is not necessarily the truth today IMHO.