Runyan99

When using those modern topos, keep in mind that many farms have got bigger since 1945, and a lot of hedgerows no longer exist.

Will squads or half squads, or AT teams recrew an abandoned MG?

I asked my Steel Box to make me a ham sandwich today, and it wouldn't even do that.

This is officially the first mod I downloaded. I find it really necessary for high noon scenarios like Last Defense, which get rendered in Easter pastels. Good improvement with the mod.

Hey there. Nice box.

Looks interesting, keep up the good work.

Erwin is obviously not Asian.

Yes I'm looking forward to playing some user generated 2-player campaigns.

Few Good Men site looks nice. I signed up.

I dunno. I suspect they were rarely used in this role. I would think the gun and their crews were poorly equipped and prepared for this type of fire. On the other hand, GIs tended to call everything incoming from 75mm to 105mm arty incorrectly as "88s".

Did I miss them, or did they not make the cut? I know they were in the line north of St Lo shortly after the invasion, opposing the 29th Infantry.

It needs a few more official patches to really iron out the details, but I think they will get there. The air model, for one, is currently not great.

I play PBEM almost exclusively. Looking for an opponent to play the remake of Last Defense.

What is this reflexive complaining? If you don't want scenario information, don't read an AAR. Don't click the link. It had the name of the scenario in the title. An After Action Report, will by definition, include some details of the battle covered. FYI. If you can't do the math on that one without the magic word 'spoiler' included, well I wonder about you.

Bocage is impassable in the game. Mmm okay. I've been to Normandy. In reality, it is impassable or almost impassable in places, but not in others. However, there are also low English style hedgerow bushes, and I can't get infantry across them. This ain't bocage as shown. It looks 3 feet high, with no earthern berm. Why won't infantry cross this obstacle? They need to. In the below photo, the squad ordered to cross the bush row is instead walking aroud to the fence gate. C'mon man. The guy on the far right looks like he could fall over the obstacle.

Okay. This does not always seem to work. A squad stopped on one side of the hedge, and given a short move order to the other side of the hedge, began walking around the obstacle instead, which I don't want. Much simpler if the pathing would attempt the most direct route at all times.

Okay so I started Breaking the Pocket today as the Germans. My men are stopped by the three foot high bushes bounding the field on the right flank, and will walk around the field to a fence to enter the field, exposing themselves to fire, rather than hopping a bush.

And that is why I might not be attempting to create many CMBN scenarios.

Just for nostalgia and comparison purposes, I think it would be cool if we got remakes of the CMBO demo scenarios on the disk, including Chance Encounter, and the other two I cannot recall the names of.

I'm in the LA area but might come just for the fun of chatting with wargamers, but I can't say yea or nay until I know an exact date.

Don't worry we'll never pay that money. It's all make believe.

Yeah sure that's right. I think Clinton was one of our better conservatiive Presidents, in the mold of Calvin Coolidge. The man just didn't do anything, and that was great for the country. I just don't see the slight decline over those years as material, or worth pointing out, within the context of the larger trends the graph shows. It's a big So What.

In short 1) Government created Fannie and Freddie in the interest of promoting home ownership. 2)These agencies buy mortgages from the banks. This takes the loans off the banks books, and frees them up for another round of lending. In this way government juiced and liquified the housing market. 3)This went on until the banks were giving loans to deadbeats. The banks didn't care because they were going to pass them on to the GSEs anyway. The government wasn't concerned as their goal was houses for everybody in the first place. In any case, a delusion developed that home prices were only heading higher. Some government luminaries like Alan Greenspan actually encourage the use of nontraditional mortgages like adjustible rate loans. 4) eventually a day comes when a significant portion of these deadbeats (you may prefer a different term) who had an expensive house but perhaps no job could no longer afford their payments. This topples the whole ponzi scheme, and home prices begin to drop, which snowballs. 5)government, who fed the flame all along and ignored the bad underwriting practiced in place during the boom, ignores it's own role in the whole thing, and of course posits that is what is really needed is tighter oversight and control of finance.

Fine with me. All our financial markets do need regulation. Lets not abolish the SEC or the FDIC. We need both. Just don't kid yourself. The government had it's hands all over the housing crisis. Government policy put people into houses they could not afford. Period end of story. Both parties were to blame. Edit - By the way, you want reform? Let's see to it that Fannie and Freddie are unwound and then abolished. Let's get government out of the mortgage business. I'm far more interested in discussing government spending.

If you say so. http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/federal_debt_chart.html