Andreas

Which tanks?

It's the googling up of irrelevant, or plain wrong, pseudo-sources that gives him away. Great thread by the way - now we have 'Political commanders'. A previously unknown rank in the Red Army. History is being discovered as we type. Next - how Chruschtschow's Space Lobster Force of Nazi Doom™ threatened Zhukov with a good kicking if he did not fail.

Mr. Tittles.

Now on that, you won't get an argument from me mate.

His business is to ask for an email to be sent, but not to provide an email address. Strikes me as very professional, although Marines may argue that is as good as you can expect from the Army.

In the case of Kip, an heroic assumption to make. I am reasonably certain about Kip, but he will answer for himself, but in my case I can tell you that I am perfectly aware that this is a problem. It is best solved by team-play. For solo-play (i.e. one player/AI or two-player), this approach would restrict my fun too much for it to be enjoyable. I actually want to get down and dirty in level 1 view with that out of C&C team and watch it take on 3 HTs. And most likely die in the process. If I can not do that, I am playing a very different game - I have done that in CMMC1 and CMMC2 before I dropped out of the latter, and there it was fun because I was dealing with other human beings in the chain of command. To do that but deal with an AI, no thanks. I'd rather watch repeats of 'Son of the Beach'.

Juardis - sounds terribly frustrating. Not the game I want to play. I think Kip is going to be with me on this one.

I knew I would find Kip in this thread. Carry on.

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Nope. Here are some autochrome photos (i.e. original colour photographs) from WW1. I believe these are original as well. Der Spiegel coloured pictures click on the 'Fotostrecke' box (red letters) to start the picture series.

Bovington definitely is a day trip - you are looking at 4-5 hours by car. One-way. yeovilton, home of the Fleet Air Arm museum is almost as bad. 3 hours.

Well, since the museum is there now, I guess I should have said geography. Or attractions. Still, last I checked it was part of England, except for a few deadenders. And most of the land owned by a German, of course.

There is actually quite a lot of colour photography, and I believe even some newsreels available on WW2.

Oh, cmn! That is absolutly uncomparable A little more luck near Stalingrad and Moskow et voila, "1000 years reich" would be a real / </font>

Bodmin - museum of the DCLI is definitely worth a visit. About 20-30 miles from Land's End. God, you English need a German to tell you about your history. You should be ashamed of yourselves.

I don't agree that the current AI sucks. There are things is does better than others, that much is true. Also, it depends on what you are using it for. QB ME, forget it. Scenario designed for against-AI play, a whole different story. I played one of my own (unpublished - ME, Ai forces slight advantage in numbers but will arrive at objective last) scenarios last weekend, and the AI gave me a real run for my money. That was because I had not played for so long against it that I had quite forgotten how it behaves, and therefore I was acting with no regard for its behaviour. Game ended with a major victory for me, and the AI executed a human wave attack in the end (which was very fitting though), but that overstates the real success. I had lost about one-third of my forces, my main support weapons, and everybody was low on ammo. IOW - there was no way my guys could have held on to the objective. I was pretty pleased with that. The high point was when the AI executed a pincer attack on my flank platoon, wiping it out completely.

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Not that I really care, mind you.

Who the feck cares? What I care about is that The Simpsons are nowhere to be seen on French TV, and that my Buffy collection is growing far too slowly to make up for it. At least we have scrubs. And how can it be that the channel that gave us Son of the Beach nixed Firefly, I ask you. Anyway. What is the matter with all these German-admiring pseudo-historians? My niece has more historical knowledge than they do (and she is seven, but bright for her age, as becomes a German niece - certainly brighter than Russian nieces, because they are not brought up on Auftragstaktik, and how Germany only lost the war because everyone ganged up on it, a bit like the bullies on the schoolyard). Where was I? Right, Germany. Admiration. There is nothing wrong with that - I like being admired. here, I admit it. Yes, I am that eitel. Not Keitel, he was that not-so proficient man who made Rommel lose the war. So anyway, I like being admired for the right reasons. Such as my looks, or being genetically predisposed to drink good beer and weak red wine. or my witty German humour. or stuff. Not necessarily for being able to invade Poland at 5.45 on a September morning and beat the crap out of them. I think there are far too many of those Nazifanboios on these forums recently. It must be something in the water, most likely. They have stopped fluoridisation, or the FDA has stopped the registration of 'Thou shalt not admire the Germans because they are a bunch of weenies who can not make war for ****' drugs, and suddenly everybody and their fecking second cousin has this urge to tell us how great Rommel was. I mean, Rommel. You have to be kidding me.

Admittedly he was in 'good' company there (Guderian anyone?). The German generals did not generally seem to believe in the 'amateurs study tactics, professionals logistics' saying. Or maybe they were just content with their status as amateurs.

And of course that makes it easy to understand why he lost and the British were able to crush him under a veritable mountain of heavy artillery. But, see, the problem is that it's just complete bollocks. The British had a total of just 3 medium regts with only 48 guns. Even if you're super generous and include all the 4.2-in mortars and 105mm Priests, the total number greater than or equal to 105mm only comes to 84 guns, or less than 1/6th of what Rommel reported. It wasn't the material that did him in - he was just beaten. </font>

Because that is only half the truth.

Okay, I think all the mods that I exclusively had are now online at the download page. I have also copied some unedited info from junk2drive on other useful mods. I'll try to get some more info into the page over the next weeks. The scenarios have been pulled, because they are not finished.

You would do well in the US administration's press department. So, where was Chruschtschow during Operation Mars then?

I think I am still waiting to find out how Chruschtschow scuppered Operation Mars. On tenterhooks