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Hey Tom, thanks for the praise. After smoking your Sherman in the first minute, I thought it would be easy. But the 155mm you saved for the end sent many of my men scattering in panic, not to mention your own soldiers caught in friendly fire. It was close, and great fun. If any of you thought PBEM was great, just you try TCP/IP! Epée

Well, we usually use the IRC channel that is also the CMHQ chat, there are always CM players logged on. You can reach the Java based Chat with your web browser : http://cmhq.tzo.com:8000/ (Click the Load Chat Client Button) or connect to our dedicated IRC channel by setting your IRC-client to the server: cmhq.tzo.com port: 7000 and join #lobby Epée

----TCP/IP is beautiful.---- Epée

Damn you, Lord General! Epée

YES! FIRST POST! Epee

Instead of hitting the refresh button, head ye all to the CMHQ chat, where Madmatt is giving us some real-time update on the patch status. Epée

Jess, another word of advice: Go for PBEM battles - they are much more fun than playing the computer, and you will also learn much more that way. If you want to play me, send me an email. Epée

I suggest Wiltz. It is a short scenario, and not too complex. And it is my favourite scenario on the CD. Epée

Olle said: "Referring to the original question: It's correct as is. The shown probability is a rough estimate for the first shot. Buttoned or unbuttoned makes a difference only for subsequent shots." Does it really make a difference? The manual doesnt mention it anywhere...I looked it up. If there is a bonus to your hit probability, I would like to know roughly what it is. 1-5%? 10-20%? I havent seen this mentioned anywhere, and it would be interesting to know if my unbuttoned TC should be out there risking a snipers bullet. Epée

ASL. But I havent touched ASL since I got CM. Epée

Yes, what I mean is accuracy in hitting AFV targets. In ASL, for example, being unbuttoned makes it easier to hit enemy AFVs. I had assumed that was valid for CM as well. What you are telling me is that the only purpose of being unbuttoned is to better spot the enemy? Epée

Buttoned tanks have less of a to hit chance than unbuttoned ones, but when I am giving orders, it doesnt matter if the tank is buttoned up or not, the hit percentage remains the same, when tracing a LOS to a target. Shouldnt there be a difference? Is this a feature or a bug? Epee

Suggestion - why not permit that MMGs and HMGs be able to withdraw, when immobilized? Seeing that your position is desperate, one could abandon the maching gun and save its crew. Thoughts? Epee

Where can I find Rune´s scenarios: Chance Encounter II and Valley of Thunder II? Epée

This has got to be CNA - Campaign for North Africa. The full campaign has got to be utopia to play out. If you play a few hours every day, it would take close to 2 years to finish! Epée

One thing that hasnt been mentioned yet: I would like more objectives apart from taking victory flags, and exiting units. I would like scenarios where you could have goals such as: - have more infantry on top of the hill than the enemy - destroy all enemy tanks - clear heavy buildings from enemy infantry and other ones as seen in ASL scenarios. Epee

bump - this needs some serious investigation. Epée

One day I got back from work, and saw my Chinchilla playing the beta demo on my pc - he had downloaded it. I had to bribe him with raisins to get his paws of the keyboard an mouse, and decided to try the game for myself. I was hooked. Much better than playing ASL, there are no cardboard pieces for the chinchilla to chew. Epée

I think the idea is brilliant. If you use the right scale, it would be a perfect game. Epée

Eu sou brasileiro, e além de mim conheço o Fangorn, que é também do Brasil, e o Cuchulainn que fala português. Epée

Stuka - I only like playing PBEM too. I rarely play against the AI. If CM didnt have a PBEM option, I probably would have got tired of it long ago. PBEM-CM is an entirely different game. Epée

Is it only me, or has somebody else also played CM EVERY SINGLE DAY since he first got it? I have played literally hundreds of computer games before this one, and not one has come close to holding my attention like CM has. Note: I preordered the game, and play it since july... Borg - you have any words for me? Epée

1. The first German serviceman killed in the war was killed by the Japanese (China, 1937), the first American serviceman killed was killed by the Russians (Finland 1940), the highest ranking American killed was LtGen. Lesley McNair, killed by the US Army Air Corps. So much for allies. 2. The youngest US serviceman was 12 year old Calvin Graham, USN. He was wounded in combat and given a Dishonorable Discharge for lying about his age. (His benefits were later restored by act of Congress) 3. At the time of Pearl Harbor the top US Navy command was called CINCUS (pronounced "sink us"), the shoulder patch of the US Army's 45th. Infantry division was the Swastika, and Hitler's private train was named "Amerika". All three were soon changed for PR purposes. 4. More US servicemen died in the Air Corps than the Marine Corps. While completing the required 30 missions your chance of being killed was 71%. 5. Not that bombers were helpless. A B-17 carried 4 tons of bombs and 1.5 tons of machine gun ammo. The US 8th Air Force shot down 6,098 fighter planes, 1 for every 12,700 shots fired. 6. Germany's power grid was much more vulnerable than realized. One estimate is that if just 1% of the bombs dropped on German industry had instead been dropped on power plants German industry would have collapsed. 7. Generally speaking there was no such thing as an average fighter pilot. You were either an ace or a target. For instance Japanese ace Hiroyoshi Nishizawa shot down over 80 planes. He died while a passenger on a cargo plane. 8. It was a common practice on fighter planes to load every 5th round with a tracer round to aid in aiming. This was a mistake. The tracers had different ballistics so (at long range) if your tracers were hitting the target 80% of your rounds were missing. Worse yet the tracers instantly told your enemy he was under fire and from which direction. Worst of all was the practice of loading a string of tracers at the end of the belt to tell you that you were out of ammo. This was definitely not something you wanted to tell the enemy. Units that stopped using tracers saw their success rate nearly double and their loss rate go down. 9. When allied armies reached the Rhine the first thing men did was pee in it. This was pretty universal from the lowest private to Winston Churchill (who made a big show of it) and Gen. Patton (who had himself photographed in the act). 10. German Me-264 bombers were capable of bombing New York City but it wasn't worth the effort. 11. A number of aircrewmen died of farts. (ascending to 20,000 ft. in and unpressurized aircraft causes intestinal gas to expand 300%). 12. The Russians destroyed over 500 German aircraft by ramming them in mid-air (they also sometimes cleared minefields by marching over them). "It takes a brave man not to be a hero in the Red Army" - Joseph Stalin 13. The US Army had more ships than the US Navy. 14. The German Air Force had 22 infantry divisions, 2 armor divisions, and 11 paratroop divisions. None of them were capable of airborne operations. The German Army had paratroops who WERE capable of airborne operations. Go figure. 15. When the US Army landed in North Africa, among the equipment brought ashore was 3 complete Coca Cola bottling plants. 16. Among the first "Germans" captured at Normandy were several Koreans. They had been forced to fight for the Japanese Army until they were captured by the Russians and forced to fight for the Russian Army until they were captured by the Germans and forced to fight for The German Army until they were captured by the US Army. 17. German submarine U-120 was sunk by a malfunctioning toilet. 18. The Graf Spee never sank. The scuttling attempt failed and the ship was bought as scrap by the British. On board was Germany's newest radar system. 19. One of Japan's methods of destroying tanks was to bury a very large artillery shell with only the nose exposed. When a tank came near enough a soldier would whack the shell with a hammer. "Lack of weapons is no excuse for defeat." - LtGen. Mutaguchi 20. Following a massive naval bombardment 35,000 US and Canadian troops stormed ashore at Kiska. 21 troops were killed in the firefight. It would have been worse if there had been Japanese on the island. 21. The MISS ME was an unarmed Piper Cub. While spotting for US artillery her pilot saw a similar German plane doing the same thing. He dove on the German plane and he and his co-pilot fired their pistols damaging the German plane enough that it had to make a forced landing. Whereupon they landed and took the Germans prisoner. I don't know where they put them since the MISS ME only had 2 seats. 22. Most members of the Waffen SS were not German. 23. The only nation that Germany declared war on was the USA. 24. During the Japanese attack on Hong Kong British officers objected to Canadian infantrymen taking up positions in the officer's mess. No enlisted men allowed you know. 25. Nuclear physicist Niels Bohr was rescued in the nick of time from German occupied Denmark. While Danish resistance fighters provided covering fire he ran out the back door of his home stopping momentarily to grab a beer bottle full of precious "Heavy Water". He finally reached England still clutching the bottle. Which contained beer. I suppose some German drank the Heavy Water. 26. More French citizens died fighting for Germany on the Eastern Front than did fighting for France in 1940.

I dont know if he is a nazi or not, and I dont care. He is a very sick person though, and that is reason enough for him to be banned, ignored and forgotten. epee

He got what he wanted, he is banned, and the threads are locked. Please BTS, remove the images too. Better yet, erase the threads.