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  1. I also found "come and see" quite shocking, especially the final statement that during the war thousands (can't remmeber the exact number)of Russian villages were destroyed by the Germans. In Western Europe we remeber German massacres at Lidice, (a small village outside of Prague), Oradour-sur-Glane, (a small French village) and the Ardeatine Caves, (south of Rome), but this appears to have been a daily occurence on the Russian front. Finally checked on my previous post Beevor states that there were a couple of hundred Italians (from the firewood collecting party) and about 12,000 Roumanian traped at Stalingrad. A lot of troops did actually retreat into Staingrad. After the winter of 1941/42 the Germans learnt that to spend a night (let alone possibily 4 months) in an open fox hole on the Steppe in a Russian winter could easily mean death. So troops protecting the flanks had spent sometime building winter quarters consisting of bunkers and dugouts, even using wood from damaged houses in Stalingrad (it wasn't just a good source of firewood) When the Russians kicked them out of these quarters they had the choice of dieing on the freezing Steppe or retreating to the nearest builtup area-Stalingrad. The Sixth Army also had its logistics train behind Stalingrad and when the Russians appeared behind them these non-combat troops (A majority of the troops surronded at Staingrad)retreated to the relative safety of the defensive lines around Staingrad [ October 03, 2002, 02:32 PM: Message edited by: Private Pike ]
  2. So this might explain something. In the demo (still no UK release) I wondered why I didn't get the explosion and fire I was used to (from CMBO), when i knocked out a Tank.
  3. Again its either in Enemy at the gates or Stalingrad by Beevor, can't remember which and I'm at work. They mention that a truck convoy of about 100 Italians from one of the Divisions out on the flanks had come into Stalingrad to collect firewood when the Russians closed the Kessel and they remained during the following battles. Talk about bad luck.
  4. pillock noun [C] BRITISH SLANG a stupid or silly person "The man's a complete pillock." "You pillock, look what you've done!" [as form of address] http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
  5. I was once offered a cease fire half way through a game that I thought I was going to lose. I held the VLs but with very little, most of my infantry were dead and of my two tanks, one had a damaged gun and the other was out of ammo. My opponent didn't realise this. He had no tanks, but quite a bit of infantry left. I felt quite bad agreeing to the cease fire, but it was a tournament game (NQSB I) so I did. I won approx: 70/30. The moral is "be careful offering a cease fire, you MAY be winning and not know it" [ 09-26-2001: Message edited by: Private Pike ]
  6. sorry about the delay, my girlfriend nicked the laptop as soon as I got home so I wasn't able to check out the CM fog, will try again tonight
  7. Ive got a laptop with a sis630 chip set and a PIII 933/128meg RAM. CM seems to run fine with the video memmory set at 16meg. I haven't done any serious testing just used it to play the game, I'll try some fog games when I get home from work and let you know. The graphics card works ok for things like Thief, Delta force landwarrior & AOS II, but nothing stunning. The 1Ghz /32meg Geforce desktop we got at the same time runs much smoother. The only problems I've had with the laptop were serious clipping when I tried to run Delta force II
  8. Its interesting that the British never really used their heavy AA gun the 3.7"(about 92mm) in the anti-armour role. I read somewhere that (in North Africa) this was because they prefered to use it to protect their supply lines from air attack, and that the Ger (man forward deployment of the Flak 88s left their supply lines vunerable to RAF attack. Anyone comment, is this true or were the British just stupid.
  9. Just a quick question: Any sort of rules on the type of map (apart from size), hills, woods etc or do the players decided between them? "Private Pike(allies) vs. Ted(axis) " at least there's no snow this time Thanks Pike [This message has been edited by Private Pike (edited 03-05-2001).]
  10. Thats interesting because it runs fine on my K6-2 450 with a V3 3000 card and 128meg Ram. I've even installed some of the hi-res mods. (I should qualify "fine" I occasionally get white outs but that 3Dfxs fault)
  11. Originally I used my name as a user name, but got fed up with having to use tricks including "." and underlines to get it to work eg: Ian. Ian_Hull etc I used to play Rainbow six on the MSN zone (still do occasionally) and a group of us got fed up with all the antics of the kids that play there. As we where a bit older than the average we called ourselves "Dads Army" After the BBC TV comedy about the home guard in WW2. Private Pike was one of the characters. We also have a Capt Mainwaring, Cpl Jones, Sgt Wilson etc..The Clans dead now (probably), haven't heard from any of them for a few months, but the name stuck. Sometimes I ahave to use Private Pike DA to get it to work though (or DA Private Pike on the zone). [This message has been edited by Private Pike (edited 02-14-2001).]
  12. Just out of interest how much resupply would normally take place in 30mins and during a battle? Behind the lines yes but isn't anything on a CM battlefield actually in the front line due to the scale.
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