[Anyone else playing Close Combat again?]

I dont play anymore the original Close Combat Series but... i play these Close Combat Mods :cool:

Great Community

[To kick things off... a poll of sorts...]

Changes:

- Introduce the ability to form a core force: the units increase their attributes with survival and success in previous battles.

- Eliminate the pbem system and enhance the multiplayer modes via network.

Keep:

- AI Control

- WEGO

- OOB Options

And thanks for this customer feedback.

[Who has the game West Front and can run a scenario for me?]

21 March 1941

Oasis of Giarabub, Libyan desert, near the Libya-Egypt border, 300 kms southeast of Tobruk.Since June 1940, the Australian 6th Cavalry Regiment had kept under control, then cut off, the Italian garrison of the holy Senussite oasis of Giarabub and its outposts. Even after the utter defeat of Italian 10th Army in February 1941, the stubborn garrison commander refused to surrender. In spring 1941 the British decided to put an end to that nuisance. On March 21st, 1941 a reinforced battalion of the Australian 18th Brigade struck the southwestern corner of the defensive perimeter and advanced in a blinding sand-storm...

[Panzer units in Italy 1943-45]

Maybe something...

http://members.aol.com/Custermen85/Units/GermanOrg.htm

[Best Italian campaign pictures I've seen]

@ Bob

thanks for the pictures, especially the To the Arno section.

I was born in Livorno but i didn't know the battle at podere Madonnina on 12 July 1944.

[Afrika Korps Knight's Cross Holders - HSG, you there?]

Dank für die Fotos.

[Request for Info on Primosole Bridge]

Link to: http://www.eagle19.freeserve.co.uk/sicily.htm

[Enough is Enough - Eurodudes post your screenies please!]

Originally posted by Shadow 1st Hussars:

</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by MrSpkr:

</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Michael Dorosh:

Come on, Europe, we want to see some portees...and Canadians in action.

They're easy enough to spot. They're the ones with their hands over their heads . . .

Steve </font>

[In CMAK Italian Allied troops? and R.S.I fascist puppets?]

Originally posted by Romulus:

I hope they are included. I would really enjoy playing with the Decima MAS, the Guardia Nazionale Repubblicana (Republican National Guard) the NP squads etc...

Peppe

[Battles of encirclement.....case studies]

Thanks Trommelfeuer.

Good work.

[Tigers in the desert?]

Hi Camel ! :cool:

http://www.geocities.com/firefly1002000/501tigers.html

I like this photo.

[ November 01, 2003, 06:50 AM: Message edited by: Potential Italian Player ]

[Waffen SS in Italy]

The Reichsfuhrer-SS Brigade fought against the Italian VII army corps in Corsica after the Italy-Allies armistice.

[OOB question on Sardinian Garrision July 1943]

Originally posted by Romulus:

I found the following OoB that is slightly different from that posted by Potential Italian Player:

XIII Army Corps

"Sabauda" Inf. Div.

203rd Coastal Div.

205th Coastal Div.

XXX Army Corps

"Calabria" Inf. Div.

204th Coastal Div.

IV Coastal Brigade

Mobile Reserve

"Bari" Inf. Div. (the only one with vehicles and an artillery Regiment)

"Nembo" Para Division

XXXIII Coastal Brigade

Armoured Group (Raggruppamento Corazzato)

Source: Filippo Stefani "La storia della dottrina e degli ordinamenti dell'Esercito Italiano", 1985

Peppe

Yes it's more accurate.

Hans, take this OOB.

[OOB question on Sardinian Garrision July 1943]

Originally posted by Hans:

Ah Potential Italian Player

Would you happen to have the IDs on those two coastal divisions?

[OOB question on Sardinian Garrision July 1943]

double post.

[ October 12, 2003, 02:16 PM: Message edited by: Potential Italian Player ]

[OOB question on Sardinian Garrision July 1943]

Hi Hans, i've some details for you.

July-September 1943

About Italy:

3 Infantry Divisions (Sabauda,Calabria, Bari)

2 Coastal Divisions

1 Paras Division (Nembo)

plus a marine command (La Maddalena) and an air command.

= 130.000 men .

About Germany:

The 90 PanzerGrenadier Division and other little units. = 25.000 men .

Sources:

"Der Krieg in Europa" Frido von Senger und Etterlin

"Soldati" Carlo Vallauri

[ October 12, 2003, 02:16 PM: Message edited by: Potential Italian Player ]

[Order of Battle source - how many divisions on 1 July 1943 on all fronts?]

About Italian Army after Operation Husky, July 1943:

in Italy + in France + in Jugoslavia:

39 Divisions (infantry,mountain,paras,armor,ecc.)

26 Coastal Divisions.

Hope it helps you, Michael.

Edit cause forgot other 10 divisions(infantry,mountain) in Greece and Crete.

[ September 16, 2003, 11:43 AM: Message edited by: Potential Italian Player ]

[Ortona - veterans visit]

Another "heap of rubble".

San Pietro Infine 18/02/1944

John Huston docet.

[Operation Störfang (Sevastopol 1942)]

Well done! Eichenbaum.

[Operation Störfang (Sevastopol 1942)]

[ July 01, 2003, 09:49 AM: Message edited by: Potential Italian Player ]

[Historical Article at www.wargamer.com]

Part 3:

http://www.wargamer.com/articles/russo_german_historical_part3/

Part 4:

http://www.wargamer.com/articles/russo_german_historical_part4/

[Berlin Photos & others]

Originally posted by Potential Italian Player:

Yes that panther's photo is very interesting.

Great photos also in this site:

http://www.stolz.by.ru/

Another example of German Dug-in Panther Turret defensive position: Italy 1944.

http://www.geocities.com/vqpvqp/nih/addenda/pantherturret.html

[Historical Article at www.wargamer.com]

Originally posted by Schoerner:

The Prince, Macciavelli

Psychology of the Masses, Gustave Le Bon

Machiavelli.

[ March 18, 2003, 05:40 PM: Message edited by: Potential Italian Player ]

[Historical Article at www.wargamer.com]

"The Russo-German War" by "Wild" Bill Wilder.

Part one:

http://www.wargamer.com/articles/russo_german_historical_part1/

Part two:

http://www.wargamer.com/articles/russo_german_historical_part2/

[ March 18, 2003, 05:33 PM: Message edited by: Potential Italian Player ]

[Fantastic 'Barbarossa' photos]

Thankx JaegerMeister.