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    An hour to install? This is just too much!

    in Combat Mission Archive #4 (2002)

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    Originally posted by UPCdave:

    About the installation...

    I received the CDV copy and I needed to do at least 3 installs/uninstalls before I was satisfied with the sound quality. I received CRC WAV errors every time, sometimes 5 failures, sometimes 3 and at the last attempt, before I put my foot through the screen, 2 errors. The first time when I had 5 errors a lot of the sounds were simply missing. Explosions but no sound, machine guns firing but no sound, me crying...audible and disturbing. This morning I checked after a restless sleep, and of course the problem had not gone away...Maxims spitting out the tracer but machine gun chatter was only heard sporadically.

    Even more disturbing, after the repeated install and un-installs and the eventual re-boot, I am informed at start-up about disk errors and that a scan-disk will be initiated...

    Ideas guys? I'm nervous and fidgity...work is a million miles away.

    David

    May be it's your problem:

    http://www.battlefront.com/cgi-bin/bbs/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=002844

    Hold on ! smile.gif

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    Italian Vehicles

    in Combat Mission Archive #4 (2002)

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    Originally posted by gunnergoz:

    Italy has no recent tradition of successsful military leadership...at least since the Renaissance. This makes it difficult to breed a warrior class and ethic like the Germans seem to produce with such natural ease.

    The Italian people like to think back to the time of the Roman Empire and identify with its glory, but not with the price to attain it. They do not have the stomach, on the whole, for war. I consider that a positive character trait.

    Many Italians got caught up in the Fascist fervor of the 20's but this was more out of hope for an organized way out of economic anemia than any particular desire to take over the world. By and large, Italians are more comfortable identifying with their town or region than with any national identity per se.

    Mussolini did a few good things for Italy, and a whole lot more that were bad, as we all know. He dressed up a nation for war as if they were going to a masked ball, then took them into the real thing. After a while, he paid the price for his arrogance.

    BTW I appreciate the balanced replies I've seen here on the topic, it's really refreshing. :D

    gunnergoz do you know this site ?

    http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/dpf/Fascism/Home.html

    It's a very interesting account about the

    Exhibition in the Department of Special Collections which was prepared at the Memorial Library of the University of Wisconsin-Madison(July through September 1998).

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    Italian Vehicles

    in Combat Mission Archive #4 (2002)

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    The italian secret weapon on the eastern front was the horse .... yes horse vs T-34.

    Here there are two scenario descriptions from Talonsoft East Front:

    18 july 1942 Krasny Luch, 120km E of Stalino In early 1942 Hitler requested that the Italians expanded their expeditionary force in the Soviet Union and by July Mussolini had nearly 227,000

    men serving on the Eastern Front in the Eighth Army. Following the failure of Stalin's spring offensive at Kharkov, on June 28th, the Germans launched their planned attack toward Stalingrad

    and into the Caucasus, known as Case Blau. Relegated to a secondary role, the Italians began to move on July 11th, mopping up Russian

    rearguards and by-passed units behind the German spearheads.

    The Soviet 274th Rifle Division had been badly mauled in the fighting south of Kharkov and was unable to retreat in the face of the German assault. Instead the determined Russian troops

    dug-in at Krasny Luch, west of Severdlovsk, and prepared to fightto the death rather than surrender. The task of clearing the

    town fell to the Bersaglieri and Cavalry of the Italian 3rd Celere Division.

    24 August, 1942 Yagodny, 170km NW of Stalingrad

    While summer wore on the Italian 8th Army was beginning to settle into defensive positions along the Don River, north of Stalingrad,

    protecting the Axis flank and freeing German divisions for operations at Stalingrad and in the Caucasus. By mid-August the lines were

    not fully defended and the Soviets saw their chance. For three days, the Italians withstood attack by hordes of Russian infantry.

    On the 24th the 3rd Rapid Division counterattacked between Yagodny

    and Chebotarevsky south of the Don River. As the two formations clashed the 47th Bersaglieri Motorcycle Battalion was threatened

    with being cut-off and destroyed by elements of the Soviet 812th Rifle Regiment. Colonel Bettoni, commanding the 3rd Savoia Cavalry Regiment, eagerly received instructions to charge the enemy!

    While other motorized units struggled to reach the trapped battalion, the cavalrymen began what would become their Final Hurrah. The

    last Italian cavalry charge in history!

    Brave men without hope who fought to satisfy the ambitions of a small man called Mussolini.

    Of 229.000 men sent in Russia, 29.690 were repatriated because wounded or frozen. Of remainder, the survivors were only 114.485. The missing in action were 84.830 men of which 10.030 were returned from the USSR. The total of the losses assembled 74.800 men.

    The 8th army on the eastern front:

    Infantry Divisions:

    Infantry division Cosseria

    Semi-Motorized division Pasubio

    Infantry division Ravenna

    Infantry division Sforzesca

    Motorized division Torino

    Infantry division Vicenza

    Alpine Divisions:

    Alpine division Tridentina

    Alpine division Julia

    Alpine division Cuneense

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    Yeah ok,, the CMBB graphics rock but umm, what's it got under the hood? Bones Thrown!

    in Combat Mission Archive #4 (2002)

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    Originally posted by Prinz Eugen:

    I say ! I SAY !

    Mouthwatering stuff this is...Incredibly detailed too ! I enjoyed this bone immensely !

    Considering the next bone, make it one with a Finnish StuG (or any other vehicle that we may have had !), please ! ;) Just don't present us with something Italian. Personally, I don't see much point in including Italian forces. Well, maybe you can have some funny little battles where a platoons' worth of partisans kicks the asses of an Italian infantry battalion... ;);)

    I say ! I SAY !......

    Prinz Eugen I'm really tired....

    Take a look to this site:

    http://www.cronologia.it/mondo35z.htm

    It's an italian language site so please use

    http://www.systransoft.com/

    It helps you.

    You know i'm so tired... i can't translate the text for you.

    There are so many interesting facts.

    Yes i know There are so many interesting facts about the Finland War too.

    "...kicks the asses of an Italian infantry battalion..." :rolleyes:redface.gif

    It's only a question of respect.

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    Announcing CMBB Distribution Details

    in Combat Mission Archive #4 (2002)

    Posted

    Originally posted by Francesco:

    May I ask something, please?

    I'm from Italy... is this E or W Europe? I also have to ask this...

    Second: how do I know if the CVD CMBB will be the same of the BTS CMBB? I would prefer to buy it directly from BTS, because I liked their service when I bought CMBO....

    Which will be the cost of CVD-distribution CMBB and BTS-distribution CMBB?

    There will be an Itialian version? I'd prefer an original US version...

    And also: when will it be releasedhere in Italy?How much time after its release from this site?

    Will it be more swift to buy it from here (a local store) of from BTS site? (I don't live in Rome, so I can't be sure that one of the 3/4 local sores will have CMBB...

    Thank you very much in advance...

    1)South Europe for us, West Europe for the americans.

    2)It's the same CDV.

    the cost of CVD-distribution CMBB and BTS-distribution CMBB!!!???

    3)CDV will be the exclusive distributor for CMBB in Europe, including Germany, France, UK, Finland, Spain, Italy and other West European countries(Moon's words).

    4)CDV Knows the release date in Italy.

    Many of our products and games are only sold online, so you won't find them anywhere else!

    (BTS policy).

    Yes Heinz very disappointing news ...

    :confused: :(

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    Tiger 131

    in Combat Mission Archive #3 (2001)

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    Interesting site about the restoration of Tiger 131 at the The Tank Museum of Bovington, UK.

    Issued to Schwere Heeres Panzer Abteilung 504 and shipped to Tunisia between 12 March & 16 April 1943. Tiger 131 was attached to No. 3 Platoon in No. 1 Company. It was knocked out in action with Churchill tanks of No. 4 Troop, A Squadron, 48th Royal Tank Regiment at Medjez-el-Bab on 21 April 1943.

    And then a new life... smile.gif

    http://www.tiger-tank.com/index.html

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