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No,it was because they use the "metric" system...you know,like they dont call a McDonald's quarterpounder a quarterpounder,it's "Royale w/Cheese"

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Jeff Heidman: I will re-iterate what someone has already mentioned: biggest is not always most important. The Eastern Front was decisive in WW2, but not because the Soviets managed to get 20+million people killed. I am not sure why exactly people think getting trully astonishing numbers of your sides people killed is an indicator of the importance of the fight. Jeff Heidman well for sure,this 20 million nbr includes non-combantants and non-Russian Soviets as well,but it is an indicator of the scale of that part of the war.I also indicates the Soviets wasted many of their troops in early part of the war.By summer 43,the Soviet battle tactics were changing,commanders were making better use of their troops and equipment and the casuality ratio was dropping.I for one,dont buy what captured German generals were saying about Soviet tactics,they,in some cases, made it sound like the soviets just used numbers to achieve their victory.Many German commanders didnt want to admit they were beaten by superior tactics,as well.Oh,they like to blame Hitler too.Read the author Glantz for a more balanced view of this war. [This message has been edited by Jeff Heidman (edited 07-14-2000).]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I like "Sunken Lane" as British...really hooked me on the game.Wild Bill's Maasrtrict (I misspelled)was also very good as US.

[ And don't get me into a discussion about DVD. I don't watch movies very much and I just don't think the perceived differences in picture quality between VHS and DVD is worth the extra bucks.

Yea,Ted T can really "get into" some of these productions...including Gettysburg.He's an officer in Pickett's Charge.He appears,at a picket fence,sword raised and shouting to the men when he is then shot.On screen all of 5 seconds.We need to get TNT off the dime on getting Gettysburg on DVD.Hands down the most accurate war movie ever made,IMHO Charlie (Not to mention Gettysburg...still waiting for that on DVD!)

FWIW..doing a tracert to Manx's site from the state's shows: 19 * 1265 ms 1725 ms wsdpro1-1.global.net.uk [195.147.246.244] looks like this device is the culprit..must be a bsy router,it's the last point on intl access b4 the handoff to local UK ISP. So Manx,you are correct,us Yanks must travser this router to reach you.I notice when we take a different route,things work much better.

Being new to this discussion group,i was not in on the thread about why there is no OOB status list.I have heard that BTS thinks it gamey.I dont agree.One could agrue that being able to have unit bases or being able to blowup the graphic sizes of units is gamey,IMHO.It's not a showstopper for me.The game is great,as is.On NG's some have said that BTS is "dead set against this".Why?

I Have the same Graphics card & soundcard as you Gung Ho,did the driver upgrades,installed Direct X7.0a,reinstalled the most update drivers after Direct x install and this fixed all crash problems..was able to run Mod Pack after Charles & Matt fixed the long sound files.Also,the book has some good tips from p160-165.Good Luck

No Errorlog.txt file in the Cmbo dir,when my lockups occur,i get the "blue screen of death" saying "An error occured at 0028:C1891E97 in VxD DSOUND(03) + 00009607 called from 0028:C16EC97F in VxD DSOUND(01) + 0000065F",I then can CTRL+ALT+DEL,get popup box and close CM app.I reboot PC and still get then same,especially when arty explosions are going off(playing Maastricht-Tough scn,downloaded from Gamers Net)doesnt appear that scn is problem.Things had been going fine for 20+ hrs of game play,now this problem keeps reoccuring.I have Direct 7.0a & latest drivers for SB Live! card(sblw9xup).Tried to get Live Ware,but it would not download from site.Will try that again and see if i can make it go.

updated this card to latest release (368) from 2-13-00,and that cured most of my problems,especially slow,jerky scrolling on large unit battles and the freeze up's i was getting,on occasion...3 battles and no problems,also did a sound card driver update,to get rid of some strange sounds(echo)during games.

I did suggested updates on Video drivers and Direct X 7.0a update,but still had some lock up problems.I noticed that during fire fights were many different sounds were present,all of a sudden i would hear echo type affects,also noticed this when i exited the game.Cleared up this problem by updating my Soundblaster Live card with latest drivers.No problems since,game is now solid,even on large unit scenarios.Running a Dell 500 mhz w/Diamond Viper V770D.