Flipper
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no actually cc4 did but...in all fairness
the mod people out there did a really good job with cc3 an gave it a lot of life...but cc main problem is that the map's are too small for tank vs tank action thats what killed it for me an the complete lack of any controllable off board artillery although i'll be following the release of cc5 to see how the new change's take hold.
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if the moderator's can allow the peng thread to continue..which imho is nothing more than "social democracy in action"...with the emphasis on socialism...then who care's if this thread get's 500 replies.
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to tanker, where does it say using the search engine is mandatory you are worse than a third grade teacher correcting someone for saying "who"...an telling them to say "whom".
stop acting like a traffic cop on this forum,
we've definetly got too many of them here already....relent!
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Hmm...I guess the neighbor's could be a problem if say for example they walk there dog down the street an they are goose stepping all the way.....an you'd better
call the moving van if the dog is doing it too!
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I like there battleground game's i have 3 of them going right now (pbem) napoleonic's an there continue's to be good support for these game's.sorry don't have west front,so i can't really say.
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hmmm....I guess that necrophilia thing can be
a tough habit to break...good to hear that your fighting it thou.
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because it's richard gere (the actor) in disguise.Hey he love's hamster's get it?
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does that mean we can expect more (lockup's)
or less?...not that steve is'nt doing a great job of locking down anything that even seem's the slightest bit contraversial.
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how's it going?
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steve why is'nt this thread LOCKED! fair is fair now anyone who rant's about the graphic's or the people who rant about the people who rant about the graphic's. get locked DOWN!
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hmmm....this thread seem's to be a discussion about system spec's...so i won't go running to the moderator screaming about how this thread should be locked...look's like you guy's lucked out!
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come on moderator do your duty...not that I have any opinion oh the mod site an profiteering it's just that you've been locking thread's that mentioned it, fair is fair now.
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I'm hoping that guy who hates cmbo come's in an take's the piss really entertaing stuff when he show's up.
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sorry i dont
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On the topic of ignorance an hindsight......
well one out of two ain't bad how can I be ignorant?...I'm just using hindsight after all it is history we are discussing is'nt it?
the fact that it took 30 corp's almost three day's to go forty mile's pretty much doomed this operation from the start.The fact that two ss panzer division's in reality one almost full strength panzer division were astride the main objective turned this operation into a disaster.That make's montgomery the ignorant one especially when
one "major urquhart" had the gut's to raise the red flag...and was strongly urged to shutup or get the boot!...but too read of montgomery's machination's after the war to continue to cover himself in glory is just too much!
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Actually urquhart was a fine officer serving in africa,sicly...etc but as with all officers promotion to higher command bring's
alot more responsibilty's.For starter's in something as fluid as an airborne operation
a commander has to be centralized as intouch with as many element's as he can possibly be...not galavanting through the front line's
with his second in command in tow all because
of a communication's breakdown.This fact alone almost getting himself captured an putting himself out of the game as it were
probably cost the red devil's at least a couple of thousand casulaties,hence the command breakdown in his absence as well as arranging for a less senior commander to take over in lieu of urquhart an lathbury missing
by giving command to a less senior commander
an then not telling the senior commander of such a plan is just plain stupid! naturally
friction arose over this bewildering command arragement when the senior commander(shan hackett) was informed of this "arrangement"
furthemore urquhart's distaste of hackett
he refered to him as a "broken down old cavalry man" show's his gutlessness! in not
organizing a cohesive force or at the very least in informing hackett face to face of his competence.This to me show's more than anything else the glib-arrogant type of commander that he personified.Even thou
the author refer's to him in word's such as reticent keep in mind this book came out many year's after the war so maybe he did learn alot about himself in the year's that followed in all fairness to the drop zone question there were those who wanted to coup des main the bridge but they were shouted down as "asassin's"...but in the end it was urquhart who made the decision to drop 7! mile's from arnhem.
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A true classic probably the best ww1 game that came out ...better than verdun(a beer an pretzels classic) better than 1914 by avalon hill (a great strategic game)..just totally unique an it's got offensive's on both side's
ever read the ironclad's of cambrai?
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competition..the allied high command was petitiong all the commander's on the use of the allied first airborne army, an monty had a plan called "comet" which he expanded to include the use of the whole airborne army/corps.
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hey I get the gist of your point's...England had lot's of excellent officer's it's just that of all of them montgomery being in the position he was...was the worst! second alemein the falaise gap to name a couple are example's of that...speaking of bad general's
Urquhart shoulda been court marshalled after that fiasco he definetly wrote a hefty chapter on how not to conduct an airborne landing...on the good my favorite high ranking english general was Auchinleck history history does'nt give him a better place imho montgomery showed up late to the party an took all home all the glory..an a helluva alotta people paid dearly for that.
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so the one's sticking outta there head's would fit inside the helmut
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Yeah just finished reading cornelius's ryan book.Boy montgomery sure was an idiot egomaniac an this battle proved it out kinda ironic that america bailed them out, an for it's trouble we had an english general who should have been a pastry chef...who's one
goal it seemed was to hinder an harass the
american war effort in europe...ohhh the countless thousand's that died for english pride.
I nowadays read only the closed threads
in Combat Mission Archive #2 (2000)
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yeah the closed thread's are the one's I read too...especially the lame reason's the moderator give's for shutting them down an at the same time keeping the peng thread open.
go figure