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    HUGE TIGER I 1/6....

    in Combat Mission Archive #3 (2001)

    Posted

    You do know about 21st Century Toys' 1/18th (XD) scale line, don't you?

    Go here: www.21stcenturytoys.com

    They have both Shermans and Panthers at the moment, plus MG Jeeps (.30 cal) and Kubels, and about a dozen or so different apposable figures. Fairly cheap too, I paid $30 a Sherman at Amazon.com, the Panthers are either 35 or 40 bucks.

    Forever Babra:

    I picked up the 1/18 Sherman instead. For a "toy" it has amazing accuracy. It's accurate enough that I could definitely ID it as a 1943 production M4. It will take some long hours of kit bashing to bring it up to spec, but most of that will be finishing work, not detail work.

    Missed your post.

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    Ah scheist.

    [This message has been edited by Minnesota Joe (edited 02-03-2001).]

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    Invulnerable terraine?

    in Combat Mission Archive #3 (2001)

    Posted

    Just for the record, Syndicate Wars was almost completely 3-D. The available camera angles were limited, though. Terrain was almost completely, also. Craters could be "made", among other things.

    If you think about it, running over a tree with a tank could in theory destroy siad tree. This would in turn lower the polygon count, would it not?

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    Ah scheist.

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    American assault on the fortress of St. Julien

    in Combat Mission Archive #4 (2002)

    Posted

    This is the first truely desent scanario I have made yet. It involves the operations of Task Force Bacon and its successful attempt to take the ancient Vauben stronghold of St. Julien, which guards the north of Metz. The battle takes place in November of 1944.

    Much of the imformation was translated from "Citizen Soldiers" by Stephen Ambrose (pages 162-165). It does not yet have a briefing, but it is pretty straightforward. I tried to make it as realistic as possible using only the text from the aformentioned book. This proved to be difficult and led to much speculation. I tried to keep this to a minimum, though.

    -one note-

    Since I am new to the whole e-mailing game files thing, I would appreciate some brief instructions from anyone interseted. Thank you.

    -and another note-

    If you read the book, then you know that the Americans had a 155mm SPG. I compensated for this by giving the player two Priests.

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    Ah scheist.

    [This message has been edited by Minnesota Joe (edited 02-01-2001).]

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    OT: Hardware Advice

    in Combat Mission Archive #2 (2000)

    Posted

    RAM is relatively cheap, so I'm not worried about getting 128 Mb. As for the Enhanced Athlon, I was watching a commercial for the same company I'm buying my system from. It showed how in the future, a superior Athlon chip could be easily installed and replace the former, slowere chip. I don't think that you could do this with a Pentium, but I'm not sure.

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    tracks

    in Combat Mission Archive #2 (2000)

    Posted

    Eye candy will also help sell more units. This couldn't be called "selling out' as CM would still hold its reputation for realism.

    I am all for full squad representation (as a toggle, of course) and other things like tire/tread tracks and dead bodies for each KIA. I also hope that each building level will be represented as a building level. I'm love this game, but I'm kind of sick of this "Its represented in the game, but you can't see it, so just imagine its there..." stuff.

    <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Look: I'm running a G3 350mhz, with 96 megs RAM, and a RAGE orion vidoe card. CM runs FAST. Takes almost NO time to load, looks great! BTS has something here and has the technology to use it. Calling a game finished is a bad misstake. Thier is ALWAYS room for improvement!

    - Lord General MB<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

    I have an even lesser computer and CM runs very well. I will be getting a new computer soon and I don't think that representing each soldier or adding marks on the terrain will slow me down.

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    Ah scheist.

    [This message has been edited by Minnesota Joe (edited 09-10-2000).]

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    OT- The U.N., the U.S. Army, and me

    in Combat Mission Archive #2 (2000)

    Posted

    Mr. Clark- huge amounts of campaign financing from individuals and private organizations certainly do not help the commen American.

    Pvt. Ryan- Thanks, but even if I could get into West Point, I wouldn't go. I want to go through boot with the rest of the guys. If I ever want to become an officer (through OCS), I will at leat respect and earn the respect of the enlisted men under me.

    Cav Scout- I may have overemphacized the power of the U.N. over the U.S. military, however, I will resent taking orders from any non-american to fight in a conflict that the U.S. has no bussiness in. I say this knowing that if I am in one of the U.S. Army armored divisions, I stand little risk of injury or death in all but the largest conflicts. I don't care about that. Its all about the principle.

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    OT- The U.N., the U.S. Army, and me

    in Combat Mission Archive #2 (2000)

    Posted

    As many of you know, I have been planning on joining one of the branches of the U.S. military. I have decided on the Army, and more specificly, armored cav.

    I have even gone so far as to enlist in the Delayed Entry Program (DEP) and so now I am part of the U.S. Army, even though I have yet to finish my Senior year of highschool, which I started on Tuesday. For those of you who don't not know, the DEP allows me to sign up for service before I have completed highschool or become 18. Its advantage is that it saves me time and practically guarentees whichever positition I request.

    This is all beside the point, though. The real purpose of this topic is to bring to light the issue of the U.S. involvment with the United Nations.

    I was watching TV a couple of days ago, channel surfing, if you will. I came upon a program on the local public access channel that interested me because it was of unusually high quality for PATV. The program called for the withdrawel of the U.S. from the U.N. It made many points on how the U.N. has been manipulating its relationship with the U.S. and how it handles world affairs.

    The program was made by the John Birch Society.

    Their address is here:

    www.jbs.org/

    So basicaly, the U.N. has alot of power over the U.S. military and the comentators on the show state that the U.N. is using the U.S. as a pawn because of its power and influence. The funny thing is, the U.S. doesn't need the U.N. at all and it could withdraw its membership w/o any change to Americans. The U.N. is quietly trying to change U.S. doctrine into U.N. doctrine.

    I am very concerned about this because I don't want to be sent by some damned U.N. general to help some country in God knows where, that has no significant value to the U.S. without being a volenteer to go there.

    Many of the people who post at this forum have served for the Army and some may have even served under a "peaceforce" organized by the U.N.

    I suggest that you watch the TV program or visit the website, especially if you are an American.

    Many of you may dispel me as some raving 17 year old who doesn't know what the hell I'm talking about, bursting out with unproved rhetoric on your beloved forum. Well try to prove me wrong, if you do, I'll be a lot more comfortable about going into the Army.

    BTW, I have no problem with NATO, they have little to do with this. I also don't agree with everything that the John Birch Society has to say.

    Thank you in advance for any mature comments you have to offer.

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    Ah scheist.

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    The Cesspool

    in Combat Mission Archive #2 (2000)

    Posted

    BTW Mark IV, this is from my final post on my "Assistant Moderators needed ASAP" thread:

    <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>To quote myself-

    "You guys gotta come up with an official name for yourselves. I hate having to type "the guys from the cesspool" when I could just use some generalized term that lebels all of you. "<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

    I suggest you read that entire post. I don't want to copy it here out of respect for STeve and the rest of the board.

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    Ah scheist.

    [This message has been edited by Minnesota Joe (edited 09-04-2000).]

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