Ginkgo

Is it just me or does anyone else develop an emotional attachment for thier liitle guys because i always find myself moving my shaken! troops to the rears, hiding my bailed crews and backing up any units under intense pressure from the enemy in an attemped to save lives and so on. Or is it time for me to check in to an institution and surender my PC.

ok seriously now, i just thought it would be funny for it to appaer that a new player had misinterpreted the whole mortar/fixed gun thing you know. Kind of ease myself into the community with a laugh.

Tis a joke no... i mean i really know how to use mortars, no i do really, they are like a great big hollow club and you use them to hit Gerry on the head with right?

hehehe.....

I've read somewhere that mortars are very good at taking out fixed gun positions. Yet very time I get 3 or 4 of my mortar guys together and get them to CHARGE a fixed gun position they get shot to bits, run away and leave there little tripod thingies in the middle of the field. Anyone else have this problem

Thanks for the replys guys, and Peterk that sounds like good advice, infact I've just finished reading "A Bridge to Far. (C. Ryan)" so ive got an idea of the whole Market Garden thing and what a mess that Op was. Next book will be "The Longest Day" if i can find it at the Shops...

Thanks for the cooments, any more?

I would just like to expand on a post made earlier by Gustang about the order in which to play the scenarios and opps. What I was wondering is if there is any quick way to sort them by Date, eg from the para drops on D-Day through to Arnhem. Or even better would be to have a Map (a very bacic one) of Europe with the sites of the battles on it and arrows indicating the direction the fighting went. Now i have a general idea about the progression of the war from D-Day on, but alot of these places i have never heard of. I would just like to get a big picture of the whole thing in my head as i feel it would add greatly to my gaming experience to be able to play all the scenarios and Opps through as they historically happened. (yes i am aware that some scenarios are fictional)Its just that this is my first wargame and i feel that it would take me to long to reserch on my own but i was wondering if i could call upon the wealth of knowledge within this forum to knock together a sort of list from begining to end. like a little text file that all the less informed like myself could download and print. thanks and over to you.