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Hey Jeff I just knew "Resistance would be futile" Best Måk

Very well done Mikey Congrats on a labour of love ( the whole Panther / JP series ) Now CMMODS is back i can stop tearing my hair out and start dl them beauties best regards Måkjager

John , thats what happens when you spend nearly 9 months making a Tiger mod which i did for the Tigers i made for CMBO. Regards Måkjager

Mike is correct , the rear of the CMBB/CMBO Luchs-Lynx has some odd stowage polygon on it.. the newer CMAK version lacks this polygon, hence you can see the rear detail with the CMAK texture. Regards Måkjager

Hi Mikey , just had time to take a look at your Tiger's and i have to say very well done Sir. Appreciate all the effort that you have put into this mod pack and thanks for taking the time to do justice to my favourite afv Best regards Måkjager

Hi lads , found this link over at the Missing Lynx forum which leads you to the Time site. 101+ pix from North Africa.. some in "real" colour too web page If these have been linked before... sorry Best regards Måkjager

Hey Mikey.. i will be buying some of those plans soon for modelling projects.. like you said.. everbody needs a hobby Regards Måkjager

The vehicle behind the JT look to be a Panther D with the drum cupola. Regards Måkjager

Mikey, there is some speculation that the Jagdtiger is one of a pair that was sent to Arnhem to combat the Operation Market Garden forces. I am going on fuzzy memory here as I dont have the Concord book to hand but it said ( IIRC ) that the 2 vehicles were part of the 506 sPzAbt(? mb) and they were lost somehow. The returned strenght reports gave info that they had lost 2 vehicles as as Allied reports about 2 "Ferdinand/Elefants" being recorded as lost. This will likely muddy the water as i dont have the info to hand to give a fuller report.. the Concord book covered German Armour at Arnhem. best regards Måkjager

Ack.. pls disregard the bit below guys.. just found the info lower down the thread pile! Steve & Dan , can you guys give us any ideas as to the specs needed to run the game..... cpu speed / ram and min video card please ? Really looking forward to the new CMX2 Family Best regards Måkjager [ September 01, 2005, 08:00 AM: Message edited by: Måkjager ]

Tank and Infantry formation commands. Texture modability. Regards Måkjager

Not my fault u Jerry's overlook bargins when they are actually bargins at the time and then try to buy things that are as scarce as hens teeth for next to nothing BTW.. i found a June 1944 Op file with your name on it.. it was the one where u were defending against my Red attack ( small village / cliff-lake begind it ).It ended in my favour Regards Måkjager

hi Andreas , i dug out my 32MB Radeon card ( its the exact same one found here Radeon video card The reason i am using a Radeon 8500 is because it can run a Apple 23" LCD which i have. The 32MB Radeon cannot run the display but it works fine with my Apple 17". I took out the Radeon 85000 and popped in the 32MB Radeon and fired up both CMBB and CMAK. Both look and behave fine as regards to hi-quality smoke and dust. Scrolling is also smooth enough combined with the 1.8Ghz cpu card. Hope this helps. Best Måkjager

Looks crap Gordon hehehe ( sorry Dear Friend i just could not resist it). Looks like i will have to teach you how to make Mods with your toes too Well done bud, its been a loooong looong road for you but you got there in the end. I hope those carpal tunnels heal up soon and mb some day soon you can get back into the ModSeat. Best regards Måkjager

Hi lads , been along time since i poked around here but i have a happy tale to tell. I have had my Mac G4 Quicksilver Dual 800mHz since August 2001. I bought it with the 64MB GeForce 3 video card ( which turned out to be not the best card for displaying CM in all its glory ). I replaced that with a Radeon 32MB card which could do all the things the GF card should have done and more. Next up came a Radeon 8500 card ( Mac Edition retail ) with 64MB VRAM for the increased needs of CMBB/CMAK. I am still using that card today. One thing that bothered me over time was the slowish crunch time that my Mac suffered when playing nice big battles.... Jeff Weatherspoon... u and that damned Ponyri Express I am a hoarder of things and am very unlikely to ever take any of my CM games off my HDs as i still have plans for making mods.. but i also love OSX. The dilemma for me was no Apple support for CM in OSX.. so it was either keep my set up which is dual boot capable, upgrade it , buy a PC , or buy a new G5. I was not keen on a PC as it would mean me forking out for a pc photoshop version, the G5s are nice machines but expensive and i would still be left with my "slow" DP800 to run CM. So that left me with the upgrade route. After nearly a year and a half of trashing my brain cells ( any that i could round up ) i jumped in and bought a Giga Designs 7A-1418U 1.8Ghz G4 upgrade card with the manufacturer stating that "Giga Designs does not test, warrant, or support third party software operation under OS 9." I went for the single proc as CM does not support the second proc in Dual cards.. and the dual cards are nearly twice as dear as the singles. I paid OWC $381 which included shipping by FedEx for the card and it arrived in Dublin yesterday... and its up and running since then. Well... after some fiddling about with the extensions folder of my OS9.2.2 HD i can state the following. The Giga Designs 1.8Ghz G4 upgrade card works for me with no problems at all with the following. Combat Mission Beyond Overlord Combat Mission Barbarossa to Berlin Combat Missioon Afrika Korps End result is one very happy Måkjager with a shiny new cpu upgrade card that will keep him going for another 3-4 years I hope this is of some help to some other Lost Souls Best regards Måkjager

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See.. that what happens when u follow Mom's advice and eat up all yer carrots.. good for the eyes You do get trained to look out for such happenings when testing stuff. Glad i was able to find it so quickly for you Jesse. Regards Måkjager

Lucky enough i am a hoarder of stuff and i have found the file Jesse was speaking of. He has it now and will host it when he gets time. As it was a long time ago the story was just slightly off Jesse, I just having now watched the turn again. Situatation involved several T-34/85s taking on a Panther in a small village at close range. The nearest vehicle was a HQ T-34 that was 51m away. It fired a shot and got a penetrating round on the Panther , a second later a T-34/85 that was 91m away fired , its round ricocheted off the Panthers front hull and ko the HQ T-34 with a frontal hit.. even though the firing unit was 40m+ behind the HQ T-34/85. Wackiest turn i ever did see! Regards Måkjager

Nice "background" KTs Gordon Regards Måkjager

Ack i see the ol "combat suit lustings" is still strong in ye Steve Regards Måkjager

Happy Christmas to all , and Thanks BFC for the cheapest and most long lasting addiction ever! best Måkjager

Well done MikeyD , a VAST improvement to the stock texture. regards Måkjager

Rob , quick note- i have found some photos of the Stugs used by the SS-Panzer Abteilung 16 ( Assault guns ). They seem to be early Stug III Gs , so i would recommend MikeyDs Stug IIIG ( mid-early) Italian Theater mod set. Best Måkjager

Hey Rob , no problm at all Sir.. just glad i can be of some help to you. Speaking of which i knew i had some more info for you regarding the Panzerjager unit. The books "Nuts & Bolts" number 17 and 18 covering the Marder III "M" and Marder III "H" has some information on the RF-SS Panzerjager Abteilung 16. The SturmBrig.RF-SS/Pz.Jg.Abt. RF-SS had 10 Marder III (M or H variants) shipped to it on the 17/07/1943 On the 15/09/1943 another 10 Marder III ( M or H ) were also shipped. Seemingly the Pz.Jg Abts were organised with two companies (Kp.) of SPGs and one of towed 50mm/75mm Pak. The Pz.Jg Komp. had 10 Marders.. one Stabs and 3x3 Plts. Tis late.. will get back tomorrow night with any more info i find. Best regards Måkjager

Michael i "collect" the Men At Arms series like a child collects dirt I have the original W-SS and the revised edition too. These new books ( 4 in total ) are better as they seem to have more information at hand- within the limitations of the book size, and the color plates ( my primary interest as a sometimes scale model figure painter ) are very good compared to the "old" books. Rob.. i have typed up the whole "Campaign" section for you to browse CAMPAIGNS In May 1941 troops from Himmler’s Kommandostab RF-SSformed a new “elite” escort unit , the Begleit Battalion RF-SS. After the opening of the Russian campaign it was employed with the rest of this command in anti-partisan duty. In February 1943 it was decided to upgrade this unit to brigade status, and at this time it was renamed “Assault Brigade Reichsfuhrer-SS”. Before leaving the front it was believed to have operated alongside troops commanded by the notorious Oskar Dirlewanger during the anti-partisan operation near Minsk , Operation ‘Kottbus”, in March 1943. Shortly thereafter the embryo brigade was moved to the Mediterranean island of Corsica , and during the summer Himmler took steps to enlarge it to divisional status. In September it was on standby for use against the Italians should they decide to resist the German occupation following the unilateral Italian armistice. On the 3rd October Hitler approved the formation of the division; the Sturmbrigade provided the nucleus,with various SS training and replacement units, a draft from the 9.Division Hohenstaufen, and a considerable number of Hungarian Volksdeutscche. During the last quarter of 1943 and early 1944 the new 16.Division was forming up and training in Slovenia and at Baden south of Vienna, reaching a strength of just under 13,000 by the end of the year. In late January 1944 the Anglo-US landings around Anzio and Nettuno on the west coast of Italy led to parts of both Panzergrenadier regiments and the Panzerjager unit being rushed to this front, seeing combat under 14.Armee until 9th March. A battalion from the division may also have been involved in anti-partisan operations on the Eastern Front in early 1944. At the same time much of the division was allocated to Operation “Margarethe”, the German for the occupation of Hungry, whose Axis leadership was wavering. These elements reinforced by the arrival of the newly re-formed Begleit battalion RF-SS, and a SS-PzGren Lehr Regt from the Prosetschnitz training school- left Baden in March 1944 for occupation duties around Debrechen. By April the detached units from Italy rejoined; some men were transferred to the 3.SS-Pz Div totenkopf and replaced by local recruitment. However the 16.Div RF-SS was soon on its way back to Italy, where it was reported in May. Throughout June and July 1944 the division as part of LXXV Korps resisted the British 8th Army’s advance in Liguria, making a fighting retreat via siena and Pisa to Carrara in August. Later operations were under the XIV Panzer Korps, and I Fallschrim Korps, part of 10.Armee. ~By the end of 1944 some 3,000 casualties had reduced the divisional strength to just below 14,000. Under attacks by Italian partisan's the division also reverted to its former standards of behaviour: men from SS Aufkl-Abt 16 executed 560 civilian men, women and children at Sant’Anna di Stazzema on the 12th August. Later that month troops thought to be from the division killed further 370 civilians at Bardene San Terenzo; and SS-Pz Aufkl Abt 16 killed perhaps 1,670 during 29th August-3rd september and 1st October in villages around Marzabotto. In January 1945 the division moved from the Apennine mountains north east to the area south of Lake Commachio: it then entrained at Ferrara ( minus its antitank battalion ) for transfer back to Hungry during February. There it came under 6.SS-Panzer Armee for Operation “Fruhlingserwachsen”, the March offensive around Lake Balaton, where it had no more success than any of the other formations committed to this ill-planned attack. During late march and April, under XXII Gebrigs Korps of 2.Panzer Armee, the division, still about 13,000 strong on paper but with far fewer men on the line- was pushed back steadily westwards into southern Austria. The remnants surrendered in early May to British forces west of Graz , and to US troops around Klagenfurt and Radstadt. One soldier from the division was decorated with the Knights Cross. Hope this can flesh things out for you. BTW Rob.. the 30 Stugs info came from the book "Sturmgeschutz Vor" Assault Guns to the Front by Franz Kurowski ( yes Micheal i collect them too Best regards Måkjager [ October 21, 2004, 03:33 PM: Message edited by: Måkjager ]