Splinty
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I used to be a Mechanized Infantryman so I know a little about this. If a tank is immobilized with a busted track it can only move in a wide circle around the broken side and unless it's on concrete or solid rock it's probably only going to do that until it runs off the broken track at which point it's going to bog itself down very quickly. As for the pivoting part,pivot or neutral steering is accomplished by moving one track forward and the other track backward thus turning the tank around it's own center point, which is why only tanks with the right kind of transmission and final drive system could do it.
As far as I know a crew would have to at least jury rig the tracks for towing purposes, otherwise the tank would dig itself in when the towing vehicle tried to move it. And I highly doubt anyone would try to pull a tank into battle, although I'd guess it could be pulled into a defensive or ambush position.
Again this is based on my modern day experiences and not from any knowledge of WWII era recovery practices.
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" Just to point out that war as a whole sucks, heroism, valor, justice.... that's only in Hollywood movies."
As a combat veteran myself, I DO agree that war sucks. But the remark about heroism and valor only being Hollywood is complete and utter BS. I have witnessed selfless act of heroism on the part of soldiers in my time and I'm sure other vets here will say the same. War like all forms of large scale crisis brings out both the best AND worst in human beings and you are doing yourself and the human race a disservice by generalizing like that. As for justice, well that's above my level.
(Edited because of bad spelling)
[ June 29, 2002, 09:11 PM: Message edited by: Splinty ]
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Is there a patch for that?
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Excellent!
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You're a good man Andrew, I wanted to ask about the Chaffee but was kind of uncertain about your reaction to another mod request considering how busy you already are.
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Nag,nag nag....
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Beautiful work,Andrew. I espescially like the Fallschirmjagers.
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George, could do that with some of the Hi Res stuff? Just to give us a look at what it does for the details?
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...a horde of angry Chupacabras...
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It's a good start. Thanks Peter.
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Can anyone tell me if any Flak 37s lasted long enough to make it in the Ardennes campaign?
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Bumitus Dominicus
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Bumpitus Dominicus
[ June 12, 2002, 09:10 PM: Message edited by: Splinty ]
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I would suggest he come here with his questions first, and second send him over to Combat Mission HQ, I beleive there's a slew of tutorials an their site.
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CMBB has competition? :eek:
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:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG!
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I'm all for it,got any recommendations?
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I'm with Lawyer on this one. "Back In The USSR"!
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I too would be interested in the apperance of one of these mammoth industrial complexes you folks have alluded to.
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I believe all you need to do is set "allow human"force pick,when you set the parameters for the map before you save it.
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" Dammit,where's a good gerbil when you need one?!" Anonymous
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So was I,who were you with? Totally agree on the effects of the .50.Originally posted by Lipperd98:I was in the infranty in the US Army:)
[ May 15, 2002, 06:23 AM: Message edited by: Splinty ]
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Or one of those monster artillery peices Hitler was so fond of.
Don't tell me that this is realistic
in Combat Mission Archive #4 (2002)
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So you know modern military hardware CG? How many sabot rounds can an M2/M3 Bradley carry in it's ready box? How much does one of those rounds weigh? What does the ISU do? Is there a laser range finder in a Bradley? I'll give you a hint: The gun in a Bradley is the same one that's in an LAV, since you said you were a Marine.