Pfc Driscole James E

Since the terrain and LOS/LOF are going to be abstracted, then it would be nice to have some player and scenario designer abstracted tools. Like a random point to random point LOS tool. Not realistic of course but we can't look at the terrain and tell whats what for LOS. For scenario designers the 8x8 action point grid as an option so they can lay out walls and buildings with the effect on LOS made clearer to them.

I was a member of the United States Naval Service from Sept 19th, 1969 to Sept 12th, 1975. A period of 5 years 11 months and 24 days. I archived through the grace of God and the oversight of the Bureau of Personnel the lofty Rate and Rating of Electronics Technician Radar Second Class. (For the nautically challenged thats an E-5; for the US Military Enlisted Pay Grade challenged it equivalent to a 3 stripe Sgt in the US Army or USMC) I volunteered twice for duty in the Republic of Viet Nam, but both times the Bureau of Personnel determined that my services were absolutely indispensable to keeping the Red Banner Fleet away from New Jersey. Served on: USS Agile MSO-421 USS Sierra AD-18 (Pronounced SEA-ERROR by some wags) USS Holder DD-819 Entered the Naval Service from Collingdale Penna.

Try starting a PBEM test game. Then Copy/Move that file from the Outging Files folder to the Incoming Files Folder. If you can see that file in Saved Games then the file from the email may be corrupted or not recognized for some reason, if you can't see the new file then I would guess that PBEM does not work in the demo at all. In the full game it does not work very well so far.

It probably the same place as the full version. <drive:>/.../Combat Mission Strike Force/Game File/Incoming Email And the files you generate will be in ...../Outoing Email

My system is below the specs needed for the game also: P4 3 Ghz 1GB Ram Intel 82915 VG 910GL Express Chipset Family. So more main memory than you but less video HP. I'm runing the Full Download version of the game. The good news is the game works mostly. Except for all of the bug/feature problems that everyone has of course. The troops are kind of flat stickmen and I rarely see a weapon in their hands. I need to get real close to see doors and windows or trenches. I sometime have the program crash if I jump out to the desk top and then try to come back. Not alway though. I've never tried RT and probably will not even when I upgrade. I've played the Training camp successfully and stick to tiny/small scenarios. I'm playing a PBEM game but neither of us can unload mounted inf so that balances out. I get video weirdness on the lower third of the scenario selection screen or briefing screen sometimes. If I click on the right spot I can move on but it is clicking blind.

I posted this before with no resulting interest. In PBEM Quick Battle the setup zones are not marked and the only placement that can be made is putting infantry into vehicles. Both side start in the same location which can be funny since it only a game. I have tried this both with another player and by moving the file from Outgoing to Incoming folders. It does work correctly for Hot Seat and play against the AI. Added But The AI does not delpoy or move it's forces in a QB.

In PBEM Quick Battle the setup zones are not marked and the only placement that can be made is putting infantry into vehicles. Both side start in the same location which can be funny since it only a game. I have tried this both with another player and by moving the file from Outgoing to Incoming folders. It does work correctly for Hot Seat and play against the AI. Anyone else try this yet?

Maybe because in Quickbattles there are no briefings. Which of course brings the question why the briefing screen isn't skipped... the beta testers of this game really suck. Unless you mean some other kind of problem? </font>

First off my system is below the specs needed for the game: P4 3 Ghz 1GB Ram Intel 82915 VG 910GL Express Chipset Family. The good news is the game works mostly. I only printed out pages 16 - 20 and have read no more. I Selected to play a QB on the hardest level with the US Forces in a tiny assault on a village in WE GO mode against the AI. The Briefing page did not work for me. I got a Co of Engineers with Strikers. I finally figured out how to load them into the vehicles and position the vehicles in the setup area. It's easy once you figure it out or even if you read up on it I would guess. The map is a hill to my left covered with either an orchard or farm field. Ahead is a cluster of buildings surrounded by a wall with a single building across the street form the cluster. Two more building clusters one on the left edge of the map an a walled one still further out. My "Plan" is to move a single Stryker fast to the central area and assault the single building while the other platoon move up to support. I issue the orders select the Company Co and hit the Go button. Things actually move and relative spotting is confusing at first as my units turn into ? and back to normal Icons. I assault the Center Buildings but forget to turn off my area fire so the guys stay on the first floor and will not move up stairs. I guess I would not either if the upstairs were being plastered with 50 cals. From the roof tops I can see Enemy Infantry in the open behind the left hand village. I have a real Group Grope getting the troops back into their vehicles and organized into platoons. Leaving one Plt on the roof tops a second moves left fast and then hunts forward toward the LOS on the Enemy around a hill. The third dashes accross the Enemy Los and assaults the left hand village heading for the roof tops. The Enemy troops did not deploy or move as far as I could tell. I got a Total Victory with 1 Vehicle lost, 3 KIA a few WIA. the enemy were all KIA, WIA or Missing. Against a human player I thing I would have been wiped out. I like it it will work out. I need to read the manual but I hate reading PDFs So I guess I wait for the Mailed one. It will probably replace Computer Ambush as the most expensive War Game I've ever bought once I buy a new PC to run it on properly. Now to find a human to play against. [ July 27, 2007, 12:48 PM: Message edited by: Pfc Driscole James E ]

Try the movie Tae Guk Gi. It has subtitles, but otherwise should fit everything you might be looking for. </font>

In "Blood Red Snow" by Gunter K Koschorrek, the Memoirs of a German soldier on the Eastern Front, he gives the Eastern Front Medal the nickname of Gefrierfleischorden. A footnote translates this to Order of the Frozen Meat. At least one class of US Navy warships had very British types of names. The Agile class of mine sweepers. I served on the USS Agile MSO-421 for a while in 70-71 time frame.

Mila 18 is well worth reading but it is about the Warsaw Ghetto rising of 1943 not the Warsaw Rising of 1944.

United States Naval Service Sept 19, 1969 to Sept 12, 1975 5 years 11 months 24 days 45 minutes USMC Sept 20, 1969 (got on wrong bus) Service on USS Agile MSO-421 Service on USS Serria AD-18 (pronouced SEA_ERROR) Service on USS Holder DD-819 (now part of the navy of Equador) Despite volunteering twice for duty in the Republic of Viet Nam the Bureau of Personnel determined that my services were absolutely indispensable to keeping the Red Banner Fleet away from New Jersey. By the grace of divine providence and oversight of the Bureau of Personnel I achieved the lofty rate and rating of Electronics Technician Radar Second Class.

My Dad got expelled from 9th grade for beating up one of his teachers. He tried to join the Navy but they discovered he was only 16, so he walked across the street and joined the Army. He was assigned to Horse Cav but flunked out of the training and did the bulk of his 3 years in the infantry. Expert on BAR and made Corporal. When discharged he joined the US Navy and was part of the commissioning crew of the USS Helena, a light cruiser. They made a good will tour of South America he had a picture of himself two shipmates and two guys from the Graf Spee crew. He started WWII by being thrown out of his rack by a torpedo hitting his ship. They got underway that afternoon. After being repaired the Helena went to the Solomon Islands. He described one night when they were running away from the IJN. They wired the safety valves on the boilers closed and one shaft had an overheating spring bearing which they had three fire hoses spraying it to keep it from melting the babbet metal and wiping the bearing. He was lucky enough to be transferred off the Helena two weeks before it was sunk to go back to the States and go to Motor Machinist Mate school (diesel engine school). He was latter assigned to the USS Santa Fe, a heavy cruiser. If you have ever seen film of the burning USS Franklin near Okinawa, the Santa Fe is the cruiser along side helping to fight the fires and having people who are trapped on sponsons jump to the Santa Fe. Dad was on the throttles in the number one engine room at the time. He also told probably the only true bar room brawl story I've ever heard. He was sitting in a bar near Bremerton Naval Ship Yard heard a crash behind him. He turned to look and a flying beer bottle knocked him out. My mom's first husband was killed on Bouganvillie in a La. National Guard infantry unit. She worked in a war production plant helping to build B-17s.

My Dad got expelled from 9th grade for beating up one of his teachers. He tried to join the Navy but they discovered he was only 16, so he walked across the street and joined the Army. He was assigned to Horse Cav but flunked out of the training and did the bulk of his 3 years in the infantry. Expert on BAR and made Corporal. When discharged he joined the US Navy and was part of the commissioning crew of the USS Helena, a light cruiser. They made a good will tour of South America he had a picture of himself two shipmates and two guys from the Graf Spee crew. He started WWII by being thrown out of his rack by a torpedo hitting his ship. They got underway that afternoon. After being repaired the Helena went to the Solomon Islands. He described one night when they were running away from the IJN. They wired the safety valves on the boilers closed and one shaft had an overheating spring bearing which they had three fire hoses spraying it to keep it from melting the babbet metal and wiping the bearing. He was lucky enough to be transferred off the Helena two weeks before it was sunk to go back to the States and go to Motor Machinist Mate school (diesel engine school). He was latter assigned to the USS Santa Fe, a heavy cruiser. If you have ever seen film of the burning USS Franklin near Okinawa, the Santa Fe is the cruiser along side helping to fight the fires and having people who are trapped on sponsons jump to the Santa Fe. Dad was on the throttles in the number one engine room at the time. He also told probably the only true bar room brawl story I've ever heard. He was sitting in a bar near Bremerton Naval Ship Yard heard a crash behind him. He turned to look and a flying beer bottle knocked him out. My mom's first husband was killed on Bouganvillie in a La. National Guard infantry unit. She worked in a war production plant helping to build B-17s.

My Dad got expelled from 9th grade for beating up one of his teachers. He tried to join the Navy but they discovered he was only 16, so he walked across the street and joined the Army. He was assigned to Horse Cav but flunked out of the training and did the bulk of his 3 years in the infantry. Expert on BAR and made Corporal. When discharged he joined the US Navy and was part of the commissioning crew of the USS Helena, a light cruiser. They made a good will tour of South America he had a picture of himself two shipmates and two guys from the Graf Spee crew. He started WWII by being thrown out of his rack by a torpedo hitting his ship. They got underway that afternoon. After being repaired the Helena went to the Solomon Islands. He described one night when they were running away from the IJN. They wired the safety valves on the boilers closed and one shaft had an overheating spring bearing which they had three fire hoses spraying it to keep it from melting the babbet metal and wiping the bearing. He was lucky enough to be transferred off the Helena two weeks before it was sunk to go back to the States and go to Motor Machinist Mate school (diesel engine school). He was latter assigned to the USS Santa Fe, a heavy cruiser. If you have ever seen film of the burning USS Franklin near Okinawa, the Santa Fe is the cruiser along side helping to fight the fires and having people who are trapped on sponsons jump to the Santa Fe. Dad was on the throttles in the number one engine room at the time. He also told probably the only true bar room brawl story I've ever heard. He was sitting in a bar near Bremerton Naval Ship Yard heard a crash behind him. He turned to look and a flying beer bottle knocked him out. My mom's first husband was killed on Bouganvillie in a La. National Guard infantry unit. She worked in a war production plant helping to build B-17s.

Over critcal of the BAR: My Dad liked the BAR but he liked the extra five bucks even more. This was in the late 30's peace time Army. He was out of the Army by WWII and so never used it in combat.

Below is some text from the 1940 ROTC Infantry manual. This should be taken with a grain of salt. Accoding to my Dad the best thing about the BAR was that if you qualified expert with it you got an extra five bucks a month. AUTOMATIC RIFLE CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1. Development of the Automatic Rifle. The Browning Automatic Rifle was developed during the World War to meet the need of the American Infantry for an automatic arm capable of being operated by one man and of accompanying the rifle squad in all phases of combat. The design of Mr. John M. Browning was selected as the best of twenty-six similar weapons which were presented for test. This arm was manufactured in quantity and issued to American Infantry units, and it proved to be an excellent weapon, reliable, simple in operation, and sturdy in construction. Until the adoption of the new Infantry organization, one man in each squad was armed with the Browning Automatic Rifle. With the advent of the Ml semi-automatic shoulder rifle, the fire power of the squad was increased to such an extent that there seemed to be no place for the Browning Automatic Rifle which did not have all of the characteristics desired in a light machine gun. While the future employment of the automatic rifle was still undecided, efforts were made towards its modification and improvement in the attempt to develop it into a satisfactory substitute light machine gun. It was equipped with a light bipod and a shoulder rest for the pur- pose of increasing its stability and reducing its dispersion, but the most marked improve- ment was attained by incorporating in the operating mechanism a simple device which reduces the cyclic rate of the gun from 600 to approximately 350 rounds per minute. When operating at this reduced cyclic rate, a marked decrease in dispersion is obtained, with greatly improved accuracy for automatic fire. In fact, as now modified, the Browning Automatic Rifle is at least equal in performance to the light machine guns used by foreign armies. It is considered somewhat heavy for the rapid maneuvering now expected of the Infantry rifle squad, but it finds its proper role as a platoon weapon, where it provides the platoon leader with powerful automatic fire support to assist the advance and maneuver of his rifle squads. In the new Infantry organization a squad armed with two Browning Automatic Rifles is made a part of the rifle platoon. Units of the R. 0. T. C. will for some time be equipped with the unmodified automatic rifle, and the scope of this text is limited to that type. With the exception of the added parts designed to reduce the cyclic rate of the gun, there is no difference in the internal mechanism of the modified and unmodified automatic rifles.

It's arrived in Harrison Township, Hamilton County, Ohio.

I'm getting the same problem with Windows ME. The go to briefing clears it up.

The movie is "Time To Kill". Cage plays an Italian First Lt., the regular officer is a Major and his regular time is 1530. It's actually about Ethiopia pre W.W.II. Not really a war movie in that the Ethiopain resistance is almost over and the action is off screen. I.E Cage's unit goes hunting for "bandits" who have overrun an enginer unit but do not make contact and at another point Cage is alone and hides while "bandits" ride by. a Blub on the video tape box is "A Twisted Tale of Forbidden Love".

That must be a out take of an Italian Nurse attacking Caine. The German Nurse was built like a fullback and applied her sensible shoes to full effect, but she did not have a mustache, as I recall.

I have not seen "Play Dirty" since cutting High School in the sixties. I have a different memory of the opening sequence. Fast moving jeep with two occupants, radio blasting an Italian mandolin tune, driver wearing Italian hat, passenger is unconscious or dead and almost falls out a few times. The jeep rolls through a gap in the wire and the driver changes the radio to a weedy English accented version of "You are my Sunshine" the driver changes into an English cap. The last scene and lines are one of my favorite movie endings. Is it available on DVD in the UK? I've got a code free DVD player that can convert PAL to NTSC. I'm going to order, from the UK, a DVD collection with "Ice Cold in Alex", "The Cruel Sea", "The Dam Busters" and another film that escapes my memory just now.

For a secondary source, as I recall, the SPI board game Sniper had Allied FT range as 20 2 meter hexes and German as 12 hexes. I speculate that BTS used a more authoritative source.