Pfc Driscole James E

In the screen shot titled "Hitching a ride" it looks like there are full squads as pasengers in Bren carriers.

As I recall the SPI Civil War Folio game Chancellorsville had a similar optional rule. The standard rules were very restrictive on Union movement for a large portion of their forces. this was to simulate the indecisiveness of General Hooker after he was stunned by a shell hitting a house he was leaning against. The optional rule allowed the Union player to freely move all units. But just before starting the game he had to drink a pint of whiskey and allow the Confederate player to hit him over the head with a two by four. The Union player was also required to play from that point without seeking medical attention.

In a CMBB v1.03 PBEM file a squad which in the previous order phase was given a FV command against a PZ III has, in the next orders phase, a FV command against an infantry squad 178 meters away. It was no problem to change the order, but if there is an interest in looking at the file or the previous file I will send it in. Edited to add the version number [ August 13, 2003, 08:15 PM: Message edited by: Pfc Driscole James E ]

A minor target correction can get the effect you desire on spacing out the rounds. Just retarget a few meters and the delay will do it. But, your point is a good one and I would prefer to be able to control the number of rounds. In regards to retrieving wire: should the FO be forced to retrace his route once his rounds are expended? Edited because spering ib e guibe ta memtal demamgement. [ July 31, 2003, 04:26 PM: Message edited by: Pfc Driscole James E ]

A minor target correction can get the effect you desire on spacing out the rounds. Just retarget a few meters and the delay will do it. But, your point is a good one and I would prefer to be able to control the number of rounds. In regards to retrieving wire: should the FO be forced to retrace his route once his rounds are expended? Edited because spering ib e guibe ta memtal demamgement. [ July 31, 2003, 04:26 PM: Message edited by: Pfc Driscole James E ]

No I'm not interested, I've never been interested, I refuse to consider being interested. Any one who thinks I'm interested may be delusional. [ July 27, 2003, 01:05 PM: Message edited by: Pfc Driscole James E ]

I find the covered arc combined with a hide very useful. It keeps units from revealing their position too soon and makes them harder to spot. It also helps conserve ammo if you make the covered arc just outside of any cover the bad guys are in so that your guys open up if they rush. Use indirect fire or MGs further back to suppress the bad guys in cover.

Oh well, with the final patch now out I guess this one will never get corrected. Such is life.

It, as Pondscum says, only happens when purchasing the GMR Battalion. If you buy guns by themselves or as part of a Cav battalion they get AP. If you buy them as part of a GMR Battalion they get no AP in Oct, Nov and Dec 41. They do get AP in Jan 41. I did not check dates after Jan 41. The same proved true for me in building a test scenario in Dec 41.

In a PBEM QB I'm currently playing I purchased a Guards Motorized Rifle Battalion of a Guards Mechanized Divsion. Date Dec 41 The organic 45 mm AT guns have an all HE ammo load out. The BT-7's I purchased have a mix of HE & AP. After doing some checking this is the case for Oct Nov & Dec 41. In Jan 42 the load is mixed. The Cav units get a mixed load in 41. Edited to note that the above is for v1.02. V1.03 gives a mix of HE & C but still no AP. Is this some historical supply or policy screw up? If not BTS fix or do somefink? [ June 04, 2003, 12:55 PM: Message edited by: Pfc Driscole James E ]

Laugh while you can Monkey Boy! And I hope you enjoy CM.

I think the Pamphlet you are refering to is the Historical Study "Russian Combat Methods in World War II" which the preface says was prepared by a committee of former German officers in late 1947 and early 1948. I decided to try ot the OCR function of my multifunction Printer and here is chapter 13. Chapter 13 Camouflage, Deception, and Propaganda Camouflage, deception, and propaganda were expedients much used by the Russians. These, too, reflected in every aspect the oriental character of the people. The Russians carried out measures conform- ing to their natural talents, such as camouflage and deception, with great skill and effectiveness. Their front propaganda, however, was crude and naive for the most part. Because it did not correspond to the psychology and mentality of the German soldier in any way, it was ineffective. Although pursued zealously, and with a great variety of media, it attained no appreciable success for precisely those reasons. I. Camouflage The Russians were excellent at camouflage. With their primitive instinct they understood perfectly how to blend into their surround- ings and were trained to vanish into the ground upon the slightest provocation. As illustrated in the preceding pages, they skillfully used darkness, vegetation, and poor weather conditions for concealing their intentions. Their movements at night and their advances through wooded terrain were carried out with exemplary quietness. Now and then they would communicate with each other by means of cleverly imitated animal cries. Noteworthy, too, was their camouflage of river crossings by the con- struction of underwater bridges. For this purpose they used a sub- mersible underwater bridging gear, which could be submerged or raised by flooding or pumping out the compartments. The deck of the bridge was usually about 1 foot below water level, and was thus shielded from aerial observation. Artificial camouflage was another device used by the Russians. Even at the beginning of the war the Germans came across Russian troops wearing camouflage suits dyed green. Lying prone on the grass, these soldiers could be spotted only at a very short distance, and frequently were passed by without having been noticed at all. Reconnaissance patrols frequently wore "leaf" suits of green cloth patches, which provided excellent camouflage in the woods. Rus- sians wearing face masks were no rarity. The Russians enforced strict camouflage discipline. Any man who left his shelter during the day was punished severely, if it was for- bidden for reasons of camouflage. In this way the Russians were GERMAN REPORT SERIES able to conceal the presence of large units even in winter, as the following example illustrates. In January 1944- the Russian First Tank Army attempted to take the important railroad hub of Zhmerinka in a surprise attack. The attack was repulsed, and the army encircled to the southeast of Vin- nitsa. It broke out of the encirclement during the very first night, and disappeared. The bulk of this Russian army escaped completely unnoticed through the gaps left by the insufficient German forces engaged in the encirclement. In spite of deep snow and clear weather, it could not even be determined in which direction the Red forces had escaped. From the situation, it was to be assumed that they had hidden in the immediate vicinity in a group of numerous, rather large villages with extensive, adjoining orchards. Since German armored units had previously driven through those villages, the tank tracks gave no reliable evidence that the Russians were hiding there. For 2 days and nights the Luftwaffe scouted for the whereabouts of the First Tank Army, and in this connection took excellent aerial photo- graphs of the entire area in which the villages were located. But neither aerial observation nor the study of aerial photographs pro- vided any clue. Not until the third day, when a strong German tank force pushed into the group of villages, was the hiding place of the entire army established in that very area. All tanks and other ve- hicles had been excellently camouflaged in barns, under sheds, straw piles, haystacks, piles of branches, etc. and all movements during the day had been forbidden, so that nothing gave away their presence. II. Deception Prior to offensives the Russian made extensive use of deception. In order to mislead the enemy as to the time and place of impending large-scale offensives, the Russians feigned concentrations in other sectors by preparing a great number of fire positions for artillery, mortars, and rocket projectors. They strengthened this impression by moving smaller bodies of troops into those sectors by day and night, as well as by setting up dummy artillery pieces, tanks, and air- craft, and making appropriate tracks leading up to them. The Rus- sians also were known to place an entire tank army behind an un- important sector, so as to create the false impression of an impend- ing attack from that point. By running their motors at night' they sought to create the impression that tank and motorized columns were on the move. Artillery trial fire and the use of roving guns likewise were among the most commonly used Russian deceptive practices. For purposes of deception on a more limited scale, the Russians frequently used German uniforms for whole units as well as for in- dividuals. That method of deception was almost always successful PECULIARITIES OF RUSSIAN TACTICS 89 In the summer of 1943 a German-speaking Russian in the uni- form of a German officer succeeded in driving a German truck right up to headquarters of the Rowne military government detachment (Ortskommandantur), and in obtaining an audience with the com- mandant, a general. He gagged the commandant, wrapped him up in a big rug, carried him out of the truck which he had left idling outside, and delivered him to the partisans. Only by the words, "Thanks, comrade"--words that an officer in the German Army simply would not use in addressing a private--did he arouse the suspicion of the kidnapped officer's orderly, who had innocently helped him load the heavy carpet into the truck. Although an immediate report was made by the orderly, it did not lead to the apprehension of the kidnapper. In Lwow, in the spring of 1944, apparently the same Russian, dressed as a German officer, succeeded by similar trickery in killing the deputy governor of Galicia as well as a lieutenant colonel, and later a sentinel who wanted to inspect his truck. Each time he suc- ceeded in escaping. Similar surprise raids and deceptions of combat troops through the misuse of German uniforms occurred at all sectors of the front in ever increasing numbers. III. Propaganda The propaganda of the Russians exploited military and political problems and used all the technical means by which modern propa- ganda is disseminated--radio, press, leaflets, photographs, planes fly- ing by night towing illuminated streamers or equipped with loud speakers and photographs, loudspeakers set up on the ground, leaflet shells, rumors spread by agents, Russian PWs, and Germans pretend- ing to have escaped from Russian captivity. Since there were also Finnish troops on the Arctic Front, to whom different things were of importance, Russian propaganda at that front sometimes met with difficulties, and was not properly coordinated. One also had to dif- ferentiate between propaganda aimed at higher military command- ers, the troops, and the German people. The various groups to be propagandized were dealt with and approached from entirely dif- ferent angles. From a literary and artistic standpoint, much of the Russian propaganda was of high caliber. The Russian intelligence service covered events in the German Army with amazing speed and accuracy. Photographs, for example, taken by one of the German propaganda companies for various rea- sons, appeared almost simultaneously in the pertinent Russian army newspapers. The propaganda at the front, however, was crude and clumsy. For that reason, it made but little impression. Political and military satire was used a great deal. 90 GERMAN REPORT SERIES The Germans obtained information on Russian propaganda ad- dressed to their own troops from captured Russian army newspapers. It, too, employed words and pictures. Nationalism and ideological fanacticism were exploited with equal intensity. The Russians seemed to criticize quite frankly some of the events at the front. Conditions among German troops in opposing positions were treated satirically for the most part. In the propaganda directed at their own front lines, the Russians pounded into their soldiers' heads the story that the Germans shot every PW on the spot. This propaganda-induced fear of being taken prisoner was to make the Russians soldiers stand their ground to the very end. The story was believed, and that partic- ular line of propaganda accomplished its purpose. There were rela- tively few Russian deserters. On the other hand, older Russian sol- diers who had worked in Germany as prisoners during World War I were immune to such atrocity stories and deserted very frequently. A large part of the Russian propaganda effort was devoted to study- ing and counteracting German propaganda activities. Reading and passing on German propaganda leaflets was forbidden under penalty of death. By erecting signs, by loudspeaker messages, or by dropping propa- ganda leaflets from aircraft, the Russians made extensive use of front- line propaganda urging the Germans to surrender or desert. Often the commander was addressed personally, sometimes by captured German officers of all ranks, who allegedly belonged to the "Free Germany" organization. Many propaganda leaflets were dropped that represented pictorially the Russian superiority in men, weapons, and material, as well as in armament potential. Also alleged German atrocities and acts of destruction were shown. It was, however, not quite clear just what propaganda purpose the exhibition of nude women standing on the breastworks of Russian trenches was supposed to accomplish. They supposedly were German girls who had fallen into Russian hands. The German command had little reason to be concerned over Soviet propaganda. Neither the spoken nor the printed Russian propa- ganda inspired and credulity, for it contained too many obvious lies. Besides, the German soldier had seen the dubious blessings of Bol- shevism at close range, and had discussed tills dictatorial system with its opponents among the Russian people. There were a great many anti-Communists among the Russian intellectuals. Those people voluntarily joined in the German retreat in 1943, because they wanted to have nothing more to do with the Russian system. Even before the Eastern Campaign, strong anti-German propaganda was disseminated. In the schools of many Russian cities and villages German language texts were found which contained the most coarse invectives aimed at Germany. That was the manner in which com- PECULIARITIES OF RUSSIAN TACTICS 91 munism spiritually prepared for war against Germany. In a fairly large village south of Leningrad, half-grown, German-speaking boys naively admitted that they had been selected as Komsomoltsy (the Soviet counterpart of the German Hitler Youth) for Magdeburg. Occasionally the Russians also doubled back German PWs with false reports. The Germans frequently picked up particularly well- trained Russian deserters who were supposed to supply them with false information. This type of propaganda was somewhat less than a success. With the exception of individual non-German soldiers in German uniform, instances of desertion from the German rank re- mained limited to the acts of a few desperadoes. During the first years of the war the Russians apparently had sought to impress the German troops and lower their morale by committing numerous atrocities against them. The great number of such crimes, committed on all sectors of the front especially in 1941-42, but also during later German counteroffensives, tends to support that presumption. On 25 June 1941, two batteries of the German 267th Infantry Divi- sion near Melniki (Army Group Center) were overrun in the course of a Russian night break-through and bayonetted to the last man. Individual dead bore up to 17 bayonet wounds, among them even holes through the eyes. On 26 August 1941, while combing a woods for enemy forces, a battalion of the German 465th Infantry Regiment was attacked from all sides by Russian tree snipers, and lost 75 dead and 25 missing. In a follow-up thrust, all of the missing men were found shot through the neck; In January 1942, an SS division attacked the area north of Szyczewka (Army Group Center). On that occasion, a battalion fighting in a dense forest area suffered a reverse and lost 26 men. German troops who later penetrated to that point found all the miss- ing SS men massacred. In April 1942, an elderly Russian civilian, a carpenter, appeared at a German division headquarters southwest of Rzhev, and reported that he had encountered a group of about 40 German PWs with a Russian escort in his village a few miles behind the Russian front. The prisoners, he continued, had soon afterward been halted at the northern outskirts of the village, where they had dug deep pits. According to eyewitness reports, the prisoners had subsequently been shot, and buried in those pits. A few days later, the village was captured in a German thrust. The incident was in- vestigated, and found to be true. During the battle of Zhizdra, in early March 1943, a battalion of the German 590th Grenadier Regiment was assigned the mission of mopping up a sector overgrown with brush. The attack failed. PECULIARITIES OF RUSSIAN TACTICS 93 Few Russian soldiers, on the other hand, believed German propa- ganda. Whenever it fell on fertile soil, its effects were promptly neutralized by counterpropaganda and coercion. Except during the great encirclement operations, there were only isolated instances of wholesale desertion of Russian units. If it did occur, or if the num- ber of individual deserters increased, the Soviet commissars imme- diately took drastic countermeasures. During the protracted period of position warfare along the upper course of the Donets in the spring of 1943, a front-line unit of the German XI Infantry Corps south of Byelgorod was able to take a large number of prisoners. The prisoners were taken in midday raids, since it had been ascertained from deserters that the Russians in this terrain sector--which could be readily observed from the western bank of the river--were allowed to move only at night, and therefore slept during the day. The prisoners admitted that many of their comrades were dissatisfied and would like to desert; however, they were afraid of being fired upon by the Germans and would have difficulties crossing the deep river to the German lines. Contact with the company of malcontents was soon established, and the necessary arrangements made. Unobstrusive light signals on the chosen night informed the Russian company that the necessary ferrying equip- ment was ready, and that German weapons stood ready to cover their crossing. All necessary precautions had been taken in case of a Russian ruse. Just the same, the company really dribbled down to the banks of the river, and in several trips was ferried across the Donets in rubber boats; the company commander, an Uzbek first lieutenant, being the very first. Part of the company, however, ran into Russian mine fields, suffering considerable losses from exploding mines as well as from the fire of the alerted Russian artillery. The result of this undertaking and the above-mentioned incidents was that, having become unreliable, the 15th Uzbek Division was im- mediately withdrawn from the front, disciplined, and committed elsewhere.

I agree with Peterk about reinforcements and playing the scenario double blind. My game as the russians was well into the end game before my game as the Germans had made serious contact. As the Russians I lost 56 to 44 after giving Gonzo a scare with the t-34's, they died much more easily than either of us expected. I read Loza's "Fighting for the Soviet Motherland" after I had lost them and now know why they were not as good as we had expected with the brittle turret armor. The Russian game had Gonzo breaking my left flank and rolling up the line. I did give him some trouble with the arty and mortars and my t-26's killed a couple of MkIV's and the 76 mm got another. The t-26's also got a PZ Jag I, an AC and a half-track. The left flank t-34 got two MkIV's and a Stug. Right flank t-34 got zip. One bright spot was a forward ambush by the SMG armed half squads of one platoon with Plt leader & flamethrower. They moved out of the Russian setup zone and set up 40 meter covered arcs about 25 meters inside a tree line. A reinforcement German Plt advanced right into it and only 4 or five Germans routed away for the loss of 2 men. As the Germans I won 81 to 19. I was probably to cautious. The Ampulomet which did nothing for me as the Russkie killed two MkIV's and the flame PzII. My infantry suffered low casualties with only one squad eliminated by a probably fanatical Russian squad late in the game when I stumbled across it. another hard core Russian squad had drawn most of the ammo from another German platoon, but they were fine for holding a Flag. The Air Gods must hate me. Gonzo's flyboy killed 3 t-26's but my flyboy's great contribution was a track hit on a dead t-34.

I was an Electronics Tech not a Gunner's Mate. The United States Naval Service uses the same sort of system on guns. My last ship the Glamorus and Exciting USS Holder, DD-819 Home of the Boy Commandos, had 5 inch 38 twin mounts. Were 5 inch is the caliber of the gun, I.E. the internal diameter measured from land to land, and the rifleing was 38 calibers long, 190 inches or 15 feet 10 inches. In metric that should be 127/38. More modern ships have 5 inch 54s but use the same projectiles and powder cases, with ajustemnets made to the cams for analog or the parameters for digital balsitic computers.

Captain Wacky Member Member # 6560 posted September 23, 2002 01:46 PM CURSE YOU DORM MAILROOM HOURS!!! Can anyone verify Southwest Ohio delivery? I won't know for another 4 hours [ September 23, 2002, 01:48 PM: Message edited by: Captain Wacky ] -------------------- Duff Man never dies, only the actors who play him. OH-YEAH! ---------------------------------------------- Arrived in Harrison Township, Hamilton Co, Ohio just two miles from the Indiana line about 25 miles from downtown Cincinnati. Ordered About 4PM EST the first day Offered for pre orders. For the "English System" impaired a mile is 1.6 Kilometers.

Then yelling: "HAKKAA PÄÄLLE !" In the Science Fiction novel "1632" by Eric Flint it is translated as "Hack them down!" The battle cry of the Finnish Cavalry force of the Swedish Army. The Swedes' battle cry is to assert they have knitted fingerless gloves.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by panzerwolfy: Sorry, I left some out, I meant Im looking for it to buy it. Either issues or paperback. I dont know if this paperback is in hard or soft cover.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Well, dare I say it? Do a web search. www.tcomics.com has #76 vg+ $3.00 www.tresuresofyouth.com has #81 $2.00 There may be more, I got tired of looking. My heart is broken I had been counting on them for my retirement. I do have doubles of 78, 80, 83, 85, 86, 88, 90 & 91. Email me if interested. I have no knowledge of any reprints. For a slight CM tie in issue 90 has Willie taking out a MkIV with a grenade bundle to immoblise and a molitov to kill. I should hate you, it's been 15 or more years since I looked at this stuff, now I'll have to read them all again. ------------------ Hiya Fellas!

It was in issue 76 (Oct 67) to 91 (May 70) of Charlton Comic "Fightn' ARMY". Willie, the son of German immigrants, speaks perfect German. He is the CO of a tank company in North Africa when he is falsely accused and convicted of murdering his battalion CO. A mine kills his guards and he escapes into the desert where he changes clothes with a dead German. He hides out in the German Army. He of course never actually kills any Allied solders. The action eventually moves to Italy and Willie joins Italian Partisans.

This problem is caused by either the mailer or the isp being configured to add plain text attachments into the message body. The was I corrected it was to used a binary editor to load the game exe file and change one of the - charaters in the "Play-By-Email Data Follows This Line" string to a hex ff (255). You would need to do this each time there is an upgrade but it's not hard to do. The changed character forces the attchment to be encoded as quoteable-printable instead of bsing plain-text. ------------------ Hiya Fellas!

Many of the movies mentioned are truly bad, but my pick for worst is "No Trupets No Drum" staring Martin Sheen. It is about an American Civil War draft doger living in a cave in West Virginia. When he's not talking to himself in the cave he his hidden in bushes while we see passing troops and people from the knees down. "Hell is for Heroes" was mentioned not great but very entertaining. Has this great clerk typest with a jeep load of typewriters in it. But for major pics I have to back the "Battle of the Bulge" and "Midway" picks. The start of "Midway" with the sepiatone Dolittle raid is good though. ------------------ Hiya Fellas!

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 absolutly indispensible 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. ------------------ Hiya Fellas!

Oh Nervus, Nervus, Nervus if _only_ you had done a search you would have found my post of just a few hours ago. (Note to humour impaired this is intended more as a jibe at those who complain on non searching posters than at Nervus.) For me this problem is caused by an ISP configured to include plain text attachment into the message body. I solved it by changing 3 (1 would do) of the - characters to a hex FF in the "PBEM data follows this line" string in the game program file. This forces the PBEM file to be encoded as quoteable-printable instead of being plain text. You will need a binary editor to do this. In AW this could get you banned for life. This is the only mod I've made to the program file for those who might worry about it. ------------------ Hiya Fellas!

I had this problem also. It seems to be a Configuration setting at some ISPs. They are setup to include plain text attachment into the body of a message. I could not even get tech support at my ISP to respond to my questions about it. So I've gotten around the problem by "hacking" the game exe file. I used a binary editor to change the first 3 --- chars to hex ff in the "Play by mail data follows" string. Probably only one was nessisary. This force encodeing as quoted-printable whic works for me. In the AW community this could get you banned for life. But, this is the only change I've made or will make. Another workaround would be Ziping the files, which is a pain.