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    Strength losses besides casualties

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

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    So you're saying that my name, in English, should now change to Charlize, just because?

    BTW, going to the above referenced lodge link in SA quotes the Drakensberg mountain series as Drakensburg, hardly the correct translation in Afrikaans, i.e. 2 completely different meanings: berg => mountain, which it is. ;)

    [ August 23, 2005, 09:31 AM: Message edited by: WineCape ]

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    Strength losses besides casualties

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

    Posted

    Originally posted by JasonC:

    ...I have incidentally read of the same phenomenon as early as the Boer war - read Churchill on Spion Kop, for instance. (On his way up he met many coming down, only half of them wounded. He passed others "in deep sleep" - in the middle of a firefight, but on a reverse slope).

    I believe it's called Spioen Kop, directly translated meaning "spy (as in I'm spying on you) knoll"

    Jason, still marveling at your typing skills though... ;)

    As stated above, if not optional, PLAYING won't be that much fun anymore.

    [ August 23, 2005, 07:40 AM: Message edited by: WineCape ]

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    Steve's recent CMx2 Bones

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

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    Originally posted by fytinghellfish:

    </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Battlefront.com:

    [qb] Jim, never said it would be before the end of 2005, so no surprise to me ;) Last speculative date, posted last winter IIRC, was for a release next winter. We still hope to hit that target, but we'll only know better when we get into the winter itself.

    fytinghellfish, [homer]mmmmmm.... Boddingtons.... garalarlarlarl...[/homer]

    :D

    Steve

    I've got a case of it sitting here for you if you'll tell me something about CMx2 I don't already know. ;) </font>
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    Steve's recent CMx2 Bones

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

    Posted

    Originally posted by fytinghellfish:

    </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Battlefront.com:

    [qb] Jim, never said it would be before the end of 2005, so no surprise to me ;) Last speculative date, posted last winter IIRC, was for a release next winter. We still hope to hit that target, but we'll only know better when we get into the winter itself.

    fytinghellfish, [homer]mmmmmm.... Boddingtons.... garalarlarlarl...[/homer]

    :D

    Steve

    I've got a case of it sitting here for you if you'll tell me something about CMx2 I don't already know. ;) </font>
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    !! Newborn !!

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

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    A family, sacrosanct. I have 2 (aged 5/8) and there is nothing that compare to the joy of seeing them after a hard days work, telling you about their problems. :D

    Keep her safe, support mom and make time for your family => life, love, living & happiness.

    Sincerely,

    Charl

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    The easy way is always mined.

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    Sherman in CM:AK - peeve

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

    Posted

    Originally posted by rune:

    Yes, if the engine could be changed it would be have to be addressed. .... Bottom line: there is a lot I would like to see change, but it won't happen unless there is a new engine.

    Oh look, there is a new engine being worked on...

    Bastisch! For that you will be red-carded for DOGSO.
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    Russian Tankers in Shermans - Only M4A2's to Russia?

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

    Posted

    Dey,

    - In your book "Commanding the Red Army's Sherman Tanks" you wrote that the 233rd Tank Brigade's M4A2 Shermans were armed not with the short-barreled 75mm but the long-barreled 76mm main gun in January 1944. Wasn't this a bit early? Didn't these tanks appear later? Explain one more time which main guns were mounted on the Shermans of the 233rd Tank Brigade."

    [Loza] - Hmm, I don't know. We had very few Shermans with the short-barreled main gun. On the whole, ours had long-barrels. Not just our brigade fought on Shermans. Perhaps these were in other brigades. Somewhere in the corps I saw such tanks, but we had the tanks with the long barrels.

    He's referring to the lend-lease long barreled Sherman M4A2 (76/L52 gun). AFAIK, it was introduced in May/June 1944.

    [ August 06, 2005, 01:11 AM: Message edited by: WineCape ]

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    Sherman in CM:AK - peeve

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

    Posted

    Ehh,

    Gents, must have missed it with all this dastardly complex spindle: give me the reason for BFC's design decision to NOT give any slope to the Sherman M4 front turret. The only explanation was from Rexford, which I assume speaks for BFC on this regard:

    "CMBO attempts to model the ballistic resistance of the turret front/mantlet as opposed to the thicknesses and angles."
    BFC reasoned that the front turret of the vanilla Sherman, with angle, resisted actually on their evidence at 89mm/0 deg. for wargaming reasons.
    "Since CMBO does not treat the area as a complicated curved arrangement with all of the peculiarities and vulnerabilities, a single vertical 89mm plate is used, which seems reasonable for wargaming."
    Soddball's question still stands for CMAK/CMBB:

    "CM:BO didn't treat the area as a complicated curved arrangement, but CM:BB and CM:AK do have the 'curved' value for armour plate, and I can't help but feel that the Sherman would have been a logical choice for this 'curved' value."

    Mr. Salt, warp your brain rather around THAT. ;)

    [ August 05, 2005, 10:48 AM: Message edited by: WineCape ]

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    Russian Tankers in Shermans - Only M4A2's to Russia?

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

    Posted

    Interesting account on a Russian "Emcha" Tanker, Dmitriy Loza, here.

    Question:

    (1) He asserts that in late 1943 his brigade received the long barreled Sherman - I assume the 76mm/L52 M4A2. Can this be correct or are his dates haywire?

    (2) I'm aware that the 76/L52 M4A2 variant only came available in the following year, 1944.

    (3) AFAIK the A2's were the only variants send on the lend-lease program?

    (4) I've also read that the USA did not use the A2 in at all during combat in ETO. Any reason?

    Much obliged in advance,

    Charl

    [ August 05, 2005, 07:55 AM: Message edited by: WineCape ]

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    **** ROW V (Part 4) ****

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

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    Originally posted by (FGM) Panzertwat:

    To all my opponents:

    I had an accident that involved me sticking a screwdriver in my left eye and breaking two fingers on my right (mouse) hand (don't ask how - it's a long story, but it f**king hurts...) - so turns may be a little slow over the next week or two while I recuperate.Will endeavour to crank things out as quickly as poss.

    :eek: Good grief! Don't spare us the details son.
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    WORST Generals of WWII?

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

    Posted

    Originally posted by Andreas:

    Mekhlis still takes the first spot. The Cattle Reporter is spot on. Had he been on Crete, he would have had his officers lined up, shot and replaced with privates who had read 'Das Kapital. ' He would have his radios destroyed as counter-revolutionary instruments, except for the one which he had used to send fawning messages of to Stalin, and only released carrier pigeons on missions that could fly a star-pattern to demonstrate their allegiance to the cause of the workers. He would have spent his time collectivising the peasants, and this would have created a pro-German partisan force.

    Then, with paratroopers dropping around him and the invasion fleet approaching, he would collect his men in political meetings, lecturing them on why fascism can not win, and employ them to destroy church icons while the paras stand around scratching their heads. Finally he would flee on a submarine leaving everybody else behind, denounce the new officers as traitors and have their families deported to Siberia.

    All the best

    Andreas

    Succinctly put. Kip? Stop using Andreas' username.
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