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I think we've hit most of the important points here but from one retreded tanker's perspective,"tank" is just the solution to a continuing need for mobility and protection and firepower in one platform. Mobility: tracks still generate lower ground pressure for a given vehicle weight than tires (even with central inflation control). Protection: all of the things that heavy armor is intended to protect a soldier from are still out there (cheap, massed produced, bullets, shells and rockets). Light armor is just to allow you to get away, if you have to take some land away from someone, get the heaviest armor you can. Firepower: a high-velocity cannon can be used against just about anything except high-speed aircraft just by loading a different round of ammo. No missile has that kind of flexibility. The M1 bears no resemblence to the WWI British "Male" and armor in the next century may not look anything like the M1 (Ask David Drake, he says in the front of his books he's just trying to tell a good story). ------------------

Considering all of the software I've spent $59.95 and up for, TACOPS is probably the best buy I have ever made. It's a serious simulation when I want to study a partcular issue and a great game when I just feel like pounding the %&*# out of something! I'm on my third upgrade and it's been worth every penny. (Divide dollars paid by hours played and I think I'm nearing the $0.01 mark!) If you don't believe me, ask my wife (on second thought, she may not think this is such a great thing). ------------------

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Is there a copy somewhere of the 10,000 or so silly things that your public has already ask you for (Nukes, aliens, Elvis sightings, etc ). I always hesitate to post a suggestion, feeling that someone MUST have already asked for whatever addition I am about to bombard you with.

I read some of the earlier comments on the difficuly of using infantry in built up areas because of the limits of screen resolution. Unfortunately for me, most of my favorite scenarios include using my infantry to clear an objective or built up area. What do you think about a "Magnifier" tool or a "Zoom" function. That would allow the user to effectively manage multiple small units in a few blocks of urban terrain. Opinion? ------------------

Great idea! Did anything every happen with this? I just spent over an hour setting up my old GDP unit from the early 80's to see if I could once again stop the "Mongol Horde" with an M60 tank. This extractor would save me lots of time and effort.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by MajorH: Its on the wish list. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>This is not a bad idea as it would make vehicles stop at the military crest of an elevation change automatically.

I saw your post stating that maps could not be replaced in solitare games without confusing the AI. What if I use the editor to modify the standard map for a solitare game? I'd really like to add a few rivers and other miscellaneous obstacles and change some objectives. Gary Chilcote