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Slightly off topic, but I just wanted to mention CANLOANS. British Infantry Divisions preparing for Normandy were short of Junior Officers, whereas the Canadian Army had a surplas at the time. Under the CANLOAN scheme 623 Canadian Officers served in British units nearly all at platoon level. 3/4 of these became casualties - 128 killed, 310 wounded and 27 taken prisoner. I also gather that British troops preferred their Canadian officers as they were not as "Regimental" as their British counterparts. At The Going Down Of The Sun, And In The Morning, We Will Remember Them.... Peter

Mentioned this before, but since you mentioned Arnhem. British Parachute Battalions were commanded by lieutenant colonels, companies by majors and platoons by lieutenants (pronounced leftenants) and sections always by sergeants or lance sergeants. Peter

Sorry to flog a dead horse. Following the recent discussions on FOs. My understanding for Commonwealth FOs was that when calling in Artillery support they were very specific as to the number rounds required for a shoot. A typical request was something like this "Shot, Scale 2 with heavies" meaning 2 rounds of heavy battery fire, translating to 8 rounds for a 4 gun battery. Of course on call shoots could vary from the small (as above) to very large scale depending on the target. For larger shoots, spotting rounds (sometimes smoke) would be used for fire adjustment. My point being (and I'm sure its been made before) CM currently is perhaps too abstracted ie "keep firing until I tell you to stop". A minute is a long time and if the target order could be changed to let you designate the number rounds this would provide more efficient use of limted resources as was actually the case. Question for the more knowledgeable did this preciseness in an on call request apply to US and Germans FOs (someone stated that US HQs could call in direct)? Cheers Peter [This message has been edited by IPA (edited 04-01-2001).]

Bump for Maximus or any other Modmaker out there. Sorry to belabour this one, but if this can be done this would make one hell of a visual difference to the creation of accurate city scenarios. Will beg if necessary. PS Only for road tiles with grass, otherwise trees may end up in the middle of the road. Thanks Peter

Maximus it would work. I wasn't clear enough. Each type of terrain has eight half road turn tiles, here are two for example: \_ and _ . \ (Terrible graphics) If you modify both of these to have straight route joining each end, then place them side by side, you get a 30 degree road. Take another look at the actual tiles I'm referring to, it works. Peter [This message has been edited by IPA (edited 03-29-2001).] [This message has been edited by IPA (edited 03-29-2001).]

Thanks David, sorry to be OT but does the same apply to road tiles? I'd like to be able to straighten the half turn road tile to form a 30 degree one if you know what I mean. Peter

Does anyone know the BMP for the Polish Paratrooper helmet. I'd prefer to see Para helmets as apposed to berets. Would it work to make a copy of the helmet BMP, renumber it to the Beret BMP, and then replace the Beret BMP file with it? Berets look nice, but helmets were more commonly worn during a battle for obvious reasons. Thanks in advance. (PS What is the Beret BMP, I'm at work) Peter

There was a very good thread on the issue of Global morale some months back, sounds like a good idea. Perhaps the greatest contribution by snipers was the psychological one, not the casualties caused. Peter

Out of my depth here, but what the heck. I am not in a position to dispute or support any of the stats stated, but the problem as I see it is that globally generated stats are being used to draw conclusions on macro encounters. The effect of snipers on the Battle of Stalingrad as a whole has been well refuted by Jason's first post (darn good read). But at CM's battalion and Company level encounters, perhaps the original poster is asking whether the modelling of snipers should be of greater significance. This could only be establised from analysis of small action AARs, war diaries and personal accounts (obtaining these is where the difficulty arises). I believe that the instance of a single sniper or mg holding up much larger formations was common place on the Western and Eastern fronts, I have no stats but only personal accounts. No disrespect Jason, I have no doubt that you've forgotten more about WWII than I'll ever know. Peter

Michael, You're spot on as usual with the GAD 1944 OOB. Here's the early OOB for info. 1941-1942 Divisional Headquarters Guards Armoured Divisional Signals Regiment, RSC 2nd Bn, Household Cavalry Regiment 5th (Guards) Armoured Brigade 1st (Motor) Bn, Grenadier Guards 2nd (Armoured) Bn, Grenadier Guards 1st (Armoured) Bn, Coldstream Guards 2nd (Armoured) Bn, Irish Guards 6th (Guards) Armoured Brigade 4th (Motor) Bn, Coldstream Guards 4th (Armoured) Bn, Grenadier Guards 3rd (Armoured) Bn, Scots Guards 2nd (Armoured) Bn, Welsh Guards 32nd (Guards) Brigade 5th Bn, Coldstream Guards 4th Bn, Scots Guards 1st Bn, Welsh Guards Guards Support Group 153rd Field Regiment, RA 21st Anti-Tank Regiment, RA 94th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA 1st Bn, Welsh Guards (lorried infantry) Royal Engineers 14th Field Sqn 15th Field Sqn 148th Field Park Sqn Thanks Peter [This message has been edited by IPA (edited 03-16-2001).]

I couldn't find this specific question in a search. Can road tiles be modded? ie. the visual (not hard coded terrain modifier)route of the road within each road tile. If not, then that puts an end to this post. One of my wishes for the scenario editor would be for diagonal roads at angles other than 45 degrees. AFAIK BTS are not going add any more terrain tiles for CMBO. As a compromise I usually link up half straight and turn road tiles to form a wiggly 30 degree road, but I'd really like to see a mod that would convert this tile to a straight road link between the corner and middle of the opposite edge, purely to create a more visually pleasing straight 30 degree road. I'm guessing that the road part of a road tile has hard coded movement modifiers, but for the tile mentioned I don't think it would make much difference to gameplay. Thanks in advance. Peter [This message has been edited by IPA (edited 03-12-2001).]

Bo**ocks, didn't work that time.

Also been having the same problem for months. Even deleting history, temp files and cookies and restarting the computer didn't seem to work. However, Cannuck, Thanks for the tip, "shift refresh" seems to solve the problem. Regards, Peter

John, Good post. From what I gather, this was standard ambush procedure. I have a book that describes two separate defensive position incidents involving the deployment of Hawkins mines during a battle almost exactly as you describe it. Book is "The Cauldron" by Zeno, although a fiction about the Path finders at Arnhem, Zeno served as a Sergeant in the 21st Independent Company. One of the best WWII books I've ever read, James Gavin rated it saying "that it had an absolute ring of authenticity. Hence here's another vote for deployment of DCMs during the battle, perhaps not with the ability to move them after setup, but with increased chances of them remaining undetected due the "rope being pulled" at just the right moment. Peter

Slightly on a tangent. If availability was the only contributing factor to points value, for American and British Airborne engagements 75mm Arty is possibly underpriced. Assuming that an Airborne division is isolated (I'll use the British, though I think the US AB Div would be similar, but with 8" mortars). A British AB Division typically had 24 75 Pack Howitzers divided into three batteries of 8. One battery would be allocated to support each Infantry Brigade (2 Parachute and 1 Airlanding, three btns each). Each Parachute Battalion had a platoon of 6 3" mortars in the support company, which was an integral part of the Battalion and could provide 100% dedicated support. Each Airlanding battalion had two mortar platoons of 6 3" mortars. Each 75 Battery was divided into 2 troops of 4 guns. Therefore, a battalion could expect one troop of dedicated support 2/3 of the time. 75mm Spotter costs 88 3" Spotter cost 116 I'd be grateful if Jason could somehow factor this in into his blast point equation by adding a weighting for availability of AB Arty and Mortars. Thanks Peter

31 Cheers Peter ------------------ "Been here a week now......waiting for a mission.......getting softer.........every minute I stay in this room I get weaker ......and every minute Charlie squats in the bush he gets stronger......each time I looked around the walls moved in a little tighter...."

How embarrassing, I am indeed a philistine. Can't believe I made the VW comment. IPA

You're right Sirocco, again perhaps too much optimism as with rest of the Plan. I also think that they would have been lucky if the allied bombing on Deelen Airfield just prior to the landings on the 17th hadn't already put it out of action. Whatever the plan was, I guess it doesn't matter now as it would come to nothing. BTW is your user name in reference to that classic Volkwagen of the late 80s? I always wanted one when I was a student, but alas was too poor. Thanks. IPA

No, the 52nd were to be flown in along with the 878th as soon as Deelen Airfield was captured. The 878th were to construct further landing grounds and a forward fighter strip, but not for the 52nd (that would have taken weeks)("Arnhem 1944 The Airborne Battle" Martin Middlebrook). IPA [This message has been edited by IPA (edited 02-24-2001).]

It was the 52nd (Lowland) Division, which had been converted to an "airportable" role. The plan was that after Arnhem had been secured, the division was to be flown in to Deelen Airfield to the North of Arnhem ie landed via normal transport aircraft. IPA

Rooster that's a very good point. Perhaps this delay in recovering weapons could be further simulated by having reinforcements appear in the "suppressed" or "panic" state. Secondly, IMO I don't think that high casualties caused by paratroopers being shot out of the sky, occurred often enough to warrant being modelled in CM. Crete was an extreme example, F Co at St Mere Eglise is another. If you look at Arnhem, where the dropping zones for the second lift had been virtually overrun by the enemy, contrary to popular belief casualties from ground fire were relatively light and insignificant. IPA ------------------ "Been here a week now......waiting for a mission.......getting softer.........every minute I stay in this room I get weaker ......and every minute Charlie squats in the bush he gets stronger......each time I looked around the walls moved in a little tighter...." [This message has been edited by IPA (edited 02-21-2001).]

Thanks for the hard work Harv. That's an excellent spread sheet. The filter functions list logical categories that when applied in the right combination can find just about any type of scenario you might be looking for. Great search tool. Your continual updates are very much appreciated. IPA ------------------ "Been here a week now......waiting for a mission.......getting softer.........every minute I stay in this room I get weaker ......and every minute Charlie squats in the bush he gets stronger......each time I looked around the walls moved in a little tighter...."

Irish Pale Ale..... my other addiction. ------------------ "Been here a week now......waiting for a mission.......getting softer.........every minute I stay in this room I get weaker ......and every minute Charlie squats in the bush he gets stronger......each time I looked around the walls moved in a little tighter...."

- British Airborne Reconnaissance jeeps with 'K' Vickers MG mounting. - Tetrarch Tanks - For N. Africa - SAS long range desert jeep armed to the teeth, Grant and Lee. (Not a hope)

Love to see a mod for the British 6 pounder AT gun, which currently resembles a US 57mm AT gun with a sloping shield. IPA