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    I Can't Believe it..

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

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    Originally posted by DeaconBlue:

    Later I read somewhere that "it was easier to find true love than to find a fellow wargamer" - that was about right.

    ROFL! That's why I bought my first computer in '84... as nothing more than a wargame opponent! (when everyone was still buying the to "do their checkbook" and ended up doing nothing more than games, I was buying it to do nothing more than games!)
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    Combat Chess - anyone play with NO fog of war?

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

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    Originally posted by Michael Dorosh:

    Reminiscing once again about the old Squad Leader days in another thread got me to thinking.

    I always play with Extreme Fog of War as the default setting - I think most of us do, but perhaps that is gross presumption on my part.

    Board wargames is/are the precise reason I always use it... because we can now! (well, since the early 80's "now" *grin*)
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    What am i missing?

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

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    Originally posted by BDW:

    I think this was mentioned before, but I'd like to see a tool where you click on a unit and you see ALL possible LOS for that unit (rather than having to drag the LOS line all over the place). So the map would be shaded appropiately (as if the LOS line was dragged everywhere at once).

    That would be an age-old tool that would be a greatly appreciated addition to CM. As would the converse of selecting just a point and seeing all the map areas that can see to it.
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    Killing Matildas?

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

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    Originally posted by Treeburst155:

    You need not kill Matildas. They are harmless to everything except light armor and infantry in the open. They are fat and slow and really quite pathetic. Have a heart. Let them live.

    Because they are fat and slow, they have all received the death penalty. All players should assist in the imposition of said conviction. *grin*
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    WIP *MOD*updated for new stuff

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

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    Originally posted by atiff:

    I read on another list that, after the Italians surrendered, there was some discussion about mounting these on the back of Panthers and Tigers for use as "lifeboats"

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    No, no, no. That was the Armor Mistel Project (known as "Amp"). The thinking was the L3 would hold the driver and aimer while mounted on the back of a Panther. The Amp would them make a high speed pass at the enemy and launch the panther after wiring the Panther's firing switch to "fire," thereby giving a continuous rate of fire. While the L3 would swoop off to one side or the other and return to base for re-arming. The lifeboat confusion came because many Italian crews waited until they were under fire before releasing the Panther and thus giving the impression of being a lifeboat. There were a couple of crew that became aces using the Amp. Their trick lay in their ability to finely tune the aim of the Panther so that it was an effective battering ram, causing much damage and the ensuing exchange of insurance paperwork would tie up the allies for hours (many of the allies did not even have their registration, much less proof of insurance in their tanks!).
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