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Some of my best friends are ferrosexuals -nods in an understanding manner-

LOL Followed by an immediate about face when the tank takes a hit,brews up and the crew become the hot dogs in a pressure cooker. The Churchill came with a small element to enable the crew to brew tea-them Brits think of everything.

Am at the set up of the 4th mission.Swapped the files over with the command element still intact and it booted up just fine.

Great work once again,your efforts are well appreciated.

Gotta find that pattern my better half is a keen knitter and I fancy myself in a pair of those

I played the maleme airfield(hangs head in shame)many times,I tell ya if I'd have been there no way those FJR would've got it. . The Aussies had most definitely buggered off to fight the japs by this point,IIRC they arrived just in time for the glory of the Kokoda,whilst my countrymen took a well earned break and trained up their own armour. In fact the Kiwis had a bit of a mutiny when they sent some of the older vets home on leave and they then refused to return to Europe.They saw plenty of able bodied young men tucked up in so called dangerous jobs essential to the war industry getting paid more than 10 times a soldier.They figured they should swap places of course they were rounded up,court martialled,called criminals and cowards(after having fought through Greece,Crete,the Desert and Tunisia)and then shipped off to Italy.I grew up with two Uncles at odds with each other one labelled a coward who conversely ended up a decorated Warrant Officer who was refused a pension and another who never served.

Damn that's some impressive programming and my computer hardly lags at all !

My Dad was told something very similar,more along the lines of if you can throw your gun at the guy and hit him then you stand a reasonable chance of shooting him. German officers hitting the enemy at 50 metres with a P 38-regularly! Keep the Iron cross that man deserves an Olympic Gold.

Damn Mord that was beautiful-stifles back a tear-

Much appreciated,many thanks.

LOL hard to argue with that one

Fernando has already answered this in another thread,I forget which one it was but basically the MG 34 could provide fire in the assault and it was German army doctrine to do so.It came with a strap also and the gunner fired it from the hip while grasping the front bipod legs firmly...very firmly one would imagine.

The video does imply that it is a test of accuracy and no doubt it is probably easier to pick up a BAR and for an average 'grunt' to get semi sustained accurate fire from it.In this aspect it is a successful design. The MG-34 was designed as a squad support weapon and as a sustained fire H/MMG and I have no doubt that a trained crew had no problem putting bullets where they wanted them.Again another successful design which a variant of is still in use by the German armed forces today!Also a philosophy in regards to the squad support weapon that has been adopted by pretty much every armed force on the face of the planet. Morever by the time the BAR was facing the MG-34 it was being replaced by the MG-42 and there wasn't just one in a squad but two. Sooo although comparing them against each other is interesting it is kind of irrelevant as their use in the test bears no relation to how they were actually used.

Isn't it a bit like comparing oranges and apples. One is an automatic rifle used to add weight of fire to the squad where the beaten zone is provided by the whole squad. The other is a machine gun which basically is the squads firepower and a larger beaten zone would've been a necessity. I should add that there are plenty of pictures of MG 34s operating without tripods( a quick web search will turn up plenty) and have always been under the impression that tripods were only used in the sustained fire role in the heavy weapons units. This was the first dual purpose machine gun so pics of both are to be expected.

lol now that's good

BLASPHEMER-HERETIC-BURN HIM,BURN HIM Ah hang on that'll have to wait untill the fire gets put in.

Very apt tune.Nicely done

Perhaps like sdp he too has been swept into the inner sanctum

Awesome find,many thanks.

The only thing that put me off CMSF was no MAC version.In a bizarre twist of fate,at about the time CMBN came out I switched to windows 7 and finally managed to get my hands on SF as well(love them both btw). I certainly fit into Mikey D's getting old category but I relished the change and have very much enjoyed familiarising myself with CM2.I did find that up untill recently the AI was regularly giving me a good drubbing. Most of my improvements have to do with sharpening up on my tactical 'nous' and of course there is always the familiarisation of the limitations of the computer modeled environment.Every PROGRAM regardless of it being a game or not has it's vaguries as the programmers struggle to deal with those limitations.To get the most out of whatever program you are using you MUST learn and come to terms with them. This is how I approach everything that I do with computers as coming from a time when they never even existed and into a time where I can't even survive without them,I am well aware that it's ME that has to adapt to them. I see them as an elaborate tool.

I thought I was being told off.

Kylie and Absinthe.That'd be a night to remember. Oh no wait that's gonna interfere with CM time.

You are (gulp) right Mr Emrys,this is art and great art is often controversial. For me this game is a masterpiece and when people start criticising...I mean critiquing it I start pulling what's left of my hair out and rant at the computer screen.I won't repeat what I say as I'm quitely confident it would result in an instant ban. Aside from the odd little dimple which one must expect in any manufacturing process(which of course only add character),this game is a flawless gem, a shining beacon in the wilderness of wargaming and that is my completely unbiased,balanced opinion.

I'd pay to see that

Yep Vanitas that's pretty much what I've been doing.I would love a real time replay,of course I'd never get any work done then.