Hussar

Dave djhull@ozemail.com.au

Whatever you do stay away from their forum. It contains some of the most rabid Nazis on the net.

Blackcat.. Dont think it was called the Owen-Stanley (thats a range of mountains in New Guinea), just the Owen. When I did my nat service we were still equiped with them and yes they were a great gun. Our sargents told us they would fire under water, a slight exaggeration I think... [ 05-06-2001: Message edited by: Hussar ]

Just make them stop making the stupid show, thats all I ask...

Terence The Cromwell wasnt slow' Max speed 40mph Max cross country speed 18mph (approx) max for a Sherman 24-29mph cross-country 15-20mph The Churchill yes, the Cromwell no, as the pix of them speeding down the lanes during the breakout across Belgium show..

....yeah I like Patton tooo...

Osprey have a good book out called "Ostfront, Hitlers War on Russia 1941-5" by Charles Winchester. A new one (well, last year) with up to date facts by someone with no axe to grind. I found it a good read.

....ah but old Hussar's dont die, we just gently fade away...

Me too, this will be a whole new game thanks to this mod. A'la the flight sims and their changes of fronts.

Its still there for me (1 Mar about 0200Z). I have been frantically downloading all the mods "I meant to get someday", so I guess I have added to Manx worries. A top site, very sorry if it has to go, but grateful for all the effort...

I have all of Talonsofts Nap games plus many of the addon battles available on the web. Most people just use the system to play each other, it is very good for that. But your right the AI sucks. Looks like you have a market waiting, BTS...

Count me in for a Nap CM, that would be wonderful !! but please not another ACW game. Well not before Nappy...

The british historian Alan Clark (Purnells History of the Second World War) reckons that most judges now agree that Hitlers no retreat order in the Winter of 41/42 saved the day for the German Army. In retrospect Kluge's Chief of Staff wrote; "Hitlers fanatical order that the troops must hold regardless. in every position and in the most impossible circumstances was undoubtedly correct. Hitler realised instinctively that any retreat across the snow and ice must, within a few days lead to the dissolution of the front and that if this happened the Wehrmacht wouls suffer the same fate that had befallen the 'Grande Armee'." General von Tippelskirch went even further , rating it "Hitlers one great achievement". Thr trouble was Hilter carried that policy on right on to the end of the war in circumstances when it was disastrous. There were a lot of self serving biog's published by German Generals after the war that blamed Hitlers interference for every mistake, including their own. Manstein and Guderian in particular.

An excellant post Bullet head, kept nodding in agreement with all your points. On the subject of casualties; 2.5% of the British population was killed or injured in WWII. American casualties were 0.6%. Russian casualities were 25% (yes, twenty five percent). The figure was closer to 30 mill than 20 million. ref; Ostfront by Charles Winchester. Osprey 2000. A good modern coverage of the East front war. I think the Russkies carried more than their share of the carnage of WWII.

Yes it will run Mac, I did so on a very similar machine for six months before I saw the light and brought a new machine. Just stick to the small scenarios and be patient with the "computer thinking" etc. Keep the options low of course. Get a new machine as soon as you can and you will realise what you are missing, with CM and other games.