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I belive the reason is that "gendarmerie" is French.

what in the 9 heavens is a ack-ack? I heard this in Hostile Waters (a solid underdog action game) and I thought it was something the pilot who spoke it made up. Now, it could mean a AA gun or a howitzer, or, I could be completely off the mark.

CDV Software Entertainment UK has announced the impending release of Combat Mission Gold, a compilation of the turn-based strategy title, which has previously only been available for purchase via mail order. Originally released in June 2000, the game depicts fighting on the western front of World War II following the D-Day invasion of Normandy. The boxed version includes over 80 modifications to the original title, including additional scenarios, maps, units, and a full manual. "Combat Mission is a strategy game with huge appeal," says Terry Malham, president of CDV Software Entertainment UK. "Yet until now it has escaped the attention of traditional shop-going gamers. Our two-disc premium pack offers exceptional value for money, treating games players to a year and a half's worth of mods." from www.gamesdomain.com I wonder if it will be released only in UK, and with what mods in it.... and how they handled copyright issues with the mod authors...

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by CMplayer: Why hasn't anyone mentioned the truly ugly German King Tiger? Shermans look pretty racy compared to that overgrown boxy lump.<hr></blockquote> Heresy! King Tiger has to be the best looking machine of the war, or if one was to cheat, second best after the JagdPanther. And in the aircraft category 190 shares the first place with the Spit.

One question: is there only one facing for the doodads? Meaning that whichever horizontal angle one looks from, they present the same image, like trees? Not that I'm complaining if that is the case, mind you. Nor even that it'd matter if I complained...

a green volksgrenadier with 43 kills... they were surrounded with bodies (amis) with no ammo left at the end of the game, but they were otherwise unschatched... Remainder of their platoon werent so lucky, however...

nice design..

Someone please explain to me why larger caliber rounds would crack the plate whereas the smaller ones would not? Could it be simply because energy is dissapated over less material?

About that inaccuracy (of armor slopes not being modelled) - if all shots hit at a fixed angle, I dont see how this problem cannot be easily solved by making the armor values relative to that angle - i.e, Panther's glacis would be 120mm@30 degrees (or whatever) while Tiger's front armor would be 70mm@30... Thus, the only inaccuracy I can think of (I am not even close to being a grog) is the height differences between the shooter and defender. Oh, and the increase of angle when the shot is coming from an off angle to left or right. Err... Still, reasonably accurate... I am assuming that this is already done - is it not? I am asking because I was considering the game as well...

I remember seeing this pic a while ago here. Cause a bit of a stir, I remember reading somewhere that its 3 KV chassis' stuck together.

Speaking of CMBO, -I- CANT WAIT ANY LONGER! <runs away barking>

If you think T-34s are a bit light on the scale, I remember (quite vividly) a photo of a Tiger lying upside down with no turret. I think it was on the West front, after being attacked by aircraft.

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Soddball: I've got a Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer and I don't end up with wrist pains since I bought it. Each to their own, though.<hr></blockquote> Same here.. the thing is a bit oversized, which helps to keep your wrist elevated. Its usually the middle of my forearms that makes contact with the desk, which helps a lot.

GPS guided shells? Isnt cost a problem?

Ever since childhood, Puma, of course. When I was around ten years old, I saw a hand painted picture in an encyclopedia. The said Puma was parked on a hill, with two German SS soldiers disembarked on looking down through binoculars to the valley where an enemy (Brit, Ami, Rus? Did I care?) column was passing.

two thousand thanks! These are great...

Yeah, please!!! asg@bu.edu

Dont forget the American love for convertibles!

How about getting together with other CM site operators and co-hosting some mods? There are plenty of mods out there that gets hosted on more than one site. I realize it will be hard to keep the links at %100 all the time, but it seems like a reasonable solution..

A mg42 or .50 doesnt have any bias.

I remember reading somewhere (this somewhere is the internet, trust if you will) that MDMA was first synthesised in Germany during WWI to enchance soldier's performance and reduce their apetite.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by M Hofbauer: wow, this is starting to get real solipsistic. You all, this board and everyting are just an imagination, a projection of my mind. what a trip.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Not at all. It was merely a reaction to 'CM is an abstraction, death to abstraction' thing.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Scipio: It's like the way we see a colour : we see for example 'red'. 'Red' doesn't exist in reality. There is only a specific electromagnetic frequenz that our eys are able to perceive and our brain interprets as the colour 'red'. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Scipio, sorry to break this to you, but if one was to proceed along your line of skepticism those wavelenghts that we associate with color are 'abstractions' too. In other words, they are nothing but a representation of 'reality,' albeit from a very serious discourse that we as humans started with the scientific revolution - science is a philosophy, a definition of reality; not reality in and for itself. Thus your argument is quite moot.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Mark IV: Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov Over 70 million sold! <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> So, this is the guy whose little toy has imprinted its image onto the second half of the 20th century and beyond. Wow.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Vanir Ausf B: Kursk was not a typical East front battle. T-34s sat back and picked off Pz IVs, not the other way around. Tiger is a different story...<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Not really.. There were so many tanks involved in so small a area that the tanks joined in what could be called a massive melee. I am, of course, talking about the tank vs tank engagement that happened after the opening German moves against the Soviet entrenchments.