Sgt. Steiner

The next game is supposed to be the Med, which will include Italy and North Africa. What could be better than that? Tobruk, El Alamein, Anzio, Salerno, Monte Cassino, Crete 1941. Mmm, lots of gaming goodness there..

Same here; getting "Error 500" when trying to d/l. Hope it's resolved soon, the mod looks great!

Coe's post got me thinking. Why should German crews bailing out only have pistols. The MP-40 was designed for tank crews in the first place; I should think at least some of the crew would have them?

Any photos of these German T-34's w/cupolas, etc? Would be neat to see. Some mods for them would be cool too..

Oops, I forgot that the later variants could not be selected in '42. Doh! Ah well, hopefully the CM2 engine will allow a platoon to have all different turret numbers, and without the mirror effect..

I got that from an east front book, one of the Squadron/Signal titles, as I remember. The book says re-bored, perhaps the author meant re-barrelled? Unless possibly they did rebore them, and then put in a barrel insert. OK Ostfront grogs, anything in your piles of dusty tomes concerning this?

One way around the problem is to put the turret number on the rear of the turret stowage box. Of course all tanks in the platoon would still have the same number, but if you use 1 each of the different Tiger I versions (early, late, steel wheels, etc)you can have a different number for each of them. Of course if you're doing say, a 1942 scenario, you'll have to put panzer grey paint on all of the Tiger I variants..

I don't know about the captured German vehicles the Russians used, but the captured T-34's in German service had the barrels re-bored in order to use standard German 75mm. This was done in order to standardize ammo with other German vehicles. In fact, the Germans had at least one facility set up to do nothing but refurbish captured T-34's..

Hmm, I'm using the 40.72's and everything works fine. Unless FSAA is enabled, which causes scenario menu and briefing screen text to disappear. Weird...

Still play CMBO occasionally, but the improvements in CMBB are making that happen less and less. The (finally) working German optics, (finally) effective HMG's, cover arcs, better vehicle models, graphics, and everything else leave CMBO kind of flat nowadays. Plus, blowing up things with red stars and the hammer & sickle on them is much more satisfying...

Western Front is OK, but the East is where the titanic battles were. The battle of Kursk, for example, makes Normandy look like a circus sideshow in comparison.

250 MB! Ackk..ackk! On my dial-up that will only take a couple of years to d/l. Howabout maybe sending a copy to Burnadisc.com?

And let's not forget the camp followers either...

Don't see the mod there yet. Only new one for today (so far) is "darkened barbed wire"...

Just paid a visit to Gamespot Complete, and CMBB is now at No. 2 in the Gamespot Top Ten. Only one surpassing it is Age of Mythology. Keep visiting Battlefront often guys, as this Top Ten is based on website traffic. Who knows, at this rate CMBB might make their No. 1!

Gamespot gave the original CMBO a high rating also (9.2, I think it was), so they apparently do have someone on staff that appreciates wargames. CMBB is No. 3 in the Gamespot Top Ten too. Not too shabby!

Mein Gott! Diese sind phantastisch! Man oh man, I cannot wait for these. That dunkelgrau Tiger I is IT! mmm mmm mmm....

The Russians were indeed very big users of ATR's. The biggest, in fact. They continued to use them long after other armies had abandoned them. All that "bazooka plate" on the sides of Mk.III's and Mk.IV's is testament to that. I know the ATR's were pretty much useless against Tigers, Panthers, etc, but I have little information on how well they did against 'tracks. Half-track armor wasn't all that thick, so I would think an ATR should do well against it. I'm sure one of the uber-grogs will shortly dig into his piles of dusty old tomes and bombard us with stats on this..

Anyone working on some hi-res mods for panzer grey painted vehicles? Would especially love to see some for the early Tiger I. The Tiger Tiger! scenario just begs for them. Lots of panzer grey there. Just played that one, and boy was it a lot of fun (for the Germans anyway ). I imagine the Russians must have really crapped their pants the first time they ran into the Tiger...

Oh, by all means post any mod you may have. It'll be there for those that like it, and those that don't, well they can simply ignore it..

Yeah, they do have big heads. In CMBO they just looked like stick men, now they're stick men with big heads.. I love both games, but the soldier graphics have always left much to be desired. Hopefully the soldier computer models will be more life-like after the engine re-write..

I can live without the "shockwaves". Always did think those "force-field bubbles" were ludicrous looking anyway in CMBO. You don't see glowing domes everywhere during a real-life artillery barrage, or when an AFV explodes. I'll take the realism any day. Now, for those of you that like them, knock yourself out!

Same here. Obtained one at a time, over a period of several years. Sometimes just a few parts at a time. Only difference is I don't have to hide new ones from the wife, as she hasn't been issued yet.. Too bad they don't allow class III up there, but with the likes of Clinton & Schumer for state senators, it's a wonder you're allowed to have anything at all..

Oops, answered my own question. Ingeb alwayd did have the "Bulge" movie version, but they have apparently recently added a period version. This one has 3 of the 5 total verses. Much better than the movie one where they sing the first verse over and over...

Ahh, glad you found it. Now, one song ingeb doesn't seem to have is the Panzerlied. I have the one taken from "Battle of the Bulge", but it is only one verse. Do you know if the full version can be found anywhere?