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Or as an alternative, you can rename them with yy-mm-dd as prefix, so that you have them sorted by date. Example: in case geocities doesn´t show the pic, hop to: http://www.geocities.com/desertfox1891/Bild2.jpg cheers Helge [ December 06, 2003, 10:53 AM: Message edited by: The_Desert_Fox ]

Well, as far as I am concerned I would love to see all this left out CM:BO stuff included in a bonus patch which makes the units available in CM:AK to scenario editor use only. That way BFC won´t get possible complains about ahistorical troop composition in QBs. I especially miss the Cromwells for doing NWE-stuff. We will see if BFC may have mercy. cheers Helge

Mirror ? What is a mirror ? Does it have DNA ? Can I clone it ? cheers Helge

Small impression for you guys: hope it works. If not, hop to: http://www.geocities.com/desertfox1891/cmak.jpg cheers Helge

Hey thanks, That does the trick. All is well now. cheers Helge

Dan, You´re not by any chance talking about someone I might know ? cheers Helge

Gentlemen, The eagle has landed! My copy of CM:AK from CDV arrived today in the mail (Germany). Now excuse me for a few days to check out the new CM Universe but before I do this I might have a small buglet to report. It might be a CDV buglet or it might not. In CM:AK is anyone of you able to select multiple allied units in the editor and place the whole selected group at a new location ? For me this only works with the german side, if I try it for the allied side, the program switches back to only one unit highlighted and placable at a time. I just checked with my CDV CM:BB copy and there it´s the same annoyance. I only can select and place groups of german troops in the editor but not russian troops. Maybe this buglet crept in the code during CM:BB development and still persists until now. If one of you guys with the BTS version of CM:BB and/or CM:AK can reproduce this you should put this little buglet on your squash-list. If neither of you can reproduce it, it might be destiny blessing just me with it. Now I´m off for a desert-weekend cheers Helge

Hi, If it´s not too much hassle, *.jpg would be brilliant DELETEthedesertfox@DELETEgmx.net Thanks

Dear Gentlemen, I would like to inform you that I finally was able to locate a copy of "Album Historique, Jean-Claude Perrigault, La Panzer-Lehr-Division, Edition Heimdal, 1995, ISBN: 2840480816"from a private seller. A search for the aforementioned book is no more necessary. I thank you for your help. Best regards Helge

Dear Gentlemen, I would like to inform you that I finally was able to locate a copy of "Album Historique, Jean-Claude Perrigault, La Panzer-Lehr-Division, Edition Heimdal, 1995, ISBN: 2840480816"from a private seller. A search for the aforementioned book is no more necessary. I thank you for your help. Best regards Helge

Dear Gentlemen, I would like to inform you that I finally was able to locate a copy of "Album Historique, Jean-Claude Perrigault, La Panzer-Lehr-Division, Edition Heimdal, 1995, ISBN: 2840480816"from a private seller. A search for the aforementioned book is no more necessary. I thank you for your help. Best regards Helge

Gentlemen, "Album Historique, Jean-Claude Perrigault, La Panzer-Lehr-Division, Edition Heimdal, 1995, ISBN: 2840480816" I've been long searching for this out of print book now, but unfortunately wasn´t able to locate a bookstore that still sells this book, even searching per internet hasn´t been successful yet. If somebody might have any idea where I can look for it, or might even be able to point me to a bookseller where I still can order this title, I would really appreciate it. Likewise, if somebody is willing to sell his used copy (acceptable conditions!), please contact me via email. Out of personal reasons I am very interested in this book and would highly appreciate any help you might be able to offer to help me finding a copy. best regards Helge

Gentlemen, "Album Historique, Jean-Claude Perrigault, La Panzer-Lehr-Division, Edition Heimdal, 1995, ISBN: 2840480816" I've been long searching for this out of print book now, but unfortunately wasn´t able to locate a bookstore that still sells this book, even searching per internet hasn´t been successful yet. If somebody might have any idea where I can look for it, or might even be able to point me to a bookseller where I still can order this title, I would really appreciate it. Likewise, if somebody is willing to sell his used copy (acceptable conditions!), please contact me via email. Out of personal reasons I am very interested in this book and would highly appreciate any help you might be able to offer to help me finding a copy. best regards Helge

Gentlemen, "Album Historique, Jean-Claude Perrigault, La Panzer-Lehr-Division, Edition Heimdal, 1995, ISBN: 2840480816" I've been long searching for this out of print book now, but unfortunately wasn´t able to locate a bookstore that still sells this book, even searching per internet hasn´t been successful yet. If somebody might have any idea where I can look for it, or might even be able to point me to a bookseller where I still can order this title, I would really appreciate it. Likewise, if somebody is willing to sell his used copy (acceptable conditions!), please contact me via email. Out of personal reasons I am very interested in this book and would highly appreciate any help you might be able to offer to help me finding a copy. best regards Helge

Guys, I got some email requests and uploaded the once nuked stuff at: http://www.cmmods.com/ enjoy

Sorry for not bowing down and kissing the ground you walk on, but given that a) you use a pseudonym you fawn over your own credentials without being specific about them c) you cite no clear sources d) your information is being refuted by other posters It is hard not to come to some unkind conclusions about you. Set us straight by telling us where we can read more. You have to admit, this really does follow the pattern of someone who is not what he says he is. I couldn´t have said it better! cheers Helge

K_Tiger, So what could this say us?? 4 Tigers were ambushed by some Fly`s...no problem, they could kill any tanks without a problem. First question: Why only one destroyed Tiger?? Wittman wasn`t alone aditional 3 Tigers were with him. If the story with the Fly kill`s r right, why there werent more destroyed Tigers?? There were 5 KO´ed Tigers at the end of this 8th August, not only Wittmann´s 007. These Tigers were all examined and one, No.314, was also photographed (1945 by Serge Varin, picture see Agte, german edition page 288) Examinations took place on the 9th August 1944 by Peter Smith, SqnCo Maj Gray Skelton and other officers ["A", 1st Northants] (reference Tout, AFNFT, page 132-133). Additionally at least four other officers (Radley-Walters, Bevan, Boardman and Brassey) visited the wrecks in the following 3 years when the wrecks were still in situ. (reference Tout, AFNFT, page 132-133) Furthermore we have the recollection of SS-Rottenfuehrer Herbert Debusmann who cleared mines in the area as a POW and examined the wrecks too. (reference Agte, german edition, page 267) Bottomline is that 5 Tigers were KO´ed and the existance of their wrecks is substantiated by more than 3 first-hand accounts of different armies. Furthermore none of these reports mentions anything like a CAS attack or damage on the tanks which might stem from a CAS attack. cheers Helge

Ah, one of my all time favorite topics *GGG*. Kilgore thanks for linking to the pics.[originally it was one pic, but here it is split in two halves] I apologize, I wasn´t able to resist to reply to the bait. As you can imagine I collected some notes while doing my homework for Cintheaux-Totalize...here is some stuff you might be interested in.....lengthy post following. P51D, P51D wrote: He was killed by Tyffies Well, considering your mentioned background you obviously know more than we know. Mind to give us specifics? Since you are such a well knowing lad, mind me to ask Where is that documented? Author, ISBN, etc. ? P51D wrote: His body was discovered in the early 90's during the research for the After the Battle series of books entitled Panzers in Normandy Then & Now. Unfortunately this is not the case. Serge Varin made contact with a few 12SS veterans in the last few decades before the remains were discovered, in particular with former Obersturmführer Hubert Meyer; photos and accounts were exchanged and Serge produced his photo of 007, for possible identification. This shot was later published in the 12SS Veteran Association Magazine in the late 70's and some time later, both vets from the 12SS and the SS101 Bttn. in particular were able to ascertain that indeed this photo of 007 showed Wittmann's mount when he was killed on Aug.8 1944, in the vicinity of Cintheaux and St-Aignan de Cramesnil near Gaumesnil !! Contact was then made with The German War Grave Commission and it was decided to search the location and the bodies were finally unearthed in late March 1983 under German and local authorities supervision. So stories of 'road construction' and 'farmer's ploughing' must be considered as pure FANTASY and ignored as such ! It is true that Jean-Paul Pallud did performed additional research and was involved in the discovery of the remains of Wittmann and his crew who were buried in a communal grave shortly after the fighting, in the immediate proximity of where 007 once stood [on the field of Mr. Paul Samson]. Not to diminish Pallud's dedicated work and efforts, it is a sad and recurrent fact that he and other authors on the subject always seem to 'omit' to give credit where credit is due...in this case to Mr. Serge Varin. P51D wrote: I have all data at home somewhere. Then I assume it should be no problem for you to give us some more "specific" data ? At least give us Author, magazine, etc. please....we all would love to learn something new which is factually evidenced. P51D wrote: Photos are available of his Tiger with the turret heavily damaged Nope! Au contraire! At least to my knowledge. No photos---ONE SINGLE PHOTO!----The turret of 007 isn´t heavily damaged. Please have a look at the photo on page 183 of "panzer in Normandy". The man who took the photo of the deturreted 007 is Monsieur Serge Varin. He photographed this Tiger in March 1945 totally by chance, while he was visiting the area with a friend; both were riding their bicycles and had stopped by the field where 007 was located for a pause. According to him, at the time you could not see the wreck as a tall hedgerow was hiding it from the road and, had they not stopped by, chances are they might have never spotted it. So as Serge walked past the hedgerow and into the field, he then saw the wreckage and his curiosity was arroused by the fact that the turret was lying several meters behind. He only took one shot of it, obviously completely unaware of what and whose Tiger it was at the time !(Oddly enough, this shot has been split in 2 frames in some publications, but they are really part of one and the same photo). P51D wrote: & the engine deck destroyed from a large penetration of the compartment. Again au contraire! The photo doesn´t show such evidence. Please have a look at the photo page 183 of "panzer in Normandy" or Agte page 288 german edition or Schneider TIC-II page 290. 007 is showing a very intact rear end. If we assume that you drop what is in effect a 5 inch shell into the engine compartment, why didn't the tank even loose the command antenna container ? And of course, why is the "Rommel Kiste" of the turret still perfectly intact ? P51D wrote: Definetly not an AP hit. It was all meticulously researched [...] We are happy that you certainly are able to show us evidence or cite puplished sources that are able to support your assumptions. To get you start thinking...The damage...Only to expand on this line of thinking....if a 60lb ? High Explosive warhead of a 'Typhoon' rocket has indeed struck the engine deck of "007" leaving 'a large hole spreading all the way to the turret pit' as it is mentioned by some people, it would thus indicate the direction of flight would have been from behind the Tiger (ie. from the direction of the German lines) so: a) you'd think the grenadiers and anyone else under its flight path would have noticed it flying over them and the impact would have thus been from back to front. Now, not intimately knowing the effect of these rockets myself but 'assuming' a 60lb warhead would be capable of a fair amount of damage, I still have great trouble believing it could hit the deck and cause such a pentetration to armour plate, YET at the same time leave the thin sheet metal turret bin (Rommel Kiste) only inches away totally unmarked or holed in anyway?? As this is the condition it is seen in even after the secondary ammo explosion has flipped the turret into the air and landed it on the grass months later when photgraphed by Mr. Serge Varin. A 17pdr AP round to my knowledge on the other hand could quite possibly inflict a gaping penetration yet produce no shrapnel or massive explosion in the process that would frag or mark surrounding paper-thin sheet metal. So even if we do agree there is a downward penetration on the deck based on solely Mr. Serge Varin's account, I'm afraid my money would still have to be on an AP round and not an HE warhead doing it. How could the initial displacement of the turret have occurred as it did? We KNOW from the eyewitness accounts it WAS initially displaced onto the deck and most souces state (regardless of where either of us personally feel the hit came from - rocket or 17pdr), that it was the impact of this "ordnance" to the fuel tanks which produced the sheet of flame "explosion" which was remarked upon by both sides. The enormous shock wave of this blast in a sealed box such as a buttoned up tank would surely be quite capable of lifting the 20 odd ton turret (which only sat on the turret race by its own weight and wasn't locked down in any way) up slightly for a brief moment as a result and hence this displacement - the direction it went as it settled would have nothing to do with the angle it was hit from, but merely where the blast directed it as it was lifted. P51D wrote: All material published since the discovery & publication has acknowledged this. Again, please don´t mind to be more specific. Which material? When published? By whom published? Where published? It helps to seperate facts from assumptions. P51D wrote: Ken's books were written some time ago. Again au contraire! His book "A fine night for tanks" which is the relevant source on this matter was published 1998 by Sutton Publishing ISBN-0-7509-1730-X. "Panzer in Normandy" by Lefevre in contrast was published 1983, Second Edition 1990, reprinted 1993 and 1996 ISBN 0-900913-29-0. OK, coming to the published data on this subject. Here goes: Accuracy and getting it right based on the known facts is not easy in this case, but not impossible IMHO. Basically we have two options: The Typhoon story [serge Varin]: 'Editions Heimdal' who published Agte's book translation in France have included a text written by Mr VARIN that tells the story behind the photo of the KO´ed 007. This text was first published a few years before in the french magazine '39/45'. Here it is (translated by Yann Jouault and posted on the Missing Lynx forum some years ago. Jouault states that most of it was translated to the best of his ability and he hopes it's clear enough) : "IN THE SPRING OF 1945, AS I TOOK A PHOTO OF THIS TURRETLESS TIGER TANK, I COULD NOT HAVE ANY IDEA THAT THIS PICTURE WOULD BE OF SUCH CONSIDERABLE INTEREST SOME FORTY YEARS LATER. SINCE LAST AUTUMN, I HAD BEEN RIDING ON MY BIKE IN AND AROUND THE SURROUNDING BATTLEFIELDS WITH MY KODAK CAMERA. I DISCOVERED THE TANK BY CHANCE AFTER I HAD STOPPED FOR A REST. AT THE TIME, YOU COULDN'T SEE IT SITTING ABOUT 60 METERS FROM THE ROAD AS IT WAS HIDDEN BY A TALL HEDGEROW. THE FACT THAT THE TURRET WAS LYING ON THE GROUND SEVERAL METERS AWAY AROUSED MY CURIOSITY. I IMMEDIATELY NOTICED THE LARGE HOLE IN THE REAR DECK THAT WAS SPREADING ALL THE WAY TO THE TURRET PIT, AS WELL AS THE DISTORTED AND TORN DOWN COOLING GRIDS. ONCE I HAD CLIMBED ON TOP OF THE HULL, I FOUND OUT THAT THE INSIDE OF THE TANK HAD BEEN DEVASTATED AND DESTROYED BY AN EXPLOSION WHICH IN TURN HAD IGNITED THE TANK AMMO CAUSING THE TURRET TO TILT OVER AND FLY OFF. I WENT ROUND THE TANK AND COULDN'T FIND A SINGLE PENETRATION HOLE OR SHELL IMPACT IN THE HULL, NOR IN THE TURRET. VERY OBVIOUSLY THE DAMAGE IN THE REAR ENGINE DECK HAD LED TO ITS DESTRUCTION AND COULD ONLY HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY A PROJECTILE COMING FROM THE AIR SUCH AS ONE OR SEVERAL ROCKETS. I CAME ACROSS FURTHER EVIDENCE OF THIS ACCOUNT WHEN I FOUND (AND PHOTOGRAPHED) THIS TYPE OF PROJECTILE (i.e. ROCKET AS FIRED BY TYPHOONS) THAT WAS LYING UNEXPLODED NEARBY. THE ONLY CONCLUSION I COULD DRAW WAS THAT THE TANK HAD BEEN ATTACKED BY AN AIRCRAFT; LATER, FRIENDS OF MINE AS WELL AS THE OWNER OF THE FIELD (Mr Paul SAMSON WHO HAD PLENTY OF TIME TO SCRUTINIZE THIS TIGER WRECK UNTIL 1948 WHEN IT WAS TAKEN AWAY BY SCRAPMETAL MERCHANTS) ALSO SUSCRIBED TO THIS OPINION. (...) IN THE LAST TEN YEARS, AFTER IT WAS ESTABLISHED WHO WAS IN COMMAND OF TIGER '007' THAT DAY, MANY OF WITTMANN'S FORMER ARMOURED FORCES OPPONENTS HAVE HAD CLAIMS TO THIS PANZER ACE'S DEATH THAT CANNOT BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY. IN MY OPINION, THIS WILL REMAIN SOME TYPHOON PILOT'S UNRECOGNIZED FEAT WHO HIMSELF MAY HAVE DIED LATER DURING THE FIERCE FIGHTING THAT TOOK PLACE THAT DAY. (...) IT SHOULD ALSO BE STATED THAT THIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN PERFORMING LOCAL RESEARCH (in march 1983). INDEED WITHOUT IT, THE REMAINS OF THIS FAMOUS PANZER COMMANDER AND HIS CREW MAY HAVE NEVER BEEN UNCOVERED". (SERGE VARIN) The Joe Ekins story: An extract from the 1st Northants Yeomanry War Diary, which appears in Tracklink Number 48. The article is about trooper Joe Ekins, the firefly gunner who dispatched the three, and a possible fourth, that day. While not claiming Wittmann it was defiantly Wittmann's troop. Joe saw the first and third Tigers brew and the second Tiger " exploded in a sheet of flame". "St. Aignan de Cramesnil 8th 1220 Three Tiger VI reported moving towards A Sqn. And were brewed at 1240, 1247 and 1252 hours, all without loss. Later 200 infantry with 20 tanks in support formed up to counter-attack and in a bombing attack which followed some bombs fell in our area." So a bombing air attack was recorded but not a rocket attack and I assume they would have recorded the difference. "At 1240 hours Captain Boardman gave Sergeant Gordon's tank the order to fire. The Tigers were seven-hundred meters distant. The Firefly's gunner was Trooper Joe Ekins, who hit the rearmost of the three Tigers in his sight with two shots. The Tigers had failed to spot the well-camouflaged Shermans, it was only after the shots had been fired and a Tiger knocked out that Wittmann transmitted the message referred to by SS-Hauptscharfuhrer Höflinger; "Move! Attention! Attention! Anti-tank guns to the right! - Back up!...". " (again p.425 Agte) This one (ie. most likely "Wittmann's Tiger") reacted to the first Tiger being hit and stopped with the two 17pdr shots, by veering off to the right and returning fire with several shots back in the direction of the Shermans - quoting from Agte p.425 - "The Sherman (Firefly) changed its position somewhat to evade the Tiger's fire; one shell struck the turret hatch cover however, and wounded Sergeant Gordon in the head. He climbed out and Lieutenant James, his platoon commander, took over his tank and went back into position. At 1247 hours his gunner Ekins hit the second Tiger, which exploded in a ball of fire immediately after being hit. The foremost of the three Tigers was fired on by the other Shermans and was likely hit in a drive sprocket, for it began to spin in a circle. Ekins hit it with two shots at 1252 hours and the Tiger began to burn." Agte's conclusion - "The three knocked out Tigers, about whose fate there are concrete details on the enemy side, were probably all accounted for by Trooper Ekins." Höfflinger for example on p.424 of Agte (Eng. version) states that they began taking fire from "anti-tank guns" from the wood 800m to their right. "when I looked out to the left i saw that Michel's tank wasn't moving. I called him by radio but received no answer (...)". "The turret of Michel's tank was displaced to the right and tilted down somewhat" "Then my tank received a frightful blow and I had to order my crew to get out (...)". "I climbed into von Westerhagen's tank and, together with Heurich, whose Tiger was undamaged, tried to get to get to Michel's tank. WE COULDN'T GET THROUGH. Doctor Rabe also tried it, but in vain..." The Brits claim 3 Tigers at that location, on that day, at that time, were KO'd by Firefly Gunner Ekins with 2 more unaccounted for but also stopped - one possibly from 75mm hits from the other Shermans to its drive sprocket (as it is noted it began to spin on the spot) and the other one travels on a bit futher to the road from Jalouise near ref. point 117 before being finished off somehow. But all with no mention of Typhoons again. 5 total are known to have been KO'd - Wittmann, Dollinger, Iriohn, Hoflinger and Klisters and 2 (or 3?) get away thereby making 8 total - as on p.425 Agte mentions these 3 (Blase, Rolf Von Westernhagen, and Heurich) as surviving, which coupled with 5 KO'd = 8 From his letter to Wittmann's widow on p.429 in Agte (Eng. Vers.), Dr. Rabe on the German side states he was trailing the Tiger's advance driving another vehicle before dismounting and proceeding on foot and witnessed Wittmann's Tiger going up from 250-300m. If there had been a raid by Typhoons in the middle of the action surely he would have been ideally positioned to observe it as they rored in low overhead? p.429 Dollinger's account - "Heavy anti-tank guns, which we could not make out at all at first, opened fire on us from excellent positions." Dollinger also states his lead tank was hit by a shell on the turret which caused them to bale out. His Radio Op. Alfred Bahlo backs this up by saying that "The hit which our panzer took penetrated the right side wall." (both p.429). Again no Typhoon strikes mentioned. Max Wünsche when searching for Wittmann that night on p.430 - "After a while we began taking machine gun fire from right of the road. From some grenadiers I heard that Tigers had been knocked out by enemy anti-tank guns to the right of the road." From p.425 "if" the info presented by Agte and After the Battle no.48 etc. is accurate there appears to be little doubt from the matching dates, matching times (Germans c.12.55pm vs. Brits c.12.52), locations, ranges (Germans 800m vs. Brits 700m) and accounts from BOTH sides that both the British and Germans are each referring to the one incident in their accounts of it? If we accept this, then it appears to be solely a tank vs. tank duel. Why is it that in neither the German or British accounts of this encounter there is no mention whatsover of any aerial attack taking place at any stage of the proceedings? Surely the presence of Typhoons would have been obvious to both sides, especially the British, who were sitting off to the side with a clear view of the open paddock and the Tigers in it and would have duly noted it?? What possible reason would either side have for omitting this from their reports? On the one hand we thus have quite detailed, timed, documented accounts on both sides and from numerous personalities involved in the action "first-hand", that supposedly are describing this same event and everything matches up almost precisely and it all points in every way to an armour duel? Ok... So here we have these 2 lots of logged first person accounts from 2 meticulous note taking opposing armies, but on the other hand...they are versus the recollections of one solitary French Monsieur who discovered and photograhed one of these KO'd tanks nearly a year later in "the Spring of 1945"? Now please make your own conclusions what might have happened. For me it´s quite convincing that 1st Northants Yeomanry was responsible for the Tiger losses near Cintheaux. But I´m open to learn more if it´s factually evidenced and published. cheers Helge Oh and BTW as a shameless plug, give my scenario "Cintheaux-Totalize" a try and have fun ! It´s available at Der Kessel [ May 28, 2002, 03:51 PM: Message edited by: The_Desert_Fox ]

Gentlemen, We went over all this stuff quite a while ago. In this context you might find this old thread interesting: Old Wittman discussion Bottomline for his demise are the concurring german and british eyewitness accounts and unit diaries. The Northants got the Tigers with their pants down knocking out 5 Tigers all from within the Orchard in St.Aignan. Joe Ekins got most of them and most likely Wittmann was one of his victims. Read the thread and even better read the sources cited within the thread and make up your own mind. cheers Helge

Garry, Excellent work! I really love it. Many thanks to you and of course many thanks to Alec "Magua" Wade for sharing his work with us. Cheers Helge ------------------ Sbelling chequed wyth MICROSOFT SPELLCHECKER - vorgs grate! - The DesertFox - Email: desertfox1891@hotmail.com WWW: http://www.geocities.com/desertfox1891

Fernando, I like that red/white 808 as it is now. The size seems about correct to me. Oh and I see you did a 3rd SS "Totenkopf" too. Well 5th SS "Wiking" which had 2 Abteilungen of Panthers would be more likely to have a 808. Seems like "Modding" for CM2 is already in progress eh ? Send me a copy of the red/white 808 if you don´t mind Keep up the good work. Cheers Helge ------------------ Sbelling chequed wyth MICROSOFT SPELLCHECKER - vorgs grate! - The DesertFox - Email: desertfox1891@hotmail.com WWW: http://www.geocities.com/desertfox1891

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Why doesn't somebody with a MP40 take the role of the assistant gunner in a motorized squad, at least at longer ranges if he really can't do anything with his weapon in those cases?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Well it doesn´t matter if the MG-Gunner 2 has a K98 a MP40 or a G3. When the MG is engaged in a firefight, longrange or not, the MG-Gunner 2 job is to assist the MG gunner 1, and nothing else. He simply hasn´t any time to feed the MG and fire his own weapon. That´s what SOB was in WW2 and that´s what SOB is today. No rangedependent increase/decrease. Either the MG fires and the assistant gunner doesn´t fire, or the MG doesn´t fire and the assistant gunner fires his weapon, whatever that is. Cheers Helge ------------------ Sbelling chequed wyth MICROSOFT SPELLCHECKER - vorgs grate! - The DesertFox - Email: desertfox1891@hotmail.com WWW: http://www.geocities.com/desertfox1891

Old Dog and Marco, That one is really looking great! I love it. You used the wrong link. I followed the dead link in your post because I really was curious. Please don´t get mad at me Here´s the pic and here´s the correct link [ http://www.olddogscmcentral.homestead.com/files/Marco_s_Brit_Sherman.jpg ] please email me the files Cheers Helge ------------------ Sbelling chequed wyth MICROSOFT SPELLCHECKER - vorgs grate! - The DesertFox - Email: desertfox1891@hotmail.com WWW: http://www.geocities.com/desertfox1891 [This message has been edited by The DesertFox (edited 10-25-2000).]

While talking about it.... Why is it that in the game I can´t buy RAM Kangaroos in August44. They are available for the Brits/CAN from 9/44 on. Is there a reasoning behind this or is it a simple date error ? BTW: I know that the Kangaroos which were used by the Brits/CAN in Operation Totalize (08.08.1944) were Priest conversions and later returned to the US. But the vehicle characteristics were about the same as the RAM. Cheers Helge ------------------ Sbelling chequed wyth MICROSOFT SPELLCHECKER - vorgs grate! - The DesertFox - Email: desertfox1891@hotmail.com WWW: http://www.geocities.com/desertfox1891 [This message has been edited by The DesertFox (edited 10-11-2000).]

Guys, Have you ever tried to do the following: Create two subfolders in your /PBEM folder. Call them PBEM/IN and /PBEM/OUT. Every oponent then get´s his own folder, say I play MIKE So you have /PBEM/IN/MIKE and PBEM/OUT/MIKE. This makes it pretty easy to store all *.zip files and you can easyly see if you have sent your turn already or not, etc... The textfiles themselves are named MIKE01, when I send him my turn I call it HE_MIKE01, then I get MIKE02 and send him HE_MIKE02, etc... Cheers Helge ------------------ Sbelling chequed wyth MICROSOFT SPELLCHECKER - vorgs grate! - The DesertFox - Email: desertfox1891@hotmail.com WWW: http://www.geocities.com/desertfox1891