Marlow

Thanks. I had already e-mailed him a couple of times about it a while ago. He helped me clear up a couple of things about OOB and a few of the events of the battle.

Don't have the book, but can help you with some maps. Chaumont is a small hamlet south of Clochimont and Assenois. Look here for the location on a 1:100.000 modern topomap : Bastognemap and here for a detailed 1:25.000 topomap : Chaumont</font>

Struck me as a bit too modern in its vocabulary usage to be Chaucer. Coventry on the other hand ...

I don't know if it is all the maps from the original, but there are quite a few. For example, the Lorraine volume has 50 odd maps. The maps are all color PDF files, and with zoom all names are readable (however, some scans are better than others).

M'Lady, Much as I would like to help you with the picture thing, I think I will pass. However, somewhere in the vast wasteland that is the CM forum exists a snapshot of your's truely. This sounds like a fine quest for some untried squire.

Patch, If you are looking for pickies, here is one I found of your favorite Ubergnome:

ROTFL!

Really? :eek: That is so cool. Which one?

Dragon's teeth can be adequatly represented by rough terrain. AT ditchs are a little trickier to do, but but can be approximated by a row of terrain that is 3 levels beneith the surrounding terrain.

ROTFL. This guy is priceless.

Wrong unit. Assenois was Abrams and CCA of the 4th. CCB ran into a little more trouble at a place called Chaumont.

Just one more voice in support of accuracy in gameplay over a movie replay feature. Thanks for keeping the right priorities.

Thanks. Sounds like a worthwhile read. I wanted a few details before I shelled out the 32 bucks that Amazon wants for the book. The reason for the questions about the relief of Bastogne is that CCB's fight looks like a good subject for a CM scenario or operation, but a detailed account is hard to come by, and I was wondering if the book could help.

If anyone has a copy, a couple questions: How detailed is the treatment of his unit's (CCB, 4th Armored) advance to Bastogne? Does it include detailed maps?

Yes indeed. Which makes the following bigotry and slander on your part in the following very curious: Now I will be the first to admit that certain elements in a rather heterogeneous group that has been (for the convenience of those who prefer simplistic attacks) called “Right Wing Christians” are distasteful, overbearing, and closed minded. I will even grant that an infinitesimal minority of people who self identify as Christians have done violence in the name of their religion (note that we are referring to modern U.S.). However, associating this “movement” with the horrors of the Inquisition, the Concentration Camp, the Gulag, or the Taliban is ridiculous and insulting. If anyone is more closed minded than Pat and Jerry, it is the people who call them NAZIs.

This is the same as the rally point as it is used in the modern U.S. Army. I have no idea if WWII infantrymen used it. Like the RV, a rally point is givin with the orders, and new ones are designated periodically during movement by the unit leader.

Anyone that thinks that the T34/85 is going to be a wonder weapon is in for a big surprise. Leaving aside that CM will not model its substandard reliability, its rate of fire should be nothing to write home about (even though a three man turret, it was still cramped), armor is not all that thick by late war standards (worse than the Shermans, especially the uparmored varients), some sources say it had low armor quality, the penetration of the 85mm is less than that of the U.S. 76mm. What it has going for it are mobility and small size. Don't expect it to go toe to toe with panthers, and it should be inferior (when used in even numbers) to the MarkIV. [ July 18, 2002, 02:16 PM: Message edited by: Marlow ]

No, No, No, Brother Meeks was simply the first Prophet.

Which LMG would that be? The SAW (FN minimi) doesn't have a true drum, but a belt that is contained in a plastic box (although I have seen it called a drum). Is it the Stoner? In any event, a LMG is a far cry from a SMG. They have far different intended roles, and it is not surprising that what may work for one is not practical for the other. Ever seen a belt fed uzi?

If drums were truely superior, why weren't they used for the Thompson during WWII, and why are they not in common useage with any modern armed force.

Good Guys: Dudley DoRight (even if he is Canadian) Marlow – Champion of all that is Noble and Right Cmplayer – Former (mostly) loyal sidekick Bad Guys: Nasty Canasta Borris Badanov Jo Xia – Corrupter of the MBT Seanachai – Agent of Evil Berli – Evil Panzer Leader - Lacky Lickspittle to the Agent of Evil

Just one thing to add. While the majority of German ground forces were in the east, the Luftwaffe was largly defeated in the west. During the early phases of the war in the east, German air superiority was an important element in the Army's success. As more planes were withdrawn to defend the homeland, Germany lost their overall air superiority in the east.

This is the one that disturbed me: .

sullivantm@starpower.net It is also in my profile.

But a Virginian whooped him good at Nashville.