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Bristol is a city I know weel so it was wierd looking at the hits. As for London I see three within 200 metres of my house!

I was curious as to the casualties given the number of battalions involved. http://military.blogs.mydesert.com/tag/operation-medina/ Great little item on Ruffer. Gives figures of 177 dead Vietnamese, and 86 US casualties [11dead] in C company however it is not at all clear what the overall bodycount was. Anyone got the reference books. Another link http://yourmilitarystory.com/forum/topics/vietnam-operation-medina-18-october-1967?commentId=6397094%3AComment%3A12775

Funnily enough this is the same kind of thing. One mans long struggle to get the full history into daylight. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21384672

It is quite humbling to read how a very few people can have a major effect on such a "dead" subject. http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/02/08/uk-britain-richard-idUKBRE91705K20130208

Good link Wicky. Interesting and nice to see a thorough debunking. Thanks for the offer Affy : ). I suffer from too much to read and must try to restrict myself. I fail of course. It lead me to wonder where my reading was these days. We can have up to 56 library books and I get numerous e-mails per day. Despite light pruning I see I have still nearly 80,000 stored in my ISP box since I opened the account a decade ago. Many e-mails are compilations of interesting stuff. This weeks list from Phys.org has 150+ stories to browse. Given the amount available I am now giving up the magazines I previously subscribed too.

A search will find it alive and well. With much support.

If only I had the £23.50 to pay for it! ANd the translation ..

Yes. I suppose the idea that you get jailed for reporting illegal behaviour seems weird when you compare it to this sort of thing: ANd there is a lot more from here: http://www.alternet.org/corporate-accountability-and-workplace/bill-moyers-and-matt-taibbi-everyone-pays-if-banksters-dont?

I was always dubious about the correctness of financial companies who engineered a collapse of the mortgage market - or perhaps more correctly the people involved. So it is rather exciting to see that in America the law can be used for the benefit of society as a whole.

Rick Atkinson Seems to have a good pedigree. Looking on-line it appears people believe - certainly for planes - that different calibres had different colour tracer. Seems sensible. This site might reveal more! http://www.quarry.nildram.co.uk/miltech.htm

OM Thanks for the link - good article.

True. And embarrassing I should not have been clearer considering http://www.battlefront.com/community/showthread.php?t=108135

Who? ....?

Re EDN Because I turn of not only Javascript but all adds and addons at visited sites I sometimes have problems. I have found the one to turn on "jquery" to allow me to see the comments.

Nice : ) This weeks Economist reports that dung beetles steer by the Milky Way at night!

Thanks for letting me know .... their clunky way of getting me to update my user profile after 4 years! I cannot see any of the original interesting comments but is that due to my disabling Javascript or is it not-archived?

I wish I had excerpted from the link in 2009! I vaguely remember it as being uncomplimentary of Boeing ...

Thanks GAJ you are doing a great job for the community.

From Windows Secrets a more thorough look at the problem and more evidence why IE sucks mightily. I find disabling IE works well : )

Good link slomo For those who might be barred from the site:

Am I wrong in thinking that seeing a unit did not necessarily mean your armour/atg could fire at it. Something to do with the commander being higher than the gun. Is that no longer the case?

Commenting here makes sense as it gets more readers. There are plenty who own CMx2 titles but prefer the scale of CMX1. And the ease and apparent simplicity of play. As for grogdom a real grog realises the deeper you go into representing what can happen on an individual basis the more you realise that plain luck can make or break small battles that we play*. Trying to simulate it all is a hiding to nothing as the game becomes more and more a lottery. Sometimes playing a game with average effects can be , at the end, more realistic. * Tiger commander killed outright by an ATR bullet to a vision block. ** A confused battle where a Tiger fires on another and misses three times. Sights not aligned with gun. *** Three Tigers embedding their gun barrels going over a rail embankment Trying to factor all of these into a game may eventually be possible but would anybody wish to play a game where all plans are destroyed by "real life" possibilities.

Update If you own Lubizol shares .....

Wikipedia says 14 rounds per minute so I suspect in game it is slower - significantly. BTW you have to be very careful on RoF as technically I think the Sherman 75mm could do 20 or more. The problem is taking what a gun is physically capable of its not the same as when the gun is installed and a practical ROF figure is required. I would think a Pak40 might possibly be close to a real-life 14. One of the problems in CMx1 was that various Sherman models all fired at the same rate making 76mm and Fireflies more potent than in RL.

Just to shown how powerful and spreading the gas additive is:!! Good thing its not poisonous given the spread must be several hundred square miles. I was looking at some more info on the sense of smaell and yet again find that it was a known and then unknown fact. This is faintly amusing ... http://www.bto.org/sites/default/files/u23/downloads/publications/bird-table/BT69_LR_12-13.pdf