dieseltaylor

Its Ok we realised you were Canadian The separate washroom - from the toilet - is a total crock because film shows that after arse-wiping the hand that had the toilet paper is not clean ... so door handle. Yikes. Seems to be going backwards from the dunny : ). Of course the dunny was the home of the black widow spider .....

Very nice rolling landscape with some nice touches. It has a nice feel. Just a couple of points - and allowing for it being Greek/Mediterranean. Th positioning of isolated houses within wheat fields. Generally speaking because of the difficulties of controlling horees and plough I would think they are not normally centrally placed. Also I would expect some trees near the houses for shade/fruit. The house in the largest wheatfields has the BF huge window feature. I can understand it perhaps in shops but in 30/40's Europe and earlier windows would be small in sunny climes to keep the heat down. Lastly the railway line has a bridge rather than be a 100 metres inland. This seems very strange as bridges are expensive to build and maintain. The spur line to the port [ fishing?] could just run further if the line was inland more. I hope that it does not ruin your feelings fro finishing a very nice map - I just hope this helps you look at the "logic" of the landscape. Roads , rails , houses and trees always have some reason for being where they are. However end of day you live in the region and I only pass through!

1. http://www.battlefront.com/community/forumdisplay.php?f=76 For clubs to join and people to meet. Please note that some people put their e-mail address in clear. This is totally not good. Particularly as BF provide a method to contact other forumites using their names : ) Another thing to bear in mind is actually providing at least a continent where you live in your details helps people work out if the hours are good for playing. I don't mean just TCP/IP but PBEM also. In my case I am home all the time so time zones are not that important. For those that work it can be. I play in WeBoB which is one of the clubs. We are what goes by the name of a non-ladder club and are not overly competitive in terms of same points per side , strict parameters etc etc. There may be other clubs. Mileage may vary. Height limits apply. Some clubs grew up because some players in CM*1's early years would ditch games when they started losing. This is very bad form. Clubs hopefully weed out those people. And also the incredibly rare cheat. So there is a quick answer. 2. Target it is.

I did it in a scenario but then I was defending and had someone spotting - actually on reflection I am not so sure! Can you stop and shift 0 time bombardment?

Not a problem on the 16 sq km map though is it?

The military writer Terry Gander thinks the APC round could do 100mm armour at 915 metres [1006yards]. Rather curiously the HE shell is shown with a higher muzzle velocity than the AP -100ft/psec higher.

I don't disagree with your analysis. Though I am not sure that until after the event that we can say the right or wrong people were fired. So yes it is easy to see who performed best WITH hindsight. I have absolute faith there were men in most forces who recognised something was wrong and deduced an answer. But then history has a way of kicking us in the pants and ruining reputations. How would Montgomery be regarded now if Market Garden had succeeded ? Anyway if I make the war an analogy of a 100metre race and we decide who the winners and losers are in the generalship stakes in the preliminary heats then that is not necessarily a good method. Particularly as in this case it was an 800 metre race.

My suggestion was that the US Army decided the 76mm was a better option. So regardless of the number of tanks in the Army at the end of the war the 75mm was being wound down. Despite the shortage of gun barrels there were twice as many Sherman 76mm being built than 75mm in 1944 and six times as many in 1945. The conclusion must be that in light of their experience the US Army felt the 76mm was the way to go. Given it also made TD battalions less needed and simplified logistics it is surely a logical step. And the 105mm armed Sherman provided some heavier duty HE for special occasions. : )

Having a single tap for that does the mixing for both hot and cold is an even bigger step forward than a single faucet but two taps! Another step forward is getting rid of the overflow requirment for hand sinks - always a refuge for moulds etc. Having the bath overflow as an inlet removes the need for taps on the bath - they can be mounted remotely And showers also with remote mixers which elexctronically get the correct temperature and signal when it is ready : }

The fine aerosols idea is true but I would think not very high risk. The dangerous one is having your toothbrush in the vicinity as that is more likely to go into your mouth with fine aerosols attached. But lets not overstate the risk as I would think it pretty minute. However if you have the galloping trots or something you might like to bear in mind how far away the toothbrush lives.!! Re Exercise. True. However I will bet you a pound to a penny that outdoor exercise beats indoor exercise [ not that sort silly!] becuase of the sunlight providing the vitamins. Particularly important the further North you live. Reverse for Southern hemisphere you might think but actually most of the southern hemisphere land masses are much nearer the Equator. : ) They have toilets in Oz???! Must be recent - possibly they put them in for the Olympics or something!

I apprecuated that. Forgot to get my pocorn before I started! Well done. Just a point bocage is like "bocaj" where the aj is pronouced as in Raj. Its taken me ages to think of a word where that worked . Incidentally two of the on-line dictionaries don't even have bocage as a word. Pathetic.

I have two scenarios currently where ammo is a problem for my units. One is Platoon Patrol where we have been fighting for 35 minutes and two of my units are now conserving ammo with perhaps a minutes or two firing left. And two have plenty. But when you are defending it is not always easy to choose which units will bear the brunt of the fighting. I do not have all the turns on the same computer but after 5 minutes fighting my 4 rifleman squad has 208 bullets, 30 minutes later my two remaining men have 23 with 8 minutes to go. If you believe they can fire at nearly 10 rounds a minute then it has always been a problem. In the other La Valence it is also critical - but ongoing so no info.

Unfortunately the tank modelling seems a tad suspect and I believe is being changed in V1.01. so perhaps at the moment it is possibly too effective. Firing on the move being suspect and speed of target acquisition.

Can you quantify the higher explosive charge benefit to the 75mm compared to 76mm explosive charge when used gainst ATG's and infantry? And is there a counter argument that with 76mm armed Shermans the tank losses for the US Army would have been lessened and the drive to the Rhine quicker. More crews survivng gives more veteran crews which yield greater effectiveness. And if fuel is a constraint surely one would prefer a tank corp without vanilla Shermans so that all eventualities are catered for. As it happens the US army went 76mm crazy eventually so perhaps they thought about it and decided the trade-off for HE blast was not that big a deal compared to tanks that could pretty much do everything. I am only guessing : )

Charlie & Eric. Thank you for leaping in to explain things to me about the forum. I think you both missed the point. There has been criticism of the various High Commands and their inadequacies or otherwise. I do find it faintly disturbing that with all the apparent lessons that the Soviets, and the Western Allies have learned from previous conflicts, that despite two invasions with intent, the Afghanis appear not to understand superior military learning. So perhaps we ought to be a little less "smart" about WW2 errors and understand what hindsight does for judgement. I am not saying the people who contribute have been wrong in their criticisms of WW2 decisions, I have enjoyed a lot of the information provided. And it is very interesting. But there tends to be a danger of saying how smart we are now and they were wrong decisions. I think there was a tinge of that. Pointing to a current conflict perhaps might make people realise that it is nowhere near as simple as it appears to make the "right" decision. Discussing Afghanistan itself is not relevant other than an example of the difficulties in a current war to get the result. And sure is eggs is eggs in 30 years time people will be pointing out errors in judgement. So are we crediting the decision makers of the time with more information than they actually had? Part of that has been discussed with the Russian Army. We can look at the Western Allies for the 76mm Shermans in storage, the conduct of the campaign etc. How much good information was actually getting back to the right people? Were decisions made on the wrong assumptions, information etc. We know Operational research discovered some very interesting and counter-intuitive information during the war. How much had been missed previously and how much got through quickly to those who could actually make decisions.

JC - your desire to spread statistics over periods that have no bearing on the game seems to gaining sway. Whilst you have the information to hand it is not directly relevant. I have no interest in the average for a week in relation to a sharp piece of town fighting. It is an interesting fact for sure but really the point is how much may be used up in a 40 minute hard action.

Sorry I was not thinking of the Western puppet : ) Actually I say puppet but I have a suspicion that there are no longer any strings that can be pulled.

With all the combined intelligence here I wonder why the Afghanis don't realise they are well beaten.

On Thursday, Chinese officials announced the opening of the Beijing-Shanghai High Speed Railway, which consists of the 102-mile long Danyang–Kunshan Grand bridge and the 71-mile long Tianjin Grand Bridge — the two longest in the world. Officials also unveiled the world’s longest sea bridge, a 26-mile expanse of steel and concrete that stretches from Qingdao to Huangdao. Both achievements were celebrated in ceremonious fashion, with live bands and an appearance by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, to demonstrate the country’s commitment to ensuring that a massive infrastructure will be in place to support its rapid economic growth. http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/thinking-tech/video-china-unveils-world-8217s-longest-sea-bridge-but-is-it/7629?tag=nl.e660

Undeployed should work.

http://your-story.org/free-games-now-at-onlinegamescastle-com-2-244175/ this linked site has the WoT approval. You can then read more of Kavin's writing recommending the sites.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/145760/satisfaction-gov-morality-economy-down.aspx I agree with what 'e said ... well Costard. The question is what, if anything, can be done. But hey why worry there is food and drink to be had : )

US bias - Possibly it seems that way as the game is FUBAR in a number of areas. and perhaps with the preponderance of US attack scenarios it makes this more pronounced. In a single game I have had the Sherman tank which can have two members of crew die - tank commander and loader - both standing up in the cupola, killed and fall back into the 5ft diameter turret but this does not prevent the gunner from firing and nailing my 88mm. In fact the RoF for the Sherman is as good as an unsuppressed 88. Subsequently 88mm shrek hits the rear quarter of a half track where the second MG is located. Result it backs away without even the gunner killed! Feasible possibly but gine the Sherman... Incidentally the three man crewed Sherman has continued to be involved in the advance and battle. Anyone who might believe that headless bodies gushing 10 litres of blood into a fighting compartment is a serious inconvenience perhaps ought to let BF know. Perhaps a vote here would help? I will phrase it thus, if your TC is decapitated and falls into the turret, followed with seconds by the radio operator/loader dying from a strike on the turret top ould you expect: 1] driver throws tank into reverse and hightails it 2] tank fights on, and on, and on

I would like the dead to remain in the squad box so you now how many men are dead. I would like soft sides as being a more realistic than this invisible border where routing units bounce back into shell barragess, and large numbers of soft-skinned vehicles believe huddling in the corner of the map is realistic behaviour. This single thing for me is the biggest blow by far to any claim of realism that CMBN makes. What are BF going to do about it?

Mmmmmm. Welcome Kavin. Ottawa is a fine city. It is nice to know we have more members there.