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all quiet on the wartime command front?
Firefly replied to crowbar's topic in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin
If you don't want your threads locked or moved, you could try posting them in the right forum. That's why BFC gave us multiple forums. This particular game has frequently been discussed in the GF. -
Casablanca is pretty good .
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CMBO/BB gets a mention on Somethingawful.com
Firefly replied to Bergerbitz's topic in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin
I think people who expect serious, unbiased reviews on SomethingAwful are missing the point of the site . -
Bird migration continuing in CMAK?
Firefly replied to Brent Pollock's topic in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps
Well it does appear time to repost Madmatt's explanation of how all this came about [ October 25, 2003, 01:53 PM: Message edited by: Firefly ] -
Why is this forum so happy?
Firefly replied to sightreader's topic in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin
Colonel Goodale, in the library, with the blunt instrument. -
How many PBEMs do you like to play at once?
Firefly replied to StormDog's topic in Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord
It depends on personal taste and circumstance. I'm semi-retired, so 6 or 7 is manageable, if I were working 12 hour days, one would probably be too many, if my opponents expected turns on days other than weekends. -
Hindsight 202: USA if the British had gone belly up in 1941
Firefly replied to Hans's topic in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps
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Remember it? I've still got it in a cupboard somewhere .
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It depends where they ship it from. If, like other recent BFC products, they ship from the Republic of Ireland, there's no duty. If it comes directly from the US, you will be liable for import duty, whether you actually get asked to pay it depends on how asiduous Customs and Excise are being. [ October 22, 2003, 09:41 AM: Message edited by: Firefly ]
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Anyone getting tired of WWII settings?
Firefly replied to istari's topic in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps
Well WW2 is not my favourite period and I'd like to see something as good as CM for earlier periods, but WW2 is BFC's favourite period and doing wargames is as much a labour of love as a business venture, so I'm happy for BFC to carry on with WW2 and hope someone else does the same for the ACW or Napoleonic Wars. [ October 20, 2003, 08:46 AM: Message edited by: Firefly ] -
I regret to say it's more a matter of 'old'.
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I don't think I actually have any wargames books at the moment. I've still got my collection of 'Moves' magazines, though.
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypso...
Firefly replied to Seanachai's topic in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin
Ah, but is he a Kentish Lout or a Lout of Kent? I think it depends which side of the Medway you're on or somefink. -
This site has a bit about the Foreign Legion in the early years of the wars. It appears that a lot of the Germans who volunteered for the Legion in the late '30s did so at the behest of the Abwehr and the French suspected this. The 13th DBLE, as von Lucke says, was carefully screened for loyalty and only Germans who were veteran legionaires of proven loyalty were admitted.
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Why are my Finns standing at attention?
Firefly replied to David Chapuis's topic in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin
Viagra? -
I'm not sure about bad blood between LeClerc and De Gaulle, there may have been clashes of personalities, but LeClerc did accept De Gaulle as his superior officer, after all LeClerc was only a colonel at the start of the war and De Gaulle outranked him. It was the civilian governor of Chad, a Monsieur Ebroué, who declared for De Gaulle after the fall of France, although there appears to have been no lack of support from the local garrison. There was a good documentary series on British TV called Allies at War about the whole tangled relationship between Roosevelt, Churchill and De Gaulle, which is well worth watching, if it crops up on anyone's local TV station. [ October 14, 2003, 09:13 AM: Message edited by: Firefly ]
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'Have Game, Will Travel' Reads the Card of a Man...
Firefly replied to Seanachai's topic in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps
I think you fail on at least one of the criteria. -
DEATH, death, death to you all (Maniacal laughter)
Firefly replied to Hans's topic in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps
Actually they seem quite popular in some quarters of this board. :mad: :mad: :mad: [ October 14, 2003, 08:28 AM: Message edited by: Firefly ] -
One famous allied unit cmbo left out?
Firefly replied to Tank Ace's topic in Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord
I think it was the limit on 3D models. They couldn't include everything and decided to leave out the less common stuff. There were long arguments about this in the early days of the board, if anyone can be bothered doing a search. And yes 'If that's the case, why did they include the Puma?' was asked . -
Not quite, the basis of 7th Armoured was already there before the war in the Mobile Force, or the Immobile Farce as it was initially nicknamed, before Maj. Gen Hobart arrived to reoriganise it. The first skirmishes against the Italians were conducted by 11th Hussars in their Rolls Royce Armoured Cars. Hobart, as usual, fell out with his superiors and was replaced before the fighting started and returned to Britain, where he spent a few months serving as a Lance-Corporal in the Home Guard, before Churchill found him a job more suited to his talents.
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In Dave's case, because he plays against Cheery Wafflers.
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypso...
Firefly replied to Seanachai's topic in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin
Here's a better one, then. I've always thought my nostrils were my best feature. Sadly, all the girls consider them my only good feature at all.... [image snipped for the sake of the sensitive]</font>