Firefly
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Don't be be silly it's a Yeknod, he did volunteer after all.Originally posted by Michael Emrys:Um, say, Dorosh, is that a rented mule you're riding?
What's his name? Dave?
Michael
I always wondered what you looked like, though, Michael.
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Yes, that's right, early war British doctrine divided tanks into cruisers (the A series) and infantry tanks (Matildas, Valentines and Churchills). The cruisers were supposed to engage enemy armour and were deemed to require speed and at first weren't equiped with HE rounds, whereas the infantry tanks only needed to keep up with the PBI, so speed wasn't important. The British employed Lees (Grants), Honeys (Stuarts) and Shermans as cruisers.
One person who didn't underestimate the Lees was Rommel, who described the first encounter with them as 'an unpleasant surprise'.
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Oh, I read it enough to know the Justicar is going to have you up for soliciting again.Originally posted by Seanachai:You might as well just fall by the Cesspool, lad. It's a horrible place, but it might well be your destiny.
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In honour of the gallant Aussie defenders of Tobruk, control of the board is being given to Mace, Noba, Speedy and Stuka. The Four Horsemen of the Eucalyptus.Originally posted by Michael Emrys:Who owns this forum anyway!
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That might be your tradition, mine is to play the first scenario on the list. QBs against the AI are for wimpsOriginally posted by Hans:I would also like to recommend
The tradition dealing with new CM offerings. When you first open up CMAK go with a default setting QB as the first battle.
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As I understand it, there will be a European version published by CDV, available in shops, but this time there will be no ban on Europeans ordering direct from BFC or US shops importing the CDV version. I'm sure Moon will put me right if I've got it wrong
.[ October 11, 2003, 05:39 AM: Message edited by: Firefly ]
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Most of the scenarios give recommendations about which way to play, vs. the AI or two player, in the initial briefing.
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That's probably why I like it. I want tanks like the ones I drew during double Latin.Originally posted by Michael Emrys:Or like those tanks we used to draw during study hall. Somebody's fantasy of what a tank should look like.
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That's probably why I like it. I want tanks like the ones I drew during double Latin.Originally posted by Michael Emrys:Or like those tanks we used to draw during study hall. Somebody's fantasy of what a tank should look like.
Michael
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No problem Dave, I always crave flattery.
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Unlike the modest 11,000 plus guys, eh MichaelOriginally posted by Michael Dorosh:Of course, certain idiots do tend to draw attention to their own posting stats anyway and trumpet their "achievements" when they hit, oh, say the 4000 mark.
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Erm you can click on your own profile you know, it's the first icon above one of your posts.
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COG, the number of posts is in your profile, you've currently got 458. The problem with making it more apparent is that you get idiots posting tripe just to up their score. The idiots on this board are quite capable of posting tripe without any incentive.
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An old college friend, Peng? </font>Originally posted by Seanachai:</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Mr. Tittles:
maybe you should write less?
You yuster be funn-e-er or sumthing. Heck, anything is funnyer then most dist crap.
Get fuuny or get bent now. Like I mean it . Man.
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I've got used to people using 'RTS' to describe any game that uses a real-time system, I suppose it was only a matter of time before it was applied to any gsme that could be loosely described as a 'stategy' game.
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Originally posted by Scarhead:
Oooh! I can feel a General Forum topic coming on - 'Which is worse? English Coffee or German Tea?'Anyone know of any good op-ed articles on the subject that I can cut and paste?
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Leave my private life out of thisOriginally posted by Dandelion:Sort of like a fellow seeing this fantastic woman in a bar, but, seeing as she's well educated and full of confidence, he realises the amount of work it would take to even catch her attention and indignantly opts for the drunken halftroll with no self esteem in the corner instead.
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Are you by any chance referring to Sgt Fury and His Howling Commandos?Originally posted by Jim Boggs:</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Firefly:
If you don't count Commando comics and Captain Hurricane (who dealt with Tigers by ripping the commanders hatch off the hinges and giving the evil Nazi TC a good old British sock on the jaw), probably around 1965-66.
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Bah! I had nothing to do with that. Who is William Amos? </font>Originally posted by Berlichtingen:</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Firefly:
now I find that william amos is leaving for similar reasons.
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You don't understand how it works do you? The minimum requirement will be the video card that came out two weeks after you'd bought a new one.Originally posted by Treeburst155:Absolute minimum system requirements for CM2 will be the $150 video card you bought last week,
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You don't understand how it works do you? The minimum requirement will be the video card that came out two weeks after you'd bought a new one.Originally posted by Treeburst155:Absolute minimum system requirements for CM2 will be the $150 video card you bought last week,
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It's certainly a bad week for the BFC forums, first we lose the unnamed one and now I find that william amos is leaving for similar reasons. Mark my words, future historians will look back on this week as the start of the end times.
BTW Seanachai, did you get that set-up I sent? We'd better get a move on, what with the Apocalypse being just around the corner and all. Unless you're hoping that the Four Horsemen will take pity and stay their hand until we're finished.
[ October 07, 2003, 01:03 AM: Message edited by: Firefly ]
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Well they are selling CMBO as this link shows. While they don't actually claim that they developed the game, they don't mention BFC/BTS either. It could be a deal that BFC set up to distribute the reduced price version of CMBO in Australia, but I'm surprised that there was no announcement about it, unless I missed it.
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Well Kafka and Sassoon, along with Owen, Graves and Remarque, accurately reflected the feelings of the troops at the front toward their senior commanders. Keegan in The Mask of Command argues that the Chateau General mentality was a least a contributory factor to the mutinies that all armies (apart from the US) in the war suffered from and makes the point that many of the senior commanders of WW2, themselves junior officers in WW1, actively rejected it. 'No more Sommes' was virtually a mantra in the British senior command in WW2. Carlo D'Este tells the story of how an American officer, involved in the planning of D-Day and exasperated by what he saw as British intransigence was told by a British colleague 'It's not just British intransigence you're up against, it's also the ghosts of the Somme' (quoted from memory, so probably not word perfect).Originally posted by John D Salt:I don't think you should believe everything you hear from Kafka, or Sassoon.
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British Tank Design
in Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord
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I bow to Mr Picky
. Thanks, for the info John, I didn't realise that all British Tanks had an 'A' designation.