Firefly

It could also mean unloading, but neither makes sense in the context. Incidentally, Software First has a similar blurb, in English, that use the word capitulation Don'cha just lurv a language grog thread . [ August 28, 2002, 03:22 AM: Message edited by: Firefly ]

Do you think it could also could be interpreted as "ending"? That would explain a lot, and would also renew my admiration for the French.</font>

Babel fish has translated 'debarquement' as 'landing'. it can also be translated as 'collapse'.

Creative have finally got round to releasing some new drivers for Win XP/2000 Audigy users. They're only available from the American site though and they've instituted a download queuing system, although it doesn't seem too bad, I've just gone from 131st to 54th in about 10 minutes. A quick edit to warn people that the download speed is very slow. I have an ADSL connection and wasn't getting speeds much faster than I did on a 56k modem. The file size is just ove 12mb. [ August 27, 2002, 12:24 PM: Message edited by: Firefly ]

I used to have that before I switched to ADSL. If you get a download manger such as Gozilla or GetRight, you can resume the download from when you were disconnected. Still, over 60 megs on a 56k is still going to take a long time.

And Holst was a Brit - born in Cheltenham.

Back in the USSR of course. Second time I've plugged that today.

No, not if your intention was to stick to medium/heavy tanks, from what I understand it was mainly used by reconnaissance units. I just thought I'd mention that it was widely used.

The CMBO demo appeared on most of the PC magazine cover discs in the UK, As the finished game got excellent reviews, I can't see why they wouldn't carry the CMBB demo.

There's a St. Nazaire scenario out there somewhere and also the recent Commando Raid at Vaagso (semi-fictional - it's been reset to 1944), which has been getting some good reviews in the scenario section. From the German side there was a solo 'campaign' (i.e series of scenarios) featuring Skorzeny's mob. [ August 25, 2002, 04:01 PM: Message edited by: Firefly ]

I know they were light tanks, but I'd expect to see the Pz-II in largish numbers in 1941 to early 1942, as well. Edited to add: I know it's been posted here before, but there's some good Soviet TO&E info at http://www.skalman.nu/soviet/ww2-army.htm . [ August 25, 2002, 05:23 AM: Message edited by: Firefly ]

The phrase 'infantry is the queen of the battlefield' is partially a pun. 'Infantry' is taken from the Spanish word 'Infanta' - the monarch's eldest daughter - but, I forget which one .

There used to be one, I had it on my old machine, before it died a horrible death (the machine not the mod). I can't remember who did it or where I got it from though. Anyone?

My copy of CM:BO already has an opponent finder. Me .

Unspotted 2 inch mortar perhaps?

Let me be the first. Whose grass are they using?

If you don't want them to be seen try the sneak command instead of crawl. Having them in command range of an HQ with a '?' bonus wil also help with both sneaking and hiding.

Quite - I still can't see the connection with Humphrey Bogart.

So is CM:BO . Keegan is a former lecturer in military history at Sandhurst and is currently considered by many to be the leading military historian in Britain. He exploded onto the scene with his excellent first book The Face of Battle, which is an excellent read, although it does not pertain directly to WW2 (it deals with the changing experience of the common soldier through history by comparing three battles: Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme). Six Armies in Normandy is a very good look at the battle of Normandy and combines personal recollections by the participants, with a good overview of the operational aspects of the battle (D'Este's Decision in Normandy, IMO, is better for the strategic level). I find him less convincing when he tries to tackle more sweeping areas as he did in his History of Warfare; he is a better at being a military historian than a general historian. [ August 20, 2002, 08:07 PM: Message edited by: Firefly ]

A minor clarification, Kippenberger (Sp?), the commander on Crete, did have Ultra information on the German invasion, but he made the decision not to redeploy his troops because the need for security had been impressed upon him. See Beevor's Crete. One instance where Ultra intercepts were not used for security reasons, and one for which Churchill has been retrospectively crticised, was the bombing of Coventry.

(In an office in the Kremlin Stalin sits in large leather chair glaring at Marshal Zhukov, who stands at attention) Stalin: You idiot! You've managed to lose the Great Patriotic War! Give me one good reason why I shouldn't hand you over to Beria and his boys right now! Zhukov: But, Comrade Stalin, we've captured Berlin, the hammer and sickle is flying over the Reichstag and the entirity of Eastern Europe from the Baltic to the Adriatic is in the hands of the glorious Red Army. How can I have lost? Stalin: Because, you fool, you lost too many men. I have the report here. it says Axis Tactical Victory. Guards! Take Private Zhukov to the Lubianka instantly!

Don't know of any from 1944-45, but it seems to have happened a bit in the desert. The heavy Matilda IIs seem to have done it quite a lot in the early battles against the Italians, but they were running on the limit of their track mileage.

OK - my normal plug for A Walk in the Sun. Braveheart? C'mon folks Wallace was a lowland Scot, he wouldn't have been seen dead in a kilt and people in that part of the world had stopped painting themselves blue about a thousand years previously. You'll be telling me Age of Kings is an historical wargame next. Still at least it had a happy ending.

Oh, it was just a little story to say not to rely too much on military textbooks .

Something I read recently: To learn that Napoleon in 1796 with 20,000 men beat combined forces of 30,000 by something called 'economy of force' or 'operating on interior lines' is a mere waste of time. To understand how a young, unknown man inspired a ragged, half-starved, rather bolshie crowd; how he filled their bellies; how he outwitted, out-bluffed and defeated men who had studied war all their lives and waged it according to the textbooks of the time, you will have learnt something worth knowing. General A. P. Wavell