sturmtiger101
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Guys, need some help with getting scenarios and game mods, mainly those that are zip files, placed and opened into my combat mission program so that I can utilize them. I can successfully download to a temp folder but have not been able to transfer them to my game files in a state that allows their being run by combat mission. I admit that I am very new to pc/windows/internet use and do not really know what the heck I am doing.
All words of wisdom and advice, help appreciated. Cheers!
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" They're acting as if they have already won the war! " B. Woll
" We will prove them wrong. " M. Whitman
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Full FOW only. Cheers.
[This message has been edited by sturmtiger101 (edited 01-07-2001).]
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BTW, for those interested, the Tiger II at Ft Knox was formerly of s/SS501, the corps heavy tank battalion of 1 SS PzKr. Vehicle # 332, it was captured intact in late Dec. of '44 after being abandoned near the Belgian town of Stavelot. The company it belonged to was operating as a part of Kampfgroupe Peiper, the spearhead of 1SS PzDiv LAH.
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" They're acting as if they have already won the war! " B. Woll
" We will prove them wrong. " M. Whitman
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Napoleon 1944 is right about the Tiger II, it was traded to the Patton Museum at Ft Knox , Kt. , for a prototype MBT-70. This was early '90s. The staff of the Patton Museum then did a pretty decent restification of the King, including a fairly accurate paint scheme & markings. The Tiger II now rest indoors and well protected from the elements. Toured the museum myself in Sept '99 and it was a very impressive exhibit among many other excellent displays.
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" They're acting as if they have already won the war! " B. Woll
" We will prove them wrong. " M. Whitman
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Greetings,
The Brummbar was in fact employed on the Eastern Front from summer of '43, on. The first brummbar battalion was a part of the 656 heavy tank destroyer regiment of Model's 9th Army on the northern flank of the Kursk salient during Operation Citadel. A CM2 scenario or two including this vehicle would be pretty cool...
Cheers
Aberdeen Proving Grounds King Tiger
in Combat Mission Archive #3 (2001)
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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by rwcanuck:
FYI the sad news is that Germany has no Tiger I anymore on its soil. The Panzermuseum in Munster sold its only Tiger I to a private consortium in England a few years ago. I am still baffled why they did it? Probably I think for the money to upkeep their remaining armour display which still have the orignal engines in many of them and kept in running condtion.
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rwcanuck, actually, the Tiger I was not the Panzermuseum's to sell, but was the vehicle owned and kept at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md after its capture by US Army forces in Tunisia 1943. The Tiger was on a ten year loan to the Panzermuseum and in 1999 when the loan was up the museum refused to return the vehicle back to the U.S. Army, or to ship it back to the states as per the loan agreement. Problem was the Ordinance Museum at Aberdeen lacked funds to have the Tiger shipped back. In stepped the "consortium of private collectors ", there is much rumor and innuendo as to exactly who or what, however through political connections and a hefty sum of $ they obtained temporary possession of the vehicle and shipped it to England. In a deal with the U.S.Army and the Ordinance Museum, the Tiger is being restored in England and will then return to the USA. Scuttlebutt is the group doing the restoration is measuring and scaling every detail down to the last roadwheel lug nut so as to be able to accurately reproduce a 1:1 scale model in mild steel! To what end, who can say? This is an interesting thread that has been rehashed many times on another favorite forum of mine: AFVNEWS Discussion Group, hosted by George Bradford. Cheers!