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What I find even more interesting is that this post hasn't been moved or locked up yet. :eek:

Sounds to me like your troops tripped over a Peng thread. But seriously... Maybe there were uncommited enemy troops nearby that was enough to make the AI think your VL was still being contested. I suggest that you exchange passwords and take a look and see the situation if you can.

Hitler's Ashes And The Man Who Scattered Them 5-3-1 MOSCOW (AFP) - The man who burnt Adolf Hitler's remains and dispersed his ashes to the wind is refusing to say where he carried out his gruesome task and has pledged to take the secret with him to the grave. Vladimir Gumenyuk, a 64-year-old former Red Army officer, told Russian media Tuesday how he followed an order from Moscow to disinter the Fuehrer's remains, take them out to the countryside, burn them and scatter them. Now deputy manager of a hotel in the Urals city of Ulyanovsk, Gumenyuk is the sole survivor of the three-man squad charged by the Kremlin with resolving once and for all the problem of what to do with the corpse of the man who had set the world aflame. Speaking out after 30 years, Gumenyuk provided a graphic account of how he accomplished his mission, deliberately leaving out one essential detail: the name of the spot where the ashes were dispersed. This, he said, he would never reveal. "There are still too many neo-Nazis around," he told NTV television, "There would be pilgrimages. They'd even put up a monument." In March 1970, Gumenyuk said he learned later, KGB chief Yury Andropov wrote to Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev advising him that probable construction work near the place where Hitler was buried meant that it would be "advisable to destroy the remains by incineration." Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945 in a bunker under the Berlin Chancellery, along with his mistress Eva Braun whom he had married the day before, as the capital of the Third Reich collapsed around him, leaving orders that his body was to be burnt. From the beginning, what to do with the badly charred remains, along with the bodies of Hitler's propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels and his wife found nearby, had posed a problem for the Kremlin, which feared that Nazi sympathisers might seek to create a cult around the Fuehrer's last resting place. Its immediate solution was to create a special section of the Soviet Third Army permanently charged with guarding them. The crates in which the remains were contained travelled with the section as it moved from one garrison to another in what was then East Germany, until on the night of April 4, 1970, Gumenyuk and his companions serving in Magdeburg were given instructions to go to a certain location, taking shovels with them. There, Gumenyuk said, under cover of a large tent, they dug to a depth of 1.7 metres (five feet) and found the crates which they loaded onto a jeep. They then drove out into the countryside at dawn with their fishing rods prominently displayed as if they were going for a day's relaxation. They came to a halt by a river at a location they had decided on in advance and, behind a screen of trees, poured petrol over the crates and set them alight, Gumenyuk recalled. He then gathered the ashes into a canvas rucksack -- which he kept, and displayed on televison Tuesday -- and scattered earth over the last traces of the fire. The three men then walked to a nearby hillside. "I then proceeded to the final dispersion of the ashes," Gumenyuk said. "It was over in no time at all. I opened up the rucksack, the wind caught the ashes up in a little brown cloud, and in a second they were gone."

Since I bought CM, I have only purchased one other game -Waterloo:Napoleon's Last Battle. (I love Napoleonics.) I've already sold it on ebay. CM2 will most likely be next title that I buy.

Even if this has been talked about, there should be nothing wrong about talking some more. I had a 75mm spotter yesterday target an area for an interminably long time (6+ minutes). The turn that the artillery finally came, he "took cover" due to some incoming small arms near him. Only one artillery round fell begore it stopped completely. I tried to get him to re-target the same place and it another interminably long time. The off-map guns presumably didn't even move. The spotter didn't tell them to be moved. Is it modelled in CM that the spotter tells the guns to stop firing because he has to duck??? If so, then that does not make sense, IMHO. He called the artillery in for a reason. I can't see that reason changing just because he had to take cover. There must be some real artillery spotters that know. Maybe a cancel fire should order be inserted and that the artillery not stop unless ordered to stop or out of ammo. Its just an idea. With all due respect to everyone, SenorBeef is right. This really should be fixed.

The 'Peng' threads artificially boost the number of posts to the discussion board and waste bandwidth.

In my experience, when we wargamers forget to take off our game face, we can really be bears. It takes some time (sometimes) for me to un-wind because, I get so into playing this great game. I really want to do my best. Going directly here with your game face still on and being aggressive in your messages can give people like Hannibal a misleading impression. On the other hand, my face-to-face impressions of wargamers continues to be excellent. Wargamers, by far are very courteous and friendly in person. They go much further than other folks to make friends. I think that is true because (non-computer) wargaming is usually a social occaision.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Raze: "The art of fighting without fighting..." <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Raze nailed it on the head for me. You blow things up and no one gets killed or maimed. COMBAT MISSION in a MUCH more evolved incarnation should be how nations settle their disputes. (I'm certainly not suggesting that things should be like that old Star Trek show. No need for people to jump into machines to get zapped just to control populations if their side lost.) Jumbo

I read a while back that BTS said that the Marines and Army were very interested in having same side QBs. (Germans vs. Germans, that sort of thing.) BTS also said that they were seriously considering having it in CM2. Has anyone heard anything regarding this?

Holdit right there! That is pure genius! I guess that a game that is not 3D like CMBO can be a great game if it was focused on an exciting time period- like the Napoleonic era. Great idea Holdit. Man, I gotta win that Lotto! I really do. Jumbo

OH yes, another Napoleonic fan. Are there others??

Modern might be nice, but I'm with you ST! Jumbo

Also, I believe that the Demo won't play over the internet. You need the "retail" version of CM. You can get it through this web-site. (Its the only place that you can.) Enjoy! Jumbo

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Tankgirl: Hi all, I tried to play the demo over the internet once but had some technical difficulties. Now I've got a new puter. So does anyone want to play? Huh?! I'll kick your ass! lol Or try to anyway... --- "Snowpants are sexy!" http://www.geocities.com/wildhippychik/whp.htm <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Hey Tankgirl, Welcome. You're better off looking for opponents over at the CM - Opponent Finder. Good luck. Jumbo

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by stevetherat: No politics on this thread please. Steve<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Steve, Pointing out what that man did is not politics. History is not politics. The Holocaust was not politics. They were real world events. No one made them up. Jumbo