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Deanco, Where can I get the shareware version?

I just purchased this game so I'm still a little new so bear with me. Here's the setup. 700 point battle. Combined arms. Had computer pick equipment (prolly one of my favorite features). I ended up with 4 vehicles. 3 halftracks with machine guns. One Nashorn 88 gun. Opponent had a couple of halftracks (50 cals) and a stuart. From the start, I moved my halftacks up into a postion that looked like it had good fields of fire to me. I moved my infantry up in a support type fashion. Then I moved the Nashorn up and made sure my artillery spotter was behind a wall. Seems pretty logical to me. Anyway, all of a sudden a halftrack goes screaming by at flanking speed and catches my Nashorn in the side and takes it out. Then it loops around the back of the map and zaps my spotter and then starts hosing my troops from the rear. If I would have not moved from the initial setup, this would not have happened. Is this what everyone talks about as being a Gamey Tactic? Needless to say I was PO'ed and felt kinda cheated. Should I be upset?

Thanks for all the suggestions. All the painting I have done so far is with a real brush, never a computer program. Hmm. If I can just figure out how to dry brush with a mouse.

Hmmm. Just finished with another game. With good results I might add. My turret responded more quickly to threats and was able to, in general, function more efficiently. Very very interesting this game is, which I bought just a couple days back. Well ok there are some drawbacks because its easy to blame AI for your mistakes. At least this game has AI, more then what I can say for most games today. I like the hull turning in general, I just gotta be more careful getting flanked. I kinda take my last post back, even though it does make for some comical relief. Err. hehe.

Imagine yourself in a tiger tank carefully driving down a well blasted up road through a rubbled to hell and back town. It could be main street for all you know. When all of a sudden... 10 naked guys run around yelling "Boookie Boookie Booo". In your panic you turn your hull to face the guys that might just pee on your hull. Just then a rocket penetrates your side hull from straight down the road. REALITY CHECK Happened to me last night. Not quite as dramatic, but my tank rotated when i didnt want it too. I WANTED my tank to point down the road. I didnt want it to rotate the hull towards the buildings and such. Isn't there supposed to be a rotate hull button? Why do tanks have turrets then might I ask? The hole point it to bring the firepower to bear quickly. You don't have to defend against something that you blasted as soon as you could swivel the gun. Turning the hull is a defensive manuever that you save for the right moments. Like an anti-tank gun. Also, why even go hull down then? You are just exposing the turret anyway. I havent seen any comments on that on this post. I say BAH. This is just gonna lead to more cheap gamey tactics.

I was wondering if someone would suggest for the PC a paint program to make new mods. Any tips would be appreciated as well.

Here is something that i hope some people will take interest in about the tank in WWII. Yes the shermans won the war, but exactly how? People may argue a lot about the mechanical aspect, ease of replacement, and reliability. Well, its people that win a war, not a tank. My Grandfather was a medic in this war. He told me everything from the germans hanging cable in the trees at night to damage jeeps or decapitate drivers, to about how the sherman tank crews felt about their german opposition. The american tank drivers would on occassion purposely jam up the transmition on their own tank in order not to be forced into battle against the tigers. When you can't drive your tank, its kinda hard to get into trouble with it. The point is the americans feared the tigers to a very high degree. Eventually, Germany lost many of their experienced tank crews, had supply problems, and just plain ran out of gas. Finally, with that edge in combat, how were the shermans gonna lose? Once the tank crews got better, the machine found its place in history. If somehow the war woulda been lost, the sherman would be seen as a tank that couldn't blast its way out of a paper bag. But thats my opinion

Artillery is the most impressive weapon modeled in the game. It comes from anywhere and kills indiscriminately. It destroys a tree as easily as a man. You cannot stop the inevitable, so learn to use artillery more precisely yourself. Do not feel the need to beat something you cannot see, embrace it and use it to pummel your enemy more relentlessly then they did to you... "Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it." ---Franklin Roosevelt