gunnergoz

After much fiddling, this is the "final" version of my basic tree bases, illustrated here with "spring" grass. Look for all these mods to be posted soon at: http://www.angelfire.com/ak5/TheLastDefense/index.html. Thanks for your support and patience!

Yep, that photo is in the Pallud book along with about 3 or 4 others taken in or around Hotton in those days. Sorry I can't scan them for you, I don't like "breaking the back" of good books to put them on my scanner.

It looks like the German forces were mostly the spearhead elements of the 116 Pz.Div. From: Battle of the Bulge, Then and Now" by Jean Paul Pllud: Kampgruppe Bayer: "Led by the commander of Pz.Rgt.16, Oberst Johannes Bayer, this was the (116 Pz) divisions' most potent battle group, which included, apart from panzers of Pz.Rgt.16, a battalion of grenadiers from Pz.Gren.Rgt. 60, an artillery battalion from Pz.Art.Rgt.146, and an engineers company from Pz.Pi.Btl. 675." Judging from the photos in the book, most of the armor of Px.Rgt.16 was composed of mixed groups of Pz IV's and Panthers. No mention is made of the Pz VI's that your source places there. Pallud's book, part of the "After the Battle" series printed in England is a must-have if you enjoy reading about the Bulge. The series is superb. Hope this helps!

I must've spent a couple thousand dollars (at least) on computer games over the years and few have given me the bang for the buck that CM does. It's a keeper, and because it's clearly a labor of love by a few talented fanatics, I want to keep them in business!

Magua! MAGUA! MAGUA! MAGUA! (Isn't that Poloswabian slang for "hurry the hell up already?")

PC,though I started on Macs. Bought a PC just to play Harpoon. Once I changed over, I discovered how easy it was to build and upgrade PC's and so I've stuck with them. I still think PC's are a Kludge, though

Eh, what did you say, sonny? 52...no, not my IQ, you whippersnapper! Sorry, what was the question?

OOOORAAAA! Way to go BTS. We knew it all the time!

son of sevenless quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Do we have a host? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It has been on DesertFox´s website since it was released last year. ***************************************** I think Son of Sevenless is a bit confused about which mods we're speaking of. I just created this bocage mod and the speckled grass you see above and in my other forum postings, in the past month. Apart from a couple of fellows who I've emailed the bocage to, it's never been posted anywhere before this. BTW, there is some similarity with the hedge Sevenless quoted, but this mod is somewhat different. [This message has been edited by gunnergoz (edited 02-26-2001).]

Treeburst 155, It finally looks like I'll be able to get these files a host site courtesy of The Last Defense (http://www.angelfire.com/ak5/TheLastDefense/index.html) You can check there for them within a day or two. Thanks for your patience and support!

Today is my day off so I get to work on my favorite pastime...CM terrain mods. What follows are illustrations of the latest version of my hi-res speckled grass landscape, this one optimized for winter. I'm still hoping to find a site to host these files and all the other stuff that seems to be leaping out of my monitor. If there is a demand for it, I will turn my attention next to tweaking some lo-res versions of these sets. Any takers?

Sorry, I have yet to find a site to host my mods, so I've forwarded this to you via email. If you like it, please spread the word that I need hosting for this and my grass mods.

Impressive gear, seriously! All joking aside (difficult for me at best). Thanks for the info.

Has anyone seen my hanging chad? Nah, thanks, I like things the way they are.

Shatter, Perhaps you should read about the U.S. 106th Infantry Division in the Schnee Eifel. Or of the U.S. Phillipine Division at Bataan. Both qualify as mass surrenders of U.S. Army troops surrounded in a single battle. Conclusion: if our country is great, it's because some poor s.o.b.'s died for it, some lived for it and others just did the best they could at the time, including living to fight another day so they could raise children to live in said great country(hint, hint.) (BTW I do not begrudge a grunt's right to save his butt when it moves him to do so. And if he ends up starving to death in captivity, it's not because he planned to do so.}

I lied! Last (for now) of what is no doubt becoming famous as the terrain you love to hate: I think that I'll leave this theme alone for a while, if it's OK with all you guys.

Are you serious, Michael? A COMBAT BRA? Had to be ballistic kevlar, right? Spall liner and DU insert optional? I'll bet the Brits have a chobham version in the works as well...And no doubt the Russkies have infrared deflectors mounted on their reverse-engineered version! No wonder we beat Saddam's Sad Sacks...Makes me glow with pride to live in the West, you know!

Iggi, If the helmet is for real, I can only presume that its yuppie designers were thinking of the current rage of "nationbuilding" strategies where armies are used for crowd control and riot suppression of civilians and similar rabble. No veteran grunt would want to carry that reflective plastic set of GI Joe gargoyles into a real battlefield environment where nasty, mean people with guns at least as big as his own were looking to kill him and his mates. [This message has been edited by gunnergoz (edited 02-25-2001).]

The best army is the one that's so damn good, it never has to leave its barracks. It's led by politicians that are so damn good, they never have to ask for votes. It fights for citizens who are so civil that they have no enemies. And all these folks live in a country so great, that they never think of leaving it. OK, now all you folks who live in this great land, raise your hands! We want to know where you live!

Iggi: Thanks for the photos of the new Canadian Armed Services portable hair dryer and it's self-contained combat powerpack module. We down South in that wasteland North of Mexico can appreciate an army that knows how to travel in style and remain...stylish. Our Army of One (we could only recruit one guy - or gal, we can't ask and they won't say - last year) would do well to learn from such trendsetting bravado.

Thanks for the feedback, Michael. You're looking at the Spring version, I'll have the other seasons along fairly soon. There's never enough time to do it all, is there?

Nice work! Thanks for sharing it. How about an Italian Campaign version?

This wasn't getting much exposure where it was last posted, so here's another variant for you bocage freaks. Far shot: Middle shot: Close-in shot: Constructive criticism invited, but if you can't be constructive, be funny! Hopefully will find a home for this mod as well as my grass mods soon, so stay posted.

Tom, I'd love to see your site but all that my browswer shows is your splash screen with three broken-link ("x") image boxes and no buttons to take me anywhere. How do I get in?

BRAVO! ENCORE! ENCORE! SPEECH!