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  1. 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!

  2. son of sevenless quote:

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    Do we have a host?

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    It has been on DesertFox´s website since it was released last year.

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    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).]

  3. 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?

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  4. 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.}

  5. 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).]

  6. 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!

  7. 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.

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