gunnergoz

Just double-checked and both McNair and Buckner were Lieutenant Generals (3-star) when they died.

Well, McNair died due to "friendly fire" so perhaps that's what they were implying with the comment about Buckner being the highest-ranking killed by "hostile fire." Only a lawyer could call it "friendly fire," methinks... BTW I remember reading that McNair was so busted up by the AAF bomb that hit near him that they had to ID him by his watch or something similar. I haven't personally observed many friendly fire casualties in CM, does anyone have any tales to tell about this phenomenon? Some estimates for WW2 friendly fire casualties run 10 per cent as I recall.

Victory at Sea for me!

I like the idea. Please go for it! One site as a clearinghouse would be really neat and it would not detract from all the work others do out there...to the contrary, it might get them more traffic and exposure. It would also be a great place for newbies to start to explore our little community.

One thing is sure...if you track units that historically saw a great deal of combat, you will find yourself totally replacing all your troops once or twice. This is especially true at the scale of CM. Junior leaders and sergeants just don't last that long. They may survive, but few made it all the way through unscathed. Several US divisions replaced several times their alloted numbers of line infantry. What this means to me is that it is relatively unrealistic to do a long term campaign and expect to have many of the starting units still there at the end. Operations would be different, and it would be nice to track vehicle and equipment losses and observe the "wising up" process of green troops. At this scale, each battle is sort of a fresh start. This is largely because of the generic nature of our little troopers. If we begin looking to individualize the leaders and crewmen to the extent that they have discrete personalities, then one wonders how this will impact processing speed in battles over company size. Of course, I'd love to see WW2 with the original cast! All on my little 19" screen. Perhaps when we all have Pentium XVII's.

SS Peiper: At present I don't have a site to to post the files...they are hires and weigh in at a hefty 15MB. I suppose I can zip them and email them as an attachment if you like. Here's another sample: And another still: [This message has been edited by gunnergoz (edited 02-17-2001).]

Well, it was a time long ago and oh so far away... [This message has been edited by gunnergoz (edited 02-17-2001).]

I don't know if this will work, but if it does, here's a grass that I've been working on: http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=1532709&a=11607024&p=41128399&Sequence=0&res=high BTW, how do I get the image to "stick" to the post? Comments & suggestions, assuming this image URL works, are appreciated! [This message has been edited by gunnergoz (edited 02-16-2001).]

I'm apparently too dense to use the Mod Manager. The only time I did us it, it overwrote my directory with all my modded files in it, forcing me to reload CMBO from scratch and have to dredge up all my favorite mods from web sites again. I use altered batch files for the mods I like but wish there were an "old-fool-proof" simplified way of swapping out mods.

GPIG wrote: "I'm no historian, but please correct me if (and when) I'm wrong, but wasn't there British Long Range Patrol units in the desert like the SAS? Didn't they do behind the lines kind of action on the DAK, using landrovers?" You're doubtless referring to the "pink panther" LR's that belong for the most part to the SAS. They were strictly a post WW2 development and were mostly deployed in the '60's or later, especially in Aden. The WW2 LRDG used Ford and other trucks as well as jeeps.

Can't we all just get along? <Ducks and runs for cover...> This PC thing does get sticky at times doesn't it? Thanks for the interesting exchange fellas, it's been a hoot following it.

To Olle Petersson: Interesting choice of words, "This was a new enemy, with US as aggressor" Did you perhaps mean "US on the offensive?" Or did the US somehow "aggress" against Germany and Japan in WWII? (BTW English is my second language as it may also be yours; so if this is just a semantic thing, I can sympathize...)

Wildman, How about a publisher, date and ISBN for that Faint Praise book. Sounds very interesting. Thanks

I grew up an Army Brat and love everything khaki or olive green. My last name is Gosnell. One day, an NCO serving lunch at our GI school in Italy, probably humoring my military-industrial complex, nicknamed me Gunner Goz and the monicker stuck. My dad was just Goz, of course. The '50's army was a much more fun, informal place than today's "army of one." Army of One...what an ego trip! Wait until the newly enlisted Army of One finds out he's one in 500,000. And a very small one at that...Who dreams up this smarmy crapola?

Imagine: a dark, dank night on Raider Ridge: Banzaiii! Joe! You die Joe! (with apologies to Tregaskis) Wow...I get goosebumps! Yeah, I hope BTS goes for this one too.

F6F over M-18 - Not even close.

And what about my favorite...messkit repair companies? And the morale maintenance battalions? Or the Chairborne Infantry? Whatta ripoff! ;D

I use Jacksons to best advantage by pre-sighting a VETERAN M-36 (don't bother with regular or less) along a field of view that will not require much turret movement (say down a road or expected approach route). With any luck, the Jackson's first round will take out all but the thickest-hide opponent.

It was the fault of flawed doctrine. General McNair et al of the Army Ground Forces had this theory that tanks were for exploitation, and that TD's were to kill tanks. TD's were seen as lightly armored gun carriages, while tanks were seen as killers of rear-area units (hence the heavy bias towards HE round effectiveness in the M-4 series. TD's ended up too often in pitched tank slugfests because they were up front supporting the tank-starved US infantry, a task for which they were ill-suited. I don't know about the 10-1 ratio, it sounds way too high for me. BTW, McNair paid the ultimate price for warriorhood by getting killed in Normandy by friendly airpower, and so did not live to see his pet theory disproven in combat, paid for with the lives of untold GI tankers and TD crewmen.

Well, at least you haven't camouflage painted your car/truck yet. I actually did that once when I was enamored of the then-new MERDEC camo schemes. Drove around for weeks deciding which color scheme was best for my area. Later a cop told my my stealth truck was hard to visually track (this was before CHP had radar) and so he let me off with a warning for "probably" speeding. Nowadays, thanks to CM, I merely spend hours in front of a monitor trying to come up with the "perfect" grass scheme...(sigh). Can't top DD yet, but I'll keep trying.

Thanks, gentlemen, for the assist. Marco, you do GREAT work! Please keep it up!

Can anyone tell me what file to overwrite now that my US halftracks tires and track have the (head on) sherman track pattern? I think I may have modded something once too often and now can't seem to find the tire tread .bmp in the 1900-odd .bmp files in my CMBO\BMP directory.

RTFB applies...doh. Thanks wolfpack. Your $20 is enclosed. And Chris, Peng said to tell you not to use his name in vain.

OK, I give...how do you guys get all the little smiley faces in your posts? Did I miss the secret meeting, or what? My wife thinks they're cute and insists I find out. (OK, I do too.)

1. German Goliath radio-controlled kamikaze tankettes 2. U.S. halftrack M-3 gun carriage w/75mm gun as used in N.Africa and Italy 3. U.S. M-6 heavy tank (what-if) 4. M-22 Locust airborne tank 5. LVT series amphibians BTW, reagarding earlier post, there were no "40mm bofors halftracks" in U.S. service other than a very few field mods which seem to have been restricted to the Pacific. But the M-15 HT, now that I'd love to see...