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Not many good ones, admittedly, but dieing of thirst, alone in a parched desert is not something I'd bet most people have high on their list of desirable endings, even in wartime.

Shades of Huertgen! As the real WW2 US Army learned, this is the kind of fighting that can grind down entire armies into dust, let alone divisions, regiments and so on down to squads. My readings about that campaign impressed me to the point that I don't even want to contemplate playing a game about anything remotely like it, to tell the truth. It is a credit to the CM game engine that we can get a hint of what fights in forested areas can be like, I'll say that.

I recall playing one game where I had 4-5 TRP's and I used them specifically to target unseen but likely enemy rally locations behind hedges and treelines near my defensive perimeter. Worked like a charm and I wreaked great slaughter on the Jerries who were forming up to assault me from behind that cover. The eventual assault force was depleted by over one half even before it began.

Shades of the Lady Be Good. Hope they find the pilot's remains and bring him home. What an awful way to go.

In the armored car encounter scenario I successfully used MG jeeps to distract German AC's while my Greyhounds moved up and got them from the flank. Lost one jeep that did not get far enough hull down at the end point of their run, though. That was fun, though probably not so for the digital GI's ordered to do it...

In my experience, most documentary shows about WW2 in particular tend to use whatever footage they can find that fits the theme of their script, and splice it in. So you see film footage of Pz II's in Russia in 1941 being used in a Battle of the Bulge documentary. Happens all the time. Rare is the documentary that has the integrity to do without footage that does not fit the time or place. Most viewers can't tell the difference anyway.

Now there's an aspect of sexuality that I never considered for some reason. But no doubt the porn industry will jump on your meme: "Put the Octo back in pussy at cephalopod-sex.com." :eek:

Who got it right?

So do a few domestic ones here...present company excepted

Thank goodness they don't live very long, else our ape ancestors might have had more competition in the evolutionary wars. (Though admittedly we don't know much about the giant deep ocean squids or how long they live.)

And there's this classic

There is a classic scene in Medal of Honor winner Audie Murphy's autobiographical film To Hell and Back where his squad is mounting up on a Sherman to hitch a ride and the Sherman commander complains that he only has two inches of steel to protect him, at which time Audie or one of his GI's holds his shirt lapel and asks "How thick do you think this is?"

If you find this topic "nice" then perhaps you want to check out this site: http://www.anicursor.com/colpicwar2.html

Getting anything out of BFC about forthcoming releases is like telling the tooth fairy to hurry up. She'll arrive when you're asleep. So dream on...

You read enough of those WW2 memoirs and one thing that jumps out at you is that the stupidity potential of a "90 day wonder" cannot be underestimated. I wouldn't put it past some army officers to try to enforce things like supply guidelines at the front lines. It probably happened more than once. Men just wrote it off as chicken$hit and did as they pleased when the looey went away.

Yeah, dang BFC can't get anything right...everyone knows the schlepperpanthertrack wore only SS plates and never WH. (What's really scary is how natural it looks...)

I remember watching an old, old TV show called Navy Log (supposedly based on true WW2 stories) where a sailor took a Japanese 20mm round from a strafing plane; the round failed to explode and the episode's drama was about the poor Navy doc and medic that had to operate to extract the live HE round from this fellow's torso, without blowing all 3 of them up in the process. Navy Log was on TV from '55 to '58 according to IMDB. Just dated myself. Again. --- Sometimes the internet is awesome. Just found an episode list for Navy Log http://www.tvrage.com/shows/id-12881/episode_list and sure enough, there's the episode: "Human Bomb" played on 16 October, 1957...I was 9. Amazing what happens when the right neuron suddenly wakes up after all those years. :cool:

Did I say any different? Any day there's someone there to work her trigger, is Ma Deuce's day...

In her day, Ma Deuce has made many a man happy indeed...and a lot more, a lot less so.

Game not random enough for you?

I'm still here but not much interesting to discuss these days. I'll be here yet.

I sent my Ipad2 to my granddaughter...I have a good excuse now to buy the New Ipad once I come into some dough. Gotta go, have to buy lotto tickets...

I for one wish the makers of Steel Panthers would go the kickstarter route and come out with a true 3-D updated version of that game...TBS of course, and covering all the major wars from the 1930's on. "I'd buy that for a dollar!"

You missed that? We're way beyond that now, into the correct period pocket lint, you know.

Excuse me if I get this wrong, but isn't the difference in profile something to do with the fact that one helmet (Heer) is bare metal and the others (SS, LW) have cloth helmet covers that deform the helmet's profile a bit differently, since they are not exactly form fitting and tend to blur the distinction between the "upper" and "lower" portions of the helmet, near the wearer's temple? AFAIK all the German military used the same helmets through most of the war, so there should be no difference in the underlying helmet; but the same helmet would look different if it were covered with an ill-fitting cloth cover. This is what I'm talking about: