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I wonder if that is what the object of the Russian excercise was? Random thought...

Both were painted glossy light brown tan. Neither were camoflaged I wonder where the event is? Maybe Pennsylvania? Sometimes they have them at Fort Indian Town Gap (I think)

SO, there I was driving home, westbound on I-80/94 after a 2 day gig in Grand Rapids, Michigan. About 10 miles from the Illinois border, I saw on the other side of the concrete-barrier divided highway, in one of the oncoming lanes, is a semi-truck with a flatbed trailer loaded with a Hetzer and a SDKFZ 251. Both spray painted glossy tan (almost the same color as the light brownish color in the default color scheme of this board). I only got a brief glimpse, but the Hetzer had side short skirts, and some of the middle sections were missing. 1. Anybody know where these came from, and where they were going? 2. Why do people use glossy paint on military vehicles/aircraft? :mad::mad::mad: The day got even more interesting once I arrived home. The door to the balcony from the kitchen was open, and a cute little green hummingbird decided to come and visit. He would not leave voluntarily, so I had to help him out to the balcony.

+1 $25 Black and Decker Even better, World Market sells a Euro-type glass jar with a strainer on it. Doesn't always filter all the coffee out, but hey, crunchy coffee is underated

So, the jist of this thread is that you guys (with the exception of Abbott) have never read the NYT and have never detected a bias? And that is from the people who accuse him of not liking too many words. That is truly astonishing. As for the topic at hand, I read this story as having more to do with human nature then official policy. As the story states, the photog in question is still credentialled to work (however, "no unit will accept him"). If you were the person reviewing his creds and work on an application to work with your unit, would you want him along? ("that's the sick f*ck that likes to take pictures of dead Marines", or more succinctly this, from the story "Worry that marines might hurt him was high enough that guards were posted to protect him"). Would you potentially want him with you to take pictures of your fellow soldiers? As another way of putting it, just because he is legally within his rights, doesn't mean that his behavior is acceptable. This entire topic of photographing coffins and dead is macabre. I cannot comprehend the parasitic insistence of these people that other people risk life and limb to protect them so that they can produce something of questionable value. If these guys really thought this sort of content had any value, they would put their ass on the line and go out unofficially and get it.

Tabasco also makes a Tabasco/Garlic sauce that is oh so yummy on eggs...and all other things that go well with Tabasco sauce...

I drove to Des Moines from Chicago on the day before they closed I80 (the major east-west interstate) to attend the disbanding ceremony of my old National Guard unit at Camp Dodge. At that point, the waters were just a foot or so from the roadway, and they hadn't closed it to traffic. The Mississippi did not look bad, but it was clearly high. After crossing into Iowa, it started to look as though in places as if I was driving through a rice paddy, as I80 was the only dry piece of land for some distance. For those that have never been there, Iowa is not flat (like Illinois), but can be rather hilly in places. On the way back home, I80 from Cedar rapids east was closed, as was I380 north. It was quite a detour to get home, as I had to take backroads north to Waterloo, then take US 20 back into Illinois. Ironically, my former NG unit was deactivated on Saturday, and then the next day was activated under different colors for state service for flood duty.

Requesting Sturmy's Belgian stew recipe. Does anyone still have it?

Found my problem: I am running x64

If the mission editor worked, I'd say you where on to something...

And it didn't work

I will try this: I did this for the mission editor

I get "Wrong Version" when trying to run the mission editor. I'am running on Vista Ultimate. I've installed both .net SP1 and Sp2 (according to the links, if you install the latter only, it ought to work-as they are each complete implementations of the .net framework.) Regardless, I installed both, and still get the Wrong Version error. I tried putting the editor in XPSP@ compatibility, and no love Help anyone?

count me in

When I read the term "Waffengrenadier" in the manual, it jarred loose the memory of that. However, upon starting the patched to v1.03 game, the SS runes were in place. The only thing I did was apply the 1.03 patch. (anybody recommend some good mods?) So maybe the CDV version isnt as bad as it was made out to be?

I just snagged CM3:AK *SPECIAL EDITION* at Frys Electronics here in the US for $20. It is the CDV version. What's so sanitized about it? Can I UN sanitize it??

8 years as a 11b1P (Airborne Infantryman) in the 194th Infantry Detachment (Long Range Surveilance), 34th ID (Iowa National Guard). Spent most of the time working as a 31C though, even though I never got the 31C MOS.

Correct me if I am wrong, but LT BULL seems to be asking, essentially Why not code CMx2 to include features of the game that the AI is not/cannot going to use, that would only be used in H2H or PBEM play? I don't think he is asking for a game without AI (that would be dumb, on the face of it as well as pointed out by BFC). He's just saying don't let the AI stop CMx2 from being the wargame of the century. And I agree. I think it would be a tremendous boon to the CM communities.

Treeburst- If there is still room and you need anyone else, count me in!

Disregard, i got in,,,

BF.c, fix it or do somefink!!

Well, you left the best details out: IIRC, we were playing some god awful, almost brigade size battle. I think we had most of the pieces in play, and all the boards. That you had a platoon of Panthers, and I close assaulted the unbuttoned crew and "captured" one of the Panthers. After getting one of my crews to the Panther, there was a wild shoot out, with you trying to destroy the captured panther, and the panther trying to destroy it's former platoon mates. As you got madder and madder that you couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with the other panthers, you eventually targeted one of your friendly panthers in a blind rage, mistaking it for the captured panther. You can't really model that in a computer wargame, can you? ...ahhh the good old days....

Oh you had to go there, didn't you? Tell the Warta Line story steve!! While you're telling stories, tell the board about your little COI fratricide episode with the Panthers. We never finished that game did we...I think you quit that one didn't you? Another reason for you to like CMBO/CMBB better, eh? Didn't Crescendo of Doom have a Crete scenario? I remember playing that one (it could have been solitaire) [ August 29, 2002, 02:10 PM: Message edited by: easy-v ]

I really enjoyed playing "The Warta Line" Do you remember that one Beckman

For the most part I agree. CM is a game, and some aspects need to be abstracted. I can live with the way mines are treated as they are now, but in the light of information people are posting in how difficult it is to clear a lane through a minefield, I think people are expressing the opinion that the abstraction is perhaps oversimplified. And that is my point.