Soddball
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The tall stone bridges are now very resistant to demolition - more so than even heavy buildings.
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I have seen a number of occasions where routed enemy infantry fleeing back to their own lines have run across a minefield out of LOS to me. At that point the minefield has become visible, even though I had no LOS to it and no way of knowing it was there. I had to ask my opponent why I could see a minefield and he told me a routed squad had just fled across it.
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Really? Would you honestly say that the British rail systems of the 1930s and 1940s were primitive compared to today?Originally posted by Peter Cairns:Rail infrastructure in europe in the 30's and 40's was pretty primative by todays standards and indeed all infrastructure was.
I hardly think so.
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Not true. There are lots of single-track railway lines. Most of the ones in the UK were closed by the Evil Dr. Beeching but they are not uncommon. Major inter-city lines would have 2 tracks.Originally posted by Philippe:And railroad tracks should almost always come in pairs, except on trunk lines to a factory or warehouse.
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Are you saying that we will be able to fire through concealment with machine guns or other weapons in CMX2?
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That's hot.
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Something wrong with your CAPS LOCK key? It keeps switching on when you create a new subject.
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Or it could be that since N is next to M on the keyboard, he knocked it?
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So it's sold by someone that is no longer an EBay registered user, who has only registered for 2 weeks, and ships CDs without manuals and cases for £5?
If you're looking for bargains, I have some genuine moon rock for sale, and a bridge.
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Take yer politics out of here, Dave, and to Gyrene's forum where it belongs. This is a maggot stomping thread.
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It usually means that the target is currently over a Target Reference Point.
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Originally posted by Holien:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Battlefront.com:
If we do a game or Module with paratroops in it, we will certainly offer some features to make for more flexible drop options.
Steve
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So, now you know it's a US-based forum, run by a US company, how stupid do you feel?Originally posted by MartinEden:I'm of the opinion that if no one else had anything to say on the matter, people would stop posting. Seems as if this is more a matter of what wants to be heard rather than what wants to be said. Sure is easy to see this forum is in the U.K. and not the U.S.
KG_Soldier
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You clearly aren't playing the 'Hitler' rules, which allow you to know in an instant the strength of the enemy and to place individual companies in the correct location.Originally posted by dalem:Here in my local historical miniatures gaming group, a guy who used to be in the Canadian military runs occasional "Map Games" for us using the online Kriegspiel rules. I've talked about it before. I've played the role of a divisional commander a few times and I'm told that the games we run are similar in feel and scope to the paper exercises real militaries sometimes do.
And as the divisional commander, I have a map and a dream, and that's IT.
I give my orders to the guys representing my regimental commanders, and I get support for them from corps and other parts of the division. But do I order COMPANIES around the map? Of course not. I don't even have anything to represent units that small on the map anyway.So the idea of a battalion commander pushing bazooka and MG teams around the map seems equally silly to me.
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I have just the campaign for you. Divisional scale. </font>Originally posted by Sergei:</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Soddball:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Sergei:
Bah! Company level is for wimps, battalion level for amateurs... Regiment scale is where IT is in!
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Clearly I failed to include enough 'buts', 'excepts', and 'nearlys' in my general, light-hearted statement about the resilience of British aircraft carriers.
Several of the webpages I've seen cite Furious, Glorious & Courageous as 'battlecruisers', 'heavy cruiser' or 'light battlecruiser'.
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I have just the campaign for you. Divisional scale.Originally posted by Sergei:Bah! Company level is for wimps, battalion level for amateurs... Regiment scale is where IT is in!
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I agree in part with Doroshling, but where he says you have no need to hold companies in reserve - on big campaign maps that just isn't the case. Holding back forces in reserve to ensure you have enough strength for the following battles is necessary.
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My thoughts on that subject: "Oh look, here are some precious human beings who miraculously survived the storm. Quick, somebody shoot them."Originally posted by Dave H:</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by _Axe_:
"Shoot the looters."
Inspector Javert has a lot of imitators.
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Rank grog.
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UK carriers had all-metal flightdecks and most were converted from battleship or battlecruiser hulls, hence their impressive resilience. Think of the kamikaze attacks on them in 1945. US carrier hit - flight deck out of operation, hangar on fire. UK carrier hit - one ensign with a broom required to sweep deck clean.
Of course, that meant they held 1/3 the number of planes of US carriers and time has shown that the US system was superior.
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There were a pair of BMP-1s at the War and Peace Show.Originally posted by flamingknives:Firing ports are a bad idea anyway unless you're fighting through fall-out. In conventional warfare, infantry really ought to dismount to fight.
Every time I looked at them, all I could think they were good for was shooting rioting civilians. Stupid design. Can't hold enough soldiers to make any difference, crap armour against anything but molotov coctails.
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:mad: :mad: :mad: GARAGRGARGAHRAHRAHGARHAGRHARAGRHARGAHRAGH :mad: :mad: :mad:
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Man, I want to beat you with a baguette. :mad:Originally posted by Andreas:I had so much fun beta-testing, I had to post this twice.
CMx2: probably not for me
in Combat Mission Shock Force 1
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I wondered a couple of days ago which idiot would be the first to start a thread about how dreadful CMX2 was going to be and how they wouldn't touch it with a barge pole.
I expected it to be at least when the first screenshots came out, or when the theatre was confirmed. Perhaps I was expecting too much.