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    Film of Stuka 87G in action

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

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    Originally posted by JonS:

    </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Mike:

    regardless of your quote, more suplies landed would have allowed for a supply line that was more capable of delivering more supplies!

    I note that the tonnage given is quoted as "more than Rommel's current usage" - which of course he thought was not nearly enough........but which the supply line apparently managed to deliver OK.

    No, you still aren't getting it. The Italians managed to get to African ports more than Rommel required, despite the best efforts of Malta. The problem was getting it from there, off the ships, and then to the front where there continued to be shortages, despite there being sufficient in theatre.

    Simply getting getting more to Africa wouldn't have helped much - it would only have led to larger dumps in Tripoli, some 1,000 to 1,400 miles behind the front. That's 2-to-4 times the distance between Wellington and Whangarei. Travelling at about 10-20 miles an hour.

    A.E.B.s point about coastal shipping is valid, but more-or-less the same result could have been acheived from bases in Egypt. Tripoli may have been out of reach, but the destinations of the coastal traffic weren't. Besides, Malta had done the damage to coastal shipping well before any serious consideration was given to capturing the it by the Axis ;) </font>

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    Film of Stuka 87G in action

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

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    Originally posted by JonS:

    </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by dieseltaylor:

    If you do not see the importance of morale then why have men go to ground when coming under rifle fire - after all bullets are shown to be less lethal to the PBI than mortars and artillery.

    :confused:

    a/c in CM don't have a morale effect. That's part of the problem. </font>

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    Map Designers

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

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    Gahh. Norton and SP2 are an unhealthy mix.

    If you can bin Norton then things will improve - sad that 2 of the biggest software companies in the world can't talk to each other, but there we go.

    Pick up AVG Free from downloads.com and Kerio Firewall from Kerio's website.

    If you're running an Nvidia graphics card, definitely get the latest from NVidia.

    As for the advice, my invoice will be in the post just as soon as I can guess your address. ;)

    Did you pick XP Pro or (*gag*) XP Home?

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    Map Designers

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

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    Originally posted by Dirtweasle:

    Yep... I've tried Firefox and it does what I need for a browser. How would I squish the feck out of IE? Just go through the uninstall MS software component wizard?

    It's a tough one, because IE and Explorer have so many cuddly liaisons. The only answer is to keep using the windows update website to fix IE and then to avoid using it for anything. I can't think of any clever answers for that, I'm afraid.

    What about firewall and antivirus? That machine should run like farmhouse slurry off a shovel if I'm not mistaken.

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    Map Designers

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

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    I reckon so. Sounds like a goodly rig, so go through and clean out all the 'freebie offers' - recent systems I've cleaned have had Tiscali, AOL, BTOpenworld, and 'free' antivirus. Get some new drivers and reinstall DirectX.

    Lose the Norton/McAfee and pick up AVG Free and Kerio firewall. Squish the feck out of IE and pick up Firefox.

    Or maybe you shouldn't have bought an Intel. ;):D

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    Map Designers

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

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    CM:AK is a jump up from CM:BB in performance terms, and it was noticeable. I upgraded by graphics card to play CM:BB and then found it was clunky for CM:AK.

    I upgraded to an Athlon64 3500+ with 2GB RAM and a pair of 250GB SATA drives, and magically the problem disappeared. I now get lag on 8km x 4km maps with 80,000 points of units on (which is vexing because that's what I'm playing) but anything below 4km x 4km is groovy.

    Go crazy and spend a couple of thousand of your Merkun Dohlars on a rig of death and just hope the missus don't find out.

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    Thorn in the Tiger's side?

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

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    Whenever FBs are in a game that I'm playing, their primary target for strafing or rockets is always softer vehicles - halftracks and trucks, then infantry in the open, then tanks. They'll drop bombs on the tanks but prefer to drop them on halftracks.

    I'm playtesting one campaign at the moment where the Axis forces are forced to hide their units in scattered trees during the day and move them only at night or when the weather's bad.

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    I give it a C-

    in T-72: Balkans on Fire!

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    Originally posted by Diesel:

    </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Soddball:

    If you believe what you read about games in industry magazines, you deserve everything you get. If you insist on racing to the front of the queue to get the game first, despite knowing full well the reputation of the company it's coming from, you deserve everything you get.

    So the customer is to blame if industry is rotten? Great.

    </font>

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    I give it a C-

    in T-72: Balkans on Fire!

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    Originally posted by Diesel:

    </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Jester_159th:

    It's because of people like you that honest gamers have to put up with things like Starforce.

    Gamers have to put up with Starforce because of naive thinking and incompetence of game publishers. Not to mention that it with some games installs itself without any notification to the user. So in order to fight piratism, they have decided to become crooks themselves.

    As long as publishers don't give a rats ass about customers(quality control) and care more about meeting release dates and screwing their customers in the ass, downloading games to try them out is a necessary evil. I don't like it myself, but when you look at state gaming industry is in at the moment, I find it acceptable. </font>

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    I Name the New 10th Planet Peng! And Challenge You to Dispute Me!

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

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    Originally posted by Boo Radley:

    </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Soddball:

    </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Lars:

    </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Soddball:

    Could one of you come and retrieve Boo Radley? He appears to have got lost on his way here and is paddling around in the Waffle thread looking very lost.

    Why on earth would we do that? </font>
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