Soddball

I noticed that you have managed to casually skip over with the two critical deficiences - armour and aircraft. Italian tanks were atrocious. We don't need to go into details - you know them as well as I. Some of their aircraft (MC202) were good but for the most part they were outclassed by everyone else in the field. They were being beaten over Malta by Hurricanes and Gladiators, both obsolete by 1941. Their medium bombers had insufficient payloads and inadequate protection. Banging on about how many artillery tubes they fielded makes no difference. Warfare is about Combined Arms, as you well know. And saying they had parity with the Russians in artillery and MGs means nothing when they couldn't field a single good tank for the entire war and failed to achieve anything of any substance with their air force.

You know full well that several of the units of the Italian army fought well and fought hard. They had inadequate supplies, almost no anti-tank weapons, and poor leadership.

To get the best from S&S, I use a covered arc and then I also 'target' the unit, whether I can see it or not. The 'unit memory' comes into play and you're more likely to gain a shot. If you have a unit with binoculars pointing at the target of S&S it works better too (I think).

And you would hate to hear what the grogs have to say about that.

You're sitting in front of Steve's monitor? Then what the hell is the new game called? Don't waste your chance.

The nations have special powers. For example, the Italians (or Garovingians, as we like to call them) cast balls of flaming pasta from their Punishment Catapults. The Germans (or Horde) have Zerg Tanks which are OMG teH R0XOR.

I would like to see CMX2 implement fire in the same way that The Sims did.

Padd Lock? Baby Oil?

Does that mean you'll stop posting for 20 minutes?

Now this would be great.

ARARARHAHGRHGHHHH!!!! We'll miss you like a hole in the head. :mad: :mad:

I think the caption said these are pre-alpha. So compare the pre-alpha horror shots of CM:BO to what we saw later.

Dammit. I saw this and thought it was the CMX2 forum.

Puftahs. :mad:

If they don't look better than that I'm selling my shares in Matt's nightclub.

Moral? Or Morale?

Patrick Bishop's "Fighter Boys" - covering The Battle of Britain. James Holland's "Fortress Malta". Antony Beevor's "Stalingrad" and "Berlin 1945".

Try getting pumped up before you play. Watch some Schwarzenegger films. Then play.

Theoretically fine if you're not on a modem.

This was worth an extra thread in a busy forum.

Gpig, that cover art rocks.

Nah, it wasn't that much time. Maybe 10 minutes total. And I've been saving up some extra time each day knowing that sooner, much sooner, than later someone would say something silly like this. So now that its happened, and I've responded, the time to respond to unreasonable nonsense is just about used up Steve </font>

How do you know that he has such possibilities in the scenario in question? </font>

Smoke to cover your approach, and 105mm or larger to suppress the infantry in the trenches.