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The British attacks on this pimple formed a memorable SL scenario. Anybody adapted it for CM?

Spike, this is valuable humanitarian work you're engaged in. Hope you've got plenty of time on your hands.

The British attacks on this pimple formed a memorable SL scenario. Anybody adapted it for CM?

Joseph Vilsmaier's book on the making of Stalingrad (1993 model) gives a list of interesting German/Russian movies relating to Stalingrad, and other such scraps. Australian forum members should keep an eye on the SBS schedules ... a German offering circa mid-1950s about the July plot regularly crops up (Major Ernst Remer strutting about like a peacock) as does another German piece about Verdun. And somewhere in this world there is a German propaganda film about the invasion and occupation of the UK in 1940, would you believe.

Clarification required, please: the Russians arrived on the outskirts of Warsaw in August 44 and stopped. Why: a) because Totenkopf and Wiking were in the way of further advance; because Stalin ordered a halt until the Germans in Warsaw had put down the uprising; c) because Operation Bagration was spent and their supply lines were overextended; d) some other reason/combination of reasons? Can anyone please help clarify this point? Thanks.

Clarification required, please: the Russians arrived on the outskirts of Warsaw in August 44 and stopped. Why: a) because Totenkopf and Wiking were in the way of further advance; because Stalin ordered a halt until the Germans in Warsaw had put down the uprising; c) because Operation Bagration was spent and their supply lines were overextended; d) some other reason/combination of reasons? Can anyone please help clarify this point? Thanks.

Good Lord. So we inhabitants of lesser nations are waiting for America? It had to happen sooner or later.

You're welcome, Jeff. As for Invasion, dated and suspect it might be, but I'd still like to send Steven Spielberg a copy before he fishes out his box of crayons and tries rewriting history again.

At the risk of plunging into the general hysteria ... Madmatt, didn't you a week or two back promise us an "announcement" concerning CM2 "shortly"?

Esteemed colleague REVS is prone to hyperbolae. He means it plays on a hideously overpriced and overrated Mac better than SOME of his dodgy PC mates. He can't possibly be talking about me.

Carell's a journalist, and his style (at least in translation) is pacy and tabloid. I don't know that I'd trust his research totally, but he was at least able to interview significant participants. Perhaps one day John Ellis will write one of his fastidious and critical books about the Eastern Front, or Robert Kershaw, or Michael Reynolds. Let's hope so. Rommel22, both Carells ARE available. Start looking at www.alibris.com ... it's one of the best sources of out-of-print stuff there is. Bon chance.

In my view, your first port of call should be the Schiffer Publishing catalogue. Much of their stuff is written from a German perspective, but if you can live with that, try Paul Carell's two volumes that deal with the campaign from 1941 to the collapse of Army Group Centre in 1944; also look at the semi-autobiographical stuff by Alex Buchner. Perhaps the best single-volume work is Albert Seaton, The Eastern Front 1941–5, even if it's getting a bit long in the tooth. Avoid Clark and Erickson; both write tendentious rubbish. Neither is capable of differentiating between the Nazis and the German armed forces, and therefore may be capable of writing impassioned political history, but not military history.

Two small points noted in the CM demo - one, in Valley, Shermans are able to lob shells through bunker firing slits with astonishing ease; two, crews from KO'd weapons, eg the German 150mm howitzer, seem unable to man anything else. Anyone else noticed these effects and share my concern over them?

Two small points noted in the CM demo - one, in Valley, Shermans are able to lob shells through bunker firing slits with astonishing ease; two, crews from KO'd weapons, eg the German 150mm howitzer, seem unable to man anything else. Anyone else noticed these effects and share my concern over them?