Gyrene

I haven't seen skip shots like that, but I've had some unfortunate accidents with ricochet shots. I once had the shot from one of my Churchills ricochet off a KT and hit the TC of another Churchill close to the action, sending the crew into shock and making it an easy kill for the KT Gyrene

I got a couple of replies, but I'll keep you guys in mind if I hit a snag. Actually, is there an updated bmp list? Thanks. Gyrene

I'd like to start making some Mods, I have the software, I have the skill and sometimes I even have the time but... I have a cruddy 6mb video card and can't preview the Mods properly! (New mac soon, I hope) So...What I need is to hook up with someone with a good video card and patience to shoot me some screen shots and comment on the work. This would be a cooperative arrangement, your input and ideas would be most welcome. Any takers, please drop me a line. Gyrene

Could the Katiushas even depress the launchers low enough to be able to fire in a CM sized map? Gyrene

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Gyrene - Rommel routinely speaks of his Luftwaffe liason officer (pilot?) in the Ardennes offensive in France - source: The Rommel Papers by Hart<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Maxx, the USMC Air Liason system I mentioned involved a Tactical Air Control Party (What later became ANGLICO teams (Air/Naval Gunfire Liason Company)) of 1 officer and 3 enlisted, who were moved to where the action was at and directly guided aircraft on target. Rommel's Luftwaffe officer probably coordinated scheduled bombing runs and supply drops and acted as a go-between for the two branches of service. He was probably too high ranked an officer (Indicated by his direct contact with Rommel) to be watching the bombs impacting at a company level. On the thread topic, the examples I gave were just to illustrate that Infantry commanders had little or no contact with the aircraft giving them support (Radios being different and other reasons), so that is why you can't control airstrikes in CM other than hoping they'll show. Gyrene

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Gyrene - Rommel routinely speaks of his Luftwaffe liason officer (pilot?) in the Ardennes offensive in France - source: The Rommel Papers by Hart<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Maxx, the USMC Air Liason system I mentioned involved a Tactical Air Control Party (What later became ANGLICO teams (Air/Naval Gunfire Liason Company)) of 1 officer and 3 enlisted, who were moved to where the action was at and directly guided aircraft on target. Rommel's Luftwaffe officer probably coordinated scheduled bombing runs and supply drops and acted as a go-between for the two branches of service. He was probably too high ranked an officer (Indicated by his direct contact with Rommel) to be watching the bombs impacting at a company level. On the thread topic, the examples I gave were just to illustrate that Infantry commanders had little or no contact with the aircraft giving them support (Radios being different and other reasons), so that is why you can't control airstrikes in CM other than hoping they'll show. Gyrene

Air Support was an uncoordinated affair for most of the fighting forces in WWII, the USMC being a notable exception, as they actually employed pilots on the ground with the infantry as ground to air liason and directed the aircraft to targets, a principle that was still unique to the USMC even as late as the Korean War where the US Army had USMC Air Liason Officers attached to their regiments. Don't know if the German Army employed a similar system, but if the Luftwaffe/Wehrmacht relationship is any indication I'd think not. Gyrene

Air Support was an uncoordinated affair for most of the fighting forces in WWII, the USMC being a notable exception, as they actually employed pilots on the ground with the infantry as ground to air liason and directed the aircraft to targets, a principle that was still unique to the USMC even as late as the Korean War where the US Army had USMC Air Liason Officers attached to their regiments. Don't know if the German Army employed a similar system, but if the Luftwaffe/Wehrmacht relationship is any indication I'd think not. Gyrene

The point value for QB's probably determines the likelyhood of planes showing up, Gen-x's QB was 5000 points, I'd assume they get more common from 3000 points up. Gyrene

The point value for QB's probably determines the likelyhood of planes showing up, Gen-x's QB was 5000 points, I'd assume they get more common from 3000 points up. Gyrene

Steve, would it be possible to tweak the map editor so units already on the map won't get shifted when more terrain is added to the map? This might displease those who like to place guns in houses that way, but would save a lot of designers some headaches. Gyrene

Michael & PW42, thanks for the T34 info. Gyrene

CM with ASL level of versatility? drooolll... Gyrene [ 06-06-2001: Message edited by: Gyrene ]

Michael, when did the T34 make it's appearance in the Eastern Front? I was under the impression that they showed up later after the German assault started to lose mommentum. From the little I know about the Eastern Front, your description of masses of abandoned Russian equipment early in Barbarossa seem up to par, and I wonder if T34's would be included in it. Gyrene

Here are the return comments from the web site's author, he granted me permission to post this here: <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Hi Thanks for your truthful comments. I agree the forum is popular however no-one with the exception of one person had the decency to ask me or my co-designer. I agree that the Russian accounts are a little "one-sided" however they were translated & written as quoted. There are large parts of the original journals & diaryies that are scored out hardly surprising due to the way the Nazu regime treated deafist talk so from this point it is accurate. You will notice on the site that at no part does it say this is historical fact, only that it is told as it was to me or Cliff. We get many emails from both sides of the war wishing to tell us about their adventures & I'm sure that a good percentage of it will be exaggerated but that is not for us to say. We will tell it as it is once the new site dedicated to all true stories is launched sometime next year. I have no doubt that wonderfully knowledgable historians such as Mr Jason C will still rubbish it. I hope he knows that the designers of Combat mission namely the chief 3d designer kitty actually approached us for the info on the Tiger! perhaps I should relay that on the forum as well. What I would suggest to all forum members is to join a proper WW2 forum where the vets actually post. Feel free to copy & paste this if you want I will not be posting myself as that was a one off allowed by Battlefront. too busy on new sites Thanks for your decency in replying directly. Yours Martyn Mcculloch / Cliff X Panzer VI team east & west Scotland & PRC<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Gyrene

I don't think that posting on such a popular forum can be considered back-stabbing, but I agree that perhaps the comments could also have been directed to the author via e-mail. I stand by my original post, I found the articles interesting and I assume that they are mostly authentic, by that I mean that every war tale as an amount of fabrication in it, the Normandy accounts I think are very realistic, while the Russian front ones have a little too much of the "We walked all over them" factor in it. Gyrene

<cough cough> You could have at least dusted these relics out. Gyrene

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>I don't think crew suppression is modelled. Heavy concussions do not seem to reduce their fighting ability or reaction times at all, assuming no casualties were taken. In Steel Panthers a few non-damaging hits from heavy guns can render the crew temporarily combat ineffective. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Zahl, this is exactly what I mean, while internal armor flaking is a nice touch to the game, plain and simple concussions are not taken into effect. In a recent game I had a 105mm Sherman hit an unbuttoned PzIV with HE on the turret front, in Real Life odds are good that the tank would have 50% less TC and that the crew would be at the very least groggy for a few minutes, but as it turned out the tank buttoned up with no casualties and promptly scored a kill on the Sherm less than 5 seconds later. The lack of concussion effects negates some of the effectiveness of teams of smaller tanks acting against uber tanks. Gyrene

Neither. Enough with the Germans, bring on the Japanese! Gyrene

Do you think that the effects of a non-fatal hit on a tank's crew has been taken into account? What I mean is that even if a round has hit a tank, but not done any damage, the crew inside has to be more than a bit shaken up (literally) by the impact. There are many accounts of how tank crews at the battle of Hue in Vietnam (As an example) had to be rotated, as after literally dozens of hits from B40 rockets the M48 crews were just too punch drunk to keep going, individual tanks often would go through 5 or 6 crews a day this way. I have not noticed if non-fatal hits have the slowing down effect on the crew as it should have. Any comments? Gyrene

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Let the Allies keep saying things like "I once killed a Panther from the front/flank/etc. with a 37mm/95mmC/etc." Key word being "once," referring to the survivability of the Panther. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I regularly kill Panthers with Fireflies in CM. Like someone else posted on this forum before, if the 17 pounder was German it would have a cult following like the 88mm. The Panther is a great tank, but if purchase price is no object than it would be silly for an Axis player not to pick the Jagtiger, the thing is almost indestructible, but give me a super-gamey 40mm Bofors/ Churchill AVRE combo and I'll fry that sucker. Gyrene

Odd things happen in the heat of battle, and when you find yourself surrounded by enemy troops a p-faust makes a better weapon as a club than its intended use. I don't think the guy carried the thing into battle intending to club people with it, there are many medal citation accounts here in the US of desperate or enraged people killing several enemy soldiers in hand to hand combat with e-tools, broken rifles, rocks etc. It's war, don't forget that's the way it used to be before gun powder. Gyrene

Seemed like the typical tales of vets told 40 + years after the fact, interesting stuff to be sure, and probably mostly authentic. They do make it seem like they could drive their Tigers around with impunity wherever they went in Russia and that 4 or 5 Tigers were a match for an entire company of Russian tanks; and the lack of a single mention of Sturmoviks (sp?) or even of the Russian tanks firing back (Only one such mention) makes it a bit hard to swallow. If T34's were such pushovers the Germans would not have needed to build Panthers. The Normandy accounts seem a little more believable. Gyrene [ 06-05-2001: Message edited by: Gyrene ]

The Pit is a very apt name for my and Boy_Recon's map, with it's Very Dry condition we should spend some points on firefighters. The church in the middle is a nice touch, if there was a bridge spanning the whole thing it would be very Indiana Jones. Gyrene

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>(maybe it's an escape scenario or something) <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Banjo music helps, a dixie car horn does too. Gyrene