Stalin's Organ

Penetration of HC rounds is listed in the unit info screen the same as any other ammo. Lots of tanks carry both but especially those German ones armed with the 75L24. Hollow charge works better when it is NOT spinning.

If so, it isn't shown in the units stats. They can also not given to them in the editor.</font>

If Brutus doesn't turn up by the Ides of March I volunteer Nobby for the job since he pinched my seat the mean bugger!

There used to be a grand inquisitiveness in the MBT? For heaven's sake restore it - the place could do with a little curiosity value - someone like the elephant man seems appropriate.

To upgrade to v 1.01 you need to load the German patch rather than the US one - it's about 68mb instead of .....8?? The extra is a bunch of BMP's that didn't make it into the German one.

HQ units can have AT weapons such as mines, molotovs and Pz-fausts. Often they are higher morale than their squads, and of course they ALWAYS get their command benefits! Plus they're more men than a tank hunter team.

This game is intimidating only because "newbies" are bought up on a diet of relatively similar X^4 games - as Kenm has pointed out those games are all getting a bit predictable!! The difference is that CM is based upon a dataset that ANYONE can check against - it's called history. And it's based at a level that is pretty personal - virtually the level of an individual soldier, within the context of a real military unit. there's little in strategy gaming to prepare "newbies" for this because <big><big>CM is NOT a STRATEGY game!!!!!</big></big> That it keeps being lumped as a strategy game is a sign of how the lowest common denominator has seized the minds of the software industry - where image is everything and content something I guess you have to have as long as you can't get away with having none.

This isn't a Peng Thread - it's a bleedin' sycophantic groveling putrid agony Aunt Versace column! Edited to say that it's <big><big>PAGE 2</big></big>, and there's still no rules! [ January 17, 2003, 12:40 AM: Message edited by: Stalin's Organ ]

originally posted by the court Privy counciler: The king is already infested! You've given him lice from the outerboards - where he's got his tits in a tangle anyway, you don't want to know what you've given him from Mike's pants and apparently some sort of cranial flora from yourself. The poor bugger will be scratching himself forever more!! Perhaps he should be titled "Your Itchiness!! [ January 17, 2003, 12:31 AM: Message edited by: Stalin's Organ ]

Your above "widespread" table also was "introduced" - comparing 2 x 50mm PAK introduced for trial to 7500 45mm guns or at least like 100 57mm in 1941 (based on batteries being equipped with ZIS-30's in at least 20 SP AT brigades) is complete nonsense. The 45mm was in service in huge numbers when the standard German AT gun was the 37 - period!

Oh do put a sock in it you stoopid twit - what's a coronation without a street..er...no that's not right....without a clown?!

You don't think anyone actually read that blather of your do you you poor olde thing? hmm...come to think of it perhaps Senile-tea is a bit close to the truth....it would fit with his sudden interest in alls-heinie's....

I've had similar happen in broad daylight - I'm thinking of an encounter between short-50 armed P-3's and T34's at ranges of 1-200m in a town where it took 4-5 shots to hit (and ricochet 'from teh 50!! ).

higher cesspool status......that would be like you're in the overflow pipe? choke - I never realised - and here was I thinking you were nothing more than flotsam - I am humbled to be in the presance of jetsam as well!!

Brick yard 2 150/152mm observers fight it out on a single 20m sq tile.....with no ammo.

Perhaps because you are brighter than the run of the mill SSN?</font>

I will warn you, this may end up in unwanted pregnancy! </font>

Only because you said you would.... Yes. Your wish is my entertainment.

Don't thank me - send me the setup you pillock. BTW you'll be happy to know the author of our previous game is a gamey pirck who puts KV's and T34's on hills covering all lines of advance and then dares me to move!!

No - you get twice the blame - it's hell backing both scapegoats.

Neither do we - careful the door doesn't bust yer ass on the way out......

Are you sure of that? I thought the spigot bomb just slid down hte barrel and over the existing shape, and was fired by a blank charge loaded in hte breach in the normal manner - so no mod required.

So we have 1 vote for the Finn's being to blame.......which sort of makes sense y'know - I mean any nation that can make a deadly weapon from a hearth brush is probably going to be threatened by cardboard stealth flying boats. [ January 10, 2003, 05:51 PM: Message edited by: Stalin's Organ ]

Like he said - there were so few German tanks to fight against and so many Russian ones to fight against them to bother!!

The flag status you see only takes into account the facts that you know - your opponent may see it as something else entirely. So don't read too much into it!! In fact there might be 3 different status's for a flag - what you see, what your opponent sees, and what it actually is - which is only revealed at the game end.