Stalin's Organ

Some other oddies - I've got some pilots who seem to be missing experience - eg a leader who had 54 total experience, but no abilities and no available experience to spend. Maybe he was one of hte former wingmen who's leader bought it when hte connection was lost - but I don't remember having any wingmen with 54 experience!! Another who had 38 - a wingman - but no abilities and 30 to spend.

But increases the chances of breaking somethign on the pushing vehicle!

I've found I sometimes lose a wingman when a game doesn't setup properly. Typically I start a game, the dogfight screen appears, sometimes with the aircraft in place sometimes without, but then nothing further happens. So I shut down the screen (X), it asks me if I want to exit, I press yes, again nothing happens. I use task master to shut down the dogfight, it comes back with a "DiF is not responding" at which I end the task. When I go back I sometimes find my wingman has gone - disappeared without trace. The leader still has his experience, etc, but I have to recruit a new wingman. Win 98SE, 512mb Ram, 2.8GHz P4 Radeon 9200SE 128mb [ August 30, 2005, 12:51 AM: Message edited by: Stalin's Organ ]

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Random can be a pain - in one case I got 1 shooting card in 3 turns with 2 elements of fighters - and that 1 was on the last turn after combat I had the other guy (AI) screwed afer 2 turns - all his planes damaged & leaders followed and then....must've run out of ammo!!

I'm always in favour of progressive campaigns - ie where you take ana army, or in htis case a pilot(s) through a series of linked battels

Thanks for the hints - shot the shirt out of them tonight!

So what's the trick to taking out these things? Admittedly they were escorted, but the escort element was tied up by another Spitfire Element that was shooting it to bits - but every attack on a Stuka ended up with 2 or 3 points of return fire and they shot down 3 spits for the loss of 1 stuka damaged!! :eek:

Seems strange - DIF looses the connection for play when I get the dogfight screen up, but I can still chat to ppl using it! I have to logout then login again to pick my campaign again to get the same error. There's no error message except Connection to server lost. BTW the campaign web page works in Firefox, but doesn't quite look right - some texts are overlapping.

Yes heaps of other info - let's see..... Length of piece: 5460mm Length of rifling: 4252mm Weight travelling: 6434 kg Weight in action: 5624kg (note that the 150mm howitzer on the same mount weighed 5512 kg in action) Elevation 0-48 deg Traverse 64 degrees I saw another work on German arty this weekend that mentioned that many of the 10cm Kanone's were transferred to coastal protection roles where "their great weight" (or words to that effect) was not such a problem.

No - that's a chest with a life support system attached. Anyway - I'm back!! I've got a move to process from What's on and Creak but alas if anyone else is awaiting a turn it's been lost in the great screw up that has been my computer for hte last week - so please resend - there's a good little maggot

Only when he does something bad - otherwise you say he's an aussie!! So were Phar Lap, Split Enz and Jo Bjeklke-Peterson.........

According to my trusty "World War II Fact File" volume on MG's: The BAR in Polish service was the Reczy karabin maszynowy wz.28, and was taken into German service as the 7.9mm leMG 154(p) The Belgians made a licenced versian too - Fusil-Mitrailleur 1930, which the Germans called the 7.65mm le MG 127. The Belgians also made export versions in 7, 7.65 and 7.92mm, and had a tripod for it that could be used in ground or AA roles... Polish BARs captured by the Russians were designated Rutschnoj pulemet Browning obr. 1928 The Polish and Belgian BAR's look different in that they have a different hand-grip at the bolt end of the gas cylinder to the US ones. Polish M1917 Brownings were designated as Ciezki karabin maszynowy wz.30, by the Germans as 7.9mm sMG 249(p) or MG 30(p) (I don't know why there might've been 2 designations), and by the Russians as CMK wz.30 but they apparently didn't use them much. The Belgians also produced some M1917's mainly for export to Sth America. Madsen LMGs were mentiooned above - there were many different versions of them, and the Germans had designations for at least 3 Danish versions, 2 Norwegian versoins, and the ones they bought themselves before the war.

Well we did...so there! does this mean our game is back on??!! I jsut deleted it last night you dumb maggot, so you'll have to send it back to me......... :mad: :mad: :mad: </font>

Hmm...I've got some info on hte K18 from the WW2 "Fact File" series by McDonald & Janes. According to it the K18 entered service in 1934 as the standard medium arty pice, but was "too heavy for towing by horses and too light for its modest shell weight" and was gradually relegated to the coastal role where a sea marking shell was introduced. There was a modification the K18/40, which got an extra 2000m range, but it wasn't accepted until a few were produced in 1943 as the 10.5cm schwere Kanone 42. This doesn't tie up with those web page figures at all, so who knows...

No one should laugh at that!!

A slightly different take on the question - but when did field guns adopt shields? AFAIK they didn't have them in the American Civil War or the Franco-Prussian war, but I've no idea whether they were common by the time of the Boer war.

You haven't got time to be reading anything you womble - where's my turn?? :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

1/4" (6mm) or even 2 x 4mm maybe - but those whields look considerably thicker than the attachments on hte inside - so I'd be betting the highter end of that range.

I know a lot of mothers I'd be really happy to suchk the XXXXX's of!! But alas all I can think of here is that I have Rune's latest abomination, and no-one to play it with!! Won't one of you kind, wonderful people help outt?? Pretty please? XXX

Ha - you wanna play it as our next fight perhaps?? No more gamey hiding Shermans behind smoke screens for you in this one!! Runey old boy - can you send it tournament locked to me or WC - either/or, doesn't matter which ide...

Yes - you probably would be, but I prefer to make beautiful music! Now where's my turn Baldric's wet dream??

Weren't you a Swede? :confused: </font>

Who's he? Never mind - if he's your favourite then who cares! It sure does - you'll notice howw keen we are to join the rest of the world by hte number of people pushing our islands!! The rest of hte world is a good place to keep the likes of you in - saves us from having to clean up our own back yards Just send the occasional sacrificial rugby team and keep buuying our dead sheep, there's a good little foreigner!

Never mind pointing out that someone has better taste than you - where's me freakin' settup??!! :mad: :mad: :mad: