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    New Combat Mission game Announced. Combat Mission: Afrika Korps!!!

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

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    Originally posted by CombinedArms:

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    Do tell! What was wrong with British tank and combined arms doctrine? And how can we avoid their mistakes when we have the Brits? BTW, did the British tactical appraoch change? Looks like the got the hang of how to attack by the time of El Alamein--but I don't really have a detailed knowledge of the tactics of that battle. </font>
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    New Combat Mission game Announced. Combat Mission: Afrika Korps!!!

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

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    Originally posted by Skolman:

    i am sorry but i don´t think that battles in the desert will be that interresting. 8.8 gunning down hundreds of allied tanks....maps that are too large to few ....

    and to buy a game just because multi turreted vehicles ????

    BTW where are the arabique troops ??

    Oi ! skolman

    Well, I don't necessarily think it needs to be that way (the 8.8 gunning down part). It happened in large part because British tank and combined arms doctrine was faulty and they paid the requisite price. Alan Morehead's book on the North African campaign, while written from a journalists viewpoint, is very enlightening on this topic.
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    Der Manstein Kommt! (no spoiler)

    in Combat Mission Archive #4 (2002)

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    Originally posted by Schoerner:

    Das Schwarzbuch des Kommunismus (The Blackbook of Communism?), Stephane Courtois.

    Very interesting and also demasking the selective perception of mass-media and history-books.

    Yes, the great western Allies supported and helped a system to survive, that had murdered already under Lenin ~14 million people. ;)

    LOL...really Shoerner, as if the Western Allies had much of a choice under the circumstances. I'll check out the book tho I suspect I will have a more sceptical take on the numbers than you...and before you whip out the obscurant myth of 'selective mass media' you should learn more about who you are talking to before you decide where their point of view originates.
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    Der Manstein Kommt! (no spoiler)

    in Combat Mission Archive #4 (2002)

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    Originally posted by Schoerner:

    QUOTE]Interesting that your answer implies, that Bolshevism had no death-camps.

    Do 60 million murdered people not count?

    For everybody?

    Could it be you are confusing the sides?

    Strange.[/QB]

    I'd be interested to know the sourcing for 60 million killed by 'Bolshevism' (the use of that term in such a general way does not make alot of sense historically, btw, but I digress). I have seen some pretty sober analysis that go anywhere up to about half that for Stalin's misdeeds but I'd be curious to know if your number is just a throwaway or if there's some fact to support it.
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    Infantry Types?

    in Combat Mission Archive #4 (2002)

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    Originally posted by Coffin 'Enry:

    Sailor Malan mentioned the Fusiliers in the UK – well, sorry, but I now have to be boring.

    They were indeed armed entirely with the Fusil, a type of Musket (presumably, given the period, a matchlock) – rifles were not invented till much later – whereas all other infantry regiments of the time had a proportion of the men armed with pikes.

    Weren't fusil's a rifled musket? My impression was that the term 'fusil' is the same root word that you seein 'fusilli' (yes, I mean the pasta). The corkscrew referring in the case of the musket to the grooves inside the barrel. Anybody have any idea if that's accurate?

    [ October 28, 2002, 07:57 PM: Message edited by: bboyle ]

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    Dry Run

    in Combat Mission Archive #4 (2002)

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    Originally posted by KG_AGCent:

    After securing the necessary provisions (3 cases of Lime twist Perrier, 2 bags of Dill flavored Lays and 6 tins of Peppermint Altoids and 3 bonus packs of No-Doz) and sundries (Doggie-Door, Sawz-All, nails, a hammer, 50gal. trash barrel and a case of Depends) I will then be ready to prepare my bunker (bedroom) for the impending extended campaign.

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    I just had a Trainspotting flashback....fantastic stuff....
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    CMBO Replay of Band of Brothers Scenario

    in Combat Mission Archive #4 (2002)

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    Originally posted by platoon_incap_monkey:

    Hi

    I personally didnt like BoB.The effects and everything was cool but i dont like this "Hollywood" hero stuff.

    In one episode the US is attacking an artillery position and knock out the german defenders with ease.

    THEN the germans attack the US that has taken the old german positions BUT NOW the germans cant hit them..At one point an american is sitting in a tree top getting sprayed by an MG-42 and ofcourse the 42 dont hit..How can it possibly shoot trough leaves?..heheheeh!

    stuff like this makes me angry..and have you noticed the 1 half a second delay on the grenades when they throw them in windows?

    Im not usually a complainer and i know it is a tv series but anyway..I dont think it was THAT easy for the US..Just look when they take carentan in another episode..hmmmm...Who made that defense?..Dumbo?

    In that episode you see german Paratroopers run away like old volksgrenadiers.

    I would apreciate if Hollywood ONCE good make an truly and more honest story of the war.

    Thanx ;)

    Oops...hit the wrong button. Actually, if your read the vet's recollections of the event they point out constantly that they did things that morning that were extremely foolhardy that they would never, ever have done even a day or two later. And FWIR, the actions of the unit in the movie were based very closely on what actually happened. In short, it certainly wasn't a typical action with typical losses but maybe that's why Winters was a Major at the end of the war, eh?

    [ June 12, 2002, 12:01 PM: Message edited by: bboyle ]

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