Don

Heres a more detailed exlanation: I can send e-mails without attachments and recieve e-mails with and without attachments. I can even squeeze a small (20 kb) attachment through. I normally use outlook express but I have Outlook installed as well so I configured that and it doesn't work either. Hotmail works, but very slowly and with small attachments. I have re-installed/uninstalled every program I thought might conflict somehow (Norton, Zonealarm, MSN messenger etc., etc.). I've also reset all my setttings and passwords. The tech guy from my ISP set up my e-mail account on his computer and successfuly sent me an e-mail with no attachment. It was actually funny in an infuriating way, I went all the way up through the chain of command to the manager and he was completely befuddled, and as soon as I sent a small 12 kb atttachment he pretty well hung up on me. This started three days ago and I am completely stumped. I am sure it must be some sort of software problem somewhere.

I am posting this here because I am thoroughly befuddled. I use IE 6 and I have Norton Anti-virus and utilities and Zone-alarm firewall. The problem occurs when i try to send e-mail with attachments. I just can't send them. I get the following error messages (after a long wait): Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible causes for this include server problems, network problems, or a long period of inactivity. Subject 'Re: Monty', Account: 'shawmail', Server: 'shawmail', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 10054, Error Number: 0x800CCC0F A time-out occurred while communicating with the server. Subject 'Re: Test message from Shaw', Account: 'shawmail', Server: 'shawmail', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x800CCC19 I spent two hours on the phone yesterday with tech-support from my ISP (Cable internet btw). I have checked all the setings, tweaked them every way I can. I've shut down norton and Zone-alarm, it still doesn't work. I am not a computer expert and I am stumped. any suggestions or help would be appreciated. I have to go to work now, I will check back her in approx. 9 hours. Please help if you have any ideas or questions.

More than I should but not as much as I'd like!

Russian Battlefield This is a great site for info on WWII Soviet armour. Line drawings, camo drawings, lots of really good articles. It's one of my favourite sites. They also have a very Grog-oriented forum. You don't have to read Cyrillic either. [ February 14, 2002, 01:38 PM: Message edited by: Don ]

I stand corrected. I was looking at the wrong pictures! I have brought shame to myself and my family Twice the shame in fact because Alan hobbies of Russia does a plastic kit of the Marder II D. Thanks for the save John, it's a great book isn't it!

Edited because I should know enough to check the photo with the text in a reference book. [ February 10, 2002, 03:09 AM: Message edited by: Don ]

sorry, wrong topic. Carry on! Nothing to see here! [ February 08, 2002, 03:56 PM: Message edited by: Don ]

Most Osprey books are aimed at scale modellers and figure painters. They are usually heavy on photographs and paintings but light on actual history. They assume the reader is already familliar with the subject and is looking for photos of equipment or uniform paintings.

I use the Tank Girl interface by Mark Peters. I downloaded it off CMHQ. I like it because it has pin up style pictures of half dressed women. I can't think of better reason to change interfaces than scantily clad pin-up girls.

It never occured to me to mention these books. I build models of WWII Armour and they are indispensable. I have them both but I thought they were a little too "Armour Grog" for general reference as they only deal with Afvs and not small arms or ordinance. The Oxford Companion is set up as an encyclopedia by the way and has very little for photographs, lots of good maps though.

Teggy, A nice simple reference for basic WWII weapons, ordnance, and vehicles is; ISBN 1-894102-22-3, Material originally published in 1984 as part of the reference set War Machine , The Complete Encyclopedia of Weapons of WWII,Chris Bishop, ed., Prospero Publishing (90 Ronson Drive Etobicoke Ontario CANAD M9W 1C1). This book is really big, bright red and is nice and serious looking. Excellent basic reference, it does not delve too deeply into variants, gives a very readable (with great pictures) and comprehensive history of all the basic weapons, ordnance, afvs, ships, airplanes, etc. of WWII. Its 543pp 10"X12" and looks really good on the bookshelf. It was only $19.99Cdn IIRC. If you want a little more scholarly WWII Historical reference but don't mind spending a litle more dough this is my favourite WWII reference: ISBN 0-19-214168-6, I.C.B. Dear, ed., The Oxford Companion To The Second World War, Oxford University Press (Oxford, 1995). In the 6 years I have owned it I have never run across a person, battle, map, or event of any importance in WWII that was not in this book. 1341pp 8"X11" If you are arguing with someone about a point of WWII fact and you cannot prove yourself right with the book itself, you could beat the offending person to death with it. It's like the hydrogen bomb of WWII reference material. I don't know how I lived without it. I don't remember exactly how much this bad boycost but I remember my Girlfriend was peeved about how much I spent on it, I bought it before I started University so I couldn't write it off as a textbook. Hope this Helps Don [ January 31, 2002, 04:15 PM: Message edited by: Don ]

danbob, That really takes me back. Not as far as it takes you back though. I have almost the exact same pile ( I have preety well everything except deluxe ) I bought all my stuff 10 years ago, I was 15, with money I earned washing dishes on the weekends. I still have my reciepts I spent a little under $800.00 Cdn. I look back on it now and I can't believe I bought it because I grew up in a very small town and I had no one to play ASL with :confused: ! To this day I have never been able to find anyone locally to play ASL with on a regular or even semi-regular basis. My stuff carefully packed away in 2 boxes in my closet about 3 years ago with all the trays carefully taped shut to prevent the counters from getting mixed up. I don't think I could possibly bring myself to sell it. Maybe someday I will have a son or two I could teach to play. I love CMBO but the CMBO cd doesnt quite conjure up the pride of ownership that all my ASL modules do. Thanks for the trip down memory lane

Excuse this Junior Member for speaking up. Parabellum has it entirely correct. The Centaur had an unsatisfactory engine so it was only used, with those markings and that oddball brown paintjob, on D-Day and a few weeks after. That bigass ugly 90mm howitzer turret was so useful that it was kept on as a C.S. (Close Support) Cromwell until the end of the war in HQ squadrons. The numbers are to assist the battery commander in gun laying, the large periscope housing in front of the T.C.is also worth noting. Sincerely Junior Armour Grognard Don Sather P.S. I am also looking for my first PBEM Game

This is my first post here. I have only been playing CM for about two months (had the demo for 4 months before that). I have been lurking here for a while so I guess this is as good a time as any to start talking!. Saskatoon, province of Saskatchewan CANADA