Maple Tree

Okay, is it possible to have a 'dig-in' command in a Quick Battle ? Or only Scenario's ? In the scenario editor, go to Perameters, and check the box that allows defending tanks to dig in. Then, click on a tank and hit space. This will bring up the menu, which will now contain a "Dig in" command. If you want to simulate tanks that have prepared hull down positions that they can move away from, use a short section of wall in front of the tank. This will have the same hull down effect as digging in, but the tank will still be able to move. Scenario designers- never ever dig in turretless armor such as StuGs and jagdpanthers. Dug in tanks can't rotate, and are helpless against flanking attacks.</font>

How do I dig in a tank ? I never heard of this before.

This is correct, particularly in the early part of the war. In fact, this was in vogue during the cold war. See the new movie out about the Russian sniper, they use this concept. As it pertains to CM2, it would not be in the programming. Regards, Maple

The Hetzers downfall is it has no turret, therefore, it responds slowly as the whole tank must turn. It is best used behind the lines on a hill as support. They are nice and cheap to buy though There is a very nice web page on Hetzers here: http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/1933/ Regards

Gammon Bomb The Gammon Bomb described at the following website: http://www.britishairborne.org/weapons.html Developed by Capt. Arthur Gammon of the 1st Parachute Regiment in 1941, the Gammon bomb was intended for use against tanks, pillboxes, and bunkers. The bomb consisted of a cloth bag filled with plastic explosive attached to a metal cap. The metal cap included a screw-off top that was removed to arm the bomb before it was thrown. Usually carried inside the various pockets of the Denison smock. Used by all airborne forces. -- My Questions: Is it one platoon out of three that gets issued these per company ? How close to armour does the airborne platoon have to be before the Gammon bomb is fired/thrown ? Thanks, Maple Tree

Just an update to my earlier Nebelwerfer post: Here is a link to a brief movie of the NW firing: http://normandy.eb.com/normandy/media/onormay517v1.html It seems Real Player wants my credit card number before I can download their free software, so I have not watched it myself. I was flipping through a book I have: Twentieth-Century Arillery - by Ian Hogg and it has this to say on the subject: Nebelwerfer 41 ( launcher ) - Under the terms of the Versailles Treaty, Germany could not develop heavy artillery. However, the Treaty said nothing about rockets. Therefore, rockets were developed as a substitute for artillery from 1931 onwards and the Nebelwerfer was one of the products of this program. The launcher was a six-barrelled device on a split trail two-wheeled mounting and the rocket was an ingenious design, which had the motor in the front section, exhausting through a ring of vents halfway down the body and the explosive 'warhead' was actually the sail section of the round. This gave good accuracy, since the rocket was pulling instead of pushing and also gave better terminal effect because the bursting charge was above the ground when it detonated. Calibre: 158 mm ( 6.22in ) Launcher weight: 770kg ( 1697.9lbs ) - loaded Length of rocket 979 mm ( 38.55in ) Weight of rocket: 31.8kg ( 70lbs ) Warhead: HE; 2.83 ( 5.70lbs ) Maximun velocity: 342m/sec ( 1120ft/sec ) Maximum range: 7,060m ( 7,725 yds ) ---- Wurgranate 42 rocket - The German 21cm ( 8.27in ) Wurfgranate 42 was a spin-stabilized HE rocket which resembled an artillery shell in shape. The forward part held a filling of 10.16kg ( 22.41bs ) of Amatol, while in the rear section carried the rocket motor, seven thick sticks of smokeless powder with an electrical igniter. This was exhauted through 22 canted vents in the base to spin and propel the rocket. The nose was covered by a ballistic cap which concealed an impact fuse. The launcher was the 21cm Nebelwerfer 42, a cluster of five barrels mounted on the same two-wheeled, split trail carriage as the 15cm Nebelwerfer. The rockets were fired by depressing a plunger from a safe distance away. Calibre: 210mm ( 8.27in ) Launcher weight: 1100kg ( 425lbs ) Length of rocket: 1.249m ( 49.21in ) Weight to rocket: 109.55kg ( 241.31lbs ) Warhead: HE; 10.17kg ( 22.4lbs ) Maximum velocity: 320m/sec ( 1,050ft/sec ) Maximum range: 7,850 ( 8,585yds )

The correct answer to your question is: "It depends on the player." When I first started playing; I played an automatic selection game and was given three mortar carriers which are not able to fire at night. This was a night game with low points. I was so frustrated by this, I have only played manual pick QBs and the odd scenario since then. It seems some people on the ladders have learned what purchases to make for a QB and less experienced people cannot beat them. I believe that Swamp is quite possibly one of these people So be it, he/she has played the game long and hard and now enjoys the fruits of their labour. But, the key to happiness is 'balanced living' not CM. Regards

What does the acronym TO&E stand for ? and there is another one like it with the letter "A" in it. What does it mean as well ? Thanks

Okay, my pleasure. You may have missed my question which was: Question: since Nebelwerfers were originally used for shooting chemical weapons, will we be seeing chemical weapons used in CMBB. It would be interesting seeing chemical clouds cross the battlefield ! Any chance I can get a response on this, perhaps, it is a top-secret surprise for the CMBB release

I compiled the following quotes and links about Nebelwerfers for the groups interest. Question: since Nebelwerfers were originally used for shooting chemical weapons, will we be seeing chemical weapons used in CMBB. It would be interesting seeing chemical clouds cross the battlefield ! "Nebelwerfer => (translation Smoke-thrower) Originally chemical smoke mortar; Later used to describe these units as they started using Rocket Artillery." "Nebelwerfer: Rocket Artillery. "Nebelwerfer" was originally a term for a chemical smoke mortar. The Nebel units were subsequently used for the rocket artillery when these weapons appeared -- 1) since chemical warfare was not being waged and 2) as a deception to hide the appearance of a new weapon from enemy espionage -- and for a while ( 1941 particularly) a Nebel unit could either be a 10-cm chemical mortar unit or a rocket artillery unit." "Smoke grenades were available as handgrenades ('Nebelhandgranate'), rifle grenades, grenades for flare-pistols, mortar bombs, artillery shells and smoke-pots ('Nebeltopf'). The term for the infamous 'Nebelwerfer' (literally: "smoke thrower/projektor"), was a disguise for its original application as rocket launchers." "WURFGRANATE 41 The Wurfgranate 41 was a German 150 mm rocket fired by the Nebelwerfer rocket launcher during the Second World War. The Wurfgranate 41 carried a 2.5 kg warhead and flew at a velocity of 342 m/s to a range of 7055 meters." "Mobile German rocket batteries were able to lay down heavy and unexpected concentrations of fire on Allied positions. The 150-millimetre Nebelwerfer, a towed, six-tube launcher, was particularly respected by U.S. and British troops, to whom it was known as the "Screaming Meemie" or "Moaning Minnie" for the eerie sound made by the incoming rockets. Maximum range was more than 6,000 yards (5,500 metres)." "The first rocket guns to be used by the Germans were reported from Russia. They appeared against United States troops in small numbers in the North African campaign and in much larger numbers in Sicily. In general, the Nebelwerfer appears to have five or six parallel hollow tubes bunched together to form a polygon, the entire affair being mounted on a split trail gun carriage of about the size of the United States 37-mm. gun carriage. The tubes are about 5½ feet long, smooth bore, and with a clip to hold the rocket in place when the assembly is elevated. It is fired electrically. Several different sizes of rockets have been discovered, but the 150-mm. (6 tubes) and the 210-mm. (5 tubes) have been found more frequently. The rockets fired from these weapons are nearly as long as the launching tubes. The maximum range of the 150-mm. appears to be between seven and eight thousand yards, and about nine thousand for the 210-mm. Other German rockets are the 280-mm. and 320-mm. Schweres Wurfgerat, which are fired directly from their cages or crates." "The Nebelwerfer was developed in Germany in the early 1930s. The launcher consisted of six barrels on a mobile carriage adapted from the 37mm anti-tank gun. The six rockets were electrically fired over a period of 10 seconds. The weapon was designed to saturate a target with spin-stabilized smoke, explosive or gas rockers and was first used against the Red Army in the Soviet Union in 1941." "We also became acquainted with nebelwerfers. They were really scary at all times, but especially so at night. Familiarity however reduced their effect to some degree. When they were fired the sound was like a chorus of sighing groans and screeches, followed by silence while the bombs were in flight and everyone speculated as to where they would land. Les Morrison says that he and two or three others were standing behind E4 chatting and waiting for nebelwerfers to land. The silence ended with a bomb landing 2 or 3 feet in front of the gun. No-one was hurt but they all went to ground after the explosion. They had not heard it coming. On another occasion a projectile landed just outside B Troop command post. One landed on a bivvy tent but fortunately no-one was in it. Les and others described the missile casing as being of light metal that curled back like a half-peeled banana on exploding. It was suggested that apart from putting the wind up all who felt they might be the target, the nebelwerfer was intended to kill or injure by blast rather than fragmentation. Nevertheless a small piece of shrap from an explosion in the E Troop area about 150 yards away knocked my writing material from the ground of my sleeping bivvy onto my head. Next morning its track through a paddock of young oats could be seen in line with a hole in my tent. The War History records that the nebelwerfers would fire and immediately the crew would move the monster under cover. When that was realised the tactics were to keep a gun in various troops laid on a known nebelwerfer position full-time, to be fired immediately the monster sounded off. Jerry countered by firing from a new position each time. Extract from The Sangro and Cassino by Owen Raskin, published in 5th Field Regiment Association Newsletter 22." "With the attack on Poland in 1939 already some forces of the chemical warfare were used. They were equipped with the 10 cm Nebelwerfer (fog thrower). In the beginning of the war only a few Nebelwerfer troops were available but the low costs of the rocket launchers made it very attractive to the Germans. Besides, the batteries of rocket launchers had an impressive firepower. A brigade could fire 108 rockets in just 10 seconds or 648 rockets in 90 seconds. ( Source Unknown )" "To avoid being tipped over by the blast while firing, the rockets were fired in the following order: Rockets 1, 4, 5 then 2, 3, 4. The crew had to be 15 yards away from the launcher, and in a trench to avoid the blast from the exhaust. Weight: Unknown Magazine: 6 rockets Effective range: 6900m" "Unguided rocket artillery, first used by the Chinese one thousand years earlier, reappeared in the form of the German 15 centimeter Nebelwerfer that could fire six 70-pound rockets in less than 3 seconds. The Soviet Katusha, first at 90 millimeter and then 122 millimeter, fired over 40 rockets at once. The American entry, the Calliope, fired 60 rockets at a time. Used as area saturation weapons, these rockets caused large numbers of psychiatric as well as physical casualties." "Every day for 3 hours Jerry artillery would zero their Moaning Minnies in on the Battalion area. Moaning Minnies was the troops name for the German 150mm Nebelwerfer which was a six barreled mortar which made a terrible moaning sound as they fell from the sky. The noise itself was terrifying enough with out having to worry about where they would land. The 150mm projectile weighed approximately 75lbs and had a range of approximately 7,300 yds." Pics: http://www.ni-tech.com/~milref/gfx/Nebelwerfer/ http://www.battlefront.com/resources/museums/mus_iwm/_iwm_images/general/iwm_gen03.jpg http://www.eksplorator.cud.pl/69.htm http://www.2ndarmoredhellonwheels.com/images/nebelwerfer.gif http://home.epix.net/~hemperly/nebelwe.jpg http://www.photosammler.de/h010503e.htm http://www.toy-mania.com/military/parade/38.html http://ln-inter1.bmi.gv.at/web/bmiwebp.nsf/LookupPagenames/EE*Hinweise*Hinweise*Relikte*Relikte08 http://www.privat-militaria.de/angebote/3.htm http://ca.geocities.com/puffinmagician/War/Wurf41.jpg [ February 07, 2002, 03:46 PM: Message edited by: Maple Tree ]

Hello, Would you or an assistant be willing to post this type of information on a webpage so that we can all share in them. Particularly, if it will improve a players abilities.

How would they utilze searchlights to do this?