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Czech Republic? http://www.projecthoneypot.org/ip_194.228.11.207 and that IP address is heavily blacklisted based on its track record. Best have a word with your internet service provider

Sean Duffy, CC'06, and his friend Leo Chau, a senior at the University of Colorado at Boulder, crawled 32.26 miles and into the Guinness World Records this summer to raise nearly $20,000 for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. The crawl, which took just over 44 hours through hail, lightning, rain and freezing temperatures, exceeded the previous world record of 31.44 miles set by two Scotsmen in 1992. The grueling crawl pushed the pair to their physical and mental limits. Duffy suffered from hallucinations and motion sickness and Chau experienced severe dehydration. Both were treated at a local hospital at the conclusion of the crawl. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/05/08/guiness_world_record.html

Seems the tac Ai got caught in a loop - similar to how you can break the internet by typing 'google' into google...

https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2015/12/Ithacus_and_SUSTAIN.html Bring on the Rocket Commandos - 1200 of em as reinforcements!!

According to this the IFF 249249 is a Sea King helicopter XV671. http://www.fightercontrol.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=93767

Maybe they are saving it up for a whole new game: Combat Mission - Fire Fighter

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They tried that in CMSF but the deformations were too easily discernible before legitimate spotting, hence the pragmatic but odd looking mole hill solution.

Thank you for your concen my well being is fine - maybe a certain poster should consider refraining from error prone posting after pulling all nighters with impaired faculties.

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Have you got the raw sherman image files from the game or one you could send me one or two (in PSD with layers that you've done) to dabble with. I'm on a mac and IIRC the skin file extractor is PC only. Winterising Shermans seem to inspire me with Photoshop...

Wow! Excellent work. I look forward to the release of your mod. Let us all know when it's out.

50m close seems optimistic to be able to tell if it's occupied or not. They don't have large windows to see if the light has been left on. Maybe if milkbottles on the door step are piling up it could indicate if any occupants are in or not. I'd say you'd need to get close enough to look through the letterbox (looking for delivered mail) and to give a shout.

Can you remember the name of the scenario?

Then it could have been an overhanging tree branch in that precise direction blocking them firing. The small aiming adjustment to either side of your target then bypassed the obstruction?

Were trees toggled on or off? As a tree or even a building in front could block them from firing though they might be able to view the intended target. Have you a screenshot or save file you could share?

AFAIK The shooting by the Sherman's by their MGs is a rangefinding measure for their main gun. Looks like the HT was quicker on the draw with the first Sherman. FM 17-12 has a section on "DETERMINATION OF RANGE, a. Estimation by Eye" which suggests use of the coaxial machine gun for range estimation by Shermans. "By firing a coaxial machine gun - Fire the machine gun with an estimated range and roll the strike into the target. The point on the reticle at which the strike appears is the range setting for the machine gun. Refer to the sight diagram and determine the corresponding range setting for the tank gun."

or even fiendish Nazi's dressed as cows behind enemy lines.

I bet it was that dastadly Otto Skorzeny and his Einheit Stielau commandos playing diry tricks ;-)

"caping" ?? Are you using the 105 Sherman? I used the 76 Shermans to take out the KT, after first mortaring it to get it to button up/decapitate the commander. Took two shots to take it out - one in the hull side and another side turret and it was deaded.

While bulldozer Sherman great for clearing snowdrifts and crap off the road but useless for removing black ice. Don't think they had dedicated salt gritting lorries...

On the contary in the campaign when road conditions were freezing on the road esp up in the Eifel or where roads froze after rain - tanks and other vehicles skidded off road and struggled to climb slopes often sliding back into each other. Metal tracks and large masses effected both sides in ice rink conditions. "After midnight, in a freezing rain, our column reached the hilly Ardennes. We had to traverse down an earthen road cut into the hillside, which was as slippery as wet glass. On one treacherous turn, through the faint, yellowish mist of night, I saw a tank and two trucks slide off the road and crash down through the trees. The vehicles towed artillery pieces or caissons that flopped crazily against the trees as they fell. I could see some men jump free. Several times our half-track slid toward the edge, and had it not been for a few pebbles in the center of the road that caught our rubber track and held, we too would have gone down through the trees. And that's how we got through the hills that night: by finding needed traction on pebbles." "By Jan. 12, 1945, the hard-fought battle line had moved slightly north of Bastogne, and Hartman and his tank crew were contending with freezing rain and ice that made the tank slide in all directions. In his book, “Tank Driver,” he wrote, “It took us 14 hours to go eight miles.” "On one occasion my tank went into a slide and hit the tank in front of mine. Driving continuously, night and day, we made it to Chaumont just 16 miles from Bastogne."

Digging through 'Weather effects on the BoB..." http://dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a121480.pdf <quote>By the 22d, competing weather systems from Russia and the Atlantic had brought on a hodgepodge of snow, blizzards, fog, and rain. In the north, the Sixth Panzer Army was bogged down by rain and mud. In the south, the Fifth Panzer Army was hampered in its swing around Bastogne by fog and snow. Along the German supply roads beyond the Eifel, the snow fell continuously.' 23 to 27 December 1944. Figure 6 shows a high pressure area extending east-west across Northern Europe from England to Russia on 23 December. Cold continental polar air was flowing into the Ardennes and Eifel with the easterly winds that prevailed on the southern edge of the high. This high was composed of the merging of the strong Russian high and a maritime polar high that moved in from the Atlantic on 18 December. By the 23d the continental polar air had completely modified the air over the combat zone. A closed upper air low with its southerly trough deep into Europe, which was associated with the surface low near Spitzbergen, was now east of the Ardennes, causing decreasing cloudiness. The weather depicted by figure 7 shows only scattered clouds over the entire area. The morning of 23 December broke clear and cold. "Visibility Unlimited" was what the air control posts happily reported all the way from the United Kingdom to tfie foxholes on the Ardennes front. …. The dramatic change of the 23d, brought on by cold, dry winds from the east, stripped the German armies of their immunity to air attack, but this was not the whole story. Because of the winds, snow began to drift in the Eifel hills, bringing traffic on the main supply roads west of the Rhine almost to a standstill. The GeIrmans found that horsedrawn snowplows were few and ineffective, and hastily erected snow fences were torn down by troops scrounging for firewood. No gravel was available, and a large number of engineer construction battalions had been moved west for employment as infantry. By the time power snowplows reached the Eifel, the American fighter-bombers were strafing and bombing every large vehicle that moved.</quote> From what I've read the hilly upland parts i.e Eiffel etc had the worst of the snow - and even though La Gleize is only a few kilometers away from the high ground it is situated in a relatively low lying river valley.

Okay here in the UK also. 2 minutes to download and 2 mintutes to immobilise in the snow :-)