Wicky

Questions and observations for everyone except my tormentors
 
Steve himself talked recently about standing up, regarding inappropriate behavior toward oneself on the Forums, did he not? If I won't stand up for myself, as I resoundingly just did, especially when it's not just over brutal maltreatment but health endangering direct attack on my recovery from Traumatic Brain Injury, who will? Who here has the stones to stand up to the wholesale flouting of the Forum Rules; the character assassination, name calling, slanders, lies and low blows rained upon me by Wicky, LukeFF and JonS ? I believe that out of all of you men, a grand total of three have actually gotten on them over their uncalled for, outrageous, even vicious behavior toward me and, occasionally, others. I know for a fact there are Members who are afraid to post lest they also become targets for the same trio's abuse (which simply shouldn't be happening or tolerated on a moderated board). How? They PMed or E-mailed me saying so. That this is so is simply shameful.
 
I don't care whether you agree with me or not about matters outside the Forums.  You know where ot find me if you wish to discuss such things. I do care, though, that you honor the social contract you "signed" in becoming Members here. Let me speak plainly. To the extent that you let those three continue to attack me, in their typical illicit way, and say nothing by way of reproof, you are: 1) enabling their awful behavior and as such are complicit in their evil deeds; 2) not standing up for the Rule of Law, as defined for us here, or for basic human dignity, not just mine; 3) empowering others to imitate them and 4) practically guaranteeing that sooner or later you are going to be on the receiving end of them or someone like them. In this regard, you may find Martin Niemoeller's words apt. Try this reformulation, Line 1: They attacked John Kettler, but I said nothing, for I disagreed with his views...
 
Isn't it time to put the board bullies (very kind characterization) in their place and reclaim our online neighborhood? Why should anyone, not just me, have to worry about becoming their target and deal with the attendant and ongoing dire consequences? Gentlemen, I believe that answer is entirely obvious! 
 
Regards,
 
John Kettler

 

Hmmm I think you live in a different country 50%!!
 
40% Tax rate if you earn over £42k which is not the vast majority of the country. For the vast majority it is 20% and could be a lot less if you are a low earner.
 
The company does get taxed for NICS and that is to contribute to the health service which is all free for UK citizens. At least the employees do not pay for that...
 
Yes there is a council tax but I guess you want police, bins emptied and local servicers like buses and swimming pools etc...
 
As for Death duty that only hits if yoiur house is worth £325k and again not many people fall into that. There are ways to reduce it legally...
 
I would guess our taxes will be going up soon to pay for extra jets to escort lost Russian war planes.... Funny how they keep getting lost...
 

Made new video:
 

VASFury,
 
I look forward very much to seeing your translation and appreciate your doing that!
 
Thewood1,
 
Would you were so worked up about the illegal (under the Forum Rules) things that have been done many times to me and are still being done to me! Others here have even publicly reproved the three involved. People now know what I have to deal with, that I'm not making stuff up, and have been told directly what kind of damage three callous people are deliberately inflicting upon someone recovering from a severe injury. I have made my points, I believe, and said what I felt needed to be said. You may therefore now exhale, since there won't be another Tolstoy novel. Now, Solzhenitsyn...?
 
I would dearly love to see how you would handle years of what I've been subjected to, especially if your health was as badly compromised as mine. Fundamentally, absent strong action by BFC, I'm in a no win situation here. If I continue to be a combination of doormat, target drone and whipping boy to them, then they'll just keep doing it. But if I sound off as I have and really lay things out, then I have you and a few others complaining about that! I simply wish to be left in peace here so I can go about my lawful occasions and enjoy what is generally and historically (been here 15 years and change now) a great and interesting international group of fellow gamers and grogs. If you don't wish to experience my sounding off about being attacked over and over, why don't you wade in on the side of what's right and do something to fix the problem, rather than kvetching because my cries for help upset you? What are you willing to do to protect and promote the common good? So far, all I've seen from you is an impressive ability to rationalize away some pretty despicable acts.  Finally, I suggest you search the Forums under "hater vibe" and note well the man who made it clearly states I'm not the source of it!
 
Regards,
 
John Kettler

sburke,
 
Part of that was another aspect of the lifelong condition I mentioned, as well as a real need to be heard, but also what Pascal said about writing a short letter. The singleminded focus you've seen me exhibit many times served me very well as a military analyst, but it was one my bosses had to train me to rein in because, left to my own devices, I might well have dug the investigation hole clear to China. All well and good, but there are these things called schedules and budgets which have to be factored in. Since I've now said what I felt long needed saying, you probably won't be seeing the post equivalent of a Tolstoy novel any time soon! 
 
c3k,
 
More like everything I do is in spite of the things listed. If I could count on even one good day a week, it would change everything. Am talking not merely in CM but would radically improve my life, including my economy. For now, though, I can't. How I wish I could just sit down and play CM! You have no idea how fortunate you are in that regard. If there is good news in all this, over and above helping the Forumites understand the man behind the posts, it's that I'm in the beginning stages of a heavy duty TBI workup (leapt through many hoops to get to it) and that some specialized supplements I'm taking, over and above a whopping B Complex dose and my other vitamins and such, seem to be helping. Mental acuity has improved, likewise sleep and energy. Am therefore cautiously optimistic that once I figure out/am taught how to use CMH, SLIM and I may actually get to play a PBEM. This'll be my first since I got the game in 2012. Wish SLIM and myself luck!
 
Regards,
 
John Kettler

Case in point this is how some in Hungary are remembering May 9th

http://columbustelegram.com/news/world/europe/hungary-commemorating-victims-of-soviet-labor-camps/article_dbe20990-d7d2-575c-ab5c-266289e447d4.html

It does when he is posting 1000 word posts in the middle of threads.  He continues to use these forums a therapy session and he needs to stop.  Talk about besmirching BFC's rep.  I would hate to think of what new people think of some of his posts.

Stagler,
 
In the future, would you please not use an animated GIF which is so strobe-like? It not only pulls my eyes off the rest of what's in my FOV, but it hurts my brain, as does anything flashing at that rate. Am under doctor's orders to avoid strobes and such. Thanks!
 
Nidan1,
 
While it's known that the Pentagon, MoD and other militaries can and do use an inflated threat to justify and expand their defense budgets, the assessing of threats is far more complicated and nuanced than you might believe. By no means are all of those involved willing to sign up for the 10-foot tall opponent model. State is notorious for its resistance to anything and everything which would negatively impact diplomatic efforts. Nations often prefer not to have to deal with external threats because the desire is to shrink expenditures or fund social programs. The very way intelligence organizations perceive things differs, as often do the perceptual lenses through which information is first viewed, then interpreted. Is the source of the alarming report credible? Is there supporting evidence? What, if any, material in the literature of Country X supports the notion such a weapon is desirable? Does Country X have the Science & Technology base to build it? The materials? The manufacturing technology and skilled labor force? The oft staggering amounts of money?
 
There can be real value in understating a threat, if by doing so it prevents the exposure of a vulnerability which might otherwise jeopardize a program. I myself once investigated ECM issues regarding vulnerability of a certain US fighter radar. I got full cooperation from the owning service and was praised for my work by my managers, but when I raised the same issues regarding the missile, which my firm built and was an important product of the firm and vital to its user, not only did I get zero cooperation from the owning service, but I got called into my boss's office and was pointedly told "Neither we nor the Customer desire that you continue this line of inquiry." Just like that, my investigation was ended and I was assigned to something else? Why? I had uncovered a weapon program killing vulnerability! Later, there was apparently a crash get well program.
 
Likewise, the contractually approved threat was sometimes decades behind the real one, such that the far term threat projected threat weapon was, in fact, operational and had been for a very long time! We dealt with that problem by evaluating these so-called excursions to the baseline threat. While one set of officials reviewed our addressing the official threat, another set would come in, look at our excursion analyses, say little or nothing and go back home and feed our discoveries into developing a response to the true threat as fielded, and also what we saw coming. In 1980, the US had no real solution to the AS-4/KITCHEN supersonic cruise missile, a carrier eater in service since 1962! And it wasn't the nastiest weapon the Russians had, either, for carrier busting. Worse, in that same 1980s timeframe, we became aware the Russians were hard at work on an integrated anticarrier ballistic missile strike system, the Chinese version, thanks to lots of suddenly unemployed when Russia imploded Russian scientists and engineers, of which is the very scary DF-21.  
 
Within the US Intelligence Community there are terrible internecine wars waged over mere sentences in the N.I.E. (National Intelligence Estimate) and S.N.I.E. (Special National Intelligence Estimate). Here is an example in which the usually internal war was protractedly fought between the White House and multiple members of the Intelligence Community.Likewise, there was a whole different set of conflicts which arose over what to show and what to talk about when it came to inclusion in SOVIET MILITARY POWER. Each edition was chockfull of exactly the kinds of things I kept in my locked safe, in an entire complex protected by 10' high Cyclone fences, barded wire, armed guards and guard dogs. The struggle between agencies over the release of a SECRET/NOFORN/WNINTEL painting of the TYPHOON SSBN is just such a case in point. The very image itself, you see, revealed a great deal to the Russians about our level of understanding regarding the pride and joy of the Red Navy, a truly terrifying weapon so huge it was as long as the Washington Monument is tall and which could smite the US while securely ensconced in Russian waters.
 
The Missile Gap initially wasn't the product of deliberate deception as it was of very loud and public statements by Nikita Khrushchev that the Russians were "turning out missiles like sausages," coupled with an acute lack of US intelligence means to determine otherwise. The US was already running scared because Russia got the Bomb so suddenly, then followed up with the outright traumatic Sputnik satellite. It was Khrushchev who created the specter of mass produced ICBMs, and it was he who said before the world "We will bury you." This is why the US embarked on a truly massive ICBM and. later, complementary SLBM program. As a presidential candidate, John F. Kennedy knew there was no Missile Gap, for he had been briefed to that effect. It was a cynical and effective political move on his part to invoke it. 
 
Turning now to lower level matters, western analysts ands military officials should've seen the ATGM threat (see Wikis for listed weapons) coming. The AT-1 SNAPPER/3M6 Shmel first saw combat in the 1967 War, and the AT-3 SAGGER/9M14 Malyutka in Vietnam in 1972. In the latter case, not only did it take a significant toll, but it caused enough problems that the South Vietnamese military came up with the very tactics which ultimately defeated the SAGGER after the IDF's 190th Armored Brigade got savaged by it and massed RPGs during the Yom Kippur War while attacking as pure armor. Also, the Israelis attacking the crossings of the Suez Canal not only ran into these weapons, but at twice the expected quantity. Why? The Egyptians had stripped out the AT weapons of the next Army planned to cross ass the second echelon, in what proved to be a very effective defense of the all-important bridgehead! The fundamental problem with Arab armor lay not with the weapons, but with those manning and commanding them. Where these were were available, the Arabs could and did fight effectively, as seen in some IS-3M engagements vs IDF M48s, which had much better fire control, ROF and far better trained crews. You may also wish to note that whereas the IDF routinely up gunned and made other changes to captured T-54s and T-55s, it did nothing of the sort to captured T-62s and was happy to take all it could get. The Syrians mounted such a determined armored attack on the IDF opposing their assault into Israel there that the Israelis barely held. The desert, generally speaking, is on the flat side, so the squat vertical profiles of the tanks Russia supplied do apply to their usefulness there.
 
As for the MiG-25 FOXBAT, the US fundamentally misunderstood the aircraft, drew false conclusions about its speed based on runaway engines on untouchable recce variants used in the Middle East, and because mirror imaging was used, thought it was built the way we'd build a fighter. Which is why we built the revolutionary F-15 Eagle. The MiG-25 wasn't a fighter but a strategic interceptor designed to go out, find and kill the never built fleet of SAC B-70 high altitude supersonic strategic bombers. I read the two inch thick SECRET/NOFORN/WNINTEL technical exploitation of LT Belenko's FOXBAT, and it was one traumatic shock after another for those involved. Why? The US experts found the US not only got practically everything wrong regarding the plane, but it found the Russians had wholly unknown radar frequencies and even an additional fire control radar installed. The presumed lightweight structure was mostly steel, resulting in the discovery that this brick was propelled by engines of simply astounding thrust. 
 
panzersaukrautwerfer,
 
As I've said again and again, in oft excruciating detail, with full advantage of the pertinent threat assessments and US live fire tests, even the best of our 105 mm ammo couldn't defeat the frontline Russian tanks of 1985 in a frontal engagement at reasonable tactical distances, which I believe were 2000 meters. Your point about the unintended rough parity or even superiority of their tanks over ours at various times is well taken. They have consistently sought to overmatch what we had in gun power, as seen in the 90 mm of the M48 vs the 100 mm of the T-55, the 115 mm of the T-62 vs the 105 on up gunned M48s and standard M60, then onwards.
 
Thewood1,
 
It is very easy to take something some one has said, utterly deprive it of context, then use it attack someone absolutely known not to be allowed to defend himself regarding same and indeed explicitly prohibited from even mentioning the prohibited topic with which he is being so brutally cudgeled. It is dirty pool of the worst sort to do so. It is also true, though, that I've made my share of mistakes over the years, the product of memory and health issues, not, as is frequently asserted, deliberate efforts on my part to misinform and deceive. Have I taken controversial positions and said unpopular things elsewhere and here?  Sure, but I'm going about my lawful occasions here--while being subjected to all manner of nastiness, much of it strictly verboten under the Forum Rules. If you won't stand up for me as a fellow human being, then maybe you should stand up for the principles involved!
 
sburke,
 
The kind of money I was talking about was in 1989 dollars, not today's sad versions, and I honestly don't know what a typical Project budget was. It depended very much on the Project, staffing, duration, level and difficulty of effort, together with the even more vital issue of where the money to execute it was sourced. It was one thing if it came from the company itself, and quite another, and highly favored by management, if it could be done under reimbursable RDT&E or if the government funded it through, say, DARPA, Pentagon and service intel agencies or the CIA. A $250,00 budget in 1989 is almost half a million now ($467,000). IOW, not chicken feed! to give you a calibration point, as an MTS II, I was then making ~$40K/yr, plus benefits.
 
agusto,
 
It is very much a smear effort, and there are clearly defined rules regarding what constitutes permitted and accepted behavior here under the Forum Rules. Not only have I repeated called my attackers on their ongoing, deliberate violations of same, but so have other Members! This isn't one of those unfettered, anything is permitted Wild West boards, and were it, you would find me eminently capable of ripping my current persecutors to shreds. But as things stand, not only am I de facto muzzled, bound hand and foot, but am being subjected to ground and pound while being kicked in the head! If that constitutes your idea of a fair and reasoned debate, then perhaps it's time for you to reassess the very concept. I've been subjected to far nastier attacks than those here in other online locales, but there I was able to hit back--to such effect my attackers were never heard from again.
 
Those attacking me haven't done what I've done when it comes to threat assessment and military analysis. Since they can't gainsay me in that arena; can't challenge my track record of demonstrated excellence and expertise, they instead elect to walk the coward's path and seek to defeat my case here by injecting wholly extraneous matters from elsewhere into this discussion. They can't win their arguments directly, so they escalate laterally, go after me personally and do so, time and again, for years in some cases, in direct violation of not just the Forum Rules everyone here agreed to, but of simple human decency. If you wish to condone such things, be it on your head, then. Say the wrong thing, and you could just as easily find yourself their target. I'm not the only one ever to be assailed by them.  
 
Regards,
 
John Kettler

@John:
 
The fact that you react the way you do to people revealing your "unconventional" views is one of the reasons they keep doing it. The other reason is to reduce the weight of your arguement by attacking your credibility in general (which is in no way ungentlemanly or boorish as you called it but a legitimate arguemental tactic).
 
 
Trying to invoke pitty in order to keep people from legitimately attacking your credibility is usually an ineffective tactic and, given that this is arguement on the internet, quite pathetic and disproportional.

Sweet baby jebus. You really are a clueless mong.

John, seriously, we don't need a magnus opus about your gaming habits or your personal life. 

John, you have brought those things upon yourself.  All those things you posted have come back to haunt you.  You set yourself up for this kind of stuff.  You can't undo the internet and really wished you could think before you post.

Wicky,
 
Once again I see you've gone directly for my testicles, for which you seem to have an unhealthy attraction! Yet again, you have gone where you know perfectly well I can't. Indeed, am explicitly forbidden to go. Since I've made this plain many times, and have asked you to refrain, in manners ranging from gently kind to fairly confrontational, to stop doing it, then this can't be accidental but deliberate on your part. By doing so you have revealed to everyone here three things: 1) your counterargument is so weak that you have to attack me, not the case I made in this Forum regarding the T-14 Armata; 2) you are deliberately baiting me, which is in the self-evident and forbidden under the Forum Rules, in the hope that I'll slip and get myself suspended or maybe even banned, and 3) your behavior toward me is ungentlemanly and boorish; that you in no way fight fair and that you perversely delight in hurting someone whom you have been told several times is seriously injured and that your attacks cause him great stress which is detrimental to his recovery. This is yet another effort to smear me, and a pretty desperate one at that. But since you brought up a forbidden subject, you may wish to consider this: The alphabet soup agencies are thoroughly familiar with everything I've written, all under my own name, else they wouldn't be doing their jobs. Yet the article with which you seek to slam me was written in 2002, as a duly credentialed reporter for a magazine, a cutting edge periodical with global circulation, and several of the efforts to bring me back in have occurred since the article which so inflames you was published. I simply looked at the claims that were made regarding certain imagery that was presented, then gave a highly informed view of what was shown to the attendees of the conference I was covering. I shall be fascinated to see whether you next argue that the military-intelligence community of this country is composed of incompetent dolts who don't know enough to screen against some nut job! Why, then, would they be interested in recruiting me, particularly considering that is but one of many hot topics I've written about? Finally, so there is absolutely no doubt in your, or anyone else's mind, on my position regarding the vicious attacks against me:
 
STOP ACTING LIKE A CHURLISH GIT AND BACK OFF!!!  Leave me in peace.
 
Regards,
 
John Kettler

John,
 
Men going into combat tend to "bomb up". How much do I carry when grocery shopping? Far less than when I think I may be in a firefight and then have to evade in the wilderness for several days.
 
You tend to gravitate towards internet references. If you'd only browsed your own link you just posted, you'd see this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIAT#/media/File:Australian_PIAT_team_Balikpapan.jpg  That image clearly shows the ammo man carrying 2 of the three-packs. Now, if I were a PIAT-man, I'd carry the damn launcher AND my own three-pack. So, that's my 3 plus my ammo bearer's 6: 9 in toto.
 
If you want your men to carry less, open the editor and drop the ammo supply level to something other than "full". I don't think your men will thank you for doing them that favor.
 
Bombing up is great tradition of men who may die if they run out of ammo. Men who are overburdened (btw, infantry has carried the same ~80-100lbs of gear since the times of Romans, or earlier), tend to shed stuff they consider excess. Poorly disciplined troops are more prone to this. Their route of march would be covered in discarded bits of kit. In ANY account of such discarding, I have never heard of men tossing out ammo. Better too much, than to run out when your life depends on it.
 
9 bombs? No problem.
 
Ken

...and don't forget about the underslung Panther turrets!

Panzers on Mars by John Kettler: http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/marte/esp_marte_2.htm
 

Not surprisingly the alphabet soup agencies ignored your bizzare attempts to contact them about the threat from Panzers on Mars... 

Panzers on Mars by John Kettler: http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/marte/esp_marte_2.htm
 

Not surprisingly the alphabet soup agencies ignored your bizzare attempts to contact them about the threat from Panzers on Mars... 

Krasnoarmeyets,
 
Simply stunning video shot with perfect parade weather! The T-14, sad to say, after 40 zillion posts about it, looks like the AFV equivalent of a cheap hooker. It's got so much Tank Bondo™ smeared on it as to be almost unrecognizable relative to what we've seen prior to the actual parade. To me, it looks as though some last minute decision was made to make it look as much like a "proper tank" as possible. In the process, a lot of sensor openings, surface detail and such were made to disappear. So much tank cosmetic work was done that it almost doesn't look real, instead more resembling bad model work for a Hollywood film. Rather than make a big splash, the T-14, in paint about the color of baby poo, was completely overshadowed by the very impressive, sharp looking and highly detailed T-90A in its powerful looking dark green paint. The Kurganets-25 looked great, but I don't understand the MG only version. I saw some Tank Bondo™ there, too, in the areas around the APS radar module on the right front. Tigr with 2 x quad Kornet was an eye opener. As for the T-15 and Bumerang, I must be so tired, or blinked at the wrong time, that I didn't see them, even the second pass through.
 
I feel thoroughly unimpressed and let down by the T-14 Putin showcased to his people and the world. What we saw before the parade had so much more presence, pugnacity and sense of new and different than what just rolled through. To me, the summary statement of the tank as shown would be T-14 Armata--The Boringly Bland "Revolutionary Breakthrough" Tank! Rather than having left foreign military observers stunned and awestruck, I believe the reactions will be more along the lines of "Why did we ever get worked up about this tank in the first place?!" and sniggering. Worse for him and the nation, the Chinese President, Xi Jinping, and his wife were there for the Potemkin village on tracks! In my estimation, Putin would've been better off coming up with some reason, say, belated MoD security concerns, not to parade what we saw. Maybe Putin should've borrowed some of these from his neighbor? If you paraded the two side by side, I guarantee this toy would outshine the T-14. By a mile. I know this isn't the kind of response you'd like to see, but I'm giving you my honest opinions and reactions--not just personally but from the perspective of someone whose professional beat for over 11 years was the Russian military as a Threat Analyst for two tip US defense firms.


 
Regards,
 
John Kettler

Yes John, China does have maybe one of the best tanks in the world. Hard to say without actually being able to test them side to side with the Abram, and some of the other tanks.
 
But from what is know it is surely a threat.
 
But ripping on a tank that is still in the design phase in a sense shows no class. We really know very little about the thing.
 
So yes, there is missing parts and fake covering on the unit. But I am impressed that they even showed it as is. (What, would you prefer they left the canvas covers on and let you guess what was underneath it.)
 
And your Threat Analyst skills might have managed to get you a paying job but you have posted enough garbage here in the years that I question your basic logic. (So your Logic matches most of what we see coming from our Government lately) No basic sound decision making at all and  no policies being past that give direction for the future, just lies and efforts to win the vote for the next election and spending money on companies that hire people like you.   And you were thinking that statement carry some weight behind it, no, not for me. Just put me in the mood to write you this nasty gram.

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Nowadays I do not post on forums much unless a point really concerns me and this whole issue with CMBN on the Apple Mac Store is one that raises major concern.
 
I see that CBMN is still at version 1.10 through the Apple Mac Store and the incompatibility of upgrades to version 3.xx has still not been resolved. I also see that the CMBN expansions for the Apple Mac Store CMBN version do not exist. This is an issue that has years of history.
 
I purchased CMBN on both the PC and the Mac (Apple Mac Store) both in 2012 with the goal of having the same experience of the same software on both platforms.
 
The product is still available on the Apple Mac Store today, years later for $39.95 with no indication in the information text of the subtle but significant difference in available versions. Why?
 
I find it hard to understand that even if Apple are a pain to work with, the information text could not at least have been updated to reflect the difference between the Apple Mac Store and the Battlefront.com versions in all these years.
 
Apple may be difficult to work with but I assume that Battlefront did not hand over all rights of ownership to the CMBN IP on the Apple Mac Store to the point that the information text could not be updated to make potential purchasers aware. Even if Apple and Battlefront have fallen out with each other, it should not stop the information text from being updated.
 
If it is the case that Battlefront has tried to update the information text on the Apple Mac Store to make potential customers aware and that Apple have stopped them, maybe it is time to pull the product from the Apple Mac Store. In light of Battlefront not offering to Apple/Battlefront customers a means of converting to a Battlefront version of the Mac CMBN, it only adds to the justification to pull it (for new customers)  from the Apple Mac Store and avoid future customers the same issue.
 
I can only guess that real world sales of the Apple App Store version of CMBN still bring in too much money for Battlefront to consider pulling it.
 
As for the significant information regarding the different versions of the Mac CMBN versions, it comes down to paying customers of Battlefront products to post warnings of this issue in the Customer Rating section of the product page on the Apple Mac Store, while Apple and Battlefront seem to not bother. Someone is dropping the ball!!
 
This issue seems to have be going on for years and is still not resolved. Many a post over those years by Battlefront representatives but effectively nothing changed. That is a issue for concern.
 
Someone at Battlefront decided to put CMBN up for sale on the Apple Mac Store but not to follow through with the support it needs such as preparing patches, etc. to suit the Apple Mac Store model.. Even Value places this issue on games developers who sell through Steam and the vast majority of those seem to update their games fine.
 
If Apple are making it impossible as some Battlefront posts seem to indicate, then just pull the product to protect future potential customers. Just to leave an old version on the Apple Mac Store for new customers while non-Apple Mac Store customers can upgrade to the latest version just seems wrong.
 
It would be nice to hear from a representative of Battlefront as to the reasoning for the information text not having at least been updated over all these years to advise potential customers about this subtle but significant point. 
 
Regards
 
 
Software License purchaser for:
 
Combat Mission Battle for Normandy (PC) since April 2012
Combat Mission Battle for Normandy (Apple Mac Store) since June 2012
Combat Mission Strike Force (PC) since May 2010

Since there appears to be some sort of emerging consensus about Afghanit and how it works at the munition level, what's your take on my notion of how the radar modules are positioned for coverage, are screened by removable armored covers on their exposed sides and how these radar modules work and talk to the projectile in terms of guidance commands?
 
I concur that the faceting, lack of rectilinear openings and such on the turret front and portion just aft  of the turret centerline, when viewed from the side, support the notion of the use of Stealth tech. At first glance. I've seen the real deal F-117 Stealth Fighter  from 15 feet and have worked on such a program myself. I can assure one and all that those sorts of gaps, exposed fasteners and all manner of surface discontinuities would be wholly unacceptable. Aeronatical issues aside, too. Indeed, special RAM tape is used to cover gaps which might otherwise be detectable. That's been written about and, I believe, shown in open sources. I don't know for sure, but if this is a Stealth overlay, it's likely designed to operate vs conventional BSR, not MMW. Why? Because the MMW has enough resolution (I've seen what a 94 GHz MMW seeker sees when it looks at a tank from various aspects via WASP program) to see glint points and will get a return/s from the primary turret structure behind the much gapped overlay. It's possible the Russians plan to tape over the joints and the fastener assemblies, I suppose, but as currently configured, I believe it's far more show than go.
 
(goes to CMRT Forum and realizes he missed a point)
 
Forgot to mention that I see we're now back to a red star, as opposed to this one, which isn't all red. 
 
Regards,
 
John Kettler 

Ok, as a (Non US) lawyer I´ll try  :
 
In the case of Armata Vs. Skeptics the Court finds as follow:
 
- That given the complete lack of evidence to support anything resembling technical specs, the only thing we deem proven is that Armata exist...sort off
 
- In light of the preceding ruling, on the question of who will have custody until majority of age, the Court awards it to LockandLoad because he cares about it the most
 
- The previous decision notwhistanding Steve is allow visitation rights to check on it from time to time and keep it honest on the question of future module inclusion
 
- And finally, Panzer, while not very fond of it, is appointed tutor, to teach T-14 how to be a proper tank and not some hybrid nonsense that every other tank in the yard will mock and bully
 
- No damages are awarded to any party since the only things affected are egos and prides and the Court finds that those have no monetary value on the Internet
 
And if everybody is unhappy with the ruling, we´ll know I did a good job  , as any lawyer knows usually the worst settlement is better than the best ruling

agusto,
 
Fair point. The trick about such approaches is remembering to use them while tired, frazzled and urgently trying to solve a maddening tech problem (Michael Emrys has same rig and OS as I do, and SLIM was waiting on me to get things sorted out so we could play)! Am sure you've heard the one about how alligator superfluity detracts from swamp drainage effectiveness. This is by no means the only place where I've had this problem. For example, playing chill out music while stressed is a good thing to do, but what isn't helped at all by stress--which for me degrades cognitive function. And what else? Memory!  In any event, at least I posted it here.
 
Regards,
 
John Kettler 

Can we have in game an immobilised red flag icon...