Mies

I was playing a live game yesterday evening and I had some advanced scouts tugged away in a patch of trees overlooking a valley. At a certain point I got a sound contact on some heavy armour and it moved up to where my guys were hiding. During the next orders phase I checked the range and it was some 100m. These guys had a LOS for some 250M into the same direction the contact was coming from. This is not exactly a house but a moving target at that range with a good LOS should at least be visible I would think. I just figured that the excellent modelling of excessive Vodka abuse in the Russian military caused this mishap. Mies

Good work ShakyJake! As a mate here was saying : "Jeez! it's the holy grail of photos!" :eek: Mies

I really wouldn't know. I was only interrested in the comments about the weather around the 10th of October 1943. I didn't really go through the whole story yet. Mies

*****BUMP***** Mies

That sure is a tough nut to crack. I think one could luck out to find out what the weather in New York around that time was, but the weather along the Dnjepr? :confused: Anyway I did some searching and came up with this diary from around that period of a german tanker fighting near Bobruisk. [snippet] 9th October 1943Our Tiger froze solid today. They had to ue a flamethrower to melt the mud & ice off the drive sprockets. Ulrich stole a portable heater from the luftwaffe liason hut. I dont think they will be pleased but it fits nicely in our rommel kist. Got the barrels on the MG changed & took out a Russian Artillery battery with Paul . It was so easy we just drove up to the top of the ridge & shelled them. It was good to see those annoying guns blow to pieces. I really liked the secondary explosions from their ammunition. I'm sure that must have taken a good few out. [/snippet] I also found a something on this site. [snippet] In the winter of 1943-1944 the weather, as always in Russia, became the third force in the fighting, but with a difference. The hard freeze which usually set in by mid-December and lasted into March did not arrive at all that winter in the south, and in the north it was frequently broken by thaws. Rain, sleet, slush, and mud tested the endurance of men and machines. Again the Russians had the advantage. They had sufficient reserves to give their troops occasional periods to rest and dry out. Their tanks, having wider tracks, performed better in mud than did the German armor. Their American-built lend-lease trucks ran through mud that hopelessly mired the two-wheel-drive German trucks. Both sides relied heavily on the light, high-riding one-horse panje wagon, the Russian peasant's answer to mud. [/snippet] On (I think) Michael Dorosh's Grossdeutschland site there is a small weather reference table. Check it here . Hope this helps you allong. Mies [ February 11, 2003, 02:22 PM: Message edited by: Mies ]

What joy you must be feeling. I know what I'm going through every 3 times a week I fire up a live game with my regular sparring partner. :eek: Mies

Yes, so can I Words I live by! Mies

Yes, and I want SU-203's to battle the Sturm Tigers Mies [ February 11, 2003, 04:46 AM: Message edited by: Mies ]

I had a Russian pioneer squad take out 6 out of 7 crack troops from my opponent in a recent game by causing a treeburst. I didn't give them any orders other then hide (and prey) but I was awfully happy they behaved the way they did. BTW, they were killed only seconds after their lethal action. Mies

Wasn't there a review or thread a couple of weeks back where one of the battlefront guys didn't want to reveil the easter eggs hidden in CMBB. Well as I read this a few of them are popping up. Haven't seen it myself (yet) but I love it ! Mies [ February 09, 2003, 08:47 AM: Message edited by: Mies ]

Just think of CMBO now and CMBB in 2 years as a relic you sometimes play to remind you of the good ol’ days. For some reasons it’s nice to be able to fall back to something even though it’s a whole different experience than playing the new deal. Mies

Or at least something like a bulge in the opponents defences. That would indeed be kewl! Mies

It most certainly beats the old broken gun puffed out metal fatigue one you see a lot ! Mies

Is this still being re-run on CNN, and if so when? I have to put the old vcr in tape mode to be sure not to miss it then ! Mies

Diversion tactics Mies

Goodale, any more news on the '42-'43 confusion? And which concentration did you Gramp visit? I want to know the whole deal now! Mies

Spoiler * * * * * * * * * * * How about this for smart TAC AI behaviour. I played the Goetz scenario a couple of weeks ago as the Germans and was surprised about the few T34's I was up against. This explains a lot! TAC AI made a mess of things! :mad: [ February 05, 2003, 09:36 AM: Message edited by: Mies ]

Hitting the old ctrl+F5 key stoke makes you submit twice [ February 03, 2003, 07:41 AM: Message edited by: Mies ]

Could the bald guy looking to his right on the photo with the crack in it be Mussolini? Mies

Thanks guys. We just find it fun to try and place our little QB in a bigger scale of things. We first planned to try and do something with the Crimea Peninsula. We both decided that there were no German counter attacks after the summer of ’43 in that area. Undoubtedly there were local counter attacks, whether to probe the Russian strength or to protect / cover a “tactical withdraw”. We have now gone with a Kharkov like QB placed in a spring/autumn like setting to try and get a sad feeling over the whole map. Fighting in a city who knows… Mies

Hi Guys, A mate and me are discussing the setup for a QB that we want to start tonight. We usually do this by throwing some game parameters at each other and decide on a battle from there. The outcome of today’s QB is a German attack from AG South in the autumn of 1943. You grogs will feel the problem rising here. As far as our common knowledge reaches (as some quick investigations on the net, because we are both at work), there was no German, local, counterattack at that time. Does one of you know of such an “Angriff” around the mentioned time and location? Thanks,

Didn't the Americans have a division that was called the "Circus Division". Maybe the patch can place those guys at at the E-front On a more serious note I do hope there is some improvements on the tcp/ip side...any improvements. Because I'm on the crappiest connection ever I'm not able to play decent live games if anyone within a 100k radius is using the same cable. Very annoying if the game crashes after a 3/4 file transfer. Mies

I got a T-34 fried from under my over confident ass only 3 days ago. It went up like a christmas tree scorched by a flammenwerfer. Mies

Ask your Gramp about the concentration camp. If I'm not mistaken Mauthausen was just south of Munich across the Austrian border. This should narrow down the location and the time, cause IIRC it was liberated somewhere during the last week of April '45. Mies

I found myself with a terrible setup a while back. Playing as the Germans with 2 88ATG's knocked out I only had a couple of Houwitsers left. I had them blast away at a T34 and a KV1 IIRC. Paniced one and scored a gunhit on the other. When push comes to shuff, it's better dan doing nothing. Mies