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This nicely adds to one of my reply's regarding the Dutch army : http://www.battlefront.com/cgi-bin/bbs/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=026281;p=2 Mies

Would it help to rent a boat somewhere, sail out into the Pacific and through a GPS gadget make sure your just on the right side of the international date line. Then when the clock hits 12 on the 1st establish a satellite uplink with a fancy mobile phone and then with an antagonizing slow connection start download around the 60 Megs. Off course this will cause a humongous telephone bill, but he the demo is in your possession by then anyway, so who cares! Mies

New Year always starts somewhere near New Zealand. I would say, pick up your laptop, get on a plain to NZ and find yourself a nice Internet cafe. Success is evident!! Mies

In defence of the Dutch army, I would like to point out that they did manage to fend of elements of the SSLAH for four days in there defence of the "Grebbe Linie". More than 380 soldiers were killed in that defence. Also Dutch troops prevented German Fallschirmjager from capturing key airports around The Hague and also stopped them from imprisoning the Queen. Not the most heroic battles maybe compared to others, but they are if one considers the state the Dutch army was in after the '30 depression period. Mies

Anything from the Leningrad Cowboys I would say!

What I can imagine is that soldiers good have difficulty digging in when the soil is frozen solid. If you look at it from that angle, artillery dropped on a newly taken position and therefore not build out shelter, could cause more casualties when it's extremely cold. When it's easy to dig a hole, like in summer for example soldiers have better cover in the same amount of time. Mies

I’ve re-read my previous reply and the examples weren’t all that. In my opinion the operational level, not to be confused with an operation itself, is the actual execution of a pre-defined plan, involving on the spot decisions. Therefore only at a low level, I said platoon before but it could also be on a company level, where commanders have the immediate feel for a situation I would call it operational. The moment you are talking about a commander studying a map and deciding where to commit reinforcements for example I would call it tactical. The decision could have an impact on the outcome of the current battle. Let say a position is successfully defended over a one-week period. Again this could also be battalion or regimental level. Anything above that which involves the planning and the setting of the goals of a certain mission I would call a strategically level. This would be something with a broader overview of a situation, with a large impact on the outcome and thus stretching over a longer period of time. This also implies that you cannot say that a certain command position is always operating on a set level. It might be better to attribute the level of operations to the time scale and the impact than to a position in the command hierarchy. Mies

In short, you could even add a third level. Strategic level would involve the big picture. - Battalion A take city B with the support of reinforcements C Tactical level would involve a smaller scope with a certain level of freedom of action to the commanders. - Company D take hill E and seal of road F with artillery support of F Operational level would involve the platoon or even squad level where the squad leader decides how his soldiers are going to carry out their tasks. - The foot soldiers G get the order to advance along the wall H. Good luck with the assignment! Mies

What I'm wondering is, what is wrong with the monitor where those screenshot were taken from. The bright colours hurt my eyes. If this is what CDV is doing to the game............... Mies

24 but the rate I'm using up my body I think I'll turn 43 in a couple of months! Mies

I've got no connection with the Ukraine what so ever, but I can find it on a map. Am I eligible for a CM:BB copy too now? Mies

Hi Guys, I couldn’t find a previous topic about this subject, so I decided to start this one. I was reading the CMBB preview made by Garry "kump" Kump located at the outpost website yesterday. I’m also reading Beevor’s book about the battle in and around Stalingrad at the moment. Between the two of them I got curious after the effects of weather in CMBB. I don’t mean the waving trees and the smoke that’s blown in one direction, although I am not at all complaining about these effects. The thing I’m after is what the weather does to the troops and the way they behave in reaction to their environment. I have already picked up on the reduction in effectiveness of troops when it’s freezing, which is a good thing. I’m not keen on going out when it gets below –10 degrees myself. I’m wondering what for example a foxhole will look like (or should I say behave according to a certain rating) when the soil is frozen solid. I can imagine that the change of hitting troops dug in in a shallow frozen quickly constructed foxhole is higher than when the same troops are dug in in a deeper hole during the summer. I can also image that during heavy snowfall it is hard for troops to stay in their foxholes or pre-prepared shelters because they run the risk of snowing in. In Beevor’s book it’s mentioned that dug in soldiers had to leave their prepared winter shelter because of excessive snowfall. Are things like this are going to be modeled in CMBB and/or is this taken into account in the hitting percentage or the way troops are dug in (if at all). Just felt like posting this. Mies

As far as I know the German equivalent to the American Jeep was the Kubelwagen. Through the Lend-Lease act the Soviet Union was supplied with more than 427,000 smaller vehicles. For extended lists on this have a look here : http://wio.boom.ru/tank/ll.htm, or here: http://peacecountry0.tripod.com/lendlse.htm The first German units that reached the Volga River near Stalingrad in August 1942 are said to have captured American build Jeeps. I don't know if this particular story is true, but both sides on the Eastern front made use of each other's equipment. Interesting to see if and how these ownership changes will turn out in CMBB. Mies

Hi, Is there any way to save or restore the corrupted cmf file, or is it game over for this battle? A shame because I was doing pretty well. Mies

Hi there, I'm am trying to run a saved game (Tiger Woods) from a saved file. When I hit the go button the game locks, giving a "ping" on each button I press. Only by pressing the spacebar CM closes and returns to my desktop. The strange thing is that this only happens with this particular scenario. Other scenarios don't give me any problems. Is this a know issue, is there any way to save my cmf file? I'm running Combat Mission on a notebook with directx8.1 installed: Win2000 256mb p3 1ghz SiS 630/730 videocard (4mb) SiS soundcard