husky65

Download the Chameleon clock demo www.softshape.com, it won't save the game for you but it will set alarms and/or shut down the PC

Yawn, so far my attitude has done very well for me, thank you anyway. However, your blatant dishonesty clearly has not benefited you (I note you at least have enough shame to have since gone back and deleted your own post - frankly that just shows that you know it was dishonest and knew it when you posted it no doubt, I also note the lack of apology for taking my post wildly out of context). However, if anyone wants to see the full text of it, I have a copy - something I learned long ago, when dealing with the stupid and the dishonest, keep a copy of the evidence. Re 'Whining', I don't consider it whining to point out the deliberately dishonest in a public forum, I consider it a public service (it helps others avoid wasting time on you). Perhaps if you had the courage of your convictions you would not have removed your sad little post, would you?

Agreed, once the Japs decided to try to grab the DEI oil, they had to grab the Phillipines to secure the oil route back, they also had to try for a knockout blow on the US Pac fleet and grab Singapore to secure their flanks. The problem for them was the fact that it all hinged on an insane assumption - that democratic nations did not have the guts to fight - how you can hold that view 20 years after the Democractic nations fought the bloodbath of WW1 to victory and at the same time as the Brits had refused peace with the Nazis, I have no idea. Once the US chose to fight, Japan was doomed, a simple comparison of economic out put shows that.

You are dreaming my friend Japan and Russia also went to war against each other, check your facts WW2 was far from any "purely European war".</font>

The US people wanted to stay out of the war which made certain that the US Pres could do little. Historically the US only came into the war because they were bombed and torpedoed into it. Had Germany not declared war on the USA and started sinking US coastal shipping, it is hard to see how the US Pres could have convinced the US people to attack Germany when the already had a war with Japan to fight.

I preordered mine.

OK, I'll do you a deal - I will buy the game and sell it to you for $500, I will only charge you $5 for the shipping (included in the $500). Great value, the shipping is only 1% of the total cost. Or perhaps you could forget playing with the calculator and look at the total cost, delivered = $35 USD or aprox $64 AUD, now take $64 AUD down to the local software shop and see what you can buy (remember to take out $4.00 for bus fares/car fuel and maint). $60 AUD will not buy much in the way of software. Still, I am keen to sell you my copy for $500 when it arrives, what a bargain!

There were a number of plans put forward to assasinate Hitler, permission was rufused in all cases, because it was feared that someone competent might take his place and extend the war by years.

Jesus! I didn't know that Telstra was active in overseas markets that long ago...

That will obviously depend on where you live.

Conway apears to neglect the fact that the bombs hit midships, port side.

I don't know if they used the same T-34 chassis as were used in Saving Pte Ryan, but in both cases T-34s were used - the size is wrong (Tigers were monsters), but the overall look is very well done in both cases. The give away is the tracks and suspension. Sometime next week, I will be able to retire a 15 yr old VHS copy of Kellys Heroes with full honours and no negative waves...

The POW was struck in the stern by 2 x Japanese air delivered torpedoes (a remarkably similar hit as was delivered to the Bismark, sealing its fate seven months earlier), then 3 more, POW was then hit by bombs before sinking. It seems that there was a bit more to it than a WW1 class torp.

Just out of curiosity, can anyone remember another game that shipped prior to its predicted official release date?

More importantly, Kellys Heroes releases on R4 DVD next week!

Having a plan to send your Panzers into action is not the same as being able to do any good with them, I have already posted a number of quotes relating to the effectiveness of NGS against armoured formations (to quote Rommel), the reason that ops in Normandy were 'tremendously hampered, and in some cases even rendered impossible' was the 'effect of the heavy naval guns. up to 640 guns have been used. the effect is so immense that no operation of any kind is possible in the area commanded by this rapid fire artillery, either by infantry or by tanks', I have also posted the fact that the allied put up 10,585 sorties on Jun 6 in the invasion area. If you mean Panzer Lehr as being the full strength elite unit - "The ordeal of the German Panzer-Lehr Division offers a good example of the fate awaiting German ground forces in Normandy. Ordered north to confront the invasion, the armored division got underway in the late afternoon of June 6, and came under its first air attack at 0530 on the 7th near Falaise. Blasted bridges and bombed road intersections hindered movement, particularly of support vehicles. So intense were the attacks along the Vire-Beny Bocage road that division members referred to it as a Jabo Rennstrecke-a fighter-bomber race-course. Air attack destroyed more than 200 vehicles on June 7 alone. Despite the rainy weather, which had threatened the Allies' landing on the beachhead, fighter- bombers continued to strike at the Panzer-Lehr Division, to the dismay of German soldiers who had hoped the worsening weather would offer some respite. This was just the beginning of an ordeal that would last throughout the French campaign; Panzer-Lehr was in for some more rough times in the near future."

Utterly, utterly, wrong B-17 (all US bomber) crews were renowned for massive overclaiming - the reason for this is that whenever a fighter was shot down, usually 50 or so gunners were shooting at it, and they all claimed it in good faith. You also run into the problem that a/c engines belch smoke when sharply throttled back (as you tend to when you roll into a dive) - so 50 gunners see a fighter, that they are shooting at, belch smoke and dive away = 50 claims for a kill, all submitted in good faith and no fighter actually destroyed. Compare kill claims from Schweinfurt to actual Luftwaffe losses - 288 claimed - according to Adolf galland 35 actually lost. I would suspect the figure that Bombers shot down 2/3s of all German fighters is wildly erroneous - if this had been the case there would have been no need for escorts. Re the B-17 being the best bomber of all time - that can be argued for and against on a number of points (I would restrict any argument to between it and a/c from a similar time frame) But personally, I would argue that the Mosquito B.XVI was a better bomber (delivers a more effective bombload for less resources expended), you could make the same claim for a Lancaster. The B-17 made a great decoy duck, which was its most effective role - bringing the Luftwaffe up so the fighters could kill them. If you feel the best WW2 bomber must be an American a/c, I would suggest the B-24 or B-29