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...or a piece of wood dug in in the ground ? Edited : NO ! It's a wheel ! This is a PaK 43 on wheels.

A Waffenträger, maybe ? Picture. But is that vehicle saw effective engagement, or was it only a prototype ?

No, I don't think it's even a vehicle. It looks like an 88mm ATG PaK43. The gun shield is easely recognizable. By the way, the weapons doesn't look simply set up on the ground, but on a kind of platform with camoflage :confused: Edited : I've just noticed that the gun has a "chair" in front of it. This device is to be used during transport... ...strange !

I knew it ! Why not launching a general donation thread ?

I often learn more by reading the forum that the manual. However, the manual is always usefull for the guy who read it carefully, of course

They could even suppress the entire manual ! Everybody here knows how to play, right ? BTW, if you compare the price between the production of another CD and the complete redaction-publishing-routing operation for the manual, I'm almost sure the second solution is far more expensive.

...oh no, I don't think so ! Even if the scene in BoB is quite short, the general shape of the gun is easely recognizable. I'm almost sure it's a 37mm PAK, with the HC round "stielgranate". If I remember correctly, the scene just after the shot shows the entire german crew withdrawing to a safer place (say 6 - 10 men), running and towing the little gun with'em. It's difficult for me to imagine men running with a "88mm rocket launcher" (you're not talking about a Püppchen, are you ?) under enemy fire... However, 37mm PaK crews often manned and moved the gun in combat.

Sounds right. Here is another good article about the main drawbacks of the cramped AFV interior. Full article here.

Hello Gentlemen, Here are some interesting pictures of the interior of the Hetzer Jagdpanzer. View of Hetzer tank showing periscopes and part of interior - on the right is recoil mechanism for main gun - on the left is the brown handle for the machine gun. and just to leeft of the periscope is the contol for the range finder. The white bar is part of the swivel mechanism for turning the periscope. View of interior of Hetzer showing periscopes. The white bar in center is a lever attached to the periscopes to operate them. In the lower center rear is the breach of the 75 mm gun. On the right is part of the ammunition rack. View of part of interior of Hetzer tank showing some controls and view ports. View of interior of Hetzer showing part of driver's position with seat on left and cover of transmission on right. The black cylinder in front of the seat is the drive train to the sprocket wheel outside. Here is the direct link to the website . Hope it helps somebody to figure out

Hi Gentlemen, After many month of silence, I fired up Photoshop again ! As I needed a whiter version for the Pz.IV G, I simply did the job myself ! Summer version : Winter version : Any feedbacks are very welcome

I had this problem, long time ago... ...see this dedicated thread . To be short : keep the spacebar hold while launching the game

Wonderfull work as usual, MikeyD The idea of generating these sky mods with the CM engine is brilliant. I often try to Ctrl+click on a point in the sky, as the limit between it and the map is almost unoticeable !

Hi BDW, I could recommend this huge album, a bit expensive, but definitly a goldmine for panzer amateurs : Direct link to "Album" webpage here. There is a chapter about life in the panzer, task and training of each member of the crew. Taken from the Fedorowicz publishing website There is also a good article in a recent "Military Illustrated" magazine. I've to check the issue number... PS : you are #30 registered member at BFC :eek:

@ french car grogs : Is that a Simca ?

Dear MikeyD, in pure "CM camaraderie"... ...you ROCK !! Now, what about buildings ?

Dear MikeyD, Your skies are pure heaven. The desert scenes are very impressive, these mods make the battlefield almost infinite. :cool: :cool: Kind suggestion : what about a CMBB sky for steppe scenario. I remember many pictures were panzers rolled in an almost never-ending flat plain... However, I think that your actual mods (what am I saying... ...artworks ) don't really fit for Normandy countryside. A bit too hilly in my opinion. Anyway, keep up the good work ! Thanx

Hello there, What's the graphic card of your old Mac, MikeyD (master modder :cool: ) ? Is it an ATI one ? If it's the case, please have a look here and here . It may help someone with that kind of card. However, the downsampling method might be the only solution, IMHO, to improve framerate for old machines

Yeah, it's a shame. I often saw that a complete STG44 ammo load is required to shot down someone (MoH)... ...CM is just inaccurate in representing this balistic particularity ( )...

What ? :eek: Is this possible ? I guess the PzB 28 is carried inside the SPW... ...not following the towed PaK, true ? A screenshot would be just cool :cool:

Hi, I've read that BFC was actually working on a 1.02 patch for CMAK. Unfortunatelly, we don't know when... ...ask Madmatt or Moon for it It will probably contain some minor fixes, and/or corrections about various OOB. But I would be glad to be wrong about that ! Do a search in the last topics of the AK board, IIRC, some guys talked about it last week...

Hi, I've read that BFC was actually working on a 1.02 patch for CMAK. Unfortunatelly, we don't know when... ...ask Madmatt or Moon for it It will probably contain some minor fixes, and/or corrections about various OOB. But I would be glad to be wrong about that ! Do a search in the last topics of the AK board, IIRC, some guys talked about it last week...

Dear Michael, Thanks for your advice but I never intended to buy OFP, as I thought it was devoted to modern era conflict(s). Also, if you say it's possible to inflict bad damages to a heavy tank with MG... ...I definitly prefer CM However, on the other hand, OFP appears very impressive, eye candy to me. And I'm sure that many persons here could think the same and start dreaming about CMX2 with these pictures in mind LOL ! As a modest modders, I find these graphics really nice, say beautifull. Also, you surelly know, many guys here posted wishes about the next generation of CM, and, in particular, spoke about the graphic rendering. I modestly think that these screenshots nicely illustrate the quality to which the next game could tend. Don't you agree ? Armor is nicely textured, zimmerited, with dust, battle damage, mud at an extremely high rendering point, IMHO. Dynamic lightening is cool too :cool: PS : hi Mom !

Hi guys, I sometimes, like many other players here, have a look to the Panzer Elite board, and read a few comments about the game in itself or the new/incoming patches and mods. An interesting thread page about the next PE game held my attention, where someone posted some marvellous screenshots of an addon designed for "Operation Flashpoint". I never see much of the game before (I thought I wasn't a WW2 era game). These pictures really impressed me :eek: I perfectly know that this is not directly related to CM but, I have to admit that this stuff is really nice ! Ok ! Stop talking, pictures please ...and here is the direct link (in czech) to Marfy's website, who is the author of those artworks. Did someone was aware of that :confused: Really impressive, IMHO.

Hey ! Looks good Do you plan to include buildings, skies, terrain tiles and some other stuff ? Can't wait for the mod !