Nidan1

Anyone with the Combat Mission history that you just ascribed to yourself should find the loading of patches and upgrades as easy as tieing your shoelaces.......oh wait you have not been introduced to shoes yet, at least not the ones with actual laces. Tell me, can the camels in the gulf be trained to bring you a gin and tonic upon request? Crashing the game on purpose will not garner you any special favors.

How about a turn there....Orence of Arabia. Enough of the past, get back to the present.

I wasnt referring to you singularly, but as a general comment on the horror of what a sustained urban fight would look like in very large populated cities that you mentioned.

If you are a religious person you would have to pray to God that full scale hostilities between armed forces would never erupt in cities of that size.

In the mid-1960s in the early days of the Vietnam War, the US Marine Corps changed (or was forced to change) its paradigm that long range aimed fire with a weapon like the M-14 and its heavy 7.62 Nato round would continue through the decade. It was superceded by the theory that spraying as much fire as possible at the enemy in the shorter range, close confines of the Vietnam battlefield was a better way to go. Plus the lighter weapon and the smaller size of the 5.56 round would enable an infantryman to carry far more ammo than he could with the M-14. This theory seems to have prevailed into the 21st century, based on the weapons being issued these days. It may be may be one of the reasons why the M-16 and its current variants have lasted in service for so long. Plus amost every rifleman today carries an M-4 or something like it with an ACOG or a even a laser sight or rangefinder. Firing over iron sights is a thing of the past I think, especially with a rifle. This gives a combat infantryman in a US unit quite an edge in a firefight against an enemy firing with the rifle sights alone, and it might limit the amount of ammunition usage by increasing accuracy. I carried both the M-14 and the M-16 in Vietnam, the M-14 felt comfortable because I had trained with it more extensively and had been to the range with one twice before going to Nam. When we got the M-16s later on, we had limited training, not enough cleaning equipment, and we suffered jamming incidents in the middle of firefights which cost lives. The M-16 variants of today in current service seem far more reliable, and will probably serve the infantry for decades to come.

"Decrepit" would be my adjective of choice.

I understand sautee'd tulip bulbs are considered all the rage at Dutch fine dining establishments. Check your klompen at the door.

Humbug!! you're just an under done potatoe PanzerMike.

And you have been seen here, for what? a quick cup of coffee? Go make sure the tulip bulbs aren't too deep, and let history and tradition be handled by the adults.

Humbug! complicated concepts seem to throw you as well. For me its just easier not to bold either one of them for now. Maybe at some point you will come to your senses (I doubt it), and proclaim just who is a serf and who is a squire. I know its been a long time for you Joe, but you should be up to speed again in a few decades.

Not your best work there, Sparky.

How easy was that?

I eat toadys and sycophants for breakfast. sburke (spelt but not bolded}can whine and growl all he likes. Like his bowels, I am unmoved.

Too bad your game will crash because of the 1.02 bug. Maybe luckily for you that will happen before you abandon the game like you usually do.

Good points all, I will have to test them out and give them a try. Thanks.

According to the 3.0 Engine Manual:........Offensive use of smoke (e.g. covering an advance) is usually left to supporting artillery or air assets and not to the individual ground unit. Note: “Pop Smoke” can be aimed using the Face Command Does this statement mean that an infantry unit can NEVER use smoke in the attempt to cover an advance or that there is some algorithim that makes it statistically unlikely that smoke will be popped prior to a forward move. I have had more close assaults go terribly wrong because the unit that I commanded to pop a smoke grenade before moving into a dangerous area or to cover the movement of another unit close by did not do so. I see the unit moving with the lavender line of the direction of the smoke in front of them, but the smoke never gets popped.

Lookin' Good. Right down to the SOLAG gloves.

Until the technology is available to make UAVs completely autonomous, the need to have operators controlling them using the Tactical Control System or something similar, will IMO limit the mass use of UAVs in the combat role. Even thirty drones would require thirty operators, a large telemetry network and support. I dont think we are at that stage just yet. Examine the debacle of the Apache Helicopter attack near Karbala, Iraq in 2003. At the time the Apache was billed as a killer of armor, it too carried Hellfire missles, but unlike a drone was obviously a manned system. 30 Apaches of the 11th Regiment of the 3rdID went enmass looking for the Medina Division. Iraqis using cell phones to signal the course of the choppers, and infantry men on building roofs put bullet holes in practically every Apache involved in the attack, turning on lights to confuse NV systems. (The US left the power grid intact so as not to punish Iraqi civilians). The attack was called off and the Apaches returned to base. Now while technology is very sexy, and UAVs seem to be the answer to everything, they are still controlled by humans, who are prone to making mistakes. The tank still has a place on the modern battlefield, and IMO a drone is no more dangerous than an Attack helicopter.

Sample dialogue from "Gold Rush" (may also apply to many other reality shows)...........; "Beep.....beep......what the beep, beeping bulldozer....., no beeping gold here......."

Murphy won every medal for valor that is given out by the US Army to an enlisted man, he also won the highest awards given out by France and Belgium. He won the Medal of Honor when he was 19 years old. He was given a battlefield commission to Lieutenant. He also starred in a movie about himself, as well as several westerns.

What are you attempting to load on CMBN?

iMacs have been around for 30 years? I must be getting old! I thought Windows 95 was all the rage back then

My best advice is to read the instructions on the appropriate upgrade/patch page of the BFC website. Although it is a bit confusing, it does give you the sequence of which licenses to use and when.

If I am not mistaken gun ownership in the UK is far more restricted than here in the US, and gun related crime is far less as well, based on population. So when I say "things have changed", I'm speaking of situations in America. War toys were quite the rage for many years, not so much these days. There is great debate here over gun rights, every State in the USA has its own gun laws, however there never seems to be a shortage of criminals getting guns. Attitudes have changed dramatically, although there is still a strong gun culture here younger people are more passionate about restricting them. In some inner cities there have been incidents of children being shot by police while carrying a toy gun, I'm not talking about toodlers. but pre-teens. I dont think my son is worried that his four year old would be shot by a cop, but just the general attitude that guns are "bad" and kids should not have toy replicas. I dont think playing with toy guns as a child or having a real one as an adult leads one to glorify war. Nor does playing war games IMO.

Yeah ladies and germs Stuka manages to find a scenario where my courageous soldiers of the Motherland are charging headlong across a pooltable into the teeth of MG42s, AT Guns and Panzerfaust teams who are also protected by foxholes and sandbagged bunkers. He then chastises me for not rushing to continue the carnage. How does one deal with such a lack of empeth....empaty....errr feelings?