Fetchez la Vache

Surely, given the typical conditions at the frontline in WW2, any such scratching in the genitalia region is more likely to be due the effects of body lice rather than simply "re-adjustment"? In which case the soldiers are most likely to employ the traditional 'doubled-handed' scratch, are they not? Please note that the myth of the German 71st right-handed story was due to this outfit receiving late-war reinforcements from war wounded who had suffered the loss of their "sinister testicular" on the Ostfront. There was no need for them scratch with both hands. Incidently, are crabs and other body lice modelled in-game as individuals, or simply as groups?

Coming out of hibernation thanks to the scents of freshly rhino'd bocage and panzer-poo.

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*happy dance* Oh yeah baby, on my Mac, do it-t-t-t-t like a native, you're back where you belong *happy dance*

*happy dance*

Ah, yes. Watching the shells arc across the valley... that was the exact point at which I decided I really really really liked CM. *sniff* First love.

Yup, Jentz was where I saw the picture of the zimmer'ed Panther D as well. I couldn't see any such pictures in the Panzerwrecks books I've got though. This topic made me curious and I noticed that online there is a widely quoted wording about the Dec 1943 OKH order that noted that turrets and side skirts were NOT to be pasted with zimmerit. Such online quotes are pretty dodgy ground I know and obviously if this was the order then at least the bit about turrets was widely ignored! Hmmm, maybe it's time to purchase that Panzer Tract, or one of the Concord books, that I keep seeing on Amazon... You see. THIS is why people love WW2 German armour - it's interesting! I simply can't see why my wife doesn't understand this. :-)

One point that always impressed me that the Americans designed the Sherman so that it could be easily transported - fitted onto standard railcars, be lifted by standard dock cranes and wouldn't overtax bridge weight limits. Tigers aren't much good if they're stuck on the wrong side of a river... But even though it was a strategic winner, that wasn't to make the poor US and Commonwealth tankers sitting in their "Ronsons"/"Tommy Cookers" feel any happier. Poor chaps. It must have been awful waiting for that inevitable hit and mad scramble out before things went 'whoosh'. *shudder* The other thing to remember is that Shermans were designed in 1940 before the US had had any experience of modern armoured warfare and the tank was pretty effective when it debuted in 1942. They got it wrong with the tank destroyer tactics though, it has to be said... Finally the last Shermans probably in active service were retired in 2002 with the Chilean Army (by then armed with a 60mm hypervelocity gun). 60 years shelf-life isn't too shabby. :-)

And to annoy the bejezus out of military modelers 60 years later.

Isn't Google wonderful. You ask for "zimmeritt sideskirt panther" and get a PzIV. :-) However I did spot the same skirt-zimmeritt-thing in pictures posted of the Panthers and PzIV in CMBN and I did think "that doesn't look right" at the time. I've got books showing zimmeritt applied to the Panther side skirts, but most pictures show them without though. It think it's a matter of whether the tank had side-skirts when it left the factory - which was when the zimmeritt was applied. However I would guess that the zimmeritt would quickly flake off since the thin side skirts wouldn't be a nice solid base for the paste. I'm not a Panther modelling fiend so I don't know the definitive detail answer that some people could give you about all the various zimmeritt patterns and applications made by the various factories (MAN, Demag, etc). I hate trying to re-create the stuff on models so I tend to avoid that particular era of German AFVs! However I would stick my neck out and say zimmeritt on skirts is the exception not the rule. BTW I think (and I am not a Panther fiend so I could be wrong) that the picture on top is meant to be a Panther A of late 1943 since it's got zimmeritt, the ball mount MG and the TZF12 binocular sight. However it's not a good historical reference since it's obviously been tarted up in the museum - although I know you just posted the picture as an illustration.

On receipt of hard-copy proof only. Printouts of requisite number of posts will suffice. Note: posts constructed only from "emoticons" do not count towards the total.

Thank heavens. Permission to shout "Hoorah" in an annoyingly loud voice, sir? Hoorah!

In my defence, that is the only joke I know with a dead camel in it. Although I know a really good one about a dead deer...

Two blokes in the desert. Lost. No water, no food. Probably not going to last another day. They come across a dead camel. It's minging. Been dead for days, meat turning green and falling off. Thing is swollen up like a balloon. First bloke says: "I'm going to die, but I'm not going to eat that." Second bloke says: "I'm eating it mate. I don't care what is looks like, smells like or tastes like. I'm eating it." He eats as much as he can. 2 minutes later he throws it all up again on the sand. First bloke: "Lovely. A hot meal!"

What grass mod is that?

I'm using the Parallels software to run the demo directly in OSX on the Mac. So far no problems with it, which is not really surprising given that the graphics are not top end (which is normally the hang-up). At the end of the day Boot Camp can run pretty much every Windows application/game (I've yet to find one that won't), but requires a re-boot from OSX into Windows.

Hi, I've been pleasantly surprised by the fact that the SC2 WAW demo appears to run fine under Parallels v3.5160 on my Intel Mac. Mein Gott. Can anyone just confirm to me that the full game also runs fine on the latest version of Parallels? I imagine it should if the demo does, but it doesn't hurt to check does it? Cheers!

No. Waiting on patches. Also have found the modern setting not as interesting as WW2.

I personally did not have to change any settings concerning the number of cores.

*shimmy in* I love threads which are largely composed of quotes. :-D *shimmy out*

No probs on my Mac Pro under XP SP2 Bootcamp. But frankly I've got ludicrous specs so I'm not surprised. Wife won't allow Windows on her MacBook Pro. No go with Parallels 3 though. Breaks apart after loading a map (see some stuff but it's basically borked). I hate rebooting to play CMSF. I would stump up the cash again for an OSX version.

Is there an American unit with the nickname "Fag Hags"? Just curious.

He's Finnish. He also probably took out the BMP's as well. Red mist and all that.

*deep sigh in nostalgic memory* We need more of those shock waves. Completely OTT but soooo cool. :cool: