Foxbat

The effectiveness of these rounds drops off pretty badly with range.

You think three men is a large group of people, two men are a small group and a lone guy is probably a high-value target Out of habit you shoot people with binoculars. You think running over pedestrians is gamey and shouldn't be used when you're with someone else. You check LOS to determine if you can actually see something. In the office you position your chair so that you have LOS to your Boss. If you're the Boss you set up the cubicles around your office, facing the other way. That way all your subordinates will be in LOS (and won't see that you're playing CMBO on office time). You like to drive everywhere, because in the car you are always in command range. [EDIT] You avoid buying a Lada's or newer Volkswagen since they have to trace command between them. You mod your car for added accuracy. When going to the US you trade your Honda for the more theatre specific Acura. When going somewhere you plan all your moves ahead, but pause every minute to determine if the plan needs to be adjusted. When going somewhere you stop and walk in place at the end of every minute. [ September 17, 2002, 07:29 AM: Message edited by: Foxbat ]

We're not getting a pacific CM unless we mod it. That much I'm sure of. Out of curiosity, who might be interested in a Korean CM game?</font>

I think the idea of using 88s especially the original Barndoor FLAK monsters offensively on the eastern front where LOS was likely to be under 2000m is hard to imagine..

As a full-blown Tank Destroyer it is of course almost pathetic. But you should think of it as a scout car that can kick a tank's behind

If it hadn't been for the Reds there wouldn't have been damn hard to save our very existence, so let's all give a big round of apllause to Stalinism

Are you sure about the M3 TD (T-48?) not being in the game? Too bad, always liked it and the sovs where the only ones that actually used it.

AFAIK all soviet tanks had compressed air bottles to get things going, nifty low-tech feature that saved a lot of hassle in the cold.

You wouldn't have any scanned pictures of you collection on your website (if you have one)? I promise not to drool on them Did you actually see them change the barrel on the maxim? That must be one hell of a job to do in action :eek: Luckily they're water-cooled

'My government went to war and all I got was this lousy ATR' 3rd Guards Tank Army, Berlin, 1945 I'm sure that that was what those poor infantrymen were thinking when they dragged these dinosaurs into the streets of Berlin, although by that time they had become AMR*'s of course. * Anti-Material Rifle On the subject of Machineguns, I just realised that the DP was the only soviet MG that did not come with a wheeled mounting.

Pocket Katyusha! :eek: Are these modddeled in CMBB? And why not :mad:

If you have to bring a monster like the Maxim somewhere wheels are better, that way you can pull it behind you with two men. If it is light enough to actually carry around or if you can break it up in manageable parts then tripod is better.

Mac users don't need no stinkin' extra keys, until they get a Logitech Optical USB Wheelmouse that is... the number of "1 is enough to, mouse buttons rock" converts among my Maccer friends is amazing Right-click order assigning at the waypoints would be interesting, but I think the reason for right-click dragging is to make it a more deliberate action. [ September 12, 2002, 09:09 AM: Message edited by: Foxbat ]

But did it happen because the Roeski's were untermenschen who sent unarmed people to charge HMG positions? because that would show the moral superiority of the germans invaders...[/sARCASM] On a more serious note I think that the oft reported unaarmed soldiers attacking was either sheer desperation (being surrounded, cut of from supplies and having to little ammo would probably qualify), penal battalions -depending on type these were generally given weapons upon entering combat or had to pick them up from the first wave, generally done by another penal battalion- and honest scrounging (with supplies of even the most basic items short early in the war it made sense to have people retrieve the weapons that were lost. Amen to that. [ September 12, 2002, 06:54 AM: Message edited by: Foxbat ]

On the grand scale of things people learned really quickly that horseback charges weren't very expedient in the face of automatic weapons or armour :eek: cavalry on the Ostfront was therefore mainly mounted infantry. Soviet Cavalry was used as a makeshift way of having mobile infantry, highly important in the overall scheme of things but not really relevant at the CMBB level (although it would be nice to simulate nonetheless ). German cavalry was also used mainly for mobility reasons, to have highly mobile light infantry to fight partisans in the rear. Again a nice-to-have feature...