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Mikko H.

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  1. It was never 'taken out' because it was never in the game in the first place. Remember, this is a totally new game, not an improved version of CMBO/CMBB/CMAK. There was a longish thread about this very subject. IIRC the feature is somewhere in Battlefront's 'to do' list, but not on top of it, because they feel the online gamers make only a small proportion of the CM:BN customers and therefore other features are more important.
  2. Finally got mine delivered at home here at Helsinki, Finland.
  3. Ok, this morning the customs sent me an e-mail that they have a proposal for a decision for me to approve: I have to pay 12.80 € VAT. Well ok, I was expecting something like this. So I paid the VAT via Internet bank and the customs have now graciously informed the post office that it can proceed in sending the game to me. Oh well, so much for my wish to have the manual in my hands for the weekend.
  4. Here at Helsinki, Finland, I got today mail from the post office that I've got mail from Battlefront.com -- but I have to declare it first. Fortunately the Finnish customs have a web service I can use for declaring. All fine and dandy, but after finishing I got the message that the customs have to process my declaration and they will notify me by e-mail how the process unfolds. AAAAAARGH! BUREAUCRACY, WORSE THAN THE NAZIS!
  5. I suspect the Günzel the OP wants to be Kanzler is this one: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3240799.stm
  6. Can someone post that screenshot from CMBB where the crewmembers of a Panzerjäger I were 'lost in each other's eyes'? :-)
  7. This was discussed quite a few times in the CMBB forum. To make a long story short, the jury is still out and won't be coming back in near future. My personal opinion is that the book is mostly fiction. As for Väinö Linna's The Unknown Soldier, it's unfortunate that the English translation is a bastardized version of the original. The story has it that it's US publisher didn't like its tone and hired a couple of Hollywood scriptwriter to sex it up.
  8. It was back in 2002, I think. For the last five years or so I had played all the different versions Steel Panthers, but as the owner of an out-of-date computer I really didn't follow what new games were around. Then I got a new, well-paying job and around the same time this friend started to talk about this Combat Mission eastern front game. So, I bought the CMBB and there was no going back. In 2007 I had the opportunity to repay the favor to this friend by giving him the CMSF as a present when he had his first child.
  9. Pre-ordered. This is going to be a good year game-wise. First the new Il-2, then the new CM! (Although I'm not going to pre-order the new Il-2, because I fully expect it to initially have all the same problems CM:SF had upon release back in 2007. Better wait for the dust to settle.)
  10. And name it CM:TMW! (Combat Mission: This Means War!)
  11. What was the reaction in the Pentagon when they heard that Latvian pin-ups were fighting the Soviets?
  12. The first shipment of Panzerfausts and -schrecks arrived in April 1944. IIRC the weapons were branded top secret and warehoused (without training any infantrymen in their use) on German request. IIRC the tankers were very well aware of the shortcomings of their tanks, and tried to reason with the infantry commander they were subordinated to. But for the commander in question a tank was a tank was a tank, and BT-42s were ordered to take on T-34-85s. Fortunately for the Finnish tankers, the BT-42 was so mechanically unreliable that most of them broke down without seeing an enemy tank; only one or two was destroyed by enemy action on or around 20 June 1944.
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