__Yossarian0815[jby]
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So I´m advancing a buttoned Tiger I towards a known sherman position. The Tiger is pointed exactly towards the Sherman. In the exchange the Shermann fires three shots (hit/ricochet)), the Tiger one (miss) at abot 200m. Two of the three Sherman hits cause spalling and a casualty in the tiger. the crew bails. Is this even remotely likely (the spalling)? We are talking hits against the thick armor of the tiger turret.
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... fat people with even fatter faces were not common during that time
Especially on the eastern front.
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Thx for the campaign!
Enjoying it so far.
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Sicilian High Noon. Even taking American wild west duel superiority into account, this GI got very lucky.
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The shadows are less ragged with the hotfix on my ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870. Very nice, Thx! (The difference is easier to see if you flip back and forth betweeen screenshots)
(ASUS G73J Laptop)
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I think the last third of the video is more of where some people hope that epigenetics research will finally lead than what is actually known.
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I read this under a different title, The Path to Victory and didn't think much of it. Caveat emptor YMMV.
Michael
Yeah, weird that with the titles.
What I liked is that Porch treats the whole theater and there is little hero worship. And it´s serious history vs. more the more racy Atkinson book (fun though it is). Maybe Porch oversells the importance of the Mediteranean, but as you say YMMV.
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Get the CMSF modules and buy CMBN when it´s upgraded.
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Tifton 85 is not a GM crop.
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Hitler's Mediterranean Gamble
by Douglas Porch
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IIRC BFC stated that covered arcs do not affect spotting. Having the gun pointed in the right direction helps though once you´ve spotted the enemy.
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Nice! Looking forward to the new equipment list!
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Ok, I´m a pushheredummy (LOL).
"Forget everything you learned in school and pay attention to everything I'm going to show you."
I agree and I disagree in equal measure. I´ve been surprised how things I learned at school or university turned out to be useful although I was sure at the time that they wouldn´t be.
Most tasks, even technically difficult ones can be learned by anyone within a few weeks. Understanding the big picture OTOH is not something that can be grasped easily without an education.
In the end there is no fairness in the education debate or job reality.
If you don´t have a degree people will ignore you because you don´t have one. If you have a degree you will find out that market forces apply and where there are many Phds the degree profit margins shrink often making the time and money investment questionable.
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Private George Scott, 4th (New South Wales) Batallion, 1st Brigade, 1st Division, AIFWe had our first pay day on Christmas Eve and leave was general, and everybody went straight into Cairo. Our own party of four really disgraced ourselves, AWOL for three days, finally and very ignomiuosly dragged out of the Eden Palace Hotel in the early hours of the morning by the picket and made to walk it home into the guard tent...
Quoted from Gallipolli, by Peter Hart
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When I was at varisty, one lab we disassembled a cheap clock-radio, built somewhere in Asia. It was built well enough, given what it was, but it had a noticeable heft to it, and felt ... substantial. Once cracked open it was revealed to contain a fairly large chunk of pig iron. As far as could be discerned the lump served no purpose whatsoever, other than making the radio heavy. Whoever made that radio knew too that heavy = quality.
Since then I've sometimes wished that other manufacturers would throw lumps of iron in their products - it really annoys me when a fan heater, or lamp, or radio goes skittering across the table when you touch it, or when the torque from a twisted power cord is enough to overcome the weight of the product so it never quite sits right.
Heh, made me think of the grey/beige cheap plastic last generation of dial phones issued by the the government tel. monopoly in Austria in the 80s. The phone-base would involuntarilly side around the table as you dialled because it was too light.
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What we need is more action spots. Twice as many per area would help alot. maybe in CMx3?
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solution: add all offending files to the exceptions list of your anti virus progam
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This has been around since CMSF. You give your forward observer a fire plan, he gets killed by a stray bullet early in game and part of your artillery remains incommunicado for the rest of the game.
My suggestion: When the unit that gives artillery dies, the artillery should be accessible within 10(?) minutes by other forward observers or HQ units.
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My hot tip of the day:
The 'C' - sets your view to wide angle. I played CMBN right from the beginning and somehow missed it. Wide angle is SO useful to get a better overview. Now I can't live without it.
Doh, this has existed since CMSF and i never norticed it, thx!
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Of course, I'd be willing to bet the Chinese/NKoreans had next to zero people of their own who could speak Turkish, and since Turkey was poor it's a reasonable assumption the people they sent to Korea were mostly volunteers, not like the draftees the Americans especially threw into the theater. Still, it's a great story I think.
The Ujghurs from western China wouldn´t find turkish difficult. I don´t know of course if there were any Ujghurs in the Chinese Army in Korea.
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heh, I was wondering if this was going to pop up when I saw that Clay was involved
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Minor bug:
In the scenario Holy Ground, you can´t enter the little doors on the inside of the high towers.
Caused some unnecesarry casualties
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More (a denser grid of) action points.
Ability to aim at a specific window.
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Sounds good. Have an ok video card... my chip is going to be upgraded this week. Presntly with a INtel R Pentium R D CPU 3.73. About 2 1/2 years old. Was looking at a i5 2500K 3.3 Ghz. Would that do the trick?
Yes, and add in a 9800GTX video card or better and you´ll be fine.
BTW, out of memory might be caused by an out of date ATI graphics driver.
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tiger spalling
in Combat Mission Fortress Italy
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Had another closer look after seein poesels screenshots. Really looks like a cupola hit, BUT, the loader was killed, not the commander.
I´m pretty sure the loader is on the other side of the turret.
Explanations?