__Yossarian0815[jby]

In campaigns you can switch RT/WEGO before starting each map.

I have the wierd blotchy audio in both CMA and CMSF sometimes, but it always dissappears after restarting the game.

So why isn´t anbody doing it? So why isn´t anbody building any?

Spoiler Warning I finished the original version of this scenario by PBEM playing the Mujahedeen. I was solidly trounced. Now to dish out the blame ) The thick haze setting meant that i was completely blind down to below 100m. The soviet tanks OTOH , presumeably due to their IR sights, could often see my troops that were hidden in the woods. Unlike the expectation from the briefing the soviet tanks had no problem with maneuvering in the snow. Taking out the surrounded soviet airborne in the first 10 minutes was easy but after that all i could do was try to stop the invisible soviet tank army. my worst moment was after the soviets took out my forward units: I gave all my units in the trench on "dushman point" a hide command. despite lying in the trench practically all my men were killed by an unspotted Shilka area firing on them. After this and seeing that my trenches were simply attracting systematic artillery and tank fire i moved most of my troops into the woods. That didn´t help much either, but at least occasionally a RPG units was overlooked by the passing armored juggernaught and I was able to get a few BMP kills (one of them a blind area fire shot), 2 tanks and that shilka. I also tried to get arty strikes on where I expected my opponent to have his infantry concentrated. Judging from the end game screen that was at least partially effective. I tried to flank the armored column with my pickups but they were all spotted and destroyed despite trying to weave through the trees. Historically I guess it makes sense that a dedicated attack by soviet forces would massacre a guerilla force, so i didn´t feel that it was an "unfair" or unlikely game. Still maybe having a slightly more wrinkly map to give the Muj better hiding opportunities would be nice. Also putting more constraints on the movement of the soviet armored column, i.e having some choke points would make this scenario more fun. I hope that didn´t sound too negative ) Even though I felt that the game wasn´t going to end well for my forces from quite early on, it was still good fun when I did manage to pick off an enemy vehicle.

you can read about the design of the chernobyl reactor here: http://www.rri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/NSRG/reports/kr79/kr79pdf/Malko1.pdf To sum it up: Chernobly was permanently moderated by graphite and controlled by moveable neutron absorber rods. These rods had graphite at their tip to make up for the missing moderation at those points at full load, that is with the rods retracted. So Bigduke was right in the sense that the reactor is permanently "out of control" unless dampened, only the dampening is not moderation, but neutron capture.

The reaction that generates heat in the spent fuel is within the rod. I think putting boron on the outside wouldn´t change a thing. Boron is not a moderator.

I´m not a nuclear geek, but this is all wrong. The moderator (slows down neutrons) is what enables the chain reaction. Water is also a moderator, hence the need to add boric acid (captures neutrons) to the cooling water in Fukoshima, because water is restarting the chain reaction. Meltdown is simply the failure to remove the heat produced in the chain reaction.

How is nuclear sustainable? Neither Uranium nor Thorium exist in endless amounts. The more you expand nuclear the shorte it´ll be around. Nothing can compete with fossil fuels on a cost basis. I think we agree. If nuclear is to have a chance, the 1970s plants have to be replaced first, especially the russian models without containments.

A lie is a lie. You can´t have thousands of people working without protection under extreme radiation conditions without most of them dying as a result. Please spare me any weaselly lawyer definitions of how those thousand deaths don´t count because of some arbitrary definition somebody thought up. An example: Recently I read an article saying that it´s not that terrible that thousands of children got thyroid cancer post chernobyl because thyroid cancer can be treated well.

Graphite is not a coolant but a moderator in nuclear reactors. That only 56 people were killed in Chernobyl is a soviet propaganda lie. Let´s see how old the workers at Fukoshima get. I´m not necessarilly against nuclear power, but as long as the pro side displays shocking ignorance and plays down actual problems that occur and have occured I think it would be better to do without.

I´m 8 minutes from finishing (the first version of this) in PBEM. Will report back.

Hardly surpising since IgA are the class of antibody predominant on mucosal interfaces.

The First World War by John Keegan. Good overview, but not as good as his book on WWII. Pity of War by Nial Ferguson. Interesting, but true? Myth of the Great War by Mosier. Contrarianism may be fun to read, but it´s still junk. The White War by Mark Thompson. Really interesting book on the Italian/Austrian alpine front. The Eastern Front by Norman Stone. What I like best about this book is his sober analysis of attrition warfare. It wasn´t pointless and made absolute sense given the technological constraints (no mobile radios, no trucks) of the early 20th century.

I think this one is a good place to start. The cold war plays into the conflict but it is really largely about regional interests.

The first IPCC asessment report (FAR) was in 1990. Whoever thought an ice age was imminent in the mid 1990s wasn´t well informed. The only ice age scare I know of was in the 1970s which (BTW) wasn´t in the scientific literature but in Newsweek ;O)

as a supplement read http://wottsupwiththat.com/ The global temperature signal is of course very noisy. If the question is whether there is a statistical trend from say 1998 to 2005, the answer is of course no. You need at least 20 years to see the (upward) trend. On the other hand you can say that 2010 is one of the hottest years. Doesn´t prove anything by itself of course, but it adds to the overwhelming evidence for anthropogenic global warming.

I think fire and forget means just that in the case of the Gill.

Which is why I keep petitioning, please dear scenario designers, indicate the number of points you assign to which objective in the briefing or map! As far as I can tell the points are indicated on the map Elvis and Jon are playing. This bodes well for CMBN.

Pfff, stealth tanks exist in CMA. Just lost an entire Muj sqaud to an cloaked Shilka

Joined. Steam name is jby. CMSF, CMA and ) CMBN

FormerDropshipperCMBNing sounds great! )

) Maybe not that much. But it is regularly quoted in any article that touches on the topic of American exceptionalism, being an analysis of the early (1830s) United States by a european outsider.

My Gutenberg favorites so far: Alexis de Toqueville-Democracy in America (the most quoted book ever) Beatrix Potter stories (for the kids) (with pictures)

Zeb, Ive just started a PBEM game of this. Feedback will be forthcoming (sooner or later ) )

*sigh of relief*