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Thanks, I will try. Appreciate the help

Thanks for the reply. Yes it does feel warm, the problem though is that now all programs seem to be affected...ran a Norton virusscan last night and came out with nothing..... Not sure what you mean with heatspreader though... Problem is that here in Jordan, where I am currently working, there is no Sony service...so I had to take it to PC-zone...

Now, this may be a long shot, but I have to check this... A couple of weeks ago I got CMAK (very happy) and installed it on my SONY VAIO PCG-GRV550 with P4 2.4GHz, 512 Mb RAM Since I kenw there was an issue with the VAIO's, I had downloaded the demo previously and it ran without problems. Before this, the computer was running without any problems, work and fun related programs ... Immediately, I experienced problems, in that, when running the game, the computer would just crash (total shutdown). Now, in the beginning this was just with CMAK.... I managed to get some PBEM games going, by switchng off all other programs running and keeping the session short. Things got worse though... with more and more games I stated experiencing the same problem (SC, CMBB, Europa Universalis 2...) and now even at work when running anti virus and outlook.... Thinking there might be a problem with over heating, I took the laptop for service and there they could find nothing wrong with the ventilation, so they decided it would be software related and did a re-configuration of my C-drive (hate that when it has to be done...always amazes me how much has to be re-configured)... Anyeway, that does not seem to have helped as last night I crashed again during CMBB (not even CMAK...) Could there be a link? Any other suggestions? Thanks in advance for any advice/help I can get..

I believe that the original question was: in 1939 where did these countries stand". If you think of that period, Holland, Belgium and Luxemburg were on a strict neutrality course. Though Belgium mobilized in September '39, it still refused to allow French or British troops on its soil for fear of provoking the Germans. I believe the same went for the Danish, Swedes and Norwegians... until the German mass tourism waves came

Correction taken. You are right. I was in the office and did not have my documentation with me....it was out of the top of my head

"Lawrence of Arabia", yes it is kind of great to be able to walk in his footsteps now that I am based in Jordan.... Aqaba, Wadi Rum, The Hejaz railroad.... all been there, done that

Mainly QB-PBEM. Can't be bothered too much with playing the AI. TCP-IP, never tried, then again, I have ADSL at work and only have dial up connection at home. It's pretty stable though... would it work?

Mainly QB-PBEM. Can't be bothered too much with playing the AI. TCP-IP, never tried, then again, I have ADSL at work and only have dial up connection at home. It's pretty stable though... would it work?

Yes, Italy had Lybia in North Africa and in East Africa they had Italian Somaliland comprising of Ethiopia, Eritrea and part of Somalia.

To return to the original topic, most of the overrun countries in Europe had a government in exile (mostly London) whilst the Germans placed a puppet regime to lead the occupied country. This was certainly the case for Poland, Belgium, The Netherlands, Norway, France (with General De Gaule)..... We did not speak a lot about Yugoslavia, but that country was actually non existent, as such during the occupation. It was divided between Croatia-Slovenia-Bosnia on one side and Serbia and the other republics on the other. The Croatian side had a puppet regime under Ante Pavelic (Ustasa movement), had a semi-autonomous status and followed an axis course, whilst the Serbian part was more direcly governed by Germany. Now to say that all Serbs were Allies and Croats were Axis is wrong. Tito, (born in Croatia) made his army of partisans with members from all republics. This just to illustrate that it is difficult to just arbitrarily determine for some countries, which side they were on. Definitely, you can consider Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary as Axis as they joined the axis side without having been occupied by them. The reason why so many young men from the occupied countries went to fight in SS units on the east front is not to be seen as purely Nazism. Many of these men were Christians and truly believed that communism was the work of the devil. Many of them went to fight, not with the Germans, but against communism. I just love these threads

Yes, Axis and Allies is a Risk-type game situated in WW2. Good fun too. Hmm...Risk and CM...would be up for that. But, if your misses likes Risk, I am not sure she likes CM. Though mine can be found for a slug it out throwing the dice contest that Risk is (specially with good friends and beer, preferably played in a noisy pub where we sing supportive chants for each other ) (no we are not teenagers, we are in our 30's) I am playing CM for years now and can hardly make her have a peek at the screen....

BTW, Kitty, Nice pictures..... but I am sure you get this all the time... hmmmm....

Yes...what do I have in Mam's garage... (it's over 4,000 km away now...) Third Reich (definitly the most played), Panzergruppe Guderian (the first one..got it at the age of 12 from my Granny, God rest her soul), Jena, Okinawa, Guns of August, SL, ASL, Cross of Iron, The longest day (HUUUUUGE board, needed a table tennis table to lay it all out), Battle of the Bulge, Eastern front, ....pffftttt too many to remember now, it's high time I can go home and have a look at that garage...

You should see my mom's garage... before the start of decent computer wargaming I used ot buy every board game I could get my hands on... good fun those all night sessions with my brother and then laying the pieces of the boards on tup of the cupboards in the kitchen hoping our mom would not touch anything or the cat would go venture on top of the cupboards.... My first Tandy (Radioshack) computer was used as "dice" (it was the only programming I did in Basic...) since my brother and I could not stop arguing if the dice had really been "thrown" correctly or not... sure had a lot of dice throws to make in "The Longest Day"... ah...nostaglia...

I recently saw one with Michael Caine. Basically they were sent behind German lines to blow up a fuel depot.... Spoiler allert! They end up being shot by the British troops in the cofusion of the street battle around Tobruk... Darned, can't remember the name of the movie now...

RESPECT! LOTS OF RESPECT!

Nope, Oren, as I said I was in IFOR in Bosnia. Also, in '93 I was in "restore hope", Somalia as a LO for General Keymeulen in sector south out of Kismaayo. But, no, we did not have to actually kill people. Hmmm... guess you're not far away from me then. Next time I'm at the Dead Sea I'll wave to you from the other side

Well, with the success of Frenchy's tread on our family ties in WW2, how about our own military experience, if we have any. Right then, I'll start with myself. After finishing law school, I joined the Belgian army as an officer cadet. I did 10 months of training in the armored school. Training went from basic infantry squad tactics up to the technical and tactical aspects of being a tank or recce platoon commander. Then, promoted to 2nd lieutenant and sent to (West) Germany ('88 to '93) were I served as Platoon commander (Leopard I tank), 2nd in command of a combat Company, Assistant S2-S3 and seccond in command of HQ Company. One of the greatest experiences of my military career was participating in the winning CAT ' 89 team (Canadian Army Trophy, a NATO tank shooting contest) Then from '93 to '95 I was a contracting and procurement officer in HQ in Brussels. Then in the end of '95 went as contracting and procurement officer to Croatia and Bosnia for the mission IFOR. I served in Split (met my wife there) and Visoko (near Sarajevo) and was on this post for 13.5 months. After that, I had an offer I could not refuse from my present company and am working in logistics in support of NATO, UN, US Army, oil companies etc.... Since halfway '97 I have worked in Sarajevo, Albania, Sierra Leone, Congo, Kazakhstan and, now, Jordan and Iraq. How about you guys

My maternal Grandfather (my Godfather) was an NCO in the Belgian army before the war. He was with the field telephone service and told stories about laying telephone cables under German bombardments. He also told the story of how a Belgian infantry officer made him in charge of the defense of a bridge with a small AT-gun and then that officer ran off himself. He got captured at the end of the 18-day campaign and taken to POW camp. He got quite disgusted about the difference in treatment of the officers and NCOs with the enlisted men and chose to stay with his guys. He got released in '42 and joined the resistance (White Brigades). He got arrested in September '44, one day before Mechelen (our town) got liberated. My Mother still remembers the 11 men of the "FeldGendarmerie" who came to arrest her dad. (The guy who had betrayed him to the Germans got suffocated in manure in the days after the liberation by my grandfather's friends). He ended up on the east front where they were forced by the Germans to dig trenches. He and another Belgian friend managed to escape the Germans and get to the Russian lines. Because they spoke Flemish, this first group of Russian soldiers thought they were German deserters and wanted to execute them. In the confusion of a German Stuka attack, they managed to get away once again.... They ended up with a Polish family hiding in the basement of a farm for a few days as the battle raged on above their heads. When finally the front had passed, the Polish family convinced the Russians that my Grandfather and his friend were allies and not Germans. His stories of the return home were great and involved all modes of transport (including a ride by a locomotive his friend drove through a stretch of Czechoslovakia) he finally got home in '46 and it is one of my mothers most vivid childhood memories that neighbors came to tell them her father had arrived in the street and seeing him walk that last bit home.... He kept a diary of the second time in captivity and it makes great reading. Maybe some day I should look into publishing it... Of the first time in captivity he kept a certain dislike for officers, but still he was very proud when I became an officer in '88 He lived on to be 86, despite all he had been through. My great-grandparents on father’s side died in a British bombing raid on our town and my grandmother never forgave the British for that. On father's side I also have two Great uncles who fought in WWI and I have pictures of them in German POW camp. One of them was gassed and eventually died in '43 of lung cancer. I think this is a great thread and we should do this more often

My maternal Grandfather (my Godfather) was an NCO in the Belgian army before the war. He was with the field telephone service and told stories about laying telephone cables under German bombardments. He also told the story of how a Belgian infantry officer made him in charge of the defense of a bridge with a small AT-gun and then that officer ran off himself. He got captured at the end of the 18-day campaign and taken to POW camp. He got quite disgusted about the difference in treatment of the officers and NCOs with the enlisted men and chose to stay with his guys. He got released in '42 and joined the resistance (White Brigades). He got arrested in September '44, one day before Mechelen (our town) got liberated. My Mother still remembers the 11 men of the "FeldGendarmerie" who came to arrest her dad. (The guy who had betrayed him to the Germans got suffocated in manure in the days after the liberation by my grandfather's friends). He ended up on the east front where they were forced by the Germans to dig trenches. He and another Belgian friend managed to escape the Germans and get to the Russian lines. Because they spoke Flemish, this first group of Russian soldiers thought they were German deserters and wanted to execute them. In the confusion of a German Stuka attack, they managed to get away once again.... They ended up with a Polish family hiding in the basement of a farm for a few days as the battle raged on above their heads. When finally the front had passed, the Polish family convinced the Russians that my Grandfather and his friend were allies and not Germans. His stories of the return home were great and involved all modes of transport (including a ride by a locomotive his friend drove through a stretch of Czechoslovakia) he finally got home in '46 and it is one of my mothers most vivid childhood memories that neighbors came to tell them her father had arrived in the street and seeing him walk that last bit home.... He kept a diary of the second time in captivity and it makes great reading. Maybe some day I should look into publishing it... Of the first time in captivity he kept a certain dislike for officers, but still he was very proud when I became an officer in '88 He lived on to be 86, despite all he had been through. My great-grandparents on father’s side died in a British bombing raid on our town and my grandmother never forgave the British for that. On father's side I also have two Great uncles who fought in WWI and I have pictures of them in German POW camp. One of them was gassed and eventually died in '43 of lung cancer. I think this is a great thread and we should do this more often

My maternal Grandfather (my Godfather) was an NCO in the Belgian army before the war. He was with the field telephone service and told stories about laying telephone cables under German bombardments. He also told the story of how a Belgian infantry officer made him in charge of the defense of a bridge with a small AT-gun and then that officer ran off himself. He got captured at the end of the 18-day campaign and taken to POW camp. He got quite disgusted about the difference in treatment of the officers and NCOs with the enlisted men and chose to stay with his guys. He got released in '42 and joined the resistance (White Brigades). He got arrested in September '44, one day before Mechelen (our town) got liberated. My Mother still remembers the 11 men of the "FeldGendarmerie" who came to arrest her dad. (The guy who had betrayed him to the Germans got suffocated in manure in the days after the liberation by my grandfather's friends). He ended up on the east front where they were forced by the Germans to dig trenches. He and another Belgian friend managed to escape the Germans and get to the Russian lines. Because they spoke Flemish, this first group of Russian soldiers thought they were German deserters and wanted to execute them. In the confusion of a German Stuka attack, they managed to get away once again.... They ended up with a Polish family hiding in the basement of a farm for a few days as the battle raged on above their heads. When finally the front had passed, the Polish family convinced the Russians that my Grandfather and his friend were allies and not Germans. His stories of the return home were great and involved all modes of transport (including a ride by a locomotive his friend drove through a stretch of Czechoslovakia) he finally got home in '46 and it is one of my mothers most vivid childhood memories that neighbors came to tell them her father had arrived in the street and seeing him walk that last bit home.... He kept a diary of the second time in captivity and it makes great reading. Maybe some day I should look into publishing it... Of the first time in captivity he kept a certain dislike for officers, but still he was very proud when I became an officer in '88 He lived on to be 86, despite all he had been through. My great-grandparents on father’s side died in a British bombing raid on our town and my grandmother never forgave the British for that. On father's side I also have two Great uncles who fought in WWI and I have pictures of them in German POW camp. One of them was gassed and eventually died in '43 of lung cancer. I think this is a great thread and we should do this more often

Very nice! Compliments to the "Chef"

hmm...I feel spoken to as one of the "watchers" and not frequent posters.... but hey... you got to have your peeping Toms huh... :eek:

WC stands for "Water Closet"

I would like to see some '39 - '40 action. Kind of the first scenarios from Panzer Generaal. Action in Poland, Norway, The Low countries, France... maybe some '41 Balkans action (Greece, Yugoslavia...) Could be CM "First shots"