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    win 2000

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

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    Originally posted by z1812:

    In Reply to J Ruddy,

    I used no tricks. It is win 2000 pro with SP2. My Graphics card is an nvidia gforce 6600. I do have 1 K memory Ram.

    Regards John

    only Service Pack 2 ... SP4 has been out for yonks and yonks

    i still use Win2000 at SP4 for my main puter

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    Retail game differences

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

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    Originally posted by frenchfried_krautdog:

    Thanks for the replies. I think I'll buy the retail version and save the difference for the nextgen games. Guess I'll have to make an archive copy of the disk to be on the safe side. That's pretty funny about the "SS" references being deleted from the retail version, was this a sop to the PC censors?

    FK

    iirc its because of laws in Germany so they cannot refer to the SS and other Nazi terminology. CDV distribute the game there.
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    Weapons and Units in CM:SF

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

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    first let me say that I have all the CM series and Tacops and any comments here are meant to be constructive

    what nations, units and weapons will there be in CM:SF ? the announcement just says US infantry and armour against Sryian, that is quite a narrow OOB for a middle east based modern CM game

    ref the WW2 CMx2 game, when can I preorder it ? smile.gif

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    Sir John Mills has died

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

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    Sir John Mills, the star of many a British war film, has died aged 97

    My favourite films that he starred in were "In which we serve", "Dunkirk" and "Ice cold in Alex"

    AP LONDON - Actor Sir John Mills, the quintessential British officer in scores of films, died Saturday after an Oscar-winning career spanning more than 50 years that included roles in "Gandhi" and "Ryan's Daughter." He was 97.

    Mills died at home in Denham, west of London, after a short illness, a statement from his trustees said. Details of the illness were not given.

    Mills' roles ranged from Pip in David Lean's "Great Expectations" to the village idiot in Lean's "Ryan's Daughter," for which he won his Academy Award as best supporting actor in 1971.

    But he took his place in film history as soldier, sailor, airman and commanding officer, embodying the decency, humility and coolness under pressure so cherished in the British hero.

    On Mills' 80th birthday in 1988, historian Jeffrey Richards called him "truly an English Everyman. His heroes have been on the whole not extraordinary men but ordinary men whose heroism derives from their levelheadedness, generosity of spirit and innate sense of what is right."

    Small, fair-haired, with a boyish face and very blue eyes, he was the son, the brother, the boy next door who went off to fight the Germans and only sometimes came back.

    In "Forever England" he was the ordinary seaman who pins down a German battleship. In "Waterloo Road" he played an AWOL soldier. In Noel Coward's 1942 classic "In Which We Serve" he was a Cockney able seaman, and in Anthony Asquith's "The Way to the Stars," one of the most popular films of the war, he was a schoolmaster-turned-RAF pilot.

    These performances were touching and restrained, within the wartime bounds of acceptable sentimentality, and they made his name.

    Age seemed hardly to touch him and he carried on in military roles for decades, eventually becoming the commander, as in "Above Us the Waves" in 1955. He was trapped in a submarine in 1950's "Morning Departure," toiled through the desert in "Ice Cold In Alex" (1958), and in "Tunes of Glory" (1960) he was the commander of a Scottish regiment, tormented by a fellow officer.

    In a recent survey of British film legends by Sky television, voters puts Mills in 8th place all-time among British male actors.

    But Mills started his career as a hoofer, a song and dance man in old Fred Astaire roles, far from the trenches.

    Born Lewis Ernest Watts, the son of a Suffolk schoolmaster, he started work at 17 as a grain merchant's clerk but longed for the stage.

    His older sister Annette, part of a dancing duo at Ciro's, the London nightclub, encouraged his ambitions and he moved to the capital and changed his name.

    Mills recalled how he spent the mornings selling disinfectants and toilet paper to pay the rent, and his afternoons at tap dancing lessons.

    "Then I got into a very tatty double act with a man called George Posford who played the balalaika while sang 'Sonny Boy' and that was how it all started," he added.

    He was acting with at traveling troupe called The Quaints, in Singapore in 1929 when Noel Coward saw the show and suggested Mills look him up in London.

    That led to parts in Coward's revues and eventually his war movies, where Mills swapped dancing shoes for uniform.

    Mills' own military career in the Royal Engineers lasted little more than a year after the outbreak World War II, until he was declared unfit because of an ulcer.

    Mills was married first to actress Aileen Raymond, then in 1941 to Mary Hayley Bell, an actress-turned-playwright.

    Their son Jonathan is a screenwriter and daughters Juliet and Hayley are actresses.

    Among Mills' many non-military films were "Great Expectations," "Hobson's Choice," "The Wrong Box," "Tiger Bay" with his daughter Hayley, and "Gandhi" in which he played the viceroy of India.

    He was made a CBE, or Companion of the Order of British Empire, in 1960 and knighted in 1976.

    Mills was wiry, fit and remarkably youthful in to old age, which his daughter Hayley attributed to "joie de vivre."

    "Maybe what attracts people is that exuberant spiritual quality that they recognize is still present," she said in 1986.

    At 80, Mills rejected any idea of giving up acting.

    "I've never considered myself to be working for a living; I've enjoyed myself for a living instead," he said.

    Mills is survived by his wife and their children. The funeral service will be held on April 27 in Denham.

    EDIT can you move this to the General thread, ta
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    Invading Cornwall

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

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    Originally posted by CombinedArms:

    What makes this concept interesting, IMHO, is flipping it around, since, as many have noted, the eventual Allied invasion of Normandy in many ways mirrored this proposed invasion of Cornwall. I agree with the majority that the Germans couldn't do it because:

    1. they lacked air superiority and their main fighter, the ME-109, lacked the range to reach Cornwall.

    2. The RN would have chopped their seaborn transport into little bits.

    3. Any troops surviving the sealift to Cornwall would then have to fight their way out of some very difficult country. (I'm a US native but have visited Cornwall and seen the roadnet for myself. Yikes!)

    So the Germans, who wisely (or cravenly) backed off from crossing from Calais to Dover, would never in a million years have tried to fight their way to London from Penzance.

    My sense is that the Germans had a very clear idea of the diffculties, for them, of an invasion of Cornwall. And they applied that sense of difficulties to what they thought was Allied thinking. They assumed the distance to Normandy would daunt the Allies. (It didn't--after all, they'd covered thousands of miles in the Pacific.) The Allies had no fear of the sea; had enhanced the range of their fighters; had developed the art of airborne warfare well beyond the German practice of late 1940, AND had a firm conviction that if they could once get safely lodged on the European continent, they would win the war. On the the other hand, the Allies did have a healthy fear of the German defenses around Calais and the channel ports. When it came to the Normandy invasion, the German high command (and not just Hitler) took council of their own fears, rather than accurately reading the fears (and the areas of confidence) in their opponents.

    thinking like your enemy thinks is the sign of a good military leader which is something that Hitler etc were never known for

    remember the Panzer Divison sent to Greece to defend against an allied invasion, the prospect of fighting from Greece to Berlin makes Cornwall seem like a good way to get to London

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    Invading Cornwall

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

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    an invasion of Britain though the West Country that would have been a laugh

    imagine the locals being interrogated for information, who needs navajo windtalkers when you have the wess cun-tree accents

    and the blitzkrieg has no defence against scrumpy

    i knos cos i be frum bristle an all and i gurt luvs the blakforn !

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    Help: memorial places in Crete?

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

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    I too had the pleasure of visiting Crete in 1996, and had a great time even though it was my 30th birthday. Part of the reason to visit Crete was to go to a place with lots of history as well as good food and friendly people.

    The med was gorgeous, crystal clear and a pleasure to swim in, coming from me that is a big recommendation. Normaly I can only spend a day or two of a fortnight holiday sunbathing and swimming as I get bored and get sunburnt very quickly.

    What what I remember, Malia was full of Brits (too British), Hersonnisos full of Germans, and Stalida (otherwise known as Stalis) was half and half and I think was a good choice of place to stay or visit.

    The locals were friendly and great. Food and drink (Amstel was everywhere) were cheap and good.

    Suda bay was a very moving place to visit, a haven of green lawns and immaculate headstones overlooking the sea. One thing that struck me was the headstones were from a variety of time periods and nationalities.

    Along with the comments from other posts I would recommend visiting Chania (Hania), the old capital. Much prettier than Hekaklion and has a variety of archtecture including turkish and venetian. Heraklion does have a great venetian fortress overlooking the harbour and is definitely worth a visit.

    Try the raki and the retsina !

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