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CC Baxter

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  1. Cometh the hour SCII (I am sick of seeing SC2, thought I would mix it up a little :cool: ) will be THE game. I live in a place called Patience and Hope.Yeah, it's a stange named town but it's a GOOD place. (Note to Self:Lurking for months on end may result in Immer Etwas style posts. Be aware of this. ).
  2. In 1940 Soviet airborne brigades had as part of the Airlanding Group 9x82mm mortars, a Mountain(?) battery of 4x76mm mountain guns and an Anti-Tank battery of 4x45mm AT guns, and an Air defence company of 12 heavy anti-aircraft mgs. The TOE of the brigade also indicates a Tank company of 11xT-38s or T-40s light tanks. In March-April 1941 the TOE for airborne brigades was changed. The number of mortars was dropped to 6. The number of field guns was upped to 6 and the number of AT guns increased to 12 with these now operating under as Brigade Artillery. Throughout the war these numbers were steadily increased so that by 1943 for instance, each para battalion had an organic mortar company of 6 82mm mortars. Source: The Red Army Handbook. P.145-151. Hope this helps.
  3. NCO=Non Commissioned Officer. This is a soldier below the rank of 2nd Lieutenant eg Warrant Officer (in the British Army), Sergeant, Corporal, or Lance-Corporal. A commissioned officer can potentially be promoted to the highest possible rank eg General or Field Marshal. A NCO can only attain a rank which would still be below that of a 2nd Lieutenant, which in other words would still be off lesser rank than the lowest commissioned officer. Hope this helps.
  4. Unless you are into micromanagement give HOI a miss. It's just too much hard wok. I've tried hard to like/love that game but it just isn't going to happen. Stick to SC. Uncommon Valour is good, not grand strategy but good nonetheless. You have control over individual ships,battalions,squadrons in the Pacific theatre from mid 1942-late 1943. It's a primer for War In The Pacific which promises to be true grand strategy for the "forgotten" theatre of WWII. I say this from a British/European perspective where the market seems to be flooded with games (from grand strategy to tactical combat) based in the European theatre. As a "Euro" I would like to say that I relish any WWII game NOT set in the European theatre. A change is as good as a rest!
  5. Penfold, it's a great game, buy it. I didn't realise it was out in the UK now, I bought my copy last year through Battlefront.
  6. Great post Shaka. The origin of "beer and pretzels" in now clear. Thanks. And I agree with you about SC. Easy to learn, difficult to master, to use the cliche. Cheers!
  7. This "beer and pretzels" thing has always amused me. It's as if a game can be simple and fun and it's valued only as mere entertainment whilst other games are serious and not fun to play but offer some great level of detail and simulation but remain a "chore", the wargamer's equivalent of hacking away at the coal face.
  8. LOL! My thoughts exactly. It resembles a schoolyard argument about who said and did what. Perhaps you could distract them Jersey by beginning a thread with an even greater mind-numbing quotient? Perhaps a debate centred around the inadequacy of the map in SC? We haven't had that one for a while...
  9. Jersey They have been "forgotten" like bad memories are subject to selective amnesia
  10. This has to be most tedious thread in the history of this board. Go out and meet some women, get drunk.
  11. Jersey It's just human nature to consider all the possibilities and likely outcomes when presented with a new situation. I didn't mean to imply that the new board will turn into the plaything of you and your follow moderators. I'm sure it won't. Jersey this is the position of a dyed in the wool monarchist! The powers you hold you do so as a way of stopping those powers falling into the hands of others who may abuse them. The Queen would heartily concur.
  12. Immer I agree with you. If we end up exchanging one set of draconian rules for another then we will be back where we started and will have installed one group of "asylum wardens" for another. However it can only be a good thing for an alternate off-shoot of the SC community to exist, albeit if it seems to be the same people over at SC HQ as here. The only thing that worries me over at the SC HQ board is the welcoming of political discussions. Like religion politics is one of those subjects that gets people riled up and about which people refuse to back down. Apart from that the SC off-shoot seems to be thriving and has many features lacking on this forum. I just wonder how long the "regulars" will continue to post here.I feel the lure of their own private idaho may prove to be too strong.
  13. This is truly a momentous day! The lunatics have taken over the asylum! Registering now...
  14. The US is understrength within SC. I presume that this in part is to represent the diversion of resources to the Pacific theatre. Rambo's wish-list is very exact but the point of the game (and grand strategy in general) is that you have the raw materials at your disposal and can then "buy" what you require to execute your strategy. The disparity between historical American economic and military might and that represented in SC can be simply addressed by giving the US more MPP with which to "buy" the Rambo wish-list.
  15. Good stuff, Comrade. The Polish side of things often gets overlooked within the wider context of the war in Europe. Poland was always going to have a tough time in any European conflict, given her geographical position: hemmed in by both Germany and the USSR and with no land connection to France or the UK. Her one chance was probably holding out long enough for the western European allies to mobilise and then attack Germany. Unfortunately for the Poles the German blitzkreig gave them no chance for this to happen.
  16. Jersey Loved your "essay"! My Dad taught me to play when I was a young child. He had books by Capablanca, talked about how he was a genius. My Dad was a local champion, beating other players in the leagues and he passed the addiction on to me. My Dad once told me about a world champion who hated yoghurt (I can't remember who it was) and his oppponent (again I can't remember who this was)who would eat yoghurt during moves and also kick him under the table. Maybe it was Fischer v Spassky? Can you enlighten me?
  17. For most (if not all mods) go to: http://ww2n.com/schq/cam.htm That's all you need, really.
  18. Chess is the ultimate strategy game. Probably the ultimate game. Always will be.
  19. You can also get a rough estimate as to whether the Allies or Axis are "winning" the game by looking at the Unit Losses pie chart. This is also found in the "Report" option. Having said this, you will probaly have a good instinct/feeling as to which side is doing better than the other by just look at the map
  20. We don't seem to make tnings any more, only import stuff from countries where they do it cheaper and better than us. I suppose this is called progress and the natural law of economics. It's kind of sad too look out onto acres of ex-steel works and industries that once provided thousands of jobs but which are now earmarked for shopping malls. BTW, Wales is beautiful, celtic and with some amazing scenery.
  21. Thanks for the info on posting pictures. I hope to be as prolofic as you are now that I have the know-how The Full Monty is funny but gives the impression the city is dying (how apt for this thread!) but it isn't. Sheffield was once the largest producer of steel in the world and still makes alot of steel (my father has worked in the steel industry all his working life) but is now mostly post-industrial with many service-industry jobs.
  22. I'd post a picture of my city but I'm not sure how to do it. Anyway, the city was immortalised in the film The Full Monty and is called Sheffield. Orwelll was bitter and caustic in later life, maybe due to the fact he was dying and suffered from ill-health for most of his life. Still, he produced some great works.
  23. Agreed on Kuniworth. And yes, I suppose with over four pages of replies the death of the SC community has been exaggerated. Yeah I've seen the European Vacation movie. The Stonehenge gag is funny and the scene of Beverly D'Angelo in the shower was a particular favourite during my teenage years I like the character played by Randy Quaid in the original movie, the redneck loser with the kids from hell. And not forgetting the dog being tied to the car bumper (bumper=fender in the US?)
  24. Jersey I think (I hope!) Orwell was referring to the architectural qualities (or lack of ) of my hometown. As for the big signs outside small towns in the US, a scene from National Lampoons Vacation comes to mind in which Chevy Chase pleads with the family to visit the town with "the largest ball of string in the world! It's only four hours drive away!" Oh, I've just realised...we are Off-Topic. The padlock approaches...
  25. It seemed as if the Locked Thread started by Kuniworth and contributed to by several posters, along with the "Kuniworth to meet Sven Hassel" and "SC Forum Members to Go to Russia" were the final straw. But all this is against a background of the spam attack which took place just prior to these Kuniworth sponsored threads. Kuniworth was a victim of circumstance.
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