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Made my day... But at the same time a sad story too. I feel your pain... I left the AMD camp about 4 PC`s ago.

At the risk of sounding tautological: Mr. M. Emrys is right. Why climb Mt Everest? Because it´s there! Why dive into the Mariana Trench? Because it´s not there! Gimme some time and I will build a guntrigger on a german 8,8 cm FlaK 18 and call it "The Biggest Handgun Ever Built"...

Seen this. I'll never understand it, but check it out. A documentry worth watching...

Wow! And I thought we had it bad in Finland!?! Could some of you poor yankees send me your bank account numbers so I can help you out? Hilarious stuff...

Uploaded with ImageShack.us In the spirit of Gary Larson...

Oh? You meant... I see. So I... Well this is quite a a embarrassing moment. My bad. Then again I´m also keen on knowing what's up and when. The second module, if I remember correctly, would include the brits and SS. Right? There´s been a too long radio silence from the BF part lately. What are you cooking BF?

Yes! I have a huge one!

Yeah, sorry about that... Well since I got started with this nostalgiatrip, here's something more I want to share. Carryin the mortar in woods. That's hell on earth. The bipod is the lightest part. But it tends to open up so the both legs get stuck in everything. Every branch, twig, shrug etc... And usually you find yourself flat on the ground. The base plate is the heaviest part so you have to carry it with both hands. The result is when you trip over, and you do fall down on regular basis in various conditions, you will land flat on your belly while the base plate crushes your ribs and your nose hits the dirt. The barrel. I think I still have round dents in my collarbones from carrying the barrel on my shoulders. But if I have to pick, I´ll take the barrel anytime. The 120 mm mortar is on wheels. I don't even wanna go there, the memories are to painfull...

Well I did do my service 1989-1990 so a lot have changed of course. We had laser rangefinders etc. The mortars used however are pretty much the same they were in 1944. Not much development there. Direct fire is of course simple and yes, you can develope your skills in ballparking the distance, this is what snipers too had to learn in WW2. There wasn't no fancy rangefinders those day. I really can't remember how we did it exactly, I mean its 21 years since I did my service. Man I´m getting old... Indirect fire is a whole other matter. To put a grenade in a bucket 3 kilometers away requires that you have a preplanned target. If not, you have to depend on the FO to know what he's doing. Eventually the grenades will land in the bucket...

I did my 12 months service as a mortarman and a mortar squad leader. I have no experience with 60 mm mortars, we used only 81 mm and 120 mm but I can assure you that a mortar can be a real precision instrument. I think the on-map mortars are modeled just right in CM Normandy. At last it really pays of to haul those menaces along when they are doing what they are supposed to do... Our instructor said that if we can't put a cucumber (slang for mortary grenades, both 81 and 120 mm) in a bucket 3 kilometres away we were all a bunch of retards that had no business in the service at all.

+1 to that! (Would have done it myself right now, but then I would have to redeposit the whole file).

Speaking of H2H-maps, please try the Géfosse-Fontenay map by yours truly. I uploaded it to the depository a few days ago: http://www.battlefront.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=314&func=fileinfo&id=1517 Could be a pain in the ass map with lots of open fields, I just started testing it live with my PBEM-pal, but could also (maybe, most unlikely) be a hilariously fun map. Let's see... Any comments good or bad are (maybe, most unlikely) taken into consideration in further development of the map...

I mainly play H2H/PBEM-battles so I too think that is a great idea.

Well this is the strangest thing I've ever heard. Been playing bass for about 25 years now in various coverbands and while I´m not schoold in theory I know that if the rythmguitarist told me that "this song goes in E, G, D and C" I would instantly know that the first chord would be E-minor. And what kind of rock/punk band would play all the songs in major keys? Or then it´s really progressive rock/punk...

Looks like Photoshops gaussian blur effect... Nice and smooth.

What? You guys have joined the forum in 2000 and 2004 and never heard about Fionn Kelly's CM Armor rules or Scipio´s artillery and purchase rules?!? Those were pretty much like the bible for me when playing PBEM-games. What a bunch of neebs... Here's Fionn's: http://tinyurl.com/3fwapje Scipio's rules seem to have vanished from the known universe (= internet)

Can they still be applied in PBEM-games?

In the old CM1-series you couldn't smoke out any opposing forces from a church unless you packed at least 50 mm guns. In PBEM games he who got first into a church with a HMG pretty much stayed there for the rest of the turns. Something inbetween these new and old values would be good IMHO.

Nope! World champions 1995 and now again 2011!

Here I am! As for the other Finns I think they still celebrate the fact that we now are icehochey world champions 2011 when we kicked the crap out of sweden in the final match! I hope finns appear in the sequel CM Barbarossa/Bagration after the three modules for Normandy get done. How about it BF? Any plans for that to happen?

I agree. That's why I went and bought a cheap 32" HD-television. Makes wonders for the immersion for all games, CM included. It looks small in the pics, but IRL it's very impressive when sitting only 80-100 cm from the screen. Here's two pics from my "multipurpose game platform": Uploaded with ImageShack.us

Waaaaait a minute... CM:N doesn't ship from inside the EU? Well this is not good news. There should definetely have been a mention of this in the orderpage.

Member since september 2003. 119 postst since then, that makes 1,16 posts a month. Dear god, I'm a lurker too... :confused: Take a look at this: http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/lurker.htm

Yeah! And they should be also in sizes 1920x1080 and 1920x1200. Who uses smaller screens these days...

Fools...