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    The staggeringly big hunting rifle (just try carrying it!)

    in General Discussion Forum

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    I guess for the same reason that people build pickups with huge tires and suspensions that carry them 20 feet up. Because they can.

    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"...

    :)

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    Mortar Death Stars

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

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    So that's why there is a hole in the bucket, bloody Finnish mortarmen.

    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...

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    Mortar Death Stars

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

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    Direction is easy: you look through a viewfinder and point in the right direction. But how does distance work? Your average person can't guess distances to within +/- 100m, let alone +/- 10m or +/-1 m.

    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...

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    Mortar Death Stars

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

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    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.

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    Best H2H Scenarios

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

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    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... :)

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    Music Theory

    in General Discussion Forum

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    Song goes along with Emaj, Gmaj, Dmaj, Cmaj for the verses. Now, I have been told its in Eminor key but... it starts with an Emaj and then the rest of the Chords belong to the minor key. It's like the song changes from major to minor after the first four bars.

    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...:)

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    The Finns

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

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    Where are the Finns?

    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?

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    Multiple Monitor Setup

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

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    Panoramic view is good for eg. driving games, but the view is awkwardly shaped if you want to play CM watching the battlefield from top down or similar angle. There is a lot of horizontal space but your view is vertically extremely limited in comparison.

    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":

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