Mr Furious

Because we can't afford them, that's why we chose the M1A1 instead. Mace </font>

Pic 1 Well we could try to recover it but the russians will be here by then so i say we leave it and let it confuse the hell out of them, it'll probably buy us some more time sir. Pic 2 In the horror of the Eastern Front, Franz always made sure he kept his toilet paper in an easily accessible location.

While the M1A2 purchases seem to be politically orientated i must say that it sees not only the sad retirement of the Leo force but also the UTE-1 force. Nothing was more awe inspiring then seeing the RAAC tear into action in a UTE-1: with it's "crew" of 4 - 1 driver, 2 gunners, 1 spotlighter/esky minder. Watching the tinnies fly after a particularly vicious assault on enemy burrows ummm... positions, was truly a sight to see. I can hardly see the M1's fulfilling this crucial role in a better capacity. As for invading New Zealand, well we don't really want them to be honest, sure they got nice sheep and a funny accent, but still they have our military cast-offs whicg we obtained as cast-offs - it's hardly a military challenge. 75% of thier population seem to be on our unemployment benefit schemes so by international law we probably already own them.

Okay deal, but you get some reading glasses so that the wink, grin and evil stirring laugh at the end of that post don't escape your sight,like they obviously did.

Yep a cultural victory! Everyone eats italian food, drives german cars and buys japanese electronics. Who lost again !??!??!!?

It's strange, but i only ever seem to see the back of the Italians uniforms and they all look the same to me! - yella! Mwahahahahaha!

There are definitely Australian voices in the game, most often tehy seem to yell "infantry attacking" or something like that. And on one mission i swear, with a combined forces group of British and Australians, that one guy sledged with a "bowl him a piano, see if he can play that" It's true!!!!!

wOOt!!!! i have my copy here in Melbourne, Australia. :cool:

Bwahahahahahahahaha!!!! That's funny, unfortunately! I live in Aus too and it looks like we'll be getting just pre-christmas if Auspost and the expected 2 week + delivery delay is anything to go by. With our long delays over christmas, post wise, and our overly long public holiday runs, it may be the new year before we all get our copies. I haven't received any confirmation yet as to whether my copy has been sent out or not, but like previous orders from battlefront it shold be very painless. I need aussies and tanks in CM god dammit :cool: [ December 05, 2003, 09:58 AM: Message edited by: Mr Furious ]

Well the Radeon series of cards are more then capable of displaying fog effects so I can't understand how it's ATi's fault if BFC choose not to utilise that hardware feature by programming their software to work with it. I'm also assuming Anti-aliasing won't work either with cmak as the CM engine doesn't utilise it, again not ATi's fault but a decision by BFC not to support it. nVidia cards still utilise the old dx 7.1 fog tables so are supported, ATi think they are archaic (and they are) so don't support thier use. Simple as that.

Seriously how much faith and confidence would you have in your CO's if they made you a covenantor commander?!?! Legs getting trapped and crushed in a rotating gun turret, getting your head cracked open by a dodgy hatch! Holy hell! You'd feel like that somehow the axis and allies had entered into an injury lease agreement where any deficits in a set quota had to be filled by the deficant side! "Yes i got my first purple heart when my foot was wrenched from my body by a rotating gun turret in the birmingham parade grounds while my second permanently disfiguring injury, and subsequent second purple heart, and discharge from the services, occured when my head was jammed into the gun breach by an errant hatch door, while displaying in the Edinburgh military tattoo of '42, left a nasty mark that one. I can still hear their screams on the cold and lonely nights..... ah no that's just the tinnitus from my permanent concussion." (An exerpt from the book: Covenantor Commander in the breach: 3 days in hell, by Dale "Hingy" McBain.)

Happy New Year! Michael </font>

I've preordered and am currently trying to DL this and Deus Ex:IW at the same time on 56K Decisions, decisions. I guess though being in Aus my order will take at least 3 weeks to arrive after it's released.

Being an Australian i like to, naturally, read Australian perspectives of war, for that i recommend that you read Tobruk 1941 by Chester Wilmot. It's predominatly about Australia's 242 day defense of Tobruk, it does though seem to detail a good amount of Africa Korp tactics particularly in attack, and it also details what tactics the Africa Korp were open to. It also offers a balanced view from both sides of the siege, well i guess as balanced as could be realistically expected. It also includes probably my favourite quote from world war 2 "The rats of Tobruk, those self-supporting prisoners of war" - Lord Haw Haw

Coloured me embarassed, probably more so that i've just finished reading a few books on the 2nd SS panzer division in Normandy (Steel Inferno - Michael Reynolds) and just last month i finished reading Cornelius' Ryan - A Bridge Too Far. AS for the disposition of American armies, well I profess to not really know much about them except in what i read from a few books (those mostly on the 101 airborne in europe). I still contest that an thrust into germany by Patton with an unknown refitting panzer corp at his flank could of been very catastrophic. Perhaps annhilation was too strong a word, perhaps not. I think i might read up on the Arracourt battle, don't know anything about it, sounds interesting.