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Maybe you'r right. Maybe this forum isn't the right place to point at web-resources on WWII that don't cost nothing. Seems to me that much too many slaves of the patent-dictatorship enjoy being whipped. Time to create a page with all these links for anyone and his dog, instead, just out of generosity and as a sign and proof of rather scarce interest for "copyrights"? A last one, for the night, then Ill go back to lurking for the next months: (link deleted) Don't download it if you don't intend to buy it good ole 38! happy new year! And for those among you that don't have such holy respect for patents and editors... enjoy! [ December 31, 2005, 01:16 AM: Message edited by: Moon ]

Here, in the coat, among many other shoddy links: [link deleted] I better go back to lurking for some months, I'm disgusted by the patent-and-copyright-licking attitude of some slaves that enjoy being whipped by the commercial powers that be! [ December 31, 2005, 01:20 AM: Message edited by: Moon ]

Guess I'll open the coat and show another porn magazine to the babies:

Then I guess you should "sentence" me. Please do Be my guest. Btw, I still understand copyright as "the right to copy"

"links are illegal"? Where? Why? On behalf of the Northern Territories holy legislation? In Europe links are not illegal, maple boy. I doubt you'r so far on the downspiralling slope, over the pond, that already have links that are 'illegal', but it wouldn't surprise me seen the pavlovian intensity of your pro-patent feelings. You dislike the very fact that these books ARE on the web? Not much you can do either, I fear. You seem really to be one of the doofest persons to grace our race

Copyright is Aberglaube

I deserve to be "sentenced" for pointing out books that are intersting for this community and are freely available on the web? Books that I did not put there? Books that people that don't have as much as of somebody else would -maybe- like to read? (Despite your beloved "patents") You should look at a mirror and have a good laugh. I, for myself, understand copyright as "the right to copy"

You have a funny way of understandig the world. I couldn't care less about popularity. I just point out that all these books are available for free. When I like something (like CMBB) I buy it even if I could of course download it complete and for free from the web at once (as I am sure everyone knows). I didn't read all these books (yet). I'll read them when I find the time. Should I like them, in electronic format, I'll buy them on paper. Authors will probably get more, not less from people trying out something that they wouldn't have bought anyway if they wouldn't have first seen it for free. Samo samo with music, btw. Those making money are (mostly) just the publishers, editors and patents holders, not the artists. Those pushing for longer and longer "copyrights" periods (from 40 to 100 years and counting) are those that want to steal more and more people money, not the artists themselves, the scum that exploits artists. I'm happy that the web gives everyone anything for free. Thattaway everyone can check the crap that is sold -beforehand- and buy only things that are valid and worth. Some books are crap. Some are good. Let's check them, as we would do in a library. You know what a library is? Patent enforcers would probably like to shut them. "What? Books for free? Are tehy kidding? And anyone can read them?" And thank to brain-handicapped like you they will probably manage it. You'r dead wrong (as you usual are in all your posings) 'everyone else' is not paying (unless convinced it is worth). Just gullible canadians like you pay whatever someone dishes out. I don't, I won't and if this means being 'a thief', as you say then I'm pretty proud of it. Note that I refrain from insulting you as much as you deserve.

Because I don't give a dead rat **** about patents and I despise patent enforcers. I suggest you buy them, if you so please, while other download them for free if they so please. It's a 'present' to this community, for god's sake. Why shold people that invest so much time and knowledge on WWII not pick what's available on the web for anyone else (but canadian patents lovers)?

I tend to agree with NameUsedBefore: you can 'reverse' a scenario out of the position and composition of your forces and of the landscape: after having played many scenarios you kinda 'get the idea' if you have so and so many pioneers, then. If you have so and so many smgs, then. If you have a wald there and a hill there, then. So quickbattles are more challenging (of course with ai assigning forces and a lot of random things).

And another couple of WWII-fact-books, for Panthers' lovers (gimme instead a gaggle of T34s anytime): [link deleted] (heavy: 63,4 Mbytes) and [link deleted] (very heavy: 151,8 Mbytes) Enjoy! [ December 31, 2005, 01:19 AM: Message edited by: Moon ]

Well, dunnow (and don't care) if they are in the public domain... they sure are in OUR domain now For more links see my post on the CMBB forum. funny that noone deigned to say 'thanks' :-(

Forgot to wish everyone a merry Xmas (or whatever) and a happy new year, and posted part of this on the new "CM-BigJim" messageboard (and the whole bazoo also on the CMAK one, so that they'll learn what they miss not playing CMBB It will be anyway -I believe- more appreciated here Happy CMBB wargaming (with the soviets, of course) [links deleted] If you want more you'll probably know where to find them by now Happy 2006! PS: Ok, ok... Deutsche Schweine, weine nicht, hier etwas für euch: [link deleted] [ December 31, 2005, 01:18 AM: Message edited by: Moon ]

Forgot to wish everyone a merry Xmas (or whatever) and a happy new year, and posted part of this on the new "CM-BigJim" messageboard. Wrong. It will be -I believe- more appreciated here Happy CMBB wargaming (with the soviets, of course): [links deleted] If you want more you'll probably know where to find them by now Happy 2006! [ December 31, 2005, 01:17 AM: Message edited by: Moon ]

A propos T34! : The web is truly bottomless! Of course, if you prefer KV-I and KV-II Enjoy, and merry Xmas!

Dear John Kettler, Your first link to 'subliminalsuggestions' is not only ludicrous, but -frankly- rather disgusting. And, Steve, "Creative writing skills" are not to be found in that drivel, unless you understand "creative" in a different way that I do "While in Palestine, Russian President Vladimir Putin paid a diplomatic 3-minute visit to the Jewish "Wailing Wall", located provocatively below the Muslim Al-Aqsa Mosque, then went on to spend four times as long at the tomb of Yasir Arafat. In direct contrast, American President George W. Bush, who continually called Yasir Arafat a "terrorist", makes a mockery of his own professed 'Christianity' by paying homage at the mock shrine of those who murdered Jesus Christ." "the Jewish "Wailing Wall", located provocatively below the Muslim Al-Aqsa Mosque"? My god. Does he know some elementary history? "the mock shrine of those who murdered Jesus Christ"? I can only puke when reading such drivel. "You may or may not agree with now dead investigative reporter Joe Vialls' political views" writes Kettler. That's a heavy understatement. It puzzles me that someone in his right mind would agree with statements like "The reason for this cowed western response is simple enough. Washington and Tel Aviv fear President Putin, and rightly so. For this is the man who provided the Iraqi Republican Guard with a massive quantity of laser-guided Kornet anti-tank missiles, each of them man-portable and easily capable of destroying an American Abrams battle tank for 1/2,000th the cost of the latter." This kind of bloated mental masturbations, as we all know, is actually a direct insult to the cleverness of Putin & co. My god. I don't believe that someone cold be so gullible and read such crap for more than a couple of lines.

I kinda like french people, actually France Lawmakers Endorse File-Sharing I mean, much more than those "intelligent design" american bigots, anyway Besides the ludicrous and stupid reference "I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me." General George S. Patton. is bogus, the correct historical reference (find it, hehe) is that Rommel said -years after Kasserine- he would rather have fought against two american divisions than against a single english one

Looks like real elevation to me. This image must have been taken short before the other one: You can see the same slopes and the village (where the red 'target' appears on the small map with contour elevations) down behind the hill. Black the houses, red the enemy, redtarget the flag (?), green your tanks. Which means, coming back to the previous image that since the T34s are coming in from NW, those shadows don't make much sense

My mistake, I didn't mean CMSF ("Big Jim", see picture in the header of the CMSF messageboard), I did mean CMSF-WWII or whatever the name will be, also CMX2-WWII. Those T34/85s will -I hope- be better than the IL2 creators ones. Btw: You *DID* all notice the elevation curves in the left windows of the panel, of course. Yumm

Here an anteprima of what the concurrence is doing... Note the range/piercing data below, and the general "combatmissionish" structure of the bottom info panel I sure hope Battlefront will show them some better modelling Here, instead, the beasty Germans making havoc

Dunnow if this makes any sense, or if anyone on this board will understand it, but allow me to say it nevertheless. I have recently found myself to play more and more winspmbt (windows steel panthers main battle tank, you can download it here spcamo). Now I don't want to start a thread on the limits (and advantages) of this old game, especialy if compared to CMBB (that in my opinion is the best game battlefront ever produced), but the nice feeling when playing israel against danemark, or east germany against tanzania, in the fifties or in the sixties... a bless! I wonder if anyone here shares this approach So what I am trying to say (and please excuse me if I don't manage it) is that the LATITUDE that this game provides could (could) be a good card to play when preparing "shock force big jim". Don't limit it to siria (or whatever) but open all countries/ all timeframes/ all scenarios, to the moders community, so that we can have holland against mongolia. Ooops, I forgot: that's exactly what you are NOT going to do? You'r limiting this to one country, one country invader, one armored vehicle, one year? Ok, just my 2 eurocents, but its kinda funny that I still enjoy not only CMBB (that I love) but also winspmbt (EXACTLY because I can play whatever I want

C'mon guys, this guy Peter Cairn is just a troll, there's no point in answering his hooks. "In sum, your fantasy world of a Scots military is just that..." Well said. The very idea of an indipendent scottish military is quite balooney (to keep it diplomatically). Many feudal phantasists drivel on such dream-thoughts, here in belgium we have many similar idiots in "Flanderen" and in "Walonien" :-P Some (fortunately few) manage to drive the point through some Balcan wars where they kill each other just for the sake of it.

Of course you sycophants do all realise that some of us, despite all these optimistical, house-made rambling and claques, will still probably never buy nor play such a "Big Jim" game, don't you :-P Thanks god we still have CMBB to spend our time with... A game that survived (very well) so many years... incredible. Wait and see and hope and cross my fingers and toes... good luck! Yet I fear this science fiction venture looks already pretty bad, he. The more info the more creeps. I bought all previous CM games (and that's quite funny, since I basically stopped buying software many years ago, so easy it is to find it for free on the web). Ok, here's the deal: I'll download the full CM:BigJim from a torrent server, I'll try it out (even if the subject looks crap) and afterwards even *buy it* if outstanding. Promised. If outstanding. Which I still doubt.

Well, JasonC, while very brisk and almost troll-like, seems again to be absolutely right. What should I say? It sadden me to see young people defending nazi criminals. The best thing that can happen to them is to be pancaked by a truck.

Abbot: "I think the world is a better place without Hussein in power and I also think that removing him could have been accomplished differently if Kofi and some other members of the UN were not accepting bribes. I think that Schroeder and Chirac used Iraq as nothing more then a springboard (as an opportunity) to try and strengthen the EU's position and their own financial positions and suffer from no morale dilemma. I believe that they carefully crafted the European public opinion of hate towards the US to aid them in accomplishing their goals. I see them no differently then any politicians who are controlled by very wealthy men." Noone could write this *and really believe it at the same time*, not even an american neo-con. I mean, c'mon, even fox news wouldn't go any more for such crap. As far as one can jusge from all polls, european AND american public opinion were/are/will always be against the *failed* invasion of Iraq. That's one of the reasons, btw, of the "mixed feelings" (to put it mildly) about CM:SF of most afecionados (me included). I said it before, it is pretty clear, at least to me, that this Abbot guy is just a poor and clumsy troll