bobm44

whenever this thing gets released, count me in, but ...when will this be

I dont see how Hitler stops-he cant. His whole stucture of power, his essence of being was centered around that past experiences and histories of war were now moot;that this new, quick, lightning war was NOW and before anyone could counter it, he had to get what he could. Blitzkrieg could work in the small, numerous, countries in Europe but it could not work in the endless steppes of Russia, nor could it bypass the 21 mile wide river. If Hitler stopped after France, then what-the guy was on a roll, momentum was with him... If he stopped, he has very limited raw materials to work with, while RUssia is growing and growing-learning about OPERATIONAL WAR-learning how to trade space for time. Hitler's Germany was designed for quick conquests to secure land (living space) and resources-without the resources of Russia where would Hitler have turned?

no way Hitler would have beaten russian-the whole essence of the german war machine was blitzkrieg-Hitler's blitzkrieg worked until they tried to apply it to russia. Hitler could not have waited to attack russia either, his whole base of power was conquest-feeding the masses with quick victories, what made him so omnipotent to those masses was that most of his general staff told him that those quick victories would be impossible-victories that were not attained in 1914-1918. Once blitzkrieg was proven to be a failure-(when guderian cried about his pz army being split and sent to moscow, and he had to fly to berlin to personally lobby Hitler in order to keep it intact for the shift and drive on the Ukraine)it was too late for the germans to get out-they were stuck on a 1500 mile front, fighting a population 4 times their size and possessing more natural resources-there was no way they would ever win or even subdue the "nice" part of russia for that "living space" Hitler was forever ranting about. Also if Hitler waited too long Uncle Joe would have moved on him-take that to the bank. It would have been a massacre, but it would have happened eventually-those 2 could not co exsist at the same time, on the same continent.

the connect goes from the wall to the modem to the pc so its good-Ive played lots of counter strike using zone alarm with no problems (cs uses a different port-wonder if that matters?)

ok the only firewall i have is zone alarm so the problem must have been at the other users end...btw how do I forward the 7203 to my 192.168 address?

Im running one pc off a verizon dsl connection. I dont have the XP firewall enabled but I do run Zone alarm. I tried hosting last night and the other guy wasnt able to connect...my ip address listed on my hosting page was 192 sumthin, as it always is. I have read here that 192 ips are internal and dynamic-meaning that I cant host with that. Anyone out there with Verizon DSL hosting? I did just find here on the board a whatsmyip.com so I will try that when I get home from work and see if it is different thnks Bob