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  1. sorry, my mistake, it is purple. So everybody has an apoplexy at the first shot... OK, OK, I'll go quietly now.
  2. Peter C. I had just read for the first time the "Germany winning over the SU" thread(last half page)& I was craving for some silliness lite.
  3. Would'nt red/blue vs red/blue be the same as green vs green. So everybody panic at the first shot... Sorry, just a random moment of sillyness... It'll pass.
  4. What do you mean by LMG rocket- mine. An LMG firing rocket proppeled land mines?? Or is this a grognard's joke? As for the ampulemet there seems to have been 2 versions. A mortar-like contraption & a rifle grenade launcher. In both cases it probably caused more casualties among the operators than the enemy.
  5. Because you asked some very good players to hand you a victory on a platter without your opponent's knowledge. Riding crop=horse whip.
  6. I agree on the toyota vote.I was a mechanic( not an automotiive techician)in the 70s & 80s, still repairing late 60s toyotas 1/2 ton P.U. I was impressed! You couln't drive the things unless you had at least 3/4 ton in in the bed. Or else you stood a good chance of going throught the windshield hitting the brakes & a whiplash popping the clutch.Of course it would have been more comfortable replacing the front seat with an milk crate than using the factory issue,still it took you places where you didn't even want to go. Just like a T34. Ease of repaire & the quality of steel were amazing(a coworker & I spent 1 hour trying to snap a tierod (lunch time) the best we could achieve after cutting & heating was a bent tierod. So yes, the ease of repairs is gone but the quality remain. Nowedays the garage houses : one 92 toy .PU.(250K miles),one 2003 4runner(Liz likes a comfortable AFV),AND...one cuuuuuuute MR2 spyder. Still miss my 64 bug & 68 dodge(slant6)van for some odd reasons.
  7. Bit gamey that..mmh?... I should think so, ErikinWest, old boy...(tapping riding crop against boot.) Now go tell your friend the wager is off...There's a good lad.
  8. Thanks fussball. Being already pretty much burned out on WW2 FPSs, I think I'll waite until an FPS analog of CMBB comes along(if ever),your comment on armor was the clincher.
  9. Thanks Sergei,completly missed that one. ...Well, we'll see yet...Till all the results are in.
  10. Something worth looking into or just another FPS fragfest?
  11. JasonC,the contrast was certenly startling. still don't know why you included demolition squads? how should have they been used? Seems like SMG/grenades/LMG should have been sufficient. Anyway I'm getting the idea about Rus. infantry use. What Vo Nguyen Giap discribed as advancing by seepage: short moves,mutualy supporting fire,stopping when under fire & focusing it, broadening/enveloping front,right? should serve equally well in urban terrain.
  12. Reality check. Is 310 a cakewalk or am I learning? Played all scenariots up to this one with various levels of victory within 1 to 5 tries (110 was the cornerstone) but 310 seems to be just a stroll in the woods. I was expecting to use the demo teams against the building, keeping them in close support, but the opposition just ran off leaving me with a complete victory in 21 turns?
  13. Just finished 201 with a tactical victory. The ATR appears to be a useful tool for supressing PAKs. I will try again putting the two ATRs, two 50mm, two maxims under commend on the left flank and bringing the field guns together to the right, where the HE is needed, with all the inf. moving in columns along the low ground, using the same delayed arty.(really enjoyed that lesson on the use of off map & on map but virtually immobile artillery.) Should be a breeze... unless itsn't.
  14. Also bogging & recovery time (if any) depend on the crew's experience level.
  15. Well Flamingknives answered my question, there was such a thing as a bren fitted with 100rd drum. First time I come across this info, thanks.The only two british lmg that i knew of using drum mags. were the lewis & vickers k.
  16. Specifically the author refers to a matilda stuck in mud and the crew establishing a defensive perimeter using a dismounted bren, quote: "...making it a good LMG for ground use. Each tank carried several loaded 100-round discs." Details like that make me wonder the truth of the whole thing.
  17. I never heard of of a bren fed by a drum/disc magazin, was wondering if the author was mistaking the vickers mg for the bren. Wich would be rather strange coming from a professional.
  18. I just finished the book "fighting for the soviet motherland" by Loza. At the begining of his service he was a lend-lease Matilda tank commender and mention the secondary armament of the tank as being a bren fed by 100 rounds drums(PP 27.) Does anyone know about such an weapon? Did a google search: nothing.
  19. John kettler, I might be wrong, but I think that putting your HQ in as a forward position as possible tend to galvanize & focus the rest of the troops. won total victory in 110 putting my HQ level with the front half squads & had no control problems.
  20. That's... spooky.Time to sacrifice 2 black roosters on the full moon. Send one to Bill Gate, the other to Phillipe so he can Read the entrails. I personally keep 5 black candles burning at all time around my computer. Anyway, glad you got the scenariots.
  21. What I did , and I'm not sure it's the right way, I downloaded the 7 zip files to a new folder in program files then transfered them to C:\program files\CMBB\scenarios, where they showed up at the top as file icons. Then opened them up( only 2, after i realized the enormous # of scenarios contained within). They then showed up as individual documents in the scenarios folder and had been transfered to the game's scenarios menue.
  22. As an aside. My deepest thanks to Phillipe for is tutorial on downloading scenarios. that a computer challenged like me could do it is a tribute to his patience & teaching skills. It took me 5 hours to figure it (well almost: I seem to have lost parts of the original scenarios) and learned alot about using windows. My brain feels like mush, but it's a good kind of mush. Thank you.
  23. To Aco:$13.57,**** reviews,I'm buying it. A pity such personals memoires are coming in so late.Memories distortions, a lifetime of of propaganda, still the Russians' words should be read. After all they are the ones who did the heavy lifting.
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