donnieitaly

Urk. I did have one casualty. The FO :-(

Oh. The American campaigns aren't effected are they?

Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I can't restart the entire campaign I haven't even finished the two American ones yet! I was only re-playing it for fun! One dead so far and then a massive artillery and Air campaign. If I re-play the re-play can I get my guns? Please.

I'm just replaying the "Al Taft" (Sp?) British scenario and my plan was to advance slowly and then shell every living thing. Do it the American way <g> Munitions instead of bodies. NOW MY REQUEST HAS BEEN DENIED!!! Listen Battlefront is this due to the new download? huh? Is it?? Huh??? I'm not happy.

November 11th is Rememberance day in the UK, a bit like Veterans day in the USA. Thank God it's only a game and God Bless all our soldiers. In Fields. Penned in 1918 "In Flanders' fields the poppies blow. Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks still bravely singing fly, Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie in Flanders' fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe; To you from failing hands we throw The torch be yours to hold it high If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders' fields.

Yes this is stoppig traffic of "civilians" in "cars". S P O I L E R L O T S O F S P O I L E R I didn't expect the Syrians to turn up in T72's! Fortunately however I had put my command Warrior up on hill 882 (where a T72 killed it) and de-bussed the team with their mortar and, more importantly their spotters. My helicopter had made pretty much mince meat out of the Syrians by the time the Challengers had arrived but I did lose on other Warrior to an IED. Three dead, Syrians kaput.

Will do thanks. (I'll let God sort them out.)

Well in my dream it's a walrus but otherwise I'm with you!

Am I missing something in the manual? How do I stop or search civilian vehicles without simply shooting them to death?

I forget the title but this is the four unit scout of the airport in the British campaign. I "Bungled" this. I scouted five of the OPs but lost the unit of soldiers and one man of one of the Sniper teams. Everyone got to (I can't remember the names and it's too late at night to look them up.) the same "departure point", but I still bungled it. How come? What did I have to do to win?

What's "WANAT"?

Joe, I've had nothing but friendliness and help from Battle Front, and I have to say I don't agree with your comments above. I merely want a manual my tired 61 year old eyes (well, "eye", I'm losing my sisght in my right eye) can read.

I bought my brits on-line and got my disc only today. I was a bit dissapointed to find that I have to try to read my computer to read the manual. I'd pay a few $s more for a book.

I think that's something only a local would know - it still sounds like music to me. Because you see I live in Walsall. My son wrote an article for his College magazine when he was at Oxford about Walsall. He said, and I paraphrase:- "Walsall, dirt and filth in the streets, people who bite rather than talk and when they do talk use an accent that makes us all sound like we are inbred morons who have been drinking paraffin for the last six weeks. These are the HIGH points for Walsall" :-) And he was right. I had the great pleasure of having a holiday in Southport last month and spent some time with a bunch of Liverpudlians. Gents and Ladies to the core with beautiful accents. (Seriously, really friendly and courteous in the bar and I wasn't even buying!) Anyways all this began when I just wondered if UK accents sounded all the same to American players as North American accents do to the English. I think one of the chaps who tells the helicopters that they "are under active control" is bit thick <g> but otherwise I've not yet played it enough to hear all that is said. I have had to give up on the Marines since the Brits seems so much more agile in leaping over low walls. A superb series of games. If you had told me 40 years ago this would have been possible I wouldn't have believed you. I think a lot of people tend to lose sight of that fact. Donnie aka Chris Harvey (next time you're filling out names for tank commanders.)

In other words, old time British dudes would sound similar to US southerners today because the accent hasn't evolved Cor blimey Guvnor, I doubt that. I've actually been to South Carolina (well now I remember it was Southern North Carolina) and if Brits spoke like that originally I'll be monkey's uncle. You'e ' aving a bath ain't cha?

Does anyone know if Helicopters stooging around an area for two or three minutes keeps those pesky RPG chaps down at the botom of their trenches?

This is all fascinating stuff to me since accents and dialects are a bit of a hobby of mine too. Two questions though. 1/ Has anyone noticed a Scottish type accent in the Brit accents in the British (Scots) forces yet? 2/ Do American accents in the two Yankee (Sorry <g>) sets sound "real" or recognisable to Americans as from a distinct area geographically?

Blow holes in walls - don't use streets at all. Although I haven't played that one yet.

One aspect of the old CM games I liked was the ability to see who had killed who. Not for the glorification of the kill but to see how effective, say, artillery fire had been. In the Brit. Armoured Assault I JUST GOT A MAJOR BRIT VICTORY IN, I would have liked to have seen if the building I totally destroyed actually had any enemy dead in it. Short of scrolling very slowly over all the salient positions there was no way to do this. Computer programming wise is there no way to do this? By the way, did I mention I GOT A BRIT TOTAL VICTORY <g>?

English English has it's variants too. The Liverpool accent is lovely (though maybe that's because Liverpudlians are amongst the nicest and kindest people in the UK) and the Geordie is...well, it doesn't use consonants, so I guess it's not understood by, well, even other Geordies. Cockney is great but I would really have liked to hear an Upper Class Scot/English accent - we do still have them. I live in Walsall where the accent is awful yet I can distinguish from the Birmingham accent which is all of eight miles away. Cor blimey Guv'

I'm playing the UK scenario and am slowly categorising the "Scots" accents. That made me think. Do American accents sound so regional for Americans as Brit ones do to me? I've been to the USA lots and can tell the difference between deep south and New York, but there must be differences in Southern accents perhaps discernable only to Southrons. is this true?

I read a 50 cal can take out a BTR, Care to try that?

Che e "TOW" Signore?

To be fair my grandfather used to say "the Scots made damn good infantry - with White officers" :-)