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Actually yes, I do have a decent library, but wouldn't really consider myself a grog. I was reacting more to the actual quote not so much as to whether it really reflected on the unit itself. It just comes off as this superficial "we are all comrades" that you get in a lot of "party" publications. I've read enough stuff of similar tone that I have a hard time swallowing it.

when I have seen this it is generally because the AS itself is not in LOS/LOF of the gun, but the infantry unit is once spotted (usually standing but sometimes kneeling). So the tile can not be fired at.

nice work umlaut. I agree, we do need some more really nice urban maps. The amount of work is pretty intensive as flavor objects are hard to manipulate in the confined space. I have some of my own I am working on that may be out around the same time as yours. Now you just need to bash up that town a bit. It is too pristine.

Never thought to hear myself say it, but now you have me curious. Lord knows when I'll ever get to Edinburgh, but if I do...

Honestly, change the names and the timing and it sounds like some propaganda from the Chinese Communist party of Mao during the long march. The reality is the old goat was probably assaulting some farmer's daughter and eating all the poor guys food while his soldiers marched and starved.

One of my buddies is Argentinian. He would stop inviting me over if I get too picky and he grills like nobody I have ever known. Good times sitting around his place near Napa with a bottle of wine from some local winery grilling skirt steak and eating it right off the grill as we stand around talking shop or sailing. Most of the organ meats (or sweetmeats I guess they are called) are not particularly to my liking, but I do like liverwurst and fish liver (kimo in Japanese). An kimo is Monkfish and you will typically see it on your local sushi place menu, Kinky no Kimo though is much better and pretty much impossible to get in the states. Tastes like cheddar. My wife is teaching me to be a little less picky as well, but yeah Americans are generally funny about meats, but it is by no means uniform. Lots and lots of cultural variations.

hmm time to go to some other thread...any other thread. I think there is one by Martha Stewart on how to make a proper combined arms assault. Think I'll stroll over there. It's a good thing.

Just so long as it is Emry's house you are referring to and not mine.

Hey, I started this with beef cheeks, it isn't a left ponder problem. Just the squeamish.

Night or day, he's flagged. Sorry buddy, who is your designated driver? We are taking your keys. If you have no driver, we'll call you a cab. You are a Cab, now get the hell outta my bar.

I can't say I have ever seen it actually injure, but it definitely suppresses. Any infantry exposed is usually easy pickings for the assault team. I just had a small team do this, when they entered the structure, one guy resisted and they shot him, the others surrendered.

yeah that is really the preferred method. Make your own door.

4 weeks for chicken wings, and you have to pre-order? Hell with the barmaid, I'd get surly waiting that long.. oh sorry, that OTHER topic.

Somewhere there is a DAR going on we were here to discuss...oh wait some numbnuts authorized Bil's vacation.

Correction - sounds good for map design. You can apply that for Scenario or QB maps. Scenario design is a whole other headache.

geez, stop tossing chicken bones at the barmaid. The proper method is to ASK for another order of chicken wngs. The proper way to ask for another beer on the other hand is to toss your empties.

I look at it this way, it takes me a good 5-6 months just to appreciate a release. Any faster and they would just sit on my shelf longer and not have as much time for BF to polish them. Don't get me wrong, I LIKE looking at them on the shelf. Still it is better for us all that they are properly baked before BF turns us loose on them or we will spend more time on patches and less time on releases.

+1 on that. The only objection so far I'd have to agree with is the lack of armor for Japan, though if the fighting in China were included I think folks would see a surprising amount of variation. It seems everyone has discounted even the view of trying to game those engagements.

No meat. Beef cheek on the other hand stewed for a few hours is like eating osso buco without having to dig for the meat. Absolute heaven man. If you haven't had it, you don't know what you are missing. Thanks Buzz, yeah right off the vine, damn I love summer.

I can't imagine how difficult it would be to play that way. Time consuming, confusing and no way could you run a large scale battle like that in a normal lifetime. Aren't you also propounding huge maps with sweeping armor engagements? Wouldn't that give you a migraine headache doing both of these. It is giving me one just to think about it.

Yeah I know That would have been my first choice.

Well to be frank is Korea going to be much different? On the recommendation from a friend I just bought To the last Round http://www.amazon.com/To-Last-Round-British-Stand/dp/1845135334/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_1 When you look at it, that is what we are mostly doing in all theaters and periods, culling something interesting from the herd.

I was thinking more Edson's Ridge and On the night of September 12, Kawaguchi's 1st Battalion attacked the Raiders between the Lunga River and ridge, forcing one Marine company to fall back to the ridge before the Japanese halted their attack for the night. The next night Kawaguchi faced Edson's 830 Raiders with 3,000 troops of his brigade plus an assortment of light artillery. The Japanese attack began just after nightfall with Kawaguchi's 1st battalion assaulting Edson's right flank just to the west of the ridge. After breaking through the Marine lines the battalion's assault was eventually stopped by Marine units guarding the northern part of the ridge.[69] Two companies from Kawaguchi's 2nd Battalion charged up the southern edge of the ridge and pushed Edson's troops back to Hill 123 on the center part of the ridge. Throughout the night Marines at this position supported by artillery defeated wave after wave of frontal Japanese attacks, some of which resulted in hand-to-hand fighting. Japanese units that infiltrated past the ridge to the edge of the airfield were also repulsed. Attacks by the Kuma battalion and Oka's unit at other locations on the Lunga perimeter were also defeated. On September 14 Kawaguchi led the survivors of his shattered brigade on a five-day march west to the Matanikau Valley to join with Oka's unit.[70] In total Kawaguchi's forces lost about 850 killed and the Marines 104.[71] the battle on the Mantaniku. The first U.S. Marine operation conducted between September 23 and 27 by elements of three U.S. Marine battalions, an attack on Japanese forces west of the Matanikau, was repulsed by Kawaguchi's troops under Akinosuke Oka's local command. During the action three Marine companies were surrounded by Japanese forces near Point Cruz west of the Matanikau, took heavy losses, and barely escaped with assistance from the destroyer USS Monssen (DD-436) and landing craft manned by U.S. Coast Guard personnel.[79] In the second action between October 6 and 9 a larger force of Marines successfully crossed the Matanikau River, attacked newly landed Japanese forces from the 2nd Infantry Division under the command of generals Masao Maruyama and Yumio Nasu, and inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese 4th Infantry Regiment. The second action forced the Japanese to retreat from their positions east of the Matanikau and hindered Japanese preparations for their planned major offensive on the U.S. Lunga defenses.[80] Between October 9 and 11 the U.S. 1st Battalion 2nd Marines raided two small Japanese outposts about 30 miles (48 km) east of the Lunga perimeter at Gurabusu and Koilotumaria near Aola Bay. The raids killed 35 Japanese at a cost of 17 Marines and three U.S. Navy personnel killed.[81]

I dunno, I'd love to try doing Guadalcanal in CM. The battle for Manila rivals any of the urban battle in NW Europe.

Just planted tomatoes here. Looks awfully ambitious. We have these tiny little plants inside 6' texas tomato cages. Talk about optimism. Dinner however was beef cheeks, damned good.