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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.

Actually it is Banzai. Bonsai is for plants. uhh duh, oh wait herbicide... joke, yeah umm never mind. (watches as CM1fan passes his hand over his head and mutters "zoom" while rolling his eyes.) "Banzai（万歳）" literally means ten thousand years (of life). It is written with the combination of the kanji characters for "ten thousand（万）" and "age（歳）." Bonsai (盆栽, lit. plantings in tray, from bon, a tray or low-sided pot and sai, a planting or plantings,

I generally follow that stance as well. About the only time I will use target is if I am afraid the AI will choose what I believe to be the least threatening or lower probability kill in choosing between multiple targets. I find the AI also wastes less ammo if I leave it to decide. I once watched a PzShk team loose 4 rounds at a Stuart when if I had let it be it would have only likely used 1. I was worried though the team would waste fire on some nearby infantry if I didn't set a target order.

It looks like your LOF goes through the branches, not necessarily the trunk. If you can get an immobilization, then a kill is guaranteed and a side shot like that... Yeah I'd have to go for it. If the fates are against you so be it. Besides at a minimum the rude shock may make him even more cautious.

heh heh and word of warning, the file size in PBEM is quite large, but so far it is running good. The map is per usual for Broadsword simply amazing.

Trying to prove me wrong?

permanent666 is no troll and while I think it is a bad idea to post that link without warning, clicking on it wouldn't reveal anything to Bil as it is the very start of the thread before they even switched maps.

Building your own is actually kind of fun. I read avidly all the talk on the forum while CMBN was still being prepped for release, copied down the specs of folks who seemed to have no issues and then went to Fry's, bought the components and built it myself. It isn't rocket science. Though I am sure there are folks who could tweak my machine and get even better results out of it, my rig has handled anything I have thrown at it in CM and what it couldn't handle has usually been determined to be a bug. I spent about $1000 on it, but I wanted two 2 terabyte drives, one for my use and one to auto backup. I also got a blue ray disc player etc. After almost 2 years now I think I have definitely gotten my money's worth out of it.

I don't think there is a math gamers forum.... Then again how the hell would I know. What I do know is I feel like I am listening to a big bang theory episode with Sheldon arguing with himself. Oddly enough that is sort of amusing.

Never know, BF might come up with some kind of model for that, but I suspect the terrain, flavor items, buildings etc will all change so much it may not be feasible. Even looking at CMBN vs CMFI you have a significant amount of variation in the building types. CMFI has more 3 and 4 story buildings than CMBN currently and it capable of creating higher population density urban maps. I have gone back to CMSF and tried to recreate some ideas I have been tinkering around with in CMBN/CMFI and I just can't do them in CMSF. Really looking forward to CMSF2 as I think the map creation capabilities will be a lot better.

Yeah well you have fun with that. My inability to imagine is simply a healthy level of skepticism to unproven hyperbole. Just because someone talks about it on the internet doesn't make it true. That you choose to believe all that stuff is your business. That you toss it around here as fact is just annoying. I work in the VoIP field. If I listened to what the carriers told me about SIP I would have a lot of egg on my face at work as it turns out the carriers do not even transmit SIP between themselves. Skepticism is a good thing, it has kept me gainfully employed.

what cammo mod are you using for those PJs?

That is bogus. Have you ever heard of any instance at all (verifiable - not just some internet blather) of an aircraft having any instability much less accident due to cell phone usage or any other device in the cabin? I fly a LOT and have forgotten to turn off my cell phone in my bag more times than I can count. Cell phones are on a completely different spectrum than the aircraft functions themselves. The ban is simply there because no one will take the effort to lift it. Which frankly I am quite happy about, the last thing I want is chatter on cell phones in the plane. If just one in 10,000 people forgot to turn off their cell phone, the amount of impact on airline traffic would be catastrophic according to your statement. You really think not one in 10,000 forgets on a regular basis? This one is so easily refutable it is sad that time is wasted to even bother pointing out the glaring hole in the logic. Not to mention,if it were true Homeland security would ban devices being even brought on to the plane. Hell they ban water. Also it is bad form to cite you own links that have already been refuted on the thread you are linking to. Recycled bad data is still bad data. Recycling as a good thing only applies to products that can actually be used to help the environment.

Getting awfully close or maybe over the line there on OPSEC. I haven't read Bil's installment, but there should be no discussion here about what Bil might or might not have noted. Pfft GaJ beat me to it. I type s...l...o... where is that "w' ...ohh there it is....w

I dare you to repeat that over in the peng thread

what if the water is infinitely deep and the source of the fire is infinitely hot..... of course using real numbers.

In the immortal words of the old man in Monty Python's The Holy Grail - I'm not quite dead yet...I feel happy! Bil may yet hear from that sniper again.

They aren't minor now. I expect periodically the division the country comes up every now and then, Entering the EU I remember N Italy talking about dumping S Italy as the economic drag on the economy. Okay enough SHOOT SOMETHING!

Well we have only a cursory reference on GaJ about placement. It is an HMG bunker which begs the question why it was placed with visibility all that distance. Even if Bil had not spotted it yet, it seems to have been a really bad position as whenever it got spotted, there was a nice overwatch position to kill it from. Again there are assumptions about concealment that don't have anything to support them yet. For all we know this thing is standing in the open in clear view of anyone with a pair of binoculars. This is another bit of bad luck for GaJ that I think is going to be traced back to not paying close enough attention to where things can be seen from. Bunkers are tough to place and I can only attest to having ever placed one in a good position. That was an off angle to hit an attacker from the side while being completely concealed prior to the enemy getting into that position. The good news is - you can bail out.

Bil, we are talking tree farming for crying out loud! Shoot something.

Never. As BF promised to keep the game up to date, these will be final when BF releases a new engine and starts back on Western front WW 2 with the new holographic 3D version that allows you to use a time portal and go back in time to find out if anyone ever resolved the question of infinity posed on some thread that is still running on the forum....