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  1. Purchased Weapons & Warfare: I played 1.03 and its a huge amount of fun. Lots of nice changes and additions and a thumping good strategy gameplay experience.

    Many thanks to Hubert & the team for this - great work and a real good expansion.

    Thanks also to Bill Macon for the Advanced Third Reich mod.

    I played this as a kid (it was my first ever strategy game I bought) and a lot of work and care is evident in this mod - great work Bill.

    By the way - your name sounds familiar - did you work on some RPG games?

    Many Thanks,

    Steve.

  2. This is not even historically in character with Patton.

    To quote a post from elsewhere:

    What a grotesque abomination and misuse of a man's name and even an actor's image. Anyone who knows anything about the man and his history knows he would have been the first to spit in a neocon eye and the the first to scream bloody murder in the press when the mission was declared "accomplished" a year after the war started. He would have been repulsed by pencil pushing war dilletants sending brave men and women in to die piecemeal without a clear mission. And would have said so loud and clear till they fired his ass.

    This is not funny...not accurate...and in extremely poor taste. With the support the troops disclaimer at the end just adding to the sour taste of deceit to the whole thing.

  3. There were several plans the UK had in case Germany successfully invaded the UK.

    One of the contingencies devised would involve the use of air-dropped gas bombs against German forces en masse.

    The bombs were stockpiled and this remained a secret until a few years ago when secret files were made public in Britain.

    Churchill was not against using "any means" to defend Britain.

    As an interesting afterthought, there was also a little-known German 'practice run' at sea lion during 1940 using a small amphibious landing party around the Cornish Coast.

    The charred remains of the landing boats and German soldiers and equipment were found several years ago.

    So far there has not been any official reply to these findings.

  4. Ah apologies guys - I was really tired when I checked this out last night-stupid error.

    Well, count me in for a purchase - I cant wait...I loved IL-2 and this looks to be a major step forward in WW2 gaming.

  5. Just for interest, I'm wondering what other WW2 games we all enjoy on here.

    I love history and particularly find WW2 fascinating.

    Even though I'm not a great first-person shooter fan, I found The Medal of Honor series and Call Of Duty beautifully done with a wonderfully well-captured atmosphere and attention to detail.

    Hearts of Iron 2 and Doomsday are favourites, but take rather a long time to play (and the Japanese carriers STILL don't have the range to attack pearl harbour!)

  6. Hubert, as far as I remember, France had fallen 2 or 3 turns earlier, and I had been blockading u-boats with the Royal Navy from the start.

    The paradrop ocurred, then the Luftwaffe went mental in hitting my navy, along with the entire Kriegsmarine that sortied out.

    I dont see this as a bug but a concerted attempt at Sealion. I loved it!

    It took me several turns to defeat that single para unit.

    I was playing on 'Expert' level with no experience handicap.

  7. Modern Equipment Point Values

    Obviously, you will have to factor down the values here but they are an accurate value for the purposes of modelling units.

    NOTE:

    REDFOR = Opponent forces

    BLUFOR = U.S. / Allied forces

    "These values come from World class Opposing Force (WCOPFOR) in Fort Leavenworth and they cover three classes of enemies of US Army:

    -Marcala (low level infantry based opponent)

    -Orangeland (mid level Asian opponent, ie. North Korea)

    -Northland (high level European opponent, ie. Former Soviet Union)"

    http://www-solar.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~aaron/mod_point.html

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