Lt Belenko

Great link. A level or two up provided many more documents. http://www.cgsc.edu/carl/contentdm/home.htm Infantry field manual 1944 http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/p4013coll9&CISOPTR=743&CISOBOX=1&REC=3

Is the sound from running over dead cows a crunchy or is that a squishy?

Speaking of breaching a hedge row. It is a little known fact, on rainy days it was much easier for a rhino-tank to plow thru a hedge row when the ground was softer. However after the Sun was shining for a few days the ground would get very hard. That is why the GI tankers always cursed those - Sunny Breaches.

Go ahead and post a screenie even if it is not working perfect. Inquiring minds want to know.

In the game, can the Shermans with rhinos plow thru the hedgerows and alter the landscape. I'd really like to see a screen capture of before and after of this.

Who's grass mod is that?

Was in for CMx1. Some of the funnest/gamey battles were reinforcements entering from all sides at various time intervals. Not too realistic, but loads of fun. I have zero CMSF scenario editor time, so cant answer if its in for CMBN.

Delays are caused by the 90-90 Rule of Software Development. The first 90% takes 90% of the time and the last 10% takes the other 90% of the time. I think BFC learned their lesson of unfinished SW with the premature release of CMSF. We will mumble, gripe, and bitch about the delays, but we will will much prefer a finished product...especially if it comes in a tin box.

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Sounds like a scene from a really bad John Waters movie.

In no particular order: Quit my job Fill the fridge with beer. Have a doctor with the surgical skills to separate my fingers from the mouse and keyboard, all lined up.

Atomized. Teeny Tiny Bits.

The screen capture of the M8. It has markings 7A 758 and HQ16. Are there individual markings for each tank in a battle? Or will all tanks of the same type have the same markings based on the skin and or mod?

All these screen shots and the AARs remind me of 3rd grade show and tell. Some kid brings in something really cool and you ask to see it. They reply "You see with your eyes not with your hands." Stomping feet and holding breath until I get to touch the game.

So Schultz, where did you get hit? Right where the helmet would have been if BFC had designed the damn thing correctly.

Tim Allen : When I walk into that (Sears) Craftsman tool department, my nipples get rock-hard! When I think about operational level on top of CMx2 , my nipples get rock-hard!

Good stuff in this thread Are you saying, in real life, a 6 man squad or 60 man company of vets is a better fighting force than a 10 man squad or 100 man company of 60%vet/40%green. I don't get it. Care to elaborate? How did the other armies replace troops after extended combat?

but only two armies will be represented in the initial release.

More pressing than nuclear meltdown. What might that be?

As they were struggling to get power to the plant to get the cooling water pumps going and when they were dropping water from the helos I kept thinking: How difficult is it to helo in five or ten 50KW generators? How difficult is it to helo in ten or twenty 6-inch pumps with 10,000 feet of hose to go from the ocean to the plants? Why the long delays?

Are you using a 6 sided die or a D&D 10 sided die? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/10-sided_dice_250.jpg

Exactly the answer I was looking for.

I remember reading an article in the Avalon Hill magazine "The General" about Panzer Blitz scenario 10-Kursk. This battle had the 3 boards lined up end to end. There was a small Russian blocking force on the 1st map, an empty map, followed by a tank force on the final board. The scenario was originally designed with a block (X) as part of the Russian blocking force. Placing it at a point on the road that passed thru the trees (green lines), would basically make the game unwinnable for the Germans just by forcing them to climb a hill. Remember how climbing a hill was next to impossible in that game. The scenario was redesigned without the X on the OOB cards - and made the battle more playable. Check your PBlitz Scenario cards if you have the X you have a first printing. Bottomline: An improperly designed scenario or map can make a battle no fun at all.

Are we talking Rommel's Asparagus here?

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