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Yes, but, as the player we'd ALWAYS give into temptation. Our guys are just conglomerations of pixels. I seem to remember that, in CM1, you could override the TacAI and target AFVs from within buildings at the risk of injuries and fire. CM2 has no fire- yet- so the risk/reward ratio is reduced. The coding poses no problem unlike, say, gun elevations. PIATs can already fire from inside structures. BF simply decided based on the preponderance of evidence that shrecks/fausts should not share that ability.

The wind dissipating the smoke molecules and, uh,.... hell, I don't know! Ask the anonymous Wiki contributor!

But there's also this, courtesy of WIkipedia: Firing the (Panzerschreck) generated a lot of smoke both in front and behind the weapon. Because of the weapon's tube and the smoke, the German troops nicknamed it the Ofenrohr ("Stove Pipe"). This also meant that Panzerschreck teams were revealed once they fired, making them targets and, therefore, required them to shift positions after firing. This type of system also made it problematic to fire the weapon from inside closed spaces (such as bunkers or houses), filling the room with toxic smoke and revealing the firing location immediately. This was in contrast to the British PIAT's non-smoking spigot mortar system, or the Panzerfaust's short burst launch system. One suspects they were used from within structures in extremis.

One suspects many of the older scenarios have fallen victim to obsolescence. Now it's advantage defender. Is BF going to re-adjust the force ratios for QBs? For those who enjoy that sort of thing... In the CMFI forum Bil mentioned the new FOG treatment. You wonder, which side will that favor?

You're American, Apocal, right? You've heard the expression 'tongue in cheek'? I was just tweaking Jon. (he loves it...) I will say that the Germans had the coolest looking uniforms, however.

Chocolate bars... Works like a charm.

You mean people like Stephen Hawking, Lord Byron, Frida Khalo and Walter Scott? All born with birth defects. Troy Aikman, the Dallas QB, was born with a club foot.

This is a plus?

You're right. This excerpt from Wikipedia confirms your position: Initially, North Korean armor dominated the battlefield with Soviet T-34-85 medium tanks designed during the Second World War.[247] The KPA's tanks confronted a tankless ROK Army armed with few modern anti-tank weapons,[248] including American World War II–model 2.36-inch (60 mm) M9 bazookas, effective only against the 45 mm side armor of the T-34-85 tank.[249] The US forces arriving in Korea were equipped with light M24 Chaffee tanks (on occupation duty in nearby Japan) that also proved ineffective against the heavier KPA T-34 tanks... Countering the initial combat imbalance, the UN Command reinforcement matériel included heavier US M4 Sherman, M26 Pershing, M46 Patton, and British Cromwell and Centurion tanks that proved effective against North Korean armor, ending its battlefield dominance.[252] Unlike in the Second World War (1939–45), in which the tank proved a decisive weapon, the Korean War featured few large-scale tank battles. The mountainous, heavily forested terrain prevented large masses of tanks from maneuvering. In Korea, tanks served largely as infantry support and mobile artillery pieces.

And it would be a good scenario. The beautiful thing about the CM tactical system is that you can always extract a few engrossing engagements no matter how one-sided the strategic picture. I bought War in the East. A mistake attributable to a lack of self-awareness at the time- way too giganormous. It recalls some huge and indecipherable Jackson Pollock hanging on the wall which resists all deconstruction and frightens the cat. Never again...

There were two incidents. 107 POWs were, well, murdered. 103 Italians and 4 Germans.

It's very difficult criticizing eugenics if proponents restrict you to objections based on utilitarian or biological principles. In a heartless way, it's all very logical.

Think of all the months and years it took Battlefront to come out with 2 WW2 games plus one module. And we want them undress down to their skivvies (hmmm...) and dive into a Korea project? One questions whether the theater would attract enough buyers outside the hardcore. And, as sBurke pointed out, you run into the same issues as a hypothetical War in the Pacific. Though, personally, I'd prefer the former to the latter. With Korea you get tanks!

How does the tank crew know it's only a single guy?

All facetiousness aside, the Germans got what they deserved: a massive defeat. The Nazi regime constitutes a monument to malevolence. There were bad Germans and Germans guilty of passive complicity. There were Germans in denial. But one can still pause and admire the occasional rose blooming among the rocks.

Haha! I knew that last line would draw you out of your crawl space! Why did you think I edited it?

The mission got much harder in 2.01. The German MGs were a nuisance before, now they'll chew up your guys- including you own MG teams. So, sorry, no advice. ISTR, however, that a poster claimed he won it in 2.01 with minimal losses.

Interesting, mjk. I'll bring this up next time I see Delton- he lives several blocks away- although I confess to understanding only half of what he says. . I seem to recall that it was his very first mission. Recounting the events to seemed to amuse him more than anything else. Edit: That landing gear stunt was despicable, lol. Thank God one side lived by an honour code.

This is wild. I was chatting with an elderly neighbor yesterday, Delton, who's 89 y.o.but physically robust. (He was cleaning out his garage) Delton was wearing an army cap so I inquired about his experiences, presumably in WW2. Turned out he the tail gunner on a B-17 which went down over Germany in 1943. November 26, to be precise. The plane was shot up by a pair of fighters. Two of the crew were killed, the rest bailed. When the chutes opened the German planes departed. Four of them were able to escape from Germany to France. He related some of his adventures but it can be hard understanding him through the rattling dentures and Texas twang. Delton's name is unusual so googling was easy. http://www.100thbg.com/mainpages/crews/crews2/ford.htm I printed the page and left it in his mailbox. Be interesting to get his reaction. We talked on and on about the bombing campaign, the flak, the planes, the commanders. The odd thing is that he wasn't surprised at all that I would be so knowledgeable on the subject: most natural thing in the world. The only discrepancy was that Delton claimed the two enemy fighters were 109s. According to the website they were FW-190s. He did nail the date.

Good points. Eugenics is not genocide. Recently a 1st century letter, on papyrus, was discovered at the Oxyrynchus site in Egypt. It was from a visiting Roman to his pregnant wife in Rome. He commands her that if the child is female to 'expose it'. We've wandered down a side street with this discussion. But it's not irrelevant when pondering Stigler's act of mercy. What are the long term ramifications? Short term it was damaging to his side.

Yes, Sgt Joch, but let's be honest... The Eugenics movement began in America in the 19th cent. We were the pioneers. It was especially popular among academics, so-called progressives and nascent think tanks. Women, like Margaret Sanger, were prominent. It never evolved into outright murder, true, but proponents fostered immigration restrictions, forced sterilizations and segregation for the mentally handicapped. Some states, Connecticut for example, enacted marriage laws with eugenic criteria. The Rockefeller Foundation helped develop and fund various German eugenics programs, including the one that Josef Mengele worked in before he went to Auschwitz. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States The 'We Do Not Stand Alone' propaganda poster from 1936, supporting Nazi Germany's 1933 eugenics Law. Note the US flag. OK, back to Hanomag gunners...

Pretty creative photoshopping, Vencini.

You implied that Stigler contributed to more German deaths by his clemency. Removing a defective gene from the pool may contribute to better health for the species if the carrier reproduces. This was the rationale behind the aborted Nazi euthanasia program: eugenics. It's a matter of moral returns versus material returns. Which is greater? Which matters more? Not easy questions... Edit: lulz? lol

Sounds like California: the paradise of gov't employees, and the Hell of small business owners. I blame it on the surge of Liberal arts graduates who constitute a noisy pressure group for an ever larger state. The more universities in a region, the more bureaucrats you get. The great thing about advocating more government- if you're a pol- is that you acquire a devoted Praetorian guard in the media.

Your comments possess a brutal logic. The conclusion is akin to aborting a foetus which reveals a birth defect in order to preserve the integrity of the gene pool. Also brutally logical.