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A bit sanctimonious,no? The 3rd Reich did enjoy, for several years, an economic resurgence based on traditional scoring- off a low baseline, granted. Hitler crushed the unions at the same time vastly expanding the bureaucracy. There were considerable distortions, notably foreign exchange, that would have eventually doomed this prosperity. Not to mention the gluttonous arms and munitions sectors. In retrospect, it was likely a mirage. GDP numbers notwithstanding. We clear?

LOL, unknown to me it was a Holocaust denial site. Just picked it off Google. But we can't impeach the noted British historian Niall Ferguson , can we? Reason magazine has a more negative take on the Nazi recovery. Hitler did slay inflation and employment but at a great cost further down the line.: http://www.ihr.org/other/economyhitler2011.html

http://www.ihr.org/other/economyhitler2011.html ' German business revived and prospered. During the first four years of the National Socialist era, net profits of large corporations quadrupled, and managerial and entrepreneurial income rose by nearly 50 percent. / 20 Between 1933 and 1938, notes historian Niall Ferguson, Germany's "gross domestic product grew, on average, by a remarkable eleven percent a year," with no significant increase in the rate of inflation. / 21 “Things were to get even better,” writes Jewish historian Richard Grunberger in his detailed study, The Twelve-Year Reich. “In the three years between 1939 and 1942 German industry expanded as much as it had during the preceding fifty years.” / 20 '

You can define Germany's prosperity pre-war as factitious. However, the numbers don't support that theory even before the Anschluss. Foreigners who visited Berlin during the Olympics were deeply impressed. Germany was the first nation to emerge from the Depression. The USA remained in the economic doldrums until the outbreak of war. Given his long term plans, Hitler had every incentive to rebuild the economy. And he did.

ME: From 1933-39 the Nazis killed inflation and unemployment. Even the birthrate went up. Poles, Ukrainians, Belgians... that's later. Just givin' the Devil his due.

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Ouch, Jon! That was a withering emoji! No, it's appeal to counterfactual considerations. Chiang Kai-Shek was demonstrably ineffectual but a mass murderer on the scale of Mao and his minions, no, I think not. Not to mention the starvation that always attends the seizure of power by communist ideologues. At least the Nazis, evil as they were, presided over several years of prosperity.

You're right, it didn't. And 60 million+ Chinese paid the price.

'Sure, but all that "stuff" is of no value if you can't figure out how to use it. Look at Chang Kai-shek. We sent him a pile of logistical support way in excess of any harm he ever did to the Japanese.' Chang Kai-shek deliberately husbanded the material sent him by the US. He foresaw a conflict with Mao and the communists after the departure of the Japanese and felt he needed every plane, bullet, and barrel of oil for that showdown . Rightly or wrongly.

LOL!

Actually, I felt Frederick the Great was, despite the impressive mane, a bit sway backed. If Bo Derek was a '10' I'd give him a 7.

The battles in Berlin and Stalingrad will, imo, be better depicted once BF refines city fighting, namely more plausible building destruction and spreading flames. The long held desideratum for 'fire', that was present in CM1 in a rough and ready manner, might be held up by the challenges imposed by the more detailed CM2 engine. We know they 'want to do it'. One suspects that the latter may, in addition to coding complexities, inflict severe strains on sub-state-of-the-art PCs. And, o/t, Kursk risks being a chore given the vast Soviet defensive works. The Germans had telegraphed their punch for months. How do you feel about navigating minefields? The sweeping Axis offensives in '41 and '42 seem more congenial for CM players.

Agreed, BP. That an elite, or especially a command crew would sit around playing crossword puzzles next to their disabled tank and not hijack another ride stretches credulity. I submit it was a common occurrence.

You may be right, Sublime. He contributed some trenchant comments vis-vis realism but some don't recall his nick. But how old were you back in 2000? 17?

Better than having the option of transferring ammo is to make all the crews fungible. IOW, they can man any vehicle for which they are assigned. For example, Wittmann and his team during the Villers Bocage battle.

Interesting chap, Milch. Wiki: Erhard Milch was born in Wilhelmshaven, the son of Anton Milch, a Jewish pharmacist[1] who served in theKaiserliche Marine, the Imperial German Navy, and Clara Milch, née Vetter. Due to his Jewish ancestry, according to the Nazi Nuremberg Laws of 1935, he was considered as a "Jewish Mischling of the first degree". At Göring's urging, Adolf Hitler gave Milch a German Blood Certificate and was later reclassified as an "honorary Aryan" and was one of the few officers in the German high command of Jewish ancestry. Milch joined the Nazi Party (number 123885) on April 1, 1929, but his membership was not officially acknowledged until March 1933, because Hitler deemed it desirable to keep the fact hidden for political reasons.[2] Following Hitler’s suicide, Milch attempted to flee Germany, but was captured by Allied forces on the Baltic coast on 4 May 1945. On surrendering, he presented his baton to the Commando Brigadier Derek Mills-Roberts, who was so disgusted by what he had seen when liberating the Bergen-Belsen concentration campthat he broke the baton over Milch's head.[7] In 1947, Milch was tried as a war criminal by a United States Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. He was convicted on two counts: War crimes, by participating in the ill-treatment and use of the forced labour of prisoners of war(POWs) and the deportation of civilians to the same ends. Crimes against humanity, by participating in the murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, imprisonment, torture, and the use of slave labour of civilians who came under German control, German nationals and prisoners of war. Milch was sentenced to life imprisonment at Landsberg prison. His sentence was commuted to 15 years imprisonment in 1951, but he was released in June 1954. He lived out the remainder of his life in Düsseldorf, where he died in 1972.

My late father in WW2: 1- He served in N Africa and Sicily in the field artillery. As He was part of the Kasserine debacle. 2- His most vivid recollection was when his mate, standing next to him, had his head blown clean off by an- allegedly- 88 shell. 3- The army was farcically organized, a theme of amusing dinner party conversations when I was a boy. For example, he was compelled to stand in line several times for the same inoculation. 4- He didn't care much for WW2 movies. He insisted that the Germans were NOT stupid as often depicted in post-war flics. They were a formidable foe. 5- He and I watched the film Patton together in the 70s. He had witnessed several of that general's speeches and complained that George C. Scott sounded nothing like him. Patton had a high squeaky voice and cursed a blue streak, with a liberal sprinkling of 'F-words' thrown in, shocking my small town, southern-raised Dad. RIP

Ah, those cursed tree trunks. A deceptive element that inhibits getting the 'big picture' on a CM map.

The odd thing about this vid is why the Panther took 40 seconds to fire back.

I notice that with CMFB, unlike the other series, I have to designate the high-performance NVIDIA option before launching the game.

A stud...and he knows it. Check out that mane. Meet Frederick the Great: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3604194/Frederick-Great-handsome-horse-world.html Closest human competitor:

I recall back in the day when CMBO 1.0 came out- 2001?- there was a former WW2 Sherman tanker who participated in the forum. I wish I could find his posts.

Perhaps they deem the extra coding it not worth it because the 'acquiring' part takes just a few seconds, varying according to the skill and experience of the gunner. This applies as well to slewing a tank's turret.

Well, BF could refine the process by unifying, i.e. accelerating, traverse speed across the board for a given gun. Then signifying 'acquiring' in the unit box when preparing to fire in the same way a MG or Mortar team is 'deploying'. Is it worth it? I have no idea how much coding work that would entail.