costard
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Bill the Cat for president! "This time, vote for the worst!" Is Breathed still writing?
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Glycol blocks up the kidneys - you die from renal failure. Methanol (in poorly distilled spirits) will blind you.
Say it all together now - "Emrys got it wrong!"
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Imperative, descriptive, literal or bawdy? How to interpret that name?
Is s/he the vigilante type, dreaming of throwing evildoers and ne'er do wells off the cliffs of Dover? Is s/he the clever wo/man, dealing and dodging the troubles and living it pretty easy? Does s/he really push flies for a living? - scientists get paid to do weird stuff, it's true. Or does s/he just seek to be accosted, recognised as a fairly normal Pom (Yecknod would have to be in the same paddock as British 'normal', i.e. globally "challenged").
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Seanachai graduated to "Mythical Beast" some while ago now, Alice. Maybe our resident 'crep can give us a date for his transmutation? Michael? I miss the songs. And poemry.
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I think you may be playing down the role of change of energy from kinetic to heat, Amizaur.
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I havent seen any yet. Suggest you make one.
Nice one - sig worthy.
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In a fit of petanque, perhaps - no accent aigu for you, pique.
As for the High Priest of Decrepitude, he gets his kicks sniffing cane toads' armpits. Michael, go down to the vet and get some of that spot-on flea and tick treatment: should be good for the crabs. You'll be a much less grumpy old man and we would delight in your company even more, bestowing upon you the adoration and loving care that you so blatantly crave.
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"Collapsed lung" could also be the dying body's way of keeping the burning fuel/air mix out of it's lungs - you wouldn't be breathing in the middle of a fire-ball. Collapsed lung as a diagnosis is most often made when there is a penetrating wound to the thorax and the pressure differential can no longer be exercised by the diaphragm.
With regards to JC's post, how long did a FT have to sit in place to hose down the tank? How does the FT avoid taking an injury when the mix is ignited (petrol in air is a pretty hot and harsh bang, from what I remember of my mis-spent youth)? Lying down would be good... but that limits aiming to the top of the vehicle.. etc.
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Hi lowflyer, welcome to the game.
Look for your engineers and breach teams - guys with explosives packages to blast your way through bocage. Your task now is to identify the route you want to blast to end up where the defenders cannot catch you in the crossfire. You'll spend a bit of time learning how to blow gaps to get your vehicles through, and how to blow gaps without getting your blast team annihilated on the other side of the obstacle - set your blast movement parallel with the wall and see what result you get.
Let us know when the next frustration crops up - they seem to crop up with frightening regularity at this stage of the game. Courage and persistence.
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I have to say - this is precisely how it looks. Interestingly, catching myself whinging here, I googled to see what dead horses do look like.... and freshly dead horses without external injuries do look a lot like this one. Except for some reason their necks always seem to be extended. Huh!
In summer they bloat in a day or two (if the abdomen hasn't been ruptured), stiff legs from sticking out of a felt, dun balloon.
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I reckon four 37mm autocannon would do something for my morale, if I were flying into it. The fact would impact severely on my decision to follow up an initial attack.
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There's a bloody great squirrel over there.
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Someone find me an ambulance, this one's going to hurt. I'm still not going to say it, damn you!
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That's all true, but consider how that works out in practice. When the whole tank is exposed, the gunner aims for the center of mass, which would be somewhere in the upper part of the upper hull most likely. Given a random distribution of hits around the aim point, a percentage of those hits are likely to strike the turret or mantlet. Now take the case where only the turret is visible. The gunner, still aiming at the center of mass, aims at the center of the mantlet. Since it is a smaller target, on average he gets fewer hits overall, but it get worse. Now instead of rounds hitting above the aim point and striking the turret, they may miss the tank entirely or merely glance off the roof. Seems to me that going hull down is almost always a winner, even if the turret armor is somewhat less substantial. Apparently tankers agreed with me, as that is what they tried to do when circumstances allowed it.
Michael
Should be "centre of visible mass" that they're aiming for then Emrys, else you have to do a mental imaging calculation on the bits you can't see. Null argument.
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JasonC , its debend what wepons stuka has mounted but any way its wery wery effective in real life. sou i dont see any problem on this and good setupted aa gun on big map can shoot airoplanes down
Anyone have a screenshot of a big AA gun's battle score? Any 'planes listed?
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I'd guess that the MobelWagen appeared at the T-34's (it is a T-34, right? the perspective is a bit confusing) 1 o'clock and put a stripe across the MG ball, and then the tank turned its hull towards the threat and there's the second stripe more along the centreline.
Yup. I'm surprised the main gun is still in action.
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The penetration on the glacis was achieved by the 85mm APBC which is not around the bow maching gun or the edge of the armor. How to explain?
Erwin, that plate took a beating before it was penetrated. I wouldn't be saying this is an unrealistic result.
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Bloody Shaw - shows up just to remind us all of how slack he is.
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Yeah, got that bit - nice move. Did you dismount your crew first or did the Battalion HQ just kick them out of their ride?
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Does that show that 16 guys can hitch a ride on a KT?
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I always wondered about the "top" armour. Isn't is quite normal that tanks have weaker armour on top?
Yet in this game, the final column usually shows better armour (not in your example, typical)
There's also a Sherman variant that has sandbags on the front. That one shows better "top" armour for some reason.
Sandbags full of sand provide pretty good protection for about one round's worth of incoming, so I'm happy that this shows up in the schematic. You'd hope that the armour value degrades quickly with exposure to fire (I'd be surprised if BF missed this but I haven't tested it.)
Bulletpoint, which vehicles have the better top armour values? You want tanks to protect their occupants and survive, say, direct mortar fire, so reasonably high values for top armour aren't necessarily unrealistic. Also figure the increase in fighter-bomber activity as the war progresses and some design changes to counter this...?
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A toad's map of Tasmania? All the little streams it can holiday at and stuff?
Mace has it right - "more vile than Emrys" is a null concept. Emrys occupying any space at all in Yeknod's brain is likewise. He'd be thinking* that he now understood what was meant by the curvature of the universe, trying to stretch his one dimensional understanding into the two that are needed to function as a human being and being about as successful as a rabbit peeling prunes.
* you guessed it: Emrys thinking = null concept
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Or they could relocate down to Australia where the weather is much kinder. Hell they can use my games room!!
Isn't Hanging Rock is just down the road from you Mace? Do you often invite people to your "games" room?
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GunHappy - I wholeheartedly agree that Western political system, where the populace as a whole is required to exercise power and take responsibility for the actions of the nation is the best example of a political system that the world has seen. It is certainly worth defending. There is no doubt that it has delivered the best outcomes for everyone when compared to any other political system. The US has been the shining light of the practice of this for the best part of a century and has found itself in a unique position vis-à-vis the expectations of the remainder of the world, expectations of it's decisions and behaviour.
But, over the last half century we have seen a devolution of that political system to the point where the populace as a whole does not exercise power - it merely takes the blame (hence the emotional whiplash when US policies and actions are criticised). Socialise risk, privatise profit. Concentrate market share through the establishment and maintenance of cartels and monopolies - energy, mineral resources, information distribution (media ownership), even ideas on spiritual guidance through the exclusive promotion of a religion. This is all happening, has been happening for a while and is about to reach the point where the light-bulb goes off in people's heads - all those rules we decided were unnecessary or promulgated by old farts who couldn't adequately explain the need, those rules we decided didn't apply to us, turns out we were wrong. Rules about honesty, mercy, noblesse oblige, justice, fairness - there are good reasons for those being in place and they need to apply to everyone. Winner takes all is a disaster for the race as a whole, because an individual can't procreate: the outcome is necessarily self-inflicted extinction. The hope is that the light bulb goes off before we get to the point of no return: given the complexity and interdependence of the global economy, the sheer number of work hours that has gone into setting it up to run as it does, the effort and capability required to rebuild that economy is beyond anything ever done before on this planet. The Dark Ages lasted three or four hundred years. The social fallout from World Wars One and Two, in terms of dysfunctional individuals and families resulting from hugely traumatised populations, is still playing out sixty years later. The advent of nuclear power makes the possibility of human extinction within our lifetimes a very real problem to deal with. Getting ourselves involved in a war where there is a high probability of a nuclear exchange, with a resultant probability of a positive feedback loop of further exchanges is not something we want to do. You can believe, if you like, that your (our) leadership is infallible and well informed: I have seen no evidence of this being the case.
Points display in scenario Unit Editor
in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy
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Same note in Game Engine v3.00 Manuel, p90.