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Sounds like OpenPlayLib wasn't installed properly. Try a delete and reinstall? A search for OpenPlayLib brings it up as a problem with Mac OS occasionally... installation seems to be the theme there. Not much help here I'm afraid, someone more competent will be along shortly. Good luck.

I'm playing SF at the moment The squads in SF can be split to give you different fire teams - Assault, AT, LMG teams. Very handy for set piece attacks on positions I suspect the LMG section in a rifle squad at CMWW2 might be able to be split off, giving the close combat part of the squad covering fire as they assault.

Welcome to the forum Bazza. The scenario designer often has plan in mind for the overall "feel" of a scenario - so s/he might set up an Axis Attack vs A.I. In this case, as the Allied defender he might have scoped the defender's ground and found some truly nasty surprise with which to smight the unwary - the un-hittable AT gun is always a pain to an armoured attacker, for example. If you let the AI stick to the default setups you allow the scenario designer to influence the play - if you let the AI do its own setup you'll likely have an easier task due to inappropriate placement of units. Minefield and wire placements comes into their own as an art in this game, the AI rarely places these well. Kingfish sticks out as a scenario designer who uses this to effect, in my experience.

The goat as flavour object - maybe?

Wonder what the oil was insured for?

I figured it was an ammo measure. The things you learn... By the way - do we have one of those?

I think Timoshenko's mob might be supportive of Russia - after all, the Ukraine does have a major agreement in the provision of a deep water port for the Russian Navy (part of the original secession treaty), and they did allow the basing of the naval operations against Georgia. You might argue that they have little choice, but this is, after all, realpolitik. Georgia has experienced the consequences of wishing for a different reality and acting to promote fantasies.

Just a thought, but this project will probably see fruition because Steve and others want to play the game. When, well, that's another question.

A squad following up can render buddy aid, it isn't necessary to take the rest of the depleted squad out of the battle. Leaders or MG groups with no current assignment can take up the slack. I guess if you had a "Medic" skill level you might gain on casualty survivability and time spent rendering aid... Hard Learned Hint: don't park supporting Strykers on top of the casualty - the other team can't get to him. Vehicle repair would be a great little scenario script - having to cover it until evacuated.

"Sarge, I think I just **** meself."

Good idea - how about being able to set up defensive minefields: that'd rock my boat.

They're just indulging in some infighting and expressing their philosophical positions. The belief that the richest will do quite well without the rest of the society, thankyou very much, is still strong in the GOP. It won't be until the rich start to be taxed out of existence by the democracy they exploit that they will change their (publicly expressed) opinions and seek the aid that a larger membership can provide. So, yes, for the GOP as for everyone else, circumstances are to get worse before they get better.

That is true - stuff has to be really, really broken before a government is able to get in and fix it. Of course, if it's doing fine any amount of monkeying around is permissable.

JonS, I realise this is an editorial for a newspaper, but it scares the **** out of me. The banks still don't get it... And I'm thinking that a row of nooses on the oak in the grounds of 1600 is looking good too: not much time left for that to be organised.:eek:

Hi Canada Guy I run XP with Nvidia 7600GT. CMSF and all the CMX1 games run fine.

JonS - 'we' are looking like crazy for good leaders not produced by the army, so that they might design and implement some effective measures. Like political stability and functioning state infrastructure. A big, a FOB ask. Well, at the end of the war and the beginning of the peace we did - we stopped killing each other. Behaviours fundamentally changed. Getting to a point where [the Allies] could do that took the combined industrial output of the entire western world, plus the Soviet Union. The US had some enormous percentage of its population either under arms or in wartime production, luxuries were scarce and the investment in the war machine was such that the Manhattan Project, with the equivalent industrial output of the entire US automobile industry in (1930's? my history is shaky here) was blueprinted and built in three years. It's also useful to look at the casualty figures for both sides for that period - if you're going to do the killing thing, and make the world a better place thereby, bloody well do it already. I have seen no indication that the American populace is wiling to undergo similar travails in the prosecution of this war on terror, and if it goes hot in Iran and Syria, that's where they'll be. Changing peoples' belief systems is not easy - why should it be? The biggest help, perhaps, is providing an alternative to some aspects of their beliefs that are not helpful. In some cases, this is nigh on difficult: try to build a society where females have equal rights to pay and property, control over their fertility, political sufferance from the age of eighteen. In Afghanistan. I haven't seen much progress in political theory as it is practised - mostly the media only provides me with saturation coverage of media tarts and dickheads in suits. At least, by the quality of their arguments, they might possibly be viewed as dickheads. But that is our media and my opinion. I agree that the presence of US and NATO soldiers most probably provides for the security of many people in IraqanStan - I personally, would be much more comfortable being policed by people who spoke my language and had grown up in a similar (broadly, New Testament) set of values as preached. I suspect the same would apply to the peoples of IraqanStan. I'd like to know if you count Vietnam, by the fact of having a US presence for an extended period, gained from the exposure to the US culture? (I can certainly see some of the positives of the French occupation - the better bakers around here in Melbourne are Vietnamese, the traditions of European bakery coming out in their skills...I digress). I do agree that the broader US culture has important values to hold up to the world, and proudly so; I don't think we're seeing the best. WoD - for why you think barbarians would want to overrun you? In this case, the grass is definitely greener over here. end of ramble waffle on to the end of the page

"I lost my quote" meade95 - "Trying to create a moral-equilivence between the United States and that of Islamic Jihidists is simply not dealing with reality. By any and all reasonable measures." Trying to create a moral equivalence is exactly what we're trying to do. The end-point is the peace, where no conflict in morals exists that cannot be managed by means other than war. I would argue that no society does well when it's only recognised political power is that of the military. This highlights the need for other solutions, or combinations. And, perhaps, my morals. abdecken5 - "And how would you feel if America was occupied and deverstated by a foreign invader in order to deal with this top level "terrorist" minority, becuase America is unable or unwilling to deal with them itself and even supports and harbours them? And how would you react if your home was layed to waste while being used as a magnet to draw out this enemy into open conflict?" You describe ours enemies feelings so very well (as Devil's Advocate, of course). JonS - "The only real difference is which circumstances are right, proper, moral, ethical, and laudable. And that is different for everyone." So what is the same is that we can, to some extent, choose our behaviour, can change our values. And that is the same for everyone. BigDuke6 - "Point being, ethics and the concept of what is right and wrong - in a particular case do not just come out of whole cloth, they come from a social and historical context. Generally every one agrees killing is bad, but people and cultures differ on when exactly an exception to that basic human value is ok. Failure to acknowledge that reality, that different human societies will view right and wrong differently, and to deal with it somehow, almost inevitably condemns you to enforcing your morals in ignorance on some one who will resist you, fired by his own belief in morals." Where's the editor when you need him. Moon? - can fix [italics] thingy? Morals are imposed by social mechanism - dominant behaviours and religious teaching. I.e. the dominant behaviours are taught and learned at the weekly religious meet: in Savannah, in York and in Baghdad. Most large population centres cater adequately to the presence of groups of religions, by and large they live in some sort of harmoney. And we value that money... it tends to grow in peace. Back to Meade - in the period immediately after 9/11, the American people had the will and the moral right, as seen by most of the rest of the world, to go kick some butt. Had weapons of mass destruction been found, or any evidence of material or financial support for the 9/11 attacks been found and published, the moral right to the instigation of foreign conflict against the nation state of Iraq would have been a non-question - again, to most people's minds. What has been published is the stuff that continues to sell and the Yanks have been running on high adrenalin hate for eight years now, with little to show. No wonder most of them are going for a change in direction - and isn't this exactly what we are trying to change about our enemies?

Not here - do they have installation rights on their machines (i.e. are they Administrator). If not, they could ask the Administrator (politely usually works well) to install the program - this might, just might, help. Also try installing with anti-virus off. Other ideas, Other Means? The OS details would be helpful - hope this was.

Kingfish - thanks for the scenarios. Good, hard battles. I'm certainly looking forward to having another go at McKays Fortress (I couldn't possibly do worse - copping a full flank from a light cavalry attack and just watching my units die... could I?) It'd be fascinating to have all the movies and see how different people created and solved the different problems. Any AARs planned? - I thought St Saulon or the Dragons would make good movies for me. Dinga has to have a few good ones. Onya Dingaa!

You forgot Japan. Now, what do all these countries have in common? - hey, they were conquered by the US. (South Korea was the bit of the Korean peninsular ceded to US interests after the defeat of Imperial Japan.) Interesting coincidence, no? Not really - the financial superstructure of the west is falling into line where the populace of the nations are kept in ignorance of their true owners. France has just lost it's way a little - when they see the Brits do something, they have to do the opposite. Nobody envies power - they desire it, bow to it, fight for it and lose it.

Bravo - nice work ww2steel. Thanks.

Steve's post 9-25-08 and the assertion that the US won't disengage is looking shaky: it is looking quite possible that the only viable supply route will be from the north - Russia. And I can't see Putin making this easy, though I doubt he'd refuse passage. Outwards, that is.

ClaviculaNox "Unfortunately, Westerners seem to be unable, or unwilling, to grasp the idea that Asians and Middle Easterners/Muslims, or whomever, fight differently than we do." So why aren't we taking the ways in which we are exactly the same - we fight for beliefs and feelings, we organise fights for money - and working on these? Screwing up someone's account keeping would probably do more for halting the trade in fighting men than anything else.

...combined with a trading game: develop a galaxy-wide fashion for real fur slippers. With cute little eyes and buck teeth...

John - energy weapons? I assume you mean lasers or somesuch - the power decreases as an inverse cube of the distance (in a vacuum). Mechanical energy (sound) and tapping into the fundamentals of perception, perhaps, but extremely unlikely. Stealth was discovered as an accident - a Soviet mathematician gave the formulae for calculating the radar cross section of a given 3D object and some bright spark at Skunkworks read his paper: realised that he had the computing power to apply it and took the idea to his boss (Rich wasn't it?). Lockheed. The biggest problem I have with the development of this uber tech is the giving up of the real power achievable through the tried and trusted marketing and selling of said tech: you have to posit a more powerful clique with uber-uber tech to make sense of the limitation of the quest for power.