Dietrich

Mighty fine screenshots, Paper Tiger. Thanks for posting 'em. And when Paper Tiger is busy, it means good things are forthcoming for those of us that like assiduously thought-out and excellently made scenarios and campaigns.

*slaps forehead as if suddenly remembering something* Of course — preserve own troops first, buildings second (or third or fourth or whatever)! That said, Paper Tiger, would you recommend approaching the town from the left flank in a concentration and rolling it up or spreading out for a sort of frontal assault? In my several attempts to get through this scenario without loosing several LAVs or tanks which had eluded my fast-movers, I had my TUAs, my Coyotes, and most of my tanks spread out to open fire on any enemy units which revealed themselves while the infantry and a single tank assaulted from the left through the buildings and along the town's main street.

But that means that to be a "crazy cat person" a person living alone need have only two cats. Isn't that way fewer than the number of cats a stereotypical "crazy cat lady" has? =P

Or perhaps achieve grogvana? Oh, wait, no... grogvana has been achieved only by those truthful and valiant few who hold CM:BO to be the best computer wargame there has ever been and ever will be. So I've been told, anyway.

My two cents: Only if... aw, hell, this thread has already gone into overtime; and I'd rather spend my time at something other than continuing to pummel a deceased equine animal. <wry sarcasm> If ever the Germans won (or, if one prefers, "didn't lose") a battle, it was either because the opposing troops were inept or because the Germans had material superiority. Any idea of the Germans being generally "superior" in any way and against any foe is just an "echo" from post-war interrogations of German officers with regard to their fighting the Soviets. </wry sarcasm>

Some would assert that it'd be far, far more worrisome if one did not know that stuff. (I wouldn't agree with the aforementioned some.)

*twiddles thumbs while waiting for no-doubt-imminent rash of snide anti-religion posts based off Messi's nickname*

G = Götterdämmerung

Page 81, Mark Mines subheading (italics mine): Does that really mean that seeing pixeltruppen get blown up from under foot will no longer be the only way to know mines are present? If so, my pixeltruppen thank you heartily, BFC.

Guántanamo detainees—the full list --------------------------------------------- And wasn't WikiLeaks going to release video of the Granai airstrike?

Whoever the player wants to be the villains. I imagine some play as the Syrians in CMSF because they think think Western troops — <sarcasm> with their daily machine-gunning of families driving to market and weekly bombing of wedding celebrations </sarcasm> — are the "bad guys". We look back at the German soldier (to say nothing of the Waffen-SS trooper) and demand: "Why didn't you defect? Why didn't you disobey orders? Why didn't you kill Hitler?" But for any of these questions there is no real answer. At least no answer of the sort most people would want to hear. As for me, I shall gladly play Allies as well as Axis, because both interest me, and because individuals and groups on both sides did things they'd rather forget.

I love well-researched and well-designed historical scenarios. I hope to make some of my own as well.

Clarification: not altering the models (because that's not possible), swapping one model for another. I've done a limited amount of model swapping and experienced no problems therefrom, and I have yet to hear about anyone's game or computer blowing up because they indulged in some model swapping. If someone else has done the hex editing work already and bundled it into a *.brz file, model swapping is actually just as easy as using any other mod that comes in a *.brz file. Also helps (a lot) to use theFightingSeabee's z-Bee Mod Manager.

<blasé Ben Stein deadpan> "It all makes sense now..." </blasé Ben Stein deadpan>

From the article "Above, Beyond and Forgotten" from the April 2006 issue of World War II magazine: The article includes descriptions of about a dozen more instances of Chilson either taking on the enemy alone (except, perhaps, for supporting small-arms fire) or leading parts of his platoon in the attack. In all, Chilson was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross three times, the Silver Star twice, the Purple Heart twice, and the Legion of Merit (which was rarely awarded to enlisted men), as well as several other medals. 45th Division website with detailed info about and photos of Chilson

You should see what happens when a T-62 comes round a corner 60 meters from a Marine squad.

As it happens, I'm currently working up a scenario that takes place at Latakia International on the very first day of the war: USMC infantry from the 22nd MEU (SOC) are tasked with capturing the airport so it can be used for bringing in supplies, follow-on forces, etc. I'm using SD Smack's excellent map. (Thanks very much for making it, Steve-o. ) According to "canon", the USMC contingent lands at Hamidiyah and from there advances east to Hims and then south to Damascus. But is that the axis of advance for all the USMC forces involved in the invasion of Syria? Would perhaps another MEU be tasked with securing Latakia on account of its port facilities? If, say, the 22nd MEU is tasked with securing Latakia, wouldn't it be reasonable to reckon that part of the MEU (or perhaps some other unit attached to it) ought to concurrently capture the airport southeast of Latakia? As far as I know, Latakia International is the most suitable such facility in the USMC's AO. Another thing that I've been puzzled about in seeking to gain a sense of the Coalition strategic plan (the axes of advance, the objectives thereof, etc.) is the eponymous Task Force Thunder. The "canon" campaign doesn't specify what units make up the elements of the composite Heavy/Stryker TF. Would the TF force be comprised of elements of an HBCT reinforced by corresponding elements of an SBCT, thus forming a brigade-sized composite? The Dutch campaign states that the Royal Netherlands Army contingent joins up at Dayr az-Zawr with elements of the US 3rd ID. Would an entire BCT of the 3rd ID be sent along Highway 4 from Al Bukamal to Dayr az-Zawr? Would TF Thunder perhaps be made up of part of one of the 3rd ID's other BCTs, rather than from a whole other division?

Associated Press: UN approves Libya no-fly zone

Associated Press: UN approves Libya no-fly zone

*gets his thumb clamped as M1's bolt snaps forward* Ow! Sonuva...! ---------------------------------------------- The MG-42 was inaccurate, burned through ammo like it was going out of style, ad nauseum, many say. Blah blah blah, I say. Facing the MG-42

So if the US DoD asked you for advice, you would recommend that they shrink the Air Force by, say, approximately a fourth and instead buy more MBTs, IFVs, and howitzers? I imagine it could very well be that a US Army tank commander's memoir of OIF would include the assessment that the USAF was "largely ineffective". (I wonder, though, what would be a USMC tank commander's assessment of the various Harrier, Hornet, and Cobra sorties...) What about ATGM-equippd Apaches, Cobras, etc.? Do those likewise fall into the category of "largely ineffective"? [good-natured sarcasm] Come to think of it, why even have an air force except when the other side has one too? The other side always has tanks and armored vehicles that are so obsolete as to be death traps; it's not like they pose any threat to friendly forces who have MBTs with them. Even if the other side does have an air force, superior ground-based anti-air assets could do the job just as well, right? [/good-natured sarcasm] But let me get this straight... politicians and air-force personnel are pretty much the only ones who don't roll their eyes at "air power"?

Hossam Ramzy for... the... win. Without the music it would be just some scantily-clad Middle Eastern woman undulating and shimmying around. Not that that's not, in certain respects, good enough. =P In a roughly similar vein (not Middle-Eastern but North-African), I recommend Anouar Brahem, Tunisian master of the oud (which is ancestor as well as cousin of the modern guitar and is regarded in the Middle East as the sultan of musical instruments): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqIZKX4Er7E Another favorite of mine is the Lebanese multi-instrumentalist Simon Shaheen: (with his group Qantara)

"Ineffective largely"? So even in OIF, most of the LGBs, JDAMs, Mavericks and Hellfires either failed to seriously damage their targets or missed them entirely? :confused:

I'll definitely be downloading it later today. So that'll make it 14. =P Not to put too fine a point on it, but if circumstances had allowed you to release it before CMBN was announced... *shrug* Whatever the case, thanks very much for your assiduous work, LongLeftFlank; and thanks to the beta testers who helped refine it. *salute*

To be fair, there was a time when anything that had tracks and a gun was a tank. But that was, y'know, 1924 or so.