Lets_All_Fight

I do that too; my accent varies wildely depending on where I am and who I'm with. I'm going t the highlands tonight to visit familly and within two hours my Glasgow accent will be relplaced by an Inverness one - and a strong one at that. More strangely, I spend a fair amount of time in Italy and although I do not really speak the language, I've been told by various friends that my accents are perfect. I can apparently do very convincing Roman, Neopolitan and rural Tuscan accents. If you asked me to do one for you, though, I wouldn't know where to begin.

a 'Toff' is the polar opposite of a 'Chav.' I believe it is short for 'toffee nosed' which, I think, probably refers to being stuck up and snobbish. Nowadays itrefers to anyone who went to private school and earns more money than me. Just joking - mostly. I suppose it usually refers to upper middle-class/upperclass types: the sort of people Britain has traditionally drawn it's officers from. Ever read any Jeeves and Wooster? Wooster is a toff, as are virtually any o the characters in 'Brideshead Revisited. As for whether it's good or bad, that depends on whether you went to private school and earn more money than me.

I'm just glad that the voices don't make all the soldiers sound like they've stepped out of an Evelyn Waugh novel. The voice acting in the module is pretty good but an occasional 'toff' would certainly add a little something. Mind you, hearing a driver, say, suddenly announce 'I say, Old bean. One saw movement in that hice over there.' would probably be a little weird. Funny, though. Accents are actually one of the things I like best about living in Britain. I remember years ago when I lived in Aberdeen a friend explained that you could tell what part of the city people came from by the difference in their accents - and this is in a town of 250, 000! - and he was right.

I remember seeing a documentary about a German project from WW1 where they recorded a bunch of British POWs reciting poems and singing songs and ended up accidentally preserving for posterity a collection of regional and local dialects that have now vanished. It was fascinating and a little bit spooky, especially the part where they had tracked down the children (now advanced in years,) of a couple of the POW's and played them their fathers' voices. It was a very moving moment. Not quite what the poster was asking about, i know, but if any of you get a chance to see it you should do so. I can't for the llife of me remember what it was called, though. it was on BBC4 about 2-3 years back.

the karts - and the entire center - are gone now, replaced by a conference hall and attendant facilities. I was never allowed on the Karts anyway... I do miss Santa Clause Land, though, and the cool Action Man diorama they had. Anyway, I digress. has anyone else tried 'The Crucible' yet? for the first time since i've had CMSF one of my snipers did something useful and took out a grenade launcher that was causing me some problems. Another really nice map but i've yet to finish playing it.

Aside from 'Breaking the Bank,' (quickly becoming one of my favourite CM missions ever,) the three I've really enjoyed so far are 'The Crucible,' 'It Ain't Half Hot Mum.' and 'Operation Hammersmith'. ****Semi Spoiler********************* I particularly liked having an obj Aviemore in 'Operation Hammersmith' for the simple and rather childish reason that I grew up in Aviemore and have always wanted to blow the place up with mortars.

Cool campaign so far. Only reached the second mission but having a blast. *******SPOILERS*********** In the first mission I finished with 3 WIA and one lightly injured. I got two squads across the open ground to the wall with everyone else on overwatch as one squad assaulted the house and then moved the remainder over before moving up towards the two buildings. Luckily managed to clear the tall buildings on either side of the road moments before the red reinforcements arrived. But by that point, with three squads and a gun team, it was a turkey shoot. Very fun misison. Satchel charges would have been nice but i never really needed them in the end. Keeping one eye on the clock I just went for a very direct approach and I huess it worked out for me. The second mission was going really well and then it all kind of went wrong.....mainly because, as I discovered too late, one of my squads was virtually out of ammo. Lesson learned. What I would have given for another platoon. And a tank. Definitely a tank. You get so used to having bucket-fulls of support that when you get a mission like this it really forces you to get back to basics. Going to play it again later. Excellent stuff.

I thought the maps in the Marines module were of a high standard but the ones in the new module are absolutely superb! I've looked over and played perhaps a dozen of the non campaign missions so far and ever single one of them has been a gem, usually for a single reason - they look like real places: urban maps look lived in and have actually had me worrying about the ethics of hitting dense population centres with arty and air support. That's a brand new tactical consideration that has never really played upon my mission planning so far in the game - which isn't to say that blowing stuff up with great big guns is any less fun.. Special mention goes to the urban map in 'Breaking the bank.' That is one killer AO. Nasty narrow streets and hi rise buildings before that wide open space in the middle - brilliant. I'm sure Google Maps has played a part in the research, which is great to see, and i'm impressed by how well obviously real places have been translated into the map editor. As someone who has created plenty of maps for my own CM use over the years it's easy to tell when a map has obviously been a labour of love. I'm seeing that in spades here. Cheers, boys. Your work on the new mission has been uniformly fantastic! it's taken CMSF to a whole new level.

I'm delighted it's selling so well. I remember when you first announced what direction the series was going in I was less than thrilled. But today, two modules down, I have to consider it one of my favourite war games ever. Cheers for that, boys! Trebles all round!

Downloading now. Can't wait to play it. Blimey - $20 dollars for postage on the hardcopy? Ah well. I'm sure it's worth it.

I'm running it with a 920, six gig of ddr3 ram @1600 and an ATI 4870x2 under Vista 64 and, I have to be honest, it's not overly amazing i'm afraid. To be fair, I haven't played it that much since I installed it. The installation was strange - it took about three tries to get SF installed and then another couple of attempts to get Marines installed on top of it. In-game I've got everything turned up all the way but it seems pretty laggy, which surprised me. I've not really looked at trying to optimise it or anything yet so i'm sure it might improve. I kind of assumed it was Vista 64 causing the problems, though, as I had real problems with Il2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles (had problems installing it, couldn't get it to run at all, which seems to be a Vista 64 issue.) In all other games my rig just rocks through everything. I thought there had been a thread about issues with multicore chips and the way the game adresses memory or something (too technical for me!) it might be worth looking at that. Its a great chip though and i recommend it if your looking at one. I've not bothered trying to overclock it yet but I think i might give it a go in the next few days. I'm going to have a good go at SF over the weekend, though, so I'll keep you informed of how it goes.

Performance is great. Far Cry 2 runs with everthing turned up at about 60-65 fps, Stalker:soc looks and plays brilliantly. Only game I'm less than impressed with is Silent Hunter 4 which looks a lot worse than I remember it but I'm not sure why that is. Still have to install shock force on it. I'll maybe try it tonight.

Well, it's all built. A lot easier than I hoped - even fitting the huge V8 went smoothly. One of the fans on the case doesn't seem to be running but I haven't really looked into it yet. Aside from that everything is great - until . of course, i get to windows. It seems my ancient voyager 100 modem - which i've had for about six years - is not compatible with Vista so I'm unable to get online with it which is kind of annoying as I have several games that need to do the online activation thing. Guess I'll just have to see what I can get from my ISP.... Core temp at idle is 29 degress - time to try overclocking, i think.....

Well, that's everything ordered. Went with the 4870x2 as it just looked great for the money. Should all be here on Saturday. I ended up buying the 64bit OEM version of Vista. I know the deal with the OEM version but, to be honest, I'm not planning on upgrading the motherboard until well after Windows 7 comes out and I'll migrate to that OS probably sooner rather than later. At nearly 50 quid cheaper than the retail version, and seeing as how I don't have to mess around with getting the 64bit dvd from Microsoft, it just made more sense. Anyways, cheers guys. Cannot wait to get it set up and CM installed.

My system so far is: Antec 1200 case, (with five fans including the top mounted 200 mm monster.) Core i7920 Corsair TX850w, gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 MoBo, 6 gig dd3 dominator ram, I was going to get the same board as you got but went for the Gigabyte since I've had gigabyte boards before and liked them, and there didn't seem to be that much between them. Annoyingly the company I bought it from started seeling a bundle today of the same ram, the same chip and your board for about 40 notes less than I paid....Lol, never mind. I'm going finish it off with the 4870x2 (saphire version,) a western digital caviar black hdd, a coolermaster v8 heatsink and some cheap as chips dvd rewriter. I'll need to get vista sorted out as well, which means buying it and sending away for the 64bit version which is a major pain. I'll get all that ordered over the next few days and them get stuck in. I've never actually built my own machine all the way up from scratch before but I'm looking forward to it. When the case and psu arrived the other day i took one look at them and spent the rest of the night saying 'What have I done?' over and over again! I play a lot of sims so I'm hoping for games like Over Flanders Field and Il2 to fly like the proverbial. It'll be nice to play some of the more intensive games I've had to put off for a while as well. I can't wait to play CMSF with everthing on full.

Hmm. Lots to think about there. I'm really tempted to just go for it. Thats a shame about Stalker as its one of my favourite games and I was looking forward to playing it again. (my current card was an emergency purchase after my beloved factory overclocked 7950GT died.) I can get a Saphire 4870x2 for about the same price as a 285gtx and that makes it very attractive. Yep, I've got 6 gigs of 1600 mhz Corsair dominator ram on order. Should be here on Saturday with the MoBo and cpu. I tell you, everything was easy enough to pick until I got to the gpu - the only thing I've learned on various sites is that the Nvdia/ATI divide has a habit of redifining the term 'Fanboi'! Cheers for that Lethaface, that was very helpful and might have just pushed me towards my first ATI card.

How do you like the 4870x2? I'm currently building my new machine around an i7920 with 6gb of ram too but i'm undecided on what GPU to go for: I'm leaning towards an nvidia 285gtx just now but seeing as how the 4870x2 is a similar price i'm giving that one a lot of thought as well. Never had an ATI card before so I'm a bit unsure.

Gurkhas would be cool to have in the game, not least because I once had very memorable night of getting drunk with several of them!

BFC games have never included names for actual regiments, brigades, divisions or what ever else. it's never worked like that. The scenario designer will tell you what unit your boys are from but thats about it. You might get Royal Marine Commandos in the editor, for instance, but you won't find any units labelled '2/2 Commando', if you follow my drift. If you want your marines to be from that particular unit you will have to specify it in the mission briefing.