DaveyJJ

How are those few "few infrastructural things in the background" working out? 26 days now ... is another public update/statement possible for the OSX folks? Sorry, posted while Michael was posting.

In this specific case, Union flag, not Union Jack. A jack is a small naval flag so, technically, all Union Jacks are Union Flags, but not vice versa. The name Union Jack is in common usage since the early 1900s but the Royal Navy rightly points out that a Union Flag must be sanctioned both by the Admiralty and by Parliament. The Royal Navy, the Flag Institute and Parliament all slightly disagree though. best to generally assume Union Flag on land, Union Jack if a smaller version of the flag flown on the bow or stern jackstaff while a ship is dressed at sea.

Hear, hear! Love that shot too.

Off topic but agreed. He and the other three tanks with him wound up making a rookie blunder in the end ... the three lead tanks caught in an open field by British tanks 800+ yards away on a small forested hill that wiped out the first three, and he missed the tank hiding behind a partly knocked down wall about 150 yards to his left rear flank that finished him off.

Complexity does not necessarily equate to realism, re: ASL. There are a great number of tactical WW2 hex-and-chit wargames available ... Combat Commander series from GMT, Conflict of Heroes series from Academy Games, the Lock 'n Load series, and even some highly playable print and play games like Valor & Victory. ASL is not the be-all-and-end-all of tactical games despite it's fans and some would argue it never was. There was Up Front! and Ambush and Squad Leader and a whole host of game even back then that were "as good". ASL is a lifestyle game ... any too many relate it's complexity to it being the perfect simulation of tactical combat. All hex-and-chit games however have both strengths and weaknesses ... they will always be strong in certain areas and ignore others because they are games. Miniature systems abound at that scale. And not just the ever-popular (and highly silly) Flames of War. And the nice thing is that there are scales down to man-to-man to company that work again, for various reasons. Rules of Engagement, Poor Bloody Infantry, Troops Weapons & Tactics, NUTS!, and dozens more. My personal fave is one called CrossFire as it has no rulers/measuring, and throws the whole I-Go-UYou-Go mechanic out the window ... you "go" until you fail, then initiative swaps to the opponent. Never wracking that is because eventually you will fail and so you have to decide what to do in an order of priority. No rulers to measure move distance or target range ... it's all within hitting. It's purely about tactics. Hard to find but worth it. Org charts are good as well. But what sort of research are you doing?

Does being married to a Pole count? Or having one's late father-in-law be a highly decorated II Polish Corps veteran?

And also you don't want to work on numbers, you want to work on a ratio of numbers produced versus kills for that type. A proportional % of effectiveness. As Sergei said, good luck.

Actually, using a decent VNC piece of software like Screens etc, I'd be surprised if you couldn't it run it remotely. I've demonstrated Photoshop, InDesign and Vassal running on my iPad 2 to amazed folks. I'll certainly be attempting it and will let you know how well the experiment works.

Crap, I was fooled.

Outstanding ... the 512's in both my 27" iMac and my 15" MacBook Pro. Looking forward to this. Now get back to work and get those last OSX fixes done so us old, old fanbois can pre-order, thanks!

And you call yourself a fan ... tsk, tsk.

Not flaming, but the 8th British Army in Italy had an entire II Polish Corps made up entirely of Poles (including my highly-decorated late father-in-law in the 5th Kresowa Infantry Division) under the command Lt. General Wladyslaw Anders. They fought with great distinction and intense dedication at Monte Cassino, Ancona, the Gothic Line battles (Ravenna et al) and Bologna, and were a very highly regarded Corps according to military historians of that campaign. A not insignificant portion of the troops were made up of former German Army POWs, who were Poles that had been forcibly drafted to fight for the German Army after the invasion of Poland in 1939 and captured in places like Yugoslavia, North Africa, and even Italy etc by Allied Forces. Offered the chance to fight the Germans who had invaded their country, many leapt enthusiastically at the chance. Among his British Army military effects, I have one picture of late father-in-law in a German uniform on leave at his family farm. Very weird.

That's the special extra in the OSX version. Worth the extra few weeks wait, I say, watching the last standing Yank snort, stagger out of the bar, and then step into the road looking the wrong way. :eek:

Funny, I currently have a silver-dooored G4 tower at my house with OS9 on it fixing it up for a friend of a friend. Maybe before scrubbing it I should load CMBO one last time and give it a whirl.

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Old hex-and-chit wargamer, me. Avalon Hill, SPI, Strategy & Tactics magazine. Tactical WW2 stuff was it for me then (Up Front! Ambush, Squad Leader, Sniper!, etc) and it still is (Valor & Victory, Combat Commander series by GMT, CrossFire). Somehow heard about the game coming out back before CMBO hit the streets (a Mac magazine or BBS posting?), grabbed it the moment it came out. Loved it. Played until OSX hit (and I was an early pre-release adaptor due to a friend high-up at Apple) (RAVE debacle still make me cry, grrrrrrr) and have missed it since. Looking forward to playing again, this time with my kids.

Oh I'm sure it will. Anything that appears near-hysteric on my end, by the way, is simply should be taken with the humour it's intended as opposed to any real offence I hope.

Granted. But being without said game for nearly nine years has been a rough bit. Plus, based on some of the way-over-the-top grognardy type discussions and debates that go on on these forums re: minutiae, I think that this applies to almost everyone here to some degree or another, no? :cool:

Happy, happy, happy, happy .... Crap, crap, crap, crap .... The wait is just killin' me!!! OK, OK, just breathe, breathe. There, better. Whew. Just days now, just a few more, just be calm.

Fixed that, for ya Steve. 18 days now.

Nope, no way, gunnersman.

Bloody hell, I think I could kiss the Battlefront staff for that! So someone else finds that normal requirement from other game devs annoying, huh. Superb news. Two copies ready to buy as soon as the OSX pre-orders get online.

I hear you. We were all but clear here in Waterloo, Ontario, temps hovering near 10 degrees Celsius ... I could see muddy grass everywhere except the pile of snow on my north-facing front yard covering the flower bed then WHAM! I wake up last Wednesday morning to find the weather forecasters meds must've run out because their 5cm (2") of snow had turned into 25+cm overnight and my previously clear dry driveway is now nearly a foot deep in wet white crap. So heavy in fact that after doing only 1/3 of my driveway with the shovel I gave up and got Brutus (the name for my monster green snow blower) out of the garage and it still took me 45 minutes to get it all done. No brown wet grass and mud anymore .. back to the white stuff and temps below zero (Celsius) so no really melting. Rats. At least we should only be a few days away from the OSX pre-orders now, if the phrase "the next weeks" meant anything on the pre-order note, right Steve?

16 days in fact, but that's still within the realm of "we open pre-orders separately for it in the next weeks" stated on the pre-order page. But much longer after the end of this week without an official update and I'll start getting panicky. Any word on the progress towards this date we've been waiting nearly a decade for guys?

Yup, that's the way. Despite it's many flaws, the MMORPG World of Tanks taught me this specific, very important lesson about the Tiger and Tiger II. That if I angled my front to the approaching enemy about 20 degrees of centre, my survivability in a fight went way up when the shells start flying and hitting. That slight off-angle makes a lot of difference to a Tiger. Still felt the Tiger's armour was outclassed by many other tanks at my "tier" but I'd generally hang back in fights with my upgraded main weapon and act as sniper for my team ... when an enemy got engaged with another team member or bottled up by terrain and offered a weak side or rear shot, I could generally do a lot of damage.