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I couldn't agree more, Para. As a dyed in the wool Anglophile, I hate that! Monty was " dickish" and had a tremendous ego...but Patton was just as bad. Regardless, Monty certainly was a great morale booster to his troops. And if Market Garden had worked out as planned, he would have been THE hero of the Western Theatre.

The gear has been broken up into several pieces and renamed, but still easy to mod.

That would be great WindyCityZeke! I used VAC for the 9 years I played IL2 (modded to the max) practically nonstop. Only quit that to play CMBN/CW/CMFI. A great utility. Say, did you know they nick-named a large city in the Midwest after you?

Yes, that was certainly the announced plan way back around release of CW.

Oh, I wasn't knocking on you, my friend. It's the often stupid internet that's the culprit. By the way, I'll be emailing you about future plans for MG campaign...I think I'm seeing the light at the end of the tunnel as far as RL and work interferences.

Durning was one of my favorite character actors in the 70s-90s. He should have won an Oscar for his turn as an NYPD Lieutenant in Dog Day Afternoon. Incandescent performance! The article you're quoting got things a little skewed, though. He was in the 398th Infantry (100th Division) apparently after he returned to duty from his wound. (I don't think the 100th went into the line before or during the Bulge, but I could have that wrong). It's not clear from what I've read whether he was in the 1st Div at Omaha or in the Rangers, but I do recall that he or another announcer stated he hit the beach there in the Normady Special from about 10 years ago that he narrated. He wasn't one of the 3 survivors at the Malmedy Massacre (not listed as one of the survivors nor called to testify at the war crimes trial--one of the most researched and documented German war crimes against Americans) but rather was most likely one of the many captured around there and in the Bulge generally. This Internet story is like the one about Lee Marvin getting wounded at Iwo Jima and that his squad leader/platoon sergeant was Captain Kangaroo, Bob Keeshan, which is total BS. He was wounded at Saipan, and Keeshan wasn't his sergeant or in his outfit even. Why the Internets have to embellish someone's honorable, valorous WWII achievements is beyond me. The truth about Marvin, Durning and others is stellar as is. Peace be with all those now-fallen heroes!

Mord, excellent as always, buddy!

LOL, it's up at the Rep too! Icons look great in-game Vin!

"Also, it's amazing how much more you can get out of a manual after spending 10 hours playing a game." LOL, yes, it is amazing, isn't it. That's how I've always learned games. I mean, you gotta know what to ask/look for, right? Welcome aboard

Merry Christmas everyone! You too, Mord.

Steve, I love CMx2 to death, so I have the credentials to be a beta tester. I'll expect a call soon after the holidays!

Vin, these look great! Have you tried to upload at CMMODS? The Rep probably won't be updated until after Christmas.

And it's the year I retire (in August)! I am probably not going to be anywhere but in front of my monitor for days and days on end, relishing all the BFC goodness we have now and what we'll have by then. Thank you, thank you, thank you Steve, Charles, Phil and ? !!!!!!!!!

I bet this means we'll get Panther bunkers when we get to Italy proper.

No worries about a zombie apocalypse, methinks: http://www.cracked.com/article_18683_7-scientific-reasons-zombie-outbreak-would-fail-quickly.html?wa_user1=5&wa_user2=Science&wa_user3=article&wa_user4=yesincite

A New Glarus restuarant has the world's largest urinal...they claim anyway. Pretty damn big, a kid could essentially walk inside of it.

Badger73, I grew up in Brodhead (15 miles west of Monroe, about 30 from NG), many relatives in NG and Monticello. I'm in Madison. Where u at?

+1000000 to this! Especially the buildings cause it's hard tell sometimes if windows/doors are on the facade when it's transparent.

Don't forget that you can turn them off.

Nor the new smock models for the pzgrenadiers.

Yup, a very interesting guy. Always a great read. Sometimes I think he is brilliant, and at other times that he's smoking crack.

Bud, the map has to have an AI plan for each side in order to show up in QB. Alot of the uploaded scenarios/maps don't have them.

Nice try, M. Dorosch.

I took the easy route and just set up a trust fund with Steve as the beneficiary.

Great book. Had the raggedy-assed paperback (Dell or Ballantine) as a kid in the mid 1960's. Still have it. In later years, my older brother, who was in both 82nd and 101st Division before and after his tour in VN with the 1st Air Cav, went into law practice with a guy whose father was in Carter's platoon. That guy had a lot of stories!