mjkerner

Well, I for one agree with many of the same points weapon2010 agrees with regarding weapon2010’s points, but I also agree with some of weapon2010’s points that weapon2010 doesn’t agree with.
Then again, I don’t necessarily agree with the above point.

Point taken.

Well, I for one agree with many of the same points weapon2010 agrees with regarding weapon2010’s points, but I also agree with some of weapon2010’s points that weapon2010 doesn’t agree with.
Then again, I don’t necessarily agree with the above point.

That was very worthwhile.  Erwin, I agree.

Gotta love present day politics!   Not really.....

Yes, they are!  That one of the Panther turret with the hit decals and open hatch tells me threre’s an interesting story there....

Please let us know the outcome of that test, BornGinger. 

No need to insult the man, Mannschaft. He gave you an honest answer with no sarcasm or other effrontery. Come back next year (personally, I’d come back sooner) and you’ll have new, enjoyable products to buy. 

No need to insult the man, Mannschaft. He gave you an honest answer with no sarcasm or other effrontery. Come back next year (personally, I’d come back sooner) and you’ll have new, enjoyable products to buy. 

No need to insult the man, Mannschaft. He gave you an honest answer with no sarcasm or other effrontery. Come back next year (personally, I’d come back sooner) and you’ll have new, enjoyable products to buy. 

No need to insult the man, Mannschaft. He gave you an honest answer with no sarcasm or other effrontery. Come back next year (personally, I’d come back sooner) and you’ll have new, enjoyable products to buy. 

^^^This^^^

No, sadly, no he can’t. Such is life.

Good one, Splinty!
Could also be Ricky, Julian and Bubbles.

Ninja’d by Ian.  Actually, I didn’t scroll to page 2 here before replying. How’s that for irony!

Lol, I’ve been retired for 5 years, and it’s great! Besides, thanks to various diseases and whatnot in my 50’s requiring a vigorous exercise/weight training regimen, I’m actually healthier and in hugely better shape than I was in my late 20’s through my 40’s. Life is great (he said, as he inadvertently stepped in front of a fast moving truck....)!

Lol, I’ve been retired for 5 years, and it’s great! Besides, thanks to various diseases and whatnot in my 50’s requiring a vigorous exercise/weight training regimen, I’m actually healthier and in hugely better shape than I was in my late 20’s through my 40’s. Life is great (he said, as he inadvertently stepped in front of a fast moving truck....)!

I turn 65 in two weeks, Badger.  Will those three afflictions show up exactly on my birthday, or will I have a day or two to say good bye to life first?😩

Good one, Splinty!
Could also be Ricky, Julian and Bubbles.

So, last year everyone was atwitter (pun intended) about starting a war with the Norks.  Then there is a summit (detail negotiations by underlings to follow) and Trump is accused of legitimizing Kim by giving him a world stage!  How the **** are you going to de-escalate peacefully without talks? So, the act of attempting to negotiate is in and of itself wrong?!?!?!  The frenzy created about Trump through the media is ridiculously outrageous and disingenuous, to say the least. 
SoIt appears some people spotted Prez Trump walking across the Potomac River...on top of the water.     Next day's headlines:  Trump Can't Swim!!!
I will never again post anything political here again, I swear, but the pretzel logic of certain groups of people and the media (by-and-large) is astoundingly hypocritical, disingenuous, myopic and over the top regarding ANYTHING the man does, and shows a level of either plain idiocy or intentional deception (or self-deception) that goes beyond the pale.  
Rant over, and I'm self-exiling myself from this thread.
Cheers!

I just spit my drink out, Mr. Bennett.  Well played, Sir!

Wateryall thinking? Don’t sink to c3k’s level.

Wateryall thinking? Don’t sink to c3k’s level.

CMSF was my first intro to CM.  I had tried the demo, quite by accident, around 2002 or so, but not knowing game forums were there for help (they seemed mainly for jerks who harped about everything—present forum excepted, as it turned out), I didn’t think much of a “gaming table” floating in space with Moe, Larry, and Curly marching stiffly about and no instructions, so I spent all of 5 minutes on it!
Anyway, in January 2008, I had planned a week off work, mostly to catch up on painting miniatures (wife gone all day at work—no interruptions or distractions).  So 8:00am, coffee in hand, I surf the web for some AFV images and I find a YouTube vid of what was obviously some sort of super realistic looking animated Bradley laying some bitchin’ fire on some Iraqis (I thought). W...T...F is this? Quick search, voila!...I’m landing a US Marine recon team on a Syrian beach within the hour, and played it all the rest of the week.  Up until then, I had been a hardcore IL2 Sturmovik fanatic since 2000. I only went back to that game for about 2 months right before CMBN came out.
Thing is, I never really cared to game, or even read much on any modern warfare past Vietnam. CMSF truly opened up a whole new world for me. I have a pretty extensive home library section on modern wars now, and many modern war miniatures to boot! I better get to painting some of them before the end of July!
 

FYI:
http://www.helion.co.uk/
For years, one of the most essential sources for study of the Normandy invasion was known only to a select few, and nearly unobtainable even to those who knew of its existence. It has never before been translated. None of the major English language histories of the Normandy Invasion refer to it, even though it is the history of the only German armored division that was in place in the Caen area at the moment of the invasion. It reveals key facts that are missing elsewhere.
At long last, Werner Kortenhaus' history of the 21. Panzer Division has been published in English. Kortenhaus' account of the division's subsequent commitment, in the Lorraine-Saar Region-Alsace area provides intriguing detail on this little-known sector as the southern wing of Patton's 3rd Army strove for the Upper Rhine area of Germany. The last section follows the division after its hasty transfer to the Oder Front, facing the final Russian onslaught on Berlin.
In revising and updating his account, originally released in two massive typed volumes, Die Schlacht um Caen, 1944, Caumont, Falaise Seine, der Einsatz der 21. Panzer Division in 1989 and Lothringen Elsaß, der Ostfront, der Einsatz der 21. Panzer Division in 1990, Werner Kortenhaus has exhaustively researched all available sources in German, French and English to supplement his own experiences and those of his fellows and the many individuals whom he interviewed. The result is a seamless account of the Normandy Invasion in the British sector from the German viewpoint that sheds new light on many controversial issues.
The account continues, following the division and surrounding events during the retreat to the Seine and the division's later commitment in Alsace-Lorraine and, finally, on the Oder Front against the Soviet Union, and its eventual demise in the horrors of the Halbe pocket. The account is not restricted to the history of the 21. Panzer Division, but includes detailed analysis and exposition of actions of adjoining divisions and of the larger picture, from the German viewpoint.
Helion's English edition includes a large number of rare photographs and a separately-bound book of newly-commissioned color maps. Werner Kortenhaus' study represents a significant contribution to English-language material available regarding a Heer Panzer division, besides its extensive coverage of German armored operations in Normandy, Lorraine, Alsace and elsewhere.
245mm x 170mm
520 pages
circa 80 black-and-white photos
diagrams/charts
21 color maps in separate map book