DLaurier

Thankyou..

Wadda ya mean my vintage machine wont keep up with the newer ones... Thanks. I've put money down on a comp that will handle it. thankyou. The new one has: 500 gig HD 3 gigs RAM. 512 mb GeForce 8400 GS video AMD Athlon 64x2 Dual core 2GHz processor Hopefully that will run things adequately

Good thing I'm buying a newer computer. I showed my specs to a nice lady who works in a computer store... she was amazed I could play some of the games I do play. $100 deposit yesterday, and the rest over the next few weeks. I'll buy the game in july.

I posted my specs earlyer with the question"will my system handle the game"? I was hoping the silence was a "yes" Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 System Model: OptiPlex GX270 BIOS: Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 A04 Processor: Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 3.00GHz Memory: 1022MB RAM Page File: 357MB used, 2107MB available Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904) Card name: Intel® 82865G Graphics Controller Manufacturer: Intel Corporation Chip type: Intel® 82865G Graphics Controller DAC type: Internal Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2572&SUBSYS_01511028&REV_02 Display Memory: 96.0 MB

"CM;BN has encountered an error and needs to close" It takes forever for everything to load, and all I get for my time is this... And several loading screenes piled on top of eachother

Will my comp even handle it? Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 System Model: OptiPlex GX270 BIOS: Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 A04 Processor: Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 3.00GHz Memory: 1022MB RAM Page File: 357MB used, 2107MB available Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904) Card name: Intel® 82865G Graphics Controller Manufacturer: Intel Corporation Chip type: Intel® 82865G Graphics Controller DAC type: Internal Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2572&SUBSYS_01511028&REV_02 Display Memory: 96.0 MB

Thankyou. Hope to be playing the demo by month's end... and the game by june

Armys are not trained to take prisoners. This has always been a problem. There is not one army that has ever bothered to train it's troops to take prisoners. Lone soldiers surrendering have always had a low chance of survival. This is sometimes mitigated by the captor having something in common with the captive. Speaking the same language usualy increases the odds astronomicaly. If you can say "I am surrendering. Please dont shoot me" in the language of the troops you are surrendering too, you have a 50/50 chance of not being shot. Otherwise you might as well not even bother.

True. But people are stupid.

The SS were neither supermen nor mommas boys. They were fools, led by a promise of glory. They believed the lies they were fed. Like many conquering empires before and since, the German third reich claimed that a god was on their side. The SS were the faithfull believers who bought it all, hook-line-and-sinker. Much of their reputation was German propaganda... Some was lucky victorys and idiotic atrocitys... The rest was allied propaganda. Most people today tend to obey authority figures, and 1930s era Germans were no different. The men of the SS were obeying orders. They believed the propaganda lies they were fed, and followed leaders who lied to them.

Couldnt play the demo. Couldnt even get the options page to load

Is there a demo? Oh wait,, there is

As a student of history, I gotta say this... pretty much ALL the states involved on ALL fronts had "dodgy" ideologys. The 1930s were a bad time to not be white and christian. Hell the 1950s were a bad time to not be white and christian. The men who fought in WW2 were, for the most part, basicly decent people who were raised with beliefs that we now know to have been wrong, but which at the time were accepted as normal and respectable. They didnt know any better. It didnt make them "bastards", it made them ignorant... and in those days, EVERYBODY was ignorant.

Alaska... Or you could pick the Korean peninsula, and be either the Imperial Japanese army rooting out Korean rebels... or Korean resistance battling the hated Japanese. Or you could pick China, and its Japan VS China and Russia. Or you pick The Indochina front, and sudenly you can choose Japan or Thailand for axis, and India, Holland, or France for allied. Or the Hymalayan front.

Ostfront!. And Poland '39. Also we need sikh infantry, gurkas, and those sad colonial troops that France abused so shamelessly.

I dont even remember when I posted that... But my point still stands... or sits.

yes. you should

I still play CMBB and CMAK. (actualy in the middle of a CMBB opperation now) I'm looking forward to more flexible squads, more realistic on map artilery, and those french waitresses who never do up those top few buttons.

My computer is about a decade old.

Hullo ladies and others. So it seems my comp is too gimpy for this game... (and too gimpy for ToW as well) So I'm shopping for upgrades. Getting the GeForce 6800 or Radeon x850 to replace my Intel 82865G Getting more RAM. Getting a better CPU. (3.5GHz or better) I will finaly be able to play ToW. (I've had it for 4 years) Cant wait for CM;BN to come out.

I like the idea of two types of foxhole. Hastily dug scrapes, and well prepared positions.

If you can get a semi workable demo posted, I will stop cranking Ray Charles at noon

Just watching Band of Brothers this past week. I would like to see a scenario based on Winters and Hall sneaking past the quad flak.

I design scenarios. Most of them reek of absurdity and futility. This also describes actual war.

Early war Germans were better educated. They were products of the old German educational system, before the nazis dumbed it down. Late war Germans had their nazi education, which was crap. Weimar Germany inherited the Imperial education system with it's emphasis on logic and thought... as well as exceptionaly high standards of academia. The Weimar system also expanded upon this by introducing more philosophy, and a wider range of ideas. The ability to think more effectively, gave early war Germans a massive advantage.