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Well whomever ended up with these in Africa was stupid. Real odd ball caliber today. Not like you can raid a warehouse or steal from dead soldiers. But the suppliers of the firearms sure would have control over the buyers. ("Yes I can get that kurtz round but eh the cost per round went up 35%") Great collector and conversation piece though (oooo-AAAHHHHH kewwwwllllll! Yeah it's on Youtube gawd i want that an MG42 blah blah blah)

They do slow things down. Or are they the same bunch of grape vines?

Jason C. Sorry to be the one to break the bad news to you. I know it's painful. The Italians did well given their limitations. Royal Navy and Regia Marina were worthy opponents. It wasn't Jack Tar vs Mr. Gipetto the wood carver. It wasn't some Victory at Sea-Why We Fight WWII documentary. Read the book I linked It was a nasty nasty sea war. This typical-just as the Royal Navy had the upper had-and out comes some curve ball by Regia Marina. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Neptune_(20) The Royal Navy had Taranto as a victory in 1940 and a year later Regia Marina has a victory Alexandria (12 days after Pearl Harbor). Carrier Ops and Special Ops. Things to come. Worthy opponents. Royal Navy never destroyed Regia Marina. They had a flawed strategy-sea denial-not sea control. If the Americans had not shown up by 1942 the Royal Navy would have lost control of the Mediterranean both from Italian mines, the threat of Regia Marina surface vessels (small units were laying mines and harassing) and Luftwaffe. It wasn't strictly Luftwaffe that the Royal Navy faced. Nuff said.

It's all here if you care to read about the Italian Navy in WWII. The author makes a convincing case that the Italians didn't really do that bad. Both Britain and Italy needed their respective partners (Germany and US) to bail them out. The Italian Navy didn't fold like a jack knife and a case could be made Britain lost Singapore because the naval assets that could have been used there where just being kept too busy by the Italians. It was a very nasty naval war between Britain and Italy. Not quite a walk over. The Italian Navy lost more ships-but was not wiped out and the British had to supply Egypt by the way of the Cape of Good Hope rather then through the Straits of Gibraltor-a 40 to 120 day journey as long as the Italian Navy was a belligerent Damn Regia Marina just wouldn't fold and was a fleet in being up to the end in 1943-despite Taranto and Battle of Calabria-despite Royal Navy night fighting superiority (where most of Italian naval losses occurred) and despite lack of radar development and oil on the Italian part. http://www.amazon.com/Struggle-Middle-Sea-Mediterranean-1940-1945/dp/1591146488/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364537132&sr=1-1&keywords=struggle+for+the+middle+sea

Now DO IT NOW! Use a human wave attack to break the Germans. Make your Shermans the spearpoint-don't wait for the infantry. Grease your treads with their soldiers. UHrahhhhh!!!!

The Italian Armored Car lacks texture on the rear machine gun Humber Armored Car has crew limbs sticking out the texture when you 'open hatches' and driver sits to high. Since both vehicles will be in that release I thought I'd give a heads up.

In East Front broken troops make good mine clearence and sand bags. ZA STALINA!

Have to say #3 brings the people into the 'dealership' Luv it!

I'm 413 in dog years.

Hey thanks John-going on vacation just what I need to read in an airport. Yeah photos don't tell the whole story. Thanks! :^)

Even M10 crews thought the 50cal was in not an also useful position {couldn't be help due to the gun size and turret layout}-and getting rid of those pesky Volkstrum teens and Opas and the battle harden and lucky survivors in the Whermacht with their Panzerfaust meant they needed more firepower and quick-hence toward the end 30 cals started showing up on M10's. Not clear how they were mounted. But they were there-Even Creighton Abrams in his M4 Sherman had an extra 30 cal mounted on his turret and look how many a stock M4 has. Perhaps in a patch Battlefront can make them available at a later time period. Did they have this at Normandy hmmm not saying they did-but toward the end. Jan-Feb 45 you had a whole different US Army on the move compared to D-Day. Hard Lessons learned. What is depicted here wasn't unique in 1945. Autumn or winter 44. Don't know. Oh yeah remember M10 were suppose to be to kill a tank and scoot. Panzerfaust and Panzershreck Infantry wasn't even considered when this tank was designed. It wasn't designed to provide close support for Infantry. But events and circumstances conspired for it to do just that. Wish there was picture of the M10 Audie Murphy was on when earned that medal-I don't know if it had a 30 caliber also or where exactly on the rear area the M10 was on fire.

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Gliders, cows, bodies, wrecked cars are 3D objects-we don't have a utility to import or export these items into the game. I'm sure there are other utilities (that the developer uses) to associate these objects to their place in the game. But we don't have that. Sorry.

Adding a flavor object is no problem (just do a search of my posts). The limitations are on Flavor Objects. 1.There's only so many 'flavor' slots you can fill. 2. Flavor objects offer no line of sight blocking or cover. I can put a a bulletridden Fiat truck from FORTRESS ITALY in CM:BN (I put an M10 TD flavor object in Sicily if you look closely at my screenshots)-but it's just an image-not 'virtually solid'. 3. No way I know of that you can import 3d objects. I agree with your observations-hmmm maybe there will be gliders on the ground in the next module if it is Arnhem? FWIW.

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And sarcasm doesn't make you anymore amazing either.

Another thing bad about shooting a bazooka and Panzershreck indoors would be the fumes from the exhaust. That wouldn't be pleasant.

I played this from the American side last night while drinking some French Wine from COSTCO to put me in the mood. ELITE setting. Total Victory. I lost 2 Greyhounds with 8 killed 7 wounded. As I recall the Germans lost all the PUMA's and 251's. 2 SdKFZ 250's stayed hidden 'rattled'. TOTAL VICTORY was achieved by German combat losses-there was nothing left to stop an exit. If you played Steel Beast (I played the old one A LOT) this scenario isn't a problem-and the terrain is familiar-just stand off-study the land. The Greyhounds have an open top-the PUMA's don't so the American's never have to open up to look. German's don't unless they unbutton. Don't rush and use bounding overwatch tactics. Fools rush in. Sound military tactics from one excellent military game can be applied to another. Just because the German's have the sexier vehicles and the Comic Opera uniforms doesn't automatically mean they're gonna win. Combined Arms. Combined Arms. Combined Arms..... One little area on the map gave me some issues ( lost 2 Greyhounds) but it wasn't anything tactics wouldn't overcome. Not gonna give it away-but I was kicking myself "Stupid! Dumb mistake!!!") The real enemy in the game is the clock-in real life you would be more prudent with such an expanse. Nice little Scenario. I just finished playing the Le Clarilont-It's Quiet to Quiet scenaro before on ELITE settings. Had my a** handed to me. I love these Battlefront games.

I know that.

Well that is what they would like you to believe. "5 Eyes" isn't in the business to advertise abilities. Part of their shop involves lies, damn lies, half-truths, mudding the waters, obfuscating...

HAHAAHAH I can only wonder how many Tankers thought it wouldn't be a problem driving through these little vines. I was raised in California and have seen vineyards up close. Why they have even been know to slow up the frame rate in a powerful computers.

Followed this thread with interest. Don't want to hijack it. I collect pdf's on old military manuals and since my German is passable I'm not intimidated by non English manuals. RockinHarry is your Panzerfaust manual available for download anywhere? Best I could find was this current pdf. http://trizna.ru/galerea/albums/userpics/Panzerfaust_30_klein.pdf Oh yeah in going to Wikipedia it said Panzerfausts were used by the Communist guerrillas in the post war Philippines! What the hell...:eek:

Yup FRAPS works like a charm-overcame my Win7 issue to.

Glad someone noted the overuse of fanatic. I guess the US Marines at Wake Island in 1941 were fanatic and the US Army in 1942 at Corregidor was fanatic

Best mod. Make an empty file in your game DATA file. Name it Z. That is the first mod and most important mod. Because in there go all the other graphic, font, sound and text modifications.