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Too true sadly. I think the Dutch resistance warned about the SS Panzer Corps.

And the weather is so bad here in England it is nice to see some blue sky.

Before the next module comes out could you please tweak the QB set up so that you can save a game and its parameters before you start? This would enable: Replay but from the other side. Replay but at different difficulty level. Replay at different time - e.g. night Replay but with slightly tweaked force levels. Thank you in anticipation.

Blimey, I dream of a screen that beautiful. You should try playing on a laptop with Intel HD graphics. Kids, you're just spoilt these days.

In "Those Devils in Baggy Pants" the author recounts an incident where the man carrying the bazooka rockets keeps chucking them in a ditch, but every time he wakes up after a snooze the rockets are right back next to him, having been picked up by one of the other guys. A great book, especially now there seems to some paras sneaking around in Italy.

Thanks, I do quite a lot of those things but not as methodically as you set out. I confess to sneaking down the edge of the map too often. Well, it's safer isn't it?

Fu#k, just lost 5 Shermans in a QB. Bloody tessellation. Get it sorted.

And therefore move faster without tiring.

One of the benefits of CMBN is that I have started to play more of CMBO. The AI makes suicidal rushes so I guess it is better to play as the attacker. One trick I am trying is to run my tanks buttoned up all the time. Any other tricks those of you who play against the AI use?

Try and set that up as a QB and see what happens. The Germans seem to have showed my level of competence.

Hmm.. this on the Pershing has some points I think of interest re range, concealment - Tiger 100 yds !, HE, immobilisation: (copied from Wiki - hence references) ""After training the tank crews, the T26E3 tanks were first committed to combat on 25 February, with the 3rd Armored Division, in the fighting for the Roer River. On 26 February, a T26E3 named Fireball was knocked out in an ambush at Elsdorf while overwatching a roadblock. Silhouetted by a nearby fire, the Pershing was in a disadvantageous position. A concealed Tiger tank fired three shots from about 100 yd (91 m). The first penetrated the turret through the machine gun port in the mantlet killing both the gunner and the loader. The second shot hit the gun barrel causing the round that was in the chamber to fire with the effect of distorting the barrel. The last shot glanced off the turret side taking off the upper cupola hatch. While backing up to escape, the Tiger became entangled in debris and was abandoned by the crew.[38] Fireball was quickly repaired and returned to service on 7 March.[39].." Shortly afterward, also at Elsdorf, another T26E3 knocked out a Tiger I and two Panzer IVs.[40] The Tiger was knocked out at 900 yd (820 m) with the 90-mm HVAP T30E16 ammunition.[36] Photographs of this knocked out Tiger I in Hunnicutt's book showed a penetration through the front gun mantlet.[41] On 6 March, in the city of Cologne, a T26E3 knocked out a Panther tank in front of the Cologne Cathedral after the Panther had knocked out at least one M4 Sherman.[42] The action was recorded by a Signal Corps cameraman.[43][44] On the same day, another T26E3 was knocked out in the town of Niehl near Cologne, by an 88 mm self propelled anti-tank gun, at a range of under 300 yd (270 m).[45] There were two other tank engagements involving the T26E3, with one Tiger I knocked out during the fighting around Cologne, and one Panzer IV knocked out at Mannheim.[46] The T26E3s with the 9th Armored Division saw action in fighting around the Roer River with one Pershing disabled by two hits from a German 150 mm field gun.[36]

Playing armour only QBs is my solution. I can play with myself, so to speak.

Didn't Patton also hold up the development of the Pershing?

Please stop it. This game is tedious enough already. They've turned a great game into a mediocre one. More stimulation less simulation. Discombobulation. Any other ...ulation.

So about 110 rounds for a casualty in slit trenches. One of you clever chaps could set up a QB, place some victims in holes and stonk them.

Could well be as the book contained bits on Boer War, Omdurman, and as you say, the Malakand Field Force. And yes the same places are in the news again and we are making the same mistakes. Good to see Popper referenced. @Doug Williams - yeah I like making the tanks go really fast, I want to try and get them to do skid turns.

I'm generally critical of the UI, things that are just worse than CMx1 when there's no reason for them to be so, especially 10+ years on. I find the gushing praise for "realism" from some of the fans vomit inducing - as if dicking around in front of a PC and being able to fly behind 3D buildings is more realistic than Harry bloody Potter. And then.. the first game I have that I really enjoy is about as unrealistic as possible - a QB - no infantry, no artillery, tanks only - German against German, and yes I played the AI. Mind you, there's nothing like a crushing victory to make you feel good.

@mjkerner I haven't played any Colonial wargames. I happened to read Winston Churchill's account of Omdurman a few weeks ago because a copy was left in a flat I stayed in whilst on holiday in Spain. He was there (Omdurman, that is !) - and rode in the charge of the Lancers. There was some great phrase along the lines of "there are few things more exhilarating in a man's life than to be shot at and survive..." I sometimes play American Civil War and Napoleonic - in fact I only earlier today felt that, as it is some 200 years since Napoleon retreated from Moscow, I should park some of the tanks and planes and dust off the muskets and sabres.

Spooky. It's not Kipling, I think but ? Nugent New?? who then got rather upset when it was used to lure too many young men to play the game in 1914-18. I think. I celebrated my overwhelming victory with a bottle of port so I'm a bit pished now.

QB, small, random, armour only, meeting engagement, veteran level. Turned out to be German vs German in city. Won by 1000 points to 12. Four Panthers and 2 HT destroyed. Nothing lost. A little knife fight, a bit like that real footage you can see of Sherman, then Pershing vs Panther. One heroic German crewman charged my PzIV with his pistol. My 3 guys wounded - I guess they must have caught their fingers in the hatch as they closed it. Almost like the old days at Omdurman against the fuzzy wuzzies. You know the stuff: The sand of the desert is sodden red, -- Red with the wreck of a square that broke; -- The Gatling's jammed and the Colonel dead, And the regiment blind with dust and smoke. The river of death has brimmed his banks, And England's far, and Honour a name, But the voice of a schoolboy rallies the ranks: 'Play up! play up! and play the game!'

Discommode? What kind of obsolete word is that to confuse our foreign friends with. This game is set in WW2 not horse and musket era. Did the Russians discommode the Poles with that flag?

He, being a diligent hard worker, had got up early and heard the radio news about the Argentine invasion of the Falklands; and he decided that I should go and liberate them before anybody else got the chance!

@johanr Your English is excellent. Gold star - go to the top of the class. Your comments on missions starting with you under fire before you do anything are something I agree with. The nearest I had to this was in 1982 in Rio de Janeiro - sharing an apartment with an ex-US Marine. He kicked open my bedroom door early in the morning, threw his old army boots at my head and shouted "Put these on Altipueri, and walk south. You're at war!"

Can the OP please change the second word in the title to happened. Thank you.

Thanks for the quick reply.