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Ok, given info makes sense, thanks again everyone. About c3k's D-Day pictures remarks: Robert Capa, a famous war correspondent, was at Omaha beach with the first wave. He took more than a hundred pictures, and those must have been some of the best war-pics ever, I think. Film was rushed back, where impatience from an lab employee overheated the film during the drying process. Just eight photo's remained. See for more details once more the magnificent site www.strijdbewijs.nl To go directly to story of the D-day photo's: http://www.strijdbewijs.nl/robert/capa.htm That is the Dutch page, I know there is an English version, but I don't know whether the Capa story is translated yet.

Post nr 60 makes me wanna pay for more of this AAR, there are well-paid Dutch comedians who aren't nearly as funny as c3k on a roll.

Thanks for info thus far. Strangely enough it never bothered me, until I watched some of those (sometimes endless) Syria YouTube clips. Off course , our technology is a million times better than in ww2, but I really believed they had the possibility to film for longer periods than we see in the documentaries. Wrongly, apparently. Still think it's a real shame they couldn't or wouldn't provide us with longer runs.

My whole life is just one endless big black hole, so trust me, I know! :eek:

I bet your lines of sight must be terrible in those forests.. And keeping C2 in order becomes more tricky too, I suppose. BTW, wouldn't it have been awfully nice if in this case the kubelwagen had been a schwimmwagen?

Does anybody know why practically all the WW2 documentary movie-clips are so ridiculously short? I mean, in those days they must have had camera's with more film on it than the oh so very often shown two-to-seven seconds lasting shots. Every time I see WW2 documentaries I think: he, cameraman, why the f#^k don't you keep on rolling? (or maybe the editors cut the sequences that short?) If the cameraman was directly in harm's way, I would understand, but even in non-combat situations the clips are annoyingly short. Maybe there are some film/camera-grogs that can explain this phenomena?

:D:D:D.....

I do not agree. If Stalin had attacked Germany before Barbarossa started, he had to do that with the same incompetent Army that fought the Fins and that was swept away in the late summer of 1941. As I see it the Germans would not only have been able to stop such a Russian assault, but they would have had even more chance to reach Moscow with their counterattacks. The Russians at that time weren't flexible enough to go from attack to defense and their defensive lines would have been even worse than during Barbarossa. Sometimes a defeat leads to better things; like in 1939/1940 when the Royal British air force and the army lost enormous amounts of material and equipment. That turned out to be a blessing in disguise because after getting involuntary rid of obsolete crap, they were forced to come up with new, modern stuff. By the time that arrived, a lot of the German stuff was outdated. Stalin's "luck" with the massive losses of Barbarossa led not only to way better material, but - in my view much more important - also to a better trained, more flexible, free to make their own decisions officer corps. An early attack on Germany with the "old" Red Army would probably have led to disaster for the Russians.

A Great Dane? http://www.danesonline.com/images/greysultan.jpg

Not in no bleedin' black 'ole, it doesn't. :cool: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole

Oxford's Dictionary: Summer (1) : "the warmest season of the year, in the northern hemisphere from June to August and in the southern hemisphere from December to February"

Would have been interesting screenshot: C3k's wife's first look at CM battlefield.

I once played an CMBN scenario (or was it a battle in a campaign) where I had the same (rather ridiculous, as I see it) invincibility of a Panther tank. It also had it's main gun damaged, but it proved impossible to destroy. Three Shermans, one a 76, blasting away in vain. I stopped counting the seemingly perfect hits after 40 but at least another 20 followed. Finally with these three Shermans within 10 feet, the Panther crew decided to bail, which wasn't a very sensible move. Can't recall any other scenario's where this uber-uber-ubermensch Panther appeared, but at the time I was convinced there was something wrong with the game (in those circumstances). Your Panther looks the same..

It still happens.. A few years ago I met a man at work who told everybody that he had been a sniper in Iraq. When I said that the Dutch hadn't been fighting there, he instantly replied that he had been in a very secret special ops unit. Ok, I thought, that is, be it very unlikely, a possibility. But as soon as I asked him about what weapons he had been using, he started mumbling. After a few extra questions it turned out he had never been in any military organization whatsoever! He'd made up the entire story..

Hereby I'd like to officially state that if there will still be no schwimmwagen in the Combat Mission battle of the Bulge/Ardennes game, I'll be seriously sulking from then on.

Man, this must be the most successful AT-gun I've ever seen in CMBN/CW! Three kills and still ok..., unbelievable. And I really admire your cool attitude when these Shermans showed up, because it's only the Panther and the ATgun that are useable against them. When I saw them in my play I thought I was a goner for sure and most certainly did not stay cool (cursed a lot).

Mumbling Geriatrics?

Indian summer too?

Anyone played this yet?

With all them protests/discussions from lately in mind, CM: Too Costly

CM: Fu#king Cold!

82nd Airborne was my hero-outfit when I was a kid, and Jumpin' James (Gavin) my favorite general, so their battles for sure.

Hear, hear!

Pulse 3 means heart rate dropped to 3 beats per minute because of excitement level of that game?

Maybe everybody else is looking at Arnhem?? Or they do not understand what the Pzc/CM combo means. I have to confess that at first, despite having played this hexes-game, I didn't realize what you were doing. People who never played probably don't have a clue.. Language-wise: probably one of the most common mistakes in translating is trying to change words for words, so to speak. "If I replace the Dutch words with the correct English words, then it must be alright." Not realizing that the translation might end up in a grammatical mess. That was my mistake, I think. Thanks for your options. And please continue with this thread, I'm very curious how the battle will develop.