chas_in_mlb

I have NEVER seen my engineers complete this task. Do I walk them through the minefield? Around it? All I seem to be able to do is get my engineers killed. I am using the MARK MINES button "on" but no results. Help with this would be appreciated.

I also recall that Audie Murphy won a CMOH mounting a burning tank and using the M2 to F-Up the Germans in his area. Extreme example, I guess. Back to topic- I have found hedges very effective in concealment. I do, however, find it VERY frustrating that they are significant blockages to LOS and my infantry still won't cross them. I understand the difference between hedges and low hedgerows, but I still find myself having to blow up hedges with demo charges.

Not unless you want to call the couch your "mount". Playing the Buron scenario "Sticking it Out" I learned that the M10 can't do doodley-squat against the Panther (unless it's a rear shot, I guess). My 17lb ATG's, OTOH, made mince out of them. The ridge to the SE had four burning Panthers. One blew up and made it's own crater. The last one tried to skirt the orchard to the SSE and my other 17lb'er tasked that one, too. As Dieter on Sprockets would say, "I was as happy as a little girl". Only thing is- I had 5 Panthers, three (I think) STG's and at least five halftracks burning or knocked out and all I got was a "Minor Victory".

I'd like a battle recorder that shows the visible and hidden unit movements throughout the battle. I'd like to see where I'm doing well and where I'm getting lit up.

I've had squads half-taken out by my own spotting rounds. Not fun. One time I remember yelling @ my PC and I'm pretty sure that my neighbours think that I'm insane and responding to voices inside my head. Now all friendlies must be @ least 200m away or it's danger close. Sounds like a job opportunity for a tank-hunting team; split off one (better yet, two) antitank teams from your squads and send them on a mission. It's great fun- I love doing that.

I love that...ha! He was buried in a mess tin, I believe. Pretty vincible. Here are some pics of "invincible" German armor for the fanboys. The "invincible" Panther. Tiger II. Vincible.

Now all we need is some campaigns for the Canadians.

That just gave me the best laugh I've had in days.

Woohoo!! I love this campaign. Thanks v. muchly for all the hard work.

I have a question - why do hedges block the LOS to the building behind it? If I see a building that I suspect holds enemy troops in it and want to pump a few rounds into it, I can't. Very frustrating.

Is this possible? I was playing the second scenario in the The Road To Montebourg campaign and my engineers could blow up hedgerows fine, but not the roadblock. Is there a secret to this?

FINALLY managed a total victory in "School Of Hard Knocks"- very happy about that. The Germans hammered the first three platoons that tried to cross the bridge- I managed to take out all the AT guns w/o a loss to my tanks- what did happen, however, was that the German mortars eventually collapsed the bridge and 2 of my tanks could not cross and support the attack. They were forced to stay on the N bank and fire at any targets of oppurtunity. They did useful work suppressing a number of positions while the other 3 Shermans led the charge on the ridge. This is what I did right, from my observations... When I locate an AT gun, I allocated no fewer than 3 support elements. I went with Heavy/short barrages and that worked like a charm. I saved my medium mortars and the 105's for those jobs. The 60mm mortars I saved for any MG42 I could spot. As soon as I had a few infantry squads on the opposite bank, I laid a heavy smoke screen in front of the German positions on the ridge, with the 105 batteries. That seriously hampered his observer's ability to continue to pound my infantry. 2 of my tanks swung around the left flank of the Germans on the ridge, slowly making their away along the trench lines and they did splendid work. I managed to move a few squads on to the ridge despite harrassment to my flanks from German remnants, and they cleaned out most of the trenches on the German left before they threw in the towel. Revenge is sweet.

If it hasn't already been answered, it was Rudyard Kipling. He wrote a poem for the British papers, with the line "the Hun is at the gate"; inferring that the Germans were invaders bent on destroying civilization as analogous to what happened in the late Roman Empire in the west. For all we have and are, For all our children's fate, Stand up and take the war. The Hun is at the gate! Our world has passed away, In wantonness o'erthrown. There is nothing left to-day But steel and fire and stone! Though all we knew depart, The old Commandments stand: -- "In courage keep your heart, In strength lift up your hand." Once more we hear the word That sickened earth of old: -- "No law except the Sword Unsheathed and uncontrolled." Once more it knits mankind, Once more the nations go To meet and break and bind A crazed and driven foe. Comfort, content, delight, The ages' slow-bought gain, They shrivelled in a night. Only ourselves remain To face the naked days In silent fortitude, Through perils and dismays Renewed and re-renewed. Though all we made depart, The old Commandments stand: -- "In patience keep your heart, In strength lift up your hand." No easy hope or lies Shall bring us to our goal, But iron sacrifice Of body, will, and soul. There is but one task for all -- One life for each to give. What stands if Freedom fall? Who dies if England live? Edwardian Englishmen likened the British Empire to that of the Roman Empire- historians like Gibbon created the myth of the "Pax Romana" and "Hun" was a term that Kipling's readers could understand and correlate to their predicament in 1914, as they saw as a direct threat to their empire.

We'll draw the line at dead civilians though.... I recall the Close Combat series had dead farm animals, which made pretty decent cover in a pinch. Don't see why it isn't represented in this game, though. I recall seeing photos of decimated dairy herds in Normandy.

First off, no men were killed. It's all pixels on a screen; sprites and such. In my last battle a trio of German, one of whom with an MG 42 with which he killed four men was confronted by a M3a3 light tank. They stopped firing and put up their hands. A pause, then the tank mowed them down. Perhaps the point has been done to death, but the brutalizing process of war, seeing dead men, dead dogs, horses, civilians were commonplace. Whats one or two more? During WW I it was common for two types of surrenders that were killed outright (on general principles) - snipers and machine gunners. I think you should have the option of taking prisoners or not. The SS for example, were infamous for it. Thinking specifically of the Canadians they executed in Normandy. The SS murdered British POW's in 1940 as well. It's well documented, but there is never any lack of admirers and fanboys who love the SS in spite of it. Whaddya gonna do?

I'm thinking that that is why the Russians liked to have their hatches open away from the commander. A little extra protection, perhaps.

The Battle Of The Atlantic. Had the Allies lost that one, there wouldn't be an Overlord. Even Churchill admitted in his memoirs that it was the only thing that frightened him during the entire war (the U Boats). The USN succeeded where the KM failed and see what happened to the Japanese war effort. It's also highly debatable the Battle Of Britain was decisive- it clearly was not. It's importance is almost purely political/symbolic. Sealion was a joke of a plan and there was profound relief on the part of the German high command when it was called off. If the Germans had tried crossing the channel in Rhine river barges in late Sept early Oct. they would have had their a$$es handed to them in a high hat. The BoB wasn't a cliche "near run thing" as you may have read in the many, many heroic narratives (that comprise quite a cottage industry in the UK) and a Luftwaffe victory would have been a Phyrric victory at best. 'Nuff said. Gerd probably hated the Russians like all the German generals did and gave that answer to piss them off. It's exactly what I would have said to them, too if I was in his shoes.