Ultradave

YES!! Let me offer my thanks again for bringing CM back to the Mac. I can run most PC games using Parallels and W Vista but still much prefer running Mac native. Still waiting 1-2 weeks (ha-ha) for the announcement of the Mac big huge package version Shock Force. Dave

Really I'm old enough that I don't think things had changed that much since WW2. I'm not old enough to know first hand, though. :-) We had more observers than in WW2. A 2 man FO team (observer and radio) with every infantry plt and a 3 man hq team with the Co CO. But the techniques and equipment hadn't advanced that much. For the FOs, 20 something pound radios, binos, grease pencil and a map, and "charts and darts" and slide rules in the fire direction center. The rest of the Army had computers but we couldn't jump with any of that so everything we did was the old way.

By job title sure, but everyone in an FO team knows how to call fire and in an emergency (like the whole FO team is KIA and GIJoe picks up the working radio screaming for help), every mortar and artillery firing unit is taught how to talk an untrained observer through a mission over the radio. That includes first making sure it's a good guy on the other end of the radio :-) Dave - formerly (more years ago than I care to admit, and before everything became computerized) Fire Direction Officer of B Btry, 2/321st FA(Abn), 82d Abn Div.

Several bouts of repair permissions, several session with Onyx to clean, and one run through of repair disk did nothing to fix things, but now the OS X update has magically made things work, so it looks like they did fix a bunch of permission problems. Oddly, this was the only program I had any problems with. Whatever it was it happened to touch something that needed fixing by Apple. Anyway, happily blowing things up now :-)

My MacBook Pro was not running Commonwealth Forces. I could license it but it refused to start up, despite troubleshooting by the crew at Battlefront. Today, there was a Mac OS X Lion update to 10.7.4 and glory be, I started up CW to see if it made a difference and it works perfectly. Maybe it was only me and there was something flaky about my new laptop (hard to believe since it's only a few months old) if there is anyone else out there with a Mac that refuses to handle CW you may have better luck after the system update. Dave

Former Airborne Field Artillery here. I can't imagine driving around in a vehicle just waiting to get hit by something. My roommate went Armor though and couldn't imagine doing anything else :-) To each their own.

There is a book "All American, All the Way" (author's name is Nordyke). Covers all of the 82d during WW2 but has a section on Market Garden. Good book (note however that I'm biased - I was in the 82d Abn Division Artillery in my younger days :-) )

For bringing Combat Mission back to the Mac. I played many many our of CMBO and finally had to give up when it was no longer playable on newer Macs. The other titles were too much for earlier versions of Parallels Desktop so no chance of running the Windows versions on the Mac. Now, though - no need as CMBN looks beautiful and runs like a dream on my new MacBook Pro. Just wanted to pass along a word of thanks from a very satisfied customer. Dave