niall78
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It's good that Apple try to protect our feelings and promote global harmony and goodwill.
All the while making their product in what are affectionately known as 'suicide factories'.
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Definitely Patton was trying to swim against the tide. It's hard to actually contemplate what he was suggesting.
In essence he wanted to drag the war in Europe on for many more years. How was the USSR to be knocked out of this war? Another march on Moscow? Hope the tiny amount of A-Bombs produced could tilt the balance?
Europe was close to famine, its cities wrecked, its farms untended, its factories destroyed or worn out. America itself was glad the end had arrived in Europe - its soldiers happy to have survived. Yet here was Patton contemplating throwing them all into another huge conflagration with no real clear-cut outcome or endgame.
I've always had doubts about Patton as a force commander. At a strategic and political level he was a non-entity - an embarrassment.
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Michael Emrys,
I'm quite surprised that not only has there been no response outside of yours, but no one seems to have noticed "UNTHINKABLE" and the rich possibilities for "What if" gaming. Until I saw that bit, all I'd ever read about was Patton's desire to keep pushing and wipe out the Russians, whom he knew would become our outright enemies. Churchill's plan, though, caused me to gasp. 47 Allied Divisions and 12 German. Certainly lots of Russian divisions, but what I've read indicates they were pretty much spent, very much in need of rest and resupply, particularly ammo. I believe airpower would've been devastating.
Regards,
John Kettler
The British and Canadian forces were also spent - they been cannibalising units since the middle of Normandy to make units with at least a semblance of their supposed ToE.
The major problem would have been casualties - something the democratic countries feared greatly due to public opinion and something that really didn't concern the Russians. Every consideration on the Western side was predicated on lowest possible casualties - this wasn't them being nice to their soldiers - it was political expediency. What would be the expected Western death count of a Russian attack into Eastern Germany with their Shock Armies? It would make the Bulge look like a picnic in the woods.
How would Western opinion have stood one million or so dead facing their highly experienced allies while standing shoulder to shoulder with their axis enemies who'd just been exposed as civilian mass murders?
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You should thank that Sturmovik pilot for ridding you of a lousy Hetzer commander. Hitting trees shows that his heart really wasn't in the fight. Your force is definitely improved now that he's gone.
Carry on.
Please do another public AAR c3k!
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Had this problem recently in a CM campaign game. I had ambushed a group of German units coming out of a wood. After taking a few casualties they retreated back into cover. My 60mm mortar had LOS on the area the Germans retreated into but the direct fire all landed in exactly the same spot - I was hoping for even a little bit of scatter to try and catch a few of the disengaging German squads.
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The thing is, as helpful and informative it may be,...isn't MOSt of Russian post war documentaries, films, documents,...so much biased, come on,..
I found the recent 'Soviet Storm' documentaries very good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhXKlYnSWjA
http://www.history.co.uk/shows/soviet-storm-ww2-in-the-east
It's a Russian made program "Великая война" by Artem Drabkin and Aleksey Isaev. Translated into English.
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Will be watching constant reruns of 'Cross of Iron' instead!
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Take my money!
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I'm having problems finding fan made campaigns for CMBN. If possible could people post any campaigns they know of here and post a link and I'll copy them into this first post.
This would give CMBN players a quick easy way of finding such campaigns.
Thanks in advance.
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AHHHHH!
I played the first mission in 'Rolling Thunder' and half the second mission. Turned the computer off for the night and now the game has stopped working again.
Getting this message:
'The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000005). Click ok to close the application.'
Anyone any ideas to solve this one?
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Reinstalled and patched the base game and all its modules and turned on DEP for essential Windows programs and services only. I also had to allow exemptions for the base game and all the modules exe files in AVG as it seemed to think they were a threat.
Game and all modules working fine now. I'm glad the new series of CM WW2 games no longer has this type of copy protection. Thanks for the help!
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Is there a master list of fan made campaigns anywhere?
Thanks in advance.
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Having great fun with CM:Normandy but wanted to load up SF and all its modules on my Windows 7 computer for a bit of modern action.
Installed the programs, patched and re-registered with no problems and when I try to run them they will not run - I just get nothing happening.
I tried messing with the firewall settings. I messed with the administrator settings. I still can't get the software to run - I never had any problems on my older system and CM:N and its modules work with no problems.
I notice this seems to be a recurring problem with many posts in this forum, I've tried a few solutions mentioned but with no success. Is there a complete guide to fixing this problem step by step?
Thanks in advance - I dearly love SF and all its modules and am gagging to get stuck into them again.
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Just like the title says. Is there a list somewhere for complete campaigns for Normandy and Commonwealth games?
Thanks in advance for any replys.
Are downloads generally extremely slow and unreliable here?
in Combat Mission Red Thunder
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I had a problem a while ago with CMFI. It would download 30-40 megs in seconds and then dropped to dial-up speed. Not sure if the problem was at my end or Battlefronts - there's usually no issue with downloads. A few hours later CMFI downloaded in minutes with zero problems.