kensal

I love a challenge - how long to find a photo of tank packing foodstuffs. Maybe a pig carcass. I'll look to Kelly's Heroes for inspiration!

Hey Fuser, could you fit a few tins of sardines and corned beef on the front of that Sherman ?

Thanks to you all

I work with a mac so cannot open .brz files (I think). Can anyone tell me what the filenames are for Fallschirmjager uniforms are? I guessed at smod_german_luftwaffe_airborne_soldier_uniform.bmp but that doesn't seem to work. Thanks, Kensal

ah, I see. I was thinking in real life as opposed to game terms. Yes I had heard about the white line issue in the game

Mo for Movember!

Dutch asphalt. Just out of interest is there a qualitative and observable difference between Dutch and say German asphalt The Hellcat looks wonderful. Particularly on Dutch asphalt

The reason for having armoured transport for infantry was to make the more mobile and, while mobile, safer than in alternative transport. Whatever armament and whatever period of the war you look at, you would be better off in a HT than a lorry. And the question of the quality of armour protection for armoured vehicles continues to this day - it was a live issue for UK troops using armoured landrovers and apcs in Afghanistan and issue for the Abrams in Iraq, one or two of which I believe may have been penetrated by RPGs. There is always a trade off between armour and mobility.

Yes but I think the point being made is that the preparation work undertaken by engineers to ready a large bridge for demolition might take many hours and in the case of say the Nijmegen or Arnhem road bridges, days. Therefore not something that needs or should be modelled in a game lasting two hours

Thanks, very kind of you.

Mord's war ravaged faces don't seem to work in MG. Can anyone also tell me what the appropriate name should be for portraits for German paras in MG? The default portraits seem to be missing for these and I would like to use Mord's Luftwaffe portraits for these as a stopgap.

I would agree with most of the recent comments about the relative rarity of 'hand to hand' combat. It probably happened in urban fights but perhaps mostly by accident i.e. running into cover in the wrong house or jumping into the wrong slit trench and even then most people were still probably killed by small arms. British soldiers with bayonets on generally used them on enemy casualties they were passing "just to make sure". Not good if you were wounded and unable to move

well there's a very easy solution. If you insist on using your half-tracks to close with the enemy, make sure you've got the buggers buttoned up - as you would do with your tank commanders. Then consider why the Germans developed the remotely operated top mg for the late stugs and hetzers.... which I love btw.

Yep it a lovely surprise to see the scenario PDF in there. No excuse for anyone now!

It may be that the use of smoke isn't mentioned much because it may not seem a detail worth mentioning in a history book.

What makes you think it was used rarely?

I just had a peak round the inter web and found this - a reference to a stielgranate for 50mm pak "It may also be of interest that there was a 5cm Stielgranate 42 available for use with the 5cm PaK 38. Similar to the 3.7cm Stielgranate, this was also an AT round with the ability to penetrate 180mm of plate. However it was a different shape due to the tail needing to fit over the 5cm's muzzle brake. The recommended maximum engagement range was 150m. (p196, German Artillery of WW2, Ian V. Hogg) Apparently Stielgranaten were also available for firing from the captured 47mm AT guns employed by the Germans, both Czech and French" http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=305973

Oh good I do hope it's not a bug and we can fire these things!! I never they existed.

I have been testing some of Marco's new silhouettes and I noticed while doing this that the 37mm and 50mm Paks are carrying 150mm heat ammunition. A couple of screenies (unmodded)

I think the decals look good but I feel that they are a luxury. You produce mods for your own pleasure so you must go with how you feel about it first but you are also doing it for the community at large (and that is hugely appreciated). My guess is (and I am willing to be corrected) that more people would prefer to have more vehicles modded without decals rather than have fewer vehicles modded but with decals, particularly given the numbers of new vehicles coming out in GL and MG and in future packs etc. your mods are without doubt the gold standard for vehicles so I think there is always going to be a great deal of demand for what you produce and that is said without diminishing anyone else's work.

Have you looked at the manual about the requirement to 'anchor' the bridges correctly. It seemed fairly technical to me and perhaps it just takes a bit of time to get it right rather than there being a problem

Very good....

Well I did not say it was invented for him. If you wish to be pedantic, I would have better expressed myself by saying it could have been invented for him. Since he is dead the fact that he would not have understood the expression himself is perhaps neither here nor there. I certainly would not compare to the military figures you mention in your email, and I haven't done so - I agree it would be an apples and oranges comparison. Nevertheless he was still a great man - in an entirely neutral sense - I do not intend you to understand that there is any hero worship or approval here, but simply as an objective comment. He was after all a key figure in the successful insurgencies / wars against France and the US (in the broadest sense that the two countries withdrew from Vietnam in consequence), and he fought successfully against the Japanese.

the phrase "he had a good innings" seems to have been invented for him.....a great man