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Heirloom_Tomato

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  1. I have two AT guns in the same platoon, one crew has lost three men and the gun, the other has lost all the men but the leader and the gun still functions. I would like to be able to combine the two crews to effectively serve one gun. Or have the platoon HQ join the active gun with only one crew member.

  2. There are two scenarios shipped with the Gustav Line Module: "Lost"- about the Hasty P's and "Winter of our discontent"- a battle around the Moro river outside of Ortona. These are the only Canadian scenarios I know about.

    There is also a campaign in the respository called "Welcome to Sicily" where you command a mixed force of British and Canadians.

    For the NZ forces there is one called "Kiwi Soldiers".

  3. I will second the Mark Zuehlke books as a great read. I find he seems to have a very good balance between the higher level decision making and the view from the men on the actual front lines. There are plenty of scenario ideas in each book. The titles, if you are looking for them at your local library or online are:

    Operation Husky

    Ortona

    The Liri Valley

    The Gothic Line

  4. If anyone was wondering why there are no women on this forum, this thread would be a great place to figure out why. I am no longer sure I should be encouraging my daughters to play this game and have them seek out opponents on this forum.

    I asked a simple question to find out if there were any plans to include women who played a role in the Red army and the amount absolute drivel in the responses has been disappointing. If I had asked this question in the Peng challenge thread I would have expected this.

    Thanks kipanderson for pointing out they only represented about 3% of the actual Red Army. Given that low percentage I agree the time taken to include women faces into the game should have a low priority.

  5. sorry but had say this gind thing is tjust waisting recourses and time . ok not big thing but still

    I am not saying you were one who did but it was ok for people to complain the buttstock texture was missing from some rifles in the commonwealth module but it is wrong to ask for women to be represented in the game?

  6. I am the father of 5 daughters all of whom love watching me play CM. We have even had a few games played against each other over the home network. The joy of having multiple activation keys is both the computers in our house can play the same game at the same time all from one purchase. This is impossible with the other popular game they love to play, CIV 5 from Steam. We would need to create a new account and purchase a second copy of the game to play CIV 5 over a home network the same as CM. Thanks for making this possible Battlefront!! :D

    However this is the whiners thread so I had better start whining! Since my girls have begun playing with me they have started to ask questions. Why did the war start? Why did Canada join the fight if we lived so far away from the fighting? Did any women fight in the war? Why do all your tanks always seem to be on fire? :o So we have begun having WW2 history lessons at night. In one of my books they noticed a Russian woman holding a sniper rifle and asked "Where are the female soldiers in Red Thunder"? I had to tell them they were not in the game.

    When I downloaded the 3.0 upgrade today my oldest noticed the announcement said "Gentlemen time to upgrade your war" and she said to me, "Well I guess us girls get stuck with old version as we don't get to upgrade." At age 12 her sarcasm already sucks. :mad:

    However this got me thinking. I know my girls are not the only women who play the game as we all know c3k's wife played Bil in the MG AAR. So in honour of all the women who play this game I demand justice!! The way I see it there are only three options available to Battlefront to rectify this grievous insult to women everywhere:

    1. Introduce a female face icon for the Russian army in Red Thunder. It should be a simple fix and could be included in the patch the same as the Germany Navy icons were fixed after the release of MG.

    2. Introduce live horses to the game. Girls love horses. Need I say more?

    3. Introduce CM Schlieffen Plan at the earliest possible moment. My girls need to know what happened in WW I and what better way to teach them than with a Combat Mission game?

    In every argument there always has to be one person who reminds us all to think of the children. Please Battlefront, think of the children.

  7. In a CMBN pbem match I have going on right now, I had a broken aa crew being attacked by a squad of Canadians. One of the Canadians was trying to throw a grenade when one of the two men left in my aa crew shot him. The grenade fell at his feet taking out two more men. One those guys was also trying to throw a grenade and his also fell at his feet taking out one more man. So one rifle shot took out 4 of my opponents men and broke his attack.

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