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In terms of example (1), was the tank immobilised? Because I've noticed that once a tank is immobilised, infantry will cease to close-assault it.

Both these suggestions are great - curved roads (and other curvey things?) and thrown tracks would both look excellent.

Fascinating article. Interesting to put faces to the names

Really! I must have been confused, perhaps it was someone else's claim I remember - anyway, the Japanese Empire behaved every bit as brutally as the Third Reich. Having said that the modern Japanese, at least the ones I've met. born after the war, are as sorry and regretful as the Germans - they know more about the war than we Commonwealth people do about our Imperial crimes. Kids can read about some of the Japanese wwii crimes in at least one well-known kids comic. I think the thing with the Yasakuni Shrine is that they may apportion less blame to particular leaders than to themselves as a people because it was a bottom-up fascism, not top-down like in Europe and the USSR. There were certainly a lot of people at the Yasakuni Shrine the day I went, including a handful of apparent fascists albeit mostly looking more like 'Alf's Imperial Army' or here in NZ.

'Almost as bad' is needless understatement. What they did in China was an almost exact equivalent to what the Nazis did in Eastern Europe, and was every bit as murderous - the Chinese claim there were 15 million victims in China.

It's complicated, the Nazi atrocities were so inhuman and shocking that we understandably hold them as being the epitome of evil, and yet doing so does tend to act as a distraction from the atrocities - also shocking and inhuman - that our own societies have committed, particularly since the mid-Nineteenth Century. Then Nazi apologists then take that moral imbalance and try use it to somehow mitigate the wrongs of the Nazis. Like adding sleight of hand to myopia. As a Kiwi, thus a descendant of the British Empire, I think some of what *we* did, particularly in Africa and China (the opium trade), had a human toll at least as high as the concentration camps. But the Commonwealth redeemed itself at least to some small degree by doing the right thing and fighting Hitler. 'Everyone did it' is the worst possible excuse.

There were some great suggestions on urban combat in the CMFI thread on future suggestions. Eventually it would be cool to have more detailed and varied urban combat. Having said that, some of the urban maps in CMFI are pretty good and make for some quite exciting games.

Actually, I've had lots of fun with the Italian ACs. They go up well against allied light armour.

What I have most noticed is the inability to spot things in time not to get killed, which may be partly related to lack of communications.

Not really gamey.

I'm too ignorant to know if the concealment bonus is right, but a few visuals for camouflaged units would be cool - not just AT guns, seeing tanks and SPGs with brush attached to them would be fun, no to mention emplaced infantry - although not an urgent issue.

I'm basically OK with fortifications poking up out of the ground slightly - though any improvements would of course be welcome - but ATG emplacements would be an excellent addition. And camouflage !!

This is a really good point. The Nazis laid waste to the lands under their control in a murderous frenzy that went beyond even the admittedly terrible barbarism of the Soviets. Although evil at the level of Hitler and Stalin is impossible to quantify (who was 'worse', who could measure that?), the ordinary German was a lot more likely to engage in atrocities than were Soviet troops, and the atrocities were a lot worse. However, with all the horrors of modern history - Japan in China, the European powers in Africa - societies do tend to highlight the actions of the Nazis to draw attention away from their own dark histories - though the term scapegoating is hardly appropriate, since Hitler and pals were anything but scapegoats.

I really enjoyed the scenarios from that era - it felt a lot more like Blitzkreig than the later war does - real fire and movement, rather than prowling around in the shadows taking pot-shots.

I'd rather see improvements in housing / urban combat before renovating fortifications, though I would like to see AT-gun bunkers.

Yeah, +1 on that too. For those 'oops' moments...

These days I often just give a 'face' command and let the units do their own thing.

Canister is lethal - I wish some AFVs would use it more often.

I loved the early war years in CMBB - all those zippy little tanks, PzII, Pz 38t, BT7 and so on, snub-barrelled StuGs, it was completely different...

Stalin was one of the bad guys, but the Soviets were the good guys.

That looks cool. Thanks

I could use that in CMSF...

It's exciting when your opponent misses his first shot, then your guy misses, then he misses again, only just, then it's the end of the turn !

I've experienced numerous games where tanks traded shots before a first hit.

Take my money, please...