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Sounds like a question for the tech support in the general CM discussion forum. I have never seen the spinning, which you mention, but I experienced in-game crashes, especially in large scenarios after a few turns, on my previous computers, which were somewhat at the limit with CM. That would lead to the question: What are your machines spec’s?

And if I now could upload more than 30KB, I could show you how it looks like on my side.

That looks strange, indeed. I do see the straight edges too, but not as bad as in your pic's. I am using a Nvidia GTX 980, with "standard" setting. I.e., as installed, without any manual fine tuning.

Refer to Ian‘s answer. Especially when you are „the second player“, your first turn is just to enter your password. Don‘t worry and just carry on. After two or three exchanges, you should come to the set-up and then to the first turn. Be careful, not to press the red button too early. That one brings you directly to the end of the turn and creates a new save game file. I admit, I was confused too, when I tried PBEM for the first time and nothing seemed to happen.

No worries. Like I said: It was a good excuse to buy a new computer. And the new one copes very well with it.

Yep, „Die Patroullie“ (resp snow) is a real performance killer. On my old computer, with GeForce 570, unplayable. But a good excuse to buy the new machine. There are two more scenarios with snow, which may slow down your PC, but not to the extend of “Die Patrouille”.

Tried again on Friday. Had the Destroyers out of Narvik Fjord this time. Same massacre, just a turn later. But „I‘ll be back.“

Sounds like I have to watch out, when the new season comes over to Europe. Regarding the logistics, „Campaign for North Africa“ still serves as an example for too much detail for me: IIRC, it even has a rule for increased water consumption due to Pasta cooking for Italian units. And „Thanks, John“ for your earlier post. Nice thought, but it would not have been a good idea to meet your friend on Tenerife to play „The Third Reich“. I quite much stressed my wife by doing too much office work already. I don‘t think, she would have fancied long gaming nights in addition.

Tried invading Norway yesterday. Yuck, bloody British Navy. I had my Narvik Desaster right at the beginning and did not even come close to the last port. But I’ll be back for another try. Thank god the weather is not too good today and tomorrow.

Thanks, Bud. Sounds good, indeed. BTW, pretty poor weather on Teneriffe. I just finished the first battle of the PC 1939 campaign.

Gents, I just stumbled about a book by Roberto Bolano, called „The Third Reich“. The story is apparently about a German wargamer, being invited to play the good old AH boardgame with some mysterious person in Spain. Since there are not too many novels about playing boardgames available: Does anybody know it? Is it worth reading?

Guys, if you are planning a holiday to Germany or better Bavaria this year, this might be of interest: Visit the Messerschmitt Museum in Manching, say 60k north of Munich. It's quite a unique thing. They call themselves "Flying Museum", i.e. all their planes on dispaly are being properly maintained and actually still in working condition.E.g., I saw the Me 262 some 4 years ago flying a disdplay during the Air14 in Switzerland. The Museum does not have a fixed display. If a plane is away for repair or on a show: Tough luck. But then, if they do repairs on their own premises, you also do get to see the planes in different assembly stages. The pic below gives a nice impression. The museum in Manching is a tiny little thing, more a combination of Museum and workshop. Entry is for free. But you need to book long in advance. The museum is open only one Friday per month. After applying for permission to enter, you have to go through a security clearance before you get your invitation, because the museum is situated on the premises of Airbus Industries, right next to the "Airbus Defense" branch. That's why you even get a nice bus tour through the plant and might be lucky to see an Eurofighter being tested somewhere or starting from their own runway. Check out out here: http://www.flugmuseum-messerschmitt.de/ Should the 2 1/2h in the Messerschmitt Museum not be enough (and should it still be too early for the beer garden): There is great Museum about Celts in Bavaria, just next door.

Come oooon. The excitement when something is unexpectedly released is half the fun. And you’ll have to draw from it for years...

Don't worry. Currently it is probably more important to learn how to do it the other way round safely, anyway.

That‘s a good one. Absolutely true, but probably not very helpful. Reminds me to my Thermodynamics professor. After explaining for hours what entropy is, somebody asked „But what exactly is entropy now?“ The somewhat frustrated answer was: „I just explained that. Entropy is „integral dQ(reversible)/T“.

“Southern France” is pretty unspecific. You are talking about a 500k wide front. In veeery broad terms: To the very west, from Atlantic Ocean to Mediterranean Sea, you have the pretty rugged foothills of the Pyrennees. Along the Mediterranean Coast, from the Spanish border almost up to the Italian border, comes a, say 100k wide stretch of rural farmland. Quite open, rolling hills, scattered small forests. Behind that, to the north and stretching west to east, is the Cevennes mountain range, say 60k wide. Not too high mountains, max about 1500m, but quite rugged and with dense forests. At their east end, the Cevennes merge with the French Alps, which continue into Italy and Switzerland. Behind the coastal zone, traffic north is quite much channeled by a handful of river valleys, running north to south into the Mediterranean Sea. All not too densely populated, but with many small, compact villages and towns, as well as some bigger cities. Ah, not to forget: Many pretty sturdy Chateaus scattered over the country. So, no Bocage or hedge country, but difficult to navigate. I understand, after Operation Dragoon, large bodies of the German army escaped to the North, because the US followed only very cautiously, in constant fear of ambushes.

Whatwhatwhat? “Over the Reich” and “Achtung Spitfire”? Sent me too, please. They are among the best games, I never played. Well, I pushed some Achtung Spitfire counters around, but not really.

My favourite was „ Hidden and Dangerous“ back then. But, boy, I went to extremes to get it running. And I well remember the bad ol’e times, when we had to fight for every single kB in the start.bat to get them launched.

Ah, I learned something new: Tank Recon Battalions, as Widukind describes them, were disbanded in 2008 and replaced by the light Recon troops as per my previous post. I.e., nowadays there is no more „Recon by Force“

Interesting question. I did a (very) quick check, it looks like a Bundeswehr Recon Battalion nowadays consist of 1or 2 companies with recon tanks (Fennek) 1 technical company (Drones or Radar equipment) and one staff and support company. I found no mention of MBT‘s or heavy weapons. Though I found one Artilley Recon Battalion, equipped with a battery of SPG‘s.

Hm, the „knee position“ is perfect for the “fire and surrender” tactic. The „back position“ is interesting. I think, I have seen that in a movie once. One of those „19th century colonial red coat“ movies. Or was it a Western?

Hm, in my case, it is 100% corresponding.

Hehehechrrrrr.... Thanks for that, Warts!

Now, THAT‘s a nice one. I am surprised, that you remember this ancient movie.

Whatever that means. I tried to say, that I was put off those games, when I realized, that it could be me in the next tactical nuke blast, Fulda Gap and similar games were published, when I had my active service time. That probably had an impact on my attitude towards those games.