StieliAlpha

Hmmm, but you had your 400 years already. I suppose the OP wants to be in the game a little sooner....🤔

LukeFF,
Have been on the CM Forums since January 2000, during which there have been all manner of discussions NOT on the GDF about various military and civilian people, not to mention multiple threads and a fair number of OPs regarding military books. Yet there is only one person being singled out by you for posting such, and that's me. This is twice in one week, and I'm tired of it! The GDF is, by Forum activity standards, practically dead, so it makes sense to put posts where they will be read. I deliberately made this post to what I felt was the best Forum for it that WASN'T the CM GDF, but you're still on me about it. Face it, you want me gone. Only then will you be truly at peace, yet I am NOT the one causing an uproar on the Forums. You are. You're the one acting like negative vibe Moriarty here, not me. This is harassment under color of authority you do NOT have. Stop!

Regards,
John Kettler

One might say, that „Spain“ was an early evidence, that Nappi was not the „stable genious“  (Sorry, wrong period: „genious“ only) he was taken for.
He gave the country to his less able brother, trusting that his Generals would sort out things. However, never gave them full support and hoped, that somehow the „issue” of Brits advancing from Portugal plus belligerent Spanish (aka “Guerilla”), would dissolve. Not a sign of a strategic genious.

It is General discussion forum, gotta give him credit for finally putting this stuff here.
From a historical perspective it is an interesting item.  WW2 had a huge impact on US demographics and cultural norms.  The employment opportunities and upward mobility that spurred African American initiatives towards the civil rights movement etc is part of our history.  The mass migration that this helped initiate of some 5 million African Americans to northern and western cities (resulting in an urbanization level of some 80%, far higher than the average demographic) has continued to impact our politics, social programs etc.  The neighborhood where my family lived when I was born (Folcroft PA) had a race riot that lasted 3 days and was so bad state troopers were posted there because one black family wanted to buy a house. (Google 1963 Baker Incident).  For me it is a short hop from the pictures John posted to a particularly traumatic moment from my childhood.
I expect the Philadelphia Shipyard was one of the locations that drew folks to relatively better skilled paying jobs as it expanded it's work force in WW2 to some 40,000 people.  In addition Chester PA had another shipbuilding facility along with a lot of other war time related expansion in steel production etc.

I don‘t think so. If you refer to an actual game, which you are running, check the status if your arty. You should see, whether the battery is still busy or not.

Hi to all the Battlefront community members. I am a little embarrassed to say that I have been a lurker here for a long time, too long. Hopefully moving forward I can change this by being active and contributing here.
 
I will start by providing a little bit of background about myself and my gaming history.  I am a male as I guess almost all members are in this genre of games and entertainment. Unfortunately I haven't come across too many female wargamers in my time and that extends to my wife who hasn't embraced this passion of mine. Oh well can't win them all. I am Australian but also are a British citizen and lived in the UK for over a decade which is where my wife originates from. We now live back in Australia and only a minutes walk from the beach. 😎
 
I first started getting into wargaming in my early teens having developed a significant interest in military history. The board games and publishers with varying levels of accuracy and or just fun that I played were included Panzer Blitz (Avalon Hill), Panzer Leader (Avalon Hill), Axis and Allies (Milton Bradley), Drive on Stalingrad (TSR), Red Storm Rising (TSR),  The Hunt for Red October (TSR), Assault - Tactical Combat in Europe 1984 (GDW) along with extra modules Boots and Saddles, Bundeswehr, Chieftain, & Reinforcements. In addition I played role playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons, Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness TMNT (Paladium Books).
 
As far as my PC gaming history the first wargame on any electronic device that I played was a WW2 one covering battles on both the East and West fronts at the battalion level on my Apple IIc computer back in the late 80's so forgive me if I cannot recall the title. Also had some John Tiller titles in my collection on PC I was a big fan of the original Total War series and played Shogun, Rome and Medieval Total War. Also played heavily Silent Hunter III a WW2 submarine simulation. Also been heavily into flight sims such as European Air War back in the 90's, Falcon 4, and now Digital Combat Simulator. I was I guess a fairly late arrival onto the Combat Mission scene and my first purchase was the new engine 2 Combat Mission - Battle for Normandy back in mid 2011. Since then I have purchased every module for it along with then Fortress Italy, Red Thunder and Final Blitzkrieg. I intend to purchase the final module for Fortress Italy and the follow up module for Red Thunder. I do not own Black Sea or any of the other modern titles. For some reason I prefer the WW2 titles and the modern ones have just not captured my imagination and excitement like the historical titles have.
 
What do I love about the CM WW2 titles? Firstly the accuracy as far as TOE is outstanding. The maps are very well done and the variety of those maps is excellent. I also feel that the command and control elements are well done. The granularity and level at which you can issue specific commands to individual vehicles and squads/sections is excellent. Yes there may be the occasional frustration with your pixel troopen and path finding but I simply explain this away as part of the unpredictable nature of combat. Artillery is also well implemented in my opinion and it really can be incredibly satisfying when you manage to execute a well orchestrated combined arms operation. And the actual content in terms of campaigns and single missions along with the Mission Editor provides an mass of re-playability. Sure the graphics are not AAA title but the actual vehicle models are pretty good and things like the hit decals have added to the immersion.  And sure the development pace is not fast but I think it is important to have realistic and grounded expectations as wargaming is such a niche market and Battlefront is not some massive team of dozens if not hundreds of people working on a title. It is what it is and I am grateful to be able to play such titles as Battle for Normandy, FI, RT, and FB. There are also some great You Tubers that help to promote the Combat Mission series such as Usually Hapless (following his vids right now Heavy Hitters defence and attack), Few Good Men, Panzer PJ's, Real & Simulated Wars blog, Ithikial (fellow Aussie), General Jack Riper, and Ts4EVER. 
 
Now looking to the future I only hope that once the addon module for RT and the final module for FI is done that Battlefront will look at North Africa for the next WW2 setting as the early to mid years of the war are I think very interesting. So that is my story and I hope that I can contribute to these forums and to the community and perhaps play online against some here. Gosh that was longer than I anticipated. ☺️ Anyway back to my FI campaign Conrath's Counterattack. 
 
 

Yep, I remember that I played an H2H-campaign (Nordheim) for CMBO, which was just awesome. It took us about a year to finish, but it was time „well spent“.

Yeah, me too:

 

Quite off topic, but these days are exactly the right time to commemorate Erich Maria Remarque.
Another German writer in the ranks, though he wrote more about lost battles and souls.

Quite off topic, but these days are exactly the right time to commemorate Erich Maria Remarque.
Another German writer in the ranks, though he wrote more about lost battles and souls.

Ok, I got an email with the explanation of this piece of German humour.. I begin to understand why the German army liked to call their vehicles stuff like Sd.Kfz. 251/9, since that is very difficult to turn into a joke!

Yep, I remember that I played an H2H-campaign (Nordheim) for CMBO, which was just awesome. It took us about a year to finish, but it was time „well spent“.

You mean the 95 out of 244 Leopard tanks which are in operating condition? Or the 39 out of 128 Eurofighter? Or the 12 out it 53 Tiger helicopters?
Refer to the latest annual report, which draws a shocking picture:
https://www.google.ch/amp/amp.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/bericht-bundeswehr-waffensysteme-weisen-erhebliche-maengel-auf/21011248.html

You mean like this one, already "hard coded" for "Supremacy"? 😎

They look nicer in a cluster.Just place them anywhere on the map:

Or create nice pathways:

I was thinking along the lines of a "Dunkirk" scenario. British infantry defending in the outskirts against German infantry with some PzII and a few R35 come to rescue.
May be playable, but you are right: There's not much meat on it....

Yep, something like that drew me into CM, back in 99. A point blank shoot-out between a StuG and a Sherman. The question was: Would the StuG reload faster, than the Sherman turns it’s turret. Nail biting! 😎

Yep, something like that drew me into CM, back in 99. A point blank shoot-out between a StuG and a Sherman. The question was: Would the StuG reload faster, than the Sherman turns it’s turret. Nail biting! 😎

Number 7 is so true. Made remember a game of Clash of Arms “La Bataille de Albuera”. A (admitted) huge battalion of Murcia infantry held up the French advance. In game terms, they were mere militia, aka freaks, but then they stood like a rock.

A nice mess in front 1000’s of spectators:
http://www.spiegel.de/video/russland-panzer-faellt-von-lkw-video-99020188.html
 
 

IIRCR, Hitler himself requested, that Monschau should be spared. As the story goes, he visited the town before the war and wanted to preserve it‘s beauty. If it is true, it’s a shame that he did not think to have some more places preserved.

Just for the records: One can still find old the CM1 stuff elsewhere, though mostly the CDV versions.
But honestly, I would not invest in that anymore.

You find that an appropriate comment in the context of a crash with 20 dead?

No disrespect to you or the deceased was intended. On the surface my attitude towards such matters may seem flippant but it is a defense mechanism.
To satisfy your quest for justice over this remark I will inform you that my life is a absolute nightmare due to combat PTSD. It destroyed my marriage, alienated me from my parents, and siblings and I have no friends whatsoever. I really do not eat or sleep much. My counselor fears that I may do something drastic to myself. If I was to cease to exist no one would notice or mourn for me.
So if this statement does not meet your need for retribution then I do not know what in God's amazing universe will.
"There are only two things that are infinite. The universe and mans stupidity. And I'm not so sure of the universe" Albert Einstein
"I'm surrounded by assholes!" Dark Helmet, Space Balls (oh hell, there I go again, quick someone report me to the mods so they can bend my dog tags and send me to Antarctica)
 

IIRCR, Hitler himself requested, that Monschau should be spared. As the story goes, he visited the town before the war and wanted to preserve it‘s beauty. If it is true, it’s a shame that he did not think to have some more places preserved.

IIRCR, Hitler himself requested, that Monschau should be spared. As the story goes, he visited the town before the war and wanted to preserve it‘s beauty. If it is true, it’s a shame that he did not think to have some more places preserved.