Warts 'n' all

Do you have an FO team in the particular battle that you are fighting?

I can't speak for the Ardenne region. But in Brabant, Limburg, and Gelderland all of which feature in either MG or FB a large number of churches are constructed from red brick, and differ greatly in design from Norman churches. But that would have meant even more work for BFC. Also, I would have liked to have seen Belgian, Dutch and German post boxes rather than the "RF Postes" that we had in CMBN, but it's not a game breaker.

I'm sure our friend from the antipodean colonies will deliver his own answer very soon.

Yes, you're spot on. I always enjoy those "I've never noticed that before" moments. With the possible exception of when I find a new way to kill my own men.

The repair service of choice for boy racers all over Essex.

Oh yes, the first time I saw that I loved it, and still do.

It is very annoying when tanks fail to react to nearby threats. But, it could be down to the experience of the crew. I've had cases of tanks ignoring my orders and reacting when confronted by the enemy, even to the point of them engaging one target with the Bow MG and a different one with their Main Gun.

I don't know the answer to your question. Although he is a big fan of Aris's work. And also, that he did put out a video specifically dealing with the use of mods around about the time Red Thunder was released, so that might be worth a watch for you.

For the sheer number of Battles and Campaigns I think that the Big Bundle is the best place to start, it is how I returned to CM after a few years away from any kind of war gaming. In the meantime there are plenty of youtube videos from CMFI, CMRT and CMFB to give you a flavour of those titles.

Although I'm currently absorbed in CMFB I feel the pull to the west getting stronger.

I concur, that campaign is a brilliant piece of design. Beautifully crafted maps, a great challenge, and a LOT of fun to play.

I've been back a few times since. I always walk to the Airborne Museum in Oosterbeek, then return to Arnhem via the Cemetery before rounding off my trip in a bar not far from the bridge. Incidentally, there is a famous picture of The Beatles taken in the cemetery on their way to Hamburg in the early days.

IanL .... No, the grinning leopard in my picture on the previous page beat you to the fish.

But, they also had to trade in their Shermans, and get used to fighting with the Cromwell which they were none too happy about.

That is pretty impressive, obviously took a lot of work. The first time I went to Arnhem it was with an old girlfriend's brother-in-law, poor bloke suffered from vertigo and didn't join me on my walk across the bridge.

Great pictures, and wonderful story telling.

Thanks. Although truth be told, if I had been alive in Old Wart Fizzog's times I'd have been swinging from a tree like the Diggers, Levellers, and other assorted oiks who thought that he'd sold us out.

Sssh, do not mention the D-word. My scribe's grandfather was from County Meath. He had the temerity to enter service with that odious little Anglican Montgomery.

I attempted to volunteer for service in WW2, but the army rejected me on the ridiculous grounds that I'd been dead for nigh on 300 years. They got some chap called Lord Gort to take my place, and we all know how that turned out. In the meantime I can assure people that the working class oik who writes my letters has indeed read the manual.

This is turning into a Social, rather than Military History thread. No need for your "?" M.E. you're spot on, us Limey oiks do call perambulators "prams". And my muvver didn't 'ave Mary Poppins to push us sproggs around, she 'ad to do it on 'er Jack Jones.

If someone walks towards me with their head down gorping at their phone forcing me to swerve around them, I usually let out a loud "Don't worry, I'll do your looking for you" as I pass them.

Haha.... Brilliant reply ME.... In fact it comes from very old Limeyland slang. "Don't spit your dummy out of the pram". I'm not even sure that mothers actually push their sproggs around in prams any more. Ah, I must learn to type quicker.... Well done PhilM

The phrase "good riddance and goodbye" does brings the words "spat" "dummy" and "pram" to mind. I think it is sad that anyone should leave this forum in ill humour. But it quite often seems to be the case that we get visitors who seem to think that everything they say is "constructive criticism", whilst any argument running counter to their own is somehow invalid. I have often freely admitted to being rubbish at this game, and I have always found the advice given by IanL, sburke and others a great help. To take just one point raised above. Just making use of the replay and studying what goes on during a minute of WEGO action it is obvious, or should be, that the TAC AI is NOT cheating the Human Player. Our troops do sometimes react "in an instant". How else do you explain it when one of your tanks uses it's Bow MG against one target whilst the Main Gun engages a different one? Or when a full squad of infantry divide their fire between two or more targets without us giving them any orders? If people take the trouble to study what is going on in front of their own eyes then they would enjoy the game more. Although possibly not when they are causing friendly fire casualties like I did this morning.

@ Ales.... Hahahahahahahaha

"you have the audacity to threaten me with a severed head?"..... I've never threatened anybody. I just signed the death warrant. Joking aside, please try to get a sense of humour, stop calling the regulars "fanboys", and take on board the advice given by people like IanL, and then you'll enjoy both the game and your visits to the forum more.