Warts 'n' all
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1 hour ago, Michael Emrys said:
So much so that Smuts was invited to sit in the War Cabinet when he was in town.
Michael
That is a nice way of putting it.
Although I prefer Ed Murrow's story of being invited in to partake of "several whiskies" when he went to collect his wife from dinner with Clementine.
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24 minutes ago, AlanSA said:
Churchill found Smuts to be a rather nice Afrikaaner.
I think Attlee did too.
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11 hours ago, Michael Emrys said:
I guess it's what we've come to expect of you. "Linguistic creativity"...or something...
Michael
Thanks Mick. I'm never going to win Mornington Crescent, but I'll settle for "Linguistic creativity".
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3 hours ago, IanL said:
Lt. Col Ram Singh spoke better English that he did..
That isn't a surprise. Have you heard the way the Soud Efrikans mangle our language?
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Given that my historical humour goes over some heads, it might be best locked. My joke had nothing to do with B%$£%&. It was about someone shutting down Parliament when they don't get their own way, something of course that Warty face did himself.
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I was hoping that someone was going to pick up on the fact that there was no such band as "John E Lenin and the Toronto Beat Boys".
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21 hours ago, Gazmaps said:
Ill stick with Brits....
Don't worry. Elizabeth tells me that Mr and Mrs Axeman have gone off to Allhallows-on-mud, for their holidays, so you are safe for the time being. In the meantime I have more important things to attend to. As if the "Short Parliament" wasn't bad enough, I have the "Idiot Parliament" to worry about.
Opens my window out on to St.Jame's to catch the strains of John E. Lenin and the Toronto Beat Boy's singing "All we are saying, is string Johnson up". Not that I am one to advocate Regicide, in any way shape or form.
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What great footage, thanks for sharing these. The dancers remind me of the classic movie "Le Bal".
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3 hours ago, MOS:96B2P said:
What is the proper, polite thing to call them?
If you play WW2 titles call 'em British, Commonwealth, or Limeys. If you play modern titles then call 'em Brits if you must.
In the meantime I'm off to help the rozzers track down the scum who stole my napper from outside the London Bridge Museum last night.
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Brilliant series of pictures. Thanks!
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52 minutes ago, Captain_Rehab said:
Could you elaborate please ?
It's a long running joke.
Put simply, since the Dictatorship of the Semi-literate was established in May 1979 by President Murdoch of the Antipodes, and his puppets Lord and Lady Insidertraders of Burmah, it has become a crime to think for oneself, or to speak English well in this country. People who use words like "British" are regularly burnt at the stake on a pyre made from copies of The Grauniad, with a sign reading "I used a long word" around their necks. Even historians are forced to use the phrase "Romano-Brits", failure to comply lands them a one way ticket to Tyburn.
And "Brit" isn't the same as calling a Septic Tank a "Yank". Limey is.
Exits stage right singing Tony Bennet's "I left my heart in Newport Pagnell" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------->
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But, I bet that you cheer your head off when enemy vehicles get stuck, making them a sitting duck for your own troops.
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Firstly there weren't any "Brits" in Normandy.
And secondly, this behaviour has been reported frequently. And although 4.02 dealt with the problem of "fleeing" towards the enemy in the other titles, the specific problem regarding hedgerow gap charging will need it's own fix in due course.
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The Ealing Studio Irregulars, United Kingdom, 1944.
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1 hour ago, Pete Wenman said:
In the "In the Shadow of the Hill" scenarios (4 separate scenarios) I cover a Brigade attack............(which) my parenthesis ... give some insight into what was asked of the actual units on 10th July 1944
And, you did it brilliantly. This series of battles is a joy to play either as Axis or Allies.
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You can tell the guy in front is struggling so hard to resist the temptation to throw a "V" sign at the photographer.
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4 hours ago, Michael Emrys said:
This happens to me all the time with most of the baked in scenarios that come with the game, which is why I mostly ignore them.
Being an old contrarian, I find that in most cases the scenario designers get the balance between map size and force size spot on.. As for being "baked in", where is Elizabeth with my jacket potatoes?
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Of course, I did try to get the "Stinkpot" renamed the Honey, but it never really caught on.
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I've never seen an infantryman with a tank beret before.
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Ah, that is because you are drinking post-WW2 tea, me ol' China.
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4 hours ago, Hister said:
Yeah, it is like when my wife is feisty - no matter what I do it often ends as a wrong move.
Well go back to single-player, and stop keep playing H2H with her.
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In the case of the Limeys, you can expect them to be able to make a decent cup of tea.
The Italians are masters of the "Surrender en Masse".
And the Septics will bribe every woman within 50 miles with silk stockings for a bit of how's yer father.
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4 hours ago, Bulletpoint said:
But that's exactly what you have to do in this campaign; in the missions that are "command decisions" you have to choose not to take certain objectives even though you could, in order to signal your intents to choose one path or another. Would be better if the game had a simple player choice interface between missions, but this is what we have to work with...
But, as I pointed out in the mission list I provided earlier in the thread, win those and you win the campaign. It's not easy, I haven't managed it yet. But, it is possible..
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1 hour ago, benpark said:
the Aachen ones off the top of my head) have been made to the specifications of period maps. .
I think that the Aaachen maps are a brilliant piece of work. The only drawback building wise is that some of the Dutch style buildings that are used in Final Blitzkrieg do have a door entry problem that came across from MG. But, the German apartment blocks laid out around a courtyard are spot on. And fighting my way through them was a lot of fun.
I agree with the black feline from the colonies that elevation does create a problem with some doors during in CMFB, but short of creating a little piece of flat land for each building to stand on I'm not sure what else a map maker can do. Also, I have seen photos of houses in the Ardennes that have the front door on one floor, and the back door on the floor above to take the slope into account.
CMFI Rome To Victory Beta AAR - Indian Infantry / South African Armour
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That does happen a few times a year, by accident. Luckily not too many passengers get hurt.