danfrodo

Oh, right, that pic -- is that Dr Strangelove?  Dang, I kinda look silly now
 

Perhaps I spoke too soon.  I have now lost 2 Abrams 🙄

I just played Temple to Mars in CMFI, attacking up Monte Cassino in a snowstorm.  I was having a very hard time about halfway in.  So I decided to 'pull back'  and regroup -- I went to scenario editor and gave myself more artillery, re-started and got revenge.  Was cheating but felt pretty good actually
If you play that one, be sure to use to make your artillery & mortars count.  Germans are dug in so doing wide area shelling useless.  Have to get observation and hit them with precision. 

oh, right, I read this in a book a while ago.  I mix up all the henrys & edwards .

Like everyone else here, I want more content.  I want it now.  Or at least by Monday.  I want eastern front 41-43, I want the desert war.  I want 1980s nato vs warsaw pact.  I want Korean war.  But BF is just a few developers and delivering software is ****ing hard, really ****ing hard.  For those who have never had to do that it's hard to imagine how much goes wrong in the simplest ****ing thing when it's in the hands of users. 
So keep complaining about wanting more, I will too.  But attacking BF personally like that, basically calling them thieves, that's just ****ed.

Wow, CarlWAW.  That was really awful what you wrote.  I am not being 'milked'.  When they have new content, I give them money.  When they don't, I don't.  If they are scamming us they really need to do a better job of it. 
Yes, please move on.  You are distracting the developers from making new content for fanboys like me.

Like everyone else here, I want more content.  I want it now.  Or at least by Monday.  I want eastern front 41-43, I want the desert war.  I want 1980s nato vs warsaw pact.  I want Korean war.  But BF is just a few developers and delivering software is ****ing hard, really ****ing hard.  For those who have never had to do that it's hard to imagine how much goes wrong in the simplest ****ing thing when it's in the hands of users. 
So keep complaining about wanting more, I will too.  But attacking BF personally like that, basically calling them thieves, that's just ****ed.

very cool DerKomissar, I fought this battle not too long ago.  I lost, badly.  I then went back & tried a re-do knowing a bit about the american positions.  And lost badly.  Good luck.  Those  king tigers seem so tough, taking so many hits --- but once main gun & a track are damaged they aren't much use
 
 

Oh, please understand me.  I was not saying it was black and white.  I was saying it was all grey and complicated.  My statement wasn't about good guys and bad guys.  It's about perception.  Folks feel persecuted, rightfully.  And these same people then persecute others.  And on and on.  It's not a 'german' thing, it's a human thing. 

how what has always started?  Fascism??  starts w political correctness?  Totalitarianism?  what is it that starts with 'political correctness'?  My definition of political correctness is "if it offends me, it's offensive!  if it offends you, it's political correctness".  Yes, there's folks that uber sensitive and don't like this or that, and they whine a lot.  But they aren't the ones that take over governments and start jailing, beating, and killing people they don't like.

Oh, please understand me.  I was not saying it was black and white.  I was saying it was all grey and complicated.  My statement wasn't about good guys and bad guys.  It's about perception.  Folks feel persecuted, rightfully.  And these same people then persecute others.  And on and on.  It's not a 'german' thing, it's a human thing. 

how what has always started?  Fascism??  starts w political correctness?  Totalitarianism?  what is it that starts with 'political correctness'?  My definition of political correctness is "if it offends me, it's offensive!  if it offends you, it's political correctness".  Yes, there's folks that uber sensitive and don't like this or that, and they whine a lot.  But they aren't the ones that take over governments and start jailing, beating, and killing people they don't like.

how what has always started?  Fascism??  starts w political correctness?  Totalitarianism?  what is it that starts with 'political correctness'?  My definition of political correctness is "if it offends me, it's offensive!  if it offends you, it's political correctness".  Yes, there's folks that uber sensitive and don't like this or that, and they whine a lot.  But they aren't the ones that take over governments and start jailing, beating, and killing people they don't like.

how what has always started?  Fascism??  starts w political correctness?  Totalitarianism?  what is it that starts with 'political correctness'?  My definition of political correctness is "if it offends me, it's offensive!  if it offends you, it's political correctness".  Yes, there's folks that uber sensitive and don't like this or that, and they whine a lot.  But they aren't the ones that take over governments and start jailing, beating, and killing people they don't like.

Charles MacDonald's book was the best I have read, though Anthony Beevor's recent was also very good.  MacDonald was a company commander at the bulge (see his book Company Commander) and wrote a number of very good books on WW2. 

Getting one man team is easy.  All I have do is say "glad that area is cleared" and send forward an entire squad.  60 seconds later I have a one man team.

Getting one man team is easy.  All I have do is say "glad that area is cleared" and send forward an entire squad.  60 seconds later I have a one man team.

Getting one man team is easy.  All I have do is say "glad that area is cleared" and send forward an entire squad.  60 seconds later I have a one man team.

Let it be written, let it be done!  I think I'll get it.  It's certainly well-loved here on the forum

wow, great AAR.  thanks for putting so much work into this.  I don't have SF, I am still plowing through all the WW2 titles, but this makes me want to get it.

First try working on the patches.  BREN GUNS!!  I was ~15 minutes into an infantry-only attack up a big hill in CMFI and was having a hard time.  Then patched and restarted and now I am actually able to suppress using my infantry squads.  This is great!!

congratulations!  I had a similar story when I came back to CM after many years 😊   May all your battles be merry and your casualties vanishingly low.  Italy and Russia games are both great, and so very different from what you face in Normandy.

I take a break by switching from tactical to operational level warfare, like The Operational Art of War.  back & forth, keeps both fresh.  Currently doing 'what if' scenario where instead of sending forces south for the great kiev encirclement in august 1941, germans go for broke toward Moscow, as guderian et al suggested.  I am encircling and destroying lots of soviet forces, but dang, there's always more.  And my supply lines aren't getting any shorter.  Turns out mechanized units need fuel, who knew?  And in two years or so I bet I'll be doing 1941 battles like this in CM (please please please). 

I take a break by switching from tactical to operational level warfare, like The Operational Art of War.  back & forth, keeps both fresh.  Currently doing 'what if' scenario where instead of sending forces south for the great kiev encirclement in august 1941, germans go for broke toward Moscow, as guderian et al suggested.  I am encircling and destroying lots of soviet forces, but dang, there's always more.  And my supply lines aren't getting any shorter.  Turns out mechanized units need fuel, who knew?  And in two years or so I bet I'll be doing 1941 battles like this in CM (please please please). 

I just started Matterhorn on audio.  Glad to see it was top of your vietnam list.  😊