One wish for the commonwealth forces:

[Soldat-Hans]

Please add for every gun an own sound! Even if you use the same .wave files with another name! Just for mod help! Thx.

[ridethe415]

And cockney accents for all the NCOs

[Medex]

And the sounds of bagpipers.

[ruutana]

And the flamethrowers. H & H combat presented in some form could be cool too, but these are my daydreams I quess.

brrrrh. Daydreams about flamethrowers and hand to hand combat?

[PLM2]

BF, can you buy Sega and use the Total War technology for hand to hand combat maybe? Thanks

[LongLeftFlank]

And cockney accents for all the NCOs

Careful... Just to spite you, they'll have all the voices done by Dick Van Dyke!

[ridethe415]

Careful... Just to spite you, they'll have all the voices done by Dick Van Dyke!

That would be Mockney

[Destraex1]

I agree. A sound for each weapon would be super duper. This is also my pet peeve about IL2 Sturmovik. Every damned aircraft engine and weapon sounded the same. It was genral generic ville.

Same goes for the uniforms.

[Bergerbitz]

And Bren tripods for all!

[Aragorn2002]

Foliage on the British helmets! Without it they look the same as they did in 1940. I know that ain't true, but to me it does.

[Broadsword56]

Foliage on the British helmets! Without it they look the same as they did in 1940. I know that ain't true, but to me it does.

Absolutely! The Tommies should look as mean and cammoed up as this:

[Mord]

And cockney accents for all the NCOs

Hopefully George will do some new files...he's one of the best voice talents out there.

Mord.

[para]

And cockney accents for all the NCOs

Contrary to what Hollywood and the BBC would have us all believe, not all British soldiers were from London and the South.

Lets have plenty of Northern English, Welsh,Scottish and Irish accents in there please

[umlaut]

...and a partridge in a pear tree

[RockinHarry]

Absolutely! The Tommies should look as mean and cammoed up as this:

This is a propaganda pic, easily recogniced by the pig stabber attached to this Tommies Enfield rifle. Bayonet combat was a rare occurance in WW2, but attached pig stabbers surely frigthened the hell out of those wimpy germans.

[Michael Emrys]

Contrary to what Hollywood and the BBC would have us all believe, not all British soldiers were from London and the South.

Lets have plenty of Northern English, Welsh,Scottish and Irish accents in there please

Apparently Norfolk has its own accent, one that I have recently been encountering in some movies and find quite pleasant. I'd love to hear it turning up in CM.

Michael

[Wodin]

CMSF had some great scouse accents if I remember!

Norfolk is more or less like the South west. Any farmer accent will do to cover alot of southern county regions.

[Broadsword56]

The Southwest accent sounds much closer to an American one than any other in Britain, seems to me, along with the Northern Irish accent. I wonder if that's because so many of our American settlers came from those parts, or because what we call a Southwest accent today was just what a "farmer" or rural accent sounded like everywhere in the 17th and 18th centuries.

[Wodin]

Could well be Broadsword. New York accent and the Irish accent is similar. Infact I'd say the Irish accent is the closest. The southwest and the american south both drawl and speak slowly.

[SpitfireXI]

Flamethrowers are a must. I know, I know they are not that useful but the British had a a whole tank devoted to this. Surely in order to be accurate this should be included.

[Vark]

Norfolk is more or less like the South west. Any farmer accent will do to cover alot of southern county regions.

Dhon lyet mi ere u seh thaat boi! Naarfalk aint luike them oh arh, aoh arh bois, atahll, it be fahr softah and les bhumkin lyke.

[Sergei]

Good news: every gun gets its own sound.

Bad news: everybody speaks American English.

[MikeyD]

I haven't checked module gun sounds which means my total ignorance places me beyond their non-disclosure agreement. But I would imagine Steve's original concern about too many different weapons sound files all firing at once eating up processor resources still stands. This may be a case of 'be careful what you wish for.'

[Chainsaw]

I have one single wish for Commonwealth module

GIVE IT TO ME NOOOOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:cool:

[YankeeDog]

The Southwest accent sounds much closer to an American one than any other in Britain, seems to me, along with the Northern Irish accent. I wonder if that's because so many of our American settlers came from those parts, or because what we call a Southwest accent today was just what a "farmer" or rural accent sounded like everywhere in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Dialects are a hobby of mine... your suppositions are largely correct.

Many of the older East Coast American dialects (Appalachian, "Downeast" New England, etc.) in particular are considered to be descended at least in part from the dialects of Southwestern England. A significant portion of the first English settlers to the New World (including my 14x great-grandfather) came from these areas. These American dialects have been influenced by many other groups and changed over time, of course, but it is certainly true that you can hear some similarities in between these dialects and dialects from Southwest England, to this day.

The Northern Irish influence you mention is probably from another significant group of early settlers -- those who came to be called the Scotch-Irish. These were originally Presbyterian Scottish tenant farmers that had been resettled in County Ulster, Ireland by the British Crown in the 17th century. Apparently, many of the resettled Scots didn't like it much in Ireland, because significant numbers of them moved on to the New World within a few generations. The Scotch-Irish dialect is quite distinct from other dialects of English from Ireland, and its heritage is particularly noticeable in the dialects of certain areas of the United States, such as the Western Carolinas. The Scotch-Irish typically settled as rural farmers and homesteaders, and often moved West fairly readily with the expanding American frontier, which is why you hear the influence of this dialect in many of the more rural areas of the United States to this day.

Later, 19th and early 20th century waves of Irish Immigrants were much more from the Southern, predominantly Catholic areas of Ireland. These waves of Irish immigrants usually settled (at least for the first generation or two) in the large, industrial cities of America. This is why the Irish influence on the American dialects you hear in the dialects of big cities such as New York, Boston and Chicago is very different than the influences that the early Scotch-Irish settlers had on some of the older American dialects, which tend to be preserved and spoken today in more rural areas.