<t>Heavens, yes. Been around for years. Pretty good on specs, though not as reliable as Steve "Tanks" Zaloga's work. If you're interested in the subject of Soviet armor, and have not yet encountered Zaloga, you are missing it. <br/>
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For one thing, contrary to most of the people who write about ...

I always thought everybody in WW2 fired a .30 cal Browning MG from the hip, same as John Wayne.

Didn't they?

P.S> When I was an armorer, I never figured out why MG's were issued with asbestos gloves. John Wayne never wore asbestos gloves. Did he?

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<t>Les - Now I understand. Yes, so far as i know AH was the only major publlisher who issued maps on stiff cardboard backing. I don't think I said anything about SPI being inferior - they were different, I bought many of their releases, still have a few, of which a couple have (unmounted maps ...

<t>Les - "Avalon Hill really to me was more about games on map boards than it was about anything else." Not sure of the reference here. Most wargames ARE played on mapboards - there were a few which used an abstract "track" kind of system, but not many. Are you saying AH wasn't really about wargames ...

<t>John G - You most certainly are not the only here who has played games by SPI et al. In 1958 you would not have been doing this, not that I know of. <br/>
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One of the greatest games of any kind I have ever played was "Empires of the Middle Ages" - SPI. I used to have many of their releases ...

<t>You guys are youngsters. We were having Sunday dinner at 1 PM EST on December 7, 1941. I was 7-1/2 years of age. The phone rang, it was a neighbor asking if we had our radio on. No, we didn't. Turn it on, the caller said, the Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor.<br/>
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I got with wargaming ...

I know what would have happened to me if I had followed Bernie's regimen: Strong as an ox, dead at age 35.

Am into long distance sitting, per Mike Royko. Horray for doing nothing, as often as I like.

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<t>Depends upon the date of the engagement. Earlier in the war the game engine is set to make the Soviets very bad actors in terms of morale, and their ability to recover from suppression, that sort of thing.<br/>
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There are a couple of ways to even up the playing field, so to speak. What I do ...

<t>Order a game - any game - from Chips and Bits. They will flood you with free computer magazines, without the CD's. I haven't bought a game form them for about a year, so am not getting the freebies anymore. Once you start getting the free mags, there will eventually be an "invoice" for continued ...

<r>I haven't seen this one announced on the forum, so will make a new thread, if done before .... it doesn't hurt to repeat.<br/>
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This is a particularly vicious scam, outright crminal and not the least bit funny. If you fall victim to the scam, your credit card will be maxed out and your bank ...

<t>Just my two cents worth: I am proud to be an American no matter what day of the year, or hour of the day it might be. <br/>
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My father servied twice, first as a China Marine in the 1920's, then belatedly in the US Army in 1942, when the Marines refused to re-up him due to age on December 8 ...

<t>Something to remember here: Bazooka AP was improved streadily throughout WW2, as our one-time ordnance professional verified. By late 1944, into 1945 the average M9 round would have been much better than the early models. How much is difficult to say, a lot of it depends upon the same old factor ...

<t>If he has Popup killer softrware, it is best to disable it for Matrix forum - if you have something like PanicWare, you can enter the URL's you agree to use popups. (One click addition to the "OK" list.)<br/>
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I was a little dubious about spending thirty bucks for a piece of software which ...

<t>Barnes & Noble have the paperback of Prange's "Miracle at Midway" for $18.00 - unless the later printing runs were cheapened, the binding is good. My copy is paperback, has lasted through years of hard use, binding is intact.<br/>
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Wars are a fact of the human condition. Like them or not ...

<t>There are many Midway wargames, always been a favorite beginning with the Avalon Hill boardgame version, flawed as it was.<br/>
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Pick your carrier sim set in PTO, you will find Midway. <br/>
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For further reading, the classic on the subject if from Gordon Prange, "Miracle an Midway" - I ...

<t>Yep. If the path doesn't match, the update or anything else you want to shovel in will not make it to where you think it is going. <br/>
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Some paths are totally automatic; I just had to rename MS Train Sim folder to get a second, stand alone installation. The MSTS installation routine ...

<t>The reply is part of the way there, but not complete. Does not matter if there is or isn't a space between the words "Matrix" and "Games", what matters is if the path for installation of the patch - or antyhing else for that matter - MATCHES what is already there. <br/>
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My installation has ...

<t>I believe those of us who lived through WW2 will never forget. I was growing up then, in a small Michigan town. At the time, I didn't know what it meant when my classmate's Dad was one of the first to go. We lived across the street, our famlies were friends and neighbors. Bob's father was "in for ...

<t>Anticipating a little, thought I would post this Memorial Day tribute now, when I was thinking of it. John McCrae was serving with the BEF in France during WW1; he wrote this poem in a matter of minutes. The London Times refused to print it initially, believing it was too depressing. <br/>
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<t>Those people who call themselves writers are at best semi-literate. Fellas, this is TELEVISION, where everything is done for money. My son makes a living in the show business end of TV. It puts food on the table, clothes on the back, a roof over his family's head. A job, that's all it is. <br ...