<t>that sound card sounds like a vortex 2 card. What are they sending you, these things have not been made for quite a while(years). I have a vortex 2 card myself.<br/>
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another note - vortex cards don't have very good drivers for win XP. Particularly if you let the XP autoupdate drivers. The ...

Yes i can recall many moments of frustration with my waves attacking this when they coul have been doing something useful.

The original Second front had this effect also.
Of course you ould only fly 1 mission a turn so i only had a little effect (but useful). Proabably had about the effect of training does in WIR.

<t>you don't have to click on exe's or whatever for all viruses either.<br/>
badtrans got me and i didn't even open the email.<br/>
Thought to myself - that email title looks suspicious (RE: it was also from someone i obviuosly know by nickname as i did not know the name), so iclicked on it so i ...

all this talk of speacil effects is a bit disconcerting as in hollywood good speacil effects and good movie are often independent terms not often associated with each other.
(forgive this cycical view from someone who views all modern US movies as rubbish until proven otherwise).

i suspect that the guy doing the modelling used RAMBO as his basis for american sniper.

<t>For some reason this has been bugging me for some time. In movies there always seems to be a very long noise when artillery shells are incoming and so everyone gets to duck. But would this have been the case because if they were travelling (horizontal velocity i suppose) at or near the speed of ...

<t>i was watching a east front program this last week (not the new one, an older one). And in that a russian sniper talked about a 3 day sniper battle against what he said turned out to be the "head off german sniper school" - battle was at a water hole (like african praiire here". I Can't make to ...

<t>Disclaimer - i am not making fun of russian people here, just the folly of using someone to translate who does not know the next language (perhaps they just used bablefish).<br/>
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This is taken from some russian produced 1:72 scale ww2 equipment. It is the english "translation" on the ...

seems as if guns (rifles and mg) in particular have not been changed much. what major advances has there been in this field since ww2. Considering that the ak47 is easily one of the best assault rifles and is a mp44 i suppose not much.

<t>lets see if any ww2 equipment would still be of use on a modern battlefield.<br/>
mg42. good weapon bullets still kill and this weapon shot a lot of them, fairly reliable and light.<br/>
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storch - this thing has amazing slow flight and takeoff capabilities.<br/>
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sturmtiger - armour ...

<t>basically any game that i have played have german engineers (or pioneer infantry) that have fantastic attack abilities. Since these guys always seem to be fighting who did the bridge building and mine clearing etc., duties that i would have expected engineers to do. So what are these units ...

<t>an interesting question. I suppose the obvious anwser is that politics would stop all large scale use of german equipment and/or personal and of course the german industry would have been difficult to mobilse (particularly with probably some important factories in red hands). I suppose ...

<t>i think you were a bit unlucky loosing 88's to polish air force. But actually if they were low flying dive bombers i doubt 88's would be much good against them (could 88's shoot at low altitude planes with the normal ammo provided). The poish tanks with 37mm guns are okay but i hjave dueled with ...

<t>In the last week i managed to watch the movie "Full etal Jacket" by kubrick, i have not seen very many movies by kubrick but it seems as if he directs for adults and this allows for some scences that are disturbing phsycologically disturbing in way that movies like saving private ryan and ...

<t>i actually prefer set forces in most scenarios. It allows for better balanced (and historical) scenario creation and is a strength of games like campaign series. For instance in a desert campaign the addition of one or 2 88's to a german force that in realitity may have had none (not all ...

<t>my god those germans did it tough at the beginning. How did they destroy anything with those things. The values i was comparing against were normal values i think, not apcr. It can be difficult to get proper results for these things i suspect. In the game tanks the author must have used apcr ...

<t>Recently while playing westfront (can't do spwaw all the time) and losing several p3j and p4f2 at 2-3 hexes (250m/hex) to stuarts with 37mm i became rather frustrated at the power of the little guns. Looking up spwaw i saw that the penetration of 2pdr and US 37mm is not far from twice that of ...

<t>remanning was one of the main complaints i had from the original. Enemy tanks would get suppressed and flee, then a couple of turns later they would reman the tank again. In the mean time a non-crewed tank was not a valid target. I once had an enemy kv1 remanned half a dozen times and start ...

<t>it is a 2d card so i doubt that the v/c would be the cause so we can strike that out as a cause. In fact as a v2 or v1 has nothing at all (thats voodoo not v) to do with 2d then it would have no effect at all and all new v/c or very fast at 2d so they surely are not the prob. How much ram does it ...