Just read "Band of Brothers". Was quite enjoyable. It was amazing how many of the cast really resembled the charactors.
I enjoyed it so much I began reading "D-Day: The Climactic Battle of WWII".... another one by Ambrose. It too was very good.

So to gain experience, my units basically must be INVOLVED in the battle to some degree.
That makes sense.

<t>I'm running 98 and nothing else besides the normal windows background stuff.<br/>
It is version 7.0. I'll try the 7.1 patch.<br/>
Like I said. I had this problem before..... probley prior to the last time I formatted..... and fixed it very easily.<br/>
If it persists after the upgrade I'll let ...

<t>Jim,<br/>
Thanks for the reply, but I should have worded my question differently.<br/>
What I meant about experience is "How do units gain experience"?<br/>
I know the old Steel Panthers used to award kills and points to the unit that finished off the victim, but I think this was changed in SPWAW ...

<t>For starters, I'm just going to ask if there is a resource on how experience works in SPWAW?<br/>
I don't really expect an answer as everytime I've seen this question asked, it seems to turns into a big confusing debate, so I'm only asking for a link or previous thread.<br/>
Secondly, I well ...

<t>To be a little more specific, it crashes only whenever I try to start a save-game from the end of a WWII-Campaign battle. You know when you've finally whacked the enemy, and you go to the screen that shows you all the causalities and score? <br/>
If I save the game here, or at the next screen ...

I know there is an easy fix to this, but I can't remember how.
I'm trying to start a game from a save game file and it's crashing SPWAW.
What do I do?

Phil

<r>Thanks for the feedback.<br/>
In the long campaings, the name remains changed (to protect the innocent perhaps. <E>:)</E> <E>:)</E> <br/>
I used renaming to some degree in the past, but this last long campaign I went ahead and took the time to rename all the units of my core force. To me, it has ...

<t>I find myself changing the names of my units to make it easier to keep track of them during battles. Changing them from "A0>GE Rifle Squad" or "B1>PzkpFw-IVd" to something like "B0> Bravo 1st Sqd" or "F2>White III".<br/>
Most of the time this works well. But sometimes I just don't have enough ...

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<t>Thanks for that explanation Bill. I thought it was a long process, but I didn't even think about the pictures of medals, music and sound bits. Heck, 300 text files alone is daunting. <br/>
Well I know that I'm not the only one that appreciates your hard work. The Mega Campaigns I have purchased ...

<t>I remember an Italian-made show on North Africa. I think it was called "El Alamein" It had all the trappings of the traditional spaghetti-western.<br/>
The heros where a platoon of Italian infantry left out in the desert by the evil/overlord Germans against the main attack of the cold-blooded ...

Thanks.
The embarrassment would be just to much after bragging on the latest SPWAW and then be unable to put it on!!

I have a friend who has SPWAW 5. He wants to upgrade to the latest and greatest. I have all the upgrade patches since 5.1 on disk.
My question is can we just apply patch 7.1 or do we need to upgrade with each and every patch?

<r><B><s>[B]</s>If your not playing the Mega Camps your missing 75% of the fun in this game, in my opinion. <e>[/B]</e></B> <br/>
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This cannot be stressed enough. At first glance the inability to choose your core force and the lack of upgrading may seem less than ideal. But what you have is a ...

<t>Since eveyone was so helpful with the Infantry gun question I had, I thought I'd ask about another unit I'm curious about.<br/>
The Motorcycle unit<br/>
How can I effectively use this one? When I've used them in the past, they don't seem to possess much firepower, so I don't attack with them. <br ...

Thanks for all the tips. The last battle I fought (clearing Oleszyce) I tried to use them. Honestly I didn't find them (the guns) much help.
Am I right in assuming that these can't be used as indirect fire weapons?

<t>I have always had a fasination with "war". As a little boy I would play for hours with my "little people" (My grandmothers name for my hundreds of plastic armymen). Military movies of any kind where always my favorite. <br/>
After I served 6 years in a National Guard Mechanized Infantry Unit, I ...

Do you just drag them along in the attack? Postion them in the rear? In the first battle, I didn't find them of particular use. Of course, none of my heavy weapons were of any use in the river crossing.

<t>Just began the Lost Victories MC, and I noticed there are a few Infantry Guns attached with the core force.<br/>
My question is how do I effectively use these guns? From what I've read I get the impression they just fired at targets over open sites and not as an indirect fire weapon.<br/>
Am I ...