Half of us aren't from this planet, we are WARGAMERS!

Ruskies. Yet to find such a heavy artillery and tanks, that are best in world. Combo you don't find in any other army. Yet if we play inf battle, you find me under blue [FONT=courier new]Hakaristi[/FONT].

As far as flme tanks go OT-34/85. The mobile deadly T-34/85 minus one MG, plus flamethrower. 85mm gun kills everything T-34 can't outmanouver and flamethower keeps those Waffen-SS AT-teams at bay. Allways try to beef my forces with these.

Nothing beats russian ski sniper as scout. Fast, accurate and as close invisible as game allows.

AI's use of equipment is abysmal. Never seen AI check obious ambush site with fire, never seen it lay mines with it's engineers. And never firing large gun to hex next of infantry. Seen it blow its own inf and equipment with large (100mm+) weapons fired carelesly.

<t>It's kind of embarassing when AI drives a Mk III and halftrack on top of my recon team MG's blasting, then rolls out a 150mm sp-gun and WHAMM. Kills my scout team, immobilises the halftrack and destroys Mk III.<br/>
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I stopped playing serious campaings against Artificial Idiot and play PBEM ...

I would vote Ford Fairlane, for guy movie. It's funny, it's good and NO selfrespecting women would go see it.

Since asked: Red Dawn. Only thing going to that one is pretty authentic equipment. But I stand obious mistakes in hardware if story is good.

Das Boot. Also winning for BEST music category.

Of the point. Has anybody seen this fairly new russian film, Mountains. (At least presented in finland with that name.) It's about small team in lonly outpost in Chechnya. Recomended.

<r>TRUE warriors drink only Panzer Grease. It's done as follows:<br/>
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1. Put on your cafe machine. (NO decafe)<br/>
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2. Play 2-3 battles from campaing.<br/>
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3. Remember that you left your cafe maker on.<br/>
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4. Try to get brown stuff out of the pot. (Spoon is usefull)<br/>
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<t>Finding out original virus-sender is not going to happen. What these buggers do, is copy your addressbook and replicate themselves to all who you have in it.<br/>
So if one in SP community has a virus in his machine, it will send itself to all PBEM patrners, and so on.<br/>
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If you feel a breeze inside your sealed Tiger tank, it's propably MY fault!

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When under the game's control (AI; PBEM) its possible for units to op-fire as long as they have ammo...they can exceed their normal rate of fire. With this 'special op-fire' I've seen some ...

Use scout cars to get shot at. Hide. Show up again. Get shot at, hide, sooner or later your opponents run out of OP-fire and your tanks have no problems sending hail of fire and send them hiding.

Playing IL 2 really DOES give you new insight to 'friendly fire'. It also gives you huge respect for those SPWaW pilots who kill two heavy tanks at one pass. Hitting eaven one in IL 2 requires timing and accuracy of banana fly mating mid air.

Side note. In infantry formations artillery causes most casaulties in first 30 sec of barrage. After that, most soldiers have deasent cover. (Don't remember what source said that, but it is in my library, I'm sure of it.)


Wrong thread ? I think I go to bed.

<r>Don't you love it when.....<br/>
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.....Platoon of enemy's Panthers crushes your T-34's. Think they are winning and drive to victory hex.... ......exposing their sides to ambushing battery of "Animal Killers", 'Zu Rodina'<br/>
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BTW:This game needs a voise file for E-mail games;I for ...

<r>I'm new at PBEM gametype, but having played all four version of Steel Panthers, I can hold my own... I think.<br/>
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I like plying Russians , '44-'45 equipment and nice mobile meeting battle.<br/>
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