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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Wild Bill:
Despite its lack of infantry, for some good pure WW2 tank fighting from the turret, it is a classic in my mind. Simple, easy to understand, with nice 3D graphics, I've always loved the game...WB
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and now thanks to a new HD i can load the dang thing back in (whoo hoo) of course now i'll have to go thru the stat files and re-adjust half of em again to get them closer to realistic armor settings (DOH)

but then again there's nothing like running full tilt in a BT-7 yee haaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Seems like the best PSG's were the ones who had their stash of ignitors (the key piece in the puzzle of the working heaters). Of course, it always helps to befriend the PLL clerk...

Whenever going to the field or gunnery my CVC Bag always had required 2 firing pins and 2 heater ignitors. I remember one winter in Kansas I even had an brand new heater "still in the foam package" in my bustle rack. Always made sure we left a guard on the tank, even when breaking for chow or an Op Order. Shame you can't even trust your wingman or the rest of the platoon


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"Double Deuce on the Loose"

I was in the 3/8 in Mainz. We wished we had heaters. Our heater was pulling behind an M1 and heating our whole 113 from the exhaust! The sides of the 113 would actually get hot to the touch. Really handy on those cold Graf and BH nights.

Unfortunately, on the M60's nothing got hot. The engine was an air cooled deisel buried under the armored deck and at idle the exhaust was barely warm, although it would give you a good insulating coat of grime. I thought I had it made when I became Support Platoon Leader and got my very own Jeep (M151 rollover special) with a lap blanket, working heater and an engine just perfect for cooking C-Rationis.

Heater? They had heaters? We dug a hole in the sand, lit a fire and then buried the coals and slept on them. C rats (Korea vintage in 1970) were put on top of an ammo box that had a fire in it. They probably had sent the heaters to Viet Nam.

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Good hunting,
Pack Rat

Tankers and grunts! You guys have got to be the most inventive people in the world!

Wild Bill

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In Arduis Fidelis
Wild Bill Wilder
Coordinator, Scenario Design
Matrix Games

Yes, the speed was nice. Yes, the driver had an instant bed. Yes, (with the IP and beyond) you had more bustle rack stowage than ever before. But the single greatest thing (from a non-tactical, field-craft perspective) about the M-1 over the M-60 was the heat of the turbine exhaust. You had an instant heater (just ask the aggressive drivers that tailgated the M-1's when they first rolled out). The crunchies never loved us more. What made it even more useful was when they finally made a heat shield so that you could tow another M-1 without melting it. The heat shield vents the exhaust straight up. With a little re-bar and a torch, you could make a rack that would allow you to heat water in containers of varying sizes, from a .50 cal ammo can to a 5-gallon water can (metal, of course<g>). I got my first hot shower from an aussie bucket after that...