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Hey, all you Jimmies, I wonder if you can help me out with a little research. I need to know the official expected maximum ranges (over flat level ground in ideal conditions) of: 1.  The 521 2.  The 522 on "medium" with the 10' whip antenna 3.  The 522 in the vehicle tray (A set, "a" on...

I've got one with a T-62 and a hammer&sickle on the front "Soviet Army World Tour", and on the back, a list of concert dates (invasion of Czechslovakia, Afganistan, etc) DG

Like I said, I'm going to give it a week or so to hear from the early adopters, and if it's all clear I'll get my copy and report back. DG

"karma" or perhaps "payback" :D But no, AFAIK, there is no official term for this - except in the Navy, where a captured ship is called a "prize". DG

Have you given any thought to having a subunit in Quesnel? I'm from Quesnel, so I know the area, and I think you'd have no problem - assuming you could local sufficient leadership - raising a local subunit. Had there been a Reserve unit in town, I know I'd've been there in a heartbeat. The only...

I think that the real problem here is that the Americans poisoned the well with Iraq. After 9/11, the requirement to go into Afghanistan was real, undeniable, and understood. Appropriately, public support for the Afghan mission was high. Then the Yanks went into Iraq, ostensibly over chemical...

I don't remember THAT chapter... I've still got my copy of the Giant Orange Brick. When I get some time I'll go looking and see if I can find it. In any case, OPDP has been superceded by OPME, so all the course materials have changed. DG

My understanding (keep in mind I don't work for them) is that it will come with a map and scenario editor, much the same way that SB1 did. The only thing that cannot be edited are the elevation maps. You can select from a bunch of provided height maps and then paint the terrain features (roads...

I'm going to pick it up too, but I'm going to wait and see how the early adopters make out. "T72-Balkans on Fire" looked good on screenshots, but in actuality - not so much. I did buy a new joystick though. :D DG

What are the details on that system? DG

Here's the way it works: Steel Beasts Pro PE is the new, revised graphics engine, plus multiple crewable vehicles (Steel Beasts 1 had just M1 and Leo2) plus other stuff. It's $125 US and is going on sale next week. Steel Beasts Pro is the same game, but with enhanced AAR features, "God room"...

A 522, no - not in my experience anyway. So far, I've found that a 522 with either good batteries or a proper vehicle tray (assuming either can be found) works as well or better than a 77 or 524 set. Maybe other people have had different experiences with them... but aside from the user interface...

SHORTENED LANGUAGE FORMS STOP NOT JUST A MODERN PHENOMENON STOP LANGUAGE CONFORMS TO USE OF TECHNOLOGY STOP NOT JUST A SIGN OF WASTED YOUTH STOP (incidentally, this particular technological example leads to one of the best military telegrams ever sent; a masterwork of brevity, wit, punning, and...

Anybody else get a little frisson when they saw the name of the group's national spokesman? DG

To have corrective training applied, usually in the form of verbal instruction. A record of either a shortcoming or a success, depending on the colour of the ink used to inscribe it; a "blue chit" being good, and a "red chit" being bad. Deprecated. Also; a form of credit issued by the unit...

I used to love that game, except that I played it on an Amiga instead of a PC. No worries then about trying to play it on modern hardware. DG

Confirmation on the Steel Beasts board today that Steel Beasts Pro PE will have (eventually) height and terrain maps for Gagetown, Wainwright, Shiloh, and others. They have somebody working on them as we speak. DG

This might fix it: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola/ DG

Whoops - that's even worse, as JPG doesn't support transparency. See revised avatar picture. Isn't there an option for "do not convert image"? DG

I've just noticed that when avatars are uploaded, they are converted to .png for some reason. This isn't a problem when using Mozilla/Netscape/Firefox and its derivatives as a browser, but IE doesn't seem to render PNG tranparency correctly. My "pennant" avatar currently shows this problem. It...