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I just remembered a little thing about the Abrams, the Saudi's use it. Has E-Sim ever thought about selling the program to the Saudi Defence Force to help train their tank crews to be better equiped to handle the changing world climent in armored combat? Trade offs to us as the community... We would see the M1A2(S) and the M60A3 and possibly the AMX30, AMX-10P and the Al-Fahd. Just a random thought.

This is why its a SCI-FI game... do you think that the NCC 1701(A-E) would ever REALLY work? Do you really think mankind will even survive to see the year 40k? Its all a game, like SB Pro... do you think that the T72s and 80s are really manned by mindless AI and that infantry are just popup targets on the battlefield that dont bleed? Some of us like the modeling aspect of 40k, others like the table top play of it. I love the modelling personally. Putting together a Abrams model is pretty boring. But putting together something that doesnt exist or ever will is something different. lol, I guess its all a matter of perspective. Any Hedgehog, yea, they did nerf the Vanq, but its now only 155pts and can be mated with 2 other Leman Russ's in 1 heavy support choice. But on the other side of the coin, the Manticore has become the most deadly indirect arty in the game... S10 AP4 D3 Ordance per shot, up to 4 shots a game... NASTY.

Only a man with a Leman Russ in his avatar can say something like that. OT- So hedgehog what do you think of the new IG codex?

GH, that is great and all but that doesnt answer the second question. After I have thought about the first question a bit, I understand if esim games cant answer that due to contractual reasons. But the second question still stands.

I have been thinking, with everyone asking questions about, can this be added, or that. I am wondering if eSim can tell us roughly who is the primary benificiaries of the "game" training aid? And how that affects the priority on which things are added? (sorry for the spelling 3AM post for me... couldnt sleep)

But this is the internet age we have to know NOW whats in store for the future.... lol. I would like to see some more targets.... like the OT64, PT76, T64, and a few other older and newer "world" armored vehicles... or ex-warsaw pact vehicles... and 2 or 3 playable new vehicles.... M1A2, Challenger 2, and the Warrior IFV.

I only have one question.... So whats on the plan list for 2.5?

Interesting results in that test... I will see if I can make time to test out my system and send you the frame rate specs... I am running a Vista 64 AMD Athlon X2 dual core 5600+ 2.80ghz w/ 3GB ram and a Nvidia 8800GTX card. My resolution on everything is 1400X900. On average in SB Pro PE, I get around 40FPS. But slows down when lots of dust or smoke to somewhere in the high teens low twenties. May take a while before I run these tests... got to clear off some HDD space... to much junk on my HDD right now.

I can speak from experiance using a Vista system and playing SB Pro PE.... the beta works fine on it.

cant say I have run into this issue much.. As long as the planned route takes me over the bridge. The AI tanks run OVER the bridge. But if the planned route is just a hair off, they drive into the water.

This one was one that made me laugh when I found about this in REAL life.... But it is a minor price to pay for the ability to kill just about ANY tank in the world with a short bus.

I still think a MMO WWIII game would be great.... ArmA + SB Pro + Falcon 4.0 = ULTRA realistic Modern war game.

But I thought V was.... "Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant and vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition! The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honour to meet you and you may call me V."

I am still trying to figure out whos on first?!?!

I think I am about 1.5 on the list then.... Retired Real solder, not quite old, rookie fart, wannabe..... lol

I cant belive I missed all this excitement... This is better than a pre-school girl fight. Dont worry everyone he is just a Stryker unit... not a REAL armored unit. (Couldnt help taking a cheap shot after the low blow on Spain.) Honestly though back on topic, I dont understand why everyone is getting so butt hurt over this whole deal. Its pretty fair. Its not like they charge 15 dollars a month for use of their software. And its not like they put out a "expansion" pack every 6 months and make a HUGE fan fair about it and charge 40 bucks for each one, and then charge 15 dollars a month so you can watch a bunch of overweight, bad hygene, losers run around in a fantasy world playing dark elf females and bragging about how many levels they made in the past hour, while trying to sell gold over chat.

The big thing I have found is to reduce the distance on that scrub grass. I have a slightly better system, my G-Card is better. But I found that if I run everything at max, I get some REALLY big frame rate hits in the wooded areas because of that scrub grass. So I reduced the visual distance on how far out that grass renders. Gained almost 10FPS just from that.

Ssnake said 42 dollars for each update.... (JOKING!) couldnt resist. But yes would love to have a T-any tank playable.... but that is something I can wait on. I do have a question about that Ssnake, why hasnt the Russian tanks made more playable. Is it because the Russian Military isnt really forth coming on information about the insides of the tanks? Or the just lack of time to actually get to them? Or a lack of people who speak Russian to do the voices for crews? Or all the above? I for one dont mind paying for the update... cause with all that is on that MONSTER list, thats going to be a HUGE update.

Hey those two are HAWT!!! But I have NO standards LOL.

Being a long time Windows user. I was one of those who hated Vista when it came out. But after I got used to it, its not as bad as everyone says it is. I have yet to have a major crash, or system failure. I only have problems with some programs because Vista just wont reconize them because of the age of the program. But I will say vista has saved my system a few times with its really good backup system. Its on board security systems can be a bit excessive but they arent as bad as they are made out to be. The key to Vista's success on my machine, I think is more to case temps. Vista and my HP case cause ALOT of heat build up. Before my last fan upgrade, I was seeing board temps at around 130-170F. Now they stay down in the low 90s high 80s. But I added 2 fans inside the case and some better ventilation.... Its amazing what a dremal can do.

To qoute Remo Willaims... Remo- "Chan your incredible.." Chan- "No, I am better than that."

Isnt there a man shortage in aussyland? I would move down there for a 7:1 female to male ratio. LOL

There is no need to debate it on me... I am a asshole... lol. Ask my ex and she still loves me because of it. But all in all I think this debate is dead. Its a game.. a damned good one at that. Hopefully it keeps getting better.

I have seen modern M829A1 APDSFSDU rounds "skip" off of a target at 2KM range. There is always a chance that a round will deflect off of the angle of the armor. Even a HEAT round. I dont claim to be a expert either. Just one who has seen the 1:100 shot. But yea I have had those wierd hits too that do nothing... But I have also been in a M2 Bradley in game that has been hit by a 125mm Sabot round at 500m that did NOTHING.

Honestly... The first shot should have killed it... The second shot most likely deflected off the angle of the turret. and the third shot killed both commander, and everything on his side of the turret. I found my best first round hit kills on the T72 is aim for the the hull right infront of the driver. At 1000m you can do it pretty easy, but at 2km or longer its a bit difficult. But I have had some oddities too... but after spending alot of time in real life shooting at things with both small arms and larger wepons like the main gun on the M1A2... I can say that sometimes odd things happen. I have shot a turkey at 50ft with a 12gauge shot gun, using 00 buck.... I missed the bird... and killed the tree right behind its head. There was a perfect pattern around where the turkeys head would be. Sometimes wierd things happen.